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You wouldn't think it's really a niche market - most TVs made in the past several years are 4k, prices have become quite cheap, if you're buying a new mid or high end TV today chances are it's a 4k panel.

It's just a cost factor more than anything, if you spend $1200+ on video cards you can pull it off on PCs today with most major titles, but that price alone is several times what top of the line consoles run. That price is rapidly dropping, but just isn't there yet. As such, bragging about 8k support on a console that's probably not going to cost that much more seems... unrealistic to say the least.
>I trained in a field that might be classed under "areal studies" more generally for a certain stretch of Eurasia

I'd guess former bomber pilot but the rest of your comment makes me think otherwise.
> Better to discuss position attained by some age

I know a SWE at Google who is <20 and does not have a degree. So it certainly is possible, and it implies that you don't need 10+ years of experience to break into FAANG without a bachelor's.
> I don't think Kim Dotcom would have a military style raid on his house in NZ done on behalf of the Chinese government.

perhaps not, but in Thailand, yes.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/03/activist-li-xi...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/05/hong-kong-acti...
That's a little bit different. A LOT of CAD software is built on decades-old legacy ways of doing things because old people won't retire and can't be bothered to learn new and better ways of operating. It's much less focused on artistic creation and more on engineering. As a result CAD software wants you to work in a specific way with it. Order of operations is extremely important and can be different from one package to another.

Keeping it in a programming paradigm, CAD is more like assembly. It's different from platform to platform and even if you know one there's no guarantee you can make another work. Contrast that with 3d modeling packages which mostly use the same concepts, and order of operations rarely matters.
Let me add a complication. You are at an age where most people have kids. Personally I've choose not to and went very careful to successfully not marry nor have kids, so... just saying you should calculate how that will/will-not compute into your plan.
Similar boat to you. Had the exact same question in my life.

I decided for a totally different option, lets call it option #4:

#4 Take an "easy" programming job and use your spare time on nights/weekends to build a software business.

I chose this option because I wasn't willing to risk my savings. Plain and simple. I want to retire some day, and blowing 60k for a ~5% chance at making a profitable business wasn't worth it to me.
Tokyo?
If those people ever actually put in the effort they'd find all the same tools just under different names. While it may take a while to get the nuances down at the end of the day they all do the same things. It's simply a matter of adapting your existing skill to a new workflow.

Just like a programming language.
Generally, given a fixed population, I think that improved transportation doesn't increase property values, but rather redistributes the value of property from areas near jobs to areas further away along the improved transportation. For example, starting in the 50's highways were built which allowed people to live outside of the city and commute in. Property values in the suburbs went from very low value farmland to hundreds of thousands of dollars per acre today. As these commuting routes became saturated property value in cities has recovered, since it is less and less possible to commute in a reasonable amount of time.
Not everyone has money to give.
> Even back in 2009 I heard some Linux enthusiasts tell me how btrfs was going to be better than zfs!

What's sad is that it should have been; the CDDL situation is really unfortunate. Honestly, even if BTRFS performance were worse, it would be worth it in order to have a fully-supported mainlined FS... but instead its reputation is for data loss, so it's dead (yes, I know it works if you're careful, but that's a terrible quality in a filesystem).
I meant they have to optimize the games just for Xbox One X users, which I'd guess is less than 10% of Xbox One owners.
Don't move to NYC without a job.

I love living in NYC, have been here for 20+ years. But your $60k will disappear rapidly. If you want to be in the NYC metro area while you look for a job pick a suburb on a train line about an hour out of the City (NJ, NY east of the Hudson, maybe Long Island). Your burn rate will be much less but you'll be able to get into Manhattan and nearby business districts in a predictable amount of time for interviews and networking events (no recommendation on the train line but avoid the single track train lines).
Maybe start a subreddit?
Yeah, it's a bit odd that they focused so much on the Swiss.

Even the article mentions it's widespread: "Unmanned stalls with vegetables can be found all over the world. Germany, Norway, the U.S., Australia, Canada, the UK are among the countries where the honor system isn’t any novelty."
> a university education led to a well-paying job. I know how incredibly naive that sounds

That was the god honest trust for about 40 years, so it wasn't naive. The market conditions changed drastically and abruptly, but the same advice was being given.
I think it's more about vendor support. There's a big difference between having a person on your payroll who can add a feature and having a help desk and applications engineers who are under contract to make sure the software works for you.
To be fair, that wasn't Yelp-- it was a Yelp salesperson who was fired the next day. (edit: OK what difference does it make, but anyway "at least" they didn't stand by that person or their mistake) The "threatening phone call"-- I don't remember Rossmann actually referring to it that way-- wasn't from Yelp, it was from a law firm where someone in the (former) salesperson's family is apparently a partner. The fake reviews weren't from Yelp, they were just thinly veiled revenge from that person's friends who were not Yelp employees but 'elite' reviewers (whatever that means, TFA implies Yelp Eliters are an unpleasant bunch).

