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I think you are conflating the use-cases of an exam with how you are tested in reality.

imo an exam is much more akin to meeting preparation than the meeting itself. I completely agree that you should know what you are talking about in a meeting, but the reason you know what you are talking about is because you spent time beforehand working out the specifics for the expected problems. Everyone knows meetings require preparation time to make sure the things being talked about are verified and accurate.

I actually wouldnt really want to talk to someone who's going to try to do everything off the top of their head unless I'm convinced they're a genius. If something wasnt already prepared, you dont half ass it in the meeting. it becomes an action item to be taken care of after the meeting. It's a waste of everyone's time to have anyone working out a problem live.
because thats the meaning that we've assigned to the phrase "individual contributor", its as simple as that. If you don't have people reporting to you for you to direct in accomplishing the goals of the organization you're an individual contributor, if you do have them you're a manager.
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I suspect the grey text is due to the use of the "orange man = bad" phrasing, popular on /r/thedonald as a way to trivialize the argument of any critic of Trump.

Ironically, dismissing any criticism of Trump as simply this knee-jerk reaction, the people using this phrase quite often make the same mistake they are trying to accuse others of.
There may be laws but are they actually enforced?
So the AI that can lie most convincingly will earn humanity's trust?
You can also pair program.

No better way to spread your skills to the whole team.
It's my understanding good sysadmins have always been able to script.

It's bridging the gap between software developers and sysadmins where devops falls into place. Taking applications and optimizing their environments, rollouts, versioning, reliability of deployments, reduction of downtime, automating server provisioning, etc.

IMO the best devops are software devs with some sysadmin experience.
I used to be an opinionated person in college. I went to a fairly liberal college and drank their cool aid. Then I graduated, grew older and saw a lot more nuances in life. These experiences turned me to appreciate more about grey thinking. Sure there are some cases in which we can draw a fine line between black and white zones (like rape). But most things (problems) in the world have some shade of grey to it.

For example, when it comes to events we read in the news (esp. the ones published by western-based media) about other regions have heavy bias that born out of both western values and limited (very, very often one sided) info they obtained from the people they hang out with. Even reputable publications like NYTimes and BBC, have obvious biases if you have been to the places they are reporting about. That's why I stopped believing everything I see on mainstream media and start to ignore it mostly for almost a decade now. I also avoid social media (Facebook and to an extent Reddit) because what we see there mostly represent people's fleeting reactions and emotions to things that really doesn't matter to my life for the most part. Doing that really makes my mind free of a lot of bad karma.
The microcontroller isn't the only thing that matters in your design. For example, since you're dependant on the ADC for seeding the RNG, it'd be nice to know what is connected to those pins, which a schematic would reveal. I can't tell that just by looking through your clear epoxy.

Even if I did drill holes in the casing and probe components, I have no way of knowing if what I'm seeing is expected or not without a schematic.
This just isn't true. A friend of mine is an IC and regularly ends up making original tools that solve his problems that everyone else at his company ends up adopting. The company recognizes this and awards him in kind. He makes around 1 million in regular salary.

He has way more impact than any individual manager. If you want to have a huge impact at your company as an IC, solve the higher level problems that both you and your fellow developers are having.
Git IS a blockchain.
Dentists in my area have been told by insurance companies to pitch whole-tooth replacements instead of root canals. The failure rate at 10/15 years for root canals is higher than for implants. So it makes financial sense to just pull and replace rather than extensively repair a bad tooth.
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And here we have once again why the government shouldn't be subsidizing student loans and shouldn't exclude them from bankruptcy. We need to quit incentivizing sub-prime loans. Unlike the housing crash where the houses retained most of their value and could be sold later, you can't sell your degree to pay back the money.

If you're getting a necessary degree, it's very uncommon to default on your loan because you'll be in demand and getting a decent wage. Banks understand this fact and will do the math to give a loan anyway.

