You just have to suck it up and don't let it bother you as the majority of people are not really laughing at you. You may say something embarrassing like 'je suis chaud', which actually means you're horny and not feeling hot. That will get a chuckle out of people but the next time you will know to use avoir instead.
In Canada many parents will enter their children in the bilingual stream, not only for the benefit of knowing another language but also because it acts as a natural filter by removing the trouble-makers and slower kids. I'm sure if she were to give a math test, she too would find correlation between language and math skills.
Seems like the criteria use to select Thiel Fellows is the same criteria used by top schools. Probably the reason why many return to school, because they have that option available to them.
A better experiment would be something similar to the movie "Trading Places" where they pluck disadvantaged youths from the ghetto, trailer park, or whatever. Send them through a mentorship program or real internship and see if they can become productive citizens. I believe Xavier Neal is on the right track with his School 42.
I think it's only loaded if you want it to be. People from economically depressed areas are... economically depressed. People from ghettoes and trailer parks are typically underprivileged and tend not to do economically as well as others. If doing economically well were not important or a measure of success, well, we would not be worrying about economic success...
And condescending remarks from the tech sector will only perpetuate the stereotype that we're out of touch and condescending assholes to those that aren't "one of us"
I'd disagree having a backend written in Go and a front-end written in another language is being minimal. Plus I think the majority of people attracted to Go are fundamentally opposed to Javascript.
I don't think there's any other choice. You can only write javascript in the browser (anyone who writes in Go has to be fundamentally opposed to hacks like coffeescript).
I write Go on the server to serve pages, and write rich front ends using simple javascript and jQuery. Being able to do nice quick page fetches means I don't get into massive complexity on the front end with a bloated single-page app, and not trying to deal with front-end complexity on the server means my server routes stay nice and simple.
I use Gocraft/web on the server because it's a useful library not an opinionated framework, and IMHO the most Go-idiomatic of the options (I tried them all and it was a toss-up between Gorilla and Gocraft/web, which won because of the really simple, useful context and middleware paradigm).
Creating API endpoints and page routes is simple and easy, and then writing the javascript to call endpoints when needed is simple (once I'd learned to stop jQuery from appending my data to the url and put it in the request body!).
My only gripe about the mix is that GoConvey doesn't integrate with Jasmine so I have to run two test suites.
My account had posted it from Medium earlier but I realized how SLOOW it was loading so I loaded up a Ghost Blog droplet for Digital Ocean and reposted it there. I needed a new account to post it on behalf of so a smashed my keyboard. Voial!
The reason you didn't address what phea said is that you promoted this story through abusive techniques. So abusive, in fact, that we've banned your main account too, as well as this site.
Edit: We're also banning the site that you've abusively promoted here in the past [1].
The 17% figure also includes dog walking. For myself, the midnight walks with my dog have been very rewarding. Giving me time to think about things and reflect on the day. Although there are a good number of dog owners who see walking their dog as a chore, which is not the right attitude to have for being mindful.
Walking our dog always felt like a chore growing up. I'd attribute it to being young, but it's now many years later, they have a new dog (both dalmatians) and walking him when visiting is still a chore.
He's either on a leash (by law) pulling relentlessly, or he's free, needing vigilant watch. It's perfectly doable having him walk next to you, but he's still stressing out at everything and it seeps into your bones.
Might be many would benefit from taking walks like you do, I run instead, no patience for walking, but I probably should if only for the benefit of learning to be more patient.
The idea of doing something so unproductive and slow is really hard to get over, though.
> Might be many would benefit from taking walks like you do, I run instead, no patience for walking, but I probably should if only for the benefit of learning to be more patient.
One of the suggestions in the article is the walk mindfully. Unless you're familiar with usages of that term, it's not immediately clear what that means:
It's effectively suggesting meditation through walking. You shouldn't be able to take two steps without finding something marginally interesting to consider. That doesn't mean to write it down for later study, but just let it fill your mind for a moment, and then move on to the next interesting thing.
Walking is about getting to know the world by moving through it. That's a lot harder to do at the speed of a jog.
I think the takeaway from ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Friendster, MySpace, etc is that as soon as you start losing users, then it's over and there's no winning users back. No matter how ubiquitous the service becomes in one's daily life.
Another favourite of teachers is 'je suis fini'.