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I can provide some examples for him as a self-educated dev:

* What is big O

* What is value type vs pointer/reference

* How does the internet work

* Binary search trees, tries, graphs - u wut m8
(Thankfully, there's this: https://medium.com/basecs/archive/2017/01)

* Basic cryptography, hashing, etc

* DNS, IPs, HTTP, etc

* TCP, UDP, etc (I still don't know these)

* Stack, heap, queue, malloc (Again, very little exposure to this without learning a low level language.)

* How modern computers work

* Logic gates, clocks, memory, (actual) binary math

* Wifi basics (actual physical data transmission)

* Linux

I can go on and on and on, but these are things you don't pick up at work unless you go out of your way to learn how they work.

Regarding the parent post - I have a very generous training budget. And guess where I will never spend it? At the best University in my state. I got a degree in something other than Comp Sci, and 95% of the classes were useless and way-too-drawn-out. So, you might not be as behind as you think.

A pretty-smart co-worker of mine with a Comp Sci degree said he didn't figure out the point of object oriented programming until he got his first Java job.

This is only related to other comments in this thread, but I do feel that formal education is oversold, and particularly to people who are from poor families with no guidance trying to have a shot at life.
Try being a minority, and consistently get rejected because you aren't a good "culture fit" on an all white team.

edit: I didn't mean to sound like I was trivializing your experience. The "culture fit" is really nasty and sucks for everyone who isn't "the norm".
agree. it annoys me when people say that college is a bad deal. ok. so what is the alternative, and no, installing WordPress templates on Freelancer is not a good one.
It almost looks like there's a port in the top that expansions attach to. However, in the specifications, there is no expansion port listed. This makes me think that stacking is simply stacking, then we use a usb cable to attach the pieces.
It is not ethical. Criminally, it would be called “fraud”, though I doubt anyone will call the cops on you. The way this bites you in the ass is HR figures it out and uses it against you or to coerce you somehow, post-hire.
> Not many states still allow that, and I'm sure there are good reasons for requiring all aspiring lawyers to go to law school instead.

There isn't. Law is the same profession it was 150 years ago. (There are new tools, of course--electronic research, e-discovery, etc.--but you don't really learn to use them in law school anyway.) The JD requirement is just one instance of the larger capture of American society by academia.

Your point about supply and demand is astute. The JD requirement didn't replace the apprenticeship requirement, it supplemented it. Today, lawyer supply is still limited by the opportunities for new lawyers to go to trial, handle deals, etc.--nobody would hire a lawyer who has only academic or theoretical experience in those areas. But the winnowing process happens after a whole bunch of people have taken six figures in non-dischargeable debt.
It's true though, if you want a job with great earning potential, you do need to go to college. Not going to college will limit your earning potential over time significantly. And since the cost of college has scaled even faster than income you do need to take on all that debt; a dollar invested today is worth more than a dollar invested tomorrow.

An article which covers this in significant detail from about 8 days ago: "The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18174287
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>You seem to imagine that a generation of kids should be happy going to trade school and working as plumbers.

Not at all.
In one of the documentaries about him, he remarked that having written it up, he had no idea where to publish it.
Note to self: never start a software company in Australia, especially if it could ever run afoul of a large corporation.

Response I would expect: Scary cease and desist letter.

Australian response: Raid your home and freeze your accounts, Kim Dotcom style.
it's a hard problem. I keep on HN because I want to keep an eye out for technology that interests me, and to check out people's cool side projects. But then that's maybe 1/20 posts and in other posts I end up just getting drawn in and dragged down by petty emotions and conflict. If there were a way to filter the latest posts down to just things I'm interested in and get that in a newsletter I might do it, but then how do I accurately describe what I'm interested in without seeing it first? I think it just requires the self-discipline to ignore and move past posts you know won't bring any benefit.
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I think this is being caused by many factors:

1. Schools have failed to utilize technologies which allow quality to be maintained and costs lowered.

2. students fail to utilize existing programs which help to reduce the need to take traditional existing classroom-based college classes, such as, AP exams or CLEP exams. High schools need to do a better job of telling students about these programs, especially CLEP exams.

3. Employers have become obsessed with the traditional degrees being the signal of high-quality employee skills as a basis to make hiring decisions or to even give an interview.
What's silly is to ever allow an institution to take 10% or more of your earnings. Unless they're doing 10% of the work for you, they're not entitled to any claim to the earnings. All that does is perpetuate the gatekeeper fallacy that somehow you need to "pay your dues (to the institution)"
That is super weird to me. It's only worth the price if there are no other way, but there are. One of them is using kratom and being extremely careful about becoming an addict.
Starbuck pays to have their trash picked up. And the more trash they generate, the more they pay.

