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by pitt1980 12y ago
thats an interesting take I don't know that that doesn't happen at real schools too though while I'm sure college works as a smoothing function but it seems to me that certain (almost always UMC) kids show up and immediately
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by pitt1980 12y ago
you know what, this guy appears to be betting with a far larger share of his assets than sama is, he's putting his money where his mouth is maybe you shouldn't be so dismissive
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by pitt1980 12y ago
the trends at play here: - ability to prove worth outside an education credential - access to educational materials outside a couple elite schools - ability to find the relevent people to network with suggests that a software engineer today
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by pitt1980 12y ago
I was definately a little more mindless with my spending (to a lesser degree I'm that way with cards too)
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by pitt1980 12y ago
the magic bands combined with smart watches make paying for things with your phone seem far more feasable you can pay for everything in the park with your magic band (I think you might have to stay in a disney resort for that to be the case
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by pitt1980 12y ago
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17159 "We find that the return to college selectivity is sizeable for both cohorts in regression models that control for variables commonly observed by researchers, such as student high
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by pitt1980 12y ago
where are you getting 30K from? I only have experience with what CMU will quote a family with modestly upper middle class means, about 10 years ago, but I was unimpressed the difference back then between them and state school was multiples
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by pitt1980 12y ago
how is an 18 year old supposed to know if they will do well? what happens to non-dischargable debt if they don't do well?
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by pitt1980 12y ago
"Current statistics on average salaries for those schools in EECS disciplines compared to industry average" do you have a source for that? also keep in mind that those schools are starting with more capable students going in
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by pitt1980 12y ago
it's be interesting to know how a situation where student takes school, then starts their own company and pays themselves ramen salary is handled seems like a good portion of their target market might have something like that in mind a
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by pitt1980 12y ago
what college adminstrators will decide you need, and what you think you might need, can differ significantly
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by pitt1980 12y ago
"intuitively it seems pretty high risk" for who?
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by pitt1980 12y ago
fair what's the going rate for a developer boot camp these days? 10K or so? if their placement rates are as good as they advertise (I don't really have a way of know if they are or not), this seems hardpressed to compete with tho
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by pitt1980 12y ago
I don't see any evidence that taking college classes lays any foundation for learning additional skills later
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by pitt1980 12y ago
considering the price tag of those schools, they should be the most vulnerable to competition
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by pitt1980 12y ago
it'd be interesting to read the fine print it'd be interesting to know the tax implications of that 25% (is it pre tax/post tax) it appears to be risk free, as in, what happens if you flake out and move to India, or develop a
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by pitt1980 12y ago
questions about scaling seem entirely on topic and fair there is a middle ground between celebrating and deriding, which is where I think most people hope discussions of new startups wind up
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by pitt1980 12y ago
at what point in the processes of proving a concept does it make sense to get IP protection?
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by pitt1980 12y ago
"Join or start a Hackerspace, work from Techshop, contact makers who post interesting projects: find people working on hardware like yours and ask how they dealt with challenges you’re facing. These conversations have led to me discove
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by pitt1980 12y ago
wrong thread, sorry
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by pitt1980 12y ago
there are some debt replayment programs for low earners in the US as well, but student loan repayment will be a serious drag on any attempt to build wealth for most people who take out loans I'm of the opinion that most people don&#x27
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by pitt1980 12y ago
The thing that kills me about Thiel's critics is how much they ignore the risk that going to college poses. obviously it can be done at alot of different price points, but Vivek Wadhwa teaches at Duke and Stanford, what sort of career
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by pitt1980 12y ago
sounds like you're in a great position to craft the position you want, and then shop around your experience to other startups if you get a bite, go back to your startup, say you have another opportunity, see how much they want you
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by pitt1980 12y ago
what does that link have to do with net neutrality?
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by pitt1980 12y ago
yeah, if they're not risking serious brain damage, they're not a real athlete
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by pitt1980 12y ago
maybe we should compare some of these misdeeds to the misdeeds of the various communist governments that inspired those misdeeds
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by pitt1980 12y ago
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki... if you like seeing your universities in ranking form
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