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> College provides TIME with no or minimal responsibilities beyond your learning

This is only true for situations where you live on campus, and your parents give you an allowance for anything not included in tuition. Many, many students have to work while going to school.

Classes + part-time work can easily add up to the same amount of time one spends on a full time job.
ugh, as a developer from a remote country that’s been working for 10+ years for US companies I run as fast as possible from companies like this one.

If I provide the same value as US engineers, why should I make less than US engineers?

Fortunately, I’ve been able to make my case. I hope these Indian engineers realize they’re making 1/15th what they should.
> What is disgusting about it?

Because it subjects real people to petty indignities for no good reason.

> I went to Seattle’s downtown public library once, beautiful building and I would have loved to explore, but I had to leave due to the overwhelming stench of all the homeless people.

Some people used to think just like that about black people, so they wrote laws and put up signs to exclude them [1]. The people at Joe & the Juice that the GGP describe are the same, but they just have to be more subtle about it.

[1] https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm
Top Indian talent did go to the US by default, but that peaked ~10 years ago. Nowadays there is enough opportunity in India - and the US immigration process is bad enough - that most people I know just don't bother. The visa backlog is almost entirely made up of the tech equivalent of minimum wage workers, all sponsored by Infosys/TCS and other consulting firms.

And the "SLIGHTLY below US salaries" part is an exaggeration. Top talent in India is still at most a third of the high-end Silicon Valley rate.
It's "disgusting" to want to maintain standards in an restaurant?
> Takes <15s to book

That's a nice feature. I don't think I've ever booked a hotel that fast.
There's a ramen shop in Seattle that won't accept cash anymore, and that always leaves me feeling uncomfortable. What's wrong with real money? Why should we all be dependent on banks to mediate our transactions?

I haven't stopped going to that ramen shop, and I often pay for things with a debit card anyway, but it feels wrong not to have the option to use cash.
If no one believes that they've improved I actually don't think they do have an incentive; what do you perceive that to be?

To put it another way, if they will be penalized for being insecure either way, why spend the money to be secure?
> Funny thing about trust: I trust a developer who drops some $$$ on a code-signing certificate more than I trust a developer who doesn't. Even if it's just $20.

Ever notice how most con-men wear nice suits? Your advocating for the digital equivalent.
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I recently dismantled 3 generations of pre-built PC's to remove the hard drives. One computer needed a 90-degree angled Phillips head to release the removable tray... ended up using a hammer to smack it out...

I built my current computer and don't need a screwdriver to open the case, or to replace the SSD, HDDs, GPU, or RAM. They all just pop out now! First computer I've upgraded too.
The main thing missing from the article is intentional conflation of inherently opposing situations.

True, a union apprentice electrician's classwork is not all that wide. However, I may be one of the only people here on HN who took my first 64 credits and an associates degree at a local tech school (for about $50/credit, admittedly quite a few years ago) and I received credit for 48 of them at the institution where I later got my BSCS. I assure you I had to sit thru the same intro to sociology, psych, public speaking, physics, and calculus classes as any other freshman. The main difference was trade school students tend to be older and more serious and pay more attention in class. The quality of lab equipment in degree granting fields (EE) was similar in trade school and uni. The quality of equipment in non-degree labs (physics) was vastly inferior, yet good enough.

Neither of my experiences have anything to do with "semester long coding bootcamps" and similar training mentioned in the article.

True, that university education is all pretty much the same; however, "everything that is not going to college" has quite a bit of diversity.

Speaking of diversity, there is zero permitted diversity of thought or political opinion in university today; they are single political party indoctrination centers. Surely almost any other post-high school experience would better prepare students for the diverse real world.
“If you aren't embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.”
as someone who is from that neck of woods I can tell you that the people you interact with are probably not your typical developers from there.

as with everything in life there are people that are really good at what they do and also there are people that are not so good.

i personally don't care where you're from when I'm working with you. what you know and what you can do is what I care about.
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Might depend on where you are. With the exception of Food Stamps, pretty much every transaction I've seen from lower income people in my area is cash based.

I usually feel like an outsider since I generally carry no cash in an area where it feels like everyone pays for everything with cash.
I feel like I'm going crazy here. Wee-slack looks exactly like IRC did 20 years ago, except IRC was free. This is madness.
It might be quicker to list the types of boats that you can't find in the bay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boat_types is a fun article to browse
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Not sure where the threshold between tech and non-tech would be though... Dropbox is just unison on the cloud, Pinterest is just a photos website etc.

