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Do it right and you can get payed in college too. In Germany you have cooperative study programs for fields that are in high demand (like CS). Your degree takes 2 semesters longer in which you work at a company who pays you from start to finish of your study. Rates are similar to early apprenticeships if i am not mistaken. Also no strings attached, you can tell your company to screw itself after you finished your degree. Not finding enough people is a real issue in some fields.
Whoa. Calm down. I wasn't saying I felt that way. Please don't make such spurious assumptions about me just for making what seemed like a notable comparison.

But since you mentioned car insurance, did you know that two US states don't require car insurance? Have you ever wondered why that is? Are those entire states insane? How can anyone consider driving there ever? Surely the system can't work, can it? (Note: Once again I'm not arguing for or against it.)
And the only airlines that bought the option are North American, so we are immediately confounding with pilot training differences.
Here's one: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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“Indeed, in the average study, senior year of college brings more than twice the pay increase of freshman, sophomore, and junior years combined. Unless colleges delay job training until the very end, signaling is practically the only explanation.”

The author genuinely can’t conceptualize that people who fail out in the fourth year might, on average, have learned less in the first three? The line “practically the only explanation” even calls out the flaw in the author’s own logic. Lol.
>> we do not have enough licensed escalator mechanics to do the work

I call BS. An "escalator mechanic" sounds like a profession that could be trained in a year, or far less if the person is some other kind of mechanic. The reason why this training doesn't happen is likely there's not much money to be gained, if anything at all. Or maybe there's a union constraining supply of mechanics, or both.

I agree that there needs to be more vocational education, and less stigma against it. But the claim that the problem above could not be solved with liberal application of cash is dubious at best.
> I heard from someone at 160 Driving Academy that you can make six figures with a CDL and the trucking companies will pay you to get one.

I remember visiting the Daily News (a NYC local newspaper) in the early 2000s and on the tour learned that the unionized delivery guys could make six figures. That was almost 20 years ago. The fact that the same salary as 20 years ago is still possible doesn't really say much.
In the same vein: https://medium.com/@ahelwer/checking-firewall-equivalence-wi...
Ah, thanks. Never thought of searching for "south asian". Let me see if that covers all the cases, will either deprecate or use the Money gem internally.
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BLS says $80K/year.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/mobile/e...

Not bad for a high-school education only, but when other people are millionaires because they happened to get into Bitcoin in 2011 or because they picked the right tech startup, I see why folks would rather put their efforts into getting lucky.
Macros determine what requirements apply to the processing of syntax. Which parts of that syntax, if any, are evaluated according to what rules, in what environment.
I think you misunderstood. Had the pilots been trained, they could have dealt with it -- that the off-duty pilot was able to shows it was possible to respond correctly, while that the others weren't shows the lack of training is a real problem.
The study is not disproving the efficacy of analgesic drugs of most organisms - only suggesting that not all pain mechanisms are well understood, which is a reasonable suggestion. Further, given our (US) current opioid epidemic and death count, I find the implication that "we don't need to study other pain-relieving drugs" dubious.

Finally, do note that most analgesics have harmful side effects (acetaminophen - liver, NSAID - stomach bleeding). Does that mean they do not work as pain killers? No. But when a large portion of 50% of the population needs to take them for several days for 1 week of every month, we have every market incentive to look for other pain-relieving solutions.

Just for a personal example, my mother's period pain warranted a prolonged combination of NSAIDs and acetaminophen all her life, for 1 week of every month. Had the pills been more effective, she might have needed fewer of them in a sitting, and may not be dealing with the stomach bleeding she has now.
Isn’t he talking about Kubernetes? It seems like Google’s play (which has other components, i.e. go-cloud) is to try and get the community to target an open-source, vendor-agnostic platform, so that they have a chance of taking workloads from Amazon.

It’s easy to see this turning in a more proprietary direction later in the game, with GKE leaving Kube itself behind, but for now it seems like a strong contender in the fight against “everyone just codes against their preferred cloud’s API.” Commoditize your complement, etc.
While this is true, forests do hold a lot of water. One of the problems with dry places is not so much that there is no water, but that the water is inconsistent and only available for a short period of time. Forests act like a sponge and hold water for long periods of time, which can literally transform ecosystems.

That said, I know literally nothing about the Gobi desert ecosystem and whether planting a forest will have the desired effect. Interestingly (to me at least), right at the time that the Edo period in Japan was starting, Japan had cut down most of its trees. One of the effects was that the runoff from mountains was much faster and carried less mineral content. This, in turn, reduced the ability for algae to grow in the shallow regions of the sea around Japan, leading to a very real possibility of mass starvation. Somehow somebody realised this and convinced the Shogun to put a moratorium on logging. Despite the really huge hardship this had on the people, it's likely to have saved Japan. By the 18th century Japan had developed fairly advanced silviculture. Some historians in Japan consider this to be a practical miracle given the very limited knowledge that people had about ecology in the Edo period.

