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by mtrower 4y ago
While I don’t know how I feel about the word “savant”, I do seem to match your idea of the few, and in that regard I have two things to say here… * Interruptions affect me just as the article describes. I have my suspicions about those who
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by mtrower 4y ago
I think the idea is he doesn’t get push notifications on email.
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by mtrower 4y ago
You’re right, but… do you write long reports, all day, every day?
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by mtrower 4y ago
That’s quite the claim regarding flow. Invaluable to you if so, but my question would be, how are you defining it? You mention having an eye on your kids, but flow should completely tune out everything other than the precise problem at han
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Collaboration happens when engineers want to share ideas, not because they're imprisoned in a glorified fish tank for eight hours a day. I feel like this is an obvious truth that is somehow overlooked a lot, willfully or otherwise
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by mtrower 4y ago
Once you’ve done that, you’ve already lost. Interruption encountered.
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by mtrower 4y ago
I feel in turn that this comment is the dismissive one, and in fact extremely so. The issue is not that programmers need to focus, is that they need to focus on deep, complex work. At least a few of those other tasks you mention (don’t hav
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by mtrower 4y ago
Maybe because you led in with “to be fair”? Perhaps “as an aside” may have been more appropriate, to indicate an intentional context switch? Your point is valid as a tangent, but it doesn’t read as a tangent to me - it reads as attempting
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by mtrower 4y ago
Of course there is, is literally their mark of trade in their space. That kind of needs to be defensible to combat fraud. What’s not okay is how it’s being “defended” here. This is just abuse.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Them having a case which is potentially legally valid, does not preclude the case from being frivolous in nature.
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by mtrower 4y ago
So if trademarks aren’t helpful to businesses, not intended to be helpful to businesses, why file for one at all?
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by mtrower 4y ago
Yeah no, I’d assert that any similarities there, such that they exist, are due to them both drawing on the same prior art/culture. It’s kind of insane that Monster gets to just assimilate all of that under its wing for free.
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by mtrower 4y ago
I was very sad when Conkeror when to rest. You might be interested in Nyxt, if cl doesn’t turn you off.
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Otherwise the entire populous will be flat earther simpletons. At face value, this is obvious nonsense; if the entire populous was naught but simpletons, who would even introduce new concepts to them? > challenged and evolved by cri
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by mtrower 4y ago
> it is only bi-modal if there’s a single large dip in the middle of the histogram. I don’t think this is correct, bi-modal just means there are two modes. But we don’t have to argue over a definition, I’ll just use more words. What I m
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by mtrower 4y ago
The anger I’m familiar with surrounding bailouts has to do with the government stepping in to rescue banks that, in the eyes of the angered, were engaging in corrupt and risky/greedy practices. Whether the money came from taxpayers,
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by mtrower 4y ago
No, not at all. You have to look at the context here, the post that I'm replying to. I'm a strong, staunch supporter of critical and independent thought. I'm sure some colleges probably teach that well, and I would heartily
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Yes, there's a big overlap between "learning" and "indoctrination". Perhaps if you subscribe to the "chinese master" mentality. I never had much regard for this. > For mysterious reasons we only c
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by mtrower 4y ago
> So if we’re going to talk about struggling, we need to be fair to the people who struggle to pay for food and housing, not just struggle to pay off their college debt. You don't think this overlaps? If you're coming out of c
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by mtrower 4y ago
> People stopped wearing suits at work, even for interviews, because the signaling value of a suit is zero. In fact it's become an anti-signal in software; people look at you funny. I actually failed an interview once because I w
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Conservatives and businesses want more people to take low-paying jobs, and having the masses be educated threatens their ability to pay minimum wage. Not having tradesman threatens the ability of society as we know it to continue. We
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by mtrower 4y ago
What is meant by finishing school in this thread? I have a feeling this is not the definition being used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finishing_school
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by mtrower 4y ago
So wait, if a person fails to benefit from college, it's their own fault for not taking what was "handed to them on a platter" (as you mention in another of your posts" --- but if they fail to self-educate, it's onl
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by mtrower 4y ago
If so many people are reporting this experience, it may be time to re-evaluate the current state of education.
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by mtrower 4y ago
> a dedicated professional walking you through a curriculum in a context where you’re dedicating 4 years to the endeavor. Sounds nice. What I've actually seen is dedicated professionals walking entire classes en masse through cur
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by mtrower 4y ago
That's just indoctrination. Great I guess if you agree with the brainwashing. Not so great if you're on the other side.
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by mtrower 4y ago
> Those that can self-educate effectively are also ones that would thrive in a proper high education system. That might depend on what you define as 'proper'. These environments are typically tailored toward a certain median i
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by mtrower 4y ago
Perhaps in part owing to the fact that people don’t generally keep hefty sums of cash in hand? Anyway, how are you expecting to transact digitally with your paper notes?
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by mtrower 4y ago
What?? This does not seem to match what I’ve heard from the government before. What do they claim the median household income at?
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by mtrower 4y ago
Sure --- but to the average individual, what is iconic about them? People who probably never saw one in real life, maybe only ever saw the one in Back to the Future? What percentage of people even know about those other vehicles? I think

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