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by williamdix 15y ago
Certainly one can expect their responses to be pro-higher-education. However, I feel like their justification for their responses is the enlightening part. I believe they are correct to point out that Thiel is relying on anecdotal evidence
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by williamdix 15y ago
The big question I have about this article, which unfortunately goes uncommented upon by the author has to do with the accompanying graph. Yes, students loan debt is constantly rising, but so was credit card debt until recently. The graph s
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by williamdix 15y ago
I have set a professional goal for myself to become more active in the Rails community and to begin contributing patches to Rails and other open source projects I use. With the eventual goal of getting the super awesome Rails job that I on
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by williamdix 16y ago
I really wish there was a company that would produce replicas of these keyboards which used USB. If I thought there was any chance of it being successful, I would open said business immediately. But alas, I don't think anyone wants to use
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by williamdix 16y ago
It makes me feel good about the $200,000 spent on my education that I got to take classes with two of the people mentioned with important results. One of them, Mulmuley, was the most intimidating professor I ever had, and I felt very lucky
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by williamdix 16y ago
Every time I read an article describing any practice of recruiters, I lose more respect for them. Whether it be discriminating against un-employed job-seekers or mining facebook to eliminate candidates, their practices just seem terrible.
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by williamdix 16y ago
At my university, all classes weighted equally on a four point scale. My GPAs in my majors, CS and Linguistics, were slightly higher, but the heavy systems component of my department's curriculum kept it low.
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by williamdix 16y ago
There seems to be a validation on the second "All that apply" question preventing no answers. That seems a little strange as I would hardly say those are universal and everyone has to feel at least one.
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by williamdix 16y ago
It was scary how much this article made me think of myself. Probably, no coincidence then that my favorite class at school was my first CS class, taught in Scheme, from SICP, and that my GPA was quite low.