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For anyone here, that went through one of these CodeSchools/Bootcamps/training.jargon[2] courses, I have a question:

At any point in these camps was there a section on interviewing and job seeking?

I'm asking as both a hiring manager who has seen a very fair share of...sorry, BAD resumes coming from people who finished a local code school, who struggled through the interview (only one made it to a technical assessment, he struggled on the syntax but seemed to grok the concepts. He ultimately did not get hired)and as a friend of someone who went through a code school and has absolutely zero interview skills,.

Their resume-upon reading-would have you wondering if they've applied for a "Junior React Developer" by mistake (restaurants, service industry jobs, stints at hotels, and at the very bottom: "React Bootcamp, Chicago - 2017-2018"). The generic cover letter this friend had me read jumped from topic to topic and was at least 5 paragraphs and two pages long, their only portfolio item was a single page "Hi I'm Bob" they made in the class.

It just makes me wonder what else these schools are doing to help their students actually succeed.
Sounds a lot like instapainting.com, except artists come from India instead of China. Also sounds like the model works :) Best of luck!
Sales figures would indicate that, wouldn't they?
The key to handling such environments is to not care about the result more than the others. So socialize with the newbies, maybe go have some beers, be a pleasant person and absolutely don't give a damn that they are utterly completely useless. It wasn't your decision to hire them and you shouldn't be wasting your passion and energy on rectifying it. If you care about what you're doing, it consider starting a side project and growing it into a fully-fledged business instead.
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First off, I'm not "crediting" anything, I'm refuting the idea that unions would hurt ambition.

Second, you have quite a narrow and arguably wrong idea about what socialism is:

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

Sweden is for example governed like a social democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_socialism#Social_demo...

Being scared of the S word is kind of silly and assuming socialism equals totalitarian Stalinism or Communism is just plain wrong.

Third -- if you work in tech you might very well be a member of for example "Unionen" (660.000 members, myself included) or "Sveriges Ingenjorer" if you're an actual engineer.

Take a look at SACO with it's 22 unions: https://www.saco.se/en/

Just some other thoughts:

The opposite of socialism is not capitalism, as is usually portrayed.

For me, the opposite is what happens when accountability towards the people and greater good is nowhere to be found. Be it through unregulated free market corporations, organisation and politics or a totalitarian dictatorship.

Both corrupt and destroy and one thing is common: lack of accountability.

Also, I like talking about ”socialist Sweden” whenever an American talks about the horrors of unions, regulations and government.
Agreed. Walrus ivory is legal in the US provided it goes through a native Alaskan.
I do the same: passport, visa, wallet and mobile stay in my jeans' pockets through the flight.
Part of the problem is that Boeing changed the trim increment AFTER the FAA certification without FAA knowledge. I'm surprised a configuration change like that was allowed and wonder what level they were analyzed by safety engineers.

So there's not just the design workaround but there seems to also be process gaps that contributed to the situation.
Shipping a Linux compatibility layer in the form of an integrated Linux virtual machine does not in any way equate bringing about a Linux desktop to the masses.

It's shipping a Windows desktop that has a convenient way to do *NIX-style things, largely for developers who are leaving MS for Apple.

It also takes away from the Linux community and future support for desktop hardware on Linux. This is hurting Linux, not helping.
Different strokes for different folks. There are plenty of people who find photo realistic gore entertaining.
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Yes we can but we are constrained by the power/energy/money consumption in this whole recycling process.
I don't find it very spooky. Moving though, considering it's a solemn burial of the bodies of enemy soldiers. And if really it was top-secret, it's not even propaganda. Better times than ours.

And how cool is the Soviet anthem?
Then again, Soviet era was all about community and sharing and working for the good of your fellow man.

And then there's capitalism, which teaches you "to always prioritize your own stuff", because not only "nobody else will care about it", some of them actually have a financial interest in making you lose your stuff.

My point is: each era and each system has plenty of selfish assholes for its own reasons, boiling down to humans being humans. There's nothing here that's specific to Soviet culture, or American culture.
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I agree with the incentive bits. My elementary school had an optional after-school Math Club for 5th graders, but that was mostly around because my dad ran it and was really motivated to foster my childhood curiosity about math. It was a fantastic experience and a hell of a lot of fun, but I see little reason for anyone to organize it outside of wanting their kid to do well. Maybe an enterprising HOA officer could fund/run it to try to improve home values by getting recognition for their local school.
"You can learn how to be a lawyer in a few months in your spare time if you're cut out for it" would be considered a ridiculous statement. Perhaps you could learn enough to be an assistant to a legal secretary.

