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Thanks so much for the feedback! I think you're right that something like this would be a better learning tool for someone who is new to the fundamentals, rather than experienced software professionals. And I've heard from a few people now about adding code/pseudocode to match the visuals. I'll have to give that a try in the next iteration!
> These bootcamps are too basic for starters. They never take you beyond the basics. Secondly, the industry has changed. You need to know more things than you did previously. Even computer science grads aren't necessarily "ready" for the workforce. Education is behind in general instead of ingrained into the community with which it wishes to operate. They are always lagging behind or even way behind.

If any educational institution gave you everything you needed to know, we'd all be DaVinci's. Being too basic isn't a problem if people don't expect the learning to stop after graduation, in fact, I think this is the biggest misconception about boot camps. You're going to need to teach yourself as much as they do to be successful. Same with college.

> On some level I feel as though businesses need to get real and just pick someone for the job even entry level. There is nothing wrong with a business investing in its talent rather than expecting everyone to come in with prepackaged with everything you want them to know. Most of the people hiring these days didn't know how to do any of the stuff people are doing when they come out of bootcamp when they started their careers.

Totally agree, great dev teams, have no problem on boarding people regardless of knowledge set.
Yeah, that's what I'm referring to.
That may be his argument, but his example is exactly the kind of "whiteboard coding algorithms" trivia that people mistake for engineering in this industry.

I'd agree with his argument if that's what it is, just not his example.
This is such an intellectually lazy stance to take (I know, you thought you were being clever, but believe me this is the least clever thing to say about free speech).

1A doesn't have anything to do with it -- either free speech is a concept worth protecting, or it isn't. John Stuart Mill wrote at some length about it, and in particular about what happens when the population at large decides they don't like your speech.

Let's take this to its logical end -- let's say Joe wants to host a legal but repugnant site. Cloudflare doesn't want to protect it, ok; EasyDNS won't host it, sure; now let's say Comcast gets involved. They don't think Joe should have internet because he's espousing ideas they don't like, so they cut him off. Same with his mobile provider. Hell, what's to stop the local grocery store from banning him?
Point being, Joe could _legally_ be forcibly removed from society for having opinions some people don't like.
The real niche that needs to be filled here is not more textbooks, it is a really really good description of how to actually teach yourself this stuff on your own. There are so many ways to get this wrong. It's insanely easy to trick yourself into thinking you understand these things without actually doing so. I've read some of the stuff Thurston and Grothendieck and people on HN have written about this, but it still doesn't feel enough. Just doing exersizes is not enough when you get to the graduate level, at that point introspection and the inner mental game becomes much more significant. And without the collaborative help from a greater wiser community everyone is left to discover this stuff on their own, which means a lot of people are going to fail when other interests take priority.
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This isn't true. Just by entering in your information to check if you're affected, you'll be enrolled automatically if you were indeed affected.

Really scummy behavior.
I've heard that those credit monitoring plans are a joke, and provide very little value besides the simulation of "doing something."
While sharing of pre-prints is commonly done, nothing official is ever done based on non-reviewed studies. If they are later published, then the pre-prints are treated equivalently, because they have the same data. However, pre-prints that do not make it through peer review, or conclusions that exist within a pre-print but are removed in the final version, are treated as non-existent.

It seems reasonable to treat taxonomy with the same rigor. If you can't convince your peers that you found something new, why should you get the distinction of making the name for it?
Seems odd to me that they crossed a camel and llama and expected a better temperament. I've never seen a camel, but llamas are some of the most vile tempered animals I've ever seen.
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No one asked anyone to accommodate anyone.
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"For certain things it's very, very good (moving a character around on a screen and attacking enemies and collecting things, it's great at that)." -- I think I was lucky in my limited experience with it then, you seem to be much more experienced in gamedev so I am surely not going to argue against your experience with GML + GameMaker, it must have its limitations :)

I was never really interested in making/playing video games but Hotline Miami changed that so I decided to play around with GameMaker and GML and had a lot of fun, didn't have a particular game design in mind so I just made my resume in the form of a platformer, exported it for web, threw it on my website and that was that( https://abhirag.in/interactive_resume/ ) [doesn't work on small screens] I loved the experience and plan to work more with it in future, but will keep your advice in mind and try out Unity too :)
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I'm really glad to hear you like the idea! Thanks for the tips on getting it distributed, too. For now I should probably concentrate on making the right book =). Your suggestions for content are super helpful, too. Will definitely put those on the to-do list. Would you be interested in having the students at your coding school try out some test pages? Cheers!
>you won't encounter a list of breaking changes

