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> If you prefer the degree to the education

This could be seen quite blatantly in the first years of MOOC courses.

People became really angry at the end because there was no real certification being given.

It got really ugly.
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Interestingly college comes from the eponymous word in 14th century French [1] and the French term from Latin collegium.

On the other hand, collage comes from coller in Old French and this one from kolla in Ancient Greek.

It's a strange quirk of history that two such simillar words have such different origins.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/college

[2] https://www.etymonline.com/word/collage
Do you mean fail as in become socially and perhaps politically unacceptable ways of doing business?
Personally not sure I care about a 90s baseline at all.

And most relevantly, the difference now is access to information anywhere/everywhere and in more detail/angle/opinion without a lot of latency.
Probably a bad assumption. The guy delivering pizzas in his own car for minimum wage is basically an Uber driver that happens to do a lot of business with a pizza place.
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Your comment is getting downvotes for your casual absolutist statements, but you have a point.

An interesting illustration is that one avenue for artists to get paid for making art that side steps their gallery arrangement is public art for municipalities or integrated into new building construction. Lots of artists end up doing more poorly than they expect with these projects, because they lack or are never taught good project management skills, and they suddenly have to manage a budget in the hundreds of thousands, and attend or lead meetings with engineers and architects. OTOH, artists who have more of these skills can end up doing really well once they have a few successful projects under their belts.
I would say because software engineers often work in mission critical systems where risk is a factor, and his job as a guy finding flaws in risk models on wall street, gave him insight on that topic.

Like maybe some kinds of bugs are like tail end risk.
Restart the whole browser. You probably had the GPU drivers updated while Chrome was running and now it's running in software rendering mode. Check my other comment in this thread for more info. As a WebGL developer I encounter this problem a bit too frequently.
Are you suggesting that the furnace that heats your home is fueled by burning deceased people?
Academic writing/human thinking teaches that it is clearer to identify variables that increase things than those that do not.

You can make this personal but really this is just how you normally report scientific results.
This is all that CS has ever been, and is the reason they're teaching in C++ in the first place (it's a low-level language good for learning fundamentals), which is fine. But a huge part of CS students graduate without knowing how to code in languages that are reflected in the jobs they are trying to get, which are mostly python, javascript, and java. If you think the industry is fine, great, but if you agree with those that think CS degrees should emphasize job skills a little bit, then teaching courses in Python is a good move.
Whenever Kanye puts out an album it's one of the best rap albums of the year...he may be arrogant but he backs it up with genuine talent and arguably musical genius.
Mr Money Mustache also did a piece on how much you really made driving uber: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/11/22/mr-money-mustache-...

One of his quotes from that article:

“Imagine developing a company specifically to take advantage of people’s ignorance of how expensive it really is to drive their own car. What would this company look like? “

(the answer is of course that it would look like very much like Uber or any other ridesharing company)
Our most right wing national newspaper did a look at many mass shootings in the US and how that same scenario would play out in Canada. The overall conclusion is that not all the shootings could have been prevented by Canadian firearms laws, but many would have been. Interesting read.

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/would-canadian-gun-laws-...
Missile defense was already useless against a well prepared adversary. What hasn’t changed is the US ability to deliver an apocalyptic 2nd strike from submarines.

Congratulations Vladimir, you’ve rediscovered MAD.
Personally I think this article glosses over all of the important details and is fairly useless.

This sort of casual assumption is infuriating:

"Part of the reason why university graduates earn more is because they are brighter and harder-working to begin with."

Whether or not college is only a sorting mechanism is unsupported by the article. If we restate the intention of higher education as "make everyone brighter and harder-working", then this whole article falls apart.
The existence of WebUSB is awful. Why anyone ever thought it was a good idea to let JavaScript touch your USB devices is beyond me.
on lower-level implementation details related to how machines interpret code – knowledge that non-computer science students are unlikely to use after they graduate.

Yeah, the world really needs a load more developers with no idea how computers work. We don't see any of those in interviews already.
So what you are saying is that you are the kind of person that would have send people to the Gulag for having a different viewpoint. Good job.

I am sure this feels pleasant as long as your viewpoint is in power. Tyrannies rarely stay that way though, so good luck.
Truly fascinating, I really commend the article for being easy to... grasp. The virtual animations and the video(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKyvocNe_M) of the real life robo arm really made the concept crystal clear.