Rossmann's conclusion was that this probably isn't anything that Yelp secretly condones or instructs, but they declare their expectations, and their people will succeed by whatever means necessary. Obviously that doesn't include doxxing other businesses who already pay for advertising. :facepalm:

I can take the revenge bit at face value, though it would be hilarious if Yelp really was playing everyone who couldn't believe that a company would actually encourage that. They made it possible at least, fertile ground, etc.

Disclaimer: I really don't care about Yelp. At all. I don't know, I wasn't there, I didn't do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhL15yJUnI
I just wrote my first bit of Julia this weekend. I'm impressed - it's clearly been designed for technical/numeric computing with modern language features baked-in. The type system and macros are some significantly distinguishing characteristics as compared to Python. The Unitful.jl package illustrates how these can be used to powerful effect. Multiple dispatch is another such characteristic. Having benefited from static type systems in other software projects, I would never again want to write significant technical code without a first-class type system supporting declarative type constraints.

If I could never write Matlab again and instead use Julia, I'd be delighted.
That's done to avoid interference and happens as minimally as possible which makes for easier signal processing. Military communications actively switch frequencies many times per second in unison according to highly secure crypto-variables. This makes jamming and eavesdropping very difficult because its hard to tell active channels from brief background static. Bluetooth, on the other hand, has about 80 channels about 1mhz apart and it tries to bond as many as possible for parallel transfers. This is why when you are far away from a bluetooth device the transfer speeds degrade rapidly.
If you post your email / contact info on your profile, I can reach out with some ideas. I work in NYC and happy to connect you with people depending on your interest areas / skillset.
Done right, maybe. But in this case, it would be done by Congress.

I don't care which party you favor. Viewing the institution as a whole, do you think that Congress could do this right? I don't.
> If you start thinking in terms of "is this financially a good idea", you'll start wondering if people should be leaving school at 14 or something, because they're basically able to work at that age .. right?

Yes, this age is something we should wonder and re-wonder often over time. Is all the delayed adolescence of the current state desirable? Do all people need 4 years of high school? Do all degrees need to take 4 years for wildly different fields? Would many people benefit from a "work study" version of high school instead? Etc.
The whole commercial was a reminder how closed off console gaming is.

>SSD

Yeah that reminds me how far behind console gaming is.
They are prob PC gamers anyway. What hardcore gamer mains consoles?
So excited for this. I've been waiting for a sim like this for 15 years.
> door is open, come on in. Door is closed, don't come in

Same protocol at Cambridge (UK), at least in the rooms with two doors (outer door open: come in, outer door closed: do not disturb/I'm out). Lock picking wasn't really a thing, but one of the tutors did point out to us that the locks in a specific corridor could be opened by sliding a knife down the edge of the mechanism (it was "fixed" by screwing a steel plate to the _outside_ of the door, which felt like missing the point somewhat).

I'm possibly missing something obvious, but could you explain why you'd need to pick a quadrant? I'm not seeing why that is necessary.
#3 sounds reasonable - unless you know what that startup idea is, proved it with a handful of customers, the likelyhood of it working out is < 1%. Still, keep trying but don't assume your $60k will not be wasted & you'd not get even more burned out.

Also, if you do get a job in nyc area - try for one that pays multiple of whatever you were making down south.
Weren't you able to change fonts?
I was referring to this, but it looks like there was an update to the article saying that it might not block everything https://www.tomsguide.com/us/chrome-block-ad-blockers,news-3...
Does the threat of death penalty? History suggests not. So I'd hazard that DNA databases increase the chance of getting caught again (like other technologies such as cell phone tracking, photos, fingerprints, door bell cameras and expert witness) but don't deter or limit recidivism.

This is a question of mens rea, and not about after-the-fact observation.
Life-long dictator ended ... but for your worry many if not all his family are Austrilan, American etc. They run away long time ago, just like many elites there. Just still work for china’s interest in spite of any possible reflection by seeing what the host country do. Instead they will try to take advantage of that. That is the tragedy.
Sure, if the developer is willing to pay the annual fee and not get their money’s worth, that’s their choice. But the fee will likely discourage such practices. OP is living proof that there are devs who don’t want to pay the fee if they don’t intend to update their apps.
I should have been more clear. I will only move to NYC if I get a job there.
I should have been more clear. I will only move to NYC if I get a job there.

But thank you for the extra information about NYC. That's good to know.
This game taught me that humour and story can be conveyed extremely effectively through player choices. It was eye opening (and hilariously satisfying).

