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I didn't read his opinion as challenging the value of a true college experience, just suggesting that the cost savings of online education will make it a much more attractive option for a lot of people.

Your points made me curious, though - it'll be interesting to see if there's a shift to favor a certain type of individual who thrives in an online education system vs traditional, as well as what implications that has for workplace performance.
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That's an interesting idea. Could you explain your reasoning a bit?
Specifically, 32 bits of PDP11 core memory cost on the order of $2, and that was per timestamp. Pretty obvious why you wouldn't go 64-bit unless you had to.
Lectures from professors who are supremely skilled at pedagogy are great. Lucky students will have only a handful of those in their academic careers. These can, however, be recorded. It might not be as electrifying as the real thing, but the real thing is so rare.

There are other activities that simply can't be done alone, however: laboratory classes, recitations and interactions where the students engage at a personal level with professors, TA's and other students. This is how students develop relationships that they carry with them past their time in academia.

There is room, I think, for a hybrid approach. A combination of online learning with some kind of periodic on-site and in-person practicum. This drastically lowers the cost of the education, but still engages students on a personal level.
I stretch it out quite a lot since I bought it. It's much better than the one that not stretched, though I admittedly have to take it off after a couple of hours like you said. My work focus is lost by then anyway, so it's a good time for a little break.

I found the tradeoff for the silence you got and its uncomfortable-ness is okay for its small pricetag though. :)
Yep. Same here. I'm not against compilation step. I have projects with compilation. But projects with minimal dependence work as well. E.g. the Firefox extension Tip Tab and Session Boss are moderate complex SPA, and I just used plain JavaScript, JQuery, and a small CSS framework to build them. Work very well.
Yes, because vector is a library, not part of the core language itself.
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I've found Opsgenie's support and pricing to be good. Hopefully that doesn't change with Atlassian...
The deadlines are just as real, but the adherence to those deadlines is quite different.

From my personal experience the difference is night and day. And not just for college courses vs online courses, but even for casual offline courses vs online courses.

The data apparently reflects my personal experience. I can't find any of the (numerous) studies I had seen before, but this link alludes to them:

https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/articles/2...
How is a C++ not a class? It’s a class of objects satisfying certain operations and possessing certain attributes.
They’ll do well if they let engineering do the driving. If marketing gets to dictate direction, I’m afraid it’ll turn into a Frankenstinian electric monster.
The big thing about Tesla is they have their supercharger network, are these other brands expected to run their own versions or just use Tesla's stations?
I am moving into ES6 modules and the very notion of trying to use Babel or other post compiler to support older code styles seems archaic.

It reminds me of the smell of supporting IE6.

My apps are all designed to run on the latest browsers. Maybe I am lucky this way, but I don't have to support browsers older than a few months for my key systems.

Not sure about the OP, but for me, I've been around for almost 20 years on web dev front end stuff, and every time I review a compiler, a while later a new one comes along. And eventually every compiler I have tested/or reviewed is now out of style, or the version I tested had so many bugs, or NOW the default configs are perfect! bah. Burnt way too many times on this. I use absolutely minimal external libraries, and those that are, are already minimized.

Eventually, when my systems get more wider spread and more devs involved, I think a build step for staging then to production will be useful though.

(note, we do have a build step, it just doesn't use any front end compilers like webpack/babel)
That's a silly attitude. You're right, the plane should be serviced regularly but that's no reason to build a time bomb in the code.
The standard criticism of Christensen's work on disruption is that it applies better to products sold to business than those sold to consumers. The perennial failure of Apple to die as per his predictions is a case in point.

He seems to have jumped into the "online resources will cause the traditional university to fail" bandwagon a bit late. I haven't heard that much hype about MOOCs lately, presumably because the dire completion rates have cleared out the hype circa 2013.

It wouldn't surprise me if he's right, but not for the right reasons. Half of US colleges could go bankrupt in 10-15 years simply because they don't really provide a good education. They won't be replaced by a disruptor, they will just no longer be able to crank out mediocre educational product to people who now realize that a Bachelor of Something Or Other from Podunk U isn't actually a ticket to the middle class.
> They're not supposed to be for-profit corporations, although many have run them as such.

