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Your investment banker might be replaced sooner than your plumber.
That is one of the point the article argues against: thinking a college education is required to be highly skilled is confusing cause and effect. Especially for programming, the most important skills are acquired either through self-study or on-the-job training, making a formal 4 year program a waste of money, time and productivity.
Reading between the lines: Problems that are typical of software engineering interviews and in competitive programming are poor evaluation of one's capabilities as a professional software engineer.
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The litmus test is pretty straightforward: Will the law come down on you if you do the job without a degree? If yes, the job requires it. Otherwise, it does not.
Idk, services have never been their primary product. It was always a hardware product, and all the software and services around it were enablers of that hardware. Sure, they could change and start a service product, but it just feels awkward.
When I generate all the English words that are in a UK dictionary that use the letters "acehijopsx" exclusively, and then test which are reachable domains, I come up with only about 500. Other than epic.com, the most significant ones are chase.com, sap.com, soap.com and sex.com, I think.
The solution is to be long in anti-fragile assets such as bitcoins and gold. If approximately everybody else is getting it wrong about degrees, the economy and the value of its fragile assets, especially paper money, will shrink systematically, while my assets will keep gaining value. In that sense, it is better to encourage most other people to get it wrong. Hence, they should get MORE useless degrees and saddle themselves with MORE stupid and MORE enormous student loans. That is what will eventually sink the boat completely and make me more money.
Code reviews are one of the best ways we've found to improve code quality. If you're not familiar with it, then you should read up on it. There are plenty of resources out there discussing code reviews (e.g. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2597076 or Steve McConnell's "Code Complete".)

Think about it this way. Code is as complicated writing. There is no successful media organization in the world that would publish a book or magazine without at least having one round of review, because hundreds of years of practice has shown that review improves the final product significantly. It's hubris to imagine that programmers are any better than authors.
The Great War (WWI) was a 20th century event?
You ironically couldn't be more wrong and you are looking at this the wrong way.

A cleaning lady is going to be able to keep her job longer than a radiologist as the radiologist requires mostly the ability to understand visual patterns where as a cleaning lady requires general purpose AI.

It's way harder to lift the rug, get in between the books etc.

Furthermore you get it wrong.

Specialization requires knowledge yes but mostly requires less of the brain. A cleaning lady have to use all sorts of different parts to do their jobs.

So your rule is right in some way but you apply the wrong people to it. It's the cleaning lady who uses most of her brain not the specialist.
> no sane programmer in this day and age would ever use anything other than open source.

Apparently I'm insane. Well, good to know I guess.
As someone with no experience in that region, and as someone whose taste is much more toward the satirical (Seinfeld, Family Guy, Simpsons), I have a hard time trying to recall anything satirical in KotH.

Instead, I consider KotH to be similar to the Cosby Show, Roseanne, or even All in the Family - a respectful look at the type of family that was not historically portrayed in TV or the movies.
In many cases the reverse is true: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
I had never even heard of the Mezzano OS and I am really into Scheme/Lisp. Very nice game demo!
Sure. That's all true. But just like you could have a perfect society without any unsolved crimes by monitoring everything and everybody even in their homes there is a balance to be struck between the right to self determination and the obligation to partake in certain things that society will impose on you by way of force if necessary.

I believe that that line is drawn pretty accurately at the moment, there is a strong push towards vaccination, there is education and there are all kinds of programs to make sure it happens. And yet we can not force this onto people that don't want it. I'm sure that there are plenty of people that would rather see this resolved 'for the greater good', I'm just not one of those people and I feel quite strongly about this even if it is a right I myself would never make use of because I disagree with the basic premises of those that want it that way.

But I recognize their rights and will defend them.
This is true. They've become vastly better citizens, in terms of their past nastiness and the externalities inflicted on the rest of us, and quite a bit more technically competent since the security push and the end of the Ballmer regime.

Still seem abusive towards their customers, but that's most huge software companies, and doesn't bother me concretely, since I'm not one.
Fair analysis. Definitely hard to obtain meaning from text alone at times.
More likely it's the other way around. Most jobs requiring college education are actually pretty simple, and I think the next wave of AI powered automation will replace many of them.

