skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Between 2008 and 2014, the average salary of MBA graduates three years after they left business school increased by just 4 per cent to $127,000." https://www.ft.com/content/a2813230-d69b-11e7-a303-9060cb1e5...

10k/year is far more than the value of the median MBA. Especially, when you adjust the numbers for inflation and expected raises.
maybe you should do the same now :)
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I think it’s more the opportunity cost potentially. Amount of lost income by not working for 2 years + can you get that $10k increase in salary by having 2 more years of experience
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got my MBA, _then_ learned to code while trying to build a startup, so became 'technical' and 'managerial' at about the same time.

I think my MBA taught me how to view the business at a systems level. When you consider the various financial and performance metrics that managers look at, a business is just another engineering problem.

w/o the MBA, I'm not sure when I would've learned that way of thinking.
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> Sadly, the enormous majority of engineers and product managers I meet are completely ignorant of basic product economics, business and finance basics, competitive strategy, etc. (Unsurprisingly, they don't consider themselves to be ignorant on those subjects, quite the opposite).

One could the same the same about MBAs. A lot of them are quite ignorant about engineering and scientific basics. But, we don't ask managers to get engineering and PhD degrees. So may be, we need value different areas of expertise and learn to work together. I hope an MBA degree teaches some aspects of it.
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Depends on the field. Now that we all realize that you can't actually conclude that you've found something until you've thought about how likely your result was to occur randomly, only a few stragglers and the "lucky ones" where effect sizes are gigantic (you either land on the moon or you don't) can get away without it.
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If it's choosing an ending, I agree, that does sound awful (I want to be surprised by how something ends), but if it's making a choice and then the show has to deal with the consequences of that, that could be interesting (especially as it's Black Mirror, which is likely to actively subvert the choice).

It's certainly possible to have a singular vision but multiple endings.
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I'm glad to hear about the freelance gigs for COBOL coders.

I started with COBOL. If the freelance gigs continue on, maybe I'll wind down my career with a little part-time, once-in-a-while COBOL work.

It might just be nostalgia, but I miss that environment a little bit.
What an asshole, and what a stupid thing to do. He has a responsibility to the company and not just his immense ego, and that responsibility is long term. Taunting the SEC while still under DOJ investigation and facing a number of lawsuits is reckless, obnoxious, counterproductive, and borderline sociopathic.
I agree that at times it might be slightly counterproductive but then again if you start making exceptions it's going to be a mess every time as we always argue back and forth whether a particular submission is acceptable or not.

I would also argue that hiding "the aim behind the submission" is soft of the point, submissions should be able to stand on their own. If more context is required then a better link should be found IMO, a HN submission title is not the place for an opinion piece. Worst case scenario add a comment in your submission explaining your rationale.
I've seems criticism of the idea that an MBA makes you ready to manage anything, without any particular domain knowledge.

The part I find unsatisfactory about MBA training is that it seems to be two degrees fused at the hip. Some people pursue one because they want to work in finance, whether as traders or analysts or some sort of deal-makers. Others pursue one because they want to be managers or executives in industry, running companies that are responsible for a wide variety of products or services. It seem like these two tracks should be disentangled.
Musk doesnt have an MBA.

But yes, Google and Microsoft hired MBAs as CEOs when they ceased to innovate at the same rate as before and started to be just ordinary companies defending a monopoly.
> "The whole thing was just a drawn up window inside the phishing website!"

This reminds me the "Phishing Alert Toolbars" section from Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering" book on what he calls a "picture-in-picture website" [0]

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-c02.pdf
Since quitting, do you have any insight into what was making you unhappy about using them?

I ask because I've never felt that social media has made me unhappy (beyond some "FOMO" from seeing cool stuff my friends are doing.)
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There was an article I read recently about this fight where Khosla said he's now continuing the legal battle simply on principle. He doesn't actually care (that much) about public access any more.
I read a lot of "book in which you are the hero" (called "choose your own adventure" I think in the US) in my early years.

