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It's been almost 20 years since I completed my degree.

Three things that I got out of it:

- engineering processes,
- data structures and modelling, and
- algorithms and the application

Learning to code well in a particular language you really did in your own time, and that never stops.

It was those fundamentals and learning how to apply software engineering to develop a solution to a problem that I came away with.

You could learn those fundamentals from a book, but the degree should really be an indicator that you have mastered those basics.

Given the risk of privacy and security breaches and the financial/legal consequences if you get it wrong, it's probably time there was an IEEE/AMA/Bar equivalent that signals that you have that understanding and rigorous process.
In theory. In practice if they want to get you they'll use parallel construction.
I should backtrack a tiny bit before I'm downvoted to oblivion.

I'm not opposed to libraries to handle a lot of stuff (like auth, crypto, and file I/O). I think it's typically irresponsible to reinvent these things for any reason other than "it's a fun personal project".

What I dislike about a lot of the frameworks is how locked-in I feel. There's (often) only one way to do things, and I don't always feel it's the best way, like my aforementioned parsing logic.
Tyco, WorldCom, Healthsouth, Adelphia, Lehman Brothers, Freddie Mac, AIG, Bernie Madoff... Shall I go on?
I'm not going to get into the whole issue of whether the image is anti-Semitic or not, but it just looks really grotesque to me, something that was clearly intended to bait clueless, vulnerable people and push their tribal and FUD-based buttons. The kind of thing you'd make to shill for top karma in a "/conspiracy/" net-community, or use as the custom thumbnail for a "trending and recommended for you, zillions of views!" YT video.
Have a couple lying in a drawer. I've never found them to be worth the effort let alone the cost. Majority of questions you ask are "hmm idk". Functionality is very limited unless you've also invested in smart home devices. And at that point it's like how much effort do I save to turn off the lights by voice rather than walking 5 feet.

Idk. To me it seems like a high level gimmick the tech giants used to make another billion. More hype than value.
I actually dislike RoR but I'm at the same conclusion as OP. There is just something about Ruby that makes me want to keep going back to it. It is difficult choice when given the fact that JS is (and probably always will be) the de-facto language for the web so it's really hard to dismiss Node. But if that wasn't the case, I'd stick with Ruby all day.
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This sounds handy. Out of curiosity, does Mastodon have any form of extension/plugin system yet, to allow you to manage these through upgrades and/or distribute them easily, or are you modifying the stylesheets directly?
Not that it matters much. Why would you use the bitbucket source over the gitlab source?
Slavery is not being forced to work, it's your body being property of somebody who's not you. Ownership means control and the right of exclusion, and prohibition not only of drugs but also voluntary euthanasia and self-defense strips this of us.
Not necessarily unit tests, but automated tests in general? All the time. Setting aside linting failures (and frankly I’m not sure how those even get pushed), I’d say we have a new test failure on our integration branch in CI an average of once a day.
It has sample-level precision, just like the Web Audio API provided by the browser (which is what's used under the hood). It's pretty much independent of non-audio time APIs.
In my opinion, circles got it wrong because it got the arrow of direction wrong.

Look at Instagram. Many people have multiple accounts, which is a feature built into Instagram itself. It's easy to switch accounts. An individual might have one account (possibly private) for their personal feed meant for friends and family, another account for their instafluencer persona who travels the word taking selfies, and perhaps they have another one for their instafluencer merch shop or whatever.

For everyone using IG, these appear as distinct profiles. The consumer chooses which one to follow. Google Plus gave you one profile, and then made it so that you, the producer of content, chose which followers to target.

Obviously, the technical difference is very slim; for the "producer" there's less difference. And the circle feature isn't without merit. But Google didn't realize that just routing stuff to different places isn't what people want.

Putting a filter (which is what the circles feature could be seen as) on your own stuff is actually the last thing most people want. That's as exciting as doing laundry.
I respect what you say for the most part, but I'd like to offer my opinion that philosophy is not BS. Nor is history, or literature, or a slew of other academic disciplines which are unlikely to help a person find employment.
May I ask how you made backups on save?

What you described sounds like it might come in handy some time for me personally
Given how good palm detection is, does it matter? A large trackpad means more room for 4-finger gestures and less accidental triggering of the two-finger swipe-from-right-edge gesture.
I'm not sure you can really separate them. Good founders pick their market carefully, and they also keep a very close eye on the market & industry dynamics when deciding when & whether to fundraise.

