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> The ones that are able to pick up coding early just don't bother. They get hired through their family's network

Heh. Indeed. Only an idiot would be born into a family without a strong professional network ;-)

Less sardonically, I did have this option after high school (although not through a family network). Fortunately, I took full advantage before finishing school and did a ton of freelancing plus an internship. I noticed, before it was too late, that the sort of software engineering work available without a degree was not going to keep me happy for 30+ years.

This is the advice I give bright young students (as opposed to those who merely have family connections): make certain that you're not going to become unbelievably bored by your late 20s.

If you can get a job doing web dev out of high school, you can land a job doing something super fun like self-driving after college and you can write your own job description with a phd.

Your advice is good for kinda dumb kids from well-networked families, but IMO terrible advice for actually really intelligent kids. They will become super bored with the sort of software development that's available without spending a few years getting a good university-level grounding in mathematics and natural sciences. You can do that without going to college but it's still a four-year full time job...

> I'd love to see data on Google employee's education levels over time.

I think you'd be disappointed; Google hires a ton of Ph.Ds and recruits heavily from tippy-top universities.
Very good list.

One I ask personally: in the past year, what work are you most proud of doing?
Reduced maintenance hurts dealers and independent mechanics, but if electric cars also come with much increased long-term durability, that also torpedoes manufacturers' revenue. (e.g. if the long-term per-km capital cost of driving is halved, that halves the entire car manufacturing sector's revenue.)
>I would reserve that (it won't be available before 2020 and they have yet to have the battery production ready to make the car in volume!). Tesla's Model Y will be presented in a few months.

This. EV production comes down entirely to battery availability. It looks like Mercedes is making the same mistake as Nissan initially did, and thinking they can roll their own battery tech and production facilities. They would be far better off striking deals with LG or Panasonic as the rest outside of Tesla have done. The 64kWh 2019 Nissan leaf (only real competitor to Model 3) will be using LG chem batteries, as does the Chevy Bolt/Volt.

There's absolutely no way Mercedes will make up for a 15 year head start on battery tech that Tesla has. I'd expect to see them building EVs at $100k+ MSRP and quantities under 20k/year, and having serious battery degradation issues along with other idiosyncrasies of LiPo chemistry that have taken decades to work out in large scale manufacturing. They will be making small batches of pricey luxury EVs while Tesla, Nissan, and GM are producing millions of units for the masses in 5 years.
In Europe, there is a big pooling of resources going on against the Tesla network under the Ionity brand. For the USA, I guess that the big electrifyamerica investment that Volkswagen has agreed to as part of the diesel settlement is expected to result in an open charging network dense enough to rival Tesla's.
And only when they secure some battery production capacity to make these cars in volume. That's an even better indicator.

Mercedes et al. always had big plans to produce batteries. But the plans remains plans. Every year.

Tesla, on the contrary, keeps growing its lead over the legacy automakers. They are still have 5 to 10 years ahead on this front and their competitors are still writing press releases...
(I agree that waiting until generics were ironed out would have been a better idea, because we already have pretty large communities around existing error handling libraries. Unfortunately this is a pattern of the Go language designers -- they have often ignored community consensus around an issue, like they did with vendor/ and other similar issues).

My main issue with it (aside from making memes about RSI) is that it actually dilutes your test coverage artificially. 'go tool cover' instruments line-by-line (technically I think it's statement-by-statement but that's not relevant here) and so having a dummy line like

if err != nil {
return err
}

where you aren't doing anything useful with the error decreases your test coverage over a line which is not only obviously correct but might also be impossible to test (some APIs have an error return even though they can never fail in most usecases -- and as a user of the library it's better to be safe and check the error anyway). A perfect example of this is the Read() interface from math/rand -- it is impossible for this to return an error and yet you definitely should check the return value from Read() and it would be irresponsible not to.
Lots more at https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Levenshtein%20Automata%20point...
Those libraries aren't man-rated - they aren't code that you can literally stake peoples' lives on.
Interesting to compare to the other Trillion dollar company:

Apple (AAPL) earned $11.04/share last quarter and trades for ~$228 today

Amazon (AMZN) earned $12.63/share last quarter and trades for ~$2,040 today

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Have you ever met an American? We're not as wealthy as you might think. Income is offset by cost of living, we're not exactly bathing in gold-plated rose petals. Quality of life for the average citizen is not that different from any other civilized country.

Xenophobia (which is not shared by the entire population) is not specific to the states either. Do you watch European news? What's happening in China with the Uighurs? In fact, I would argue that most countries are more xenophobic if anything, they just don't have to deal with as many foreigners who want to move there and people here are actually more used to immigrants than in other places where everyone is 'the same'. In Latin America, xenophobia is gaining ground as well with the Venezuelan crisis and this is an instance where the immigrants are people of the same race/culture.

