skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some excellent bootcamps out there that have better terms I believe than the offer you mention above.

Here are just a few we have come across recently that you can check out. Not sure if you are looking for front-end, full-stack, or mobile dev to name a few, so I mixed it a bit:

- https://www.thinkful.com/bootcamp/web-development/flexible/
- https://lambdaschool.com/courses/full-stack-web-development
- https://flatironschool.com/career-courses/coding-bootcamp/
- https://www.hackreactor.com/
- https://www.codecademy.com/learn/paths/web-development
- https://www.makeschool.com/ (bit of a different approach, still very much interesting)

I recommend you look for those that work with an ISA type of structure. That way you are sure the platform is incentivized to get you a good job afterwards.

Good luck!
That’s included in what I said. Knowing that the “I don’t have the time” narrative is nonsense can help with motivation.
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> Doing Agile

You mean the ones following one of those canned "agile processes"?

It always amused me how people could read the Agile Manifesto and then conclude that it's best satisfied by following a canned process.
Yeah for years I've found myself having to "-pinterest" out of searches. I wish that it was just removed period.
And reversing the order is also easy. F# has operators going both ways.
I agree with "undesired socializing". Sometimes the peer pressure gets you. Especially the small talks in the kitchen area.
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Considering the melting arctic sea ice, the answer is easy.
(Of course flights are not the only reason and I'm not saying that an individual shouldn't choose what is right for him/her, it's a policy/tax matter).
Agree on the 50-100MB being minuscule. I don't even provision a Windows VM without 60G worth of space due to how bad it is on cleaning itself up/bloat.

I wasn't even able to install Windows 7 a few months ago due to the WinSxS folder continuously bloating to fill the disk (stock on a T440p - super weird issues). It's almost as if they broke new-install update cycles on Win7 on purpose =/

My question is why the hell would they turn off a feature like this in the first place?! What is the actual "money making" motivation behind the decision?
Any progress with this? Also is it true that GSuite (paid) accounts are not affected?
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To be fair, on Android Flutter is indistinguishable from native material design.
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Famous last words.

I mean, I get it; it feels that way to me intuitively too. But I'd still recommend against trying it, because I've learned the hard way the intuition here is, if not wrong, at the very least very badly underestimating the cost, especially in the "unknown unknown" department.
And those price rises would increase their profits which would ...
Is Golang significantly slower than c++ ? I thought Google had invented Golang to solve precisely these kinds of code for their internal use.

I had thought most of the systems code inside Google would be golang by now. is that not the case ?
the code doesnt look too big - I dont think porting is the big issue.
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Taking the night train between London and Edinburgh used to me and my partners absolute favourite way of making that journey. If you get yourself into a deep enough sleep (admittedly I didn't always manage) it can feel like magic to wake up at your destination having wasted no useful time; having not been irradiated or felt up; and not being subject to enforced retail operations.
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easily but perhaps not convincingly
It is more than half now, and it combined the hybrid cars that often don’t charge from the wall.
The total percent of “electric cars” is still around 5% overall.
I guess you are right. But those 7 stops in ND, and 12 in MT, are there really enough people there to justify those stations? Maybe have an 'express' and a regular train?
Is there such a thing as real phenomena that's classical “all the way down”, as you have put it? If yes, which such phenomena is easiest to understand?

I was under the impression that all of classical physics was special cases of quantum and relativistic physics, just like the relativistic equations of motion "degrade" into classical equations of motion when we postulate that all velocities involved are much lower than the speed of light.
Funny. I thought crowd sourcing was the killer app for transit delays. And if deployed outside of NYC, time between is 30-60 minutes, vs 3-5,15-20 in metro NYC.
The problem seems to be that the software blindly trusted input from a single sensor. The issue I take with that is that multiple sensor readings are available on the aircraft. Even in non-life-critical applications like video games, software engineers absolutely are responsible for validating inputs from untrusted sources.

Beyond that, a good software engineer would have ensured that the specification made sense, that the integration with the rest of the system made sense, and that a sensible override system was part of the system design.

That said, the bulk of the article focuses on management's failure to ensure that quality was a priority, and to communicate that clearly in the company culture.
>intentionally didn't pay for Slack, so most of the message history wasn't available if a request came through.

I'm pretty sure that won't work. They keep the logs regardless of whether you pay. It's not like if you don't pay for it, they erase your messages starting at 10k. You can't see it, but upon paying for slack premium, you'll immediately get access to them.
So, this is super specific to California public schools and SFUSD. Norms that apply in Germany or Maryland do not necessarily apply in SF. You can start diving in the very complex issues with SFUSD funding here [0].

Two major points are Prop-13 and the LCFF (Local Control Funding Formula):

Property taxes only re-assess upon the sale of a house (kinda, it's complicated [1]). As such, only ~25% of the budget comes from property taxes [2].

The LCFF is such that Sacremento controls the funding for schools[2]. Essentially, the money comes out of the state and does not stay in the local area. How that money is divied out is, again, really complex.

So, your taxes don't pay for your local school, they pay for the state as a whole (again, kinda, its complicated).

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[1] https://www.californiataxdata.com/pdf/Prop13.pdf

[2] https://ed100.org/lessons/whopays
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> The interesting thing about robots.txt is that there really isn't a standard for it. This [0] is the closest thing to one and almost every modern website deviates from it.

