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Thank you.

Since I don't participate in the credit market, have no affiliation with any bank and do not affiliate with any credit reporting agency, I see absolutely no reason that I should have to pay into this protection racket to cover their asses. I don't even know how to do this credit freeze thing and have no interest in learning for the next foreseeable couple of years, until I have money worth investing in something.

And what about all of those who are homeless, have no internet/phone access, live in the wilderness, etc? What's to stop them from re-entering society in 10 years only to discover they have a massive amount of debt?

There must be some way for me to exclude myself from this market, from the woefully inadequate security practices of our financial system, without paying a "protection". If there isn't, I would sooner spend thousands on a lawsuit than I would tuck my tail between my legs and pay up.

I'd like to look into this 3rd party agency you mentioned, if you don't mind sharing the name.
Personally I think it's a mistake to view young people as acting in bad faith or having inherent group characteristics (lazy, entitled etc)...I think they do have group characteristics that stem from a fairly rational response to their downward social mobility.

I can't comment on your brother's situation except to say that if things didn't work out well for him, it's natural for him to align with a group that he feels are in the same case. You say it's "seductive" which implies that basically he's taking an easy route out of hard work. That may be true for him, but it is unlikely to be more true of a cross section of any generational group.
I think it's a big leap from "two large bootcamps have closed" to "the bootcamp industry is shutting down".

Like anything else, there was a big race to capture the market once Dev Bootcamp proved it could work, and now the market is correcting itself. No reason to think bootcamps are going to stop existing altogether.
>I learned how to program initially from making text games on my TI-Calculator in TI-BASIC, talk about limited :)

Me too! Ti 83-Plus! I always say the day I became a programmer was the day I accidentally hit PGRM twice (opening the PGRM catalog).

The thing is when I started on the Ti-83 I was still in grade school, so I was limited to things I had access to (the only reason I even had the calculator was because my dad had one and I..."requisitioned" it :D).

So even if there was something like Pico-8 (And iirc there was, Uzebox) I couldn't get access to it until much later, after the point I had started with Game Maker too. I think stuff like Game Maker and RPG Maker was great because there was no cost or barrier to entry other than a PC (Even if it meant carrying around Game Maker files on USB sticks and using library computers like I did)

Edit: Totally confused Pico 8 with something else! (Pocketchip), I think the younger me would probably have been vastly confused by the idea of programming a "virtual console" but it'd definitely have been an interesting route to start programming with
Your missing that the government inherits a duty to provide services to the profiteers who manage to get themselves stuck or otherwise in trouble, as well as wasting resources on things like tax and health enforcement.
Gee, does that automatically settle the claim? I suppose it only would if there were some kind of agreement you make when you apply for the service.

I take some mild comfort knowing that > 90% of US adults likely have been impacted (wild guess at US folks who have ever applied for credit -- or it's probably a good amount smaller number if the scope is ever-requested-a-credit-report).
France add those kind of passes for ages as well.
I don't think that's a fair history of the web, but that's not my point.

I am saying that the paradigm for creating a UI is not so different. I have a component with a lifecycle, events, logic, and styling, and it can be instantiated arbitrarily many times and behave predictably. That's pretty new in web tech.

As a specific example: "For decades, developers were trying to separate UI templates and inline Javascript logic, but with JSX, these are intermixed again."

This is fantastic guidance for brochure sites, but did it ever really suit application development? UI components certainly have intrinsic layout and logic, and our unbundling of that, I think, came from overzealous adherence to the "rules" of a different game.
And if the state has that much, they may have a case already. Why not just try him already?
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yeah but this is no different than how private equity functions

so its an ok criticism in the token sale space, but it is a different and unnecessary standard
I would say it depends on the age of the target audience.

I would prefer the colored version of the algorithm, however I would not spend the time to color it myself.

This is my personal opinion.
The best way to change a flawed system is unrelenting public pressure. As others have said, once you're inside the system, you can either stand up for what should be done and be sidelined, or you can shove aside your idealism in order to gain power before trying to make changes. More often than not, that idealism never returns.

I've thought about this more in the political realm, so it may not apply as cleanly in the justice system. We know that public pressure works in politics because they depend on voters to keep voting them in. The only way to stave off a slide into conformity is to hold people accountable for behaving the way they said they would during a campaign. It's not an easy answer since it requires a lot more public participation, but I think we have been lulled into believing that these institutions are self-maintaining once set up, and that is clearly not the case. A few honest and caring people just entering the justice system are going to have a hard time of it. Millions of people outside the system shouting loudly and unceasingly about its abuses have a better shot at causing changes.
This is generally how I've thought about it, too.

