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>Let me ask you this: have you ever worked in anything but games development?

I sure did, wrote and supported in-house software. Even though I don't see how it's relevant. It's not like 99% of programming information available is not in reference of enterprise and custom software development since these industries employ so many programmers.

> The rest of the industry is very different,

I am in complete agreement with this.

> and it's naive to dismiss it as caused by "lack of financial back pressure"

How do you explain the difference in cost then?

> The actual goals and constraints are different, even the program's life cycle, and it's only natural the development principles differ in turn!

Let me ask you this: have you ever worked in games development? If not then how do you know it's different? From my experience the only difference is in the financials. Game studios sell their programs and have to make profit from it to stay afloat. In-house developers don't sell anything and are financed by the actual main business' profits. Custom software developers are one step removed from the in-house: they need to sign a customer first but it's done by sales people, after the customer has started paying it's the same smooth sailing. The actual programming in any case is the same - specs go in, code comes out.

> Do you by any change consider modifying game scripts as "modifying data"?

No, scripts are also code. I personally oppose scripting on principle and see the need of scripting as a failure of the programmers but even teams relying on scripts do not spend much effort on the scripting because, as I said above, modifying code is incredibly expensive
Hey, a new definition of a "10x programmer”.
AppleScript, SQL, COBOL and others have all made the same mistake.
I'm a pilot and owner of general aviation aircraft. I simply don't understand the appeal of a flying car. It's going to inevitably be a compromise design and likely suck at both being a car and at being an aircraft.

Aircraft "want" to be lightweight and low-drag and crashworthiness (and expense) is not a significant design parameter. Cars need to be crashworthy as they are frequently bumping into each other.

I can fly into nearly any airport and have ground transportation easily available. Certainly at any good-sized airport, of which there are hundreds more than are served by airlines.

If that ground transportation suffers a minor collision, no matter, my airplane ride home is unaffected. If my flying car is damaged in a ground collision, I'm stuck finding another way home and coordinating repairs from a distance. I don't want to maintain my car to the standards required of aircraft. (Want an engine overhauled for my airplane? It's going to cost more than the median new car. Not bragging; mostly just complaining. Want the annual [invasive] inspection done? In most cases, that's going to be a $3-5K bill, minimum.)

I welcome the interest and hope some of that rubs off on general aviation interest, but I don't see flying cars as anything more practical than a gimmick.

Prediction: the media will be the only ones to make significant money from flying cars.
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I don't remember Cooltalk at all. Did it never make it past the Alpha? Did it only ship on Windows? The blurb makes it sound fairly interesting. A built-in IRC client (or maybe ICQ?), VoIP, and a shared whiteboard facility. It really imagines the browser as part of a bidirectional communication system not just a viewer for published content.

Knowing the timeframe it probably didn't work through NAT and died as static IPs for residential customers stopped being a thing. NAT broke a lot of promising applications back in the day.
It's a speculation, not an assertion. But it's a speculation many well-informed scientists have made in the last few years.

For example:
http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/02/07/the-difficulty-...
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Soluble corn fiber still needs more study, but then again their previous fiber source (isomalto-oligosaccharides) seems like it was worse given what evidence does exist.
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Is this a big deal?
They lie at airport and claim theyre tourists.

i bet the ceo told them that the papers were still being processed and to get to work....ironically since he never paid them, he might be legally off the hook for immigration violations.
QED, ed's predecessor manual [pdf]
If you ignore the nonEuclidean effects of general relativity, there are very good polynomial time approximation algorithms.
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Wal-marts in the US almost aways have an RV or camper van tucked away somewhere in the parking lot over night. It is very normal to spend the night there if you don't have a campground. Wal-mart never seems to have a problem with it.
In computer science, I feel that this definition of irrational only applies in the same way that doing anything that isn't maximizing my $/hour rate is irrational.

Sure, the academic job market is very competitive (though CS arguably has more opportunities than other fields), and landing a solid industry research position is no cakewalk either. But the difficulties in finding a research job don't preclude doing software engineering work to pay the bills.

It's not uncommon to decide a few years into a graduate program that you'd rather just be making more money and drop out for a more lucrative industry/industry research position. For CS PhD students, the job market only seems terrible if you have a very narrow definition of a job (which seems irrational).
Does anyone know which other national institutions something like this may affect?
Does anyone have references to more specific accusations against ITT? There are lots of vague claims in the article, but the only semi-specific ones -- misleading students about program quality and pushing them into irresponsible loans -- could just as easily be laid at the feet of public and private nonprofit colleges.