That is changing, and was announced today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20326067
For the big users, industrial ones, reducing consumption means either increasing cost or imposing rationing, both of which are likely to be extremely unpopular. Nonetheless there has been some benefit from mandating things like low-energy lightbulbs.
The range matters – had they found 10 serial numbers between 100000 and 101000, would the mean still be a meaningful estimate of the production rate? In this case, the author just tacitly assumes the minimum to be zero.
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I do run them occasionally, but haven't found anything on any Linux install I've ever had (except files I've actively quarantined from email to a) test virus checking and b) analyse for activity [deobfuscating js from Wordpress hacks is fun!]).
"meant to protect the value of current homeowners' properties"

It's probably not that direct. Sure, you could build up and achieve the population density of Hong Kong, but then SF would lose the "little big city" charm that makes it a great place to be.

And as we see in Hong Kong, simply adding housing units doesn't necessarily reduce the price of housing.

So I'd argue the primary purpose of the zoning regs is to retain what makes SF what it is, not just to maximize price per square foot.
This is kin selection, not group selection. It only works for near relatives, since shared gene content drops off exponentially with each relation.
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IMO focusing more on systems than people in management is a mistake.

To the extent your work isn't repetitive, the only job process can do is set a cadence on communication & decisions. Yes 2-week scrum does this but in my experience it distracts companies from the real goal of management -- attaching subject matter experts to projects, i.e. concentrating time & resources towards a goal.

Process can get rid of bad people and share around your best people, but unless you have an assembly line, beware of any other claim.
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> No offline history: You have to have a client/bouncer running 24/24 if you want history.

I would say it's even worse than this. Even if you attempt to have a client 24/7, the lack of an acknowledgement and re-transmit on lack of acknowledgement means that if you have any hiccup that causes you to need to reset the TCP connection, you can drop messages.
Your meatware might be suffering, how is your metabolism?
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20326045
I had not heard of "emergent architecture" until you implied you hated it, and so I thought I would Google it.

I have no idea what emergent architecture is in the agile context, but the idea of emergence is fascinating to me, and has been ever since I read "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" by Steven Johnson.

We see the idea of emergent design everywhere in nature and society. I'm not suggesting everything can be built and designed "emergently", but certainly some things can be. See the book (and concept of) "the cathedral and the bazaar". The idea of something useful coming into existence without central planning is an enticing one, and so I can see the draw.
Electric cars are more expensive to build, which may or may not be made up for by increased general reliability.

On the other hand, in Norway the vast majority of the price tag is taxes. This helps.
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If anyone has questions about the NREC, I've been working there for several years on perception
It's wider than just CEOs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality
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A much simpler solution is to keep visiting them.
no better idea let them be subjected to hearing the whale scream in agony during the killing on autorepeat
I was prepared for our weekly "I Hate Agile" post, but this one is actually really great. It's a lot of the arguments I make to Agile haters. The fundamental problem that drives most agile failures isn't in the team's execution, it's in the business' expectations. One side is signed up for incremental delivery, and one side is set up for a fixed scope and deadline and the result is misery. I think this article makes a lot of good points. Scrum isn't the complete answer, but it's a big step in an organizational transformation. I think it's suffered a lot from being oversold.
More or less.

It goes on to mean that nothing really "has a meaning" for a photon, so it's hard to really talk about a photon's perspective one way or the other. We generally just say that the photon doesn't have a perspective, i.e. that any discussion of the photon's rest frame is meaningless.

So to the degree that your question has an answer, the answer is "yes". But a better answer is that it's misleading to think that the question even has a yes-or-no answer.
Absolutely not a new concept, kin selection is why parents care for offspring.
Tesla sold 3,760 vehicles in Norway in June, for a 24.5% share of all cars during the month, and was also the top-selling brand for the first six months!!
I can only guess:

- battery prices are still 30% of the total cost IIRC

- economies of scale might not apply to EV yet. In larger volumes, standardized parts, you'd probably get lower prices.

It's a bootstrapping that could be eased by govt intervention. Making a stronger plan to migrate towards EVs so that manufacturers can safely ramp up production.
The link should not be paywall protected. Did you try it?
I think it reduces average lock graph complexity, which in turn would reduce the average number of low productivity context switches required to release lock ownership.

It is a vicious cycle problem. Processes with simple lock graphs strictly queued behind processes with complex lock graphs both take a long time to run and contribute to lock graph complexity, which increases the amount of time it takes for the processes with complex lock graphs to make forward progress. Randomization of lock grants will (statistically) continuously clear out some of the simple lock graphs and thereby make forward progress on the complex lock graphs that overlap that set of locks more likely.

Databases have to deal with several related problems, such as how to ensure slow operations (e.g. analytic query) do not starve fast operations (e.g. a simple insert). In recent years, designs are moving away from quasi-randomly arbitrated lock graphs and moving toward explicit control of execution scheduling, which can eliminate the need for locks altogether and ensure that all context switches are optimally productive in terms of throughput while bounded by other constraints such as latency distribution.
Golang didn't exist in the 90's though.

Rewriting decades of core business logic would be a tremendous effort and amount of risk.