Also engineering challenges aren’t always obvious from the consumer facing product. It is true that AirBnB founders have design backgrounds rather than engineering ones, but from what I’ve seen of their engineering and data science work, they would qualify as a tech company in my estimation. They did come up with Apache Airflow which is a well regarded data pipeline management system.
> I do disagree with a lot of the other conclusions, especially operator precedence, which I've come to believe is generally a bad thing -- associativity can be fine (although even there I'm uncertain), but managing operator precedence is almost always better done by using parentheses.

This is a very interesting take. I feel like there are many, many situations where relying on operator precedence is not only natural, but will cause the code to become less readable. Look at any language which uses many operators (my go-to would be Haskell) and consider readability of one over the other.

Also what do you mean with associativity here? Associativity, as I know it, just means that (a+b+c) = (a+b)+c = a+(b+c). There's clearly no downside to that, right?
I agree with some of the other replies: nowadays, AirBnB rarely has a price advantage once you factor in the extra fees. It still wins in terms of uniqueness, for large groups, if you have kids, want to cook, etc.
Not exactly -- more like no matter how much RAM you have, it makes sense for your software to use it all rather than disk.

It means that however much you have, your system should use as much of it as possible. Otherwise it's just sitting there doing nothing. Contrary to popular belief, the more RAM you're using, the faster your system will be (assuming it's using the RAM efficiently)
Random idea, and I know this is unlikely to come to pass, but this could be largely mitigated if stores listed all-in prices (including tax) and made those relatively round figures so that people could figure out how much to get out while in line.
The part you're missing is that they won't be in practice. There's malware on virustotal with (still) valid code-signing certs.
Card payments are so much faster for everyone involved in my experience at bars, nightclubs, event venues (sports, music festivals, concerts), and coffeeshops.

Other groups to consider (not mentioned in this article) are foreign visitors and kids.

Foreign transaction fees on each transaction can add up, so it's often best to get local currency at an ATM or a bureau de change. As for kids, parents often give kids cash as a budgeting mechanism.
From the point of view of their critics, the fight for safe spaces always has been employing motte-and-bailey tactics [1], where the defensible and reasonable position is that people want some space where they can relax, but the indefensible position that they actually fight for is that the whole world should be converted into a safe space for themselves. As a point in case, as far as I can tell nobody ever insisted that attendance at talks by controversial university speakers be compulsory, or that particular groups of students who felt threatened by them not be allowed to form social clubs or set up meeting spaces in which the opinions from those events are not allowed to be mentioned.

[1] https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-motte-and-the-bailey-a-rhet...
Here it is 2 €/month/kW, my total bill was 40-50 €/month before I had a solar roof installed. I consumed about 400 W on average in a house (with solar the consumption is up by 60 W because of the inverter, but I save 30 to 70% plus I can sell a little surplus).
The pricing is way too much.

Seems like one or two good fulltime developers can maintain a project like this.
Here's an example of how the signature can help a user [0]. If fewer people fall for it that's still a win.

Your argument is that if a mechanism isn't perfect we shouldn't be using it at all. Well seatbelts and airbags also don't guarantee anything but still save people. Security is additive, no layer is perfect but put enough of them together and you can be relatively safe.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourc...
Why would you purposefully rephrase the story to include only one side? It's still there, right above your post.
I always use fake name for interviews.

I use last name as Einstein or Goldberg often during interviewing.

Once I clear interview, I tell them that's my pet name and everyone calls me that.

In the last interview my name was Nicola Einstein and I did clear interview with flying colours
Normally more expensive? I can build a high end gaming rig for the same damn cost as a gaming console, and have 4x the horsepower.
It does for native arrays, at least:

> This is the incorrect optimization we’re looking for. JavaScript array accesses are guarded by CheckBounds nodes, which ensure that the index falls within the array bounds. If the optimizer can determine statically that the index is always in-bounds, it can eliminate the CheckBounds node. Image tying the index to the result of Object.is: since the typing information is off, we could make the analyzer think the index is always in-bounds, while it can be out-of-bounds at runtime. The optimizer will incorrectly eliminate CheckBounds, giving us OOB access to a JS array, which we can use to construct more powerful exploitation primitives.

https://abiondo.me/2019/01/02/exploiting-math-expm1-v8/

See also

https://halbecaf.com/2017/05/24/exploiting-a-v8-oob-write/

Microsoft's Chakra engine:

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2017/10/5/check-it-out-enforceme...