I'm always surprised the niche for this type of work in so small and revolves around the same themes and for a young audience. I think the fear of missing out on the alternate stories might be a factor but nothing would prevent you from reading all branches. Where are the "choose your own romance", the multiverse science fiction, the time travel stories where you pick the changes the hero does to the past, etc.
A liberal arts education is a luxury good, and should be viewed as such. It's pretty irresponsible the way this pipe dream of college being some magical place to follow your passion and shoot for the stars and discover yourself has been sold to young impressionable people. Maybe you could get away with that in the 70s when you could work summers and a few hours a week doing workstudy and pay your tuition bills, but that dog won't hunt these days.

Get a major in something useful first, and maybe a minor in something fun if you want. If you just want to screw around and learn whatever, you don't need to pay 50k a year to do it, you just need to grab a library card and some syllabuses to point you in the right directions.
Nope, what gives you that impression?
There is often a thing where engineers have issues with general managers, particularly non-technical ones. I don't think the degree has much to do with it.

The best thing about an MBA is that you will learn about a variety of disciplines: finance and accounting, marketing, information technology, statistics, operations, economics, public relations, business strategy. You won't become expert in any of those fields but at a good school you will get to know classmates that are experts in each field. An MBA is a great opportunity to switch direction in your career.

The bad thing about an MBA is it takes two years of your life and can be expensive. If you are an attractive candidate tuition is negotiable, so I think the time spent on it is the biggest problem. There is no bar exam for MBAs so be wary of second tier schools or "Executive" (night school) MBAs. They just mean less. No one cares about whether you have an MBA once you are five years into your career, but a very top school always looks good.

Bottom line: the degree got too popular, got less valuable as the structure of business has changed since it was conceived, and it makes sense for fewer people to pursue it. Supply and demand, as the taught me :)
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> This is a case where I'd argue deviating from the "official" article title is warranted

Not really. "macOS Server gets worse in 5.7.1" is a purely subjective opinion and there's no reason this personal opinion should override the actual article's title.

I personally have never used macOS server and from that context, the actual title ("Prepare for changes to macOS Server 5.7.1") makes a lot more sense.
In other words, there is a 0.00135% chance you will be fined $5000.

...anybody wanna sell insurance?
I didnt get my Masters in a specifically technical field. Engineering Management was 60% Industrial Engineering and 40% business.

I found 2 classes useful-

>Lean Principles- changed my life, I started using Industrial Engineering at home and sharing my findings with the internet. It has been very popular.

>Marketing class- 2 lessons, if you are going to put years into a project, do a marketing plan. Also, learned how incredibly important marketing is.

Everything else was basically useless. Had a few crazies as professors in my business classes. Engineering classes were not bad, but not helpful.

So 2/10 classes were useful? But incredibly useful.
Hmm, moderators changing titles to meet the visible policy against editorialising is hardly censorship, or creepy, nor anything like them.

In this particular case there's a good argument GP makes against the supplied Apple headline as it's spin.
Yes, I agree.

It's the business knowledge that really matters. I think this is true no matter what languages and toolsets are used-- in the end, it turns out to be the surrounding information that's of value.
That may have been true, but IIRC the Soviet totalitarian dictatorships also tightly controlled access to communication and content creation devices. Fax and copy machines were tightly controlled to prevent unwanted communication and underground newsletters, for example.

In fact, I read that one reason for the opening up of the USSR under Gorbachev was that the Soviets realized that they couldn't both maintain a totalitarian dictatorship and keep up in information technology.

(I read this stuff awhile ago and my memory of the details is vague. For example, I don't know if those policies existed in Hungary specifically.)
Sadly, the motive there was probably he found her hot, would hit that, was aggravated at reading her Tinder messages and finding her even more hot because of it and was pissed off that there was no way in hell he would ever get a shot at being with her, so he felt some need to piss all over her, blame her for making him hot and bothered with no immediate means to get relief, yadda.

This is an essential element of situational crap that I am referring to when I complain about sexism in the world. Meanwhile, other people seem to think I mean "Men who firmly believe women should be barefoot and pregnant and who have some conscious intent to prevent them from having real careers." or some nonsense along those lines.
I've only recently started learning more about GraphQL and wow , 'live' queries is quite the feature! I'm curious though, have you found any downsides to using 'live' compared to more traditional updates? Thanks for the event plug btw, looking forward to it!
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What a bum.
I just checked again by getting a Plus Code for one location from the Plus Codes site and pasting it into Google Maps on a desktop browser. Google Maps shows a totally different place for it. Something still seems to be broken.
no, that's the crazy part -- he doesn't live there and has no plans to live there and hasn't even been to the beach more than a handful of times:

"[H]e bought the place on what he says was a whim, has never spent a single night there, and regrets it enormously."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/technology/vinod-khosla-b...
Cool! Thanks for sharing.
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What's your preferred monitor setup for coding?

