jshen

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by jshen 18y ago
but that isn't what he says. He says that there lives are NOT any worse. This is very different than saying they don't realize they are worse off. I.e. it's a contradiction
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by jshen 18y ago
"The lives of Chinese people are not any worse because of the inability to say ‘R’. Ditto for the programming languages." Doesn't this contradict the essay? "The best way is to just take the word of a better hacker." Except for the difficul
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What's cool about php(artima.com)
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by jshen 18y ago
the idea that ruby is a blub language while python is a foo language is laughable. Python has it's issues as well. New style classes vs old style classes. These types are treated differently than those types in terms of default behaviour. D
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by jshen 18y ago
"But no country had freedom of religion (in the modern sense) until 1787" So there was no country in the world prior to 1787 that ever allowed it's citizens to practice the religion of their choice? Are you sure about that? edit: you do rea
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by jshen 18y ago
only if you start out with the idealogical position that government is always the wrong answer. Such an ideology is simply the naive opposite of communism.
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by jshen 18y ago
for some odd reason, the ubuntu packages for ruby/rails are setup in an overly complex way.
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by jshen 18y ago
I couldn't agree more. Pick the one you like and run with it. Which you choose isn't going to make or break your business or career.
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by jshen 18y ago
"any smart coder can pick up Ruby quickly" True, but can they pick up ruby quickly, and rails (rails is non trivial these days), and rspec, and rake, etc. I'm guessing it would take at least 6 months to become merely comfortable with all of
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by jshen 18y ago
"But there are instructive test cases:" Yes there are. Look at all the countries at the top of the list on education. They all have strong federal education. No country with a purely private education system is even on the list!
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by jshen 18y ago
um, have you ever been in the military? I was in the army for 4 years, you can't really get fired. You have to do somethign way over the line to get kicked out. Out of many hundreds of people I knew only a handful got kicked out. The vast m
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by jshen 18y ago
because it's the government is what makes education affordable.
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by jshen 18y ago
your paraphrasing fails to deal with the reality of the situation. By "dumping" tuition assistance on me you didn't merely transfer money is a zero sum game. I am now a competitive worker in the global economy, which I wouldn't have been, a
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by jshen 18y ago
"Your comment superficially sets up an argument I never made, which is the definition of a strawman." No, because you made no specific argument. If you make a statement that is so short that it can be interpreted to be anything anyone wants
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by jshen 18y ago
How is it a strawman? I'm beginning to think your curt answers veil an inability to deal with the complexities of reality.
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by jshen 18y ago
Less affordable for who? I graduated with a CS degree after going to community college then a state school. I graduated with no loans or debt of any kind. I payed $11/unit at CC and about $800 a quarter at state school. You can't seriously
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by jshen 18y ago
yeah, we'd be much better off if all these programmers we hire from state schools weren't able to afford an education.
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by jshen 18y ago
"On your death bed, you might wish somebody had worked harder at their company to cure whatever's killing you" Or you may wish that you hadn't eaten the nutrionless high calorie corporate created food products that lead to your chronic dise
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by jshen 19y ago
i hate scribd. the reason it gets traffic is deceptive search engine rankings. I refuse to ever go there again after being falsely sent to a page that did not have the information it ranked for multiple times.