Hoisting a bounds check outside a loop is a common optimization, and I would be surprised if V8 doesn't do this for ArrayBuffers. But in any event my point is that the JIT compiler is in effect doing manual memory management outside the visibility of the host language, so for these types of bugs a memory-safe host language doesn't save you. And it can get this wrong and will get this wrong because these are extremely complex systems with high code churn.
Not to take a stance either way, but pretty much any org will find a way to justify the salaries of the people it employs. It’s neither informative nor surprising that a company that employs lots of engineers will have lots of engineering problems.

The question is: if you sacked everyone but the core team who keeps the trains running, what would happen to the business?
Their argument is based on a very privileged person who had every option and chose the one he liked best.

That's great. Good for him.

But my concern is that people get pushed towards trades for a variety of bad reasons. It's not that trades are bad, but a lot of them are pretty brutally hard work. You end up destroying your body. In exchange you get a working environment that seems continually more and more worker hostile.
Based on my limited experience, prices seem pretty inline with Google's hotel search but booking experience is much nicer. Last summer I was traveling in Europe and would end up booking a hotel in few seconds and showing up 15min later for my stay. The experience is so much better compared to Booking.com et al which require credit card input, bad websites, enless upsell and dark patterns.

I hope they keep HT as clean as it has been as the regular Airbnb experience is starting to feel like Booking.com; hidden fees and endless fake sense of urgency among other growth tactics.
That was a very defensive response.

Look it's excellent for you that many people want to use your work and think it looks awesome. I am just not one of those people, for reasons developed over years of using Redux professionally.

It seems like you think I am just missing something, and that's why I don't agree with you. You should really be more open to the idea that others might think very differently from you and the people you surround yourself with, even after fully considering your ideas.

I also knew you were a Redux contributor when I first responded. I was wondering how long I could disagree with you before you pulled rank.
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Go look at portatech.
Have you investigated symlinking INBOX folder so that its real location maps to a location inside your ~/Documents/FOLDERS location so that you only have one place to worry about all files?
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What kind of “funding” is referenced in the FAQ? Is there some kind of organization that I am not aware of that pays the author(s) for citations in papers? How is the “long term survival” impacted by whether the author receives citations?

I’m confused as to how “[not including citations] would not have been sustainable in the long term” unless either citations become money at some point or the author is motivated sufficiently by citations to the extent that they would otherwise not work on the project.

If you are an author or are involved in the project, please know that this isn’t intended to be an attack, I’m just interested as to why a project would do something that seems counterintuitive (at least from my point of view).
Tesla has laid off ~8% of its employees since the end of February
When those "standards" are built around excluding certain groups of people, yes.
Tablets offer numerous advantages if you're mobile / travelling.

They're designed for use independent of a keyboard. So yes, when you just want to stab at the screen and smudge it with skin oil, you can.

My preferred keyboard is a folio case with an integrated keyboard. I can pop this into a tent-form laptop, or, in a fraction of a second, flip the keyboard out of the way and use just the tablet. No hinges to break.

Major con: There is absolutely no standardisation of tablet form factors and corresponding case and keyboard designs. I've found this maddening to no end. Existing keyboards without exception suck, and Logitech sucks even harder. That said, this doesn't have to be the case.

Either portrait or landscape orientation, without preference on the device, oriented by accellerometer. Inverse portrait/landscape as well.

Incredible battery life. Generally, all day, with heavy use.

Tablets are virtually ideal as communications devices, so long as you're not actually in motion. I might carry a small dedicated phone in addition just for voice comms (restricted to a close whitelist), though in practice I prefer batching my comms and not being interrupted 24/7/365 without relief.
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I know it's cliche, what I'm about to do, but your comment is unhelpful enough to merit it.

"The store owner agrees to adhere to the Jim Crow laws at the time they sign their articles of incorporation, or their business licenses. If they want to serve black and white people in the same space, they're free to talk their political representatives about it, or operate in a different jurisdiction."

Repeating that the law is the law is not a productive contribution to a discussion about the merit of the laws.
You can deliver unsigned Windows apps.
Thank you so much for your post. I knew about the former but have never seen these paintings before thank you.
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I agree with others that this is an over-generalization.

We had many hens, and the only one that was a bully was the bottom of the pack. We had babies and this one chicken would try to bully the babies. I think being the bottom of the pack, it might be understandable.

We've also had a few roosters. Two of them were absolutely docile and really lovable. The third, although lovable, really was bossy with humans, but he was a really good protector of the hens. He took his job seriously.
Unlikely. Self-checkout kiosks can process cash and give change just fine.