Granted, maybe they should pay more, but they can't literally produce as much waste as they want and pay nothing.
Yeah these statistics should give any armchair VC/angel wannabees some thought:

Out of the 2000 or so startups that deserve some type of funding[1], the chance that you will pick a $1B unicorn is about 0.2%.

Additionally, the chance that you will choose the next Airbnb or Stripe is closer to 0.002%.

For comparison, you could turn $150,000 into $4,500,000 with about a 3% chance if you find a vegas table willing to service this bet size (which they have done in the past).

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> If the guy examines Samsung Galaxy phones, it would almost be the same.

This is just guessing. If I have to bet, I'd as well bet that Google/Samsung/ISPs/Everyone is spying on you, but just guessing and shrugging it off is not helping.

We should be inspired to check even more devices and inform users about backdoor traffic.
If you have an interview and they complain about the date on the resume, I'd think your integrity would be better than the company's.
Bizarrely, the UK is the world's largest legal exporter. (Canada is second.) The managing director of the exporter, British Sugar, is married to the government's drugs minister. It's very cosy.
Seems incredibly harsh considering the "crime."
Human history has pretty much always been the smart tricking the stupid into being their slaves. Nothing has changed except the terminology.

You should always be asking yourself who you are a slave to.
It's not clear to me that these issues don't simply boil down to energy problems.

The limiting case: an endless source of free energy. Using this, it seems obvious that any carbon-emitting procedure can be mitigated, by capturing the emissions and storing them.

The question is whether concrete, cement and so on are viable building materials under this model; whether meat is viable; and so on.

Essentially, these are uncaptured externalities. If you tax the emissions at a higher rate than it costs to capture them, they will be captured, the question is whether demand decreases as a result of increases in cost.
This. In my experience working in North Carolina, I’ve seen the same. Our team consists of people from all age groups. In fact I’ve seen that the cautious and planned approach taken by my older co workers works better than the hack-n-deploy approach taken by younger developers.
It doesn’t matter where a tax is actually applied - it’ll be split between the seller and purchaser regardless (the exact split depends on the elasticity of the market).
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Or the even more succinct

fibs = 0 : scanl (+) 1 fibs

scanl is similar to a fold, but returns a list of successive reduced values from the left.
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Hey folks,

We made a VPN client that we think is significantly more secure than the most popular competitor (Hola) and at least as secure as any centralized VPN. Happy to answer any questions!
Did you read the post? He's part of a project putting up £100 million for climate change research and action. It's not just another post communicating how bad the situation is.
With those credentials, you should be able to get any job you want. Thinking out loud here, I'm wondering if you are truly over-qualified for some of the positions. Or, are they worried about being able to keep you or afford you. That's not entirely agism, though it can appear that way on the surface.
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You are looking for a "risk-free obligation-free" option, which doesn't exist.
Thanks. This is logical.
linked in is effectively an online resume.
There's also confirmation bias. If you go in with a slight bias against age, and you hire someone over 35 who doesn't work out well, you can come up with some reason that's related to their age. What people don't realize is that if they hire an older engineer that does well in the role, their age will also have something to do with it.
Migrants 'threaten democracy' as they beat up members of Swedish youth party
Ask HN: How much storage are you using on your phone?
Let’s do a survey.

How much storage do you use and have available on your phone right now?

I’ll go first: using 16.6 of 64 gb
> war it's bad for business (in most cases, anyway).

Most wars are great for business actually, even world wars! Let's not forget that WW2 was mostly responsible for dragging the US out of the great depression.
I'd add:

-. To easily identify a group of friends/peers with common interests and culture.

Probably not worth the egregiously high tuitions now, but I've talked with several other alums from my college and we agree that easily the greatest benefit from college has been networking-related / social ties.

That's honestly probably the biggest reason for why people are so set on sending their kids to elite institutions- in many cases the pedagogy might not necessarily be better than cheaper alternatives (e.g., state schools), but there's a higher likelihood of rubbing shoulders with other influential characters.
There was no way of knowing it was abandoned. I am taking a guess at the length of time ago it happened; my guess is informed by lack of quality of service and public-facing updates. It's reasonable to assume that the API degraded in quality over time as fewer and fewer / maybe no people were working on it.
Do you understand how mortgages work? You can't just not pay it off. There are minimum payments and if you don't meet them you will likely get your house foreclosed on. If you keep paying for the whole 30 year term you will by default pay it off. So what exactly are you talking about?
This isn't a classroom, and your pedantry isn't adding anything useful to the conversation. We all understand these pedantic quibbles you're arguing about... and what the community is more or less collectively saying is "in this context, we don't care about the distinction between an 'algorithm' in the textbook sense, and a 'heuristic' in the textbook sense".
Has that actually changed much in the past several decades, though?
Australia seems to be heading towards some strange, horrifying dystopia. With Nauru, government spying, and the Reef, it seems on par with some kind of third world dictatorship.

