elohesra

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by elohesra 12y ago
Yes, but this is interns rather than apprentices. Interns are typically, as you've said, graduates. They're inexperienced, but they've had 3 years of theoretical training. Apprentices have had no training, much like the end u
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by elohesra 12y ago
Thanks for that information, that's interesting. Either way, I thought it was an interesting article, and it was well written too. I also agree with the core point that growth without retention is meaningless. I suppose I just take iss
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by elohesra 12y ago
Not to sound like a naysayer, but while the idea that education shouldn't cost money is laudable, it seems fairly untrue given the fact that education as a professional sector exists. I think the site is a good idea, and it'd be g
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by elohesra 12y ago
It's essentially the concept of an apprenticeship as it works in the UK. The apprentice is paid a far below minimum wage salary, and is ostensibly trained by the company they apprentice with as part of their remuneration. The apprentic
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by elohesra 12y ago
The article states that some startups succeed because "they’ve found some viral loop, the crack cocaine of startup-land". My question is whether these things actually exist? The only kind of business I can think of where something
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by elohesra 12y ago
Yes, obviously. If the reply is fallacious, then show that it's fallacious. If it is fallacious then it shouldn't be used as an argument irrespective of whom it's aimed it. If the reply doesn't contain some logical flaw,
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by elohesra 12y ago
There is no way of 'redistributing power more equally': you will always answer to someone. In the case of any political system which pretends to 'redistribute' a given thing, then the person you answer to is the redistri
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by elohesra 12y ago
> It's hardly a fair market when they're forced to compete with free though Surely, as a member of an entrepreneurial-focussed community, you can trivially see why this argument isn't valid? The content holders are only co
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by elohesra 12y ago
> And finally - although unscientific, the high upcount of this article suggests that it hit a nerve and that many here are unsatisfied with the quality of their friendships. See, you used the term 'suggests' rather than '
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by elohesra 12y ago
Wow, arseholes. It's hard to recommend any course of action really, because I can't think of any coworkers I've ever had who'd refuse a reasonable request like that. I guess I'd offer to buy them some flavoured ni
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by elohesra 12y ago
> I cannot cope with the smell of e-cigarettes Okay, fair enough. Have you tried asking the vapers if they would mind not smoking them indoors? I know I've stopped doing so in confined conference rooms after a coworker commented tha
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by elohesra 12y ago
Yes, this is correct. Most self-reporting relies on having the same question asked in different ways and places to catch people whose inconsistent answers suggest they should be removed from the sample. However, my objection is that I don&#
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by elohesra 12y ago
> All of that is analogous to existing regulation regarding cigarettes But this is why e-cigarette campaigners say that politicians are just meddling out of personal distaste, rather than any scientific backing. The two core reasons why
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by elohesra 12y ago
Oh, very well. Thank you for proving that the scientific community disagrees with me, and proving evidence for your point. I can't say I actually agree with those criteria; especially since one is wholly impossible: there is never a po
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by elohesra 12y ago
Has anyone actually read the studies linked by the author to back up his drivel? I'll save you some time: the 2007 study isn't valid even by the low levels of scientific burden required for psychological studies (it's entirel
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by elohesra 12y ago
Or, to play devil's advocate, that you aren't putting in the level of work in your day job that you could be putting in. If I were an employer looking at a candidate and I saw they had huge amounts of open source contributions, th
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by elohesra 12y ago
>Facebook gets their hands in the less-casual game industry Yeah, but I think this is what people like Notch fear, because it's not going to be of any use to just have their logo emblazoned on the device: they're going to want
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by elohesra 12y ago
> It's nice to compete with friends and show to your network what you and your friends are up to. I've never understood this mindset in gaming. Maybe I'm just showing myself as an introverted curmudgeon, but I only game wh
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by elohesra 12y ago
Okay, let me play devil's advocate: Perhaps Facebook are thinking "What's the one thing that could truly set us apart from all other social media sites, and place a prohibitively high barrier to entry on this otherwise very e
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by elohesra 12y ago
I can't honestly blame him here. I doubt the issue is Facebook 'creeping [him] out', so much as it is that it's uncertain what exactly Facebook is going to want out of the deal. Facebook isn't primarily a games comp
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by elohesra 12y ago
> The problem with clojure and all lisps, as I see it, is that they make it easy on the author, hard on the reader. It's so simple to create your own special DSL that everyone does it. Now i have to learn a thousand languages. This
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by elohesra 12y ago
I'd check wealthy corporations by this logic, and check whether the average age of programming staff is higher than in SV. It would certainly match up with my experience in London, where it seemed that a lot of the programmers over the
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by elohesra 13y ago
Is that the elusive shinty six?
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by elohesra 13y ago
"Clojure: I want to use Lisp, and I want to actually have libraries that can get stuff done"
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by elohesra 13y ago
>The point for me is, if the site uses so much javascript you can't even just see the text without javascript enabled, it's probably a bullshit experience. Or a neat WebGL demo. This is the former. I totally agree with that, bu
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by elohesra 13y ago
So you've intentionally disabled a large part of your browser through NoScript and now it won't render pages that require the browser to work as intended? Isn't this rather like removing all gears but first from your car and
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by elohesra 13y ago
In other words, it's an argument-to-authority (discarding the Latin here). Claiming "some famous guy said it!" is no more a proof than claiming "crazy, homeless Bill said it!": a convincing argument should be able t
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by elohesra 13y ago
>but there's a well-known "ripple effect" from educating a girl If it's so well known then either provide us with the research that proved such an effect, or stop spreading dubious, sexist nonsense. Seriously, this st
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by elohesra 13y ago
If I had to put my cynic hat on (oh who am I kidding? I never took it off) I'd say it's because the people who're 'comfortable' with any form of discrimination tend to benefit from it. The men currently in tech wh
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by elohesra 13y ago
I don't actually think women are unsuited for CS, but I must say that I don't find the argument that 'in the past more women were in CS' very compelling, because it makes the pretense that all variables have remained con

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