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Guice docs: “There are many advantages to using dependency injection, but doing so manually often leads to a large amount of boilerplate code to be written. Guice is a framework th…

Dealerships are major job providers in small towns and provide some of the better jobs. Salespeople, loan officers, etc. Think replacing local grocery stores with Walmart. Low end …

Different types of diagrams highlight different aspects of a system. If you can, try to put together 2 different diagrams presenting different views. For example, sequence diagrams…

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Some books that I read and found useful. These are mostly older books that have withstood numerous market cycles. Even if you decide to branch out, these are a good base to start f…

"he's from Texas and has never lived in California" Mike lives at least part-time in LA and attended UCSD. https://twitter.com/MikeJudge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Judge

Also important to note that this is talking about the time to pay tuition alone. When you add living expenses, it's even more absurd.

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Perhaps I should have used a different example, but the main point was that Galileo's supposed Leaning Tower experiment ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Leaning_Tower_of_Pi…

Anecdotal but I would imagine it's similar in reputable state schools in red states: Texas has very few Keynesians yet economics professors at the University of Texas are overwhelm…

"it does raise questions about why the school's arguments which seem so utterly convincing to so many people, don't manage to gain many converts among people who research the subje…

Most big cities in the U.S. have quality public courses that aren't horribly expensive. Near NYC, there's Bethpage (recently hosted U.S. Open) http://nysparks.com/golf-courses/11/f…

I'm currently a student at a public school. I work 20-25 hours a week during the school year (with a job that pays well for a student) and have a paid internship over the summer. I…

I think Codecademy is great for people who already know how to code a little bit. I can use Codecademy to learn HTML/CSS or about using APIs. However, I think for a complete neophy…

I've mapped caps lock to control on my keyboard but I like to use caps lock when I'm typing on a phone. For acronyms and such it is useful and the inability to hold shift on an iph…

"And learning to code by reading a Rails book? Don't you have to know how to code before you build even a basic Rails app? Even average coders can't easily grasp all the concepts b…

I wonder how much benefit an MBA from a top school gives beyond signaling. If you are admitted into Harvard/Stanford/Wharton/etc you've been successful early on in your career. It …

Here's a great guide to writing clearly/concisely: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y8862uack1he3f9/How%20to%20Write%2...

I would have loved this kind of thing when I played junior golf. I spent a lot of time making spreadsheets with all of my statistics. Have you tried marketing towards junior player…

I don't think it's about liking or not liking writing or coding. It's easy to start the day with checking email, reading HN or other less productive tasks. It's just something to h…

"As someone who was taught the 'traditional' way of mathematics, can someone give a few pointers of de-programming myself from the traditional way that I was taught." I tutor high …