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mrandolph··on USC pushed a $115k online degree – graduates got low salaries, huge debts
about halfway through it myself. I spend about 20-30 hours a week on it. It's definitely a challenging program but the value is ridiculously good.

I've learned an incredible amount of incredible things. While it's difficult to manage both the program and other life obligations, I'll be a bit sad once it's over.

mrandolph··on Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
What's false in that tree?
mrandolph··on Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
The anthrax vaccine was one, for example:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2002/11/gao-mili...

mrandolph··on The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
seems like an opportunity for some fun game mechanics!
mrandolph··on NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restaurants, Gyms and More
that's an immense amount of hyperbole for a comment decrying juvenile arguments.
mrandolph··on Suspect is arrested in grisly killing of tech CEO Fahim Saleh
To be fair, the suspect was 21. His tenure at the victim's company cannot have been very long.

Despite the victim "knowing" the suspect as an employee, I find it easy to imagine him not recognizing his employee who had a fairly average build, in a fairly common outfit, in an elevator with people being conditioned to keep as much distance as possible. How often do you closely look at fellow elevator riders' faces? Especially these days?

That being said, with the brief tenure assumed, it's incredible that the CEO would be willing to work so flexibly with a relatively new employee who stole what amounted to up to 100K.

mrandolph··on Resignation Letter
I find that the more specialist the guest, the more interesting the conversation, especially when Rogan just shuts his mouth and listens to someone passionate about their field.

Lex Fridman, Brian Cox, and Sean Carroll had--in my opinion--super interesting and engaging episodes.

That being said, there are currently over 1500 episodes, so there are definitely a good number of fluff episodes in the mix as well.

Edit: Just thought of a couple more who I found quite interesting. Paul Stamets and Michael Pollen both discussed in their respective episodes research they both participated in, which made them continuous episodes with a fascinating topic.

mrandolph··on Ask HN: Who has your favorite personal website? What does yours look like?
Jeff Atwood's has been a long time favorite of mine. https://codinghorror.com

It's a simple layout, easy to parse, with lots of interesting content.

His personal "About Me" follows the writing style found in the rest of his content, and he puts(presumably) a lot of time and energy into producing high quality and well-thought-out posts.

mrandolph··on Go 1.14.2 and Go 1.13.10 are released
Are you using dot imports on those packages?
mrandolph··on Elon Musk says college is 'basically for fun and not for learning'
Quite a few assumptions going on there that seem to be coming from a bitter place...
mrandolph··on Larry Tesler Has Died
Which side of the debate was he on personally?