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I am a bit older than you, but I would say most of my life I and my peers have considered myself/me a generalist. I have subject areas where I am much stronger than others, but like you, I excel at "in-the-middle" jobs. I am good at seeing the big picture and connecting the dots among people and teams.

That said, its been a constant struggle for recognition and position in companies. When people realize what we can do, they tend to either promote and support, or jail and exploit.

I find myself taking specific roles with a hope towards moving up in the organization. Often the role isn't what I really want to do but there isn't another way into the organization without that strategy. It takes time and doesn't always work out.

I've tried the consulting role, and very nearly kicked off a serious consulting company with multiple subject areas of focus. It is fun but in the end, you still get hired to do a specific consulting job most of the time, not just to be a generalist and give advice. One exception to that rule in my experience was consulting with startups.

You seem to have realized the startup path. I have worked for startups and that was pretty successful for the kind of person we are, but usually higher stress. Also, the startup hopefully pays well enough and is successful, otherwise you find yourself with some pay and some experience but no job when the startup deflates and back to "ok, what to do next"?

Others have mentioned product/project management. I've done that too. Product management has been a good match for generalists but without previous PM titles on your resume it can be hard to get the first role. Technical product management is a good way in, but make sure you know the difference between what a product manager vs a technical product manager does. I suggest Pragmatic Marketing training to get a leg up for this. Certifications can help for product or project management in terms of recognition.

Long story short, I love being a generalist and I feel we often don't get the respect we deserve. But it can be a hard slog getting through and we are a unique and valuable resource, just like specialists. We're just specialists in being general. :) So best of luck with your pursuits!
I of course agree on both counts.

However my point is that Science and Nature do nothing to little to support cross-pollination. And that their main purpose as being the "high profile" journals is that they serve to advance the careers of those that get their paper published there.
Of course it isn't 100%. That's why I said "most".

I think skewing 80% Democrat is more than enough to show that the OP's characterization of welfare recipients as "Trump voters" is ridiculous.
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Don't some universities give MS diplomas out to people who make it so far in the program, but drop out before getting their PhD as a kind of "well, here's something for your work"?
Ask HN: How to learn enough Data Structures/Algorithms to pass the interview?
I'm a self taught developer of 5 years, took a programming certificate at a local University which covered data structures and algorithms but not very practically.

I'd like to know enough to be able to pass an engineering interview (the equivalent of maybe a Junior level / recent CS grad?). Assume I have 4-8 weeks of full time study available.

I know about Cracking the Coding Interview for practice and preparation, but how should I go about learning about the concepts?

Is it worth spending time to do online MOOCs? (Do you have any recommendations for such?) Or should I just try and jump straight into puzzles and homework?
>And since when is it illegal to talk about homosexuals, non-white people or jews ?

See: Eric Zemmour

You're allowed to talk about them provided the contents of your speech is "they're great and I love everything about them".

I'm not particularly fond of Zemmour, but his multiple condemnations absolutely qualify as political censorship.
The ticket price of the bullet train is usually cheaper than by air (and the train is much, much more convenient than flights), and affortable by average citizens. This has created a huge headache to the airlines, which leads to some healthy competition.
I'm surprised to not see more discussion of things like ZeroNet in these types of threads. I see the next generation of sites being on a platform like that, where everyone consuming content is also helping to carry the distribution load.
I've lived in France and the US. At the lowend salaries are almost the same. In continental Europe its extremely hard to break the 6-figure salary barrier. Now that I'm working back in the US after 12 years abroad I find we're at about the same level if we'd stayed in Paris. Salary is up but so are healthcare costs, childcare costs, transportation. While my effectively salary is double my take home is only 20% higher. And I get 10 days paid vacation. Which is completely fucking laughable. Dining out is also very expensive. Just had a mediocre meal at an asian fusion restaurant and the final bill was 60 with taxes and tips included.

I'm typing this on a French MBP keyboard which is really impractical but it's what I'm used to.
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Which may result in a disenfranchisement of the poor.

A friend of mine (who is brilliant, but also an asshole) once shared with me a part of his philosophy on life. This occurred as we were staying in adjacent hotel rooms. There was an after-wedding party going on in his hotel room, and he lights up a cigarette. I mention to him "Hey, you know there's no smoking in DC hotels, right?" to which he responds "Yeah -- it's allowed." Pretty confident he was wrong, I kept at it, until he pointed out that it cost $150. Not understanding, I questioned him, until he broke it down -- it's not allowed, but for violating the rule, the fine is $150. For him, celebrating the wedding of our close mutual friend was a festive occasion, and worth paying the $150 for.

