What non-technical resources can give me the strongest viewquake akin to the CS major answer?
Could you explain in what way that answer caused a viewquake? I see some information that some people might not have known beforehand but it doesn’t seem to me that fundamental.
Typing isn’t taught in universities but being reminded that typing is important for programming doesn’t change anything groundbreaking about the world.
That annoying website not only wants your email, it also wants you to fill in a bunch of information so it can “send you updates”, just so you are allowed to read it.
Contacts on what? Your comments makes it sound like it will use its authorization with a Google Account to send spam. And I just clicked the permission button 30 seconds before reading it.
More specifically: I connected to Quora using my Facebook account. When I connected, within the Quora system the message “Viliam is following your questions and answers” was sent to all Quora users who are also my Facebook contacts.
As far as I know, it didn’t do anything outside of Quora. But even this is kinda creepy. I discovered it when one of those users asked me in a FB message why exactly am I following his questions (in given context, it seemed like a rather creepy action by me). I didn’t even know what he was speaking about.
So the lesson is that if Quora later shows you announcements like: “XYZ is interested in your questions”, it most likely means that XYZ simply joined Quora, and Quora knows you two know each other. (Also, you can remove the people you are following in Quora settings. You probably didn’t even know you are “following” them, did you?)
I hate this kind of behavior, when social networks pretend their users have some activity among them, when in reality they don’t. But I generalize this suspicion to all software. Whenever some software tells me: “Your friend XYZ wants you to do this, or tells you that”, I always assume it is a lie. And if my friends XYZ really wants me to do something, they should tell me that using their own words outside of the system I don’t know. For example by phone, email, or facebook (not auto-generated) message.
How about reading one of the books in the first link?
Already did read most of them.
Could you explain in what way that answer caused a viewquake?
I quote myself
Those gave me not quite a viewquake but clarified a few things I already had in mind and showed me some I had not.
The CS example showed that a college curriculum is not comprehensive and there are quite a few skills to be named improving on the sorry saying “You go to college not only for the curriculum but so much more”.
Did you previously expect that college curriculums are actually optimized to teach all skills that are needed on the job?
No, but neither did I think that the relationship escalator is a natural state of the world. But having something like that spelled out when one has not thought about it can be very helpful.
How about reading one of the books in the first link? Otherwise https://www.quora.com/Jobs-1/Whats-something-that-is-common-knowledge-at-your-work-place-but-would-be-mind-blowing-to-the-rest-of-us is a good thread.
Could you explain in what way that answer caused a viewquake? I see some information that some people might not have known beforehand but it doesn’t seem to me that fundamental.
Typing isn’t taught in universities but being reminded that typing is important for programming doesn’t change anything groundbreaking about the world.
Gah!
That annoying website not only wants your email, it also wants you to fill in a bunch of information so it can “send you updates”, just so you are allowed to read it.
Try this version of the link.
And then when you join, it will display a message to all your contacts that you are “following their answers”, of course without telling you anything.
Contacts on what? Your comments makes it sound like it will use its authorization with a Google Account to send spam. And I just clicked the permission button 30 seconds before reading it.
More specifically: I connected to Quora using my Facebook account. When I connected, within the Quora system the message “Viliam is following your questions and answers” was sent to all Quora users who are also my Facebook contacts.
As far as I know, it didn’t do anything outside of Quora. But even this is kinda creepy. I discovered it when one of those users asked me in a FB message why exactly am I following his questions (in given context, it seemed like a rather creepy action by me). I didn’t even know what he was speaking about.
So the lesson is that if Quora later shows you announcements like: “XYZ is interested in your questions”, it most likely means that XYZ simply joined Quora, and Quora knows you two know each other. (Also, you can remove the people you are following in Quora settings. You probably didn’t even know you are “following” them, did you?)
I hate this kind of behavior, when social networks pretend their users have some activity among them, when in reality they don’t. But I generalize this suspicion to all software. Whenever some software tells me: “Your friend XYZ wants you to do this, or tells you that”, I always assume it is a lie. And if my friends XYZ really wants me to do something, they should tell me that using their own words outside of the system I don’t know. For example by phone, email, or facebook (not auto-generated) message.
Already did read most of them.
I quote myself
The CS example showed that a college curriculum is not comprehensive and there are quite a few skills to be named improving on the sorry saying “You go to college not only for the curriculum but so much more”.
Did you previously expect that college curriculums are actually optimized to teach all skills that are needed on the job?
No, but neither did I think that the relationship escalator is a natural state of the world. But having something like that spelled out when one has not thought about it can be very helpful.