coolwhhip

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   by coolwhhip 8y ago

   It’s a bit extreme to say putting projects on GitHub is worthless when it comes to generating job opportunities. In my experience, if you’ve got a project that delivers a ton of value to a suffiently large set of people, somebody usually wi
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   by coolwhhip 8y ago

   Sample size of one: my company tends to ding candidates from Google if they have any whiff of the kind of status- or compensation-driven thinking displayed in this comment section. Can sometimes indicate limited independent thinking and low
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   by coolwhhip 8y ago

   Maybe I’m misreading, but the strawman seems to be that research can be done in a vacuum without collaborating. The parent commenter seems to be suggesting that a PhD isn’t a requirement to work successfully on interesting research problems
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   by coolwhhip 8y ago

   Doesn’t the French government have some leverage via pharmaceutical intellectual property rights? I’m no expert, but I don’t think it’s as simple as “everyone should just buy in bulk like we do.”
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   by coolwhhip 8y ago

   Don’t companies need to be publicly traded to have nonzero market cap by definition?
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   by coolwhhip 9y ago

   Shipping gets you power and influence. Outside of personal conviction and judgement, there’s not incentive to do much else.
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   by coolwhhip 9y ago

   How cold is it where you live? What happens if you keep your phone at room temp for a few days?