Meanwhile, it will take longer for people to build robots for each particular manual job. Not to mention the service industry where a lot of people prefer to deal with other humans, even when it wouldn't be necessary.
Aren't apprenticeship contracts functionally slavery? You think free money will be abused, but this won't be?
Right, without you there would be zero humor on this site.
Yeah, but at some point, that's on them. As the authors put it,

>We consider the key to a successful system to be a credible conveyance of the dangers of disturbing the repository. We must inform potential intruders what lies below and the consequences of disturbing the waste. If they decide that the value of the metal component of the waste far outweighs the risks of recovering the metal, the decision is their responsibility, not ours.
maybe it goes without saying, but you also avoided the infection risks which come with surgery.
Arguably many jobs that require a degree are still nothing more than desk work that can be automated with relative ease.
Slavery? More like paid education. The best possible education in many cases.
For a very, very long time. I've asked dang to look into why it occurred to me, and his response is the following:

Since we've discussed these matters at length in the past, another lengthy discussion is unlikely to accomplish much.

The reasons are much the same as before, which means you have a bit of work to do to figure out what you need to do differently if you want to post freely to HN. Sending demanding emails is not doing that work. In fact it's a signal that you're not doing it. Sincere effort will go a much longer way.

Daniel

Here are the problematic posts:

- a comment where I say that we need to have civil discourse, after which dang tells me I'm trolling (which is truly remarkable...) - he then detached it from the thread and at this point I got rate limited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911140

- a post where I talked about depression and suicidality on a story about suicide and depression https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12901679

- a light hearted response about the days before Twitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12905863

Just before then I recall researching and posting a detailed comment on query tuning and analysis in database engines, and a number of other informative and well received comments.

When the mods here have got it in for you, they've got it in for you.
>the most elite companies in the valley have discovered correctly that remote work doesn't work

That's extraordinarily presumptive. Is IBM and a handful of others gods of all things HR? Why? There's conflicting data on both sides of the table, IBM just went with one choice over another. Recently, by the way, so we don't even know it's going to work. Furthermore, there's a strong argument that the move was an easy way to achieve layoffs, which kind of nullifies the "IBM is big and smart and so they switched because remote work doesn't work" argument.

Finally, I'm not even sure some of these companies you're describing as elite (I'm assuming you mean "companies in the bay area we've all heard of that don't do remote work") are universally regarded as elite. And how do you account for the actual bay area giants that do allow for it, such as Google?
Panettone is the correct spelling.
You'd be surprised. Some of the last jobs to go will be ones that require human judgement and motor skills but not much in the way of education.
I never spoke about persecution, and having lived half my life abroad (France, Singapore, Portugal and UK) I know pretty well multiple cuisines and I do appreciate them. I did not post the above lacking understanding of how different cuisines have different stories to tell. However I do feel that your comment is just a dismissal based on a partial understanding of my previous post.

Italy is particularly interesting for being regional and so is India, for example. Chinese cuisine I would not even call regional so far apart are the different cooking styles.

French cuisine is also regional but way more uniform than Italian cooking.

Keep in mind that Italy has not been a united country for long at all, and for example people from different regions speak different languages (there are 4 official languages in Italy, but probably at least a dozen spoken recognized languages such as Friulano, Sardo, etc.). Many of our grandparents (if not parents) did not speak Italian as a first language, that came about starting from the 50's with national television and internal migration.

So you can imagine that traditions and cooking are completely different from place to place. For the same reason there are hundreds of types of pasta for example.
It would have been a 0day when the Shadow Brokers would have acquired it from the NSA.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article yet.

However, I wanted to say that my kid sister is in 9th grade and is doing online high school.. It's been a bit more stressful but she's been learning a lot more because she has to actually go through all of the lessons herself each day rather than zoning out in class. All of her grades have improved at least 1 letter grade versus a traditional classroom (and from what I've seen it's not because the work is any easier, it's actually harder and there's a lot more of it).

So, I think that free online high school could definitely work. But also definitely not for everyone
Is there anyone obviously poised to be his replacement when he isn't available anymore?

Not in a strict organizational sense, but someone who could have similar influence.
If French cuisine is known as the best cuisine it's because of its gastronomy and its high-end restaurants!
However when going to "regular" restaurants, Italy is simply the best.
> The most elite companies in the valley have correctly found out that remote doesn't work

There are enough companies out there with remote employees and even remotely distributed teams to disprove the assertion that "remote doesn't work".
Can you give a few examples of such jobs, and what consitutes "cleverness" in them? Really curious.
Why wouldn't your investment banker be replaced? Most trades are by bots anyway.
Yea, point taken, but recursive grammar is a prerequisite for arbitrary cognition or computation.
I'm fully aware that some people will suffer because of this. That doesn't mean that we should force our views and our beliefs on those that do not share those, even if we have the science on our side.

