martamorena918

Clickbait headline... Should be "How to get a CS degree in the time you need to be ready".

Cool that something like this exists, and I support it. For me it was similar. I studied math and physics for 6 terms and was programming since age of 6. Then my thesis adviser told me that all my thesis suggestions are for CS, not math. So I thought, well what the heck, let's just write a CS thesis. I did all the missing coursework in half a year and wrote my thesis in the second. This would be of course utterly impossible without the background I had at that time. (I studied in Germany, where you generally have full control over your studies. I.e. you can do all courses from all terms at the same time, for instance)

Perhaps have a look at Profitbricks. They are an interesting small alternative to AWS for a niche market.

This is akin to legalizing all drugs and selling them in every grocery store with huge ads of George Clooney puffing the magic dragon... And then complaining that everyone is an addict.

American food is a drug. And by any comparison much more harmful than alcohol, smoking and weed combined. However try to tell a normal person to eat a healthy diet (aka, don't be an addict) and they will hate you for it. Or actually, let's start with "healthy diet". What does that even mean? The only proven healthy diet I know of is AIP and related diets. However, it takes substantial mental strengths and abstinence from social gatherings to get going. I know, because I am on it. It completely changed my life, why is the only reason I can sell my brain to hate all the "normal" (addictive) food.

The only way to eat healthy is to realize other food is making you sick and let your brain stop yourself from eating it. The other way around it doesn't work. You can't force yourself to eat healthy; you need to fully buy into it and live it and want to eat healthy from the inside out.

To me, this problem is much worse than drug addiction. Drug addiction is frowned upon. Drugs are largely inaccessible, they are expensive and mostly prohibited. You know it's bad to be an addict. You know stronger drugs literally destroy your body.

Bad food on the other hand... All ads want to make you eat it. Your family eats it, your friends eat it, everyone eats it and wants you to eat it. And it destroys your body over decades, making it hard to connect the "old age" at 40 with your eating habits... I guess I am getting old, huh? Let's order some pizza. It is frowned upon to eat healthy. Healthy food is hard to get (you need to cook it yourself). Healthy food is expensive... See some similarities here? There is an inversion. When it comes to food, the drug is the easily accessible, socially accepted product, while the healthy ones are moved to the margins, just like real drugs are. Crazy stuff.

This has nothing to do with unwillingness to exploit. If you would get a 1 million dollar coupon by leaving a 5 star review, almost everyone would do it (except perhaps billionaires). The thing is: Everybody has a price, but what that price is, is always different.

The less money I have, the more incentive I have to take advantage of these schemes. For me, the effort of earning 20$ this way would make this a few hundred dollars net loss (compared to working my job instead). So yeah, give me a 1000$ coupon and I am game!

For the same reason, I rarely return items I buy if they are in the under 50$ category, or write negative reviews for products that suck. It's just a waste of time, considering time is the most precious resource, and it is also money. I often write positive reviews for products that amaze me (doesn't happen too often), but here the product gave me so much value that I am willing to spend my time for this.