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> This feels like a particular awful thing to ask someone to do, but I believe if everyone truly were able to imagine the sudden death of the folks they love, it would change how they live.

I actually do this every now and then. You know, you're having a slow day at work, you're browsing NH and read an article about someone losing their loved one and then your mind just goes places you wish it hadn't.

Once I'm in that dark place of imagining a life without my partner, my mind never goes to thinking that I should tell them how much I love and them and that I cherish our time together. The thought of doing this doesn't make my imagined pain of losing them any lesser.

If anything, thinking about how much I love them and value our time together makes me even more terrified about the inevitable time when they might not be there anymore. If I actually committed to this, the way my life would change is that I would probably be a lot more depressed.

I should note that I've never lost anyone important to me, so I still have this horrible reality in front of me. But when reading about people who have, it feels like they're from a completely different world.

I'm curious if these regrets people describe about not spending more time with the loved ones is just the way grief manifests in general, or if there's actual psychological value in being proactive about it. My cynical self suspects it's the former.
Great question.

The reality is the alignment of incentives causes everything else to be different. There are a few concrete examples, but it really flows through everything we do.

1. Length: your average code school needs to pump you in and out of the same physical location and still have margins on what they charge upfront, so the standard is 12 weeks. That’s generally 8 weeks of “instruction” time and 4 weeks of “project” time. The fact that they can get anyone at all to semi-employable with 8 weeks of instruction is a miracle, but most employers agree it’s not enough, and frankly most bootcamp grads look pretty weak. Lambda School is 30 weeks full-time plus 4 weeks of required precourse work, so our instruction time is at least 3x that of most code schools. That, of course, lets us cheat relative to most other schools.

2, Curriculum. What you’ll usually hear separates us are that we teach CS fundamentals, write code in Python and C not just JS, and that kind of thing. But what is harder to explain is how much time and effort we put into instructional design. We’re entirely online and free upfront, so if we suck you close your laptop in week 3 and walk away, and we’re required by contract to forgive the entire income share agreement. We have some of the best instructional designers in the world on staff, and if an instructor isn’t performing they’re sadly let go. It’s that simple.

3. Mastery-based progression, and Bloom’s 2 sigma problem (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem). Perhaps the most remarkable study in the history of pedagogy was Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem. I’m not the instructional designer so I’ll let you read about it yourselves, but basically we practice small group and one-on-one instruction with a mastery component. Specifically, every student is placed in a group of 8 students with one PM (what we call our TAs), and at the end of every week we have what we call a “sprint challenge.” That tests all of the cumulative knowledge you should have gained that week, and you must pass all of them to move on to the next level and graduate. So what if you don’t? You simply repeat the week in a new group until you’ve mastered the concept. Now every educator on planet earth knows that’s a superior way to learn, but it’s very expensive manage. We spend the money because we need to be able to confidently say, “Every Lambda grad can do all of these things” to every employer if we’re going to win long-term.

4. Very robust career services. Lambda School doesn’t stop once you graduate; in fact that’s probably the most important part to a student’s success. We have a program called “Lambda Next” that is still structured and rigorous, but helps you in writing code that signals what you now know, sourcing and applying for jobs, interviewing, and negotiating a salary/benefits package. We’ve had a remarkable number of students earn back the entire price they’ll pay Lambda in negotiation alone.

So these are just a few examples, but really it comes down to the fact that our DNA is structured differently than most code bootcamps as a result of our business model.
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That has nothing to do with deallocating memory. Of course there are other kinds of resources which are not automatically freed when a program exits.
It does, see `info '(info) Search Text'`.
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Did you add an SSD?
"The algebraic numbers are spotted over the plane like stars against a black sky; the dense blackness is the firmament of the transcendentals."

-- E. T. Bell
The change of business model drives the differences between coding boot camps. Because now the incentives with the students are aligned. Only if the students get a good job will Lambda school be paid.
I can't even use Facebook without it freezing anymore. I'm using containers and locking down on tracking (no umatrix or noscript though) and Facebook literally craps itself everytime I have it open, helps keep me off of it. It must be my exact setup cause I do the same setup on every laptop / workstation and it slows to a crawl, though mobile.facebook.com works just fine... oddly enough. And I know if I use a vanilla browser it works just fine...
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I’m working on a similar project. We acquired our first land in Panama (http://Majagual.org)

We also are planning an alt-school system in which instead of going to college, you and 100 other students boot up a cooperative eco-village that you own outright. You’ve got food, shelter and community handled with no loans and then you can focus on other projects, research, etc.