Intent clearly also matters, and is easy to infer in many cases - scraping information looks quite a bit different than feeding a competitor's dispatch database with garbage events. Although I would love to hear a creative lawyer's story about how that was actually benign.

If you're scraping data, make sure you go out of your way to be nice to their servers. With some fragile sites, it is easier than you think to knock them over, and you really want it to appear that you're going out of your way to not cause problems. (Also, look for another role - maintaining scrapers is miserable.)
Decent, not very good. Ctypes is slow, cython requires extra boilerplate to become performant. Python/C API is even more annoying than that. (Compared even to something like JNI.)
I agree and posted about this myself. Most of the comments on this topic offer little in analysis beyond "more funding good, less funding bad" and casting aspersions on those who disagree with you.
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It is neat and an added learning method. I believe it's called Visual motor [integration]

Maybe it's just me that I haven't had my coffee yet, but with selection sort, the part about swap needs an easier explanation.

Edit: spelling.
Let me guess... you saw a report on CNN? Try harder, man.
Another cowardly "free speech but..." Either you support free speech (including Nazis or whatever today's boogeyman is) or you don't support free speech at all. Claiming you support free speech only when you like the speech is abjectly idiotic. When you start blocking people from using your service for their speech, it's time to stop calling yourself the "free speech registrar."
OK, but isn't it just as likely that you'll land on a registrar that is notorious for specifically hosting seedy stuff (perhaps even under the guise of free speech)? I wouldn't be comfortable giving my money to an organization like that, at all.
On it's surface that spending looks terrible, but it really needs to be broken down at least urban vs rural and adjusted for very regional costs of living. When you compare against European nations, I would strongly suspect there is much more variation among district or even individual school funding in the US because we base our funding on local taxes and their funding models are more national.

There is a lot to fix, and part of it is that for all the money we spend, to little filters down to teacher salaries.
/s??? "but in an age where teachers are underpaid"

Underpaid is a word not to be used with teachers salaries. Just look at any district here

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As for the Internet being key, I don't know. It has enormous powers of dissipation, despite appearing to be a perfect system for bringing things together.
What seems silly to me is the premise that completely destroying the existing system would somehow result in a saner and more just system replacing it.

Adopting something more akin to European style democracy (which is what I assume you're mostly referring to) is already possible within the US system. That it hasn't been done yet isn't evidence of corruption within that system, but of the culture of the US simply not wanting it.
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> Deny them DNS, Deny them DDOS protection, Deny them hosting, whats left?

I mean, not being a neo-Nazi is an option...
That sounds like a good way for a boot camp program to differentiate itself. On the other hand, I don't know that they necessarily have to be more than what they are? Getting people enough coding knowledge to get an entry-level job can be life-changing, so specializing in that seems like a good thing. You can always take more courses and learn more.
Do you consider it net neutrality violation?
There's a big difference between the right to free speech and the principle of free speech.

Easydns has chosen to follow the Non-aggression principle which is a limited free speech moral stance.

https://www.easydns.com/terms-of-service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle

OP simply wants to support those who truly believe in free speech. Not one who, in OPs opinion, has simply crowned themselves as free speech champions until pressured.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aeasydns.com+free+spee...
> Somewhat dichotomously, I agree with every position mark takes in the linked post, but at the same time, I'm quietly waiting to see where Daily Stormer ends up landing, so that I can start treating them as the 'real' bastions of free speech, and very likely start throwing them my business.

Please tell us what your business is and we'll be happy to boycott it too.
It seems we've been rotting from the inside for quite a while now.
Fortunately binding arbitration clauses are considered unenforceable in some cases.
I count 5, and at least two of those are quite clear about looking to fill a senior position.

The other 3 are companies that have a bit of a reputation and I wouldn't even consider working at anyway.
I think the bigger point is that companies like Equifax shouldn't be using ID numbers at all in the way that they rely on them. They use SSNs as a database ID crutch to keep from having to do the actual leg work of talking to people, verifying/reverifying the accuracy their data, and basically doing the job people pay them to do.
By blazingly fast you mean 100x slower than C++ equivalent and only 20x slower is you're very careful to avoid accidental copies.

For reference, MATLAB is about 30x slower with no special care.
Pure Java on Hotspot was 5x slower except it dies on big data input due to very slow GC and goes to 50x slow.