There are some pretty basic elements at play here and if you want to over-rule the right to basic bodily integrity you're going to have to do better than to quote statistics.

By that rule we should force everybody to eat healthy, to have an alcohol lock in every car and so on.

Finally your emotional appeal is nothing but the 'think of the children' argument.

Yes, it is a tragedy, no that does not mean that anti-vaxxers should not have the right to do as they please with their own bodies.

Principles only matter when there is a price to pay and in this case that price could very well be my own child. Even so, I still stand by my support of those that decide otherwise because not to do that means giving the state way too much power over our bodies.
Come on, bitcoin and gold are very fragile. Look at their huge variation in value over short time frames. A new crypocurrency could arrive to take bitcoins place, also, or govt regulation could make it hard to use in the us or china. There might be an argument for diversifying your investments in these things, but these aren't the certain safe places to put your money for long term.
That's right and why I used it (v2) extensively.
One of the best things you can support, whether you agree with Bill Gates, or with OP, is investment in making primary education as good as is absolutely possible. The result is:

1) people are smarter and more mature even if they don't go to college
2) people who do go to college are already ready to do great work

If, like OP, you seriously want people to effectively graduate at age 13 you need to put a lot of work into primary education first. I admit, if like Gates, you just want more competent graduates, then it is probably going to be more nuanced.
Perhaps the reason many students require the imposition of an authority is because the educational system does not encourage the development of self-learning skills? From the first year of elementary school onward, students are explicitly told what to learn and when to learn it; even homework assignments are generally just the completion of predetermined exercises. It should come as no surprise that many will then fail with self-directed learning, as they have not practiced the required skills before.
They do use x86 rather often.

I have a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ rev. 1 (got it for free from work) with a 200mhz SPARC processor. Revision 2 of the "same" product is based on ARM. Modern ReadyNAS desktop lineup though? Atoms and Pentiums!
Which means there must be some sort of weighting system they use to determine if you are rate-limiting worthy.

It keeps happening to me, I have to email them and someone other than dang answers the email and apologises for the limit being applied, then gets rid of it. Of course, being in another time zone I find it takes quite a long time, and in fact the rate limit never seems to get removed even after a day.
A far more interesting story is how Houston Stuart Chamberlain's writings influenced the Nazi movement in Germany. The Slate article omits the fact that Chamberlain married into the Wagner clan in Bayreuth, who were early and enthusiastic supporters of Hitler. The family was also deeply enmeshed in a nexus of virulent pro-Aryan and anti-semitic propaganda prior to WW I. Chamberlain left England in the late 1800s and settled permanently Germany where he became a citizen during WW I. This fact alone seems to indicate that conditions for Fascist philosophy in England were less than salutary.

For a great read on the Wagner clan and their connections to Chamberlain, see Oliver Hilmes' outstanding biography of Cosima Wagner. ("Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth", "Herrin des Huegels" in German).
College has become little more than an aptitude test for many jobs. If you're willing to grind through the years of studying and financial hardship to get a degree, then you'll probably be able to handle the job.
Same here. I've used the card for years, since it was the Amex. It gives 2% back on everything and has been flawless for me.

I've toyed with other cards that give higher rates, but those that I've looked at are always for restricted categories.
Graft is a constant in human endeavors. It's like a scaling problem, you deal with it as it presents itself.
I get 1 to 5 percent for every transaction. Literally every time I'm forced to use cash I'm losing money.
Just for the record, "biscotti" is the "generic name" for any kind of biscuit, if you want the "Cantucci" you need to ask for either "cantucci" (better "cantuccini") or for "Biscotti di Prato" .

To be strict, the "Biscotti di Prato" are the most famous "type" of "cantucci", for which there are several slightly different recipes.

Of course they are typical of Tuscany and you won't find them everywhere in Italy, in Lazio there are the similar "tozzetti".

... oh, and usually they are eaten only after the meal, dipped in either Vin Santo or Aleatico or similar sweet wines.
For what it's worth, this article is probably better titled "the Italian-American Bakery Explained"; over the last century and a half Italian-American culture has evolved in to something with roots in, but distinct and different from, the culture of Italy itself. It's largely based on the culture of Sicily and the South, since that's where so many Italian immigrants came from, but years and years in America have shifted it in to a sort of separate culture. It's especially telling that this is from a New Jersey-focused website, since NJ is one of the epicenters of Italian-American culture in the US.

