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Interesting take. I am a graduate and former TA in OMSCS, and used to work at Udacity building Nanodegrees (worked on ML & AI mostly). My experience is from a different perspective than the article, but I appreciated the differences without disagreement.

What I found in my time in both environments is that Nanodegrees appeal more to students who don’t have access to traditional education (college is too expensive, or grad school requires an undergrad degree, etc.). That makes most MOOC students less experienced, less qualified, and higher risk (in the sense that they mostly don’t have the profile of successful college students). Udacity, et. al., then appear to have a very important role to play in satisfying the need for education unencumbered by academic gatekeeping.

But the _other_ constant undertone in the MOOC community is the “get-rich-quick” crowd who expects a Nanodegree to make them a 6-figure AI engineer in three months at 5 hours per week. The dirty secret is that we already have a fast-paced learning environment that can give you a good crash course on the required core skills to make you a useful apprentice: it’s called “college”. It’s arguable that the typical BS could be abbreviated a bit or focus a bit more on “job-ready” skills. But I think the time required for most people to get there is much closer to a 48-month BS than a 4-month Nanodegree.

The other dirty secret is that no one wants to hire you as a junior developer at SV rates if you don’t have experience and need a visa or want to work remotely in your low CoL hometown. Unless you already have strong qualifications, you’re fooling yourself if you think an ND or Udemy course is gonna help you break into Google as a fully remote worker.
I am from Europe and I had a bit of everything. But generally I agree, even when I was conducting the interviews, it was mostly to verify that what was written on the CV was reflected in reality.
> that anyone could throw in a car

I buy broken DX7's and restore them back to 'as good as possible', I've seen some DX7's that still worked but didn't have a lick of paint on them from all the throwing around. They're built like tanks.
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/ is being actively kept up-to-date with VSCode's rolling releases and takes care to remove "the corporate/privacy nasties" while still retaining the (rather useful) extensions marketplace. Not a fork or port, just a "filtered build" (or build script if you want to diy). Worked without hiccups for me for over a year now (Linux). Updates come in a few days to a week after the original.
> They have not removed it, it just is not visible by default if you are connected to the internet.

That's not entirely true. When you get to the 'Let's connect you to a network' screen just click the 'I don't have Internet' link in the bottom left corner [1] and then choose 'Continue with limited setup' [2]. This will take you to the local account creation step.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3409788/how-microsoft-made-i...

Microsoft’s May 2019 Update (version 1903) appears to be much, much friendlier to local accounts.

[1] https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2019/07/1903-wirele...

[2] https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2019/07/1903-nag-sc...
> the legislation would prohibit hotels and other lodging providers from advertising room rates that do not include all mandatory charges other than government taxes and fees

so close, but what does "fees" include? If that legislation required them to include tax _then_ I would be excited
I cannot possibly fathom the terrible experience of cancer patients going through chemo. My great hope though is that a bunch of these will be rendered treatable with the immunotherapy solutions out there and being developed right now, which though expensive today for most people today, might be bought down by the demand supply mechanics of economics....
I've had multiple relatives have cancer, some multiple times. Two relatives had cancer twice. Another, five times. Assorted others had cancer at least once.

I took care of a relative following a mastectomy. Making sure she got adequately hydrated brought her fever down. I got two hours sleep her first night back from the hospital because I devotedly pushed fluids at every opportunity.

She coughed up phlegm after I made her get enough food and drink into her to drop her temperature a degree. She said I probably prevented post-operative pneumonia.

My late father had colon cancer in his late sixties. He lost a third of his body weight before it was diagnosed.

My parents were told to get their affairs in order. He wasn't supposed to live.

His surgery that was supposed to be two hours lasted six. The cancer was much more extensive than they expected, but it hadn't invaded other organs. They peeled it off the outside of them instead of cutting out parts of them.

He had a thirteen inch scar from sternum to pubic bone with a dent going around his belly button. My mother treated the scar with German Penaten cream and treated his skin with Penaten cream.

Her mother died from uterine cancer when my mother was in her teens. My mother was convinced that radiation treatments killed her mother. She always had some excuse why my dad couldn't make one of his radiation treatments every week.

He lived about another two decades.

The cancer clinic at Martin Army Hospital was impressed with the condition of dad's scar and asked what they were doing. My mother explained it was the Penaten cream. They added it to their regime.

After my father defied his sentence of death, the civilian cancer doctor that treated him interviewed my mother on tape for two hours and changed the practices of his clinic based on what she said. The doctor knew my mother is the person who kept my dad alive.

Their big thing was hydration. They calculated how much fluids he needed and they made sure he got enough every day. Caffeinated drinks and alcohol did not count.