I know that I've decided not to fundraise until I have a pretty good idea who my market is and some proof points that they actually want my product, and I've chosen product ideas and target markets to make it feasible (if difficult, sigh) to test those assumptions without funding. Part of this is that I see my personal competitive advantages as technology & strategy, though, and I kinda suck at skills like hype and fundraising. Someone good at hoodwinking people like Elizabeth Holmes or Lucas Duplan might rationally choose to raise as much capital as possible first and then hire people to figure out the details ... but then again, it didn't exactly work out for either of them. (Actually, Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos are good examples of people for whom this strategy did work out - but they actually were not diluted all that much, because the data they took to investors was such that they were able to raise that capital on advantageous terms.)

Brian Chesky talks in some interviews about how they initially planned to grow AirBnB organically and take only as much capital as needed to stay alive, but foreign competition that copied their idea and raised hundreds of millions forced their hand. At that point it didn't matter much, though, because they already had a profitable business. Joel Spolsky has also written about the decision process:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2010/02/14/raising-money-for-...
I'm only familiar with a couple of those names.

Who/what de-platformed Jimmy Dore (here's his YouTube channel; [1])? Or the rest?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3M7l8ved_rYQ45AVzS0RGA
Multiple Intelligences Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenc...

to which I subscribe, in a form.
This seems to complete the charade that a college degree is just a taxi medallion, an inherently worthless object that only has value because powers conspire to require it as a roadblock to something impot, and then extract money from people who need to get past the roadblock
Also makes you realize how BS the common refrain that “the circle of life/pyramid is super fragile” is.

Diseases have wiped out huge portions of species for millennia but life somehow carried on just fine.
I think many people will agree with me that this kind of data collection is creepy and unfortunate, but if it's the world we live in then we should try to use it for good. I'm struggling to think of a way that a non or for-profit could use aggregate data to predict events in a way that would generally be considered a net positive to society. Does anything come to mind?
Why do you think the MBP keyboard is prone to repetitive stress injuries?
I'm sure they won't bring something back based on one of many the rumors of why they closed it.
I didn't find a quick answer when searching for the benefits of smallstep vs letsencrypt. What's your take?
Whether you use Rails today or moved on, many of the concepts introduced and/or popularized by Rails can be seen in the current generation of popular server-side frameworks across many platforms.
> What happens when someone has an emergency like a stroke or heart attack? Not a lot of time to email all the local hospitals. What happens when the patient is unconscious? What happens if their condition can only be treated by a certain facility or medication?

This is not a rocket science: when one sees a complex problem one does not attempt to solve the entire problem using an full rewrite -- instead one breaks out it into pieces and solves one piece at a time. If the piece is too big to solve that piece is broken down into pieces and those individual pieces are solved.

It is debugging of the problem 101.

> What happens when someone has an emergency like a stroke or heart attack?

Call 911.

Have a toothache? Don't call 911. Call a dentist. In fact, call several dentists. It is, of course, possible to call 911 and have an ambulance take one to an emergency room because of a toothache ( this was a case told to me by a friend who is currently doing an ER rotation. He swore he was not pulling my leg ).

> What happens if their condition can only be treated by a certain facility or medication?

It is unlikely that a common condition can be treated by a single facility.

> or medication?

If we are to optimize the costs of overspending by not selecting cheaper alternatives where we can there would be more money to spend on the expensive "it can be only done here" or "it can only be done using this medication".
We don't live in a Minority Report world. We can't put people in jail for what we think they are about to do. They actually have to commit a crime to be charged.

If you do prevent everything, people claim you did nothing. Your organization gets its funding cut because it isn't needed.

(America has had to ramp up it's military repeatedly for new wars. We routinely shrink our armed forces during peace time, feeling it isn't needed. I strongly suspect this shrinkage has helped make us a target at times. Then we ramp back up.)

Though I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion.
Several. I've found race conditions with unit tests. I found a call to a pure virtual function in the base class's destructor. I've found "hey, that code I just wrote didn't do what I thought it did" not frequently, but still more times than I care to admit. I've also found "whoops, I didn't think about how my change would affect that code over there" several times.

That's just my code. Then there's finding out what my co-worker's changes did to my code...
Also providing documentation? I think technicians sometimes have to seek internal documents through illicit means.
I became one of those eBay Thinkpad + Linux guys purely to build bigger arms.
Except that it inverted long after these companies had decided on their IPO timeline. I am sure everyone will be here with "I told you so" takes if the market does go down. But if it doesn't no one will remember these predictions.
Please re-read what Rusky said; the point is about the boundary. Yes, wasm programs can mess up their own memory. That’s not what I’m talking about. I should be more clear about this in the future though, thanks.
Anyone know of a BetterErrors equivalent in Node.js with an actual REPL (live shell) like in https://github.com/BetterErrors/better_errors?

