spaceseaman

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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Sorry but we live in a country that has rules and regulations for what CEOs and leaders do - regardless of how "cutthroat" they are. Their ambitions do not forgive their transgressions, and we have no obligation to accept that as
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
If you have the mindset for this type of work, then a PhD is an amazing experience. There are only a select few places that give you that much freedom. If you don't have this mindset, a PhD will make you very angry, and you'll fee
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> It's purely biased. You read "NYTimes" on the front-page, decided that you were gonna hate this article, and then found something that did it for you. Congratulations. You are justified in your hatred of "biased rep
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> and overly influential terrible game 'journalists' I would argue that you're pointing that finger in the severe wrong direction. The young generation of young males who buy video games do not visit the web pages of the e
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Did you read the enclosing paragraph? "Their income pales in comparison to what’s offered in other fields with reputations for brutal hours, like banking and law. The average American game developer earned $83,060 in 2013, according to
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> Marxist theory would have illuminated the trajectory many years ago had they the wits to apply the thought to their own situation. Faculty members are not in control of their own situation. I'm sorry to sound a bit rude here, but
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> I do care if my students are overworked. Burnt out students produce shitty science. Good point and apologies for the slight. I suppose a better way of putting it is that faculty are often ignorant of their students' issues /
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> It seems to me we are making a rhetorical space for bourjois marxists. Why? ??? Academically they're interesting questions to ask? Have you ever taken a class on Marxist critical theory or Marxist feminism or ... A "marxist&q
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I would say that these abuses of power are intrinsic to having power. Also it's usually not the faculty vs the students. If you asked any single faculty member if they would rather 1.) Overwork their students, stretch them thin doing e
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
These are precisely the kinds of things that unions will fight for though. Just assuming that the university (out of its goodwill?) will do any of those things is kind of ludicrous. At my university, we had to fight tooth and nail (we had a
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> So the apple model appears to me to be: get good design work, but don't depend on it, leverage scale to get cheaper. I would just tack on, "then leverage global markets to get those margins as wide as possible". Apple re
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
The comment above you directly disputes it. How is it indisputable? Please don't forget your citations.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Wow, that's actually an element of these standardized tests I've never thought of before - that ESL folks would do a big part in shifting numbers around due to unfamiliarity with the language. Thank you.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Wow I wasn't aware this was so directly available. Thanks!
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> Our media and our government lied to generate a case for war. And I feel lately that they are now trying to build a case for some sort of conflict, presumably cold, against Russia I mean, there's verifiable evidence Russia tried t
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> I think you and OP are in agreement despite the opposing tones. I agree, but I think his tone is the more important thing to discuss here. Everyone is agreement that the "just go to college" idea is long dead (even though I&#
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
So your argument is that making a dumb decision invalidates anyones ability to feel sympathy for you? It's not a narrative . It's just common human decency. WHY THE MALICE? They made a bad decision - great: you get to feel superi
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
You're asking people who are freaking 17 years-old to have excellent decision making skills and awareness of what industry will be in half a decade when you get out. WHO IS THAT SMART? WHO IS THAT AWARE? I just got lucky cause I like
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> Oh wait you've forgotten how important it is to get a developer community started around your hardware cause it's been so long since the x86 was new! Intel: Huh? Developers? But they don't buy servers full of chips. Why
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> your mention of Haiti is confused; it was a French colony, not a colony of the UK or US Nice catch. And yeah, I just wanted to try and make things clear - no intention to be sassy.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> bombing them in the 50s, the current debt crisis being worsened severely by Congress' refusal to allow recourse to bankruptcy, the shameful failure to render aid after Maria Just wanna say that I completely agree, but also wanted
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
The way the comment is written it appears to be attacking Puerto Rico and claiming that it is better suited to be called a "colony". If the poster was unaware, this word has a very negative connotation due to what has happened to
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> it's very odd that relative number of affected people is not brought up I don't think it's that odd. It might seem that way though if you're only thinking in terms of numbers. As a rough estimate, we can use the f
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
And even advisor - some have clear paths directly into industry jobs.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I get what you mean, but I was more referring to build issues that are strange or unusual. Something that even a senior dev would raise an eyebrow at.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
As other posters have said I recommend talking to them in person if possible. It's worked for me to just get in front of them because they're a lot less likely to think you're lying, and you can more quickly shut down the pat
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> complain that Senior Developers don't believe some Junior hires have minimum competency if they are unable to compile a file. You're definitely taking the wrong impression from my post then. Do you code in C / C++? If yo
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> People can be jerks at any age or level. Good point, I was simply saying that in my experience it's the people with "senior" in their job title who do this most often. > many people come into an organization questioni
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> Senior developers mentor, simplify, document, and admit when they don't know the answers. Sadly this is far from my experience as well. It's likely a few toxic work environments. Not to hijack your comment but I would like to
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Why are you assuming the same person is making both claims?

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