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by ritchiea 12y ago
I didn't say cultural bias was an issue, you're twisting my words. And the people I know who vouch for the effectiveness of test prep classes don't even teach them anymore, they taught them mostly as a summer jobs or jobs out
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Straightforward: Do you think the SAT and high school GPA are excellent metrics (note that I'm not asking are they decent metrics that measure something, I'm asking do you believe they are excellent metrics)? It seems to me that t
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Posted this elsewhere in the thread but I'll say something similar again: I love that here on HN, where from working in the industry I can sensibly assume the posters are mostly white and Asian, no one questions whether the metrics are
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by ritchiea 12y ago
I don't think the two are comparable. At work your goal is to grow and make money as a company. At elite schools they aim to educate their students to better their futures. Colleges are attempting to shape people not make a billion dol
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Don't switch stacks. He's expressing an opinion about code from Rails developers which is about as broad as opinions go this side of saying "black people are like X" or "Asians are like Y." On the bright side h
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Ok let's be serious what does burned mean? My impression is that most people use Rails because it allows you to be very productive very quickly. Presumably that means you know you're trading performance for productivity. Maybe you
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by ritchiea 12y ago
It happens to us all my friend.
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by ritchiea 12y ago
The blogger never suggested that US anti-vaxers are the cause of the high number. I believe the intent of the post was to say "this is a deadly disease in some countries and yet there is still a movement to not vaccinate children again
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A Tiny Minority of Elite Grad Schools Produce Most Tenured Academics(slate.com)
47 points by ritchiea 12y ago|49 comments
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by ritchiea 12y ago
I am not the type to believe management is bullshit or in the way of getting real work done and still this interview is triggering my BS detector. It feels like an endless stream of confident generalities. Nearly all of the interviewee&#x27
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by ritchiea 12y ago
One could even say that it reeks of hubris to believe a largely homogenous group of people is fit to police the values and customs of the entire world.
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by ritchiea 12y ago
This is great advice, I would add one more thing: Start actually working on things. The OP says he/she has not worked on anything outside of academia worth putting on a resume. It is not too late to start a project or working relations
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by ritchiea 12y ago
A pittance? That's a bit of an exaggeration. NYC isn't quite as expensive as you're making it out to be. And the Uber driver pay numbers were debunked [1]. I know people living on their own in NYC with far less than $200k in
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Great point about the psychology of rejecting people and companies feeling the need to reject good candidates to "have a high bar." There is also something to be said for these companies demanding a vague passion for their product
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Can you clarify what's so bad about that job posting? Just the salary range or something else?
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Tech’s High Barrier to Entry for the Underprivileged(medium.com)
2 points by ritchiea 12y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Interesting, that runs counter to the prevailing sentiment that Ruby's metaprogramming makes it great for writing DSLs. What language features do you prefer for writing DSLs?
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President Obama's 2016 Budget Data on GitHub(github.com)
3 points by ritchiea 12y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Analytical philosophers are also fantastic at this. Though formal logic could also be argued to be a branch of mathematics.
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by ritchiea 12y ago
I have an acquaintance who works there and their clients are all really big companies like Pepsi. And from my impression it's not technical departments that tend to purchase their services which is why you asking yourself "who use
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by ritchiea 12y ago
They're still bad, they've lost 8 more games than they've won (17-25) in the lesser NBA conference and wouldn't make the playoffs if the playoffs began today. The NBA is not starting a company, you can't identify ne
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Makes sense I don't know any of this, I was in high school in the early 2000s.
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by ritchiea 12y ago
What areas of software development require deep problem solving?
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Anyone else feel like there is a lot of esoteric information here? For instance: > Are there any problems with serving pages as application/xhtml+xml? I've never had to or considered serving pages as application/xhtml+xml,
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Responses to my novel pitch from prominent Silicon Valley VCs(blog.andrewritchie.info)
3 points by ritchiea 12y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Ugh I hate stuff like this. Sometimes programming feels like work, sometimes it doesn't. I write, I make art. A lot of people wouldn't consider either of those real work. Yet sometimes each activity feels like work, other times th
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Or the Shaggy defense. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5fqunQ_4I
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by ritchiea 12y ago
Most companies are sweat and hard work without a doubt. That said there are occasional stories, Groupme comes to mind, where you build a product, work hard on it for a year or so and get bought out by a bigger company with no serious plans
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Among the apocalyptic libertarians of Silicon Valley [pdf](dropbox.com)
24 points by ritchiea 12y ago|9 comments
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The Dozy Watchdogs(economist.com)
1 points by ritchiea 12y ago|0 comments

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