I'm hoping that our cultures will enter a new period where we start to understand that this kinds of "ecological engineering" is necessary for the health of our societies. Whether or not the planting of trees in the Gobi desert is effective or not (I have no idea), the idea that we need to do these kinds of things is very promising and I hope that whatever successes and failures there are will be fed back into a system of refinement for the next try.
It actually says as much in the article linked by grand parent, but I also remember reading about it a few years ago in china daily or globaltimes (probably the latter), so it has been brought up in the Chinese press as well. Anecdotally as well: I was living in Beijing during the entire time period and noticed the dust storms going away and then coming back.

Fun story: Beijing kids are all required to plant trees on school organized trips (which they must also pay to plant). So they go to places in the hinterland that are designated for tree planting, and plant their trees. After each school group leaves, the trees are promptly dug out so they can be planted by the next group of kids.
Hey there! Which are some of the best publications to connect with for publishing stories related to the following categories -- startups (think post mortem analyses), open source software, product launches?
Every technical summer internship I worked at I got paid, roughly at the same rate as a junior engineer entering from college.
If there's "summer loss"? What about when you leave high school and college?

What happened to the notes you took for your classes at the end of the semester? I suspect that they are thrown away and never seen again.

I suspect part of the problem with education is that we don't learn how to learn, and that we done very little work on how to retain those skills and connect them to our world.
I've been working professionally in Java for almost 20 years. I can't remember the last time I saw someone use features introduced after 1.6. The time API in 1.8 was nice. I've never seen anyone use lambdas in production code. I'm sure people do use newer stuff, but I think it's the minority. So in practice it's even more stable than it is in the headlines.
The shape of the curve matters. In high interest rate environments, large companies borrow at a higher rate rate relative to smaller companies because the curve is flatter. In a low-interest rate environment, the curve is very steep, so large companies borrow cheap but small companies only borrow just slightly lower rate than they do in a high interest rate environments. Large companies are able to borrow at rates closer to the fed funds rate whereas small business borrows at am much higher rate. Low interest rates and cheap borrowing allows large businesses to expand and possibly crowd out smaller businesses, that have to borrow at much more unfavorable rates.
Building my blog using Webflow, was thinking of using Medium as a distribution channel.

Anyone else here had similar ideas?
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>They're probably mostly referring to Bernie Sanders, who ran a campaign very focused on wealth inequality.

Sanders is in the 1% as well.
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In Europe they call it BargainHuntIt
Trivial with the correct infrastructure - you can easily get 8kbps in 12.5kHz of bandwidth (a reasonably common channel size in the sub-GHz bands).

Trick is, you ideally need line of site (in which case your effective range is effectively the horizon), and directional antennas for distances more than a relatively short distance (a few miles maybe).

Some math follows. 30dBm is 1 W, and -100dBm is a low, but probably workable signal. We'll assume 0 antenna gain or loss to make the math easier.

Free Space Path Loss (in dB): 20×log10(d) + 20×log10(f) + 92.45

d=distance in km, f=frequency in GHz

So at 915MHz, we can get about 85km in free space @ 915MHz (this is actually past the horizon, so not really possible except from high elevations).

30dBm − (20×log10(85) + 20×log10(.915) +92.45) = -100dBm
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If you think brackets are the core innovation of Smalltalk to make lambdas practical, then Lisp has no problem providing it, too:

CL-USER 19 > (defun bracket-reader (stream char)
(declare (ignore char))
`(lambda () ,@(read-delimited-list #\] stream t)))
BRACKET-READER

CL-USER 20 > (set-macro-character #\[ #'bracket-reader)
T

CL-USER 21 > (let ((a 10))
(my-if (> a 5)
[(print 'hello)]
[(print 'world)])
'done)

HELLO
DONE

With a bit more effort, we could also parse a parameter list.

But Lisp does not go the route of making IF a function, because it typically provides three different types of language expressions and IF then is a special operator:

1) function calls

2) macro forms

3) a small set of special operators, which are implemented as built-in functionality. One of them is a core conditional operator. More complex conditional operators then are implemented as macros, which expand eventually into the core conditional operator. The interpreter and compiler will have to specially recognize and implement these special operators.