Source: handled big audio data from hdf5 database, gigabytes sized. C++ equivalent had no vectorization or magic BLAS or anything.
Just look at Mark's Zuckerbergs millions he gave to schools with no results.

Anyone who genuinely wants to make an impact in any field first surveys the literature to see what has been done before. Why didn't he consult with experts [1] before dropping millions at the Newark Public School system?

Zuckerberg isn't exactly known for righteousness. There's his other initiative where he wants to arm people with tablets to provide the schoolchildren in a certain impoverished African country (forgot which, was it Sierra Leone?) with an education, instead of funding teacher training. One thing would improve the infrastructure in the country, the other would funnel money to online education companies. What if the same goals were at work here?

[1] It's easy to point fingers at Schools of Education because many are bad. Not all of them are, tough.
Go home WaPo. You're drunk.
You could try https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/29279/Backup-Linux... or Duplicity which will work on headless setups.
Yep. The Fisker Karma had this feature too.

The cynic in me wonders how much government subsidies for alternative energy vehicles prop up expensive, nearly pointless features like this.
It's funny, until recently I thought boot camps were for people who already were working in a field who wanted to sharpen a particular skill in that field.

At least, the few my work paid for some years back were essentially that.

From the sounds of it though a lot of places are abusing these to create micro IIT Techs that hand out near worthless certificates.
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The monitoring benefits (Do to their negligence) is probably worth more than the $10 you'll get out of the CAS.

It would be better if we could get the monitoring from one of their competitors on Equifax's dime.
You can delay a ping, but you can't ping faster. If you build a geometrically constrained network of servers pinging as low-latency as you can, then delaying a ping will change your position on the (x,y) plane, but you'll get pushed "up".

https://imgur.com/yK4RkHg

Due to the reality of internet-routing, everything is going to be a little bit "up", since we can't actually measure the distance between two points via speed of light.

Probably also useful for routing things.
Why does it have to be either/or? Society does not operate by strictly logical principles. I see no problem with "mostly free speech, except for extremists".
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I'm also not one for going out of my way to "pitch" my town (not that Amazon would be interested, but that's exactly the kind of entity I'm happy to leave to other cities...), but happy to offer up a description if you helps you in (what sounds to be) your search for a new location.

To that end: Northwest Arkansas is pretty great. Cheap cost of living but plenty of jobs between the University of Arkansas, Walmart HQ, Tyson HQ, and JB Hunt HQ. And because there's Walmart money, there's also a nice airport, a really lovely art museum, and a large concert venue that will at least occasionally attract bands I'm interested in.

You've also got your pick of political leanings, if that's important to you. Fayetteville (university town) is more blue; Bentonville (more of a corporate town) is more red.

And it's in the Ozark Mountains, so plenty of hiking around if that's your thing.
>in 2017 who still buy/use HTC phones?

Anyone with a Google Pixel.
I want one, too. But I treated myself to a Microbrute lately, so the Minilogue has to wait :(
well said. it isn't being talked about much, perhaps because the truth of your statement is terrifying for most who are lucky enough to sit at desks and collect a tech paycheck, but what you speak to is real, and not just among the younger folk. GenX has been ignored here, but they were the first wave of those affected by the changes - many of these educated people are without options after performing the theater he describes in the article while actually working hard at whatever arbitrary "meritocratic" hoop they had to bootstrap to just to get into the game at all, and were caught in the next wave. many didn't have a way to get out to that small town he spoke of either. Being in this category during the occupy wall street time gave one a front row seat to hear about, experience, and see all of this. To describe Bernie sympathizers in the way he does isn't fully honest. There are more than just younger folks in this group and it started a lot earlier than people realize because GenX was comparatively smaller and without a voice at scale (minus the social media and internet tools at first). Then there are older folks bankrupted by healthcare costs having to work until death, leaving no new space for younger folks. The anger on the ground in NYC is thick and multi-aged.
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I'm not excited about this class action; If they win, the individual payout will be almost nothing ($10?). The lawyers are the only ones who will really "make out" with 10's of millions in fees.

There is also a disproportionate effect in that a small portion of the 143 million affected will have a large impact, i.e., "identity theft" while most will be unaffected.

I think a fund setup to help those who are directly affected is a better idea. This could be done through government action where penalty proceeds are turned into a fund. In other worse, similar to the BP oil spill in the gulf where the fund helped those who lose income or suffered property damage.
Check out https://outco.io which sounds like to covers the parts you find lacking.
Perhaps I should have written underfunded teachers. Teaching isn't a desirable profession, and that combined with high student:teacher ratios, plus the terrible food they give kids tells me that there are vast improvements that can be made in the system, if we are really incentivized to provide a good education.

