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> not everyone is you, not everyone is passionate about technology, and it's not reasonable to expect people to do more of their job outside of work for free

I am not sure how you would twist personal development and remaining up to date with "do more of their job outside of work for free".

Let's get away from technology for a moment.

You need to go to the doctor.

Would you rather go to a doctor who is passionate about their work and constantly devoting personal time to remain up to date on the latest research, drugs, studies, techniques and technology?

Or would you rather go to a doctor who has not devoted a single day in ten years to stay up to date?

I'd pick option #1 every time. Same with engineers.

Look, if you are not interested in remaining current, that's OK. Just don't expect to have access to the same opportunities. It's as simple as that.

> talk to basically any woman with a job and then rethink your sweet nostalgia

Wow. Not sure how you made the jump to harassment there. Gender has nothing to do with it.
Because today we're wondering a whole lot about how to represent big data in memory over many machines if you're problem is in such a way divisable, or on one machine if possible because what we want to do is to draw conclusions from that data, by querying it, and if we find a way to both store big data cheaply in a form where it is still queryable, then we have solved a problem most businesses today tamper with, that is what do I do with all this data?

Businesses are getting crushed under the weight of their data. They "solve" it by stashing it onto Hadoop. Unfortunately, no one then knows how to map/reduce over that data. So they're none the wiser even though they kept the data that could have made their analysts smarter than their competitor's. This of course totally awsome if you're a Hadoop consultant.

Well, that's at least why I dwell on data structures.

Edit: spelin
Is it really that surprising? The cost-of-living vs. increased salary equation almost always works out in your favor if you are young, single, and don't mind a roommate.

It's essentially an arbitrage. You're being paid in the employment market where salaries are based on an average standard. Meanwhile you're happy living in the housing market at a below average standard and keeping the profits.

That profit quickly disappears though once you are no longer satisfied living like a college kid.
Depends on the job. If you want to get on the US Supreme Court, you have to go to Yale or Harvard.

But in general yes, it's a good idea to shop around. It also depends on the field you want. CSU Northridge is a pretty marginal school, but it's great at geology.
If the type of development work you're doing can be easily done remotely, then there is a good chance it can be done much cheaper by a fantastic developer in Ukraine, or India, or China, or some country where wages are a lot cheaper than US or England or Canada. If, however, the type of work you're doing benefits from face-to-face interactions (i.e. quick iterations with lots of feedback from users, marketing and product managers), you're likely to demand a premium, and those types of jobs tend to be clustered in large cities.
Hi Nicholas,

I have dropped a message on Linkedin.

Thomas
Stories like this are why it's illegal in BC to charge application fees (http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/0207...).

Our tenancy law isn't perfect, but I think this is one of the things we got right.
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There's a confusion here between the Android's clone of the GNU libraries (to escape the GPL3 license) which is open source, plus the linux kernel, also open source; and the NOT open source Google Android OS which is much more than this, including a Java engine and a helluva lot of other parts including but not limited to the app store. China's Android-ish phones use the replacement library functions Google built and the Linux kernel. The Chinese could go all GPL3 and ignore any Google/Android contribution at all if they cared to - they don't because they too want to get away from the GPL3 license (with it's software and hardware patent grab and anti-tivoization clause that forbids locking down the phone, even for security purposes.)
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Is the need to make your AI act as if they're working off of a different information and ability set than they are a factor?

For example, I remember when you turned the difficulty up to 11 on the AI from the first Black Ops game, the enemies just turned into aimbots with a half second or so delay before firing (made watching the kill cam pretty funny). On the other hand, it's not feasible to hand your AI a depth field (which is already not super cheap to produce) and have them use real computer vision methods on it. Also it would probably be too strong a nerf, and now you'd have a very expensive and laughably inept AI.
Stopping the flow of money to the cartels would require the U.S. and others to legalize drugs and make the prices plummet. Is the upkeep of hypocrisy and the DEA really worth any amount of murder and corruption?
Dunno. Come move to Kansas. We love our civil liberties and we have a metric crap ton of open space.
One way to do this is to have your server respond to an obscure route like /x92y37ruhij0d8f8h1803rf and return a cookie with an automatically saved session for the demo account. But the deadline has passed now, anyway ;)
Developers are especially susceptible to groupthink, and living in places like San Francisco is trendy.
A lot of folks, myself included, are looking to use something like this. Do you have a private beta for what you're building?
> it clothes its dogmas in symbolic notation