The same applies to programming.
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You wouldn’t be retrained to ignore cues from your senses and trust your instruments. That training happens when you’re young and getting your IFR ticket.
> I find often that the other side is based on logical fallacies and is not, at its base, a valid argument.

Does this mean you are "often" right?
"They can also cut players."

Exactly. That's also why the phrase" let's run government like a business" doesn't work. You can't just lay off 10% of your country's population if they don't perform.
I don’t do this anymore ever since my passport fell out of my pocket onto the airline seat after a long haul. I was able to get it back, but lesson learned: passport goes into my carryon after the secondary visa check before boarding.
As someone who works in the field of digital advertising, please god no. Advertisers have zero idea what they're doing.
Would it be reasonable to assume people's innate problem solving skills, to the extent they are innate, combined with how their problem solving skills have been guided pedagogically, fit a bell curve?

Is it reasonable to assume some people will land on the far lefthand side of certain bell-curve-fitting measurables, or unmeasurables, that lends them to being not particularly well suited for certain kinds of activities?
You're talking about something slightly different than the article. What you're talking about might more precisely be directed at something like a creative writing program. What the article's author is discussing is, in layman's terms, the profession of being an analyst-, or the profession of giving "critique"-, of creative writers.
According to Wikipedia the wreck was found in 2009 and this article was about when it was first imaged. Although it isn't clear to me why exactly the Independence needed to be found in the first place since it was intentionally scuttled. Was the location of the ship classified? Or was the record keeping from the 1940s so bad they the Navy didn't record the location of a scuttled ship or listed it as something vague like "off the Farallon Islands"?
>Trolling is as much a mechanism of creating emotional trauma among a large population as it is a mechanism for 'debating' in bad faith.

Perhaps this was not present in older societies (and other countries today) because people were not as touchy feely as the current generations...

And I'm not trolling. I seriously think modern western societies are too snow-flakey and touchy feely for their own good. It's like going out in life expecting padded roads, walls, and everything, lest you ever get hurt...

And that's despite older societies having it much harder, and having much more difficult problems to be "traumatized" with...
If you like your job and it pays well, why leave it. Your problem is not job, your problem is that you haven't taken any vacations. Just take a month off and plan a vacation. Or just stay home and work in your health.

I used to pool my vacation and take entire month of December off and just relax. I used to work out in the gym almost every day, wake up late, take naps, watch movies. Other times, go travel to far away places etc.

If you come back and have forgotten passwords, then you have used up the time well.
> The market matches supply with demand by definition, one can say. But at what price?

At the market clearing price. That is why rules that constrain supply are so problematic -- they raise that price.

> Of course, some people go the fundamentalist capitalists path, and say 'fuck those that can't afford to live where they are now, they don't deserve to live there and should leave'. I disagree with that radicalism.

If you own property somewhere, the amount it costs you was set in the past. Whether the price goes up or down doesn't matter to you until you do leave.

Price increases can push out renters, but the whole point is to ultimately get costs to go down. That doesn't push out anybody, except maybe speculators.

> Housing is essential, so everybody has to satisfy their demand. This may justify regulation.

The "regulation" that allows more people to satisfy their demand would by definition be regulations that induce more housing to be constructed. So this would be things like not imposing tax on buildings (LVT instead of property tax), tax incentives for new construction etc. But notice how easily this is reframed as really just removing existing legislative disincentives from new construction.

By contrast, the rules we have now do things like expressly prohibit taller buildings or impose minimum parking requirements and other costs that do nothing but make housing more expensive for the people who could otherwise do without those things and would not willingly choose to pay their cost if not doing so was available as an option.

You can't just say "we need rules" without specifying what they are. Bad rules are explicitly worse than no rules -- and bad rules are what we have. So we can start by getting rid of those. Only if the problem then continues to exist do we need to worry about replacing them with something else.

But notice also how hard it is to find and enact good rules. When rents are high you get numerous loud people who don't understand math or economics proposing counterproductive nonsense like rent control and designated affordable housing, and then those get enacted precisely because they don't reduce overall rents, allowing the politicians to lie to the proles about helping them while increasing the rents collected by the landlords.

