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by lmartel 13y ago
When did you go to school? Nowadays, every elite school gives grants rather than loans, and (for example) Stanford pays for all tuition for families making under 100k (and throws in room and board for < 60k).
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by lmartel 13y ago
Your situation sounds awful and I'm very sorry you're going through that. But, what's the alternative from the universities' point of view? If they gave extra financial aid to students disowned by their parents, every
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by lmartel 13y ago
Frickin' everyone would. If someone offered you 30k/year basic income would you quit your cushy programming job, or would you buy more stuff?
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by lmartel 13y ago
Buy the metal guy some headphones, and schedule scrum meetings at 1:30pm. Easy!
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by lmartel 13y ago
I agree with you, but keep in mind that Jennifer has mentioned that she spent 8-10 hours per day on this project.
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by lmartel 13y ago
Real-Time Strategy [Game]. It's a genre.
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by lmartel 13y ago
This is fun! Great work. One small suggestion: consider using replaceState instead of pushState, pressing the back button just removes one skill point when it should probably leave the site (or at least remove all skill points).
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by lmartel 13y ago
You're right--instead of "can't" I should have said that a lot fewer Java developers are willing to mess with them, vs. changing code. Edit: and they're hacky because they're magical--it's entirely not obv
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by lmartel 13y ago
To be fair, there are lots of poor and middle-class people who get constantly fired yet think they're special, too. (But the point you're making is interesting and makes a lot of sense)
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by lmartel 13y ago
By dynamic I think he just means that annotations are a really hacky way to do things. You use annotations in place of java code, and while you can tweak java code you can't tweak what an annotation does or how it does it.
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by lmartel 13y ago
Clearly the shortcut to quality VC funding is to pitch a startup named /in.*/ to YCombinator!
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by lmartel 13y ago
I agree. While gender-related issues in the software industry are important and worth talking about, this article seems to have pretty little justification. I was in high school a few years ago. Put that many teenagers in a room and of cour
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by lmartel 13y ago
I'm a college student. I have two credit cards with credit limits of $500 and $1700. My tuition (with room and board) is $58,000 per year. That's the difference.
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by lmartel 13y ago
Welcome to laws! Grab a drink, I'll hold your "Ron Paul 2012" pamphlets.
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by lmartel 13y ago
The note that he "knows hundreds" of homeschooling families and the claim that they all conform to his model seems like a generalization about the homeschooling community at large, even if it's not 100% explicit.
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by lmartel 13y ago
It's interesting that they mention speed when they're notorious for taking months to get back to their candidates. 45 days doesn't seem like a number to be all that proud of! I suppose the sheer volume of applications makes t
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by lmartel 13y ago
"The one WEIRD startup tip discovered by a Palo Alto mom--and why YCombinator HATES her!!!"
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by lmartel 13y ago
Which one is which?
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by lmartel 13y ago
Completely off-topic: I enjoy when automatically generated blog urls give me a window into the writer's thought process. I agree, Kumar, "On Friday I sat in a bank" sounds better as a post title than "I sat in a bank on
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by lmartel 13y ago
There was a great TED talk a while back about this. [1] People talk about nonprofits being "irresponsible" when they behave like for-profit corporations: advertising, perks for engineers, whatever. And yet the for-profits do these
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by lmartel 13y ago
Make a meat-based one and we'll talk.
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by lmartel 13y ago
It's pretty common on HN for people to say "monads" when they mean IO. For some reason.
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by lmartel 13y ago
He's saying: yes, a thousand dollars, that's not a typo
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by lmartel 13y ago
The European convention is to use dots in large numbers where Americans use commas. So yes, that's $22000
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Govt Report: Actions Needed to Evaluate Efforts to Estimate Costs of Reports(gao.gov)
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Working for Nothing(nytimes.com)
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by lmartel 13y ago
Alternative title: how design trends ruin everything
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Heroku redesign(heroku.com)
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by lmartel 13y ago
Drawing people out can be hard, though. A lot of tech companies recruit young engineers and new grads heavily, and many 20-somethings won't be convinced to leave SF. SF might be expensive but it's fun in a way that Boise isn'
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by lmartel 13y ago
Speculation: they didn't want the money, they wanted the buzz. They didn't even have all their parts picked out, did they? But they'll be able to use this for leverage with manufacturers/investors/whatever. 12 milli

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