Can you explain a bit about why you believe that? I could imagine different parties having different goals for the same institution.
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The book is a memoir of Boris Chertok, one of the leading soviet rocket and spacecraft designers, and was written in 90s. (can't recommend it highly enough, by the way) The rest is my own conclusion. It's actually quite hard to pinpoint a single cause for all russian space industry troubles, most of it goes far beyond a single industry boundary and boils down to the politics, lobbying games and lack of governmental interest in certain industries which are still 99% dependent on the government.
Probably an expanding electric offer benefits Tesla at this time. It creates more demand by publicity and makes electric vehicles more mainstream
I'd love to see a teacher apply how modern influencers approach media. Gary Vaynerchuk is an extreme example. Create a lecture, put it online. Then create 5x10 second soundbites of the most meaningful parts. Then create meme+quotes to be shared. Then create some GIFs of you being animated with caption text. Then read all the comments and create a second round of media if people are resonating with any other pieces.

They would need to think through the recording setup and cant just put a wide angle on the powerpoint and call it a day.
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The insurance company wants to pay out less money, so they offer a reduction in premium cost for behaviors that they think are worth that differential.

Suppose you have a thousand doohickey machines that cost 10,000 each to replace in an emergency, of which 50% is the doohickey cost and 80% of the rest is the emergency labor cost ; a ten year lifespan, and an observed failure rate of 1% per year.

In a normal year, you need to replace 100 doohickeys at a cost of a million. Over ten years, you replace 1000 doohickeys at a cost of ten million. Your insurance company charges you 1.02 million a year whether they have to replace 900 or 1100 in that particular year. It costs you a little more on average, but it keeps you from experiencing a catastrophe.

Now the insurance company gathers data from your doohickeys that predicts with 90% reliability that a doohickey will fail within a month. If they can pay the 1000 non-emergency cost of the labor (plus the 5,000 part cost), then they go from a 10,000 outlay to a 6000 outlay. 4000 savings x 90% x 100 doohickeys needing replacement is 36000.

So the insurance company offers you a reduction from 1.02 million per year to 985,000 per year if you install the realtime doohickey monitoring system. That's a great savings for you, a good savings for the insurance company, and everybody is happy...

unless it turns out that the realtime doohickey monitors have lousy security and leak valuable personal information to anybody who guesses the password (which is password321).
Renault has been doing electric cars for some time.

One of my friends drove me recently in his Renault Zoe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoe ) and I was favorably impressed.

A new, cheaper and with extended range, version should be available next year: http://www.auto-moto.com/nouveautes/scoop/renault-zoe-2019-1...
Parents and young children are not peers. Parents need to understand that their role changes as the child grows older.
There's some kind of aircraft repair tape like duct tape, which is made with much stronger fibers and uses a much stronger adhesive. It's not called "aircraft tape," however. That's something else. A friend was telling me that there was a small hole in a submarine once found patched by the stuff.

I try to carry 4 strips of medical tape stuck to the back of my emergency credit card. I think I have to check it and restock.
More generally, statements should appear in the same order as they are executed, as far as this is possible.

This nullifies some other common sources of confusion, such as which statements are executed before a GROUP BY and which ones after (and why HAVING exists as a keyword). It's also similar to how CTE syntax is generally much more readable than subqueries.
My only issue with this is the older in life idea. I agree that marrying later in life has many benefits. The drawbacks for me are health-related. As we age, we have higher health risks. Aside from early death, I seem to recall research indicating offspring "health" decreases as either parent ages.

Still, finding love later in life is quite a good thing. If it happens, then that's wonderful.
same can be argued for loud Harley or Indian motorcycles. tbh, they are going overboard but I always wondered if a loud bike truly is safer? It makes sense that if you hear your doors rattling on the highway, the tactile feedback from the monstrous motorcycle exhaust sound immediately catches attention. Also, there is an intimidation factor as well.