Are you talking about the Austrians whom try to prove their ideas with praxeology?
MapReduce was published in 2004. The paper was two people; the implementation was probably a lot more. Even then, it was just a re-engineering of an earlier code base (read that as multiple available cat skinning technologies). By 2014, it was no longer used, so that's 10 years. Lastly, it wasn't exactly novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce#Lack_of_novelty

FWIW, it appears they're giving away the TensorFlow stuff because they lost the mindshare battle between MapReduce+Hadoop and don't want that to happen again.

Again, the $100M figure is an easy (heroic) claim to make but hard to substantiate. Shit's hard. Big shit is really hard.
To keep up-to-date with create-react-app just upgrade the react-scripts dependencies. In the case of the Yeoman create-redux-app generator npm install -g generator-create-redux-app
I've toyed around with using this example:

Imagine C++ template programming with C++ syntax, sane error messages, and ability to use any C++ code.
My comment has nothing to do with other forms of racing.

You missed the part where I admitted to being a bigot about NASCAR. :)

I also don't like that twirling ribbon event at the Olympics. Let a guy be grumpy for a moment, will ya? :)
There are successful unicorns that are distributed, remote companies today. That people haven't caught on it amuses me. It should be old news by now that remote companies are possible, that it works and doesn't impede success.
Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP)
I can understand how it's possible to design quite strong small safes. But what about big bank safes? Are the same design techniques used?

If not, why bother going through the front door? Isn't that door mostly for show? Aren't the other five sides mostly concrete and rebar? Isn't that easier to go through? Or do big safes really have thick steel on all six sides?
I'm not a developer, but after doing (remote) independent consulting for a year, here are my $0.02

-Human interactions: as mentioned, we are social animals and (mostly) enjoy being around others. You might not think this applies to you, but try staring at a computer and not speaking to anyone for a day. It can get old.
-Similarly, being in the expensive cities means you also get to be around smart people like yourself, who are also flocking there. Sure, you could live somewhere super cheap, but then who would you share your v intelligent thoughts with? There's value in being able to bounce ideas, compare notes, etc. with real people in real life.
-I've worked at companies who have employees in other geographies, but they pay these people less than they would in-house developers. If you're good at what you do and have the right connections, it can be lucrative to work remotely - but companies value face-time and might not be willing to pay as much if they know your living expenses are less.
-Motivation: It can be tough to be motivated to get work done if you're living outside the confines of an office. If you can master the remote lifestyle, it offers a ton of flexibility, but a lot of people need more structure in order to be productive.

Working remotely and getting paid the same as you would in an expensive city works for some people, to be sure - and they crush it in terms of $$. But it comes down to a lot more than money - it's a certain personality type that can excel with this type of work, and without the right disposition it's not really worth the extra change.
Coding is only difficult because we have made it difficult. It should be possible for a user who is not overly familiar with programming to open up the source, find the part they want to change, change it, and rebuild the changed software. Instead, we have been making all our software as complicated to understand and edit as possible, and then only shipping binaries in order to hide the complexity.

The advice of my window manager, i3, regarding source installs is: don't. Disregarding that advice, and after fighting with my package manager to get the required libs, `make` made it extremely easy to build. From there, the edit I wanted to perform required changing the value of a constant from 3 to 0. Not hours and hours at all.

Making this feasible for everyday users is within reach. If the focus of the free software movement had been on making software that users can modify on a physical and practical level, rather than just a legal and technical level, we might see everyday users patching their software. That didn't happen, and it doesn't seem many people care about making it happen, and so the situation won't change.
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Most likely the data was wrong. The credit report industry has a 20% error rate.

See the old 60 Minutes investigation on this.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/40-million-mistakes-is-your-cred...
When will this Bitcoin fad finally die?
Escape from Tarkov has an outstanding AI. Probably one of the best I've seen. You can rarely tell if the enemy is another player or a bot.
It's not as simple as that.

