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Software engineering is genuinely hard. There's no need to add elitism to it. This choice of vocation is already highly selective towards everyone who tries to enter that field.

I'll share some numbers from my academic days pursuing a CS course. From an average group of say 100 students to graduate with a CS degree only about 3-4 actually had an aptitude to become a serious and wise professional. And even those would not necessarily take a programming job in the end. Some didn't see good career perspectives in it. The rest of the group would come to a conclusion it's just too hard and would spread out to whatever alternative jobs they can find, either IT-related or not.

The amount of computer-engineering talent is pretty constant and very low. You can encourage the general population to try it but that won't accomplish anything. Anyone with genuine abilities and an inclination towards this line of work already goes into that industry.

What is possible is that through inconsiderate encouragement of large masses to enter IT you eventually get crowds willing to perform unqualified tasks for pennies, like building trivial smartphone apps, performing WordPress installations etc. In fact, this already is a reality. I see people around me abandoning their careers and moving into IT. This is in part caused by the economic crisis in my country (Russia) which devalued salaries almost three times, and lately everyone's been thinking about getting into IT to improve their earnings. I also see that people just stumble at the basics. As soon as they realize programming is not about dragging & dropping objects in a visual editor and you have to actually perform some intensive thinking, people just give up that idea and quit.

Ultimately, it will just make it more difficult to distinguish a professional in a larger crowd, but it will not make his/her services cheaper. In fact, it will probably cause more people to be burned by amateurs posing as professionals and eventually they'll be more ready to pay the premium in order not to have to deal with amateurs and risk their projects ruined. Software engineering services will then become more expensive in general.

Software engineering is hard and will remain hard. The amount of talent will also remain pretty small and launching a thousand of new programming schools is not going to change that. Smart people don't need any schools at all. For those who aren't smart, schools won't help them much.

As to what the end game might be, it's just too early to say. The society is transforming into a different community. Right now it looks like people with average abilities will have tough times landing a job as those become automated and replaced by computer systems of some kind, whereas it will be easier for the unqualified folks and for the highly qualified ones. The middle might just see some very rough times. We'll just have to wait and see which way it goes.
If it were anyone else this would be flagged as blogspam. Sometimes he can bring insight, but these Tweet-like posts don't add anything to the conversation.
You're still missing one... https://www.erudit.org/revue/ttr/2010/v23/n2/1009160ar.html (While not 100% about the original version of Nitobe's book, they still analyze it and provide a bunch more references concerning it).

Yeah, there's a good chance The Last Samurai might currently be the most popular lens through which people view bushido right now (Americans at least). I share your sadness but I'm sure most people actually have multiple points of reference on the concept. Would be funny if it continued to evolve into something completely different (something featuring Tom Cruise?)
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pour all of your money into Mississippi. make it work there. it needs it - and if you make it work then it will work for real.
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There's a registry hack for setting wired to metered but I agree, it needs to be fixed. Are you able to add feedback (or +1 mine) on the Feedback Center?
>> Probably also a seizure of all patents.

I had been following this thread with a certain amount of blasé, but the thought of seizing a patent portfolio and releasing it into the public domain makes me raise an eyebrow or three.
That is not the same thing, not even close.

Swift and .NET Native are the modern environments that are closer to it in spirit, but it is not the same thing, not really.
I haven't read Nitobe, but Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure mentioned in the article, which was weirdly popular a few years back, is a horrible piece of propaganda written by someone who has about as much contact with war fighters as Nietzsche.
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> new products (if they are successful) often create new problems.

This rings true to me. And I've been accused of doing just this. In 2004, my "hair on fire" problem was trying to figure out how to test web apps that heavily used JavaScript (which really was a rare thing back then), so I created Selenium to solve my dev team's testing problem. Fast forward four years later to 2008, the next "hair on fire" problem to solve was that maintaining a lab of computers dedicated to Selenium testing was labor-intensive and expensive, so then I founded Sauce Labs as a way to rent out machines for testing. Sauce could only have existed because of the problems created (accidentally, I swear!) by heavy use of Selenium.
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If you want a good look at the other side, read the Showa series of manga by Shigeru Mizuki. It mixes historical background (based on photos) with his own personal story (a more cartoony style).