> as Nietzsche explained..

Are you sure he wasn't talking about himself?
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Bitcoin mining is screenless. Javascript energy is generally outweighed by screen energy anyway, I would imagine. All of which I believe isn't really the lowest hanging fruit.
You mention correlation and causation here already, but perhaps you should take it further? A typical college graduate has considerably more factors in their favor to the typical high-school-only graduate even before accounting for the effect of an education.

The big question is, given a particular student, will they do better with a college education? I think the answer is probably 'yes' if they are able enough to go to a decent (not necessarily stellar) school. However, there is a vast educational hinterland offering terrible courses to weak students. These are propped up by subsidies and the idea that "any college education is better than none".
>production rate is running well ahead of sales rate.

Source?
well it's real convenient to have all faults available from the obd port, plus it's mandatory in some countries.
It looks like your Cadillac dealer would have been equally happy to sell an electric Escalade. None of the problems you listed is related to the powertrain.
The author gave a talk on this book at Google recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY
This is something I've been hearing. I have a small dev team that deploys many small (but important) apps internally.

We feel we need to hire more ops folks to help us with maintenance and troubleshooting, but people keep telling me that instead of increasing headcount, to just outsource my ops to PaaS like Heroku. After reading the comments here, I may look into this more.
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This is overstating the case for syntax. Without any empirical evidence that syntax is important to anyone other than folks that draft up syntax rules, this is just an assertion.

Put another way, do you have evidence that it is important? Has it let people write better programs? How would you prove that?

This is akin to saying grammar is important. It is, to an extent; but over adherence to grammar is usually not an effective way to communicate.
Indeed. They hit 5k/week a while ago, but recent supply issues seems to have hampered their efforts.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034153186070654976.html
I don't think the supercharger network is the right model, anyways. It makes more sense to charge an EV where you already want to stop and spend a chunk of time, ie. at a restaurant or shopping center. Most of the superchargers I've seen are set up next to existing gas stations, not places I'd want to spend 40+ minutes at waiting for my battery to charge.

Whichever company figures this out and teams up with restaurants to put chargers in their parking lots will win mass market EV adoption. It makes sense to plan your long road trips around when you want to stop for a meal. You can enjoy a nice experience while you wait for your car to charge instead of the current supercharger network where it seems like a chore.
Didn't know that, but admittedly even my notions of how non-profits are structured is only slightly deeper than the popular notion of what non-profits are supposed to be. I mostly just wish we'd all disabuse ourselves of the notion that non-profits are always meant to promote some greater social cause. Firsthand experience tells me that the statement "non-profit == good, for-profit == evil" doesn't always hold up.
I think Christensen is generally right here.

Colleges exist as physical institutions for largely obsolete reasons:

1. Libraries - pre-internet/digitization, a massive amount of human knowledge lived solely in university libraries. The size and contents of a given university's library was a very real driver of its value as an educational institution. That may be marginally true today, especially in the case of rare manuscripts and whatnot, but the competitive advantage of having an expansive library is basically gone.

2. Recruiting - Companies try to recruit new employees at universities for several reasons. First, they're outsourcing basic candidate diligence to admissions committees. Second, they see efficiency in putting the mouth of the candidate funnel where there are lots of smart motivated young people in one place. Third, alumni loyalty to alma mater is often very strong. However, technology (electronic background checks, being able to look at a candidate's repo, etc) has seriously degraded the AdCom's relative value in filtering for people who are smart, not criminals, and can get authority figures to say nice things about them. Similarly, technology has reduced to near-zero the necessity of having face-to-face interaction during the initial stages of the hiring process (employers will always want to do in-person final rounds, but the need for in-person funnel-mouth events like career fairs / company informational presentations / etc no longer exists as it did pre-internet). Alumni loyalty will be far more sticky, but its importance will diminish over time.

3. Professors - just as the competitive moat provided by libraries was largely destroyed by the internet, so too is professor access. You can talk shop with many big-name academics on Twitter; you can watch their lectures on Youtube; they will email you their papers if you email them to ask; etc. Is a Twitter argument the same as visiting someone during their office hours? No, but it's a big improvement on the previous status quo.

I think it's going to be a very, very hard landing for colleges over the next couple decades as young people start making different decisions based on the options available to them.
I read Models after a good review of it[1]. It was only sort of useful for my 36 year old self but it would have been immensely useful to me at 16.

