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redleggedfrog
10y ago
He forgot to mention the streaming service has mostly junk and a few good movies.
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10y ago
And you may be correct in that perhaps a self-taught programmer prefers a self taught programmer and that's the sort of group we have formed. Hence my "anecdotally." But in the end, the proof is in the pudding. When you
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10y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but it's an honest limb. For the world I've lived in for the last 25 years, commercial and contract software development, I would go so far as to say a degree in some sort of computer scien
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10y ago
I guess it's just me then. :^) For me it's the difference between purchasing a product and investing in your business. If presented as an investment, where my money is going to enable you to produce the item for me, then I'
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10y ago
Ug, is it just me, or does that he took money before actually having anyone to paint the pictures seem unethical? Would people have ordered if they had of known there were no artists as yet, or for that matter the artist were going to be f
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redleggedfrog
10y ago
Crockford needs to write "JSON, The Good Parts."
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redleggedfrog
10y ago
The real problem here, and this isn't going to be a popular position, is that you're relying on the internet for important things. The original engineering and architecture of the the internet (and the web) was not intended to cre
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redleggedfrog
10y ago
You don't need a Chromebook and Google to do that. You can run all that junk in a web browser too, and still have a decent machine to use for serious work.
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redleggedfrog
10y ago
I am a parent of 2 teenage boys (16 and 18) and this is similar to the philosophy under which they were raised. Contrary to what people are saying in the posts, it is not difficult to raise your children this way, nor more dangerous. The
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10y ago
And remember what it was like when they did have desktops?! Thank the gods they use their phones instead now. Leave the desktops to those who know how to actually use a computer.
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10y ago
"My current target is a role at one of the "big four" tech companies or a high-quality startup doing either webdev or infrastructure engineering" Yup, I'd say if that's your goal, then you're not cut out f
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10y ago
Not being a troll, but I'd probably have a tough time finding friends in a business management class anyway, so I don't really find this that surprising.
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10y ago
>> Here's a secret for consultants: the attitude espoused in this blog post is losing you sales. << That's correct. This makes me sound bitter, but here's how it really works: They ask for a ballpark estimate, an