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by nirvana 14y ago
This has never been the case in my experience. Maybe this is the case for entry level jobs. Resumes go to recruiters who don't bother to look for the degree and are much more interested in the work experience, who forward you to a hiring m
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by nirvana 14y ago
>If so, do you ever find yourself missing the knowledge about low-level computer science? Let's say, how operating systems and filesystems are built under the covers, the internals of database systems, various algorithms that help solve
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by nirvana 14y ago
Interesting. I would compare experiences, because I too left a job in 2001 (startup was downsizing after acquisition and they made really generous offers for people to voluntarily leave)... but I wasn't looking for work, I was using my seve
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by nirvana 14y ago
So you'll have 5 years experience by the time you're 22. Probably be perfectly set up to do your own startup. If its a success, then you're made. If its a failure, you're still a lot better off than the people who just graduated from col
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by nirvana 14y ago
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem Part of the reason I have written at such length is that the quality of the arguments for the other position are so very, very poor. And oft repeated.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Another point: Degree inflation. College has become so prominent and watered down that almost everyone has a degree, and thus having a degree itself has a lot less meaning than it did in the past. This does mean there are more half educat
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by nirvana 14y ago
>"I founded this web-based start-up. We did OK." isn't remarkable enough. There is no "remarkable enough" hurdle. Anyone who has real world experience has demonstrated far more ability than a degree shows. At best a degree shows some
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by nirvana 14y ago
You're just spreading FUD. And it simply isn't true. I'm not projecting here, I've done this very thing. I know. I've worked for several organizations with more than 10,000 employees. I was not being silently discriminated against because
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by nirvana 14y ago
Notice how the advocates of college are not selling the education you get from it and the skills so much as trying to instill fear, uncertainty and doubt in you? This actually works as a filter- those who think for themselves will not fal
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by nirvana 14y ago
1. This has not been my experience. I've sent my resume to these kinds of companies "non tech" companies, at various periods and have had no trouble getting gigs with them (I was consulting at the time.) 2. This is pure prejudice. It may be
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by nirvana 14y ago
It is true there are a class of companies, bumpkin type companies like insurance companies, for instance, who hire engineers who care a great deal about degrees. There are also bumpkin bosses who think wouldn't interview someone who doesn't
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by nirvana 14y ago
>there are certain areas of software engineering where a real understanding of the subject takes years of focused study. Not many, and people who go into these areas spend those years doing that concentrated study as part of their job.
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by nirvana 14y ago
>you'll probably need a degree You may be right, but I see the phrase above as code for "college graduates discriminate against people without degrees". Notice you didn't say "You'll need the skills a degree gives you". The reality i
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by nirvana 14y ago
Let me guess, you're in college? >If you don't have a college degree, it's highly unlikely that you will get into a reputed company, assuming any company is willing to hire you. That's just silly. I have worked for Microsoft and Amazon,
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by nirvana 14y ago
This didn't work for me at all. I think telling a story like that is good, but you gotta tell us what the characters are/mean at some point. You can't just start using them an expect us to get it. At this point I think the character for c
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by nirvana 14y ago
Agreed. I remember, back in the day, having to sneak our computers in because the "union method" was to leave the $50,000 of SGI workstations we were using for our demo on a cart, unattended, for several hours, until someone could get arou
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by nirvana 14y ago
When I dropped out it was for an "offer I couldn't refuse"- I went in looking for a summer job and got a hell of a gig. I was working (as peers) with several people who'd just graduated from college. None of those people have had the succe
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by nirvana 14y ago
People who skip college start out financially ahead of those who get a degree-- they spend 4 years getting work experience and hopefully saving that money. One of the major things about compounding is that the more you save early on, the bi
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by nirvana 14y ago
If you're an engineer, and you drop out and you work for 4-6 years, nobody is ever going to care, or probably know, that you don't have a degree. My personal experience was that I got a hell of a good job when looking for a summer job, and
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by nirvana 14y ago
Why oh Why is the headline about the stock price? Apple's price is $585ish right now. Apple is not 10 times more expensive than Facebook would be-- only a bit more than 5 times as expensive. Facebook's price range is around $86B. It see
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by nirvana 14y ago
We had a world facing UI, and all the insight that produced, and we still weren't able to sway management that there might possibly be a profitable search business. In the age of napster people were using our service-- and falling in love
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by nirvana 14y ago
This was a very interesting read. I was working for a vertical search engine in this very same period. I, and the other engineers, also attempted to get our management to recognize what google was doing right. Unfortunately, we were delay
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by nirvana 14y ago
Here's a shorter answer: Have money or want to make money? Buy Unity 3D. No money, non-commercial: Free Unity 3D. Refuse to use anything closed source? Then go open source (and in that realm there are too many choices for me to recommend
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by nirvana 14y ago
There's a totally free version of Unity. I think if you download it and try it out for awhile, you'll discover that it would be extremely easy to build any kind of unique game mechanic you might want in it. Probably easier in unity than a
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by nirvana 14y ago
>You misread his comment. He is saying OS X was not released with in-depth defense mechanisms. Thus its release date is of no consequence. Really? 2001-2002 is when OS X got in depth defense mechanisms, thus the date is relevant-- it p
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by nirvana 14y ago
ECC Does nothing to prevent your server from dying in a fire after that police chase, either. However, replication is an effective solution to the problem you describe: Whenever data is read, you read from more than one replica, and then co
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think it is a good idea to architect your system under the assumption that once a year, some theif is going to sneak into the data center and make off with an entire server. Just one, but the whole server will then die horribly in a fire
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by nirvana 14y ago
Wouldn't the risk of that be exactly the same as the risk of a host box dying at for any VPS product anywhere? Specifically I'm sure Hetzner is running their VPS product on the same boxes, since one of their methods is to have a very stand
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by nirvana 14y ago
Hetzner is nirvana for pre-ramen profitable big data startups. You can build a cluster for a whole lot less than Amazon-- in many cases 1/10th the cost (depending on which resources are higher priority, for us.) The question is-- can you h
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by nirvana 14y ago
I haven't used their service yet so I can't comment from experience with them, but I will say this: In germany, you are taught english when you are growing up. We lived in Berlin for awhile and my german is very poor, but almost everyone w

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