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delinquenz··on Nobody Knows How Well Homework Works
But that would mainly benefit kids from educated backgrounds, while kids who graduate late because of their life circumstances, might end up simply not finishing school or start their professional life in debt.

After reading some of the school- and homework-critic posts here and thinking I‘d agree with them I realize that school helps the overall population, especially less educated people who simply wouldn‘t invest more their time and energy in education otherwise while the highly curious and intelligent people are rather limited by it.

delinquenz··on AWS outage shows the internet relies too much on Amazon
Exactly. Not to defend companies putting everything on AWS themselves, but they really stress multi region support in their docs and courses.
delinquenz··on Ask HN: Where do you find meaningful part-time tech jobs?
What’s your sector? Have you thought about contracting or consulting? Here in Europe many of these gigs tend to also work part-time. And with that type of arrangement you can also pick individual projects instead of companies that‘d put you in boring and purposeless projects anyways.
delinquenz··on In software, when an engineer exits the team
Depending on how well your manager takes criticism, you might burn a bridge there without gaining anything.
delinquenz··on Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects
I think it‘d be similar to all these data science bootcamps requiring their students to write articles on medium.
delinquenz··on Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)
Small companies with smart hiring managers or owners should know that if they pay candidates, especially highly skilled ones, not enough, they will probably jump ship after one or two years which is exactly the period after which employees reach a level of productivity that brings enough value for companies to justify the hiring.
delinquenz··on People expect technology to suck because it sucks
Gnome Notes has similar behavior: Whenever you use Ctrl + BS, the note you are currently writing it gets put into the trash, even though you just wanted to delete a word quickly. You can recover the note so it's not the worst possible behavior, but it still sucks.
delinquenz··on Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven
The chart says April 2011
delinquenz··on Elon Musk Shows the Germans How to Move Quickly
From what I've heard so far, this approach seems to be quite common for construction projects of this size.
delinquenz··on R U OK?
Feel hugged..