kartikkumar

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by kartikkumar 13y ago
Who really cares what other people think about you, especially strangers that have no importance in your life? Haters are to be hated, but more than that I honestly think that life is too short to worry about what some random dumbass has to
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
I think you're reading the sentence incorrectly. The way I read it, it's not saying that they "technically had the ability", which is what you're suggesting as having the ability in a theoretical sense. It's st
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
Your first statement I don't agree with -> I don't see how you can't break out of your frame of reference. If your frame of reference is working with data and building skills that are equally applicable in a business envir
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
I'm not saying you can't do it on your own. I do believe that there are multiple ways to skin a cat, but what I don't agree with is that opting to pick the route of going through school is not going to prep you to work with r
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
I guess the debt argument is one that I don't have direct experience with, since I'm going to school in Europe, where the norm is not that you come out of school saddled with debt that you'll be paying off for the rest of you
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
> Some sites are blogs, others are small business web sites, others are photo galleries, others are one pagers of information, and some are pages that let you buy things. There shouldn't just be one tool to build all of these. I fin
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
I am totally on-board with what you're saying, I guess I just don't buy into the idea that school != connected to the real world. I think the idea that everyone in academia is being philosophical and scholarly without contact with
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
If this leads to them losing track of the Voyagers, I'm gonna be pissed! Seriously though, I know a lot of colleagues that are already stuggling with the 20% planetary sciences budget cut, so this can't be good news ...
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
Yea, I appreciate the fact that he isn't suggesting that people abandon school althogether. I think what irked me is his suggestion that school is maybe useful for the "odd stats class", suggesting to me that he doesn't
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
Actually, I don't think the process of going from abstract to reality is that odd. The reason I say that is because I think understanding the abstract prepares you to be flexible. In terms of data science, the way I see this is that by
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
I find the don't-go-to-school-just-do-it mentality that pervades tech blogs, article, discussions a bit short-sighted. I fully appreciate the importance of getting "hands-on experience" in addition to book learning, but what
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
I am pursuing a PhD in the field of planetary sciences at the moment, and I can definitely vouch for the fact that there is a lot of discussion amongst the "younger folks" about the elistism of science, particularly for missions l
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by kartikkumar 13y ago
Given that you've taken the time to explain all of this to the HN community, I can't help but wonder why you don't encourage JustFab to use this as a good PR opportunity. If, as you claim, the majority of users are happy the