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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
This is called the "slippery slope fallacy". http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
I believe the author is asking for a source for your claim that "Russia never sleeps but the NSA does". That seems like an apocryphal claim unless you have high-level knowledge of the inner workings of both Russia's and Amer
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
> the best is to freeze your credit report A question that came up among my coworkers and I was: given the nature of the data that was accessed, don't the thieves already have all the info needed to unfreeze your credit?
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
Agreed. With so many different "growth hacking" strategies out there already, the "45 Min/Day" idea would really help to clarify which priorities should come first.
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not demeaning the value of a well-rounded education. I agree that it's vital to a full life. My point is that colleges don't have a monopoly on well-rounded educations. For me at least, Ame
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
The decision to attend a private 4-year university has got to count as one of the biggest mistakes I've made in my young life. The 19 weeks I spent in coding bootcamp have been orders-of-magnitude more useful to my career than the 4 y
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
Shereef, as a DBC grad (Otters, Chicago, 2013), I thank you for posting this. It changed my life, and the lives of many other students. To think, this is the post that launched an industry!
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
+1 to justin's comments. It's true that an anecdote isn't a complete data set, but it is one data point. Further, it's one more data point than the pure speculation that dkarapetyan's comment provides. Let me add
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
> Bootcamps aren't for everyone. DBC grad here (Chicago 2013). Mandatory morning yoga is not an inherent part of a generic coding bootcamp experience. DBC chose to make yoga classes part of its unique culture, but I doubt all othe
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
It has helped me to remember that Dunning-Kruger has 2 sides. Beginners tend to fall in the "don't know what they don't know" category, which can lead to over-confidence. But the other side is under-confidence on the p
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
Mentoring and contributing to open-source are, by far, two of the best techniques I've encountered for overcoming impostor syndrome. The old saying that "the best way to learn is to teach" has proven true for me time and agai
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
I've heard this referred to as "comparing your insides to someone else's outsides". As a journeyman software engineer, I still catch myself doing it and have to remind myself that it's unproductive.
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Seems like a "Classpass-for-journalism" model to me. It's getting the content providers to agree that's the hard part.
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by toomanyrichies 9y ago
+1 for being mindful of cognitive biases. For that very reason, I'm almost hesitant to post my experience. The only reason I do so anyway is because HN's comment crowd is more mindful than average about their own biases and thos
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by toomanyrichies 10y ago
> I am not sure why I have to pay more for taxis at this time You don't. He's saying "delete Uber", not "delete all ridesharing apps". Find another such app made by a less odious company.