They are a servicer, not a lender -- they are contracted by the lender to collect the money from the borrower. So the borrowers never asked to be customers of Navient. They borrowed some money from a bank or the government, who then contracted Navient to service the loans.

Now servicing loans is like owning an interest only bond -- you get a small payment every month as long as the loan is paying. When you own servicing rights, what you want to do is for payments to drag on for as long as possible -- since you don't get the principal, having the loan pay early is the second worst thing that can happen.

Now its very possible that Navient is doing things which are not in the interest of either the borrower or the lender, but are in the interest of Navient. And it's likely perfectly legal.

But again many of these loans are not just simple transactions in the marketplace, but rather subsidized social programs, where the government in promoting the program has a reasonable expectation that some part of this subsidy should fall to the borrower, and is reasonable frustrated when a provider whom they have hired tries to prevent this.
That's just funny.
You are a CTO sitting atop very expensive hardware and software. Would you start removing deployment and runtime safety guards (such as a consumer-facing staging environment) because you want to "discipline coders and devops"?
> Well, if they don't actually rent any apartments

Citation needed that they don't actually rent apartments as opposed to the author of the post making this assumption without establishing it with reasonable proof.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14028170
Yeah, but really just about anyone with a Bloomberg terminal has 99% of the same info.
I own one of these. It's inside a building that would be closed when no staff were around, and it doesn't ever contain enough money to be worth it to most people.

I wouldn't leave that thing at an outside location with enough money in it to hurt me, unless the robberies were insured or so seldom as to be considered a cost of doing business.
I have an issue with the whole thing. I think they've already lost the trademark to the language.

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And those statues are the only reason student loans exist. It's a laughable idea, at the scale they are now anyway, otherwise.

I don't personally expect Navient to do anything better than follow the law; I don't expect any help or counseling from them. In fact, I'd be suspect of any such counsellings.
What I'm hung up on is how this isn't considered outright fraud.
Ah, the memories. I especially remember the "Pentium Bug" menu option that I clicked out of curiosity. Nothing happened. Literary :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug
My microbiome is laughing its ass off. Stupid humans.
I suspected so, but couldn't have stated it nearly so well.
If you're a fantastic developer in Ukraine, India or China and have very limited needs (compared to a guy with a family and kids), your disposable monthly income net of taxes, rent and commute expenses is still likely to be higher in Silicon Valley than Ukraine, India or China.

A rational decision then would be to move to Silicon Valley arbitraging the costs as much as you can (living with roommates, commuting by Caltrain, BART or a plain walk, relying on company-provided lunches and dinners vs going out), until the music stops and the industry hits a headwind.

Then one can still return to comfortable living in Ukraine, India or China, but with a much nicer savings account than before.
> Not meeting any of them means you are not a finisher of the Barkley Marathon.

Article is scant about anything other than the >60hr time. It doesn't say he would not have qualified had he come in under 60. (So the fellow who finished under 60 hours met all those other requirements to the letter? Not a single wrong turn, etc?)

> Ok, so if we say 6 seconds, that's really close enough.

Close enough to what? Nobody is saying change 60:06 to 60:00.

> What about 6 minutes? What about 60?

It's very simple. Any time should count as a time, if anyone official is there at all to witness and record it. At the cutoff time they prepare to go home, and then leave. Nobody owes you a recorded time after the cutoff.

When the last timer packs up leaves, any subsequent finishers can simply be left not recorded. The status is something like "they are not officially noted as having finished". That's a big difference from saying "did not finish". If one person claims "did not finish" and another "finished", one of them is lying or mistaken. But there is no contradiction between "finished" and "not recorded".

They were there; that's why they (and thus all of us) know he was 6 seconds over. It's effectively recorded.

If Gary is not going to be on record as a finisher, then shut the fuck up about the six seconds. Just say "Not recorded! I saw someone that might or might not have been Gary at some time after the 60th hour; I had reset my stopwatch by then in any case ..."

The six second precision with which we know that Gary supposedly didn't finish is the laughable contradiction here.
Argh! Forgot to include the "golang" keyword :)
LOL it is the other way around, cities become most expensive because developers flock there and spend cash.