See IF: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/s_if.htm

The usual Lisp view is that

[(print 'hello)]

is no useful improvement over

(lambda () (print 'hello))

Some disagree, but most of the time the pattern

(<operator> <expr0> ... <exprn>)

is preferred in Lisp over

<fancy-character> <expr0> ... <exprn> <another-fancy-character>
> The lack of ability for their chat to interface with others is probably a considerable measure of control over information flow, which I imagine is good for Goldman Sachs.

A federated system can still be locked down, and made to be inoperable with other services. If you wanted to make an email service that didn't speak to other email services, you would still probably start with the email standard and make changes to lock it down rather than creating a new email service from scratch.

Likewise, a Goldman Sachs (or similar company) that wanted a locked down messaging service would likely consider an open platform that they could modify and lock down rather than using a commercial one (like slack) or rolling their own (which is extremely expensive).
Macros are more general than that; they are generalized expression rewriters. `if` is tricky to implement in general because you need a primitive to select an alternative based on whether a given value is truthy or falsy. Let's pretend we have such a primitive that's not a special form called `call-if`. Then you can implement `if` in terms of `call-if` by writing it as a macro that transforms this:

(if (condition? x) (do-a x) (do-b x))

into this:

(call-if (condition? x) (lambda () (do-a x)) (lambda () (do-b x)))

(The semantics of `call-if`, by the way, are exactly the semantics exposed by the Smalltalk ifTrue:ifFalse: family of methods.)

But macros can do more than merely wrap things in lambdas, which alone is sufficient for delayed and conditional evaluation. They can quote identifiers that are passed into them, allowing you to write new defining forms and even introduce new bindings. A nontrivial, but understandable, example is the `define-record-type` special form from SRFI 9, which can define a new disjoint record type and a constructor, predicate, and field accessors for that type all in one form. If you are willing to break hygiene and have `defmacro` or something like `syntax-case` available, you can even introduce new identifiers from out of nowhere, and write something like Common Lisp's `defstruct` which lets you define a type and automatically derive names for the constructor, slot accessors, etc. from the names of the type and slots.

Macros are a tremendously powerful, general code generation and rewriting tool, built right into the language. Underestimate them at your own peril!
Are you outside the US? Engineers here do not typically have professional status.
The guy at the driving academy might not be the most neutral source of information. Is that $100k before or after you buy a semitruck? How much does a truck cost? How often do you see your family?
It's not the size of an area or the number of people that indicate it's quality level as a tech high quality area either. The population of NYC is not the indicator of the number leading tech workers and companies there, of course.
There's several issues I've noticed as a student. First, kids are told to go to college immediately after high school. If college was high school 2.0, this would be fine. But college is completely different from high school; it's significantly more expensive, more free form and more rigorous (at least compared to most high schools). I see so many students who clearly have no clue what they want to do, why they're in college (beyond "my parents want me to") or how to accomplish their goals.

Having seen the sheer quantity of kids struggling with simple stuff like cleaning, cooking and not drinking themselves to death, I'm becoming more and more in favor of a mandatory service at the age of 18. Maybe not military like the IDF, but some sort of program where kids are forced to go away from home and learn to be self sufficient. Little Bobby should learn how to scrub a pot and clean a bathroom before he's entrusted with a 240k education. I took a gap year and I was significantly more focused and disciplined than I was in high school. And way better than the majority of my college peers.

But even worse than being unprepared for college, I feel like we've been fostering a poor attitude towards learning. I grew up in an academic family, so to me, learning wasn't a stage of life. Learning was an essential aspect of being alive. Going to college wasn't some arbitrary merit badge that society deems necessary. It was a natural extension of whatever field I wanted to study. I see college as a tool; I need to learn certain topics in order to get what I want in life. Of course, I'm very fortunate to have taken a gap year and worked as a programmer. If nothing else, I know that I like programming, I'm good at it and I'm willing to suffer through the painful parts. It's kinda good to know that before I spent 240k on a CS degree.
Why do people still use Maven when Gradle exists?

I'll never know.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion for Christianity in general.
This is pretty interesting and useful. Now where are the details about how to get ElasticSearch to behave this way? :)
Emotional development requires trust.
Whether it's a child, young adult or a trained soldier once they loose Trust in an authority figure, getting them to follow, learn from, obey said authority figure is not straight forward. It's quite a complex process to restore trust once it's gone.
Yes I have. It is a bit better but unfortunately it is most of the times outdated. It doesn’t keep up with changes in the road network. I also bike a lot and finding bike routes is especially hard in HERE WeGo or other maps. Google maps is the only reliable one.
Biggest barrier to entry for me is the build dependency system Maven. And I never understood Ant. I did like the language when I played around with Java 8. Streams are amazing.
To a practitioner the title sounds like "water is wet" or "air is breathable".
How does doing work remotely make one a slacker (other than the aspect of not physically transporting yourself)? And if you're capable of completing a course without being present, what does that say about the course and or your capabilities?
What are we getting? Automatic updates, backups, point in time recovery, multi AZ redundancy of storage, autoscaling synchronous read replicas, and much better performance than your self hosted Mysql instance.
You can take CS50 and following or the MIT MOOCs on edx.org and learn more about CS in a few weeks than I did during my entire freshman year of the university of Aalborg.