And his own story is Hellish by any standard. In the third volume particularly, his group gets caught by enemy fire and are presumed dead. When he makes it back to camp, they has already reported them as dead. This turns out to be an embarrassment and they are effectively told to go back into the jungle and die. Some do.
Luckily for all of us, I guess, I have no aspirations to politics.
They should treat it as they would any other conspiracy. You focus on an individual, arrest them, then get them to give evidence. Eventually you work your way up the chain. Waiting until you've got all the ducks in a row is special treatment in comparison to standard criminal investigations.
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I agree. I thought it was another version of http://littlebits.cc/

But upon exploring some works, it seems like writing code but with a tangible object. The User Interface are like the usual toy blocks kids play and they can write code with it.

Interesting move by Google on this.
Isn't this a problem with anything wireless in general? WiFi is also plagued with connection issues, inexplicable dropouts, and slowdowns.

With Bluetooth in particular it seems like there are a lot of poor implementations (if it's rock solid or buggy seems to have to do with which two devices you're using ) - maybe they would benefit from a more stringent conformity licensing process.
If it's been years, how do you know which of the 1700 are the relevant ones? Are you tagging or transcribing them? Seems like this would be a good use case for even moderately accurate transcription of the audio files by software -- the way even moderately accurate OCR of a bag of scanned PDFs can provide the fodder for search tools like Spotlight to interactively surface approximately useful results.
You can have it both ways, dynamic or static compilation.

If you using COM or third party dlls, which is quite common on Windows, then you need those as well.
I find all calls to use the power of the state to destroy commerce unsettling. Seems to me the system, imperfect as it is, is functioning well enough in this case.

Certainly there should always be a constant review of regulation in light of events like this, but to confiscate and destroy an entire company for this type of cheat would be chilling for future investment and company formation. That directly leads to a lower level of living for everyone, far worse than the relatively minor increase in emissions in this case.

There seems to be an attitude around that corporations are some evil thing, and that is not healthy at all.
As a matter of fact "more range" is quite the opposite of what I want from Bluetooth. Do I really need to have 5000 keyboards within range of my computer at the office, instead of the 100 I already have? I definitely do not.
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I would be just as shocked as the developers, who would think using Firewatch as advertising would be a good idea?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11990451
Which part? (Seriously.)

My point was that there's no one source of truth. Perception is reality. To a vast majority of his supporters, Trump is not a racist xenophobe. Period, full stop. And this isn't stupid: an intelligent, reasonable person could make that argument. And plenty of Trump supporters are intelligent, reasonable people.

Did something get lost in translation?
But mostly the city wants to ensure they get paid and keep the lodging industry off their backs. Hotels pay occupancy taxes and want AirBnBs to have that encumbrance.

I have a property in an area that has it all figured out and I had to get it certified by an inspector, pay some fees, and submit occupancy taxes. Most skirt the laws.

Chicago did it right in my opinion by requiring AirBnB to manage and submit the taxes and fees.
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You're right racial comments are not necessarily wrong, but I think you're wrong to vote for Trump.

Just to avoid using very loaded words like "racist", I'm going to say I think we're all "culturist" to varying extents, which means we like people culturally like ourselves. We use race (or sometimes religion) as a proxy for this, because it's simpler - note that it tends to be the less articulate who do this. But actually it's having the same values, the same social habits and ceremonies and the same language to share them that binds us. Put another way, a black person who absorbs enough white culture is acceptable enough to be voted president; and a white person who absorbs black culture (Eminem) is viewed with suspicion by many white people. It's not the colour - it's the culture.

If you and I were not culturists, we'd probably look at immigration and say that there was an optimal size for a society inhabiting a particular part of the world, and we'd welcome people until we hit the limit. As with any population, some of those people would be a net drain on our society, and some would be a net asset.

In fact it's a lot better than that - numerous studies have found that immigrants tend on average to be far more productive than the population they are joining, and it makes perfect sense because by definition they had the vision, energy and resources to leave their old lives behind. I'm guessing you are a prime example of this. And it is this exact effect that made the US such a powerhouse - in the early 1900s they absorbed millions of the worlds brightest and best who then built the miracle that was 1950/60s America. Then they started putting the breaks on immigration, and... oh dear, the economy is faltering! Why ever could that be?

