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by jshowa3 7y ago
A cryptocurrency that violates one of the main tenants of cryptocurrencies. The fact is doesn't require a centralized authority. This is basically Twitch bits and shouldn't be classified as a cryptocurrency. As others have stated,
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Things I've learned: I'll never be a senior programmer.
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by jshowa3 7y ago
It has always been a requirement for a bachelors. In fact, there was more of a requirement for a bachelors than there was now. I don't know what the percentage is, but I've been fired from one job as an intern for not completing
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by jshowa3 7y ago
I don't. The article wants to make college hard for the sake of it in order to make some barrier that only the "truly intellectual" can meet. I proposed two different paths with different focus areas. Bachelors absolutely do
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Yes the advances are coming from degree seeking students. That's kind of the point of a PhD program. Its to write an original work. PhD students often receive a stipend. So they do get paid to do their work.
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by jshowa3 7y ago
School only matters because systematic bias against non-degree holders still exists and is widely prevalent among companies. However, people only like talking about Google and Amazon because they're the biggest ones and, generally, don
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by jshowa3 7y ago
I tend to agree, but the fact that saying a degree "doesn't matter" is the exact opposite extreme. Many of the latest advancements in technology still have origins in university programs and the algorithms that one learns are
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Basically, somebody left a comment saying the author was wrong and didn't know what he was talking about in a very aggressive way without demonstrating where it was wrong and why. Sorry for the drama. I know its off topic, but its all
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by jshowa3 7y ago
What's with the comment at the end of the blog entry? lol.
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Market caps are horribly inflated/underinflated and not a accurate representation of the companies finances and viability due to it being based on total share price. Looking at their equity is. It's also important to view its prof
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by jshowa3 7y ago
About time a profitless company gets what it deserves. I've been concerned with endless VC funding for years. From what I've seen, most current tech companies are not doing well going public. I remember a similar lukewarm response
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by jshowa3 7y ago
We can do better than saying everything always needs to be "better".
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by jshowa3 7y ago
The top 1% shouldn't be about wealth period. It should be about holistic merit with first come, first serve basis. It should be accessible to anyone. Wealth is what caused celebrities to pay millions of dollars for guaranteed admitta
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by jshowa3 7y ago
That's not merit based at all. All it does is enforce the concept that passing X test gets you in when there's much more than passing X test. Test anxiety is a very real thing. Not to mention, you can train yourself to pass a test
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Do you think a housing contractor is "making excuses" when they apply the rationale requesting to take down a wall in the house by saying: 1) we need to investigate the condition 2) check if its load bearing 3) check if it runs el
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by jshowa3 7y ago
This post is amazing. I try to explain this all the time. Reminds me of a previous post on HN where people were defending bosses condescending questions of "why does X take so long?"
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by jshowa3 7y ago
This is why all college should be subsidized by taxes. There should be no "elite schools". It should be first come, first serve taking into account admissions criteria.
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Obviously, but it implies if you don't get into any of the top schools that you're not 1%. Are you saying that someone in the 1% can't choose to go to a non-top 1% school? Now that is pretty specious to me because it doesn&
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by jshowa3 7y ago
I never said there wasn't a difference. What I said was that the content you're taught is no different than what is taught at a school that accepts more people. Calculus doesn't change whether you go to Ivy or low tier. It&#x
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by jshowa3 7y ago
There's nothing wrong with this guy except for maybe the fact that he thinks he deserves to get into a top school. Top schools are really just as good as a lot of lower acceptance rate schools. The point is the piece of paper, not nece
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Ask HN: How to get better at developing larger projects?
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by jshowa3 7y ago
While I agree that you should keep learning and growing, I don't agree that its because technology is changing so rapidly. Often times change is equated with "new X framework" that just becomes popular and has no significant
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by jshowa3 7y ago
This is crazy.
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by jshowa3 7y ago
If you want some practical advice: 1. Stop going on HN and Reddit. If you spend a lot of time reading about what other people do, you won't do it. If HN and Reddit helps you progress, spend 30 minutes a day on it. 1a. Start small and s
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Build it anyways. Who cares if there's competition. The point is, would you be better if you did build it? 99% of the time, it would be a yes. Even if it didn't pass market.
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Follow through and don't use what people do on HN/Reddit/etc. as 100% truth. Allow yourself to take breaks, but just continue exploring and doing. People are always trying to sell themselves and embellish what they do. Plus,
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Best advice. Find another job if you're unwilling to work with this person. Staying there will only make you depressed and its unlikely that they will change for you. The problem is, it can go in reverse. You can have a senior dev whos
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by jshowa3 7y ago
Never get payment through a third party if you don't expect something like this to happen. And its insane to freelance develop without contacting the customer/screen sharing outside the platform. Its amazing the guy lasted 7 years
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by jshowa3 8y ago
Funny thing is, I have a fighting chance of getting my car back within less than a week for repair if I take it to any of the 100's of dealerships available for non-Tesla vehicles. Try doing that with a Tesla. Tesla is struggling just
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by jshowa3 8y ago
Ahhh. The glory of capitalism. The reason you ask yourself how much I can make off of X thing is because society tells itself that having X billions of dollars = success.

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