I bet it was exciting to see SAC-X graduate to each concept.

Did it ever surprise you?
Code reveals Instagram may be close to launching voice, video chat features
With a properly parsed AST, you could probably convert to Go's AST and compile down to the final Go binary, similarly to how you can write a new front-end for LLVM.
There's also bubblewrap, which I haven't used, but promises to be an even lighter way to sandbox applications.

Generally, I agree with you that the lighter the implementation is, the better, but when it comes to sandboxing and other security measures, I would prefer not to roll my own.
My doctor's colleague in US uses the 670G and when they met he showed her how now every night he has a straight 6.5 mmol/l line and no wake-ups anymore. My need for basal changes quite often and this feature would be nice.

I use xdrip which wakes me up before I got hypo or hyper. I'd prefer to have eight hours of sleep every now and then.
College should be more about career training.
This is what Taleb has said for years. Wealth leads to education. Education does not necessarily, or even commonly, lead to wealth.

If you gain wealth but do not come from an aristocratic or "respected family in society" background, the way to gain prestige is by paying for education for yourself or your children. Buying your kids a degree is the modern day equivalent of buying a venal office in 1500's France or Spain.

(Except Venal offices probably guaranteed a little more ROI in addition to the status!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venal_office
Relying solely on one platform for your organization's code repository needs is a bad thing in general. I have a workflow where I host my own Gogs instance on a raspberry pi, as well as on Github. Maybe this would be useful to you?

I've configured my push such that it will deploy to both Github and on my Gogs meaning that I always have an up to date repository in two places.

https://github.com/gogits/gogs (if you're interested in setting up your own)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14290113/git-pushing-cod... (push to two remotes)

You don't have to use just BitBucket, or rely entirely on your self hosted git service.
+1, back when I was considering attending the UC system the fact that Java was taught almost exclusively pretty much removed them from my list. We had UCSD students coming to my local community college to take the C course I was in since it wasn't being taught at UDSD. It always shocked me considering they had a pretty awesome super-computer lab.

Ironically I spend about 90% of my time in Java code. That said understanding the fundamentals is super-valuable when root-causing JNI issues or trying to speed up the VM in cases where normal Java approaches don't cut it.
60fps on Firefox Nightly 64-bit here. With Intel graphics card.
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They will email the LGBTQ organization at the university. And the only place they'll be is that club. For BOLD most people were only emailing the Hispanic / Black frats & organizations.

I know that Google even has a dedicated team who does interview prep & mock interviews (with real questions btw) for `diversity` candidates. This training is not available to whites / asian males. Obviously if you've interviewed 10x before hand and seen all the real interview questions, you're going to do better.

Basically they are doing everything they can to make sure diversity candidates are applying and have the absolute best chance of getting in.
Awesome - just applied for the Product Marketing position

-NT
Since you asked, I'll tell you why I think you deserve some downvotes...

First, it's a low-effort post.

Second, it's off-base. The article is about Russian propaganda influencing and dividing Americans. But your comment implies it's about something else, like anti-Trump groups being just as bad as pro-Trump groups.

Not to mention, after that low-effort, off-base comment, it's awfully cheeky to call for nuanced debate.
All of those usual channels and law-making are easily influenced by wealth and power. By avoiding taxes they have committed a crime against the state and the people and should be punished.
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Shrinking the kernel with a hammer
Looks like it's time to add NNT to the Stephen Wolfram list of people whom it's fashionable to criticize reflexively because of their style.

I've been reading the draft chapters of this latest book on Medium for a while now. There is real insight here, at least to someone like me who isn't smart enough to have figured the entire world out from first principles yet.
I’m aware, and I’d wager most self-hosted Jira instances are behind on updates and stability.

One former workplace had to bring in multiple Jira consultants due to poor performance and stability
I don't recall receiving any forms explaining risks at all let alone the outcomes I experienced, just consent for "the procedure", HIPPA, and "guarantee to pay them" forms etc while I had an IV in my arm and was being wheeled down the hall. I was explicitly told beforehand it was a low risk procedure and I quote "I can't promise it will improve things much but it can't make it worse and if we dont do this you will be crippled by 50." I spent years stalling and getting second opinions and got agreement with him and suggestions for other surgeries as well. NOBODY told me what could happen.