How many monitors?

Size? Resolution? Aspect ratio?

How about one ultra-wide gaming-style monitor?

Or using a 1080p or 4K TV as a monitor?

What are important monitor attributes to you? DPI? Refresh rate? Color quality? Brightness? Contrast? Ability to rotate to landscape or portrait mode? Brightness control from the keyboard? Versatility for other uses?

What's your comfortable distance between face and monitor(s)?

Do you wear blue reading glasses while you code, or do your glasses or monitor filter out any blue light?
Is this from a fancy school? Most MBAs I know are working jobs that have nothing to do with their MBA, making less than $50,000. The only people who benefited from it are guys who did engineering + MBA.
A lot of people don't realize that Microsoft actually had two antitrust agreements. The first in the early 90s was a slap on the wrist (so much so that most people don't even remember it). Gates even mocked it. That culminated in the late 90s antitrust that almost saw the company split apart.
Plot twist: the options are actually swapped and when you choose one you get the other ending.
Been really happy with mine... still running a DS-409+ with 4x 4TB drives. Will probably upgrade or homebrew a freenas box again. Still sour from my last freenas experience in 2012 though.
You just pointed out that the drilling is through the aquifer. And, as pointed out, they reinject waste products. Does anyone believe there is zero contamination?
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I recently had a moment where I really appreciated running most of our stack on open source system. Needless to say it was a weird interaction with the way flask handles files, boto/s3, flask admin, and a core mimetype util in python. A name was being set on a file stream as an integer which triggered a mime type check in boto, which caused the mimetype check to error because it expected a string. (I still have not figure why that name is being set on the stream of mostly excel file uploads.)

Needless to say, if I needed to go through some recent support hire from some enterprise service, it could have taken a long time to figure it all out. Reading the source made actually solving this much easier.

This is obviously not unique, as it is a core part of why open source is successful.

It would be great to hear of any other stories.
Well, only one of those two groups actually studied climate science, so my money is on them being the actual specialists.
I would point out that a lot of the techie disdain for "MBAs" isn't at MBAs in general (though there is some of that), but specifically at "Harvard MBAs", the high powered business types that are trained to swoop into a company, assess best how to tear it to bits, sell the pieces, and make a tidy profit for themselves and their paymasters while disrupting the lives of everybody else involved, and possibly the industry as a whole, or perform a variety of other such things that involve offloading all the risk and pain on to the employees while taking the profit and value for themselves.

There is a time and a place for such shenanigans but the techies of folklore saw it happen in a lot of bad places in a lot of bad ways.

Some of the rest of the disdain for MBAs is that a lot of such courses are aimed at the general public; if you are the type that had a computer science degree in your past, you will find the course to be slow and the coursework to be trivial, and you'll probably quite correctly feel you'd be better off on at least the most direct level (ignoring "networking", etc.) studying it yourself. But I kept my qualification to the speed of the course and the homework carefully; the ideas inside can still be useful and valuable, it's just they'll come at a rather slow pace compared to what you may be used to and wrapped in a lot of BS (to you) coursework.
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NVidia passthrough is actually not too hard to get working these days on KVM, thanks to the driver support that’s been added aimed at eGPUs.
Your home country is pretty good at this stuff too. Had this happen to me in 2016 on a business trip, but I just had my work phone and laptop with me and didn't care too much. What was annoying were the comments I got when stating I'm a software dev and visiting for work (along the lines of "we have our own capable people so we don't need you taking our jobs"). I was at that time working for a US company's branch in Switzerland. Not too fond of visiting again. Luckily I'm not working there anymore.
On a sidenote I always wanted to buy an old Xserve just because for some reason they look really good. Not sure they are good for anything tho

I've been tempted, too. Mostly for the nostalgia kick.

I've seen them on fleaBay at really reasonable prices. It looks like .edu, .gov, and .orgs are phasing them out and often a listing shows a stack of 20 or 50 of them, and you can pick the one you want.
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