Imagine running this coop with automation and robotics. You could free up more time while increasing the lifestyle of the members.

And of course, I already co-own a $50MM cooperative grocery store with about 16,000 others in NYC (FoodCoop.com)
These sorts of situations are rife and you can pretty well tell from the interview where it's going. It needn't be a polygraph to know it's not worth the effort
Loan for housing is just lazy writing on my part. I should have made it clear I meant the cost of housing.

For education, OP's article made a strong case for tertiary education (as the only group seeing wage growth). Also, if you believe that inequality and lack of social mobility are bad things then you should believe that all people should have easy access to tertiary education.
No, they care about the company. Because if they cared about themselves, they would have sold the company and retired happily ever after.

The cool thing about solely owned companies is that they can think long term, as in > 1 year. CEO's of an externally funded company don't have that luxury.
Well yes, when you replace a diverse set of democracies with a single dictatorship, that tends to end badly for those on the receiving end.
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We choose SendGrid long time ago to unify all our mail infrastructure under one provider and it was a significant mistake. Now, we're heavily relying on SendGrid but some systems still depend on Mandrill and we're slowly migrating those as we make changes to them.
> - Very bad international food. Even in major German cities, the food (outside of German, Middle Eastern, and some European cuisine) is simply not on par with places like the Bay Area or London.

Thank you for saying this. Whenever I tell people this, they look at me like I'm some kind of crazy German hater who is off their rocker. If you're a foodie, Germany is hard. Unless your a fan of the local food. France, the UK, Belgium are generally much better when it comes to tasty noms.
How many TV shows I have seen that people laugh at the janitor looking down to him?

Zero? In fact, the Scrubs janitor comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v2mEg9Cpvs
Numberphile did a great video on this topic.[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-xa-3V5KO8
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> I don't know where this is coming from

From people who don't know how to use man pages.
tl;dr - Try rust.

The mechanic point of this article is pretty clear:

- it's possible to be unsafe in both Haskell and Rust when dealing with resource cleanup

- Rust does a bit of a better job in the general case though it has it's own warts (see the other comments, it's hard to deal with issues during `drop`-triggered cleanup)

I want to make a muddier meta point -- Rust is the best systems language to date (does anyone know a better one I can look at?).

- The person who wrote this article Michael Snoyman[0] is mainly a haskell developer, he's the lead developer behind arguably the most popular web framework, yesod[1].

- Haskell developers generally have a higher standard for type systems, and spend a lot of time (whether they should or not) thinking about correctness due to the pro-activity of the compiler.

- These are the kind of people you want trying to use/enjoy your language, if only because they will create/disseminate patterns/insight that make programming safer and easier for everyone down the line -- research languages (Haskell is actually probably tied for the least "researchy" these days in the ML camp) are the Mercedes Benz's of the programming world -- the safety features trickle down from there.

- Rust is not a ML family language -- it's a systems language

- People who write Haskell on a daily basis are finding their way to rust, because it has a pretty great type system

When was the last time you saw a systems language with a type system so good that people who are into type systems were working with it? When was the last time you saw a systems language that scaled comfortably and gracefully from embedded systems to web services? When have you last seen a systems language with such a helpful, vibrant, excited community (TBH I don't think this can last), backed by an organization with values Mozilla's?

You owe it to yourself to check it out. As far as I see it rust has two main problems:

- Learning curve for one of it's main features (ownership/borrowing)

- Readability/Ergonomics (sigils, etc can make rust hard to read)

Admittedly, I never gave D[2] a proper shake, and I've heard it's good, but the safety and the emphasis on zero-cost abstractions Rust offers me makes it a non-starter. Rust is smart so I can be dumb. C++ had it's chance and it just has too much cruft for not enough upside -- there's so much struggle required to modernize, to make decisions that rust has had from the beginning (because it's so new). It might be the more stable choice for a x hundred people big corporate project today or next month, but I can't imagine a future where Rust isn't the premier backend/systems language for performance critical (and even those that are not critical) programs in the next ~5 years.

