maxawaytoolong

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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
If programming shops were willing to hire people fresh out of college with English degrees and teach them programming Body shop consulting firms like Accenture have done this for decades.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
If kids in the NYC metro area don't have an opportunity to learn programming in grade school it's because the schools suck. Perhaps if parents cared about their children's education, they could just relocate to a more forward-thinking part
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Indeed. The first step to world peace is taking out PayPal.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
If you can't double major in engineering and something else, you're either lazy or not very smart. Especially at a Canadian university... I mean, come on we're not talking MIT here.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Or one could say the former is full of Joe Sixpack clock-punchers who spend 50% of the day on ESPN.com whereas the latter are creating the infrastructure for the jobs the IT types will be going to DeVry for in the future.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
One can safely assume that any given tech startup is 95% unattractive males.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Mentioning the average age is useful information. I read it more like a warning than discrimination. Now that I'm old, I don't want to be around 25 year olds, unless they are also attractive women.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I feel engineers are born, not made, so if you don't have it in your blood, you are probably better off just picking and choosing a few good CS courses, or maybe getting a minor. It also depends on the school. Many schools have pretty lame
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
The future is everyone in NYC has bedbugs.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
The provisioning in iOS is truly awful. However, in the XCode4 beta this has been greatly improved. You just click on a couple buttons within XCode itself, and everything gets automagically set up. I've heard that it still causes problems i
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
You cannot find a nice, inexpensive apartment in Astoria or Williamsburg for much less than $1900 anymore. Williamsburg is way overpriced now. Better luck in Astoria but honestly you have to go pretty deep into Queens or Brooklyn for any co
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
You can just look at the bedbug registry. No landlord is going to let you run your own bedbug inspection. As gross as the bedbug situation is in Williamsburg, I still think there's a worse roach problem. There's just as big of a bedbug prob
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Why does he need consent? There are already 5 other apps in the app store that do the same thing as the wiki game, his is at least has a twist.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I guess it depends on what you are farming. Where I grew up the farmers grew commodity crops like wheat and soybeans and did mostly take the winter off. Sometimes they'd have a 2nd job as a pee-wee hockey coach or something like that.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Google went crazy with hiring in 2006 and relaxed its standards, letting in a bunch of duds. There's a higher chance at Google that your manager is going to be a creep and your coworkers are going to be mouth breathers. Facebook is younger
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, but good, I guess...
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Family bonds do not last forever.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Seems more like a neo-schopenhauer serotonin deplete-ist.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Surfing in the Bay Area is hard for a number of reasons: you need a car and a surfboard, the water is freezing cold (you need a thick wetsuit), Silicon Valley is inland and blocked off from the ocean by a mountain range, and the good waves
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
This happened to my dad. TIA was suspected but there was no lasting damage nor other stroke symptoms. It was ruled exhaustion. My dad regularly works 70-80 hour weeks and does at least one all-nighter a month. What I learned is that this is
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
In SV/SF, these jobs pay $150-$200K for very nebulous work, a lot of exposure to how VC works, and connections to loads of startups. I'm not sure about the SLC scene, but such a job is a no-brainer in California, especially if you are kind
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted because house demolitions are indeed official policy in response to terrorist bombings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces#House_dem...
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Check out the book "Imperial Grunts" by Robert Kaplan. The US military also has forces in Kenya, Yemen, the Philippines, Mongolia, and Columbia.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
It's easy to become a CTO at a small enough startup.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
It doesn't really matter that much. The fired employee has to exercise the options, and they often don't have the money or want to take the risk.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I hate to admit that I was expecting the Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire theme song after her description of this event.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Related, Negroponte does not have a PhD.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Why did you assume I meant white kids were getting picked on? What? I specifically said I was NOT teaching in white, suburban schools.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Yeah right, this is exactly what they want to do. It's bizarre this is even considered, because this whole thread is filled with revenge fantasies about bullies. Why would you think the bully is just going to think "oh yes, zhuge omarion li
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
It's sort of embarrassing this is the number one story on hacker news. Especially since it's 6 weeks old and was already posted before, and mostly seems fabricated. It reads like some fat kid ender's game revenge fantasy. I guess maybe this

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