I have no particular reason to trust or distrust ITT. But it strikes me as a trade school that presents itself as a college, and that seems like one viable approach to our credentialism issues, so I want to know if it's being attacked for legitimate or political reasons.
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> Obviously other jobs will come but not at the rate they are going to decline and they will likely be more high skilled jobs than low one's.

I see this argument a lot lately, but it isn't clear to me why we should have any confidence in this type of speculation. Even if it this generally turns out to be true, what are the second-order effects of such a radical change to the job market? How will people adapt? What new opportunities will arise?
The article doesn't really touch on this, but for people embarking on a PhD program, school is what they've been doing 8 or so hours a day for 16+ years and school is what they're good at (or else they wouldn't have gotten into the PhD program). It's the least disruptive path post-college for a certain group of college grads and their choice is to trade potential financial gain for stability and familiarity. That may not be the best choice for each one of them, but it's certainly not irrational.
At my last company we had a slew of ITT graduates apply for a role one time. I talked to probably 10 or so of them. They seemed to have received little to no educational value from their time at ITT. I assume they were all promised great jobs, but all of them were not remotely qualified to get even a basic entry level technical role. I felt terrible for them paying money for the "education" that they received.
Awesome work, Franz et al!
"Consider that people look at you like you have two heads because you're making an irrational decision."

The observer is basing this on imperfect information.
I wasn't old enough to appreciate Squad Leader at the time. The difficulty rating was 8 out of 10. And my friends kept buying the expansions which made it worse.

Yet I went ahead and bought Magic Realm which was a 9 and never completed a game.
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Should universities not be held accountable for the fraud that they have perpetrated on their students? The tobacco companies were taken to court because their products had long-term consequences which they persistently minimized, while continuing to push product; it seems universities have done the same. If anything, the universities have better, clearer data than the tobacco companies, and the universities have far more people with clear understandings of both statistics and the observable consequences of getting a PhD. Throwing away the last years of your life because of cancer doesn't seem clearly worse than throwing away the best years of your life seeking a PhD.
I bet there's a fair number of people like me who rarely have to use regex and because of that have to half relearn it each time I have to use them. A more verbose syntax is easier to work with for that because you're not fighting both the syntax and the semantics simultaneously.
Kratom worked like a charm for me and relieved my depression and anxiety. I was happy, cheerful and working (programming) effectively for the 5 months I took it. But I didn't know it was an analog of opiates (works on same receptors) and addictive. I quit cold-turkey to save some money and was amazed to find myself in the midst of a terrible opiate withdrawal (I had experienced it before on pain meds) Yech. I was doing 30 gm a day. Check out reddit.com/r/quittingkratom if you find yourself in a similar situation and need support. *edit (sp)
Do you have any specific recommendations? Or something to point me to? I'd love to help fix the protocol.
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That rather fails to account for people who "go back to school" for a PhD after finishing their undergrad and working for a while.
I just assume that every big-O equation has some sort of units (possibly implicit) and that neither the inputs nor the results are dimensionless quantities.

We just tend to assume that "N" is clear from context and that the result is some number of similarly-loose "instructions".
If a Tesla is this cheap to drive, and self-driving cars cut out the labor costs of transportation services, then it becomes cheaper to just use Uber et al than own your own car. At that point the ICE auto industry will be really screwed, and the switch to all EV cars could come about a lot faster than has been predicted.
If they have seen someone with blue eyes they would already know that.
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Well then, I guess my strategy accomplishes nothing!
They're leftie socialist rags compared to breitbart and nationalreview
More are urban than non-urban, so the national average isn't a particularly useful number either.

Here's a relevant page by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If you scroll down a bit past the state-level charts, they start showing metropolitan areas. "San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara" has a fairly good compromise between volume and density, but it's not at the top of either chart.

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151131.htm#st
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Fun read. If you ever get hacked, I recommend just destroying the server and starting from scratch and a clean backup.

