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I think there is a thin line here. For example I was taught I to programm Smalltalk. On the one hand that is not a commonly used programming language and on the other hand it teaches Object Oriented Programming like no other language.

So yes, after that you can't start as a Senior Java Developer but I think you have a very good foundation to quickly pick up other Object Oriented languages.

So you do not have to teach the latest hyped language to give students the ability to programm. Instead you can use clean languages to teach CS and let your students excercise them to show you that they understood what you taught them.
As an insider, it's also easy to dismiss the dashed hopes of all the potential people that might get to live in the new development.

Why are you pushing for only one of these groups of people? And why should other people take the same position? And how should outsiders generally side between them?
I work on the drug manufacturer side so we deal with pharmacy reimbursement issues as well.

Large pharmacies like Walgreens negotiates contracts directly with insurers. Smaller independent pharmacies band together to negotiate as a group.

Because so much discounting and rebates happen on drugs, it's actually really hard for an insurance company to know what a pharmacy paid for a drug. Plus, there are so many drugs, it's hard to negotiate each one. What you end up with are blended reimbursement rates. An insurer might agree to pay 5% below list for all blood pressure medication. The pharmacies then try and get the best price they can. As a result, they make a lot of a handful of drugs, a slim margin on most and lose money on a few.

PBMs that own pharmacies (Express Scripts is the biggest) are in a unique situation where they know both side of the transactions - what the purchase price was so they can set reimbursement.

There are also DIR fees happening where PBMs clawback additional funds later on. That makes knowing the actual margin for a pharmacy really hard to determine until the transaction is already complete.
Yeah, if you're just talking about a one-time thing, then it's 16 hours times however many candidates make it to that phase times the hourly pay of the developers. That's still chunk of money.
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If it failed, and it would not meet the criterion of successfully trading.

A successful algorithm would likely need to be able to adjust based on the amount of capital being controlled using the algorithm and the number of parties that are using the algorithm
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Thank you, I had it mostly wrong. A quick whip through the Wikipedia claims that the pubic louse is indeed a descendent of a gorilla louse, though now utterly speciated from it and human-exclusive.

Human head and body lice have indeed diverged, but are not completely speciated and can, in the lab, still interbreed. The term in the Wikipedia was "subspecies"; as I'm not a zoologist I'm not sure if it's a formal term or not.

But my claim head/pubis claim was wrong. That's my TIL for today!
At some point an organization living in the cloud needs to properly secure their cloud resources. This makes it easier to justify that effort up front.
Not intended as a straw man, but rather as an illustration that the same general opinion ("the idea of sanctuary cities has been taken too far") should be a perfectly fine (even if unpopular) thing to discuss in the workplace if your opinion and reasoning behind it are not derogatory, but not at all fine to discuss if they are.
Is minimal experience with distributed platforms (S3, etc.) a deal-breaker?
It'd be straightforward to find/get a programming job that'd more than take care of my material needs. There are a buttload of entry/intermediate level jobs out there that'd provide more money than I even know what to do with. If I wanted a job really bad, I could study up for it, put the technologies they're looking for on my resume and apply.

The hard part is giving in to a job. I think my hesitancy in this area straight up reeks to the point H.R. people/recruiters can pretty much smell it. It's just not about the money for me. If I was doing something I enjoyed and had time to work on creative projects (a.k.a. "my life's work"), I'd be fine on ~ $1000/mo (say at ~20-40 hrs/mo). But this presents difficult hiring/management challenges, the main one being the challenge of using my time effectively. When someone is always on call, management doesn't have to worry about this as much.

Honestly, I think companies could get a lot more bang for their buck if they put more money into hiring people to maintain and improve on open source projects that they use. And I know that there are jobs like this out there. I just need to keep looking for one that fits me :)
I don't use Twitter, but I do sometimes want to see what Trump's tweeting about so I put this up to make it easier for me to that.
Do you feel the same way about national or state level immigration?

> If they want to keep things as they are that should be all that counts.

I'm of many minds about both your original statement as well as, to me, the obviously related immigration issues. There's no obvious right answer, to me. Conflict is inevitable!
Do you provide interplanetary transportation to the planet Arth? (Sorry, couldn't resist. You are missing an E)
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Don't bother. Some politician will get that votebank of fools thanks to social media and they will implement it.
The first one has a correlation with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Both of which I'd imagine are fairly common among HN readers.
Not OP, but I wonder if his/her brain is similar to mine: I get a small kick of dopamine from knowing that I do something "technically right" that others (especially famous people) do "wrong."

It's been a long, slow road to recovery.
But what does have to do with smoothness and translation invariance which this paper is a demonstration of? You even learn Gabor filters with local connectivity without spatial weight sharing.
A little difference in design specifications and requirements :)
> "Payed shills more like"

> "America is ... intellectually lazy"

The "people who disagree with me are payed to" viewpoint is one of the most intellectually lazy viewpoints, second only to the idea that those who disagree with you are evil.
This keeps going around but it's simply not true...

For snaps that are not saved, those are not retained on any server after their expiration.