>list of breaking changes

Yeap, some shit with smart pointers in glibmm, didn't investigated much.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438766
I'm not saying I have a problem with this, but I'm not sure I'd agree with that characterization of FBI investigations.
Interesting. What sections?
Any idea what's causing the revenue problem? I assume it's getting harder to attract students willing to pay for a bootcamp? Is that because fewer people are looking to learn to code than a few years ago? Or because they're learning in different ways other than bootcamps? Or is everyone only wanting to go to the most prestigious bootcamps? Or something else?
Would you agree, then, that Internet access is now a basic human right? If so, would you also agree that said access should include some platform where one is entitled to ownership and thus the freedom of expression - within the bounds of the law?

I really dislike Nazis, but I love the liberty of free speech more. It's hard to stand up for them, but it's not 'correct' speech that needs protection.

And no, no I don't have realistic answers - other than to suggest we consider adding those protections to domain registry and regulate ISPs to ensure the ability of hosting private servers.

I'm okay with saying nobody needs to host it. I'm not really okay with the domain not being allowed to be registered. There should be a solution for this.

If I don't stand up for the freedom of expression for the lowliest of views, then I didn't stand for it at all.

Edited to add:

I posted it below, but I think it salient here - even if just for contrast. I am not white. I'm pretty sure these Nazis hate me. Given the chance, they'd probably harm me. Until they make an overt threat, or attempt, to do so - I am still not okay with depriving them of basic human rights.

Yes, I feel that strongly about the freedom of expression. They don't scare me. I will never live in fear, nor will I ask that someone's rights be taken away without due process. My principles apply to more than speech which agree with.
You can now use clang as an alternative compiler in Visual Studio. Other option is to install bash on windows and install gcc/clang and use that.
I want to extend my comment. The big takeaway from all of this is that to beat the system, you need to be prepared to defend yourself at all costs, to the very end. The system depends on everyone taking plea deals. It's a well-oiled machine where by taking the plea deal, everyone wins but you. The defense lawyer made his money, the prosecutor gets their "win". The judge looks "tough on crime" for their next election. The cop gets a plaque for locking up lots of people.

My advice: Save some money. Just like a car accident, or some health or other emergency, it's best to be prepared with some kind of emergency fund.
Thanks for the tips! The next iteration will definitely have pseudocode, as that is now a highly requested "feature". =)

Cheers
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I was thinking about how many of us get free products (and T-Shirts) from big tech companies. I was thinking teachers are probably OK with this too. Its likely the most motivated ones are most onboard.
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Nah, they'll just create expendable shell companies to decouple the risk from the profit.
Thanks for sharing. Good stuff.
>My point is that React requires you to cook templates in the way that's is more convenient for the React

And likewise, Vue.js requires one to "cook HTML" with extra Vue extended syntax such as "v-if", "v-else-if", "v-for", etc. to make it convenient for Vue.js. (See sibling comment from lilactown that went into more detail.)

Since you weren't questioning the validity of vdom but was actually wondering why one would write pseudo-HTML (aka JSX) if it's going to be ultimately rendered as HTML anyway, you can turn that around and ask, "And why the hell you have to write template v-xxx _code_ in HTML that will be ultimately executed as Javascript by the Javascript engine?"
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It depends on a couple different variables:

- Do you want to focus on a specific area with decades of history (e.g. computer vision), or do you want to be a jack-of-all-trades person that works with images, text, time-series data, and so forth?

- Do you want to work at an early-stage startup outside of the Bay Area, which might be less picky with hiring... or do you want to work at OpenAI or Google Brain?

- Do you want to work in a team where you implement the ideas of better-educated, senior colleagues... or do you want to be the one in a leadership role?

The "minimal" path probably involves:

- A Galvanize (or similar) bootcamp to meet peers and mentors.

- Books and Coursera courses to fill in everything the bootcamp doesn't teach you.

- Winning some Kaggle competitions to show that you can build fairly complex models that have high accuracy on real-world data.

The "maximal" path probably involves:

- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Statistics.

- A PhD in one of the many subfields in machine learning.

- Several industry internships in between.