When he was too sick to eat, she made him homemade milkshakes or slushies once or sometimes twice a day in place of meals. On not so bad days, I think she used milk, good quality ice cream and fresh fruit. On super bad days, she used ice, frozen fruit and fruit juice.

He was gaining so much weight during a time when most cancer patients are continuing to lose weight that his doctor yelled at her to slow it down. He had a long-standing heart condition and her doctor was afraid she was kill him by putting too much strain on his heart with the rapid weight gain while he was still undergoing treatment.

My mother wanted to be a doctor in her youth. She delivered babies in her teens. She never got to be a doctor, but she was always patching someone up as long as I can remember.
How long does it take to onboard a developer at your company to start developing?
Alt Season Won’t Come Before BTC Reaches New ATH Predicts Analyst
It's time for Elon to step down as the face of SpaceX. He ruins every presentation he's involved in. I can't imagine how awkward it was to be there in person and be help prisoner by a completely unprepared, rambling, lazy talk for over an hour.
> But at least it gets the core design stronger by operating on higher level goal/paradigm constraint (the purpose of procreation)

That's actually not how it works; the intricacies of the dual procreative and unitive function model in the theology under Humanae Vitae is no less complex than that of the consent-based system, but it's just based on a moral system with a larger number of specialized axioms; the consent-based system is based on a simpler set of axioms, because it doesn't need a specific set of axioms for sex; the principle of consent underlying the consent-based system of sexual morality is the same one underlying all of the liberal enlightenment political/social/economic ideology.
It's very expensive to start a college. Most superrich can get their kids in or influence research or whatever they want to do more efficiently by donating to existing schools.

Another alternative is to fund a lab or think tank with no students.

I'd argue most newish schools are set up because their founders wanted to promote a new kind of education (Olin College's hands on engineering program, Liberty University's Christian environment, etc.) not just start Yet Another Prestigious University
What about Dropbox? Also Nextcloud
How do you deal with Broadcom WiFi drivers?
I think that's the mindset of 'the unix environment'. They see shell + fs as a repl.
It's more like, would someone else be able to maintain the code I write with language X? And would the person trying to run it be able to run in their environment without fiddling with SSH access?

If it's just me writing and deploying I use TypeScript but otherwise I tend to use PHP.
Raahul, how do you like the omscs program? i am in it as well but worry that it is easier than the on campus MS. Even though I suspect it is easier, I still find the workload very heavy.
Because the U.S. is a) much less densely populated, b) is very spread out, c) leading to very long distances between cities (which makes rail expensive), but d) very homogeneous in culture and language, so e) families and companies spread out a lot, f) which means train travel is not really practical, but also g) many of these short-haul flights are connections to/from long-haul flights and there's no way we'd take a several hour train ride to then go to an airport, to then take a long-haul flight to then do the whole thing again.
Shouldn't be any more than friends who just have a smart phone.
It depends, but it's not dependent on the number of microservices. They are usually tasked with fixing some bug in a specific service, maybe 2, so they open those services and point any URLs being referenced to Dev services so they don't have to run everything on their machine
But the FBI could advise the canary poster that not continuing to post the canary notice could lead to legal action (esp. since that person has willfully put him/herself into the situation). Then it would be up to the recipient of the NSL to decide if it’s worth that risk, which is as stated above, untested. It’s a fine line between telling them to lie versus telling them the ruse could be in violation of the gag order.
What's worse is win 10 is slower than win7 on hdd, due to superindexing and cortana, making me stick with win7 or ubuntu. Hope we'll get alternatives in the future.

They can just enable these functions on free version, and make enterprise version configurable.

I guess if they still keep this practice, the office will start to change to mac instead.
Application is a tool, teacher is a user of given tool. Headline implies that tool is to penalize children, while in reality it is a decision of teacher. If that app would not exist, children were still penalized.
Indian civilization is dates back to over 3000 years before Muslim rule... It had "status" long before Mahmud of Ghazni or the Delhi Sultanate.
Indeed, sounds like they wouldn’t pass the bar to make his nanny staff!
MIT SICM book does try this.

Iirc sussman (and maybe Steele), weren't happy about the syntax. Thus re-expressing Lagrangian mechanics in a scheme.
You can also try syncthing [1], which has been working well for me on Linux and Android.