My assumption is that this is to protect the buying power of the unbanked - which are predominantly low-income, as I understand it.
Interesting. Got a source on that?
And it doesn't save us from Rowhammer so?
Some people just want to spend their time learning about Gothic art or about Persian poetry instead of fixing other people's plumbing, there's nothing wrong with that, quite the contrary.

And to add a further non-apocryphal anecdote: I'm probably never going to be reach (I'm approaching 40 and you kind of feel this sort of things) but were I to die tomorrow one of my best memories/things that happened in my life would be the fact that I got to appreciate the poetry of Hafez [1] because of my dad. He had a book of his in our library, I knew my dad liked his poetry so one day I just picked the book and I liked his poetry, too. It became a sort of a new bond between me and my dad that I can still feel now, 20+ years after I had first read Hafez's poems.

More to the point, not everything in life is about money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez
To be more specific they do work to filter out candidates that unambiguously lack the required skills. But for candidates that do have the required skills it's more of a coim toss.

Working through a coding question online filters out candidates that can't code or are not competent at coding. But for candidates who can code sufficiently well, it's kind of a coin toss. Maybe they just don't think of the solution in time and what not.
Is it easy for Django/Rails/ExpressJS to implement Http2 in their next release?
How is this possible during a booming economy and one of the largest growth spurts in the stock market ever?
I’ve always wondered what the black bits in my steel cut porridge oats are.
I'm the last person to defend colleges, but in this story the father did a poor job of being a good long term role model if all three sons failed at life relative to their father's work ethic, financial habits, or positive encouragement. It wasn't the fault of the college. Someone other than the father "sold" the worthless-degree college route and/or kept the sons brainwashed well after college.
Regarding 4. Store the beans sealed as tightly as possible (exposure to oxygen/air speeds up their deterioration)

I'm always wondering if i did a great ghetto-style hack, or just deluding myself? What is a tight seal in the context of outgasing co²? When you buy beans in bags they have to have a
kind of vent/seal, because otherwise they would burst. So i used a leftover 500g can from a protein shake, and the clear
plastic protecting lid from a 500g yoghurt which sits over the aluminum foil, and fastened the clip with the use before date from a toast/sandwich bag as handle to pull it out with adhesive tape to it.
The idea being: when i insert the clear plastic lid into the can over the coffee, it makes a DOUBLE seal with a buffer of co² between the cans loose lid and the inner plastic lid.
It is sitting so tight that i can see it slowly glide down on the air cushion which it replaces, the more empty the can gets. Anyways, just four always availabe leftover parts. Am i ingenious, or what? :-)
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> isn’t it kind of up to the store owner to decide what they want to accept?

Yes, and it's up to the community what kind of business practices to accept.
I think a better solution would be to provide fresh clothes / showers to homeless people, not force cafes to allow people who absolutely stink in.
> The book is written in a very simple, juvenile style, at the linguistic level of a YA novel.

> The style seemed rather unintentionally surreal.

This might be an artifact of translation, combined with whatever cultural differences there are between Chinese literature and the "Western" literature (scare quotes because the category is loosely defined). The style actually seemed somewhat poetic to me. I'm just not knowledgeable enough in this neighborhood to pass judgment.

But I agree that the style doesn't connect with the substance of the book, mostly because the substance is disjointed and so uneven.

Blindsight is fairly bleak as well. At least Stephenson is unabashedly optimistic. Peter Watts is echoing there some very important debates in philosophy and neuroscience these days - Thomas Nagel's "what is it like to be something", David Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness, p-zombies, the skepticism of Dan Dennett, etc. The problem of consciousness in general. Blindsight is great as a sneaky introduction to these concepts, even though it's quite cynical, as you've said.

I've never connected well with Vonnegut, actually. But then I didn't really connect either with hugely popular authors such as Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Maybe there's a pattern there.
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I agree that Spark may be a fine choice for ETL and generic pipeline tasks.

But lots of companies will choose it as a data warehouse computation layer and then enforce a policy to standardize everything around it, including tasks like machine learning that are poorly suited for Spark.

Worse, companies like Databricks will encourage this standardization and act like yes-man consultants, promising Spark ML offerings can solve all the problems, and you quickly end up with some brittle monster of a data warehouse system that is oriented to be convenient for Spark (which can’t effectively be used to solve the problems) and everything is deeply inconvenient to pipe to non-Spark systems, and nobody is sympathetic to any budgetary needs for other systems, since they spent it all on Spark.
Okay, automatic differentiation and probability.