I'll go even one step further and say that I think that how much rust forces you to think about ownership/borrowing and how memory is shared around your application is important. Just as Haskell might force you to think about types more closely/methodically (and you're often better for it), Rust's brand of pain seems instructive.

[0]: https://www.snoyman.com/

[1]: https://www.yesodweb.com/

[2]: https://dlang.org/
This is how Powershell treats mandatory arguments. Provide args via flag/position or be prompted for input. You can always break out with Ctrl+C if you'd rather modify the command.
I don't think streetlights have a polarizing filter on them.
I like it but aren't we almost done with the target year? How have these predictions held up.
China can't embargo, sanction or put tariff on Greece without doing the same for the whole single market.
I recall talk recently about a shortage of sand appropriate for creating cement. It seems that this compressed wood turns that potential shortage into an opportunity.
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We don't want to hire you because your university made you into commies
That's assuming you're reading all the layers from the same ram. You could increase memory bandwidth by using separate chips for each layer.
Indeed : https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl
> From the air, five miles is quite close to an airfield.

But realize that this is not only a rule at 400 feet. It's a rule at 100 feet, at 40 feet, at 10 feet, at 4 feet.

Surely you can agree that there is a certain height where it's safe to fly drones when there is an airport less than 5 miles but more than line of sight away. And surely you can agree that such a height is not zero feet.
I think of Chicago first. The wood city that burned and led to the invention of 'skyscrapers'.
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I'm curious what long-term revenue story Lambda School would have convinced investors to shell out $14Mn. Perhaps, dominating a world where universities are irrelevant?

I do wonder though that with MOOCs becoming cheap, and that motivated students are able to get a lot of value from them, would Lambda School slowly transform into another credentialing/ signaling system for hiring? If that happens, I guess we will come around to a full circle of disruption in education.
Passive components like a line conditioning resistor or cap could be changed out with an identical looking malicious component. Such a chip could perform effective MITM attacks against anything that talks on a serial line such as I2C, SPI, etc. This is pretty much a universal zero day for on board controllers, FPGA's, and anything that loads its boot code unencrypted.
> This is the only possible explanation

There are a lot of possible explanations. As someone who finds both Bloomberg and Apple credible, this is potentially far more interesting than “one of them is totally lying.”
Also, standard multipliers are pointless on "unicorns". You have to figure out potential for future growth and the potential of the space itself.

Facebook bought instragam for $1 billion even though there was no significant revenue or income. But the potential for growth of instagram itself and the photo sharing social media space was immense.

With established companies like walmart in establish spaces like retail, you know what you are getting. With tech unicorns, it's a bit of a gamble.
The deficit is including any returns on existing plan assets. And each year, the share of the tax receipts that go towards paying debt (including pensions) keeps increasing. Obviously, something will have to be cut to make up for this.
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Any specific reason “no umatrix”?
I do prefer the "with"/"try-with-resources" approach because it is explicit.

With RAII in C++ there's no visual difference between dumb data objects and objects like locks that are created and held on to mainly to cause implicit side effects.

In Rust this also prevents the compiler from dropping objects early - everything must be held until the end of its scope for the 0.1% of cases where you're RAII managing some externally visible resource. In those cases I would like the programmer to denote "The exact lifetime of this object is important", so the reader knows where to pay attention.
>> Now it's pretty clear to me that in the us we should provide medical care as a basic human right for all citizens.

If that is a right, then someone has an obligation to provide it. "The government" isn't a provider, some doctor is and they aren't forced to work for free.
as hospitals are just not equipped for billing

In Sweden every visit to a doctor or hospital is billed, as is every night spend at the hospital, so they are definitely equipped to handle it.
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Most people dislike ads, but want content and apps on the web - therefore some economical model is needed, so what are the options for mass adopted systems?
With DJI, at least, it’s not easy for your drone to be “higher than you think”.

Phantom 3, Phantom 4, Mavic, all track within a foot or so of the designated coordinates in 3D space.