Or even a pry-remote equivalent?
I have a project where having provable zero knowledge of the content of user's data/communication is a hard requirement. I can tell user xyz is exchanging data with user abc (and when, how often, and how many encrypted\/padded bytes), but I do not know who xyz or abc are nor what they are saying to each other. The backend mediates a TOFU exchange of public keys and user guids, and everything else is end to end encrypted.

It's not intended to be ultra resilient to - for example - the NSA, it's designed that way to ensure we (as the operators of the backend infrastructure) and the client we built if for (a government department) cannot ever accidentally collect or expose any PII related to the platform users.

Without pushing changed client code (mobile apps, in this case) or MITMing you proactively before the TOFU exchange, even though I have god mode access to all the infra, I cannot (and can prove I cannot) reveal anything more than IP addresses and guids/times/sizes of user to user comms.

If my database gets popped, I and my client have no data breach reporting obligations. And I sleep _much_ better at night knowing that.

(If LOE show up with a warrant, we'd happily hand over the IP address/connections times/guids/guid-social-graphs - and they'd be able to go elsewhere to try mapping IP addresses to identities. So I'd strongly advise against running your drug business or terrorist cells on the back of this project. But _I_ cannot tie identities to guids. Unfortunately, I and this project are also from Australia, so if the App Store/googleplay binaries are already backdoored, I could soon potentially get put in jail for saying so...)
We've updated the link from the paywalled https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-call-for-termination-....
The fact that the Amazon, Google and Facebook stories are now so well internalized by the general public is what makes investing in Lift dangerous. The criticism back then was wrong - but now it is too easy to dismiss any criticism. The danger is that Lyft and Uber (and some other unicorns) are just cargo cults - copying the visible strategy of rapid growth but lacking ingredients that are more subtle but nevertheless necessary for sustained business.
So if it is chronic there's even more reason to ensure that one does not overpay for what one would be consuming all the time?
Not so much as you might think. Didn't we invent math and progressively improve it, and then invent computers to automate the math we suck at precisely to extend our problem solving powers? There are a lot of similarities.
If you’re in a mature Lyft/Uber market, it’s making money on you, possibly a lot. Both have healthy unit economics in modestly mature markets. The only time they lose money on rides is where the pooling is immature.
Or theses tests are not a great indicator of college preparedness.
I believe I understood it quite well. It just does not match either my experience or what I read.

There are lot of articles on the topic. Here's a random one:

https://www.wmpllc.org/ojs-2.4.2/index.php/ajdm/article/view...

Green triage means that there were no reason for the patient to be in the ER. With the over-triage, green is still over 70%.

So lets presume that between red and yellows it is actually 30% and none of them are triaged up ( based on the article that I linked it seems triaged up red is high single digit which is in the same ballpark that my friends who are in emergency medicine rotation say ). Those would be the only cases where one cannot pick a non-crazy expensive service ( in fact only reds cannot, and yellow probably can which is why their service is delayed ).

So at least 70% pay 7-10x because they showed up in ER rather than in a walk in center/doctors office.
Agnostic of stack, SPAs provide a clear separation of concerns. The api layer is responsible for transforming data between the client and controlling access. The client is responsible for presenting the data structures provided by the api to the user, and turning user inputs into data structures that the api can consume.
Yes...? It's up to the bank to evaluate its options.
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I'm not shutting down any debate, I am pointing out there are literal neo-Nazis being defended under the banner of Conservatism. Be angry at Quillette, not me. There are plenty more examples. You can side-step that all you want with vague accusations against "mainstream media".

And "one side calling everybody Nazis"? Really? Did you forget that Dinesh D'Souza wrote an entire book calling the left "Nazis"? That there were ACA protesters with Obama defaced as Hitler? Never mind shining examples of "adult talk" such as "Assume the Left Lies, and You Will Discover the Truth"[1].

[1]: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/left-lies-trump-russi...
Seems overly simplistic to me, I mean, one of us.
It's not going to happen because that doesn't even make sense. This concept "you will have perfect security or you will be fined out of existence" is just a long way to saying "you will be fined out of existence" as there is no such thing as perfect security or a security patch that covers every possible attack.
Trackpad cursor is not 1:1 it moves farther the faster you move your finger. On default speed setting slowly moving the cursor from bottom left to top right of the screen uses up nearly the entire trackpad. In any case the point is that a big pad is not a downside because of detection, so for me it makes sense that it would be as big as there is enough space for.
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It's kind of interesting looking back on "Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails"(2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6642893 article cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DnlIzC...
Ah, yes, I see how that is another valid interpretation.

I guess for me the word existential is a bit different. For an arrogant developer it would have been something like ‘long-suffering sigh’.

Unless, I guess, you feel you are so smart that your entire life is defined by interacting with morons :P
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OK here's the elephant in the room - China produces about a third of all pollution. I wanna say over half of ocean pollution comes from 10 rivers in China. In other words - China affects this whole thing more than anyone else in the world. And they're not far away from being more than the rest combined.