If you try to find all backdoors and left over rootkits, you will end up forgetting one and being re-compromised.
N-Acetyl Selank (or regular Selank to be using the older more tested version) and Tianeptine Sulfate may be good alternatives (one can become addicted to Tianeptine Sulfate, but it's not as likely).
You should read the article more closely. It advocates exactly holding universities accountable, and in particular, holding universities accountable for deliberately casualizing academic (ie: PhD-holding) labor by converting tenured professorships into adjunct positions, even while expanding enrollments and using the tuition money to hire more and more administrators.

It would be more accurate to say that universities are exploitative than that the existence of a self-reproducing class of professional scientists is irrational.

>But perhaps the best way to get answers is to talk to the parents of college students, the ones footing the bill. Ask whether they’d rather pay that ballooning college tuition for lazy rivers on campus, for fruit baskets and housekeepers for executive staff, and for other rising non-classroom costs; or for more top PhD talent, smaller classrooms, more one-on-one attention from faculty, more independent studies and research opportunities with faculty, and a stable faculty who won’t have to leave halfway through their student’s college career. Then you’ll get a sense of the real, unmet demand for PhDs, and the irrationality of a market that isn’t delivering.
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There's a strategy that guarantees success. And you're so very close to it. So close, in fact, that I'm going to guess you've heard this before and just don't fully remember the solution.
As a phd holder who knew the dangers going in, I can assure you those were by no means the best years of my life.
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> so I want to know if it's being attacked for legitimate or political reasons.

Why would California attack ITT for political reasons?

The problem with ITT is the same problem with all such schools - profit above all else. Whether their students learn anything is secondary.
I'd say it entirely depends on the assumption that to get a PhD means that you want to be a professor (and teach in the US at a reasonably decent school and get tenure one day). If that really is your goal, then yes, you should think very hard before you do it.

The Adjunct scam is really, truly atrocious. Adjucts and grad students can unionize now, though, and it only takes one strike in the e. coli labs for a research university to cave...

However, PhDs do have valuable (and financially rewarding) roles in nonprofit research institutions that are not subject to the same challenges as universities (though I sure hope you like writing grants),

In "real" industry positions, a PhD can be a way to bulwark yourself against "the engineer trap", where you get promoted into a project management role and become unable to actually do anything except munge Excel documents. It is a gamble.

I have an engineering background, so I can't really speak to what it is like to, e.g., have a PhD in English. But, depending on your degree, there are also really cool gigs at places like microsoft research -- they do everything from cell biology to audio, now, as well as employ "pure theory" CS folks.
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Like most RDAs, they are almost comically low. Three cups of milk (one large glass...) would exceed the recommended amount , before eating anything else that might possibly contain calcium.
> even just improving the ux

This worked for me. Learned a ton doing an overhaul of UI/UX for niche website [advanced hockey stats] that I used all the time -> https://github.com/debraid/puck

The key is to find something that motivates you and keep building/expanding on it. For example, find a popular open source project to modify/contribute to, but pick something unique to your interests. By focusing on a particular non-technical subject matter you're more likely to attract attention from places willing to hire a junior dev based on culture fit.

Lastly, find a rapidly growing firm with >10 technical employees. Places that are growing quickly (but past the seed/founding stage) might be more open to hiring junior talent.
Of course he does.

A successful startup in the eyes of VCs grows fast. It has to, so VCs have some hope of making a non-stupid return. Which is why we get all the drama around unicorns etc etc and more etc.

Does that mean that you, as a founder, have any obligation to play that game?

No. You. Do. Not.

If you choose not to, that's very much your choice. It gives you a number of advantages, including no loss of control over direction or everyday running, a very much lower danger of being fired from your own project, and a wider choice of potential investment sources when you've been running profitably for a while. (Are VCs the only money source in town? Not even close.)

And if you have a solid business model, it significantly raises your prospects of still having a business - and a job - when the unicorn hunter scene crashes and burns around you.

Which it inevitably will - possibly quite soon.

The disadvantage? If the business is seriously viable with many real customers and profits and such, you may to have to settle for being a multimillionaire instead of a billionaire.

Tough break.
Is it vendor lock in if you're casting services like Netflix etc? You can use many different devices to watch your content. We've had a Chromecast since the first version and it has always worked well (with the exception of Netflix lately). I recently purchased a Sony Blue Ray player and was surprised to find Chromecast built in to that.
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In Brazil, about 2,000 units of cattle die every year due to lightning [1].

