okaram

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by okaram 9y ago
no
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by okaram 9y ago
I guess it depends on what you mean by outcomes ... if the outcome is finding a job after graduation, probably not; if the outcome is becoming a 'better' human being, probably yes :) Having a 7:1 teacher/student ratio means t
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by okaram 9y ago
I was also in higher education; I think it is a problem of lumping different categories of schools, changing roles, and of people having a political axe to grind :) I'd be very surprised if admin costs at Ivy League universities, or ev
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by okaram 9y ago
Actually ... they are probably NOT charging exorbitant prices for tuition, room and board, when you look at their costs; good education is expensive. Room and board is about $13K, or slightly more than 1K/month, which seems pretty reas
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by okaram 9y ago
Although I still see it as a difference, I think it's good to remember you DO have a say in 'private property' .... there's nothing magical or natural about private property. Private property is whatever society/the
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by okaram 9y ago
The big one is that github doesn't provide free private projects (it is nice to be able to have some private repos if/when you need them). Other than that, for casual use, they are all excellent products
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by okaram 9y ago
Just to let you know, I'm teaching intro programming classes, and using your service heavily because of this. Thanks !!!
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by okaram 9y ago
Don't know about hardware you can buy, but AWS will rent you a machine with 3TB Ram by the hour :) https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
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by okaram 9y ago
I have been teaching CS classes for 20+ years ... everybody can learn to code, it's just that it takes a different amount of effort for everybody (in a way the same argument as 'offer more pay', in this case, give them more t
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by okaram 9y ago
The government hasn't recently grown in scope, in any meaningful way. Since the 1980's, the government as percent of GDP has stayed about the same 30-35% ... our taxes are lower and our 'welfare' is arguably lower than i
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by okaram 9y ago
NPR may lean 'left', but it tries to be journalism (Fox News is entertainment and propaganda); if you want to find something like the Fox News of the left, check DemocracyNow, or ThinkProgress
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by okaram 9y ago
Maybe English is not your native language ? (it isn't mine BTW :) Catcalling has never been acceptable behavior, and, in my experience, does not increase anybody's chances of meeting new people. Catcalling is not flirting. As to h
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by okaram 10y ago
actually, it seems 200k is 95% (well, in 2014)
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by okaram 10y ago
Mexico does (not sure what you count as developed countries :). I think most non-parliamentarian democracies do.
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by okaram 10y ago
It is neither. It is just standard 'incompetence'; this is really '65 year old doesn't understand computers' ; details @ 11
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by okaram 10y ago
Are you sure Trump wouldn't catch a break from anyone ? Have you seen how most republicans are now supporting him ? Do you think they won't support him if he wins ? why ?
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by okaram 11y ago
Yes, but for applications ; instead of doing a remote call to your other system to create an order or send an email, you just stick the data in a queue, and the other system does it when it feels like it
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by okaram 11y ago
I'm not even sure 'high intelligence' applies to doctors :) some are smart, some are not; it totally depends on how you define intelligence.
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by okaram 11y ago
This sounds like a great approach; however, what is precluding you from making this into a script ? Maybe with a first step of "fill values in this properties file" for passwords etc ?
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by okaram 11y ago
It heavily depends on the company; Facebook may be all 20-somethings, but Microsoft is much more balanced. As one data point, I'm 43, joined Microsoft 2 years ago, have an offer from another big tech company.
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by okaram 11y ago
The job market in CS is cyclical, with a roughly 20 year cycle; we are now at the point where supply will start to catch up with demand; 'everybody' will study CS, and in 4-5 years we will have a glut of beginners and bad programm
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by okaram 11y ago
For some ungodly reason, I haven't seen any windows laptop with a nice trackpad that doesn't break in 6 months :(. At least my Acer netbooks have reliable trackpads (no gestures or anything, but ...)
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by okaram 12y ago
I'm running ubuntu on it :)
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by okaram 12y ago
This probably depends more on experience, and which OS/platform you're using; although I don't do it a lot, I've configured Apache servers several dozen times, whereas I've only done nginx a couple of times, so it i
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by okaram 12y ago
The problem is that happiness in a marriage varies heavily over time, and has lots of ups-and-downs. I think a big thing that commitment devices (religion, family ...) help with is that when the going gets touch for a little while, you stay
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by okaram 12y ago
mainly the fact that python was designed to teach programming and its community has pushed that aspect of it; ruby's community, IMHO, tends to be more for cool, shiny things, and faster changes, which makes it less suitable as a teachi
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by okaram 12y ago
It is perfectly fine to learn ruby; Rails is one of the nicest frameworks to get started with --I do prefer python and django, but rails is pretty nice too
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by okaram 12y ago
If you write a check for 1M to every person in America, you help the poorest; if I have $0 I cannot afford anything; you give me 1M now I can get about 1/300M of the total of things. I assume rents (and other things) will rise even mo
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by okaram 13y ago
You may want to look at the book 'Code Reading' ; it's been a while, and I gave away my copy, but it was useful http://www.amazon.com/Code-Reading-Open-Source-Perspective/d...
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by okaram 13y ago
I'm a Linux guy (well, I was a year ago :), but I'm working for Microsoft now, and get $150/mo free on Azure ; although I haven't used many of the advanced features, I'm running a few tiny instance, both Windows and

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