1. https://syncthing.net/
Was the movie you streamed Cinavia [1] copy-protected?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia
I didn't give up, the school I was attending had completely crap computer science program. The networks class was a HTML/CSS and PHP website. The other schools in my area for computer science is better but way too competitive, as in, could only accept 100 students a year, a school of 20,000 people attending. The only way for me to get going in learning is to learn on my own based off of online courses, tutorials and projects. What I did on my own was better and more relevant compared to the school I was going. I'll show my dedication to completing a problem by the projects I've completed, certificates I've achieved and the online courses I took on my own time. If anything, that should say to a hiring manager that I took responsibility of my own career and went above and beyond, that's an employee you'd want imo.
Hey Microsoft: Give us what we want!!!!!
The only thing different between local and cloud is the configuration files, so if there is a difference, it comes to checking the configuration files first, and they don't have to navigate for changes, they can check the git history for any changes to the production configuration file
Dissonance would be if she accepted two inconsistent ideas at the same time.

It's possible that she's giving out advice that she would not apply to herself, perhaps to reduce competition for her own strategy.
Because people do struggle on the topic. It's a fair warning.
You buy laptops with Intel nic's
That has no bearing on the conversation
You can, but it introduces its own set of complexities. The plane needs to carry a massive payload, and doesn't really get you much delta v.

The problem is not how do we get up high, but rather how do we get going really, really, really fast.
Long enough ago when I was at university we ranked our professors at the end of the semester. I don’t recall anything coming of it or anyone being fired as a result of scoring badly, but it’s not a new concept.
Why would you expect oversight for something like this? Would you also expect an independent review board to provide oversight for the teacher giving a student a note to bring home that says "your kid went to the bathroom during class"?
I might need someone who has done the on campus version to pitch in. However, I’m assuming that the assignments are on par with the on campus version, and proctored exams almost too.

The difference is in the number of subjects that you can take per semester, and that also adds to the difficulty. Also, I’m not entirely sure but some courses are bound to be labs heavy. Those courses probably are not available on omscs.
Keep living mate. Cheers
Most of the SpaceX community thinks it's awesome to not have some polished person up there who knows next to nothing about what they're talking about, and he's been doing it during the entire duration of SpaceX's unbridled success.

So, no?
Or you could just launch from a 12 mile tall tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThothX_Tower
Is there a transcript somewhere?
Sure, it definitely works great.
Did you have the information necessary to make the correct decision? Most problems or failures I've encountered in software come to missing information much more often than any other reason. Having justifications for the decisions you reach given the information you had available should lead you to feeling confident in the actions you take. No one has all the pertinent information available at all times, and anyone who acts that way is disingenuous.

I believe it is human nature to put more emphasis on failure than success, but I also believe that people set themselves up for failure by assuming that their decisions are somehow flawed compared to others. Most decisions we make are based on incomplete information, so the only recourse is to build stating your justifications with your decisions so that others's may review them in the light of the information you had available.
Study Design
>We recruited 10 participants (5 female, mean age 19) to evaluate the relative perceived duration of the three pro- gress bars at two different durations, 5 and 15 seconds. The latter time was included to explo

n=10

Other thought: First, I appreciated the efficiency of “5 female.” Then, I noticed that it would have been more efficient to write “5 male,” finally I realized there may come a time when ‘“5 male” doesn’t provide enough information.’
I don't understand:

Nathan: "Would not voluntarily recognize a union even if the vast majority of workers signed in support of one."

The CEO's statement he referenced: " If a majority of the staff in an appropriate bargaining unit votes in favor of a union in an NLRB election, we will fully respect that choice and negotiate in good faith toward a collective bargaining agreement."

Those statements seem to be opposite of each other?
I'm not convinced that it's only POs that struggle with quantifying the cost of a bug in production.

I can see the same when programming language advocates extol the benefits of more static analysis for software that does not even remotely need the level of reliability they are aiming for.

The guy who hacks it together in PHP will just get to market first and get such a critical mass of market share that 5-10% more reliability probably won't matter.

Of course a lot of this depends on market sector, self driving cars are a million miles from serving banner ads.
That is the answer, yes.
If you're honestly trying to solve a problem, you should assume positive intent from the criticizers- they're on your side and just want the project as good as possible. Everyone makes mistakes, and it's great there are people there to catch them and glean experience from. Is it so critical that you're actually walking on the edge of a knife to keep your job? (If so, I'd probably look for something else- that's no way to live!)
I use use a git-like cli binary to sync my google drive (https://github.com/odeke-em/drive). Really like it, and there's no weird background process or automatic syncing going on that's chewing up resources.
> Airport style security everywhere even on the subway.

Why not? A Subway casualty could be much more serious than a single plane. It's thousands vs hundreds.

> They didn't even hide its surveillance.

They shouldn't, right?
I basically just went to courses and put barely any hours outside classes and got my paper. That's what's meant by just showing up.
This conflates paradigm of a system with its rules (axiom). It's not the same.
I thought the whole point of unions was to represent interests of employees? If the Kickstarter employees' issues are not important to their union, why would they unionize?
I've been writing code since I was 10. Everything I learned about software was knowledge I went out and learned on my own time, through my drive to become a better and better engineer.

