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by kenster07 13y ago
The story is heart wrenching, but the fact is, it may not be true. Anyone can literally say anything they want about someone and the internet will believe it without a moment's hesitation. It is downright scary. If you were the accused
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by kenster07 13y ago
There are lots of "flaws" in free markets, if you're using econ101 bullet points as a blueprint.
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by kenster07 13y ago
From the story, it seems NASA has no choice but to implement this despicable law. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I hope I am not. I hope this kind of politics does not creep into other areas of American life.
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by kenster07 13y ago
There is nothing wrong with a 'whole lot of slow cores.' In fact, it is essentially how the human brain works.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Say you have person A and person B who have equal raw ability. Person A spends 6 years gaining domain-specific knowledge for his job through real work experience, and person B pursues a PhD in a somewhat related field. Which person do you t
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by kenster07 13y ago
I would say the common factor in all nations w exceptional academic achievement is the reverence for educators. The excellence of the students will always follow in such cultures.
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by kenster07 13y ago
I would go a layer deeper - the inescapable conclusion seems to be the focus on money itself. Without extreme discipline, these shallow economic metrics encourage myopic behaviors. And when these economic metrics become cultural pillars, we
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by kenster07 13y ago
If a modern day Leonardo da Vinci materialized today, would he have a voice despite his lack of modern pedigree? Is this supposed to be controversial? Smart, self-aware people know that pedigree is somewhat related to, but is not the same t
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by kenster07 13y ago
The glaring issue can be summed up in one statement. College roi is detached from student roi in the near and mid term. If these were strongly linked by design, the magnitude of the problem would be substantially diminished.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Businesspeople exaggerate and even outright lie all the time. You should always keep a grain of salt around.
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by kenster07 13y ago
The article described a life where interns basically stayed up for no reason. And if an entrepreneur is regularly pulling all-nighters for no good reason, he is probably doing it wrong. Sleep is worth its weight in gold, and you don't
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by kenster07 13y ago
Getting rich while play poker with others' pensions. And just like a casino, the only sure winner is the house.
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by kenster07 13y ago
This issue is too complex to be summed up by the wealth gap. It presumes that wealth can be measured in money, when human happiness is increasingly becoming cheaper to acquire, and free in many cases. I don't think the author of the ar
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by kenster07 13y ago
MOOC couldn't have come at a better time.
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by kenster07 13y ago
"No one ultimately cares all that much whether their daughter has a Coke or a Pepsi, do they? But they would do nearly anything to send her to an elite university." Anyone else confused by this comparison in the opener?
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by kenster07 13y ago
I can play this game too: Are bankers, lawyers, and doctors overpaid? Well, it depends on what you want to pay people for -- what if we argued for the value they added to society on average? What about the banking industry during the financ
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by kenster07 13y ago
Many commenters are too lost in their own egos to speak rationally about this issue. CS is not a "cool" major in colleges, and programming is not a cool profession among tweens. Until there is a significant cultural shift, which I
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by kenster07 13y ago
I doubt devs are "ashamed" of making js web apps. The main issue is that it takes more effort to do so than a traditional web app. There are browser specific quirks. Frameworks like rails are so well-integrated with the db layer t
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by kenster07 13y ago
The complexity of software patents has grown beyond the capacity of the patent system to properly evaluate them. As such, it this subsection of the patent system is susceptible to rampant abuse, and can no longer effectively serve the purpo
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by kenster07 13y ago
I find it curious how so many computer engineers tend to have borderline religious beliefs when it comes to the topic of CS fundamentals. This is an ineffective way to hire front-end devs, which is the scenario described in the article. In
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by kenster07 13y ago
These discussions are always rife with political undertones and ethical hazards.
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by kenster07 13y ago
The college system will be drastically altered by mooc, for the better. No more of the circus acts.
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by kenster07 13y ago
I believe Java is chosen for its popularity and its static typing, which helps the learner gain a better understanding of the algorithm at play than a duck-typed language would. It is even better to learn algorithms in C, where one has to w
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by kenster07 13y ago
The conclusion would not surprise me. Competitive games with a high "skill cap" require as much mental activity as anything else. The cause and effect may not be clear, but gaming can, at the very least, increase confidence in one
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by kenster07 13y ago
It's a bit sad for the front-end JS community that despite using one of the most comprehensive client frameworks in Ember.js, the author of this admin panel still felt the need to swap in a non-native data plugin ( http://epf
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by kenster07 13y ago
It certainly is not the best. The worst case scenario for nuclear isn't even remotely acceptable.
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by kenster07 13y ago
A Google search would disagree with your assertion.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Why is it fundamentally stupid to be opposed to it? Nuclear power in its current form presents tremendous, potentially country-altering downside when things (can and will) go wrong. Is this really the best humanity has got -- the side effec
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by kenster07 13y ago
Young kids who feel like they have something to prove are not the types to question the culture that they think will prove that something.
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by kenster07 13y ago
Perhaps the subprime crisis could have been avoided altogether if our banking sector wasn't so sleep deprived. Seriously.

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