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We are not remotely close to teaching everyone to code. Only about 5% of high schools teach AP computer science.

http://www.exploringcs.org/resources/cs-statistics

20 times as many students take the US History exam. And you probably have to be even better than top-1-percent to get a job as a historian.

I'm not saying that everyone should turn into a software engineer, I just think programming is a very relevant subject to the modern world, and a curriculum in which everyone took computer science classes would be superior to the status quo curriculum.
I'd just like to have paired devices actually automatically reconnect without having to unpair and repair.

The only things that seems to do this reliably are PS4 controllers with my PC.
Learning to code is all about picking up a shovel and help your tribe accomplish something. What else are you going to do? Your tribe needs you to be 21st century literate. Learning the basics of shoveling is not hard. But if you refuse to even pick up a shovel there will be a problem. Not everyone that picks up a shovel will go on to become master coders. But the ones that don't even try? There are no jobs left for non-technical people. It's the shovel or... what?
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Obviously we are creating a new cognitive elite. Humans since time immemorial have been breeding for advantageous traits. Smarter people will make better programs and reap substantial social or sexual or economic benefits.

Eventually there will be little use for stupid people and some charismatic politician will rise to power by suggesting we stop subsidizing the useless. For now, the useless can delay their fate through bootcamps
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I love that the people who come into the comments to argue about the benefits of static typing seem to have totally missed the point that the post argues that you need evidence, not just beliefs.
It expands their horizon.

Think of it like children learning a musical instrument (or taking up ballet lessons). Not every one of them would turn out to be musicians.

Hopefully, they grow up to have an appreciation for programming and things/fields related to it, as well as develop an additional perspective. They don't need to become programmers, or even continue to program as a hobby.

This is why I believe programming should be taught in school, early, much like art and music.
Even with rent control it's still better to be a landlord of a long term tenant than follow the licensing restrictions. The license 1) Costs money and 2) limits the number of days you can rent.

#2 is the big issue. Even with rent control, at least you can rent the place out for the whole year. With the license you can only rent the place out for 90 days a year. You must live in the unit the other 275 days of the year. So your rent controlled rate would have to be 25% of market rate for the legal short term rental to make sense, and you'd have to live there when it isn't rented.
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Huh, that's an interesting way to look at it. You've convinced me not to deride people saying that.
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Thanks! I appreciate the correction. I miss a lot of the resources, too. I also miss the spirit of dedicating serious attention to code quality. Things like Testing Fix-it and Documentation Fix-it days were awesome.
Japanese university clubs are pretty intense, 3 sessions per week for first grader, up to 5 for the more advanced member.

But given how much 1 and 2nd year and how few 3rd year and upper there is, you seems totally right on your point. Actually I was wondering why there was so few of them, but I guess the cultural background also plays a lot; 4th year mostly focus on searching a job and not a lot of student do a master degree.

And sure it have the beneficial effects you point (I started it partly to correct my posture), but I think putting too much emphasis on the spiritual side is a kind of Orientalism bias.
Rephrase that juxtaposition as "teach everyone to read" and "only admit the top 1% [to elite universities]". Now you have gone from potentially contradictory normative statements to an uncontroversial description of the educational systems in most countries today.

Public education was a bastion of American liberal democracy [0]. But adult literacy is not merely an egalitarian project. It was and is an important source of average labor productivity gains. At the same time businesses practice elitism where it, too, is consistent with the profit motive.

I'm not sure what's to be gained from hiring C+ English graduates to staff the New York Times, nor from hiring 55th percentile CS grads to bootstrap your next startup. Let a business hire the best employees for the job to maximize marginal productivity, and by all means keep teaching people to code where it can raise average productivity.

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That problem seems to be specific to Android. I had Samsung ATIV S, which did not have this problem at all (Win Phone). However both S3 and Nexus 6 have it. The later I bought in part to make it go away at least partially:(
Agree, I look forward to the day I can leave my iPhone in a gym locker and work out with just headphones
It works well when most of your code is written in-house. If you have a lot of external dependencies -- not so good.

The problem is what version of the third-party dependency is various projects in the BIG repo should depend on.

Article mentions that: "To prevent dependency conflicts, as outlined earlier, it is important that only one version of an open source project be available at any given time. Teams that use open source software are expected to occasionally spend time upgrading their codebase to work with newer versions of open source libraries when library upgrades are performed."

So if you have a lot of external dependencies -- you need a dedicated team to synchronize them with all your internal projects.
Great news, indeed!

I was hoping to see one more region in Chennai or Hyderabad.
A big difference is the amount of formal certification.