Neither the minimal or maximal path guarantee success, of course. A lot of that depends on your aptitude, previous experience, ability to network, and the current job market.
Are it's teachers underfunded compared to other countries or underfunded compared to your ideal of their worth?
The article fails to mention that both dev boot camp and iron yard were acquired by some large for profit cos. The discussion on HN regarding their closure seemed to highlight that both companies had their quality of teaching severely cut post acquisition which no doubt aided their demise. Also, many of their boot camps were in secondary locations that could not support on-going employment for all their grads
It would probably be more useful, yes. But that would require remembering what my ls alias without `-h` is, and also would maybe give more confidence in the results of the quick 'n' dirty analysis than is justified.
So "yeah we tried to arm the rebels but we didn't realize that they were extremist nutcases until they were swimming in rifles and rocket launchers"

You aren't really improving my confidence in American military strategy.
This is wonderful. I see that this guide is sort of "old news" to many of the experienced programmers hanging out here. But as someone who isn't that experienced and about to begin a course on Data Structures + Algorithms using C, this is amazing. Thank you.
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This looks like every other boot camp out there. Uses buzzwords like 'pair programming' and stereotypical whiteboard background video. How do you think this differentiates itself from other boot camps? Online/Onsite is not unique.
California has a convenient free web page that tells you most of the steps: http://www.courts.ca.gov/1007.htm

This has all the forms and a link to what to do with them: http://www.courts.ca.gov/9744.htm
I don't think that would matter either. Executives will get golden parachutes and/or get jobs elsewhere doing same thing.

I think only solution is criminal charges/jail time against higher ups who prioritized profits over security.
Fascinating. Are you familiar with any other ongoing research?

I would imagine that a touch scroll pad like in the linked video would be a useful thing to have on the left hand side of a keyboard. I could use it to navigate through a document quickly and use the mouse to pick my target.
Bootcamps rode a wave of phenomenal publicity at their inception. Articles in the NYTimes and the like made me aware of Flatiron / General Assembly as alternatives to grad school, which I had just enrolled in at the time.

These "Bootcamps Are Dead" stories will to some degree be self-fulfilling. Regardless of any realities in the junior dev job market, exposure to this wave of (sinking?) submarining would give me great pause were I making the same school decision today.
For the moment, the wikipedia article talks about plans to not have this be the case.

> but Nick Kacher of the Schumacher Center has discussed the possibility of pegging its value to a basket of local goods in order to insulate the local economy against volatility in the US economy.[6]

What then?
Wow, thanks for the references. They definitely lend themselves coloring, that's for sure. I'm always interested in seeing new visualizations of common algorithms.
With significantly smaller file sizes, it could be more challenging to see timing differences. Also, this image is one that someone used the last time OxiPNG was discussed, which seemed relevant to me.
They would not be standing for the Daily Stormer, they would be standing for Free Speech.

The concept that allowed the struggles from minorities to be heard in the first place, and therefore to improve things tremendously for gay and black people.

We can see that this is not a given, for example Russia is starting to crack down on 'pro-gay' speech : http://thegroundtruthproject.org/russias-assault-on-gay-free...

But defending free speech is sometimes hard, because it also means letting people you disagree with speak freely even if it obvious to you they're spewing bullshit. You can't force them to stop, legally or otherwise, but you can expose their bullshit for what it is.

It is much harder to actually argue with someone (or 100 of people), especially when they're unreasonable/stupid, than to shut them down. However, the alternative is to have some kind of moral police to decide what is allowed or not, and force the literally unquestionable selected truth on everyone, which is much more dangerous overall in my opinion (see what could be done with Trump and climate change, or Putin with gay people).
I've done the math: even if I covered the top of our VW Westfalia camper van with solar panels (400-500W max), the panels couldn't begin to generate enough power to run even the most efficient A/C unit.

Better to just park in the shade with the windows cracked.
Doing a credit freeze is a good idea regardless of the recent events: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...
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I bought Pico-8 and forgot about it, after your glowing recommendation I think I need to give it a try :)
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I got the same message, but nowhere did I read "you have been affected". Is this just implied?

I cancelled my Equifax credit watch account about 5 months ago, when they decided to raise rates.

Never have I hoped so much for a business to be sued out of existence. And hopefully their inside traders will get jail time (yeah, right).
Google do staged rollouts, I got the new YouTube design last week
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> A type can't tell you that.

Yes, it can! --- but you don't necessarily want to confound your program with such a thing.

