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Here's what I did when was in my late teens & early 20s, and taught myself. 1. Copy famous artworks that you admire -- even just drawing in a notebook is great, to start. 2. Once y…

I transitioned into software development in my late 20's, and am very happy with the decision. I went back to school at ~27, and graduated just a few months short of 30. 34 is defi…

Last time I traveled internationally (~10 years ago), I had to buy a separate international cell phone. Not for privacy reasons -- but instead because my US-based phone wouldn't wo…

After some searching online, I wasn't able to come up with anything for Pope's Common Lisp music tools. But it sounds really interesting. Any pointers to help find it/them?

Good question. I was looking into this a few years back, and ended getting my BS in-person, at the big state school nearby. It paid off well. That said, these are other online opti…

I would agree with this. FWIW, the most concise and straightforward critical theorist that I've read is Vilem Flusser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vil%C3%A9m_Flusser There's a sh…

Which Benjamin? I've read some of his more famous articles (i.e. - "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"), but I remember them being very political. Sort of an ar…

One positive thing about being in a fraternity -- it provides experience in dealing with and resolving conflict in a large organization. For better or worse, navigating the interna…

Just an opinion: It's not that it's hard to learn this stuff. More so, it's tiresome and hard to care after watching the JS community re-inventing the same wheel(s), repeatedly. Pe…

So, I worked as a PM for about 3.5 years, in total. That was in the past, and now I work as a developer (not a manager anymore). My guess is that a lot of this depends on the organ…

That's a very long story... But here's the essence. I got a degree totally unrelated to CS. (Think "arts". Decent school. Top 50. But not prestigious.) Bounced around at not-great …

You have a ton of time, don't worry. I changed careers more than once between 20 and 30. To/from radically different fields. Besides that, your skill-set as a programmer is _much_ …

It's unrelated, but the sentence has an awkward structure that's hard to parse. Terrorist groups could be punished for planning any one of 277 crimes. And so could criminal groups.…

Personally, I think that written language is a more natural way to describe and reason about complex systems and symbols. It's the same difference between writing mathematical proo…

Opinion: Just like the stock market, college is also an investment. There is risk involved. One of the main problems is that this is NOT communicated well. (If it all.) Too many pe…

42 comments right now. What a strange coincidence. Had to say it. Here it is: http://imgur.com/a/wGdGz

Early in my career, I worked at a few different businesses where management expected us to work 12+ hour days. Mostly web development & design. We did it, but the secret was that w…

Don't worry -- you will be 100% fine. What kind of jobs are you applying for? If you're looking at true entry-level jobs, then having 0 work experience is not a problem. And those …

I've read this, and it's very good. I had never studied business before (at any level), but found myself in a position where I was managing software projects, and dealing with MBA'…

There's nothing wrong with slow growth--that's how most small to mid-size businesses operate, both in the US and abroad. But as a Silicon Valley tech investor, you're not incentivi…

Yes -- for a career change. However: I got a second B.Sc. in Computer Science (first Bachelor's was in the arts), and that worked just as well, for a career change, and at less cos…

That's true. But finding a stable romantic partner who you're willing to move in with, and live with, + share all your personal space with is still very hard when you have little t…

There are only 807 undergrads[1] at Harvey Mudd (which of course is an excellent school). So that's still a sizable portion of their undergrad students -- even though from such a s…

From an inventory perspective, yes. =) But -- you still need to get people coming to your site somehow, which is actually the harder part. You can buy ads, do social media marketin…

Thanks for that -- I actually think that's good feedback, and something I hadn't thought of. We do have the shipping times listed on 3 different pages accessible from the top nav (…