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by ng12 7y ago
> Maybe they're thinking about more than money? My point is many people don't have the privilege to do so. The article specifically references individuals who sought higher education as a path to a better life -- so if I have a
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by ng12 7y ago
The article above is about the American University system (and non-STEM degrees at that). If it's different in the EU it's not particularly relevant.
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by ng12 7y ago
The average PhD stipend is around 30k, even for high COL areas. If you have an undergraduate degree (especially if you've incurred debt to do so) it's not a particularly attractive option. Especially true considering how competiti
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by ng12 7y ago
The average PhD stipend is barely above the poverty line. You're financially better off doing just about anything else with your undergraduate degree. I'm glad you had the luxury of pursuing a passion PhD without sacrificing your
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by ng12 7y ago
Well sure -- if you can afford to spend six years of your life dedicated to a hobby by all means do so. Most people aren't afforded that luxury and need to worry about the practical applications of a PhD.
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by ng12 7y ago
If I could re-do my college degree I would have taken as few computer science courses as possible. Most of the important stuff I picked up along the way anyways. It's the random classes like Japanese Lit and Organizational Behavior tha
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by ng12 7y ago
How many doctors are making 300k/year for their bedside manner? Knowledge work is a huge part of what makes it such a valuable trade.
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by ng12 7y ago
I often think the only type of collapse we can expect is if we can develop a generalized AI capable of writing code. If we do that, no profession is safe -- what need is there for doctors if we have AI that can identify disease and treat sy
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by ng12 7y ago
They're not invented by Angular but for each and everyone one I have to learn how to do it the "Angular way", usually with an Angular-specific API. That's why it's over-engineered.
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by ng12 7y ago
I mean it's really not "already done" if you have to use all this boilerplate to get those features. > Robust type safety. Again you can set this up with fetch, but why? Its already done. Not sure what you mean here. Fetch
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by ng12 7y ago
To understand why people say Angular is over-engineered Google something simple like "Angular http request". You'll end up at this page: https://angular.io/guide/http It's almost comical. I can&#x27
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by ng12 7y ago
Same, I really don't like the mental overhead of having to learn the template syntax. I already know JavaScript, just let me use that.
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by ng12 7y ago
What bothers me most is the fake was incredibly lazy. It came in a plain white box with the brand I ordered stamped on one corner. The product inside looked completely different and was from a "brand" that I can't find sold o
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by ng12 7y ago
I bought a product on Amazon this Christmas that was completely fake. It was "sold by Amazon" but didn't even have the same label as the brand I had ordered. I complained to Amazon and they just gave me a refund without requi
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by ng12 7y ago
That's still not anything close to "perfect execution".
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by ng12 7y ago
> Even with occasional 3rd-party product issues The problem with Amazon is anything can be "3rd-party" and you'll never know until you have a problem with it. Maybe the fraudulent product was the result of a sketchy 3rd-pa
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by ng12 7y ago
> to perfect execution Their retail business is pretty far from perfect. Just a few days ago I got my first obviously fake product that was "sold by Amazon".
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by ng12 7y ago
Not to mention it's 1% of a $20b company that has yet to go public and seems intent on staying private.
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by ng12 7y ago
> "set data" style reducers I've heard this before but don't really understand it. Most of my reducers are storing and maybe updating data loaded from the server. What's wrong with this pattern?
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by ng12 7y ago
I think it's the opposite. Angular1 was obviously dead on it's feet, and I respect Angular2 for admitting that. If anything I wish they had gone further and cleaned up some of the other smells around the Angular ecosystem. My real
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by ng12 7y ago
There is. Scheme is a great pedagogical language. The book isn't _about_ Lisp though.
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by ng12 7y ago
> forced me to absorb some C# This book will force you to absorb some pure, functional JavaScript. There's so much more to programming than "what language is it written in".
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by ng12 7y ago
There's a reason SICP isn't called Structure and Interpretation of Lisp Programs. Lisp is incidental.
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by ng12 7y ago
That's good to hear. I've been on the hunt for a replacement for create-react-app -- in my experience it's problematic in an enterprise environment. I love Webpack but I don't want to recommend it to junior developers. I
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by ng12 7y ago
I agree that the type checker isn't that useful but I still use TypeScript for two reasons: 1. Accurate autocomplete. 2. Typing my domain models so they play well with autocomplete.
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by ng12 7y ago
Literally the entire purpose of the magazine industry is targeted advertising. The only reason to publish something like Cosmo or Hustler is to sell adds targeting the types of people who read Cosmo or Hustler.
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by ng12 7y ago
Ah, that's the TypeScript variant of the error that I posted. Same meaning. Again, my opinions are formed from doing this for a living, and honestly I've spent much more time in my career working with templates than I have with JS
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by ng12 7y ago
> but I think you are biased towards some piece of tech just because you're more familiar with it. Or because I spent more than half my career fuddling with sub-optimal technologies (up to and including Angular and Vue) and React ha
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by ng12 7y ago
You're getting into semantics. I don't mean they "invented" a concept nobody had done before -- I mean they had to sit down and build a new API in Vue (and write-up a very long documentation page) to solve a common probl
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by ng12 7y ago
Do you mean JSX? Here you go: import {createElement as h} from "react" const Counter = () => { const [count, setCount] = React.useState(0) return h("div", {}, h("p", {}, `You ha

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