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by xiaoma 10y ago
Okay, I can introduce you to three real world alternatives I've seen in my own life—self study, direct mentorship and work experience. I'll share one example of each from different fields. To be clear, I don't think there&#x2
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by xiaoma 10y ago
A society that cared deeply about educating the population wouldn't confuse schooling for education. Yes there's some education conferred along with the schooling, but credentialism is a huge part of it and even more so in Germany
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I think the more logical solution would be to support markets one at a time based on how valuable / easy they are for you—i.e., only support the US at first, then the UK, Canada or maybe Japan if you understand that market, then Brazil
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It didn't used to have the 100 point holes on the sides. The 50 in the middle was the highest.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I love things like RAML. It's hard to put into words how much easier it would be for external devs if companies documented their APIs with something like this instead of making helper libraries for a few popular languages and basing al
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That part of the story wasn't in the podcast :/ Still, I'm glad to see a non-conformist on this list :)
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I agree on a general level. The bay area tech scene is nearly as credentialist as the finance industry at this point. However... Danielle Morrill did it without a degree at all. She jumped into a super early startup with friends and was an
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Google nearly wreaked a business that was making them bank and is now doing 20MM/year without them. Support wouldn't even talk to the founder: https://mixergy.com/interviews/the-penny-hoarder-with-kyle-t...
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by xiaoma 10y ago
You're describing one of the four classic Bartle Types: https://repignite.com/2014/07/richard-bartle-player-types/
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We gave it some help.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That's how it's always been. We've extened our in-groups from family to tribe to city state to nation / religious group to (for some) all of humanity. But we still put billions of intelligent, feeling animals through a l
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Many languages use a {obj | prop: new_value} update syntax. Elm is another example.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Yeah, I used to see that all the time when I was running competitively in school. I don't think I knew a single guy with an ITB Syndrome / injury but so many of the gals got sidelined with that kind of knee problem.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
So does this mean that everything posted on Facebook will run through China's content filter? Does Facebook have any regard at all for the implications of this, particularly for people living in Taiwan, which the PRC regularly threaten
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Github does have a record of censoring speech it doesn't like (but which is not illegal). This includes removing github pages and kicking some obnoxious users off their platform while hiring other obnoxious users depending on the polit
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Hard to tell. I've heard some pretty bad things involving internal power disputes but externally it mostly looks like dealing with anti-PC trolls harshly, while hiring a few bigoteers. Nothing looks unreasonable in isolation but there
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Neither country has debtor's prisons anymore. That dark chapter in our history has past, fortunately.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I played Diablo 2 in China.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Try immigrating to China.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
There are always bottom performers.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Diablo 2 would have been no fun if it were like this. One of my favorite things about playing was discovering newer and more powerful items. This basically forces every publisher to publish spoilers. It's not the end of the world but i
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's amazing. I used to hate Microsoft. I wasn't a programmer or even that technical but I still kept trying to use linux in college, I jumped on the reboot of Netscape/Firebird/Firefox, and I wrote a long essay compar
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Growing up in the US, I regularly ran a 4 mile race on Thanksgiving morning called the Turkey Trot and I usually ate at least two or three pieces of pumpkin pie. To these days, the rare times I can find it, it's an incredible treat.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I remember being super impressed when I saw my roommate playing Q2 because of how the light system used color instead of simply making an area brighter.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Several studies have confirmed the effects on humans. AFIK, this one was the first: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Neurogenesis... If you google for studies citing the one above, you will find many more. Pu
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I was just answering the OP. With all these downvotes for that I have nothing more to say.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Everyone is ignoring the low-end of the market.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Ah yes, the movie that replaced Travis Kalinick with a random jealous girlfriend. Still, fiction aside, it was compelling. Sorkin is a master.
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VSCode runs circles around Atom and Jetbrains both.
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The place where it really gets bitter is the associated tribalism that political issues bring. A variety of research studies have found that people who identify with a given party will be much more favorable to the exact same topic if told

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