A diploma from a med school and associated residency is sufficient to expect that the person knows their speciality and is able to treat people from day one.

A CS diploma and related working experience is some indication, but (sadly) often doesn't ensure that the candidate is able to code their way out of a wet paper bag and will be able to perform reasonably well (not 10x well but 1x or even 80%) after a month or two of on-site adaptation.

Our industry, unlike many others, doesn't have a good (centralized?) way to approve qualifications, so each company has to verify on their own, which takes quite a lot of time and expense.
All of their datacenters around the world have batteries and diesel generators. They don't trust the local power anywhere.
They are not fine. For example, Outlook (on my work PC) tends to become non-functional when an update is pending.
Dotnet Foundation = NGO that manages various legal and org things for .NET. Think FSF for GNU.

.NET Core = cross platform software development platform. Includes a VM, compiler, tons of libraries.

ASP.NET Core = HTTP server + server side .NET libraries.

There is no ASP.NET Foundation, it's all part of the Dotnet Foundation.

Xamarin = .NET libraries for mobile development. Wraps Android/iOS native libraries.

Visual Studio = native Windows IDE for .NET and other languages.

Visual Studio Code = portable, Electron/HTML 5 IDE for Javascript/Typescript and other languages.

You probably want Visual Studio Code for HTML/PHP. But you should check out .NET Core, it can replace PHP.

By the way, if it works, it works, but I find it better to research and do at the same time. Downloading only after you've understood the org chart seems a bit too radical for me :)
Absolutely. But the benefits are such that we should aim to replicate them via planning, IMO
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You're comparing Duplo to Meccano here: the projects targets completely different age categories.

The microbit has two built-in buttons, and accelerometer and magnetometer sensors, and Bluetooth. It's got everything required to connect it to your smartphone or tablet and make it a hackable wearable.
A corporate death penalty already exists, it's called bankruptcy.
Impressive work, knowing how many clouds wraps our planet.
While that may be true if you speak for yourself like a single person. But what if you are a couple, or a family?

For a long time I did not want a car but when children came, we have bought it and it help our mobility a lot, if you have full car, it is also cheaper travel than paying tickets for everybody.
For a travel inside a city I still use public transport wherever I can as it is the fastest and most green way to get around.
I agree, that's a big difference.

That said, the dangers of hiring a medical professional who screws up, versus an app/front-end/back-end developer whose code is sub-optimal, means that our industry should hire a lot more easily than it does, and simply let go the employees which underperform.

I think the problem actually doesn't start with hiring, it starts with the kind of "workplace-as-family-and-friends" culture that makes firing so taboo.
I kind of want an 802.11z that does wifi over Bluetooth for sub-802.11a conditions. Am I weird?
Ah, yes! Decreased property values are an externality! However, judging based on police dispatch or crime rates seems to rely a bit more on correlation than causation. It's pretty easy to argue that hotels are typically built in areas with increased police dispatch rates, not hotels causing the dispatches. Unless you have data that shows that the hotel itself has a higher rate than surrounding areas? Furthermore, there are plenty of examples of short term rentals (typically in the form of hotels or resorts) that are tied to increased property values.

Once again, your arguments support better inspections and code enforcement for health issues not banning short term rentals.

I'm not sure why you assume my history with bedbugs. You are correct that I have never had to deal with a bedbug infestation, but I've helped friends who have. I have lived through multiple other infestation of other insects and rodents because of my neighbors. I've also had neighbors who felt the need to party all night every weekend, and have lived across the street from meth houses and drug dens multiple times. However, all of these experiences were dealing with long term tenants, not short term rentals. I am not discounting the inconvenience of these situations, just questioning why we conclude that they are unique to short term rentals.

It seems that you're confusing the impacts of property values with short term rentals. Long term rentals can occur in very wealthy neighborhoods as well as economically depressed areas. I'm no fan of slum lords, but a slum lord can have long term or short term tenants! Furthermore, they tend to set up shop in economically depressed areas if for no other reason than the overhead is too great in nicer neighborhoods.

Regarding criminal activity, I fail to see how 1) this is isolated to or increased activity from short term vs long term rentals and 2) it assumes that the landlord/host does not care about the activity. While same may not care, it seems quite presumptuous to conclude that all AirBnB hosts will encourage criminal activity. But this presents a really interesting question: why hasn't the city of San Francisco taken steps to train hosts on potential threats if this is a concern?
I've got a cheap little Bluetooth kit for my car and mount it right next to my nexus 6p mount. I very rarely, if ever, have issues.
While this is good news, AWS really ought to work on (a) competitive pricing, and (b) flexibility in cpu/ram customization. Today, google compute instances cost less than half of similar AWS instances and allow customization of ram and cpu.
>And, if your web app serves literally 0 static content?

