mbarq

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by mbarq 9y ago
That's like saying the problem with water is that it makes you less thirsty. Snap's shtick is that it's not Facebook, that your parents aren't on it, that your creepy uncle's friend who came to the bbq last 4th of J
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by mbarq 9y ago
While bridging the diversity tech gap, this is another gap that needs to be addressed; the tech-displaced gap (which is the same tbh, and is only going to get wider as time goes on). Don't want to get too political here, but this &quot
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by mbarq 9y ago
The odd thing about this whole thing is that, in my opinion, SnapChat exists in a different realm than Facebook. Facebook is just this thing that almost everyone has and maintains for social reasons that allows you to connect, for whatever
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by mbarq 9y ago
Really appreciate your self awareness. I come from a lower-middle class family. I sleep on a couch in a small crowded house with a 3y/o niece constantly screaming at the top of her lungs. The libraries near me are all really just rec-c
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by mbarq 9y ago
That's how most class-action settlements work. My dad works construction and the company he worked for were holding over-time pay from the workers in the millions. My pop got like $50. They also attached a list with the payouts for the
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by mbarq 10y ago
I was with you until you said "there's no reason for the average sarah...unless...homework" I was the average Sarah, a lot of the people I went to public school with were the below than average sarah and it's the elitist
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by mbarq 10y ago
I suppose, generally, but I go to a state university, you do need to swipe your active student ID card to enter the library through a turnstile. I've also attended many hackathons at other unis where turnstiles exist as well and you ca
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by mbarq 10y ago
Not like you can sit at a public library's computer all day. You get timed about an hour a session and can only do three sessions a day and of course, if it there's a wait list, you have to wait. Also, many libraries nowadays have
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by mbarq 10y ago
They were older, but were they hired as "older", straight out of school or a career change? I feel like if they were older, they were probably senior programmers at other companies and just moved to google for the money/glory
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by mbarq 10y ago
This. I got a BFA straight out of high school on a full-ride. Thought things were gonna work out great for me in the movies, but life happens. I then went back to school as an "older student" at 25 and holy cow is it hard! Most Un