The same family and people who preached about "trusting the professionals" then turned to victim blaming (which is all too common I have learned) when things went bad and said "Why did you trust them? Take responsibility for your choices!" This was not a time when it was as easy to research doctors reputations online either and frankly it wouldn't matter because they are like Amazon reviews. People tend to look back in time and put it on the patient and say they should have been smarter, known better etc.
I have gotten at least one good thing out of occasionally looking over his twitter and that was his retweets of @cuttheknotmath, who posts fun math questions daily.

Everything else had me scratching my head wondering why he is usually so highly regarded on here. I am enjoying the Black Swan right now, it's the first book I've read of his, but he really goes off the deep end on twitter.
Any sensible implementation would be a phasing-out rather than a single sharp transition. It's not going to be like Sweden changing which side of the road they drove on overnight.
It's a typical case of the Red Queen effect [1]. Maybe in some decades a PhD will even be required to get a job as a barista (wait, the future is already here!).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis
That's what I thought as well but cannot confirm.
I'm skeptical of PE as a substitute for ABS for the application. It would be interesting to see if someone more familiar with the process could weigh in.
XaaS has many benefits, but uptime is not one of them anymore. I self-host my repos, had a few downtimes but thanks to this DDoS my local services have better uptime. ( Disclaimer: I know it's not apple to apple comparison as scale is massively different)
piemonkey said that they're encourage to take the Python one first, meaning they still have to take the C++ course as well. The Python one is optional and intended for those who are having trouble jumping straight into C++.
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You're not a weirdo. This is something I feel similarly about, but here's the thing about rich people:

1. The path to becoming rich puts them in a social class that warps their view of what matters and leaves measuring themselves against arbitrary hierarchies of their own making.

2. The path to becoming rich in modern society is such that the kind of people who would commission RISC-V implementations or security audits of popular open source software or cheap medical interventions simply cannot succeed. It may require too much of a compromise of those beliefs to actually win.
Interesting. I don't see the right axis as involving any fear. I see it as recognizing the inviolability of individual liberty above all else. And in doing so, having a great deal of trust and confidence in society to do the right thing - as long as liberty is truly and completely protected. Conversely, I see the left axis as being driven by the fear that society cannot do the right thing on its own and therefore morality must be codified in to law that requires violent force to coerce society in to obeying.
> of the 16 Wilson-Patterson items, gay marriage is the only issue that is significantly related (p<.05) to electrodermal response

My emphasis. Alternative headline:

"People less likely to stick to an individual party line item when it actually affects them."
I suppose the question is open to interpretation. When asked, “will you one day be among the top 1%?” some people might think, one year out of my 70 on earth, I will sell my house for $400k and therefore for a brief moment be among the 1%, so I should answer Yes. I’d expect that most people think of “being among the top 1%” as a more persistent class change.

What’s most amusing to me are the 19% who think they are currently among the top 1%. That’s just math fail.
You can only get lucky if you position yourself to be able to get lucky. In addition, you need that carpe diem attitude to exploit any lucky breaks.

A business opportunity is not gonna magically appear if you are not constantly looking for one and you won’t be able to exploit it if you haven’t learned relevant skills and built a network.
Maybe it's "enough" for Guido...
I wish you weren't downvoted, as there is a core insight in it. Back when universities were a thing that young aristocratic elite men attended, part of the implicit function was to get potentially troublemaking young men isolated from a lot of greater society while they worked out some of that energy and matured.

But I think the modern equivalent is closer to high school, because we have a society that places inherent value on universal grade school education, and thus mandates attendance (anti-truancy, etc). One unfortunate effect is that for some, school ends up feeling like a prison or holding pen just to keep some young people off the street and out of trouble.
If the software is unintentionally reading or writing address zero, it’s by definition not functioning properly, but because of the lack of memory protection/safety this failure mode is going undetected. Rust won’t stop you from intentionally accessing 0x0.

This seems among the hardest bugs to track down I could think of, regardless of what is mapped at address zero. I don’t think it’s condescending to say software that begins operating incorrectly in an undetectable way is always bad.