Even real time dashboards have some cacheable content. I would still want to use something like Varnish/NGINX in between.
To be fair, this is not (just) OP's fault. Under no circumstances should just visiting a page render your computer unusable, your browser should protect you from that. I know that none of them do, but sooner or later browser vendors will have to realize that they have become the new OS and act accordingly (that is, allow user to easily control misbehaving pages - see their resource consumption, limit them, kill them...). Never should your computer become unresponsive just because some page wanted more CPU time / memory / ...
Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/06/announcin....
The whole premise of this discussion is that the competitor isn't an option in these situations. Read the article.
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The article doesn't say that google need dedicated teams to synchronize with external open source projects. The teams that use each external dependency are responsible for maintaining that as par the course.
That doesn't seem to work anymore - still timing out for me
How did it handle the contents of the data fork getting out of sync with the contents of the resource fork? Or was the plain text "view" of the data read-only?
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Well, my firm has sold Gensets to Amazon and other Data centers. (I don't know if we sold to their Mumbai AWS facility)

Every data center keeps on site generators to deal with power shortages. I think its part of the standard design paradigm (world wide).

Mumbai has stable power whereas in Delhi brownouts are relatively common occurrences.

Its kinda funny to have this pop up anywhere on HN.
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Usually it counts as part of the Indian Subcontinent Region IIRC?
Ignoring basic facts won't help either, it appears to have helped to get us here.

A couple of relevant facts, Trump supporters earn more than the average American. Leave was pushed in the UK by two right-wing parties that cater to the rich and brought their voters along with them.

Can I not blame the winners of globalisation either?
I grow up with a mother without a car. Both school and shopping was within walking distance, and when we got older and chang d school within easy 15 minutes bicycle distance. And this was not in a city center, but in a suburb. And most importantly, not in the US. The problem with the US is that everything is built for cars, which means that all the distances by necessity becomes huge to fit all the roads and the parking lots. Remove those and you can place everything much closer and you won't need the car at all most days.
All I needed to do was look up the number of a junction. The rest of the route was pretty straightforward. And it was not a foldable map, just a big book. Way less faff than getting the phone out of my pocket, unlocking the screen farting about looking for a map app, waiting for it to load then get a GPS lock.
I would downvote you if I could. Such claims have to be back up by proof.
> this terrible high-prestige form is what you'll learn about if you decide to take a poetry class

While there are classes in post-modern poetry, most poetry classes are not that.

How many poetry classes have you taken?
I have a question for Googlers: I keep hearing about refactoring all across the repo. How does that work with dynamic call sites (reflection, REST), etc.?

I mean, there's no way to prove something is actually used in those cases except for actually running the thing.

Do you just rely (and hope) on tests across all projects?
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In Australia, AWS was beaten by actual clouds recently.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/web-chaos-m...
Tim Ferriss has mentioned coming up with the title as something flashy to make for more sales.

Even he says it's not about a literal 4-hour week of work. The thrust of the book is about how to break things down into systems, and figure out how to make your work (and life in general) more efficient.

You do this by deconstructing things, and figuring out what pieces you can do more easily to get bigger gains.

I'd highly recommend listening to his podcast, as it's almost like the gift that keeps on giving. I say this because of the people that he interviews, and the questions he asks. He helps figure out what successful people do, that makes them successful.

I'm talking him up, but it's only because there have been a few things that I've gotten between the book and a couple of the podcast interviews that have been very helpful in my personal life.
This is the biggest problem of sharing economy. To solve this problem we have to make new system not to fight with established system.
But the teams using the external dependency need to synchronize with each other before they can (all) update to a new version.
I'm grateful that you didn't accuse anyone specific (that would be worse), but it still degrades the discussion to make this charge without evidence.

> you don't find the moderation patterns in these threads just a little suspicious?

I don't know exactly what moderation patterns you mean, but for the most part what we see is pretty easily explained. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844253.

We're dead serious when we do find evidence:
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=true&page=0&dateR...
> Would we rather have a situation where a big influential vote affecting the future of an entire nation comes up and no one does any research about it?

The key there is that the research is happening after the vote. They story being told about searches is wrong, but if it was true it would be notable.
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Rent is the measure of the success of a city; rent is high where people want to be.