So it's generally accepted that immigration is not actually a serious problem, and it is only the most culturist and least successful members of our society who think it is because it gives them a convenient excuse for their circumstances. And any politician that tries to whip up support by shouting "immigrants are causing all our problems" automatically loses my respect because the argument is a fallacy, and they know it, but it's the oldest trick in the book to get the less fortunate to support you.

History is littered with politicians who used immigrants as scapegoats, and in every case it did not go well. Do you really want to vote for someone using the same tactics that Fascists used to get into power? And even if you decide immigration is a big enough issue for you, are you sure you want to support all his other policies? You really want to waste huge amounts of your country's resources building a totally ineffective wall? You really want to start profiling large segments of the population - a favourite tool of the most repressive regimes in history? And do you really want the US military to be at the whim of someone who loses his temper when a minor court case goes against him? You're going to vote for someone who promises he's squeaky clean but is the only candidate to refuse to release his tax records? Please use (or don't use) your vote wisely.
The library looks really nice. It works great in Chrome, but the following SVG path animation does not on Safari (8.0.7), MacOS X (Yosemite, 10.10.4).

http://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/dXNgVB?editors=0010

Anyone else have this problem?
But will it constantly fail to connect to devices it has been paired with a million times before?

Don't know how I could live without that "feature".
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Neither Firefox nor chromium manage to render your mathematical expressions, which makes the whole thing hard to read.
Your point about taking your car and heading to Tahoe and Yosemite, strictly speaking, is correct. However, speaking only for myself, I do not find it particularly urgent to make long-distance trips - presumably for leisure - within ten minutes of making the decision.

The bigger question is - why is it strictly necessarily to have to use it for ten minutes - just to get milk?

And while most places in the US simply do not have it, the solution to public transportation scheduling is that they run so frequently no one bothers to check the schedule. This is, admittedly, a chicken-or-the-egg problem in most US cities, although some are starting to get it.
What would be the point? The citizens of California have roughly the same standard of living, similar environmental protections, same currency, etc. as the rest of the US states.

What we've seen for the last 30 years is NOT free trade. It is wage / environmental arbitrage where capital moves at will from one tax haven to the next, and labor enjoys none of the same benefits.
Same, but it's a poor representation of the shape.

A better example is http://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-just-discovered-a-new...
Same here! 6/6 within five minutes. The computer ones are just laughable gibberish, reminiscent of word salad generation from some 1993 dated Perl tutorial.
For those who have given up on Engadget (I can't be the only one):

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/bluetooth-5-spec-comi...
With the caveat that his comments on Muslims are not part of the immigration debate, but rather the ISIS / terrorism / homeland security debate. I guess you can't have one without the other, but there is nuance there.
My gosh, that was a great answer. Now if only I could understand any of it...
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Companies die every day; almost never because of criminal behavior on the part of the company. People lose their jobs over it. Why not defend those companies from failing?

Would you suggest that Enron should have continued to exist because employees losing their jobs is a bad thing? Do you think we, as a society, would be better or worse off if bad companies, like Enron (and Volkswagen), are allowed to continue to exist? There is a certain necessary destruction in the free market. There's all sorts of things that the market corrects for (by killing off weak companies); why shouldn't society also impose some corrections based on some basic ethical factors?

Further, society does impose corrections on small companies; if my small company killed 59 people by hiding facts about my products, I'd pretty much certainly go to jail (as it should be). It is only very large corporations, and their executives, that are effectively immune to these kinds of corrections; even this, heralded as a huge penalty, is unlikely to impede VW significantly going forward.

What's so bad about opening up a place in the market for new auto makers, who don't cheat the system for profit? We are talking about criminal activity here over a period of years, not mere "irregularities".
Thank you for the glimpse into your zoning codes - I rarely get a chance to hear ones from other countries explained, and they are always a fascinating counterpoint.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-election-nationa...

Venezuela nationalized many corporations, which meant they were simply confiscated. That is pretty much giving them the death penalty.
Where is the American Treblinka, the British Buchenwald? WWII was against genocidal maniacs who starved entire countries and destroyed Yiddish speaking culture.
This is such good advice, I feel the need to echo it. But there are more dimensions to an emergency fund than you've listed. For instance, I've used the fact that I had 6+ months of savings to push back against an assigned task at work that I felt was unethical. Knowing that I would be okay if they didn't back down and fired me allowed me to protect my integrity. Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can buy freedom. Freedom from stress, freedom to pursue something you feel is important, freedom to do the right thing when the wrong thing is convenient.

