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by pcmoney 7y ago
I think that is fair but remember over half of the classes you took in the pursuit of a CS undergrad were not CS classes. Of the half remaining maybe half of them were truly vital? Even the example of building a microprocessor (or your own
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by pcmoney 7y ago
I am sorry but no. All of that can be learned during your first internship where you get paid instead of paying. I would argue college delays maturity and does not foster it. Hanging out with a bunch of people that are the same age, same l
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by pcmoney 7y ago
I would argue that it is the first thing a manager looking for a cost center, cog type engineer looks at. They are not looking for an engineer who actually understands business they are looking for a “ plumbing engineer” that just keeps the
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by pcmoney 7y ago
Is ruby that slow? I always understood it was comparable to python? Plus if it is performant enough for Shopify and Github it seems like it would be performant for 90%+ of use cases? The speed of development and the flexibility of developme
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by pcmoney 7y ago
I do know that type of person and yes it is not fun. Or they recite all the specs of a new Android vs iPhone and how you are such an "idiot" for being an Apple sheep. When really you don't care that much and the price differe
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by pcmoney 7y ago
I don't think it is a social cues thing either. I switched back and forth between Droid and Apple for awhile until I read some fairly disturbing predictions on how all these personal data warehouses could be used to digitally enslave u
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by pcmoney 7y ago
Last I checked: Actual text of convo: not yet but soon. Metadata: yes.
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by pcmoney 7y ago
But the flip side of all those choices are all massive privacy invasions or security risks. Apple App Store is a walled Garden but the Banking App you get from the Apple Store is guaranteed to be the actual app from the bank it says it is.
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by pcmoney 7y ago
I am super excited for the Librem Phone project but still think it is a way off from being a viable phone for most people.
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by pcmoney 7y ago
It does sell your data and is not secure. What $750 dongle? You can get an iPhone for like $300 these days. Forces itself into your life? How? Apple's data security is better than literally every other smart phone provider and its OS i
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by pcmoney 7y ago
It is 100% a Facebook product. It is FB. I 100% guarantee all data mined from your WhatsApp account is linked either to your FB account or your shadow FB account if you never signed up. Sure maybe the "experience" hasn't chan
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by pcmoney 7y ago
They never had a monetization plan and don't charge for use and their last re-design was in 2012? How do you think they make money? Either they don't and they are going to disappear soon or they do and they are just another data p
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by pcmoney 7y ago
It is interesting that the comments on the Twitter thread are "Just use WhatsApp". Which is basically iMessage but from Facebook. Comparing two, the vendor lock-in from Apple seems much preferable to the one with Facebook in light
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by pcmoney 8y ago
I sort of feel like this is par for the course with SNAP. It seems to me to be a rather scummy company that got lucky despite its original intentions of encouraging people to send nudes (which is pretty sleazy IMO). The CEO as far as I can
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by pcmoney 8y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that more accessibility focus and ease of adoption for novices is something the industry as a whole should focus on. Historically large manuals do not help users use the device better. Ex. How well do you know how to
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by pcmoney 8y ago
I disagree unless you are saying: 1. Only iPhones can adjust text size. 2. Only iPhones have mapping functionality 3. Only iPhones have a voice activated digital assistant. 4. Only iPhone have a health app. These are all common smart phone
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by pcmoney 8y ago
I disagree unless you are saying: 1. Only iPhones can adjust text size. 2. Only iPhones have mapping functionality 3. Only iPhones have a voice activated digital assistant. 4. Only iPhone have a health app. These are all common smart phone
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by pcmoney 8y ago
Ok, I need to say it. This article just has iPhone in the title to get more views. This is a problem with not just all smartphones but all rapidly evolving technology products. Do you think you could hand an android phone to one of those ex
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by pcmoney 8y ago
Ya I think thats a calculation many families have to make. I strongly agree with the other comment in terms of opportunity cost years down the road. I really see this with a lot of our friends. The wife often quits her job and stays home be
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by pcmoney 8y ago
$160 a week?! ROFL. Try $450/wk for full time day care. This is in a non-coastal, non-major city for standard licensed day care, not Montessori or high end. Standard rate in the town I live in, could maybe save $50/month if I doub
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by pcmoney 8y ago
Usual personal opinion caveats Ok, simply rails is a tool. It is a well worn tool. Can do a lot of things and a lot of people know how to use it. Learning how to use it has been done many many times before so the path to competence is rea
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by pcmoney 8y ago
I would wait, they will announce some level of refresh in September, possibly with new auxiliary Apple designed chips or Face ID etc. and they will have fixed keyboard gate by then.
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by pcmoney 8y ago
Thanks for the input, I am very thankful we have less pressure in our culture to follow traditional father roles. Not that those fathers were uncaring but they were expected to be a bit more removed and constrained than we are today. One th
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by pcmoney 8y ago
I’m a relatively new dad so maybe the novelty just hasn’t worn off but I can’t understand fathers who don’t interact with their kids. I do it as much as I can, it’s the best. Not always easy but always good.
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by pcmoney 8y ago
Oh it was all fine, just the work wasn’t hard or interesting and there wasn’t that much of it (except for crazy spikes for 2-3 weeks sometimes) I dont feel like I passed on anything significant. I was just really under utilized. I got poach
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by pcmoney 8y ago
Out of undergrad I was recruited by a major defense contractor and selected for a leadership development program. Aside from making me fly various places and do nothing they also made me do nothing at my "home" desk in a secure fa
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by pcmoney 8y ago
Honestly if it just had a real off switch I would forgive just about anything else. The number of times my kindle has died because it was displaying an ad forever because it takes 4seconds to turn off... pretty much makes the long battery l
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by pcmoney 8y ago
Fair point, I wonder if union electricians do commit more fraud since they feel more secure/less touchable etc a clearer version of the point I was trying to make is saying a correlation between business school grads and white collar c
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by pcmoney 8y ago
1. He makes a good point 2. Its not the point he thinks he makes 3. Full disclosure one of my degrees is a B.S in finance but I work as an engineer. He makes a point that "At the end of it all, most business-school graduates won’t beco
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by pcmoney 9y ago
Only you can answer this for you. But I would say younger, given you know yourself pretty well and have a good idea what field you want your career to be in. Yes, kids are limiting. But they also open up the world to you again. You don’t re

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