Have you had to track one of these down before? I haven’t, But I have had to track down silent memory corruption issues in memory unsafe languages in the past and it can take days, on the desktop, with good tooling, I can’t imagine doing it on an embedded system.
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ruminating. thinking unproductive / judging thoughts. whatever
If you really feel the need to think ill of me then I am not going to stand in your way, but please consider the possibility that I really do understand and that I took appropriate precautions. (You might even think to ask me about those before passing judgement.) Also, you should keep in mind that lithium batteries can catch fire with no warning signs at all, so just because your laptop battery hasn't swollen up is no guarantee that it is safe. Have you ever taken a laptop on a plane? Does that make you a terrible person who risked everyone's lives?
Agree. Having done the course, I think a text summary does a good job of getting to the big ideas (I don't really like learning via video fwiw)
(original post is obviously sarcasm: the UK banned handguns.)
I think the methodology is flawed to mix data sources like this. They shouldve surveyed drivers on their costs too.
And apparently employers know a Java-based CS degree isn’t worth as much: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/12/29/the-perils-of-java...
I'm not sure if it was an official policy or not, but at my school, all of the core classes were in Java. Other classes used other languages where appropriate, and "core classes" is not synonymous with "degree requirements"; you had to take classes that used not-Java. But Java was considered the default.

Professors don't like having to waste time in their classes teaching a language, so there's a strong pull to unify as much as possible, so you can be 100% sure that your students have some form of knowledge before they get into your class.

So, the "switch" would be changing that big block of core, required classes.
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>How is such behaviour encouraged by laws and regulations?

Because the laws and regulations create an environment where there is so tons of complexity and little transparency.

A piss test is routine. The cost does not vary and can be forecast wit 100% accuracy.

You wouldn't agree to let a mechanic charge $500 for a $25 oil change. Only a very careless person would fall for that. The current situation in medical is such that the proportion of the population who would/wouldn't fall for that scam is flipped.
60fps, Intel integrated graphics, Firefox on Linux Mint. WebGL 1.

But the controls/adjustments seem to do nothing?

Anyways, good to see things implemented in ReasonML, currently the whole documentation is a bit of a mess, being split through the Ocaml, Reason, and Bucklescript websites.
a business model based on the lack of mathematical and financial skills of the participants.

Like state lotteries?
I sure wouldn't but that's a good point. What I would say is the the ability to read is not much of a economic differenator unlike in many pre- modern cultures where the mere ability to read/write would put you at the top of the social hierarchy. (as a priest,scribe, etc)

By the way I love to read!
This discussion is framed around recent decades, not centuries. The US has been far more violent than the UK on the world stage in recent decades.
I'll be that guy that brings up Esperanto. I don't speak it fluently yet, but know it faaar better than Spanish which I have years of formal instruction in and have been exposed to a lot of Latin American culture. The important point is I've gotten very comfortable with Esperanto with only < 50 hours of learning. When around the house I can think of small things in Esperanto without trying. Esperanto was invented to be an easy auxiliary language to easily allow the world to communicate. It is against language imperialism.
This is straight-up bad advice.

You don't test the http.Client as part of your business logic, even (especially) if your business logic makes HTTP requests. Instead, you trust that package http is already well-tested, mock out http.Client as an abstract HTTP Request Do-er, and you downscope your tests to your business logic exclusively.
Then you’re good to go! (Although you should make them formal advisors with incentives.) If you can’t land clients based on that network, fresh-MBA no-network-or-experience guy is not going to help.
Usage costs for cars are usually tagged at around $0.50-$0.60 per mile [1]. Looking around, seems like the average 8 hour uber driver is putting on about 100-200 miles per shift [2].

So assuming 150 miles per 8 hours, the average uber driver is paying about $11/hr in fuel and depreciation costs.

So the net income after that would probably be more like $9/hr.

1: http://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/driving-cost-per-mile/

2: https://www.quora.com/How-many-miles-does-a-full-time-driver...
Dimension reduction technique. For word vectors, the usual use case is to take the 400 dimension vector and turn it into a 2 dimension vector that you can use to plot like a scatterplot. Similar things will be close together. Dissimilar things will be far apart. It's kind of like principal components analysis but quirkier.

For those who like Tsne. Check out the relatively new UMAP, which seems to be faster and better.