jreeve

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by jreeve 14y ago
"I'm not advocating for any particular solution, just trying to draw parallels." However, the fundamental break here is that the oatmeal makes his content available on the internet largely for free, whereas it can be difficult or impossible
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by jreeve 14y ago
Just being honest has worked for me. I'm a freelancer, and over the last couple of years I've transitioned over several positions. It is much easier to negotiate a new salary when you have a job offer in hand, though I've never taken a cou
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by jreeve 14y ago
The interest on college loans in the US is largely subsidized through the government while students are in college.
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by jreeve 14y ago
Fair enough. But I am not saying that we shouldn't make it better (though if it would ceases to function in favor of some yet unnamed better thing, I will be much happier than if it were merely "better"). However, once you want to talk abou
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by jreeve 14y ago
Well, what about the folks who also couldn't afford to go to the school that the guy was going to? I mean, ultimately, the big obvious problem of capitalism is that the upkeep of labor is pushed onto the laborer... almost to the point where
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by jreeve 14y ago
"... unpaid internships are huge drivers of inequality." I believe that they can be, but as someone who actually had an unpaid intern (and who eventually got said intern a job at the company where we were working), let me make a case that t
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by jreeve 14y ago
This reminds me very much of how the genesis of ideographic writing (such as Chinese characters) was related to me. I'm not at all certain that it is correct, but gist of it was that these forms of writing start with illustrations but grad
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by jreeve 14y ago
Not that I have anything to do with it, but two issues come to mind immediately: it may be easier to get organic search traffic for the idea, and it is a good way of keeping projects nice and separate.
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by jreeve 14y ago
The first sentence in the article: "About the title Many people were misled by it, and this wasn’t my intention. I was merely alluding to the book by Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, which spent time explaining and justifying his life as a
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by jreeve 14y ago
One of the common jokes between my wife and I is to setup a "home surgery kit" for some point in some horrible dystopian future. However, we were thinking it out and were moved to wonder why there isn't more straightforward "how-tos" as far
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by jreeve 14y ago
IMO, when you are in a situation where you have to teach, ultimately you realize that you both know your subject material well enough to help out people who are new to the material even if you might get minor details wrong. And in the eve
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by jreeve 14y ago
I agree. A secondary problem with going it alone for coding your MVP is that you don't amass skills at the same rate as someone who is working full time as a programmer. You can learn quite a bit more material if you are under the gun to ge
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by jreeve 14y ago
That sounds like the business model of most of the agencies selling WordPress solutions who have been hiring me for the last two years.