Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already
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Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already
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#2Whatever this app is, it would be really helpful to not do the jagged edge thing on the top as it makes it completely unreadable for me. I use the top of windows to line up text and without that ability, I basically cannot read the words.
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#3> CS programs have, in the main, not decided that the primary path to becoming a programmer should involve doing material actual programming.
Well, that's because CS programs are designed to teach CS, not to be a vocational school for programmers.
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#4> CS programs have, in the main, not decided that the primary path to becoming a programmer should involve doing material actual programming. Well, that's because CS programs are designed to teach CS, not to be a vocational school for programmers.
Yes. I often explained that CS was more like a math degree than an engineering degree.
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#5> CS programs have, in the main, not decided that the primary path to becoming a programmer should involve doing material actual programming. Well, that's because CS programs are designed to teach CS, not to be a vocational school for programmers.
And yet many job listings for programmers demand you have a CS degree…
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#6Slightly off topic, but I didn't realize that this was a series of tweets (a thread) that was extracted and re-presented as a coherent essay.
This explains the somewhat "weird" cadence.
On topic: it makes a lot of sense.
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#7The author needs to relax, it feels like he wrote this rant while under heavy ADHD medication.
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#8> Everyone in Silicon Valley uses equity, and not debt, to fuel their growth because debt is not available in sufficient quantities to poorly capitalized companies without a strong history of adequate cash flows to service debt.
A corollary to this is that if you're fundraising and can get debt, you should take it over equity almost every time. Many founders are skeptical of debt because everyone takes equity, yet everyone takes equity because it's all they can get.
At the very least, if you're seriously trying to decide between the two, remember that equity investors want at least a 10x return within about five years. Break out a calculator and look at what the interest rate on that would be (spoilers, it's higher than any lender would think to ask).
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#9Typos are distracting. I don't know whether "modal" programmers is intentional or a typo for "model".
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#10Typos are distracting. I don't know whether "modal" programmers is intentional or a typo for "model".
Pretty sure he means "modal" as in mode average.