[1]https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/05/25/models-a-summ...
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Unmanned everything. We need unmanned, armed aircraft, we need unmmaned tanks, we need unmanned attack subs. We also need manned aircraft, tanks, and ships, to host controllers close to the action, but not so close that they are vulnerable to attack.
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And by better you mean worse? I second 'pjc50 here - new Reddit is slow on both mobile and PC, inefficient to read (wastes a lot of space), has questionable interactions thanks to JS abuse, and generally turns what was a condensed link aggregator into a poor Facebook clone.
" I've replaced 5 (yes 5, not all the same one either) door handles on my $90k Escalade. I've replaced the suspension entirely (including air compressor for the rear shocks) twice. I could go on..."

Actually these problems still would exist in an EV.
I have used Mesos/Marathon from nearly the beginning and K8s. We currently use K8s. In your third paragraph about the 11 person team with custom scripts is why K8s has won out. It wasn't really the marketing by Google, it was that K8s provided by default what pretty much everyone needs (Discovery and storage management). Mesos took the approach that big shops like where everything can be extended and call APIs but if you are not very huge scale you really do not want to be writing scripts or doing any of that. You want an opinionated full stack.

Scaling from one node to 100s is not trivial in almost every stack. I just think that the requirement that something like that is trivial does not fit the use cases of almost everyone. There's always the "Can this be web scale?" question. We are able to add nodes on the fly but we would certainly face other non-k8s scaling issues with databases that are more complex.

And as for moving k8s to 100 nodes with the touch of a button pretty easily that is coming/is here. That is the power of a full stack that many people are on with. It will only get easier. Writing ad-hoc scripts and combining solutions will not.
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Good to know, thank you!

On that note, we have some odd ball legacy machines that are dictated/required by our customers. Things like WinXP. So I'm surveying Nomad now as a potential to support non-traditional OSs (though I wouldn't be surprised in Nomad doesn't support WinXP). Do you recommend anything for odd deployment needs like this?

I imagine we'll write custom plugins to handle the odd ones, since who the hell releases builds for WinXP or Win95 these days lol. Nevertheless, I figured I'd ask. Especially since broader solutions like Heroku are not going to help our WindowsX deployment woes. (note, they're physical machines currently, though virtualization might be possible)
> Where I live people cycle and walk on old country roads all the time. I am a cyclist and have no issue sharing the road, but I find myself starting to hate the cyclists and pedestrians because none of them seem to have any idea that when they are out at night and wearing black/dark clothes, not having any reflective material on their clothes or bike, or have any type of light makes them almost invisible, well invisible until I'm on top of them.

How do you cope with cows? (dark coloured ones) Or fallen branches?

In a metal cocoon of a car, you're cut off from almost all your senses. Even just your visual sense your awareness is far worse in a car than when walking or cycling. Add to that the likelihood you're traveling a lot faster and it's a recipe for disaster.
It makes me very sad to say this, but you are right.
I guess, but I'm just saying walking downtown you just don't see families, kids anywhere...whereas in most other cities you see kids, families, retirees, students, workers, etc in the "public centers" of a city.
I had to replace 5 of the 4 door handles on my early Model S -- every car manufacturer puts newer widgets on their high-end models, and then has reliability problems with them.
But since there's already a high risk of ISPs sniffing or even redirecting this traffic, you'd have to show that the risk for the average user is higher with CF.
Mys sister has a Zoe. Really nice and the price is right!
So this is this week's recommendation? Last I checked it was grunt, or gulp, or something like that. I am forced to dabble with Node from time to time, and the effort to track what's this week's build chain is already too mentally taxing for me.
i understand that this is "the" way to do it these days, but it's way too expensive. the old ereader was maybe $120, and did what i wanted to out of the box and with stellar battery life.
Unfortunately, the extent to which these sorts of guidelines will ever be followed is at most the extent to which programmers feel like putting in extra effort over and above that required to meet business requirements, and will usually require programmers to push back against business requirements in order to achieve any headway.

Those little social buttons that track every user and nobody ever clicks? You're going to have to spend as much time making the case to your boss why they're a bad idea as you would simply implementing them. Ditto ad spam, interstitials, sticky banners, and the like. And if the UX is bad but conversions increase, good luck.

These sorts of guidelines are great for small sites you control yourself. The chances of being able to follow them, even if you give a shit, on a corporate site where conversions put food on the table, is essentially nil.
I would love to have a beautiful brand new corvette. Do I need 400 horsepower? Hell no, I wouldn't even have a use for it, but that's never been the issue.

I can afford it, in fact, I can put a 50% downpayment on a new corvette. I can afford the monthly payment. But why would I? Cars pretty much always depreciate. I certainly wouldn't be able to keep it up as a collectors quality example, even if it ever became one. And in 99% of my use cases, a used Corolla or Accord will provide a similar experience.