The strong coherence between story, time, and gameplay was really really striking
I'd like to see more public spending on education in the US, but I think this explains why college is getting more expensive. 40-50 years ago, investing in education carried huge returns, because cheaper college made people more likely to choose that path than to get a decent job right out of high school. Today, there's not as much need for public investment in education because the work force is already nearly over-educated, at least in terms of the numbers of people available for many jobs that have specific education requirements.

We should make it real cheap to get educated as a doctor or nurse though (and most other medical stuff). Sure, they have great personal returns on their education now, but that's exactly what we want to erode, by flooding the market.
Someone told me early on that dealing with small businesses was a nightmare. You'ld get Mom or Pop quibbling over a $75 bill, whereas enterprise customers will pay a $40K bill without batting an eye as long as the paperwork is in order.

Over the years I've found the enterprise side of this to be true (although it will take forever to get them to sign in the first place and they'll sometimes pay their bills so late you're gasping by the time you see the cash).

I don't have any experience with dealing with small business, maybe it's not as bad as I imagine.
Would you actually use the productivity app if you build it? Or you just think you might?

How long would it take to prototype it out to the point that you can start dog fooding it?
>Do you believe a first line help-desk is going to provide better support than a guy whose livelihood depends on it and you can call to your desk?

I can guarantee you there are no top-level VFX houses or game developers that ever speak to first-line support.

If you're not top level you have no need to waste money on a programmer that will likely be sitting on his ass 23/7. No, that isn't a typo. The vast majority of the time these systems work as intended. When they don't, who do you think is going to respond better? The multitude of professionals that are paid to work on this code day in and day out... or Steve, who spends most of his time pretending he isn't shopping for waifu pillows? WE KNOW IT'S YOU, STEVE. CLEAR YOUR BROWSER HISTORY.
Me too. But it also made me wonder how you draw a line between the 2. We’re social creatures, and to a degree our aspirations are created by social expectations; the boundaries of who we are are fuzzy.
One option is to capture the video with depth as well as colour data and then just rotate it to point in the right direction(s) to maintain eye contact. This is what we experimented with on https://matrix.org/blog/2018/02/05/3-d-video-calling-with-ma...
A lot of things in this world aren't fair. And I'm not convinced that everything should be.
I think it was Ron Paul who said in a debate something along the lines of "The rule is: anytime you subsidize something you get more of it."

I don't know where I stand on that as it comes to education. Sure, a more educated populous is desirable but college no longer has a monopoly on higher education. The question to me is, do we need more of the type of graduates college is turning out? And if so, will subsidies further exacerbate the college tuition problem when college becomes "free"? It seems like distancing the payer and consumer leads to more unuseful consumption (one can look to healthcare or even college textbooks for examples)
Not in the tech epicenters they don't, but they absolutely do in most of the country.

I know an electrician that made 75k a year plus as much overtime as he possibly could want (also to show this isn't just a rare anecdote, the top 25% electricians make a median salary of 71k). If you are a solid tradesman or tradeswoman that knows how to a. show up on time, b. communicate well, c. do the job, congrats, you are already in high demand. That's at least equal if not more than most software devs get paid around where I am. I bet if we counted off hours worked and oncall time, and added hours to hours, the electrician would make more. That's 75k working a proper 8 hours a day and not a minute more.
I'd like the advice to be more targeted. For example if I started programming two years ago maybe now I know I should have cared more about SQL and done a project that includes that. After giving your advice and describing yourself you would get a top-x list of advice you could vote on, but I'd like it to encourage specificity over generality.
'Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything'
It doesn't matter in practice (and in fact there's some decent arguments that one is better than two or more: consider the current ford Go-Bikes in SF. Would it be better or worse if there were 2 or 3 mutually incompatible bike racks? You end up fragmenting your transit system). You can only offer so many rack locations, so if Lyft takes 2/3 of them, no other provider can be as effective anyway.

If we were looking at another kind of public transit, say, subway trains or busses that were subcontracted out to private companies, would you expect 2 competing subway providers? Or two competing bus systems in the same city? I wouldn't.
Please don't do ideological flamewar here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or do more work remotely.

Or build more roads.

Or build multi-level roads or tunnels.
Similar sort of thing with an autonomous food delivery startup from my university:

https://medium.com/kiwicampus/how-kiwi-empowers-students-in-...
Prices appear to have stalled/dropped in Portland
Other than leaded gas, you can look at the sugar industry.
Been there, done that. Honestly, it depends on your life goals and motivations. In my case, I tried starting a business for the wrong reasons, and realized that I'd rather be an early employee in someone else's startup; or be a co-founder in a very small team.

When I was single, a full time job and side projects were perfectly fine. Once I met my wife, I didn't have a lot of time for side projects. The relationship just took over my nights and weekends. Kids sap up most of the time now.

