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by adpoe 8y ago
Here's what I did when was in my late teens & early 20s, and taught myself. 1. Copy famous artworks that you admire -- even just drawing in a notebook is great, to start. 2. Once you can copy art that you really like, start adding
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by adpoe 8y ago
I transitioned into software development in my late 20's, and am very happy with the decision. I went back to school at ~27, and graduated just a few months short of 30. 34 is definitely not too old. While in school, I had classmates
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by adpoe 8y ago
Last time I traveled internationally (~10 years ago), I had to buy a separate international cell phone. Not for privacy reasons -- but instead because my US-based phone wouldn't work in some of the other countries I'd be in. (At t
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by adpoe 8y ago
After some searching online, I wasn't able to come up with anything for Pope's Common Lisp music tools. But it sounds really interesting. Any pointers to help find it/them?
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by adpoe 9y ago
Good question. I was looking into this a few years back, and ended getting my BS in-person, at the big state school nearby. It paid off well. That said, these are other online options I considered. Portland State University -- has a BS in C
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by adpoe 9y ago
I would agree with this. FWIW, the most concise and straightforward critical theorist that I've read is Vilem Flusser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vil%C3%A9m_Flusser There's a short compilation of his essa
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by adpoe 9y ago
Which Benjamin? I've read some of his more famous articles (i.e. - "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"), but I remember them being very political. Sort of an art-historical and aesthetic-theory application
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by adpoe 9y ago
One positive thing about being in a fraternity -- it provides experience in dealing with and resolving conflict in a large organization. For better or worse, navigating the internal politics of a clique such as a college fraternity is often
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by adpoe 9y ago
Just an opinion: It's not that it's hard to learn this stuff. More so, it's tiresome and hard to care after watching the JS community re-inventing the same wheel(s), repeatedly. Personally, I'd rather see the JS commun
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by adpoe 9y ago
So, I worked as a PM for about 3.5 years, in total. That was in the past, and now I work as a developer (not a manager anymore). My guess is that a lot of this depends on the organization, and product/projects. But as an opinion... The
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by adpoe 9y ago
That's a very long story... But here's the essence. I got a degree totally unrelated to CS. (Think "arts". Decent school. Top 50. But not prestigious.) Bounced around at not-great jobs for awhile, living in NYC and barel
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by adpoe 9y ago
You have a ton of time, don't worry. I changed careers more than once between 20 and 30. To/from radically different fields. Besides that, your skill-set as a programmer is _much_ more than your choice of language/web fra
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by adpoe 9y ago
It's unrelated, but the sentence has an awkward structure that's hard to parse. Terrorist groups could be punished for planning any one of 277 crimes. And so could criminal groups. The "277 crimes" range from arson to co
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by adpoe 9y ago
Personally, I think that written language is a more natural way to describe and reason about complex systems and symbols. It's the same difference between writing mathematical proofs as systems of equations vs. proof by drawing a diagr
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by adpoe 9y ago
Opinion: Just like the stock market, college is also an investment. There is risk involved. One of the main problems is that this is NOT communicated well. (If it all.) Too many people take on huge long-shot risks that are unlikely to pay o
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by adpoe 9y ago
42 comments right now. What a strange coincidence. Had to say it. Here it is: http://imgur.com/a/wGdGz
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by adpoe 9y ago
Early in my career, I worked at a few different businesses where management expected us to work 12+ hour days. Mostly web development & design. We did it, but the secret was that we didn't spend all of that time actually heads-down
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by adpoe 10y ago
Don't worry -- you will be 100% fine. What kind of jobs are you applying for? If you're looking at true entry-level jobs, then having 0 work experience is not a problem. And those jobs do exist, just look for them specifically. Be
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by adpoe 10y ago
I've read this, and it's very good. I had never studied business before (at any level), but found myself in a position where I was managing software projects, and dealing with MBA's from our client companies every single day.
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by adpoe 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with slow growth--that's how most small to mid-size businesses operate, both in the US and abroad. But as a Silicon Valley tech investor, you're not incentivized to fund companies that grow slowly over t
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by adpoe 10y ago
Yes -- for a career change. However: I got a second B.Sc. in Computer Science (first Bachelor's was in the arts), and that worked just as well, for a career change, and at less cost. Check out your options. I found that getting a B.Sc
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by adpoe 10y ago
That's true. But finding a stable romantic partner who you're willing to move in with, and live with, + share all your personal space with is still very hard when you have little time/money, right? (And that applies to both s
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by adpoe 10y ago
There are only 807 undergrads[1] at Harvey Mudd (which of course is an excellent school). So that's still a sizable portion of their undergrad students -- even though from such a small sample, it's very hard to tell whether what t
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by adpoe 10y ago
From an inventory perspective, yes. =) But -- you still need to get people coming to your site somehow, which is actually the harder part. You can buy ads, do social media marketing, blog posts--lots of techniques. And there are a ton of se
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by adpoe 10y ago
Thanks for that -- I actually think that's good feedback, and something I hadn't thought of. We do have the shipping times listed on 3 different pages accessible from the top nav (and bottom nav), one of which is labeled 'How
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by adpoe 10y ago
Yes, that's right. I was also initially concerned about that, but I have not had complaints about it. Oberlo (the drop shipping service) does have an email system that lets you track the package on its journey and see where it is shipp
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by adpoe 10y ago
I can't definitively speak to that, because I've never tried -- but if you have the capital, then it should be doable. AliBaba (as opposed to the "express" version) is generally used for buying direct from manufacturers,
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by adpoe 10y ago
I've never seen 1-3 days on AliExpress. The absolute best (when the vendor has ePacket, which is like the FedEx of China) is 7-12 days. But even then, you need to expect 2-5 days for the vendor to actually package and ship the item.
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by adpoe 10y ago
You can--but AliExpress has a good reputation system. I mostly use that. And if a vendor burns me, I remove their products and look elsewhere.
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by adpoe 10y ago
No worries =), I'm happy to help if I can. So yes -- I use Shopify primarily because it's a relatively simple way to get up-and-running. You'll make less money on Shopify, overall, because they take part of the profits you ma

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