Main reasons: during rain, herd animals tend to pack near fences, under trees, or near each other in the middle of the field.

[1] in portuguese: http://somarmeteorologia.com.br/noticias/60338/
Yes, CS is way better than most majors in that you can move without too much difficulty from post-graduate studies to a good job. For many other majors, when moving out of acedemia, people end up working at Starbucks, or as a receptionist at a doctor's office. And to top it off, you've got thirty thousand dollars in debt on top of a low paying job.
Ask HN: Have you tried probabilistic/Bayesian programming?
Recently, I've been pretty intrigued by probabilistic/Bayesian programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_programming

I'm going through this book https://www.manning.com/books/practical-probabilistic-programming. I'm also aware of this book http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/

I guess my question is whether anyone has any "real world" experience with this.
Good ideas, but debilitating depression and anxiety have left me poor and broke. I don't have the luxury of shopping for a psychiatrist. I did go once when I had some money and she gave me her Abilify samples. It worked wonders, but she told me the samples she gave me would normally cost $800 US bucks a month. I'm on govt health insurance for the poor that doesn't cover that, so herbs are it.
100,000 km is 62000 miles. My bosses Prius had 120,000 miles, so 193,000 km.

You want crying my old E150 cargo van eats a set of pads every 15-20,000 miles.
DeVry is in the same boat, I would assume. Similar model, for-profit, crappy education, etc.
From my reading it seems like the crux of the argument is this:

> We’ve presupposed a scenario in which there really is a massive oversupply of PhDs, and thus PhD students must be irrational for treading into an oversupplied labor market. But that’s simply not true. PhD “oversupply” is just a euphemistic way of talking about the fact that colleges and universities haven’t met student-generated demand with a commensurate supply of full-time, tenure-track faculty.

PhDs aren't irrational for wasting 5 years on something that won't net them a job... universities are shirking their responsibility to provide a job to those who demand them.
Clickable links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming_lang...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_programming

http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-...
Proponents of taxpayer funded education, and unions, frequently attack high performing private schools, at least here in Australasia.

That said, it doesn't sound like this is one of the high performing schools.
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> Calling someone's decision to avoid raising money irrational and attaching labels (morality?) is presumptuous.

It happens because either they had to make the decision and they accepted the money, worked for someone who has, or they are the VC who are offering the money and looking for deals. People usually project whatever they did as being a rational, right decion, and those who don't don't agree as being irrational.

Also, this forum is probably one of the most biased forums when it comes to startup "things", so I wouldn't get too upset about stuff you read here.
I used to think this as well, until I started talking to more shops that own their own hardware. As it turns out, having atomic clocks isn't quite as extraordinary as you think. If there's enough competition in the public cloud, we might be seeing them there pretty soon.
I apologize if I was unclear, but I meant that your 20s are generally thought to be 'the best years of your life', and those are precisely the years many spend getting a PhD (thus spoiling the years). Many smokers knew the risks, yet that did not shield the tobacco companies from the prosecutorial ire of the states.
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This is true. The team packed a lot into this new codebase. Many miles to go, however.
Sane middle ground:

$ txr
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 147.
Use the :quit command or type Ctrl-D on empty line to exit.
1> (regex-parse ".*a(b|c)?")
(compound (0+ wild) #\a (? (or #\b #\c)))
2> (regex-compile *1)
#/.*a[bc]?/
I'd be interested to hear what you would expect as bare minimums for a "basic entry level technical role." I've heard of recruiters being dumbfounded at CS grads not being able to code FizzBuzz and to be honest I can't believe it.
Since, in my mind anyway, a lot of companies that take VC money appear to be acquihired or bought out and have their services shuttered: As a customer, seeing them not taking VC money is a plus in my book. VC money adds uncertainty to the long-term viability of the company.
> The browser will require more memory than the operating system it runs on.

Done! And of course, many apps routinely now take more memory than the OS.
I think I have all the AH Squad Leader expansions, and never finished a game. Precious few started, too. Baggies and baggies full of pieces. I will probably ebay them.
The code for Micropython is very well structured. The toolchain is pretty easy to set up, just apt-get and go. The configuration things like I/O pin assignments and such are all on pretty simple definition files. I'd be very surprised if the repl loop takes more than flipping a #define to turn off. No C wizardry needed.
*Or her time.