Meanwhile, in 1966, Ford Mustangs apparently cost around $20k adjusted for inflation[0]. That's mind boggling. If a sports car were that cheap, I'd own it. Even the Toyota 86 and Mazda Miata are around $30k new now.

[0]:https://www.cjponyparts.com/resources/mustang-prices-through...
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Personal hobby projects &/or learning things before I go to sleep. I find it hard to sleep unless I meet this quota everyday.

Second, sometimes I'll read math and/or nonfiction books. Those are never too exciting like fiction, so I end up falling asleep fairly consistently

Third, not doing work or using phone in bed.

Fourth - associating different postures with different conditional training. When I'm sitting or standing I'm almost always doing something productive. I sleep on my left side, so this is the cue to tell my brain to go to bed. I strictly enforce these disciplines, and will have never have my phone out when in this sleeping position

Fifth, using flux to have warmer color temps / less blue light on monitors before going to bed

Sixth, bedjet and bodypillow do wonders on aiding in sleep

Seventh, working out every 3 days or less helps me fall asleep. When I hit an awful sleep cycle, I do a 40 minute run that day to reset my body fatigue.
What’s the resell market like for EV? I wouldn’t ever buy new and with the change in maintenance I’m wondering how viable just going to a mechanic to checkout a craigslist car purchase will be as EVs make up a greater share of vehicles on the road.
Ex-military is not ex-combat veteran. Having been adequately trained for and employed in the use of deadly force (vs. refueling trucks or counting bullets) are two very different things. 1 in 10 soldiers are actually in a combat job.

It all comes down to training and experience. Police training budgets are tight, officers roll in single squad cars (little safety), sometimes physical fitness standards aren't upheld (fat cops can't scrap with someone they have to use a device to subdue them), and mental health issues abound (the job can be quite stressful and boring at the same time).

I've watched a lot of body cam footage of (legitimate) police shootings. I wonder how many of these one on one situations would have turned violent if the perp knew there were two officers bearing down on him instead of one?
In my experience a horn is far superior to a voice. For one, it's much louder. And as rude as a horn might seem to some, I've had much worse experience from shouting at drivers. It doesn't matter how polite you try to be. The volume of your voice is going to make you seem like a jerk. In contrast, most drivers respond fine to my air horn.

I agree that horns can be rude and disruptive, and perhaps most honks are. But I stand by every time I've used mine. I don't use it frivolously. Whereas drivers seem to use their horns frequently because they are impatient, I use it only because I'm in danger.
Tesla's own SEC filings.
Are you willing to post your code for your crawler some where? Sounds like a neat project, shame most people aren't fixing the problem.
Oh I don't think we need to wait, pretty sure it's already sunk in, and the effects are measurable: https://electrek.co/2018/05/21/electric-car-adoption-decepti...
I should have made it more clear, but one need of mine (as mentioned in another comment) is a deployment system that supports the ability to manage very old, archaic, wonky systems. WinXP, Win95, etc. Do you recommend any tooling to support this?

PAASs aren't going to help me much in managing our resources like physical legacy machines. Thoughts?
AWS and their ad business are projected to generate $31 billion in operating income for fiscal 2021.

Those two businesses are worth a likely $600b to $1t depending on how aggressive you want to be on the multiple. That's three to four years out, however that's how the market typically treats Amazon (forward expectations of growth, not the prior 12 months earnings). They're richly valued today, no question, and it's quite plausible they'll actually grow into their current valuation in time (the market cap today pulls at least five years of growth forward to the present imo; who knows if AWS and advertising will keep going as anticipated).

The retail business will end up being by far the least valuable part of the Amazon empire. Whenever the day comes that these pieces are split off, particularly AWS, the retail business won't end up being worth more than Walmart.
I had a different experience. There is a lot of speculation in the book and normally I would not mind it that much, but again you have to practice what you preach (which the author does not).

Again, it’s an okay book. I wouldn’t say the best in the last 10,5,2,1,0 years but worth reading, if only to form your own opinion and learn a few interesting factoids here and there.
Yeah, I haven't seen any great reports from people who've tried to use the supercharger network for long road trips. I think they should focus on building chargers where people already want to stop, like shopping malls or restaurants. I wouldn't mind enjoying a nice meal while I wait for my car to charge instead of being stuck at some gas station in the middle of nowhere.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a vibrant free web. Wikipedia is about the only major non-ad supported website that normal people visit. Most user content is probably on Facebook or Medium. Most breaking news is first available on twitter. Even independent websites, most likely have Google analytics and Google ads.

From a European point of view, the current copyright situation is just a wealth transfer from European companies who have the copyrights, to American advertising companies.
At that point it will be pointless to even own the car. Might as well just subscribe to 'Mercedes Prime' for $500/month and have their automated vehicles available on demand.
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