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by v0cab 14y ago
Yup, it struck me how similar it was to my own situation, though in a non-tech job. I wish I'd handled it like this guy (the fired guy) handled it.
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by v0cab 14y ago
I really hate being called a geek. I associate it with bullying and social exclusion. It may be OK to be a geek in Silicon Valley, but that's not true everywhere. If you bring that line back, please replace it with 'For techies and non-te
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by v0cab 14y ago
You don't have to create them from scratch though -- you can reuse old code, even copy-and-paste it.
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by v0cab 14y ago
Depends on how old you are perhaps? I remember being told that my way would work but wasn't OO enough, and because of that it was wrong i.e. I hadn't done well on that portion of the interview.
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by v0cab 14y ago
Did you mean to respond to my post? I agree with what you said. I tried hard to use C++ language features (especially STL) in a previous job and it was more hassle than it was worth, honestly.
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by v0cab 14y ago
> in C you end up creating your own data structures from scratch every time. You can use data structure libraries, but without generics or something similar, it makes it difficult.... Hmm... I never ran into too many problems with this
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by v0cab 14y ago
ML was taught at my school for first-years, but they changed it to Java while I was there, much to some professors' (rightful IMO) consternation.
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by v0cab 14y ago
That's why I like C so much.
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by v0cab 14y ago
Not very nationalistic from an Asian perspective.
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by v0cab 14y ago
Or: Like the South Korean electronics industry does.
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by v0cab 14y ago
I think you underestimate just how much there is to learn when learning a language that is very different to your own. Learning Javascript, which has a limited grammar and VERY limited vocabulary, really really doesn't compare.
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by v0cab 14y ago
Did Daniel Tammet really learn Icelandic in a week? He studied for a particular interview about his experience learning Icelandic. I don't know how well he spoke in that interview, or if he could cope in situations which weren't interviews
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by v0cab 14y ago
The SRS words were mostly in isolation. I agree now that studying in context does make it easier, but in that case how is an SRS useful?
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by v0cab 14y ago
I never saw the point of procedural generation in games like Diablo. Seems to me something only programmers would be interested in. What would have been wrong with getting a level designer to do it? Then gamers could talk more about shar
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by v0cab 14y ago
> What's harder is to learn expressions, idioms, how to use them and how to understand them in different contexts. Well, that's hard too. But knowing all the words involved makes it a whole lot easier. I haven't had much success with S
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by v0cab 14y ago
"Agree on the Japanese point. The way you build sentences is just TOO different. You can definitely learn Japanese and speak it as a "gaijin" (meaning using european-style sentences with Japanese words) but speaking Japanese like a Japanese
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by v0cab 14y ago
I have seen many of the bugs in the article.
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by v0cab 14y ago
- They were forced (or tricked, or coerced) into working for private companies. We're talking about jobs in supermarkets and (the UK equivalent of) dollar stores. - The taxpayer paid the wage (the same as jobseeker's allowance, I think).
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by v0cab 14y ago
Yup. I've used a separate browser for YouTube ever since Google required me to link it to my 'Google account' (that I use for GMail).
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by v0cab 15y ago
Why will people buy these intellectual and aesthetic goods? And with what money will they buy them?
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by v0cab 15y ago
Could you explain why they are cartels? I don't disagree (I say, for the benefit of my comments history); just looking for info.
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by v0cab 15y ago
But you'd need some.
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by v0cab 15y ago
If that happens, how do you intend to get money?
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by v0cab 15y ago
Technology hasn't killed jobs YET.
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by v0cab 15y ago
Or to put the problem of inequality another way: Some people have lots of money and thereby the ability to manipulate lawmakers and media to control me. I no longer have the ability to make any money. I do not have the ability to make tho
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by v0cab 15y ago
I agree with your overall sentiment. I think most teachers are against these metrics just because they've only encountered bad ones. How to fix the metrics? In the UK, governments have set up a system whereby schools can choose which exam
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by v0cab 15y ago
CEOs? Bad example there. I am very concerned about labour rights, as that will be very important in a world of ever-fewer jobs with more competition for those jobs, for the students when they grow up, and for now, when their parents need j
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by v0cab 15y ago
From the nytimes article: "But to union officials, the right to an impartial hearing is sacrosanct, to protect teachers from losing their livelihoods because a principal or a student might have an ax to grind." An impartial hearing -- sound
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by v0cab 15y ago
I thought public school teachers in the US were considered to be underpaid? Certainly compared to public school teachers in South Korea, they don't earn that much compared to the national average salary. I don't believe there are sufficien
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by v0cab 15y ago
Getting rid of unions just sounds like a recipe for abuse. Management simply cannot be trusted to treat employees fairly.

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