Meh, I say your life and safety is of higher priority. but do not be surprised if somebody snaps, I've watched too many /r/publicfreakouts to know what the emotional threshold of an adult commuter is these days.
Even as a Tesla stockholder and Tesla Model S owner I completely agree. However, all of these cars, are going to market late next year, and are a bit slower and with less range than the current Tesla lineup. The car that shakes up the game, is the upcomming Porsche Taycan. The first var to one up Tesla on charging speed, and the looks of the car are amazing!
For smaller projects - sure, but for anything bigger than that it will take more time fiddling with JavaScript quirks then just use a preprocessor. Like with css compared to sass, I can’t imagine myself writing plain css anymore for any big project, it’s a nightmare to maintain and edit
> I sleep very well at night knowing my software is not keeping helicopters in the air, cars on the road, etc.

Hopefully at least, but you never know where those random shell scripts you put in a gist (or whatever) might end up.
This doesn't really surprise me. There are so many terrible, and sometimes predatory for-profit tradeschool/colleges out there. State tuition scholarships are only getting worse over time, MOOC's are only getting better, and branching out into larger fields. Many for-profit colleges/tradeschools are using lynda.com and other partnerships with MOOCs anyhow.

Grad schools are now offering online equivalents that are treated seriously (e.g. Georgia Tech especially) at affordable rates.

Even when I had courses in university, sometimes there was an online version of every class. Why spend the effort of going to class, getting ready, when you can just watch everything at 2x playback speed?

There are some classes that require hands on learning. But these are far and inbetween, and mostly are STEM related anyhow. You can't replace the collaborative experience, social connections of a college campus. And wisdom from an instructor, or those connections. But you don't need to go through that twice (grad school - unless for research) and tuition costs for online grad degrees are only lowering down for these
What's the best IDE to use with TypeScript on a macbook?
Did Toyota release a full-electric Prius? If so, I wasn't aware of it.

The other thing Tesla did was make it a status symbol to have an EV, so there's that.
I agree with your assessments of governments, but your assessments of power issues are pretty misguided.

You seem to be arguing that demand for renewable power will...make there be less renewable power available? Which is not really how economics works. Creating lots of power demand isn't going to make us like, run out of sunlight. It's going to raise the price of power. It's going to compensate people for building more capacity. It's going to do all the things that we want.

In fact, by providing a constant demand for excess power generation which is currently hard to store, crypto-currencies can substantially improve the economic profile of building out lots of capacity that otherwise wouldn't make economic sense.
Used evernote a ton for a long time, but their last major overhaul 18 months or so ago left me behind. They switched their UI, process flow and more. It took it from a tool I found indispensable to one that tried to force me to their will.

Eventually, I grew tired of trying to fit into their new methods and moved on.

It doesn't surprise me they haven't been able to grow their paid base.
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The new reddit is also a better experience than the old reddit, so there's that
Not all people do code anything else than JS web stuff these days.
MOOCs have a staggering drop-out rate though, which I think makes predictions about their disruption less clear cut.

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Yes, people who study hard and perhaps watch too much TV will have more eye problems, but they also have to use their eyes more and will be diagnosed more often with eye problems. You don’t need great eye sight to pick rice, and it is very probable that many farmers have bad vision but just never care (or could even afford) glasses, especially back 20 years ago.
>e.g. name another programming language that is as valuable today as it was 20 years ago, if not moreso

If we include non-Turing-complete languages as “programming languages”, which we must for SQL to get that 20-year label since SQL wasn't Turing-complete until recursive CTEs were part of the language, then XML.

Also, even without that caveat, candidates include Bash, C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, elisp, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, VHDL, and others. Some, while still being as useful as they were 20 years ago, are down from a peak in the intervening period, but arguably that's true of SQL, as well.
Types Obsession Syndrome?
not working on safari?
Introducing the Prius (or Leaf) on the economy side of the market didn't put much pressure on anyone. I don't believe the incumbents started making serious strategic adjustments until Tesla started taking sales on the high-margin side. Maybe only the timeline shifted, but that's still substantive, IMO.
Fast REPL cycle.
This is a pretty information light article. If we assume that college prices are unsustainably high, and online courses achieve results comparable with a large swath of universities, it's not clear whether he assumes theses schools are unwilling or unable to respond to the changing environment.