Why would snap spend the money and/or hold the liability of keeping expired snaps stored... They know if it was all leaked they'd be done. And with the number of daily snaps, that would add up storage costs real fast or no reason.
exactly! and even if you do find them, convincing them to work for you is also hard... lots of these people are don't respond to money in predictable ways.
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What types of compression do you use? I did some work on streamvbyte, and it seems relevant.
Yes. The categorical statement “compilers are large and complex” is incorrect, and IMO is detrimental to getting people interested in the field.

We don’t say “Web applications are large and complex”, either.

Just as you can start simple with a web application and, if needed, grow it, you can start with a simple compiler and, if needed, grow it.

(And, on current hardware, I think the complexity of the language matters less than it used to. Single pass languages such as pascal still are easier targets, but computers have plenty of RAM, so fixing up things is easier than it used to be.
I think the right question is, "Why should a phone call be different?" What intrinsic quality of a phone call makes it not subject to data retention, whereas an E-mail or a text message would be?
From https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-310

> "The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language, to make sure we could safely test the thrusters," said Jones, chief engineer at JPL.
"All the techies helplessly watched as their mostly useless, perennially over-funded ideas exploded in their faces and made them as penniless as the poor people they'd previously stepped over to get their lattes."

"former high-rolling, coke-huffing, web-famous dot-com douchebags around town suddenly found themselves working in cafes, bitterly wondering why the meritocracy had forsaken them."

Wow, journos must be really jealous of techies if that article is any indication.
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What do you mean by "they are"?

I, too, don't understand how this is a legal issue given that people can talk face-to-face, or over non-recorded voice services. If it's written communication, what if you're writing things on whiteboards?

How would this not set a legal precedent that essentially requires all communication be through Slack/etc?
Except the implication is they “invested” in companies they didn’t have the cash for. It’s not acceptable to say you’ll invest in a company and then go fundraise to fulfill that commitment. Those things need to happen in reverse order.
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I now want to try writing web-sonnets using Perl 6's grammar...
Network effects are real and networking, as in meeting face-to-face, seems to have real tangible benefits that people are willing to pay what-seem-like-ridiculous costs to have.
I did very well on both tests in high school without much cramming (I skimmed one study book from the library), and scored something like 90th percentile when I took the ACT in middle school.

Whether this is correlated to anything important in real life is an entirely separate question.
Sorry the comment came off harsh, but this particular piece of fake news is spread heavily among popular youtube channels and other social media pages that are ordinarily deeply intellectual and thought provoking.

Now, while I understand why a lot of people like the idea of a gold standard, or really holding static assets like gold or bitcoin themselves (for microeconomic reasons), to suggest that debt based central banking is bad because government are bad is a poor reason simply because of all the macroeconomic good that comes from it for societies. Economies are strong when people spend and invest money in them at higher nominal rates y/y without a decrease in purchasing power. Countries are able to maintain this by using these debt based systems to systematically devalue their currency (such as china has done) to grow their economy and in turn their tax base and public works. When the opposite is done, you get the types of problems japan had when other countries systematically devalued the yen as part of the plaza accord.

Additionally, should all assets be completely static where there is a greater incentive to hold rather than to trade (as is sometimes the case within the housing market, so people systematically fight against new housing as it only devalues their asset), you create a society where people only purchase the goods they need, and in turn those at the top can forever increase their wealth without having to invest it at the same rates they do now.
Presumably, 5K would cover income lost from time spend at the gym vs time spent working.

Also gym membership and insurance (just in case).

Plus, those t-shirts aren't going to rip themselves.
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That's not by definition at all- a work can be open source with a "proprietary license of some sort", or closed source, with source that's liberally licensed- but never published.
How much it's worth to whom? Presumably the customer? (If you're doing it based on how much it's worth to you, that's more like a hobby than a business.) How can you know how much it's worth to the customer? One very simple way is to increase the price until they no longer want to buy it.
Could someone elaborate what specifically is meant with having high risk tolerances?
A scenario I'm not sure has been talked about much is the notion of some kind of "Automation tax", in which industries that adopt automation that remove significant amounts of human labor pay an additional tax to offset lost jobs in order to pay for a basic income.

Ostensibly automation has the side-effect of reducing the cost of production, which should help stabilize prices against an influx of spendable currency (assuming the initial focus of basic income is needs-based versus a universal basic income).
Kind of an IT-specific viewpoint.

I used to work in an industry where everyone from the local police all the way up tot he F.B.I. would routinely send us subpoenas. The corporate (big company - 30k employees around the world) policy was that we would delete all paper notes every seven days, and destroy anything recorded (especially videotapes) every 14 days. We were told this was specifically so we could dodge subpoenas, otherwise we'd drown in them.
And the answer boils down to: in a phone call you can blurt out shit such that, if it were written down in an edit window, you wouldn't click "Send".

Also: a phone call can capture surrounding audio not intended to be part of the phone call. That audio can either leak information itself, or reveal the originator's location.
The publishing situation is so bleak, and the saddest part is that the higher the quality, the deeper the problems.

Does anyone know how lwn [0] is doing? It's one of the latest very high profile publications remaining as of now.