For those that don't know: Australia operates a detention camp on Nauru where they made the prices of visas a nonrefundable $8,000, and people are raped, sexually assaulted and abused. The Australian government tries to suppress journalists writing about this.

The government wants to ban encryption and associate it with criminals and terrorists.

At the same time, it's doing its best to destroy the pristine environment it inherited, and the Great Barrier Reef is rapidly dying. Other countries, for the most part, reduced their CO2 consumption per capita since the 80s and 90s - Belgium 65% less, Poland 63% less, America 28% less, Australia actually increased theirs by about 10%.

They've got no bill of rights, they're destroying their environment and everyone else's, and they've got a powerful nanny state looking for more power. I don't get why they enjoy such a great reputation on the world stage.
I prefer WPF :-). Touche, but Google has more of a habit of killing off perfectly good stuff. But MS does it too. With Silverlight market forces, especially HTML5/mobile and Apple policies most likely killed it.
> Diesel's have a pretty distinctive sound

Try telling TDI and TFSI apart :)
"3 STEM undergrad degrees, but no one cares because it's not relevant anymore"

Anyone hiring people for specific things they learned in University is doing absolutely the wrong thing.

Many high end schools don't even have very rigorous applied computing standards, meaning, they might have some hardcore CS stuff, but they don't necessarily encourage good programming habits, patterns, culture etc..

So the education I think always counts for a lot, it's the work experience from 30 years ago that actually may be less relevant.

One opportunity might be to find something 'related' - for example, writing documentation, doing sales support, technical product management - basically anything but front-line engineering. There are a lot of such jobs.
Pretty much. This is also why you see a lot of phones with cracked screens. Many people buying these phones through payment plans can’t afford to repair them.
This is why I prefer to instead refer to the plantiffs as being part of the copyright cartel. The copyright cartel steals all your money and prevents you from mounting a defense while your home is raided. Which is the mob and which isn't?
Although this was almost two decades ago, that was not the advice we were given at my school. It was more along the lines of "what do you want to do? there are trade schools, community colleges, and state colleges depending on what motivates you".

Of course, very few parents didn't want their kids to go into higher education of some kind, and I think for about 99% of parents with college education, their children going to college was already a forgone conclusion for them.

I wouldn't put the blame entirely on the parents or the kids though- practically every school I've seen advertises job placement numbers; don't forget about the lawsuits over law schools artificially inflating their numbers to get more students. If you're a parent seeing that, why wouldn't you push your kid into college?
They said they had invested too much to choose another path.

This person has a bachelor's in economics

Man, of all people that ought to know about the "sunk cost" fallacy...
The average High School Student who can get into a State University usually doesn't have what it takes to take and get credit for an AP exam unfortunately.
So how about we cut the foreplay and just let corporations roll their own investigative agencies?

Seriously if I was Australian I'd be seven levels of outraged that my tax dollars were being burned to help Rockstar Games catch someone writing a fucking cheat program. What an atrocious waste of public money.
And the reason that makes sense is it isn't just about "punish the evil corporations!". If the emissions had a price, the price of the product would reflect that.
>if you have a 2nd box online

For $1000 I get 2 boxes I can't use for anything else right now (and still not very reliable inside my home), whereas with Fastmail (for example) I can get an email service for 20 years @ $50/yr that is very reliable. I'm not sure of the value proposition for this thing.
Boss makes a dollar I make a dime that's why I ~~poop~~ don't do anything on company time
The options are take a big financial risk and acquire credentials that are known door openers to better paying labor markets.

Or take a big life risk and unknown, likely pass up the ability to take student loans (for the small aspects of benefits they do extend), and risk a long term disadvantage at accessing the same higher paying markets.

It's no surprise there is a lot of bad feelings about this choice, especially when other first world nations have this mostly sorted out.

On top of that, as a society, it would be far cheaper for us to fund this on a social basis (by public funding low/no cost tuitions for public universities - with closed loop cost controls) instead of an individual account basis (with loans and an open-loop tuition inflation mechanism).
I implemented a BitTorrent client as a sophomore in college, available here: https://github.com/war1025/Torrent

It worked pretty well. Used it for several years until I started making real money and decided I could buy things rather than pirate them.

I had only been coding for a year or two at that point, so it is probably filled with lots of odd choices, but it also isn't super optimized like I would guess the more well known clients might be, and so might be easier to parse.
Wow. One of those things is not like the other...
I'm a professional resume writer and job search strategy consultant (20 years of tech recruiting experience), and I'd be open to taking a look to see what the issue might be (see my profile for contact info). It might not even be the resume, but instead your approach to how you're applying. If you're just sending resumes through Indeed and hoping for responses, you're doing it wrong.