Default settings have an altitude cap, no matter your momentum, you can’t accidentally or intentionally cross the cap. You have to go into configuration settings to override the cap and set manually to go any higher.

Modern models also come with awareness of FAA zones.
Isnt that just reflectin of who you talk with? I am pretty sure that 100% of young americans do not plan PhD nor MBA.
I wonder if we'll get the + operator back in search now. Google broke a lot of things across their ecosystem with the release of Google+. I feel that the effect on search kickstarted the trend of taking away search control from the user and isolating us in bubbles (circles).
We run a $50MM / year cooperative grocery business in the heart of Brooklyn, NY we each work 3 hrs a month. 16,000 members.

Been running since the 60s and offers the cheapest and freshest food in NYC.

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I think one major point is that a devaluation in the drachma would have made Greek industry more competitive again. Inflation goes up, yes, but imports decrease and exports increase.

Greece would have experienced market discipline instead of discipline by government fiat. The latter is much more dangerous politically, as we saw with the election of Syriza.

I think it's telling to contrast the fate of Greece with the outcome for Iceland.
Somehow, it makes me happy to read that people live this way.
You can also have the exact opposite problem with RAII, where a resource survives the end of a transaction, because there is still a live reference to it hidden away somewhere (say, due to some debugging code holding on to it).

This is a classical liveness vs. safety dualism. "Something good will eventually happen" and "nothing bad will ever happen" are promises whose solutions are often in conflict with one another.

The general problem — to make transactional state changes and transactional control flow (i.e. expectations about these state changes) match up precisely — is not easy to solve in the general case, especially once you move on to things that are less trivial than simple resource acquisition/release matching.
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The name may apply well. The billion dollar valuations are as imaginary as the profits.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dare-bux#section-ove... - This page says 2015. Has this been in the works for that long? The website also says there is an iOS app but nothing seems to be on the App Store.
Google Ventures invests in company that will churn out graduates that Google will never hire.

Makes sense.
> you and 100 other students boot up a coooerstive eco-village that you own outright

Are you able to convey this idea in English? It sounds interesting.
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Firefox v62.0.3 doesn't have this feature enabled?

From article: "This means that in the latest version of Firefox * Beta *, calls between JS and WebAssembly are faster than non-inlined JS to JS function calls."
I like Banksy's work well enough, but the thing that has always bothered me about his persona is the collusion in the art and media world to maintain his supposed anonymity. I simply can't believe that there aren't large numbers of people who know exactly who he is, so why is he privileged by the media in this way?
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The government provided attorney is part of the cost of prosecuting a case. They can always cut back on law enforcement if they don't have the money. People are going to have medical problems no matter what so public defenders and doctors are not a proper comparison.
The long-term revenue story is easy.

How much you make per student * how many students = revenue.

How much you make per student is a factor of how much they’re getting paid.

If we help a student get hired for $90k they’ll pay us back $30k. So if we place 3,333 students/yr at that price point over the long run we’ll do $100m/yr in revenue. Of course, that’s a lot of students, but that’s also a lot of revenue, yet a tiny fraction of the total market of up-and-coming software engineers.

Cost of capital is very real, and it’s one thing to say that and another thing to do it, but we don’t have to replace the university wholesale for that to work, we just have to be the best trade school there is.

MOOCs are great, but are hardly the be-all-end-all of education. Content is everywhere, ability to actually learn from it is more difficult, and expert help, structured end-to-end curriculum, a community of learners on the same pace, etc. just make for a better learning experience. Sometimes it feels like if I made a nickel for every time I heard, “I learned more in 3 weeks of Lambda School than a year of self study” I could fund the whole company.
LOL. My take: proportion of the empoloyee's result that comes from their own initiative -- against that of their manager. Varies between 0 and 1.

Blessed are the companies where the middle management has no initiatives for their teams.
Hot money flowing into a country does crazy things to it. It takes both an irresponsible borrower and an irresponsible lender to make an irresponsible deal.
User-controlled/remotely-operated only makes things safer than completely uncontrolled. Unless you're making an argument about terrorists?

In your rush to point out a difference between drones and birds, you managed to pick one where drones have the advantage.
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The semantics of the philosophy of the argument are irrelevant. The basic point is that predictive economists are nothing more than highly educated charlatans.