The old adage about the cure being worse than the disease applies.
Just googled "visual motor integration". That definitely is right along the lines of what I was thinking too. And yes, you're not the only one to mention the lack of direction in the second page. I'll be updating that one in the next iteration. Cheers!
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Ah good to know thanks! I still stand by point 3 though. I'm sure one can find a good quote by someone who worked on one thing for too long and managed to do it, and then was unhappy because of the time lost.
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> they will only refuse service to sites that advocate or encourage "physical violence or harm toward an identifiable minority."

So a blog about beating up white christian males for being WCM is fair game? Good news...
I was halfway expecting (hoping for) an article about building A-frame building structures. Those structures seem to have faded into the past, but they were so iconic for a while.
Cultural rejection of white supremacist and neo-nazi ideology isn't necessarily part of a slippery slope that will inevitably encompass all non-mainstream speech, rather it's a manifestation of free speech. Those beliefs had their trial in the marketplace of ideas and have been found to be culturally toxic, and intellectually and scientifically void. One can believe in free speech while also accepting that speech can have consequences, and that not all ideas have equal value, or necessarily deserve equal consideration.
I'm glad to hear others have used the same approach! Thanks for the compliment. Cheers
"don't want to live in a world where people feel comfortable doing whatever they want as long as it's legal."

Lol why not? Sounds like freedom.
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There seem to be a lot of these "community currencies" in circulation throughout the United States. I wonder how much economic activity actually takes place using them, though. Millions of dollars? Billions?

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

Meanwhile, up north, there's Canadian Tire Money.
Ah, lovely. Thanks for the pointer!
In a situation like this, if they get bankrupted, the company continues to operate. The ownership is just transferred to the creditors.
Same situation, same experience, same level of outrage. Sign me up for the class.
Isn't the exact point of jailing for refusing to cooperate coercion to cooperate?

That's why there isn't a trial -- the judge is coercing you to obey him, you're not being punished for not.
Nice for Rodney Brooks to chime in. For those that don't know, he was a pioneer in early AI work esp with things such as subsumption architecture and robotics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks
Banks never lose. They just create a fee to pass it on, throw a party and hand out bonuses.

But... in this case, the overall cost may be high enough that there's a competitive advantage in not needing to charge this particular fee, and that will force the industry to do something about it. Maybe.
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Especially for a new a fairly new protocol, I'd say IPFS is popular.
Or the EFF for calling out Google and Cloudflare for kicking Daily Stormer off their services?
"The United States spent $15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report."
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Could AI help with the software development process?
AWS & Amazon uses a LOT of routers from one of these vendors. Although, they would probably try and avoid baking it into a public-facing product like this.
I have one of the old free Google apps accounts. Now I wonder which sync app I should use.
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Unfortunately, despite the title of the story, it presents only one particular aspect. Wikipedia does a much better job of discussing the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...

Specifically, the link you specify gives very misleading information from some of it's sources. For example when discussing Ramseyer and Rasmusen's paper, they quote a part out of context from the introduction of the paper and conclude that the paper indicates that corruption among judges is the reason for high conviction rates.

However, if you look at Wikipedia's summary of the conclusion, you get a completely different perspective: "In murder, U.S. police arrested 19,000 people for 26,000 murders, in which 75% were prosecuted and courts convicted 12,000 people. In Japan, 1,800 people were arrested for 1,300 murders, but prosecutors tried only 43%. Had the allegation that Japanese prosecutors use weak evidence mostly based on (forced) confessions to achieve convictions been true, the larger proportion of arrests would have resulted in prosecutions and eventual conviction. But the opposite is true. In fact, the data indicates that Japanese prosecutors bring charges only when the evidence is overwhelming and likelihood of conviction is near absolute, which gives a greater incentive for the accused to confess and aim for a lighter sentence, which, in turn, results in a high rate for confession."

Even though I live in Japan, I don't actually know that much about the justice system. The one time I've seen the police in action they were incredibly lenient (My friend, who suffered from schizophrenia violated the terms of her visa and also punched a police officer, yet they treated her incredibly kindly and didn't even arrest her).

I often say this in threads about Japan. There are problems here just like anywhere else. Unfortunately, however, it seems to be fairly profitable to write stories in newspapers that promote stereotypes of foreign countries, including Japan. I would recommend trying your best to track down primary sources before you make any conclusions about these kinds of stories.
Not everyone lets their friends shame them out of their principles.
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Yea, I'm getting the feeling that it won't be a learning tool for everyone. The original idea was for it to help with studying for interviews. I still love the idea of people using them as a fun thing to do, though.