petea

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by petea 11y ago
I think so. The fact that skilled immigrants actually are skilled probably helps the notion that skilled immigrants don't need help and doesn't deserve any sympathy. On the other hand, skilled immigrants often seem completely obli
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by petea 11y ago
I find mainstream hostility towards skilled workers really interesting because if you had replaced this group of people with any other group of people like women or other ethnic minorities, you can really start to see how outright hostile p
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by petea 11y ago
> But critics accused the company of abandoning an employee who had stood for what’s right, Adria Richards was the one who tried to start a witch hunt by talking photos of the two individuals who were just minding their own business joki
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by petea 11y ago
"... costs millions of tax payer dollars because of the long appeals processes ..." I hear this as an argument against death penalty a lot, when it actually isn't. It doesn't say whether or not death penalty is right or
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by petea 11y ago
"The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has purchased advertisements to accompany this series. While CAMH professionals are quoted in this story, the organization had no involvement in the creation or production of this, or any oth
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by petea 11y ago
Immigration reform for skilled workers will almost certainly not happen as long as Democrats continue to lump in amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants in the same immigration reform bill. This might not be a popular opinion to spout, b
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by petea 12y ago
What is actually bad about Google's "corporate mass surveillance"? It sure sounds scary, but when I actually try to think about what it is actually bad about it, I can't really think of any. Every single user Google got,
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by petea 13y ago
It seems like most are ok with harassment and discrimination against Eich simply citing exercise of free speech. But if one-tenth of what happened to Eich had happened to someone with different sexuality or female, people would cry harassme
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by petea 13y ago
This Dev Bootcamp phenomenon negatively affects Ruby and Ruby on Rails community disproportionately more than any other. I think pretty much all these training courses sell Ruby on Rails as the goto platform to learn. If this trend continue
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by petea 13y ago
These Yelp reviews mean very little to be honest. What kind of an idiot would write a bad review when 1. Writing bad review of the code training you got basically admits to others that your skills as a programmer is poor. 2. You risk sourin
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by petea 13y ago
I don't know why she has never mentioned someone she worked with at all. I commented about this about her 70 days ago. --- So let's see her repository ( https://github.com/jendewalt/jennifer_dewalt ). This girl
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by petea 13y ago
I guess obvious thing to ask here would be, why can't OP just borrow the money from parents and pay them back afterwards? >>If someone ever said to me, "you've already waived your ability to become a rockstar, paid for
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by petea 13y ago
You betcha. She's gonna get book deals and invitations to talk at conferences in no time with this internet theatrical.
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by petea 13y ago
I created a new account to avoid precisely people like you psychologizing libelously about who I am. I feel reassured that it was a good idea to create a new account.
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by petea 13y ago
>chacham15: For example, websites which require back-end technologies generally fall into the latter category. The skills learned in perfecting the former are somewhat different than the skills necessary for the latter. The funny thing i
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by petea 13y ago
So let's see her repository ( https://github.com/jendewalt/jennifer_dewalt ). This girl not only became a competent front end developer in 100 days, but looking at the Gemfile, she knows how to use capistrano, redis