This happens now in Limassol, Cyprus: crowds of developers, most having their own startups, started to flock there since 3 years ago from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine - it was always a country to keep offshore companies/accounts, so every rich developer in ex-USSR already been there and knew the place, but since 2014 it started to make sense to move physically as well - in Russia people escape propaganda and mass chauvinist hysteria, in Belarus economic crisis prompted government to jail IT business people to milk them on their money (then frequently releasing with no right to leave the country - in order to make them earn more, then milk again), in Ukraine they are simply leaving the unrest and crumbling infrastructure.

Since about last year it became a virtuous cycle because developers started to move in simply because it's a place with many developers already so it's easy to exchange ideas, and then investment funds joined. We are witnessing a small Silicon Valley in the making (of course, with probable limits of about a few percent of the real Valley). It already made Limassol a much more expensive place, rents on cheap apartments almost doubled in 3 years.

Developers want to be where developers are, and VCs want to be where there are many developers, and then more developers come where VCs are... and you get another 'most expensive city'.
> To be honest, I have never used one in anger, but if you told me to go write a production grade regex engine in Agda and Coq, I'd say you're nuts. It sounds like a fine experiment to do given infinite time, but I want people to actually use what I build. And I have a very strong suspicion that using one of those languages would take me 10 times as long to write it, if it's even possible at all.

What if it took 3 times as long to write? I'm somewhat wildly guessing that would be unacceptable because from your perspective you don't see the benefits for it taking 3 times longer?
https://arxiv.org/list/math.CT/recent
Because there is no critical mass to "work from anywhere".

Amazon/Facebook/Google/Microsoft doesn't let its workers work from home in general. A lot of tech companies don't as well. So moving to CheapSmallTown means when losing the job still having to go back to ExpensiveTechHub to network and find a new job. So might as well stay in ExpensiveTechHub just to be sure.

Imagine if all those large tech companies and others allowed working from home as a default. I think that would be a sizeable economic and cultural shift. It might revitalize various part of the country, small cities and towns. It might reduce congestion, real estate prices in coastal cities.

I work from home and love it. But yeah I am still living next to a tech hub because chances are if I switch jobs I might not necessarily have a choice of working from home.
i think the comparison to spaceX isn't valid really. the technology contained within a fighter jet far outweighs that of a rocket. rocket science isn't exactly that anymore, but these newer fighter jets are pushing physics in pretty serious ways. just take a look at any f-22 demonstration. my jaw drops at the things it does, and that's just its flight capability. and the f-22 is even outdated at this point. rockets basically implement capability known for many decades. that being said, of course these programs are insane, including their budgets. for example, the f-22 has a total program cost of "only" $67 billion.
Lol you don't live in the hoods man...Jamaica Plain is one of the surburbs of Boston and one of the best around. I lived in WR and right now these are the most expensive neighborhoods of Boston...you live in paradise trust me!
I think Redux need an starter like create-react-app. Something official following the best practices, something that covers not only the world of React but also implements Redux and all the libraries necessary to make a real world application. You could have the options of including different libraries (redux-thunk, reselect, redux-actions, etc.) and it would be the devloper decision whether to include these libraries in the project or not. Yeoman offers this solution by asking before installing the dependencies.
It might work, Shenzhen housing and cost of living is insane now.
> Why should it be its job to help borrowers figure out their repayment options?

Because their customer who is paying them to service the loans wants them to.
A hammer is also a tool of non-fascist regimes, though. Is restriction of free speech also a tool of non-fascist regimes?
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The naive (very hand-wavy) explanation for the toxicity of graphene (nanotubes to be specific, not sheets in general) is not chemistry, rather the nanotubes physically rupturing cell organelles. Same with asbestos: small rigid particles that cut everything else in pieces.
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For genocide.
Fair enough, but it doesn't make much difference.
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Credit Card is not a requirement for online payments at least in India. You can do direct bank transfer or debit cards.
> After going through applications at 3 places and getting rejected, I realized something was off.

So did you investigate what that something is? (Unclear to me)