He may well be right, but it would be foolish to think that these schools don't see the same data he does, and that they're not going to at least try to address it.
Sapiens is an okay book, but it’s all over the place. On one hand it kinda says that in many regards we have hypothesis at best (ie we don’t know) to follow it with [sometimes] wild theories.
There is no way you can cover as much ground as the author wanted in a book this size. It got diluted and turned into the classic “X best seller” crap.
Probably vscode or a Jetbrains IDE.
Just wait until it really sinks in for their dealers that selling electric cars means greatly reduced maintenance. Given what fraction of their dealers' revenue comes from maintenance, this will be a left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing kind of situation as the manufacturer and the dealer's interests fail to align.

Tesla worked hard to avoid having dealers. And I believe that dealers will be a weakness for the legacy auto industry here.
I think it’s unlikely that the majority of Tesla’s massive stock valuation comes from people who just wanted to see the likes of Mercedes hammer the final mail into Tesla’s coffin. I think there’s even a chance that they wanted to make money! If some people are to be believed, they even expected Tesla to be “the new GE” and that cars were only the beginning.

At the very least I think the idea that Tesla sought to be killed ignominiously by rivals while struggling financially was an unlikely game plan.
Have you considered hiring an ops/devops consultant for a few hours to help provide direction? Even at low four figures, it would be money well spent based on where you're currently at.
A couple different ways to avoid the issue:

1: Size the type used to store the value so that it cannot overflow even in corner cases such as a plane being on for several months. Ex. going from a 32 bit int to a 64 bit.

2: Have a flag that you set when the counter overflows, so you can calculate the actual time. Given the length of time that planes are on this would give you enough time.

3:Lessen the precision of the counter (Probably not an option since the precision is usually a requirement)
Manual labor Unions set productivity standards to qualify. They demand the appropriate training, where applicable, before such an individual can even join the union.

"The 10x programmer" is a myth, as you yourself acknowledge - there is still a limit to practical human productivity. But I see no acknowledgement of such protections which ensure workers' productivity, and keeping unskilled scabs out of skilled-workers' unions.

Skilled Worker Unions have weathered genuine attacks against such unskilled scabs with audition periods, training requirements, and rigorous professional quotas.

In those cases where Union Coders genuinely suck, it is because the Union was organized without regard to how such Unions work.
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What you are going through is why “Just use Heroku” is still great advice from wise people.

There are so many options out there that until you actually hit the point where Heroku is too expensive or no longer makes sense...Heroku is your best option (if AWS is an option).
This is really why I'm a little bearish on Tesla. It's not because of their issues, which can be overcome, but because now that the EV market has been validated other bigger, richer, and more experienced car companies are going to come into the space and offer Tesla a whole lot of competition.

Unlike space flight (Elon's other big venture) cars are not an industry that has been totally moribund since the 1980s. It's a lot harder to disrupt a healthy industry than it is to disrupt the walking dead (ULA, Roscosmos, etc.).
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Plain CSS has actaully come a long way since SASS was first introduced. The only reason to use SASS nowadays is for their color functions (which is still a big reason unfortunately).
Sarah Jeong is not a 'visible far-left figure'. Candace Owens was not suspended for tweets 'copied', she changed the tweets. This bizarre and tediously repeated idea that you can change the actual words of something and not change the meaning and degree of offensiveness doesn't meet the logical argument standard of most toddlers. It's worse than unconvincing, it just makes you sound like an idiot - I'd reconsider using it.
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Unless your user is sitting in the same datacenter as the app, there is almost no chance that you're getting a 50ms latency on any action that requires a round-trip.

Pinging google.com from my current connection (NYC) results in an average 26ms latency. Facebook is 25ms. That's just baseline connection latency for a user in a place with a solid connection, and you're unlikely to do better.

Realistically, most apps that aren't Google scale are lucky to get 300ms average latency. The way you improve responsiveness is by eliminating round-trips, not assuming that client-side frameworks will save you.
Researchers have already shown they can print a mask capable of fooling Face ID and siggraph papers from a decade ago could reconstruct 3d images from a collection of 2d images which means any notable person's Face ID is a Google image search away from being compromised. Touch ID may be fooled 1 in 50k times but Face ID for any public figure (or regular person in police custody) can be fooled or activated against your will 1 in 1 times. Face is an awful idea for a security layer and this new device's supposed lack of Touch ID amounts to a feature regression.
And ox-carts. And walkers. And all kinds of other long tail surprises. The distinction between limited access roads and the regular kind exists for a reason.