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by zumu 5y ago
> These days it's less about meeting your spouse and more a gateway to future income and prestige opportunities; IB, MGMT Consulting, Big Tech or to Law School (Politics). Those tracks and opportunities will still be there and be at
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by zumu 5y ago
This is a good point, and I'm not sure how it would play out. Depending on the specific reforms it may be self sustaining. But prestige and recruiting channels are not in and of themselves self sustaining.
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by zumu 5y ago
I must have misrepresented my opinion then. My thesis lies not in the absence of students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds but in the clustering of students from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and the value in exposure to such circles
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by zumu 5y ago
> They are arguing that elite institution's goal is to prepare entry into polite society not to provide a liberal education. Not quite what I'm getting at. My point is more that the value proposition of the undergraduate progr
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by zumu 5y ago
> some of your premises are flatout wrong. Especially when it comes to money: it is not the majority, but a substantial portion of undergrads in these institutions are from lower middle class or lower (economically) backgrounds. I don&#x
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by zumu 5y ago
I think this whole debate is centered on the shallow idea that "going to an Ivy League" in and of itself is what ordains "elite-ness". To unravel this, you first must consider the actual value proposition of Ivy Leagues
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by zumu 5y ago
When are they going to make one of these with a Ryzen? It seems Ryzens are really rare among higher end developer laptops. Is there a technical reason or is it just Intel using their clout to block the major vendors/oems from using AMD
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by zumu 5y ago
Definitely damaging to the YC brand. I'd like to see a postmortem on how these _blatant_ con artists got through.
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by zumu 5y ago
> We will never sell data. That just isn't the business we want to build What about when that is no longer your call (e.g. the VC's want returns, you sell to Facebook, etc.)? Is there anything in place to protect us then? >
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by zumu 5y ago
> 2. Less trust in you as a YC startup. What if you fail? What if you sell out? > 3. Requirement of email. > 4. Telemetry and privacy concerns raised by others. Dovetailing on these... Like why is a CLI tool VC backed? Is the busin
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by zumu 5y ago
I haven't had issues with plugin bloat, personally. A nice feature is you can disable/enable plugins per workspace so you can only load your Java plugins for your java projects, etc.
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by zumu 5y ago
VSCode is much much faster than the popular IDEs (namely, IntelliJ) in my experience. I'd say it occupies a middle point between full IDE and text editor.
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by zumu 5y ago
This is a meme in my family as well. I always took it as a mockery of affectatious formal speech. I never thought of it as a jab at the nouveau riche let alone of the Victorian era, but it seems plausible.
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by zumu 5y ago
I still use mine and must say, despite being a die hard Linux person, it's one of my favorite computers ever. Silent and tiny, yet fully featured. It's great for the couch, the bed, planes, traveling, etc. The thinness trade offs
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by zumu 5y ago
Theoretically, a self-taught dev could get into it, if they were truly motivated and found the right opportunity, but there's not going to be a boot camp for it, at least in the West. Boot camps exist primarily because the demand for w
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by zumu 5y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. I am actually very excited about these features, but they are still not quite available for most of us Java devs yet. The LTS version that contains them doesn't release until September, and it will take mon
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by zumu 5y ago
Do you know anywhere that actually use it? I've heard Walmart Labs, but that's about the only place I know about.
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by zumu 5y ago
> Java’s a pretty nice language, and when my code compiles, which is often the first time, it’ll usually also run correctly. This is the exact opposite experience for me. I find Java's type system to be extremely lacking (e.g. nulla
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by zumu 5y ago
> Not surprised he lasted so long at Google. Is it hard to 'last' at google? I have never gotten that impression.
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by zumu 6y ago
> I haven't lasted anywhere longer than 2 months You need to work somewhere, literally anywhere, for at least a year. Hiring and on boarding is expensive, such that virtually no software companies are getting any ROI for someone who
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by zumu 6y ago
For those curious, last time it was on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13345832 The author answers some questions.
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by zumu 6y ago
They explain this in the tutorial, but anecdotally it reads really well if you speak a SOV language.
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by zumu 6y ago
I will try the finder changes, but I have my doubts crap won't randomly appear in my ~/Desktop folder automagically. As for the dock, auto-hiding it doesn't disable it, it just hides it. So it remains visible in mission contr
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by zumu 6y ago
I'm already using the 'autohide-delay' trick, but random randomly icons from the hidden dock will start bouncing and I can see the dock when I do the mission control view or whatever they call it. On Snow Leopard you could ac
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by zumu 6y ago
While we're here, there's a couple things on a mac I haven't been able to figure out how to do, and maybe some of you mac pros can give me answers. 1) Remove the dock (killing the dock automatically restarts it) 2) Remove all
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by zumu 6y ago
Those are good ones. I'd imagine there's many other relevant dimensions as well. As we all know, correlation does not imply causation. To your point, I'd like to see when these companies were founded, their lines of business,
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by zumu 6y ago
The talent pool is probably smaller, but passionate. It's many people's dream to write Haskell (or other FP) for a living, myself included. If I may shill, if anyone is hiring for Haskell or FP roles, please let me know.
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by zumu 6y ago
> or when you're company decides to go all in on Kafka for communication between micro services. What's the issue with Kafka and Elixir?
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by zumu 6y ago
I learned Japanese without translation, but I learned it in a classroom in Japan. From that experience, I don't know how you expect to start with reading and not listening first. You really need to hear something over and over and watc
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by zumu 6y ago
> In fact, Masayoshi Son IS a Japanese citizen, and the only reason people think of him as being part of the Korean minority is that he’s famous enough that the media looked up and reported his ancestry. Uh, his last name is Korean which

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