So, IMO:

#3 if you ever find yourself single again.

#2 before you have kids and a mortgage. This will only work if you have a good business mind or a girlfriend who's willing to help you make ends meet. If she really wants to start a family and be a full-time homemaker, it'll put a bigger strain on your relationship than you realize.

And, honestly, there's nothing wrong with #1. After quitting my job when I was 28 and in a similar situation; then getting a job right before my 30th birthday, what I can say is that carefully choosing your employer is the most important career skill to have in your situation. It takes almost a decade bouncing from jobs to know how to recognize (and stick with) a good situation, how to recognize a bad situation in the interview.

That being said, there's nothing wrong with taking 1-2 months off between jobs!
>> this is not a tax on being poor, this is a tax on everyone.

You don't understand what a regressive tax is.

It is a tax that disproportionately affects the poor, due to their much higher marginal utility of money.
> 4K+1080 is a matter of downsampling, not re-rendering.

I'm talking about supporting multiple local players simultaneously. (Apologies if this wasn't obvious enough.)
Google CEO Defends YouTube Practices
They haven't announced details, but the PS5 is supposed to support raytracing on AMD as well. Perhaps we'll have more info soon.
Über just means above. So "über dir" is "above you".
Urban dictionary has uber in english to mean superior, but that is not the original German meaning.
I think it's pretty clear that no group of humans is running the show, where it matters. Humanity is too large, with too much complexity, too many interconnections and Nth-order side effects, for any group of people to be running it.

We are, for better or worse, cruising on a giant ship with limited steering, and all we can do is try to control how much fuel we shovel into the engine.

But the direction of the boat is controlled more like an Ouiji board; our direction is an emergent behavior.
I don’t have ZFS on every PC I work with.
It certainly tested the physical limits of my aging eyes. The version on the poorly-calibrated display was a good bit easier to read than that on the well-calibrated display.
Americans Can’t Buy VW’s Best Seller, and It’s the Wurst
This is amazing work that enables transparency, if every transaction was indeed reported to the IRS. Typically we would have to manually search each organization's website to obtain this information so kudos to them for publishing everything all in one place and even with full text search feature and api.
For some reason video calls have just never worked well for me. Every single time it's either latency, massive amounts of echo making it hard to speak, and "can you hear me" every minute or two. For some reason, it's 2019 and we as a human race still haven't figured out how to get a stable 480p video stream over gigabits of bandwidth.
You are right! From the paper:

> by default, our non-active players are also controlled by another rule-based bot. In this case, the behavior is simple and corresponds to reasonable football actions
and strategies, such as running towards the ball when we are
not in possession, or move forward together with our active
player. In particular, this type of behavior can be turned off for future research on cooperative multi-agents if desired.
Smart. It's more than a job though, since you're effectively investing in building relationships within an eco-system.

Certain paths make more sense in NYC; if you're selling into finance or publishing. If you're wanting to do a venture funded startup (or raise investor capital). Adtech is probably stronger there too.

Others make sense in low cost markets; bootstrapping a product for middle America. Stay cheap for that.

Pick your long term path then pick your environment.
Vote for this one as well. Also an easy way to get health insurance and 401k squared away while you're at it. OP, I suggest doing this- get a cushy 9-5 programming job and scrutinize the onboarding paperwork to ensure you're in the clear to own anything you work on in your free time if not using company resources.

Best of luck!
If this were the case, student loans would be a wise and reasonable investment for the typical 18-year-old. This has not borne out.
I’m making a similar choice myself. I just graduated though and I don’t think it’s responsible to chase a pipe dream while I have student debt and family responsibilities without at least having more experience.

Badly wanting to be convinced otherwise though, but it’s hard when people are depending on you...
But the aircraft carriers actually provide a concrete benefit.
The grass is always greener on the other side, but a bird in hand is better than 2 in the bush.
Give $100B to Boring company. At $10M/mile, they can dig 10,000 miles of tunnels.
I really dislike the idea of providing a monetary incentive for kids to stop going to school. People who are not well-off are going to be pressured into taking this path, causing a further arbitrary wealth gap within the population.
I had unforgettable fun with this game.
I think only 2 games provided me with so much laugh, this one and The Curse of Monkey Island
Probably my favourite LA adventure game, though Sam & Max really does give it a run for its money. I played it at what I suspect was a very formative time of my pre-teens, and I think it did a lot to shape not only my humour, but also my understanding that games could be challenging yet satisfying in how they deliver a story through puzzles and obstacles. I think it struck a very good balance between a hand-holding push-over and being so challenging that you needed to dig out a cheat guide every few minutes. That's largely a credit to its story-telling and design, and I think I was just getting to the age where I was able to appreciate that.