In short, he had deemed that the fine was not a fine, but the cost, and he was willing to pay it.

If laws are prohibitively expensive for the poor, but merely 'a cost' for the more well to do, then we run the risk of jeopardizing the rule of law entirely, and begs the question of whether or not the law needs to exist if nobody is harmed by its selective infraction. Liability already covers means for reliably determining who is at fault, so where there is incident, the person running the light can be considered at fault. Otherwise, it seems to be just a system for generating fees, and largely from the hoi polloi.
I feel the general consensus is that France is good at startup creation, but lacks the infrastructure, particularly capital, to support their growth. Many of the promising ones end up getting bought by an established player, often a semi-public company stemming from an administration, like Orange (former national telecom). In other words, good entrepreneurship, but no chance of disrupting anything.

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Without necessarily commenting on the overall conclusions, I have a hard time feeling like I'm being well informed when certain stats seem like they're trying to cover something up (and if they're not, then maybe just show the transparent stats instead of trying to pretty them up):

> Between 1988 and 2011 the incomes of the poorest 10 percent increased by just $65 per person, while the incomes of the richest 1 percent grew by $11,800 per person – 182 times as much.

Can someone explain the relevance of comparing the bottom 10% with the top 1% instead of the top and bottom 1% or the top and bottom 10%? It makes sense to me, purely from a statistical likelihood that the growth would be a lot higher for the top 1% than from the top 10% due to the smaller selected sample size.

> Contrary to popular belief, many of the super-rich are not ‘self-made’. Oxfam analysis shows over half the world’s billionaires either inherited their wealth or accumulated it through industries which are prone to corruption and cronyism.

It's hard to tell what the actual break-down is of the world's billionaires when they lump together those who inherited their wealth and those who accumulated it through industries prone to corruption and cronyism. It seems like it'd be easier to prove the point that someone is not self-made if they inherited their wealth (versus trying to convince someone that a given industry is so prone to corruption and cronyism that the billionaire can't be considered to be "self-made").

But for all I know, only 1% of them inherited their wealth and the other >49% accumulated it through corrupt industries. I'm sure that's not the case, but you can't tell that from their article, since it lumps them in together for an aggregate statistic. And it feels like they're trying to gloss over the detail of how corrupt an industry may be, by lumping it in with the inherited wealth and thus lending some of the credibility of the argument of inherited wealth not being self-made to the argument of wealth accumulation in corrupt industries not being self-made.

I'm not really saying anything about the conclusion itself, but regardless of the argument, it's difficult to share articles with others when they contain misleading or at least flawed statistics like this.
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That actor hardly has an accent at all. Seems like you're just trolling at this point.
The use of the phrase "potentially permanent positions" in the AIP report for industry positions, especially in the computer industry, is highly misleading. Academia, including some government labs and institutes, has tenured positions and other positions with guarantees of job security until retirement. The vast majority of industry employees are "at will" and can be laid off at any time for any reason or no reason. Senior executives often have employment contracts that take them out of the "at will" category but these rarely provide long term "permanent" status. Indeed, they can usually be fired by the Board of Directors.

The computer industry is notoriously unstable with jobs often quite short term in practice, with layoffs common.

Just to be clear, the referenced AIP report starts with the phrase:

Positions accepted by PhD degree recipients following receipt of their
degrees fall into three categories: postdoctoral fellowships, potentially
permanent positions and other temporary positions.

The figure on page two of the AIP report specifically lists a "private sector" block under "potentially permanent".

Tabel 1 on page 3 lists 70 percent of potentially permanent positions as "private sector." Again this is very misleading as private sector positions are potentially permanent only is the sense that there is a small chance that you might continue at the same employer until retirement; there is nothing like a guarantee.
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Anybody know how possible is to get a visa in france or another european country without a degree and 5 years of experience as a software developer?
Of course yes. My reply was largely tied to the parent's description of a date-picker component. But for application level components I'd use event names that are unique at the application level that conveys the intended semantics of the event. Everything else becomes an argument to that name, which pretty much aligns with your notion of instance Id et al although I'd be less rigid about the particular structure of the arguments.
I've been drinking "bulletproof coffee" lately as part of a diet. Basically coffee with butter, coconut oil, and flavia. Supposedly gives me good fats and no sugar to serve as a mini-meal and help me keep a fast. The one thing about it is that it's tedious to prepare in the morning. Maybe that's a hint that there could a business selling "health" coffee drinks, coffee with supplements, etc. That's one thing I really haven't seen offered commercially.
Really cool from a geek point of view, but I don't see how this replace ctrl + c?
I will try :)
I sure do see a lot of people here who have zero actual experience of France, ready to pass judgement based on whatever clickbait they happened to read a few years back, after it's gone through a couple of translation layers.

