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| 15:13.51 | eightyeight | youtah: 567 |
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| 16:09.22 | romanovic | In an age of widely available open textbooks, I'm disappointed in the book requirement for a course I just started. $120 for a small, cheap spiral-bound textbook, coincidentally written by the course instructor, who will assign all homework from it |
| 16:11.29 | romanovic | I bought spiral bound workbooks like this for courses when I was at the U of U, but at least those were in the $15-20 range. And were not used as core class source material. |
| 16:11.51 | programmerq | which school is it? |
| 16:12.11 | romanovic | University of Illinois Springfield |
| 16:13.01 | spangborn | romanovic: college is a racket, all around |
| 16:13.08 | spangborn | textbooks are merely one aspect of that racket |
| 16:13.15 | programmerq | yeah, I made my distaste for the calculus book I was forced to buy at BYU known to my instructor. It was full of errors and overpriced. It was done by their dept head and their defense was "well his royalties go towards scholarships". I pointed out that I was there to pay for my own overpriced education. |
| 16:13.21 | programmerq | (I do not hold a degree) |
| 16:13.50 | spangborn | College/university shenanigans is why I don't have a CS degree, but a minor |
| 16:14.02 | spangborn | I decided to find the fastest path to graduation in something I could tolerate |
| 16:14.09 | spangborn | and got a mass comm degree with a CS minor |
| 16:14.23 | spangborn | youtah copied me a year or so later |
| 16:15.26 | romanovic | I've thought of doing that. I started in CS in 2004. Still working on it, whenever I can fit in a semester... |
| 16:17.03 | spangborn | Honestly, the subject matter of the degree doesn't matter that much |
| 16:17.12 | spangborn | all employers I've talked to just care you finished something |
| 16:25.22 | eightyeight | youtah: getting close to 600. :) |
| 16:26.06 | romanovic | I've worked as a developer for a decade now. Employers don't tend to ask about the degree anymore. I want to finish anyway |
| 16:26.31 | eightyeight | certifications and credentials are just H.R. filtetrs |
| 16:26.34 | eightyeight | s/trs/rs/ |
| 16:26.36 | eightyeight | that's about it |
| 16:27.54 | spangborn | ~karma brave |
| 16:27.54 | infobot | brave has karma of 45 |
| 16:28.00 | spangborn | ~brave-- |
| 16:31.24 | BigBen212 | my employer didn't want to see a degree either. Once I explained to them what my German CS degree roughly translated to, they were happy |
| 16:31.31 | BigBen212 | never even looked at the paperwork |
| 16:50.29 | jlp_znc | I have only missed out on one job opportunity because of my lack of a degree... it was at Evans & Sutherland. |
| 16:51.05 | jlp_znc | of course, I now have over 30 years of experience, so the degree is less important. |
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| 16:52.10 | jlp_znc | hey, does anyone have a Baofeng programming cable I could borrow? A guy at the Murray fire dept. has a couple of Baofeng radios and he is having trouble programming htem... I figured hooking up to a computer with Chirp would be the quickest/easiest way. |
| 16:53.12 | jlp_znc | hmmm, is it compatible with my Kenwood cable? |
| 16:53.36 | jlp_znc | (and do I know where my Kenwood cable has wandered off to?) |
| 16:55.44 | jlp_znc | hmmm, amazon giveaway for "Vegan Powder"... I wonder if it's made from ground up vegans? |
| 17:03.35 | spangborn | one can only hope |
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| 18:12.08 | youtah | eightyeight, wait what is 300? |
| 18:12.39 | youtah | is totally confused |
| 18:12.42 | youtah | OH, the number of shares |
| 18:12.43 | youtah | Yes |
| 18:12.47 | youtah | on your FB post |
| 18:12.50 | youtah | It's brilliant |
| 18:18.01 | spangborn | 12 |
| 18:18.08 | youtah | jlp_znc, I have a cable |
| 18:20.10 | jlp_znc | Okay, I'll need it by Thursday evening... maybe I can pick it up tomorrow? I'll be down in Lehi for a doctor's appointment in the mroning... can stop by your office on the way back. |
| 18:20.32 | jlp_znc | I'm heading up to the Pleuralsight conference, but will check in later. |
| 18:22.35 | eightyeight | youtah: 300? pfft. 619. |
| 18:22.45 | eightyeight | B-) |
| 18:27.22 | spangborn | 42 |
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| 20:44.44 | youtah | lol |
| 20:44.46 | youtah | heh |
| 20:44.47 | youtah | hah |
| 20:44.48 | youtah | :_ |
| 20:44.49 | youtah | :) |
| 20:45.14 | youtah | ~lolstats |
| 20:45.16 | infobot | total count of lol on #utah: 2888. Top 3: youtah -- 1356 (47.0%), keldwud -- 143 (5.0%), spangborn -- 123 (4.3%) |
| 20:45.33 | youtah | ? |
| 20:45.37 | youtah | ~?stats |
| 20:45.37 | infobot | total count of ? on #utah: 680. Top 3: goozbach -- 145 (21.3%), eightyeight -- 107 (15.7%), youtah -- 72 (10.6%) |
| 20:45.52 | eightyeight | heh |
| 20:45.55 | eightyeight | hah |
| 20:45.57 | eightyeight | :) |
| 20:45.59 | eightyeight | ? |
| 20:46.01 | eightyeight | lol |
| 20:49.42 | spangborn | Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? |
| 20:54.52 | SunSparc | Not at all! They could be carried. |
| 21:02.45 | eightyeight | what? a swallow carrying a coconut? |
| 21:13.13 | BigBen212 | depends on the swallow |
| 21:13.21 | BigBen212 | and its speed |
| 21:21.45 | RyanE | maybe it's two swallows... carrying it together... |
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