tomx

This doesn't seem like a good use of your time.

I suggest installing an advert blocking program, then finding a more ambitious way to put a dent in the universe.

Is "I don’t read resumes", "I don’t care about your resume", very common? It seems a bit cold hearted and unfriendly. It says to me "I don't care enough to read a bit about you, and your achievements". But that's just me.

Are there any other countries where the education systems often reach this level of legal activity/deliberation/antagonism?

Or do they just quietly get on with teaching students?

What would the ideal policy be?

My ideas are:

- Students own their own work; even if they don't really care for it. I don't see any value in a 10 year pile of homework, but if you create a great piece of art, you should be able to take it home. Realistically, most work is valueless and binned.

- Any created teaching materials may optionally be released as open source, under some license that prevents anyone profiting from them. There's often a gap between good work, and good releasable work (final polish, consistency and so on). Anyone (e.g. some school district) wanting a particular set of work released should be prepared to fund this final polishing. So, a teacher could make a great course, subsequently receive funding to make it brilliant for others, and share it with the world. Thus any good teaching materials created benefit the most amount of people.

Does Stripe ask for any more information than that available on the card?

Normally I'm asked for at least a Post Code, which I assume is part of reducing fraud, through making it a bit more difficult to use a stolen card.

I always feel articles such of these should be prefixed with "within my humble experience and within my application area".

"Comments are generally only needed when you failed to be clear enough in naming. Treat them as a code smell." ...but only in simpler applications, such as self-describing CRUD type web applications?

I think I agree with the quote within some web apps, however remember some code may take weeks/months to appreciate the complexities of. For example, a TCP stack is a complicated thing, born and refined through much research for several decades. Notes of various design choices and optimisations need to be documented, and long comments are sometimes the most convenient way to do so.

Would you use a doctor who had not been to college?

As you hopefully would not, therefore your argument has a flaw in it, you might like to enumerate the list of professions or activities you believe do not require college level education.

Any thoughts on whether this is:

* a long term program to mint more developers (and drive down salaries) * to mint more developers to create more websites to display advertising on faster * ??? or

* a genuine good will program * ???

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- People may feel there is no content they wish to broadcast about themselves to the world. I don't have a desire to promote myself constantly, I'll just continue being quiet. Not everyone feels the need to tell the world their thoughts constantly.

- A single gmail/similar address can work fine.

- Not everyone has enough friends to warrant using "social media".

what is "SSO" in this context?