And the beautiful part of the saving process is that you're almost getting 2-for-1 on each dollar you save. People with little savings are, duh, spending basically what they earn. In that state, it may seem daunting to think, "How can I save 6 times what I spend when I have so little left over each month?" But as you cut back expenses, you start to see how little you actually need to survive. And that 6-month target, when translated into dollars (or whatever currency you're saving), starts to shrink. So, for instance, say you make $5k/mo after taxes and are spending just about that much. Saving $30k seems really hard. But if you can cut your expenses by 30% down to $3500/mo, now you're saving $1500/mo and only need to save $21k to get to 6 months of savings. That can be done in roughly one year.
They wanted to wire up Baltimore in the same way as any company that wants to sell a product: to customers it can turn a profit from. In a place like Baltimore, Fiber is simply not viable if providers must wire up the vast swaths of the city that can't afford to pay for service. Google refused to do it too, and Baltimore has had no takers on its fiber proposals.

More generally, forcing companies to cross-subsidize from richer areas to poorer areas is destroying fiber rollout nationwide. It's a tax on fiber subscribers, and like any tax it discourages the thing being taxed. It's effectively a ban on the only sort of business model that could create competition with incumbents: deploying gradually to the areas offering the greatest return first. There is a reason why Google won't bring fiber to cities that impose build out requirements, and why it got rid of the free tier in Kansas City. The math simply doesn't work.
Fun (though unverifiable) fact: No one reads Inazo Nitobe, or that "Hagakure" thing in today's Japan. It looks like these are mostly for Westerner's consumption. "Bushido" today is often taken as some weird/quaint moral code that is often depicted comically. It could be interesting for a historical viewpoint, but I don't think these historic texts are very useful to explain the modern-day Japan. It's a bit like reading Jefferson while trying to understand Trump.
I'd also like it to consume less power. I know the current standard touts itself as "low-energy" but I can see a very noticeable increase in battery drain when I have it enabled on my phone. So I always keep it disabled.
Tech press? Where do these outfits get their talking points? Hint: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html?ref=ep
It seems likely that "more range" also translates to "more robust at existing ranges" (but I have no facts to back that up)
> [If you agree that the environment is worse off and that the environment being worse off causes more deaths, then you agree that they caused deaths.]

...I should have said “worse off than if VW had not cheated and all other variables remained the same”.

I don't question that more emissions results in more deaths. I question their ability to reliably calculate the number of deaths caused when dealing with numbers that small (~0.0003%) and leaving out some very important variables (which they do reference but don't incorporate). Of course, the publication was meant to compare the claimed vs actual emissions, but I'm talking in the more general case of overall emissions.

The publication claims that:

>> [Finally, we note that there may have been environmental benefits of the defeat device that we have not computed. For example, the reduced use of diesel exhaust fluid in selective catalytic reduction may potentially have also reduced ammonia slip, and therefore associated PM2.5 exposure and health impacts. In particular, Dedoussi and Barrett (2014) find that total PM2.5 exposure attributable to road transportation is caused approximately equally by NOx and NH3 emissions.]

I can think of a few more inadvertent environmental/health benefits of the defeat device:

For example, suppose that VW hadn't cheated and instead spent more time and money on R&D to come up with a legitimate solution. They would then have to pass this cost on to the consumers in the form of a more expensive car.

Would all of the people who purchased diesel VW's still have purchased them if they were more money?

If not, would they have purchased a car that produces worse emissions instead?

The VW Jetta has a 5 star crash rating. Would all of the people who purchased other cars purchased cars with the same crash rating, or perhaps a car with a worse crash rating?

There are a bunch of things that you could list that could all have an impact that rivals the 59 cited in the publication.

We're talking about 59 out of 17,500,000 (number of annual deaths integrated over 2008-2015). It wouldn't take much to actually find out that the VW emissions scandal actually resulted in more lives saved.

EDIT: That said, the publication isn't really trying to measure the amount of deaths caused by the scandal itself, but rather the increased emissions portion of it. Perhaps my original comment was out of line now that I think about it.
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