I'm a fourth-generation Italian-American myself, and I've recently been learning Italian and gotten interested in geneology and tracing the cultural roots of my family. It's really interesting to see how true Italian culture is similar to what I grew up with, but also very different.
Though it doesn't run FreeNAS?

Or at least something with ZFS.
I bought my current NAS by being fed up with my Apple Time Capsule and sorting by cheapest price and going down the list until I found something suitable. All I needed was storage attached to the network with decent throughput and OS X Time Machine support (=AFP). I ended up with a Synology DS216j.

The GnuBee matches the Synology in price and exceeds it in functionality (aside from the 2.5" drives - seems like an extremely odd choice).

I think the problem with this product is you have two categories of NAS buyers - the ones who want plug and play storage on their network, and the ones who want the best performance and all kinds of esoteric features.

The former will go for a commercial solution like Synology/QNAP, the latter will go for something like what you suggest or a home-made solution.

This product targets the former in specifications, but the latter are the ones who care (or probably are even aware) about open source. Add to that that open source software usually has dreadful usability...
I'm a web developer, self-taught, some college, but no degree. Teaching myself ML now, so someday I can code AI -- pretty sure I'll keep teaching myself into a career without college, until all jobs are obsolete and we live in a post-scarcity society.
That's fine, and when you run into a merchant that doesn't care, make sure you have a credit card company like mine that takes disputes seriously ;)
(Founder of Code Climate here.)

This is really good feedback, which we are addressing. We're going to change things up so that by default TODO issues are emitted as "Info" severity instead of "Minor", and we are going to change our PR integration so it does not fail PRs on "Info" issues.

As an aside, on Tuesday we launched a Grep engine, which is much more powerful than FIXME: https://codeclimate.com/changelog/58ecfa297705a149790008b2

It allows full customization of the emitted issues.
It's already mostly the other way around.

If you have cancer and can afford it you come to the US for surgery and chemo consults because the best treatment is here.

That's partially because of the money made in US by drug and device makers. But it's mostly because of US government funds spent on research, and because of the US university system with its medical research that attracts minds from all over the world.
OK, lets change it to "remote work doesn't work for everyone". There are plenty of cases where it didn't work too.
To throw in a bit of confusion, most US debit cards can also be run on credit card networks (mostly Visa or Mastercard, though when I worked as a cashier I saw a few debit cards that used Discover or Amex). The cash is still directly debited from your bank account, but that lets you use the card at places that do accept credit cards but don't belong to any of the dozen different debit networks (STAR, Pulse, CO-OP, etc.). This is also why most US-based online shops prefer credit cards since it's assumed that even if you don't have an actual credit card you have a debit card that can be run as one.
I was once asked by someone who is rich to "define rich"... because they felt that they were not rich.

My definition is "If you can solve a problem by throwing money at it, then it isn't a problem"... that's when you are rich.

Think about the difference between poor and average and rich. Poor people try to skip things like car insurance and health insurance. Average people budget for car insurance and get health insurance through their job. Rich people put up a bond for insurance (thus paying no premiums) and have a health "concierge" who arranges visits to doctors who are "on call". Rich people can pay for these services because they don't pay house insurance (if the house burns down you buy another), car insurance (put up a bond), car expenses (company pays), travel costs (company pays), taxes (stock, investments, tax write-offs), etc. Rich people don't have bank accounts, they own the bank and makey money by lending money.

Problems in life treat us all the same. Your window breaks (poor: cardboard and duct tape, average: call a window repair place, rich: the housekeeper deals with it), your sink leaks (tape, plumber, housekeeper), car won't start (bum a ride, call AAA, your driver handles it), etc. Rich people just throw money at the problem by paying people to solve it.

The only problems rich people have are ones that money can't solve, such as demands on their time and persistent health issues. What poor and average people don't realize is how much demand there is for a rich person's time. Companies want you on their board (so they can get connections to your other board member companies). People want you to show up for charity events (so you can write a check). People want to give you perks (first class lounges so you buy first-class seats). Ultimately under each benefit is some attempt to get money.

Ultimately though, money can't solve certain problems such as health issues or the death of friends and relatives. Or time issues, such as being given an award (so you have to show up), or asked to give a keynote speech (so you have to show up), or being hounded by reporters who want to know how the rich and famous live.

So how do you know if you are rich? If you can solve the problem by throwing money at it and you do... then you are rich.