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Ask HN: How do I get started in cell phone repair?
1 points by oz 16y ago|3 comments
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by oz 16y ago
One commenter said it's creepy; but you gotta admit: It's clever and memorable.
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by oz 16y ago
This has always struck me as well: given so much inefficiency, waste and corruption, how do they still survive? On a macro level, given human irrationality, such as our well-documented cognitive biases, how does the world continue to 'work'
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by oz 16y ago
I'm not going to play dumb and act like I didn't realize what I was doing. I did it partly for the money, and partly for the sake of helping someone who would probably not have a chance to improve their life (via education). We remain good
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by oz 16y ago
Upvoted. I see your point. Question for you: Is there any way it could be different, given the constraints the education system faces, such as limited time, untalented teachers, and the human need to quantify?
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by oz 16y ago
Sounds similar the story about a week ago where are professor is being disciplined for recommending that a grad student's degree be revoked, because the student did not meet the requirements. Robin Hanson from OvercomingBias says it best: S
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by oz 16y ago
"Has modern education become so jaded that it now plays out as farce, where learning is not the goal but gaming the system is?" In a word, yes. You see, education, for most people, is NOT about learning . It's about getting a job . We H
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by oz 16y ago
I, who dropped out of CompSci after my first year, was a small-time shadow scholar. It started innocently enough: I wasn't working, and a friend of a friend who was doing her Master's (in Education, wouldn't you know) needed help typing and
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by oz 16y ago
Yeah, at first I thought it was Chrome's AutoPager plugin, but even after I disabled it, same thing happened. I had to resort to the print-friendly view.
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by oz 16y ago
"Anybody that has a job that requires a ton of study and a lot of brain work will tend towards this, it's human, nothing specific about programmers." Like the Apostle Paul said in the New Testament: "Knowledge puffs up; but charity edifie
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by oz 16y ago
A savvy network admin with Ethereal could find out...
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by oz 16y ago
I suppose it's for the same reason that buildings are attributed to architects, and symphonies to composers, rather than to builders and musicians.
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by oz 16y ago
Hmmm, I never thought of that. Good point.
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by oz 16y ago
Why would he believe that? They've tried to contact him before.
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by oz 16y ago
That should be loseweightgetlaid.com (1 less 'o').
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by oz 16y ago
Yup, I always thought it was a spin on 'smarter than the average bear.'
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by oz 16y ago
Could you go into more depth on this?
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by oz 16y ago
Probably inspired by Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus.
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by oz 16y ago
God I hate that flashing red light...
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by oz 16y ago
"Gonna Fly Now" , from Rocky.
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by oz 16y ago
The Enterprise version requires clients to have Admin privileges. Trying to work around that cost me weekend where I actually had to sleep at the office. Fun times...
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by oz 16y ago
Paul Erdos (pronounced Air-dish). He would find the professor's home, and announce "My brain is open," and they would work together.
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by oz 16y ago
I was just about to say the same thing - usually it's the officers who are clueless, thinking that a year at RMA Sandhurst means they know more than a battle-hardened Sergeant or Sergeant-Major. In any army in the world, call an NCO 'sir'
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by oz 16y ago
I'm going to learn Lua for FreeSWITCH scripting. Thanks.
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by oz 16y ago
Email sent.
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by oz 16y ago
"How are you going to negotiate salary after begging for a job for three months?" That was my problem with the article as well. It puts you in a position of weakness/subservience. Most people will take advantage. My resume is a PDF docume
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by oz 16y ago
Exactly! The core issue is lack of hope. When hope is gone, all is lost. And then you see someone driving by in their brand new Mercedes, and you can see in their faces that they've never had to work a day in their lives, it fills you wit
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by oz 16y ago
Agreed. Upvoted. When I was younger, I used to look at poor people and condemn them for being lazy and irresponsible. It's when I started paying bills that I realized that many lower middle-class lives hang by a thread - a missed paycheck c
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by oz 16y ago
That's a good excuse for why I dropped out...
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by oz 16y ago
Oops! Guess that's why I failed Pre-Cal...

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