So now look at a family who uses some product like straws or plastic forks. Is it a huge inconvenience for them to stop? Probably not. A little obnoxious, but they can obviously handle it. But now the question they ask is why are they inconvenienced as another party (China) is doing so much more? Why do they have to sacrifice while someone else is the bigger issue?

And before I get yet another accusation that I'm anti climate change or whatever - I'm not. I'm explaining a very obvious reason why this is always an issue. It's because people don't like a scrimping and saving while their neighbor doesn't have to. If the green people can't get that through their heads then this debate will never be constructive.
Anecdotally, I get accidental input from my palm at least once for every full day of work.
The same could be said about the black plague. Why haven’t we already evolved to be immune to these thugs by now? Yet somehow new diseases continue to emerge and kill millions.

Really the same could be said of all deadly diseases.
That's exactly my point. Rural Italy was really poor in the past, I imagine it's not too expensive still, and it's drop dead gorgeous in some parts.
It's the modern libertarian dream.

There is nothing libertarian about conning people or "creating a middleman where one isn't needed." If you believe that, you have been badly misinformed.
> MVC is a 20 year old pattern

More like 40; it's from late 70s Smalltalk.
Yeah as if the NSA/FBI doesn't have the same powers in practice in the US.
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With ditto, can you copy a few things into the clipboard, then paste them in order somehow?

So for example I copy my password, then my username, then you can press, say, ctrl-shift-v and it will paste your password and remove the topmost item so the next paste will be my username? Or something like that?
I have a Harmon Kardon Invoke (Cortana), I use it almost exclusively for playing music from spotify, telling me what time it is when I'm sleeping and I dont want to open my eyes, and setting alarms. Occasionally for movie trivia games or turning off my tv.
I’ve had problems with the palm detection while typing. It’s great but it’s not perfect. I’d just rather have a trackpad like the previous gen. I wish they still sold it.
You need to look at our country from a historical point of view. We have a lot of cultural ties with the UK. Australia did not become a country until 1901 and no it wasn't a penal colony for that whole time, There was a lot of migration primarily from the UK - to this day UK is one of our largest source of permanent migrants.

Most of Australia's laws, our parliamentary system etc was based on UK Westminster system. In the early years of our country most people were very pro British Empire. There was enormous social pressure on people to go and "fight for the empire" during World War 1 lots and lots of Australian went and fought and died in Europe, then the same thing happened in World War 2, except suddenly the Japanese were threatening us (A lot of people don't know the Japanese bombed Australia cities during WW2) and most of our military was over in Europe and Northern Africa after the fall of Singapore Australia realized how vulnerable we were and that British could not be counted on to defend us, which caused a strategic realignment behind US and things like the ANZUS treaty etc.

To this day there is still a lot of positive British sentiment in Australia. A lot of people here really like the Queen it's a little bizarre, not so evident in the city but if you go into regional country towns it is pretty pro monarchy. When I was in high school the Queen visited my area and it was crazy big parades huge event I have never seen another politician of any sort anywhere in the country get the kind of reception she did. Most people here are completely cynical about politicians but they love the queen - weird.
So many specied affected by single pathogen. I wonder if there was something like that in history of homo species.

Some virus that wiped all homo species, except homo sapiens that gets just runny nose for few days because of it.
I'm very confused by your comment, and I hope you can clarify. I'm familiar with the colonial/European origin of the "cast system", but having been to India a few times and studied/read a bit, saying that the word has no proper native equivalent (to be blunt) seems both irrelevant and kind of disingenuous. Regardless of the word's origin or colonial reasons, it seems clear that caste-related issues are very visible and very present in India today. Do you agree? You seem to admit as much. But you also seem to downplay the entire existence of caste.

I'm really not familiar with the tribe/clan system in Iraq and Syria. My experience in some other former british and french colonies made it clear how the colonial system benefited from or even created and promoted ethnic rivalries, racism, tribalism -- yes absolutely -- but none of those situations seemed to really be a direct analogue of India's caste system. Do most people in India think of caste pretty much the same way as Americans think of ethnicity or racism?

Maybe you can also talk a bit more about Modi and his "low caste" background, because I've been curious about this myself. How much do you make of his "caste" as part his political identity? Do you see this as a sign that the caste system is dead/irrelevant/never-existed? Or that the low castes have triumphed? Or is he a pawn/token in a bigger game?
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So you hate free speech. Got it.
SE have explicitly stated that the site is a Wiki.

"Stack Overflow ultimately has much more in common with Wikipedia than a discussion forum." Jeff Atwood, "What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?", 22 October 2018.

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