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by jquery 17y ago
Specialization is not equivalent to rote memorization. But rote memorization is a bedrock foundation for almost any specialty, because it is the very language of that specialty. The more fluent you are in a given language, the more easily y
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by jquery 17y ago
That's not a dilemma for generalists, that's a critique of specialization.
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by jquery 17y ago
I assert that gaining admittance and 4 years of study is far more difficult than taking out a subsidized loan for ~30k (give or take). These con-artists with fake diplomas are riskier hires to their employers when compared to someone who ha
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by jquery 17y ago
TL;DR - they're smart and their whole world outside of work revolves around their profession and they've been doing it their whole lives. You could write a "How to recognize a good [X]" article about almost any profession if that's your the
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Ask HN: how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of?
92 points by jquery 17y ago|78 comments
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by jquery 17y ago
I draw a slightly different conclusion than the author. >I noticed they were all similar in some way to “Napoleon Dynamite” — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including “I Heart Huckabees,” “Lost in Translation
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by jquery 17y ago
I guess the only disadvantage is the apparently unbearable pressure of keeping it to oneself for more than 5 minutes? >Take-home message number two is the importance of humility. I get seriously annoyed when I hear stories of people fro
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by jquery 17y ago
As a highly satisfied user of the smarty templating system, I want to refer you to this (from http://www.smarty.net/whyuse.php ): ) Designers can't break application code. They can mess with the templates all they want, but the code stays
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by jquery 17y ago
Yes, and we could also get rid of the requirement of an undergrad before med school, as well as increase the caps on med school enrollment. There is so much low hanging fruit that has mysteriously remained almost completely absent in the cu
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by jquery 17y ago
External (not remote) hard drive, 7200 RPM. Haven't had any problems using other programs with it.
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by jquery 17y ago
I know you didn't ask about Windows users, but assuming you are from Apple and have an ear there, please forward this message to the appropriate individual... With my fairly large, multi-gigabyte library, iTunes often takes minutes to respo
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by jquery 18y ago
Let me summarize: "I usually slack off half the day. I realized I could move all my slacking to the second half of the day, and viola, 4 hour workday! I'm genius!" I don't know about most people, but I get twice as much done in an 8 hour wo
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by jquery 18y ago
If someone is incapable of caring for themselves, there's a good chance they won't be able to care for me. Likewise, when I see a disheveled, unshaven, sloppy looking candidate, I'll (quite rationally) ask myself whether that's the same lev