Saying you'll make "cheap housing" where people will nonetheless want to be is complete nonsense. If people want to live there the rent will go up; the only way to make the rent low is to make the place utterly undesirable.
It is interesting that you (as a customer) pay for the privilege of having a number assigned and for your data plan. They seem to forget this.
During my 16 month tenure in Google, I worked on:

1. Android, using shell and Make

2. ChromeOS, using Portage

3. Chrome browser, using Ninja

4. google3 (aka "the monorepo") officially using blaze (but often there were nested build systems - I remember one that used blaze to drive scons to build a makefile...)

The diversity of the build systems significantly steepened the learning curve when switching projects. During orientation, they told me "All code lives in the monorepo, and every engineer has access to all code", but this turned out to be not true at all. If anything it was the opposite: more build system diversity at Google than at other places I worked.
Would you be able to pause or control songs though?
And hopefully we will get bluetooth audio that doesn't suck?
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I'm considering buying this tablet, but would like to know your opinion about the same. The specs are all wonderful and I can also live with the fact that KitKat (4.4.4) is the only OS installable on it, provided the company provides the OTA updates regularly.

My only other concern is there is neither sim card, nor support for USB Dongle. Is it possible to add USB Dongle support without rooting? I don't like the thought of buying a tablet and then immediately rooting it to gain an extra feature. I'd prefer a lot if that were possible without rooting.
>It's a cultural phenomenon across the United States and from my limited exposure, English-speakers around the world.

I had only heard about it from watching John Oliver.
>Changes to upstream libraries trigger tests on consumers of that library, so breaking changes tend not to happen.

This doesn't prevent build breaking changes, it just makes the team using the library aware what is broken and they can have fix ready when they want to upgrade their dependencies.
Shotokan?

I studied it for a few years as a kid, and came to a similar conclusion but had assumed it was that particular flavour of karate being an overly formalised, functionally ceremonious, branch emphasising discipline, flexibility and strength over fighting prowess.

A foundation, rather than an end-product if you will.
Sure, bluetooth had media controls for ages. I have a bluetooth waterproof speaker that I just take with me in the shower - and I leave my phone outside of the bathroom so it doesn't get wet. I can change songs and pause with buttons on the speaker, with the phone safely on the other side of the wall.
Article says twice in 60 years.
Thankfully my '08 car does this, but my fathers £400 pilot headsets won't stay paired with anything.
Did you get them?

Did you recognise, for instance, that the first poem is the poet's recollection of cancer ravaging her mother, and of how she walked to the hospital every day to see her?

Did you understand and just not care, or did you not understand and so find nothing to care about?
Something I didn't realize before is that, meme or not, Dunning-Kruger tested perception vs skill on basic tasks, things that if someone asked me I might easily mistake my own ability, since it's something I'd feel like I should know how to do.

Ability to recognize humor isn't what I'd even call a skilled subject matter, and it's not something we learn in school or normally get exposed to graded metrics or comparisons against other people.

These aren't highly skilled subjects like Geophysics or Law or Electrical Engineering or Art History. I'd be willing to bet it's a lot easier to both self-identify lack of ability and admit lack of ability in a subject the more skilled it is.
And they seem to continue to false axiom of assuming "static" == "strong" and "dynamic" == "weak".

FFS, some people should finally learn.
> I remember one that used blaze to drive scons to build a makefile...

Good lord.. then again I have to use MSBuild. Why can't someone write one that consumes something like JSON and is async?
I thought the very same. I guess the most interesting result they obtain is the slight asymmetry in some of the low-frequency modes, which the Fourier basis does not exhibit.
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looks like pricing is costlier than EU / US
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I'd guess it has more to do with fascism than the Japanese in particular. See: Nazis.
> it's now mixed with sites visited with Chrome

For me it shows major headings of each search I have done, and smaller subheadings of the search results I clicked on. Most of those from firefox, and none of my chrome history is mixed in.
I like the reference to The 5th Element there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jWGbvemTag
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Does this mean that one Googler could checkout the complete system, and sell it or put it online? How many people have access to the complete repository? How big is one checkout?
Is the bluetooth spec the limit though, or maybe the implementation? I can leave my phone on the table downstairs and my headphones still work fine in the attic, which is through 2 floors of reinforced concrete. I was very surprised to be able to do this, but kitchen-living room should be possible. Unless your kitchen is in the west wing, and your living room is a mile down the hall in the east wing in which case I'm envious of your living arrangement and understand the need for more range in the spec. ;)
Fair enough. My experience with poetry classes is limited to elementary school and middle school. Our middle school curriculum consisted of badmouthing poetry that somebody somewhere might have actually liked. The school was proud of having classes taught by a published poet.