Speaking as somebody who's lived in France, Greece, the UK, the US and Sweden: France is by far the most "multiculturalism-friendly" place of all these. Yes, even more than Sweden.

Like most French people, I'm not proud of my country. But this is something I can be proud of.

(Disclaimer: Some cities are of course less kind to strangers than others; it's not a uniform utopia)
The U.S. has about the same amount of land area as China and less than a third of the population. The rail network in the graphic provided in the article mostly avoids the Tibetan plateau, and so basically covers only very populated areas with relatively friendly terrain (notable exception of Urumqi).

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/china/geog/populationdensityma...

http://www.cgiar-csi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2012-10-...

Making network for the entire U.S. with those parameters seems almost impossible. You're either plowing through the Rockies or a desert to reach and go through areas an order of magnitude less populous than, say, Kunming or Chengdu.

That's not to say that the USA shouldn't build a comparable network, that it wouldn't necessarily be profitable, or it wouldn't bring a worthwhile benefit. However, there are real obstacles that don't necessarily point the finger at political differences.
Indeed! But then you get great health insurance, good public infrastructure and services, free top-notch education, etc.

Basically if you're without any dependent, you may not see it as worth it, but once you have a family it really starts paying off.
It seems to have stopped in developed countries: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2016-dutton.pdf
The context suggests they like it in France. Could be clearer though.
It's a random walk with probabilities changing from 1 generation to the next based on surviving geno/phenotypes.
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You just don't understand how to use the platforms. I'm generating millions of dollars in revenue for startups from both these channels each month.

These posts pop-up every now and then, what OP doesn't consider is they just aren't a good marketer.
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I believe a lot of tech people are the type that prefer a computer as everything around them is madness in disguise.

A lot of people I know over time build mental walls that resemble what the US culture respects and pushes on everyone. Work is #1 and money is everything. I see people that never use their vacation days and feel bad when they do!

I believe if there was more focus on philosophy teachings in the US, things would be different and maybe more healthy individuals would exist. I think it's easier in the US to fall into a unhealthy pattern of life and not realize it. Some people are dumb founded by the notion or just don't think about it as they don't see alternative options available. I've had luck of working with many older engineers that advise if they had done things differently in life...
Pardon my ignorance but why do generally spammers hit a website?
FWIW, I basically interpreted it as full-time employment, but they are definitely playing with the wording a little bit and the data isn't clear on the level of employment at all.
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Are these supposed to make a profit? Isn't this a state-run project, like highways?

Aren't the debts covered by the state anyways, via taxes?

Also, economic justifications are broad concepts.. how would it compare against a country like the US that has oil and people can therefore drive cars for cheap, whereas China doesn't have oil?

Is high-speed rail a more economically efficient system than cars?
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That's not a valid description of what Google does. The link up the thread describes what they do.

Also, have you tried reporting a minor crime in a major city recently? Me: "My (nice road racing) bike was stolen. Here's the video tape from the security camera showing the crime and the thief's face." Cops: "That's nice for you. Come back in a week and see if your bike is in our shed if you like. Cheerio".
With so many people around the world needing killing, we should be thankful that Obama was in office. If a Republican was in power, the casualties would have been much worse, probably over ten times!!
We wouldn't be hiring immigrants to do these jobs if the jobs were automated away. That's the point.

I understand that you feel an African woman should be prevented from economically competing with white men, but I don't really agree with that. I'm sure it feels very bad when people lose status relative to out-group members, but I don't consider the anger that result from this to be "justifiable".
It doesn't sound like they're encouraging it per se, and they do enable legit actors to take countermeasures. But there's no incentive for them to be proactive like you want, especially given that they are part of an effective duopoly in the space. I agree it's not a great situation, but the legal incentives you propose are basically delusional - if Google can't easily detect what spam is maliciously anti-competitive, how do you reckon a court is going to prove it thus and enforce a fine on Google for failing to do so?
In certain circumstances, new languages can help software engineers to get high performance. For example, the lift project at the university of Edinburgh. It's a skeletal (think functional, but on the immutability/higher order functions rather than category theory) domain specific language for writing GPU kernels in. The team there have managed to use it to implement matrix-multiplication kernels that beat everything apart from NVIDIA's own assembly language implementations, just by using the safety and separation of concerns that a functional approach brings.
42% tax then? Better rate than I get :-/
Can't compare prices in Europe with China.

