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rgbgraph
3y ago
Literally write a toy database. Redis from Scratch will walk you through the very basics. Want to know how to build compilers? Crafting Interpreters (while very wordy) will walk you (painstakingly) through the very basics. Want to build a b
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rgbgraph
3y ago
> Medical school class sizes are not artificially restricted. Schools limit class sizes to ensure that almost all graduates can find a residency program slot. This is paradoxical. Class sizes are limited by the school, but not artificial
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rgbgraph
3y ago
- Artificial restriction of class sizes in medical schools. - Egregious costs just to become any sort of practitioner (medical school, residency, etc.). - Insurance companies are basically always grifting you as a policy, unless you call th
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rgbgraph
3y ago
Fair assumption; but anyone who’s done any research into the history of education in the U.S will tell you that phonics has vastly superior outcomes to “whole language” schemes. Learning to read via phonics vs the alternative is like the di
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rgbgraph
3y ago
Yeah, a lot of the .NET stuff is low-paid, low-challenge big business work (and the only high-visibility "cool" .NET work is at MS). There's a few positions that intermittently pop-up doing "cool" work in .NET: usua
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rgbgraph
3y ago
Lovely article -- very original. I'll add some anecdata, to give more context on why "atmosphere at all costs" might be en vogue. - Most software engineering is CRUD - Almost all 3rd generation, higher level languages can ach
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rgbgraph
3y ago
1. Not everyone and their dog was getting into tech; there was a lot of low-hanging fruit, and a lot lower bar for what was considered "impressive." 2. The bar for impressive is now "insanely complex." 3. The tools were
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A DB article that you can actually learn something from. Lovely