Also, the whole local taxes pay for local schools model is obviously not working. Things used to be more distributed, but now it's so easy to optimize for all the best schools and best neighborhoods that it creates a huge class system. Which was always there, but as the divide grows larger and the consequences life long, I don't see how it helps to cultivate a feeling of "country".

Providing equal footing to kids (and I know the home situation is most of the problem) could help alleviate a little bit of the problem.
> because they are actual Nazis

I'm not defending these people, but are they really Nazis? Or just angry, uneducated and disenfranchised white people?
And as is the case for every class action suit ever, some lawyers make a lot of money and everybody whose information was compromised by Equifax gets a check for 24 cents.
No worries! Thanks for putting this up. This Equifax issue is a big deal, for sure, but the OPM was too. In general, these breaches are just getting bigger and worse as time goes on. There has been a lot of talk about the CyberWar, and if there is one going on, it seems that the US is not winning it very well.
Perhaps the parent is confused as I am: Do these Nazis want "German Socialism" to take over in USA, so be ruled from Germany? If not then I think calling them Nazis definitely needs clarification.

Genuine confusion for me. Nazi to me is someone who wants to resurrect Hitler and be ruled by the Fatherland; that seems incongruent with what I expect from USA white supremacist??
> C is easy to learn, because it's a small language.

I'm no great c or c++ programmer - but I really like Bjarne Stroustrup's "Learning Standard C++ as a New Language" (C/C++ Users Journal. pp 43-54. May 1999):

http://www.stroustrup.com/new_learning.pdf

Even if it is somewhat dated now - I think it makes a great case for c++ (or d, maybe rust) over C - and it doesn't even touch on Unicode - simply memory management, error checking and buffered I/O.

I agree everyone should know some C - and some assembler (if for nothing other than looking at compiler output) - but I'm not sure I agree that C is "simple". And learning from k&r might not be the best approach today - rather read sources of something like some of the openbsd utilities, redis, spiped...
You clearly don't get it.
"Shutting down" or "consolidating"?
I honestly can't tell if you're arguing for or against the blockchain here, but regardless, I think you've misunderstood my comment because I left off the /s tag.
ICOs are a terrible idea for most business ideas today.

But they also may enable new business models that haven't quite been figured out yet, especially in areas where network effects and adoption are key drivers of success. The question is what kinds of novel organizations can be built with this model, not how can these be slapped on existing ideas for a quick influx of cash.
Your post hits the nail on the head, but complicates things more than needed.

The whole idea of "middle class" is a fiction that supports the behaviours discussed in the article. In the real world, it doesn't actually exist in any meaningful way. You're either working class or you're not. If you can walk away from your job today and never look back, congrats! You're not working class. But for everyone else, you're stuck and putting a fancy label on things doesn't change much.
While your link raises a number of interesting arguments, that statistic doesn't stand by itself.

By and large, the vast majority of people that appear before the courts are guilty. If the guilty/not-guilty split were 50/50, it would indicate completely indiscriminate policing.

So, to make a determination about the false-guilty pleas, we'd need some data those in particular. That is to say, that statistic combines true-guilty and false-guilty, so you can't make an argument that too many people are forces to plea guilty. At least with that statement alone.
'Capitalist realism' humiliates all of these assumptions, except the author's pride. He does that on his own.

PDF:
https://libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%...
> I thought boot camps were for people who already were working in a field who wanted to sharpen a particular skill in that field

The name 'boot camp' doesn't really imply that they would be.
This is really cute, and it makes sense! For a fundraising campaign for our university, I had my kids color in neural network diagrams: https://www.instagram.com/p/BM5jaUxB6An/?taken-by=saifrahmed
It was a big hit :-)
Managing lots of processes is a ton of work...
Not that it changes your point, but I'd put the percent impacted a lot lower than 90%. There's a large underclass of people who don't even have a bank account let alone a credit account of any type. A lot of poor people still basically live by cash and EBT-card.

I'd put it closer to 75% max.
Now I can realistically build component libraries, something akin to ActiveX or Borland's VCL, and use them anywhere in the same ecosystem.

I recently saw a company with a beautiful library and workflow for react; npm i your component, import it, and off you go with a on-brand (by default) visual component. Start binding event handlers...
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