Doing wrong is worse than doing nothing.
I completely agree, generally when I play devil's advocate, I preface it with: "Playing devils advocate, how would you respond to this counter point". The fine line is whether or not the other participants in the conversation are aware of your intent to play devil's advocate. If you are the only one who knows you are playing devil's advocate, your intent might be misconstrued. And if they never find out you were playing devils advocate, then well...
This looks phenomenal, I'll be placing an order later today. Congratulations to you and your team, I hope this succeeds past your expectations :)
Since this is HN, I should be cheering the new uber for portraits. Unfortunately, I like the Indian crafts traditions more and it makes me sick that there's a village in Kerala or Karnataka or Jharkhand or wherever churning out handmade selfies. Thanks but no thanks.
How is what you’re building different from Apples fingerprint / facial recognition system?
> Once .NET 5 arrives, there won't be any more concern with ensuring portability between .NET Core apps and .NET Framework apps by way of targeting .NET Standard.

In the real world there are massive amounts of code in the .net framework. Because of the significant breaking changes between 4.x and core/5 it will take a long time before all this code is ported, and many application will probably never be ported, while still having to be maintained. So for the foreseeable future it is going to be very important whether libraries are 4.x compatible or not.

Consider Python had (IMHO) fewer breaking changes between 2 and 3, but still the migration took about a decade.
> On the other hand, having universities educate for the needs of the economy is one of the stupider, short-sighted things happening now.

What to do though? At some point after graduation the students would need to find someone to hire them and pay them a living wage. Even if they graduate without any debt like they might in Europe or other countries, what do they do next? Sure, the economy needs editors, and perhaps history majors could make good managers or programmers with some training, but it would be an uphill battle for them.

Most people I know who graduated with a humanities degrees ended up in jobs they hated. They only ones that liked their jobs stayed in the academia. But how sustainable is that, I wonder...

At least in US with the govt guaranteeing student loans, there is a perverse incentive for the universities to lie and tell students to apply and that everything will be fine, just so they get their hands on that loan money.
> Remind me, when's the last time we had a major fatality incident in the US domestic passenger airline business?

Doesn't really matter much. Incidents in aviation that can happen on continent X could usually have happened on any continent.
Africa is such a huge continent, why not say “Medieval Malians”? How much of an information does “Medieval Eurasians invented gunpowder” have?
Another thing to keep in mind is that HTTP 301 redirects are typically only followed for GET requests. POST, PUT & DELETE requests will still be broken.
I am exceptionally good at being a couch potato.
You may pay extra, plenty might want the same for less - particularly if it becomes fashionable. We don't really have balanced, well run markets, so competition also produces cheap, profitable eco-catastrophes, either to sell a similar product for less - see US experience of beef farming. Or to turn a once wild-caught luxury food into a mass market everyday food - see almost all salmon farming. No problem - the eco-catastrophe is now someone else's problem - an externality.

I see no reason to have confidence this will be any different in terms of eco-damage or other pollution without strengthening regulation in several areas. Just being in a "lab" - which will be regular food factory once commercialised - won't remove waste, or stuff down the drains.
Ask HN: Has Chrome started giving search results priority over recent URLs?
I read HN quite often, so I'm used to entering "n" in the Chrome search bar and pressing enter. This used to autocomplete to news.ycombinator.com, since that is a known URL I visit regularly.

After what I assume is a recent update (I haven't changed any config), Chrome now autocompletes differently:

Example: If I type "nexample" into the address bar, from that point on, hitting "n<enter>" will autocomplete to the Google search results for nexample, and never HN, even though I visited that page exactly once, and HN hundreds of times.

Is it just me? What gives? I couldn't find a changelog suggesting why this happens.
>almost impossible to find developer with Scala experience around here anyway)

I feel you.

I think there is no pool more shallow than the one of C programmers that can work on embedded in my area.

Regardless of what your background is, I’ve already had to commit to 6 months of training for anyone I hire.
Another big problem is that there are very few high school math teachers who have a good idea of what mathematicians do

It's a massive problem in America, the undereducation of teachers. There is a lovely book, "Easy as π?" (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387985213), it grew from an overview course in elementary mathematics for teachers of secondary-level math in Russia. The idea is to have the teachers know their math and the reasoning behind it. Try that in America, the students will complain to the administration that they learn too much, instead they will take all sorts of strange classes at their School of Education.
Google is not analogous to the NBA.

It's the IBM of the 2010's.
What about females who carry everything in a bag?
Preserving human knowledge: similar projects (2014)
So you claim that profit is prioritized over healthcare in Europe. It obviously is in America too. I'd rather take the system without the ridiculous bills then. Europe is still far superior. At least if I survive, I won't be bankrupt.
As an undergrad in mathematics at a school known to be strong in the subject, and as a prospective teacher, this article and your reply have given me a lot of food for thought.