Also, European rail operators now do what airlines have done for a long time: discounted tickets if you book a fixed train early, expensive tickets if you book last minute or with full flexibility.
Have you a recipe for that? It sounds disgustingly fascinating!
You don't have to stay. Look for development jobs or internships for the Fall semester. If you like it more than what you're doing now, don't go back. If you decide that you want to get into the physics, the go back. Plenty of grad students take a semester or two off and go finish their PhDs. If your advisor blows a gasket, well, you can probably do better somewhere else anyway.

I know a lot of graduate students and early professors who have a fear of private industry. I think they all know they can make more money outside of academia, but they don't realize they can work fewer hours and not have worry about a bad tenure committee screwing up their careers. A bad boss can make my work life suck, but he'll need to work hard to completely nuke my career.

Anyway, I understand how you feel. Despite my lackluster GPA, a couple professors want me to go on for a masters in math or statistics. You should see their faces contort when I tell them I don't want to go to graduate school or I don't want a career in academia.

You spent your life in academia, surrounded by people who spent their lives in academia, who have surrounded themselves with people who spent their lives in academia. Get some fresh air, fill your bank account, and then decide.
I don't know if this is interesting or helpful, but I made a Chrome extension for helping test email information in Gmail. It would probably help in this instance to notify somewhat that something isn't correct.

I updated it after my initial upload to enable links (defaults to no links but can click a button to enable links). I just haven't gotten around to re-uploading the plugin. After some thought I definitely feel that just removing links altogether was too much. I will update the plugin after work.

PhishBlock Chrome plugin:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/phishblock/mfigocg...
For people who are passionate about learning - MOOCs have come as a blessing. In 2016: I've seen a VP grade candidate finish Andrew NG's Machine Learning Course with good grades and certification on linkedin. And a desktop support person in our old office has got a new job as jr programmer.
A big part of the danger of this hack is that it compromises email.

Email is a skeleton key for every other account you own. 2-factor auth can be a pain to use, but at the very least you should always use it to protect your email.
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Why bother? Couldn't the American military just launch their own satellites instead?
Begging the question - what do you do, and how long have you worked...
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Links are pretty integral to the web. If it wasn't email, it would be Slack or social media. Mobile makes the problem worse because you click a big button which scrapes the link and thus can be gamed to look legitimate.

"Design for default-secure" ought to be UX rule #1.
Why can't it be 'reversing', or at least reversing effects of ageing? A major part of ageing is the progressive degradation of the body's ability to repair itself, resulting in illness. If a therapy improves the ability of the body to repair itself, and age related illnesses are thus overcome, then arguably ageing has been reversed.
I've always been so confused by the smallish amounts of RAM available on rPi's.

Certainly, 1GB is more than enough for many applications. And obviously low cost is a primary requirement.But a rPi with more RAM would open up so many more use cases - databases, Redis instances, various caching applications.

If I'm not mistaken, there are quite a few other single-board computers (Beaglebone, Intel perhaps...) that offer more RAM. However, Raspberry Pis have a long lifecycle and excellent community, which is appealing.

I think this must be a very deliberate decision on their part. It would make sense to me, I guess: their mission is clearly to serve the education and hobbyist markets and that mission would be compromised if they create something that IT departments begin to buy in droves.
Same as it ever was.

All my best developers over the past 25 years I've managed were either physicists or mathematicians.
free healthcare needs to factor in quality. There are plenty EU countries with free healthcare that is so poor people will pay to avoid it.
As someone who lives in Montreal, that's very strange to see. We import French talent by the hundreds because they are lacking interesting tech jobs over there.
The article specifies two independent verifications.
> Ignoring the results here, isn't the act of disassembling random Android APKs illegal? Theoretically, could one of the affected companies sue them?

It doesn't feel like you're curious for your own sake. Why are you asking?

Also, anything is illegal somewhere. Where do you want the answer to apply to?
I was surprised that no one mentioned this one:
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This is exactly what I did. For $1200 I have a Manjaro/Windows box along with a Chromebook running Lubuntu. My desktop runs at 4k resolution and my chromebook has over 10 hours of battery life
That could well be. It's hard to know without access to the data, but they could probably do better if they tried.

However, I fear if Google were to try harder, spammers would also jump on that opportunity. It's easier to mimic the patterns of a small legit SMTP server than to pose as one of a few big well established email providers with known IP ranges. They could potentially use millions of compromised PCs, each sending spam in low volumes mixed with non-spam traffic.
Thank you very much. What you write confirms what I expect. I'll see if I can find something equivalent to Pragmatic Marketing in Germany to get that leg up.