[0] https://lwn.net/
Oh, that was just extreme carelessness ;^)
A couple of years ago, I had some slack in my schedule, and decided to combine learning Python with starting a project in it. It took me a couple weeks to feel really comfortable, but it also got me to a kind of "MVP" implementation, and I was able to take the next month or so after that to fill in the features.

Starting out, I spent a few days in standard tutorials, then just started writing. As I implemented features, I'd research the standard Python idioms for doing various things. It might not work for every program, or for every learning style, but that script has been part of our build infrastructure for 2 years at this point, and maintenance for the last year and a half has mostly been limited to feature additions as our needs change.
But thats the problem. Nowadays, saying "the idea of sanctuary cities has been taken too far; nations should have full control over their borders; immigration laws should be enforced" would not be a safe thing to say at my workplace.
Maybe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/...
And no one blamed Apple for giving in to AT&T’s demands for this and for ensuring customers paid extra for a personal hotspot charge.
Around the country, many fast-growing metropolitan areas are facing a brutal shortage of affordable places to live, leading to gentrification, homelessness, even disease.

Nice to see someone say that there is an actual connection between insane housing prices and homelessness. Most discussions of homelessness frame it as if it is merely a personal problem, like people on the street are merely junkies and losers and not in any way, shape or form victims of something gone bad wrong with the fabric of society. And most discussions of housing problems in the US don't really acknowledge that this issue is pertinent to the folks on the street.
But remember who the payer is for drugs, it's generally the insurance company not the patient. Insurance companies negotiate different costs to n behalf of their members.

If you don't have insurance you just default to the list price.

However that is changing. I can't remember the company, but one pharmacy is starting a cash pay discount program.
I believe the difference is intent--a phone call self destructs by default. They are not meant to be recorded (we even have laws here that prohibit it without consent of both parts). Messaging apps have, traditionally, kept logs, in both ends and in the server.
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I'm in the position where I have accepted a low paying job offer straight out of University as a Software Engineer. I should have negotiated but personal circumstances at the time lead me to accept the offer quick.

I enjoy my job, the workplace is good and my colleagues are great. Ideally would like to stay at the same workplace. There are good opportunities for advancement in the future and I'm learning more each day.

I've been given a substantial percentage pay rise today that still leaves me underpaid. I'm not sure where to go from here.
I get where you are coming from. For me, being a long-term employee having gone through a few transitions from smallish to biggish, and when your storage guy you hired doesn't really know networking basics, or the database administrator has no clue about Linux, etc. it tends to slow everyone down.

"Scale" often seems to equate with SF hotshots from one of the big names that will come in and airdrop a brand new architecture. These things take years and you need those generalists that have the tribal knowledge and the ability to jump in (almost) as deeply as a specialized developer, DBA, Network Admin, etc. I think the SRE movement is good evidence of the type of breadth and depth needed to operate a complicated system at scale.
There are numerous legitimate reasons for wanting to speak out loud for a conversation. But, if they said "let's do a call so that we can avoid putting possibly incriminating material to disk" then that would violate the rules, and is analogous to what is being alleged here.
Since no user can change this, its best to e-mail those that could:

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Instead, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com. (from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
My impression is that coding requires more energy and enthusiasm (so, in other words, internal motivation) to do a good job than many other professions. Hence 5 year exp "senior" can do a better job than a jaded and complacent 15 year exp one.
It depends how important your phonecall is from National Security point of view. If its a matter of bribery or even kidnapping, nothing can be done, but if its about some proven terrorist plot, ATT can recover your calls (so do probably all other vendors; we just don't know the details, aka black boxes)

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Codility is really well written. I'm not sure if they have PHP but they seem to have the major languages.

They're one of the few which tests and teaches your code's performance. They're also very popular for hiring tests.
>The amount of money flowing through capitalism would astound you

I really like this one. During my biology days, there was a fellow PhD student in the lab who had spent 15+ years in corporate IT before joining academia, and he always had great stories of the incredible amounts of cash we should expect to see flow around us should we embark on careers outside of academia (he was not wrong).
> But does this lock you in to Amazon?
Sorta. You can always do more yourself, usually for a cost.

Most AWS services IME offer a fair amount of portability. My high-level point is: I just want tools to build things. Not to obsess over the tools I use the build them.

That said, I don't have specific enough domain knowledge to answer your questions or suggest alternatives.
Right. And believe me, I'm not the pinnacle of professionalism, but I have core values of respect and a motivation to do work that people find valuable. Last time I checked they are pretty well intact. I believe this person mistook specialism and accolades for professionalism.
> How do I convince them this adaptability is more valuable...

Frame your multi-industry experience as a key differentiator. You're the guy people call because you know how to solve problems for all things tech, in a variety of situations.

Your true area of expertise is managing expectations for senior executives and getting things done. Your specialty is systems, processes, and execution.

If your enterprise depends upon tech, then there's probably an area that needs top-grading. Doing things faster, smarter, more economically. I'm the who takes those mission impossible projects on.

Good ideas on Pitching yourself from Oren Klaff > http://pitchanything.com/?utm_source=pitchanything.com&utm_c...