In contrast to inspirational professional athletes who act as role models for kids, Urschel mentions Von Neumann as an example of someone math teachers never mention. To that I would reply that Von Neumann was a profound genius, far beyond the capabilities of most high school math teachers, before he'd ever set foot in a classroom [1]. To mention him to any kid in the hope that they may draw inspiration from him is risky. I think you're just as likely to discourage the child by reinforcing the stereotype that mathematics is a subject suited only to geniuses.

At the same time, I do think that math teachers could work harder to inspire kids and help them realize their potential. That the incentive structure for great teachers is not there is something I don't have answer for. Perhaps we as a society need to find better ways of providing financial support to all of those whose economic activity produces net positive externalities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Child_prodigy
It’s fun to be that guy until he gets killed in the sequel. But at least his death motivates the hero to keep fighting.
There are far more non union voters than union voters so it’s only a matter of how many non union voters turn out.

There’s absolutely no reason governments employees shouldn’t have been switched to 401k by now, other than only a few thousand voters show up to vote on millions of dollars of debt.
Nope, humans were trying to figure out how to manage the consequences of nuclear weapons, which were judged to be a necessary strategy to end World War II to attempt to defeat fascism and save democracy.

Not "just to see what would happen" but to know how vulnerable our Navy would be to the very real threat of atomic attack from the Russians, and thus to responsibly inform strategy and tactics should that nightmare ever come to pass.

Testing decontamination also necessary to inform e.g. necessary fleet sizes in case of nuclear war -- could ships ever be reused or not? An existing shipyard is the logical place to do that, and unfortunately widespread environmental consciousness just didn't happen until the landmark publication of Silent Spring in 1962, more than a decade later.

Storing the contaminated sand on the ship and sinking it was a pretty reasonable thing to do at the time, not "just to use it as target practice" but to kill two birds with one stone.

Nobody's perfect, but you seem to really be judging people from several generations ago according to current societal standards, and completely misportraying their motives.
Is there a reason artists in the area would not appreciate paid work?
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So kind of like the ruthless capitalism in the USA?

I have had the chance to live in a post-Sovietic place and travel constantly to the USA. I felt the Ex-soviet place has more a culture of helping others than the USA.
(East Germany vs California).
Loses out in both style and cost when compared to InstaPainting (where this is definitely derived from) but good effort, hope this improves livelihoods of Indian artists. What percentage of the share actually goes to them?
>short of working for the NSA Facebook is the most unethical job I can think of for a Dev

"unethical" — there are many reading your comment who work at the NSA and do not share your point of view, to say the least.
A pretty sombre article. In what were the "go go" days of academe, the MLA was the target of some fairly comic parodies and ridicule. A standout was David Lodge's "Small World" which formed part of his campus trilogy. [0][1]. Still a great read today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_World:_An_Academic_Roman...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=campus+trilogy&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
You don't necessarily need to support two formats; you need to support redirecting the previously-issued URLs. This _can_ be accomplished by supporting the old format, but it doesn't _need_ to be.

Instead, you could just use a database of redirects which you append to when you make format changes. For some applications, the overhead of maintaining a redirect service is far lower than trying to maintain support for multiple formats. (And this redirect service may even be something you need/want for other reasons.)
Ok but that is hardly Apple’s fault though.
I don't even understand the question. You can resign whenever you want. It's customary to give 2 weeks notice.
Maybe, but I'm much more worried about what police and authorities will do when they can associate physical location with an ID card.
Also inflight wifi with a starlink uplink
Gotta flip that narrative
You are assuming "tier 1 engineers" are also the ones using the bleeding edge technologies. This is not true in my experience. The best developers care a lot about using the best tools available for a particular task - which is very different from using the newest tools avaialbe. In reality it typically takes a long time for a tool to become mature enough for productive use, at which point it is not cutting edge anymore.
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I've worked in the NY suburbs. Finding office space with high speed internet and enough parking can be challenging as you grow. Financing will probably be the more traditional bank loans, although it's worth checking to see if Michigan has any special programs for starting a company in a small town or rural area. For engineering talent, expect a number of capable people without CS degrees.
As a hiring manager that has been in similar situation with employees - do what is best for yourself, but be aware that your current manager won't feel good about this situation and will try to move on as fast as possible as well. If you go to FB try not to leave in the next 2 years, because hiring managers don't like job hoppers these days. Ideally, don't even include your 6 months tenure in your resume.
Most of the time it doesn't even matter whether that someone actually believes what they say. It should be all the same to you either way.
True I guess. "Acceptable" was probably the wrong word. "Most enjoyable"? Still, do gamers think it's a great game while coping (and would have preferred less gore) or is more gore always preferred?
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