Sure it’s introductory, but so was my freshman year.

I don’t really agree with the article though, I enjoyed philosophy and history as side tracks doing my entire schooling, and I use the creativity and insights I got from those a whole lot more than I ever use economics or math.
Well, we've had the Sleipner CO2 injection in the North Sea going since 1996 at close to 1 million tons per year, with extremely close monitoring including 4D seismic. There's hundreds of scholarly articles out there with field data and modelling of that case. I think we have some pretty good estimates of how it works by now.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/bulgaria/2029/
Yes see context

See Denmark for comparasion:
https://www.populationpyramid.net/denmark/2029/
The show at the Guggenheim was great; I would highly recommend it if you're near Manhattan. I particularly enjoyed her late watercolors.
I understand where the author is coming from, yet, perhaps because he is constantly surrounded by well educated individuals, he failed to point out the unmeasureable benefits of going to college. When a person is exposed to the diversity of different people normally found at a college their view of the world is expanded. This generally increases their empathy and broadens their humanity.

You just don’t get the same exposure at a trade school or through an apprenticeship. Perhaps the real solution is that colleges should offer training in the trades. You’d benefit from classes on how to run a business and do taxes and accounting if you’re in a trade and want to start your own business.

And just because the direct access to the knowledge is not retained, doesn’t mean the residual knowledge is completely lost. If I never learned Calculus I’d have no idea where to start if I wanted or needed to pick it up again, but because I did, I have a much easier time refreshing myself.

As a programmer, I jump from language to language often. When I haven’t used a language in a while I forget a lot of it, but once I start using it again, I recall and pick it up much faster.

So, while those researchers proved that if you don’t use it, you do indeed lose it, they failed to see if a quick refresh of the material proved their skills more than someone that never learned the skill at all. I’d imagine the results would be as I’d expect and those that previously learned it did much better than those that never learned it.

And finally, the author touched on what is more directly the issue. College ciriculiums are simply not well designed. If more majors were designed like engineering as his example, their would be more useful and their for used knowledge acquired during a students years in college and therefore more skills would translate into their field.
From a security perspective, minimising dependencies is preferred. I have to review at least monthly all our dependencies for published vulnerabilities and new versions.

We don’t allow automatic upgrading of packages/dependencies due to the risk of malicious code making it in (see https://www.npmjs.com/advisories for examples). Yeah there are companies that will help manage your vulnerability process but it’s still a lot of overhead and only grows as the number of dependencies grows.

There’s also the whole left-pad mess from a few years back which shows you always need local archived copies of any dependencies you use.
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In practice, no. The broker != agent distinction is key here. And the insulation between actuons of the agent and responsibility of the broker. Additionally the standard paperwork (AFAICT) routinely has the principal waive the brokers duty of representation as well.
> The ER is too often used as a general clinic / doctors office, psychiatric ward, or even homeless shelters in many areas.

A quick comment that this is a US-specific problem. In Australia, despite the attempts by our conservative governments to ruin our healthcare system, our universal healthcare system means only people who have actual emergencies (or at least think they do) are in ERs. Everyone else goes to a GP whenever they need to, for free. Similar things are true in with regard to the NHS in the UK, or most other nations with universal healthcare.
I disagree about there being a social stigma about the trades. It might tend to be seen more frequently among certain age groups or geographic locations but I can't recall ever seeing people be thought of that way for having a skilled trades job (I'm in the US).

Quite the contrary actually, I think they're seen as very hard working. But I've also never seen very much in the way of recommendations from others in that trade to get into that kind of work. Probably because there are few people to do the recommending. There's certainly no shortage of freshman brogrammers who will preach a career in software development as easy money (they'll change their tune when they see the ugly side of things but that's a different topic of discussion).
Amoral and evil are different things.
You have to do this very carefully. I’ve heard stories about farmers intentionally planting required trees they were given upside down because they thought they would do more harm than good to the soil.
> Sanders is in the 1% as well.

Just because someone belongs to a group, doesn't make their criticism of the unjust advantages of that group invalid. Similarly, a white person arguing for civil rights is not a hypocrite either.