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by jtcond13 10y ago
It's hard to think of another political issue on which the public has been so completely fooled. Your average man-on-the-street really thinks these go to, like, PhDs who are desperately needed in a lab somewhere. But no, they're
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Does anyone have any sense of how sensitive the bootcamp boom is to the overall monetary expansion of the last several years? If VCs stop piling money into dipshit startups, are these places going to go away overnight?
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What Did or Did Not Happen in 2016(avc.com)
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Yes - Insurance. For one thing, many people can code well enough to move data from CSVs to a database (or vice versa) but not well enough to read/write an API. I guess the main reason, though, is that many back-office applications do
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by jtcond13 10y ago
This is a fair observation; Manhattan always feel to me very impersonal. However, I think the parent comment is referring to the Interstate Highway System construction in the '50s (and the broader 'Urban Renewal' movement of
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Do people feel that reading Hacker News meets these principles? On one hand there's a lot of good links and discussions here, but a significant portion is either too obscure or just not very interesting (e.g. most medium.com links).
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Cool write-up. Programming is a great thing to learn as a kid.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
"Business books are basically romance novels for men. Silly fantasies, terrible writing, large type, cheap paper and one good idea per book" - Benedict Evans https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/14090
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Wufoo is a good way to set up web forms quickly.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Sure, force your boss to have the H-1B guy write that SQL query. Then hop on the Google Bus and try not to think about the ways in which the tech industry is rotting away American democracy (c.f. "Facebook is confirmation bias at scale
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Americans used to have an institution that gave them a steady diet of relevant news. It gave them a healthy mix of local, state, federal and international news in reasonable doses that could be read over dinner. It mainly gave its readers r
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by jtcond13 10y ago
This is a great product. Glad to see it doing well.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Any reason Expect isn't included on many of the common Linux distributions? That kind of limits its use, for many of us.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
+1 to this. Most of us are terrible at understanding our own bad behaviors and are friends are too nice to tell us.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Your periodic reminder that 'retail salesperson' is the most common job in America (~4.5 million). http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-10-m...
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Yes, although the IRS only allows companies to offer ~5k/yr before the money becomes taxable compensation.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
FWIW -- Cal Newport's books on career development ('Deep Work' and 'So Good They Can't Ignore You') are very good, quick reads for those interested.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Books are most useful for matters that don't change very much, which would probably include most academic subjects. Programming language books are good when they're more general in nature (e.g. John Resig's JS book) but are
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Having a keyboard at a lower level than your desk can help with this. Investing in a monitor and keyboard tray is probably a good idea.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Setting aside the implication that Thiel is "good people", this is totally wrong. They will suffer guilt by association in a quite literal way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_Seven
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Trump's opposition to the H1B program was purely tactical, as Rubio had pushed to lift the visa cap during the 'Gang of Eight' immigration negotiations in 2013 ('Mark Zuckerberg's favorite Senator'). There wou
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by jtcond13 10y ago
The NYT had their code on GitHub: https://github.com/newsdev/elex-loader
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Hmm... almost like a "public house"... maybe they should serve beer?
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by jtcond13 10y ago
Amazon's PaaS offering (Elastic Beanstalk) isn't too difficult to use and may be less expensive than Heroku.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
The penultimate paragraph here must have been difficult to write.
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by jtcond13 10y ago
marginalrevolution.com, a blog maintained by two Economics professors at GMU (more interesting than it sounds).
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by jtcond13 10y ago
It's too expensive, takes too long and fails to accommodate the diversity of educational needs. It also does fairly little to help people find suitable careers during adolescence. That said, these problems are widely known and discusse
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by jtcond13 11y ago
It would be helpful if white-collar employers were more willing to hiring eighteen-year-olds. Many of my twenty-something (and older) peers at $Megacorp actually started this way, with some earning a bachelor's degree part-time.
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by jtcond13 11y ago
This is actually pretty common at your local MBA program (State U or similar). The widespread practice of using MA students to teach undergrad courses isn't far off, either.
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by jtcond13 11y ago
Writing this from a mid-2009 13" MacBook Pro (2.26 Ghz processor). I've also upgraded RAM/HD over the years, as well as replacing the battery. It's mostly for internet with some occasional programming and sound editing.

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