In the middle of my senior year I got a job at a startup that demanded so much time I felt it was better to pause college, and the hard work I've done since has paid off tremendously. I am going back to school, but there is nothing I regret about leaving initially, there is nothing I am learning that I didn't already study on my own time.

For every story about engineers who dropped out and got a menial job and had no ambition to become a better engineer, there are stories of engineers who had that ambition from the start and the degree became a nuisance. You shouldn't hold it against them until you know why they chose the path they did
It’s there but it isn’t guaranteed nor part of the sales contract.
Time to make a gambling lot on some sweepstake platform out there.
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I tried to use the Apple trackpad under Ubuntu and only got pointing functionality, no scrolling. The fix was an easy 15 step procedure. Bluetooth receiver didn't work either. By the lack of an outcry apparently nobody cares about that kind of hardware in Ubuntu.
the backdoor could be in the hardware - the logical conclusion of your position is that we should all fabricate our own computers from scratch so that we're sure that they're secure.

This is clearly a straw man, no one wants to do this, or is suggesting that we do this. But at some point, even the most hardened OSS advocate has to trust someone (usually the hardware manufacturer). You cannot verify that the device you're on doesn't spy on you, you have to rely on the manufacturer's word that it doesn't. And the manufacturer's suppliers, of course, because the manufacturer is trusting them.

Somewhere along the stack, we all have to draw a line and say "beyond this point, I trust that I am not being spied on". You choose to draw that line at the hardware point. Others choose to draw the line at the software point.
Respectfully, I disagree with the rhetoric that this law takes away from the "internet" when the situation is that a handful of oligopolies extract all economic value, while content creation has become a race to the bottom. US antitrust enforcement has had their chance for upholding an "ordoliberal" stance like you're expressing here, but they let Google buy DoubleClick and YouTube, and let Facebook buy Whatsapp to form monopolies instead, and I don't think the rest of the world has to standby and watch their publishing industries being destroyed.
The most interesting thing from this for me was hearing about LiFi, which is a networking technology I have never even heard of being deployed, but apparently is in some environments.
Jakie zalety ma internetowe konto bankowe?
I use oDrive for sync-on-change to various cloud accounts.
Good thing the Apple Watch is such a good bargain then, since all you get from Rolex for $10000 is one nice watch.

Not all things in technology are created for all people. If you think selling a $6000 screen with a $900 discount if you only need a VESA mount because you already have a $2000 desk & mount setup is absurd, you’re not the target market.
I studied Simplex and related techniques at University, and took https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:MITx+15.053x+3T201... as a refresher.

The course is now closed, but you can probably find something similar as a MOOC.
Two other big factors in PHP's popularity in the early 2000s were its inclusion in Dreamweaver as an option for building dynamic sites and the profusion of "Build X with PHP & MySQL" magazine articles.
Wow, that is lame.
Sometimes people crying at work is a good sign
SpaceX has plenty of flashy speakers and uses them appropriately.
Gravity is taxing. It's possible that our galactic neighbors live on a larger planet with greater gravity which makes their escape from the planet next to impossible.
I will stick with my windows 8.1 in my i5 third gen machine as late as possible, until either the support ends or the computer needs to be retired.
> I didn't say that everything he says is objectively true.

He doesn't care.
I recently visited the Parthenon in Nashville and after seeing photos of the Centennial Expedition, I always wondered what it would have been like wandering around when it was going on. It really put into perspective how alien other cultures would have been seen by the locals at the time, and I feel the '39 World's Fair captures the same feeling
Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang)
Do you have some blog posts or something about how you achieve the 8x cost reduction over AWS? That seems like a lot to me.
For some reason, the the GNU resignation was posted on both the 27th and the 28th. The 28th post that OP linked has been deleted, but the first one remains at https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#27_September...
Remote work is a band-aid that throws its arms up and says we can't possibly hope to address these issues.

Its a loser mentality and it sucks.

The only thing that its going to ensure is the same forces take over basically every livable city, why don't we stand up and fight them?
> I hadn’t heard that. A quick search suggests it’s only necessary for loading Nvidia kexts or using TB2 https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/8lybin/macos_egpu_wit....

Interesting. I might ask around to verify this.

> True, but their Navi cards are at least competitive in the price ranges where they exist. Hopefully the high end ones next year continue that. If you’re looking at Titan or whatever the current ML thing is in the $1000+ range, then you might be stuck with Nvidia.

I am rooting for AMD's Navi cards too. It's just unfortunate that CUDA seems to be more supported than OpenCL.
TBD. Check out eBay in the coming months, I’m sure a value will be determined soon. It’s definitely higher than what it is now (sold as scrap for parts)