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by zecho 12y ago
The underlying rates of degrees from the various fields haven't changed all that much. Finding a few humanities students who can't find jobs isn't all that helpful. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest&#x2F
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by zecho 12y ago
Again, let's talk about a point of fact here, rather than a myth that it's humanities students who are worse off. Since the 70s, the percentage of students with bachelor's degrees in the humanities has not increased. It'
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by zecho 12y ago
This old canard is quite tiresome, and is rarely presented with evidence, but it's always written as capital T truth. The realities, laid out in the article, are all economic and well researched. Millennials have high debt and low wage
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by zecho 12y ago
Sometimes, but mainly when the bike is recognizable and the owner is well known in a cycling community. More than a few times I've seen stolen bikes show up to the park or the race track. More often than not, they're gone. This is
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by zecho 12y ago
For $5,000 I'd just ride a bad ass bicycle, keep it unlocked. When it got stolen, I'd buy another one. Would still have walking around money, too.
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by zecho 12y ago
Realign the things you want to the free things in the world and your perspective may change a bit. I have a habit of sometimes vanishing from work on particularly nice days, for no reason other than to lay in the grass at the park. I live w
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by zecho 12y ago
Nick Woodman founded this company on a $35,000 loan from his mom in 2002. The rise of this company has been amazing to watch. It really is a great product line. What's most amazing is how the camera basically marketed itself with the r
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by zecho 12y ago
Jimmy Iovine likely got stellar deals with music labels for Beats' streaming service. This is more likely a play for streaming audio than it is for mediocre but well-hyped headphones, which is a lateral move for Apple anyway.
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by zecho 12y ago
I'm inclined to agree on the specifics of this case, but not in the abstract. Kickstarter and other crowd funding entities represent an interesting dearth of case law. Here, consumers aren't necessarily protected by either consume
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by zecho 12y ago
Until I can chain GUI apps together for my specific needs with some combination of pipes and basic logic, I'm inclined to disagree. GUIs can be really nice for specific apps, but they are often terrible as part of an easily repeated an
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by zecho 12y ago
It doesn't feel like Shanley is shouting and random men, she is shouting at them. https://twitter.com/shanley/status/458817975500304384 Jeff called her out on it, making an unfortunately cliched reference to
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by zecho 12y ago
I love the enthusiasm. This read like a tech version of a Scooby Doo episode. A great mystery solved with a little symlink.
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by zecho 12y ago
This happens between cable/sat providers and the networks all the time. Company pissing matches in public are terrible for consumers.
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by zecho 13y ago
I get that. I was pointing out dumb contract clauses in general. As the OP says, there's a large array of these types of things found in contracts, which is why I brought up overly restrictive non-competes and arbitration clauses, both
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by zecho 13y ago
Maybe don't sign these types of contracts? We are fortunate enough that even the most mediocre among us can hold out for the next employer that doesn't demand this kind of control over you, or start your own company. I don't
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by zecho 13y ago
It's not just the memorization that bothers me, but the belief that there is only one way to do math. I've been in many arguments with parents before that their (and my) kids should learn many algorithms for even the most basic th
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The Username Is a Relic. Here’s How to Fix It(wired.com)
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by zecho 13y ago
I have A/B tested carousels extensively at my previous job. What I found was that even after a user interacted with the controls, meaning they specifically chose to see subsequent slides, they still clicked the first slide at nearly th
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by zecho 13y ago
This page really needs to specify the length of the term, otherwise something like $60/month is pretty meaningless when trying to figure out if something like this would be worth the cost of convenience.
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by zecho 13y ago
My 5-year old daughter played through Dragonbox pretty quickly and afterward I went through some concepts with her like x/x = 1 or 1x = x. When shown to her using fractions of a drawn circle or simple multiplication of real objects, sh
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by zecho 13y ago
I'm able to get forwarded calls but not make calls from the service.
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by zecho 13y ago
I've seen node listed in job ads where node.js isn't even used at the company looking to hire, or where they'll use npm/bower/grunt tooling. It's a super trendy buzzword.
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by zecho 13y ago
Callback hell. ;) I love node, btw!
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by zecho 13y ago
The most difficult part of regex isn't defining the problem. I'd say that one's easy. The hardest part is figuring out your regex months or years after you've written it!
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by zecho 13y ago
Depends on what the outcome of learning is supposed to be. If it is to simply recite 8, then what have you learned other than a factoid? 72 circles in 9 columns is 8 rows of circles and now you see the relationship clearly. If you rotate yo
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by zecho 13y ago
I think it's a clever way to introduce the properties of numbers without forcing memorization of a multiplication table. It's a very brute force technique. Of course memorization is useful, but so will understanding these properti
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by zecho 13y ago
Minnesota education. There is obviously years of cruft to deal with, but there is a desire here to constantly do things better. Honestly, the tech attracted me to the job. They're using some cool stuff. I was pretty surprised when I in
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by zecho 13y ago
"The whole reason geeks get excited about Bitcoin is that it is the most efficient way to do financial transactions."
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by zecho 13y ago
Speaking as a government employee, not a contractor, we are actually more efficient than my previous private sector jobs. But then again, we have a "build it don't buy it" culture here with a lot of love for open source throu
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by zecho 13y ago
I idle in a few rooms on Freenode and am active in a few more. Some open source projects have excellent rooms, others have useless ones. Depending on your interests, your mileage will vary greatly.

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