The age thing may be an issue of course. If it's abundantly obvious from your resume that you are 60 or older, a reader may make assumptions about you that aren't true. Once a client reaches 40 I typically start to at least address the possibility of ageism and options to mitigate the risk if they are interested.

There are even some simple things such as resume formatting that could be at play. For examples, resumes with tables and images can be more difficult for ATS systems to parse.

Dozens of possibilities. I'm happy to take a look if you'd like.
Explain the role in management/development centric terms. Project management can be "lead a team of devs" or "managed a project". Think of it more like translating to two different languages, rather than being selective with the information you are sharing.
Luckily, you don't get to check off the boxes of what you're willing to pay for when you pay your taxes. You can vote for people who support this idea but it is a fringe idea at best and not one you're likely to find much support for outside of radical circles. Federally subsidized student loans, for all their (many) faults, are an obvious net benefit to society.
If you have to ask, then yes, it’s hugely unethical. If the date is an issue, leave it out of the resume. But fudging anything is deception, and expect it to come out during a background check that many companies routinely do.
SAAQ,SAQ and Revenue Quebec too, but not all govt sites.

The immigration site of Quebec govt. sucks with huge down times, bad UX and even data loss of many aspiring skilled economic immigrants. May be because its for immigrants and temporary workers, so no one cares.
I try to highlight the technical aspect of the work. Sometimes it’s just word play. For example, we’re you a “senior project manager” Or “senior technical lead” but primarily I create bullet points for each role. 8 bullet points, 4 are technology focused “customer facing web application using Python...” 4 are management focused “managed a team of 6 developers to achieve” and I simply remove 4 for each role depending on what I think they are looking for. The objective of the resume is to get a interview.
If you could really start the company for $10k, I'd recommend self-funding out of savings. Save up $25k working (to give yourself a cushion) and give it a shot. If you have the skills to start a technology business, you definitely have the skills to earn $25k of working capital with your labor. People start small businesses that way all the time, and you can too.
If you are in a position to relocate, I would consider looking in cities like Berlin, London, Amsterdam, and Dublin. The job market for software engineers in Europe is really hot and most companies will pay for relocation of senior engineers. Additionally, age and experience are valued.
I don't believe this was an attempt to find bias or noise from the physical sensors, but rather was looking at the method itself.

The method has some known biases that they were ensuring wouldn't explain the given pattern in the data. Depending on the depth of the simulation, it may have also been able to account for some unknown biases in the method.

Now even under your interpretation, I'm curious about which known object you'd suggest they use.
Serious question. Is ageism a huge deal? I am not arguing it does not exist but I think about what I have seen in the interviews I have done. We all have biases and I will never be completely unbiased but I try to at least be aware. I sometimes feel that ageism is actually the filter. I notice people I have worked with they at some point stop caring and they kind of give up. They don't stay relevant with whats happening in the industry.

Some of the issues I have seen that can be construed as ageism I will list.

* Candidates lack of awareness. They have a 2-5 page resume. I see the resume and I wonder how unaware they are. Yes, resumes do not matter but when I get 3 pages filled with large paragraphs I worry the candidate lacks awareness. So far its been a good indicator.
* Candidates who belittle me during the interview process.
* Candidates who have not kept up with technology. No I don't expect you to know the latest framework but understanding patterns that have emerged in the past 5 years seem relevant. I dislike the latest and greatest technology but its important to understand the general trends.
* Candidates that generally who have had zero prep for the interview process expecting the resume/experience to tell all. Yes, algorithms are not the best determining factor but it's at least a minor indicator. When we work through a problem does the other person just give up?

Let me state again that I believe it exists but I sometimes have a hard time separating true ageism and just a clear distinction between people who have stayed relevant and not relevant.
You learn something new every day, I always assumed the green meant OP, like how reddit uses blue. I didn't even notice the change in username
Thanks!
I don't know that I made any extrodinary claims.

You published a spreadsheet listing messaging apps 'ordered by security' in which Signal, Whatsapp and iMessage are shown as way less secure than IRC. It also still says, and you've repeatedly argued here, that things like whether, say, WhatsApp uses E2E encryption is essentially unknowable.
Ok, how about where the externalities of manufacturing the product hurts someone in Florida, and you in California are the one buying the product?
I'd like to see the Department of Education publish some basic statistics for each college and major showing how many graduates get a job in their chosen field within a year, average starting salary, and average total loan balance at graduation. At least then prospective borrowers would have some realistic data to evaluate whether an investment in education makes sense from a financial standpoint.