Some of my kids seem like they enjoy academics, but others do not. I'll be pushing the latter toward trade school. Average IBEW (electrical union) pay is about $20/hr for an apprentice and $33 for a journeyman. $40,000 to $66,000 with ZERO DEBT right out the gate is nothing to ignore (and that pay can easily double -- especially in your younger years -- if you're willing to travel and put in those extra hours). It sure beats minimum wage at a crappy service job.
There are many ways to be an IC. You could just write code all day with minimal interaction with the rest of the team. But you can also mentor your teammates or be a technical lead for a component or entire project, even without becoming a manager with direct reports.

In general I don’t think there is anything wrong with “peaking” at a point in your career where you feel fulfilled without feeling pressured to always take on more responsibility and stress. If you want to lead projects or manage people, go ahead. If you just want to write code, that’s fine too. Of course depending on the company your compensation might top out after a certain point, which you may or may not be happy with. But at least in the bigger FAANG-type companies, you can go pretty far as a “tech lead” style of IC, without directly managing people.
This is an extraordinary comment, especially in how ghoulish it is. It makes a head fake towards the "welfare queens" myth, ignores the fact that collection is decriminalized and calls it "stealing", and best of all, the commenter makes the off handed implication that this story is emotional manipulation.

I wonder if HN really thinks journalism should have the writing of an API documentation.
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US Federal laws are enforced vigourously enough that I think the burden of proof is on those who claim they are not enforced.

Whether the laws are effective at preventing the behavior they are designed to prevent is another story.
>This is done primarily by cheap ISP's that want to free up IP addresses they basically reset the DSL connection and complete the handshake but does receive a lease until a client on their network attempts to connect to the internet, think of it as a standby mode

How many IP addresses can you possibly save with this tactic? If you have 1000 subscribers, are you really going to only get 990 IP addresses, and hope that your subscribers don't all come online at the same time?
How about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Ministry_of_Transpor...

Sure, it's all infrastructure, so it makes sense, but it still feels like "Information Highway? Transport Ministry it is."
I found it quite surprisingly good! Also surprisingly gory and crude - which isn't good or bad but seems notable.
This is silly. For starters, books are media. More importantly, your idea of what a “library is about” is staid and pretentious.
> They don’t have much difficult work

They usually have enormous technical debt that elite engineers could disentangle.
As others pointed out, the statement "many women grow extra sets in their uteruses" is misleading at best.

The kind interpretation is that you are thinking of Teratoma (mentioned above). The less kind is that you are thinking of that cheesy black-comedy horror movie from the 2000s.
Why? We are getting richer, more efficient and better able to support more people

With CO2 emissions we need better technology to solve the problem. Low birthrate is no solution
But it's not educating anyone. A handful of people who deal with this particular area on daily basis are capable of understanding what the blog post is about.

Gist of the post is that if you have all the info needed to construct the secret used to extract 6 numbers - you can copy it around and have copies of the device that produces one time passwords.

Obtaining the shared secret and knowing the user's credentials is difficult to achieve (obtaining both). Even if it were to happen, you, as a service provider, have undeniable evidence that the user was negligent because leaking out the secret for MFA isn't exactly easy to do.

Data leaks due to malicious employees is often the attack vector in these cases. I'd argue that safe-keeping the data in a way that employees can't access it easily is what's actually a big deal in data breaches, not the actual mechanisms (RFC4226 and RFC6238 algorithms and their derivatives) that rely on keeping data safe.

Attacking a service that's been breached by leaking shared secrets is still extremely hard - you have to know the credentials and corresponding shared secret out of hundreds of thousands of leaked ones. Only way to attack the service is brute-forcing it. That doesn't go unnoticed.

Plausible attacks are extremely rare and difficult to achieve and edge cases that are possible only when extremely sensitive data is leaked aren't an argument against MFA.

The post we're commenting on mentions U2F - that particular approach completely obviates all the problems mentioned in this blog post, on top of being vastly easier to use to the end user (stick the token in the usb port, press the flashing button, job done).
> Some colleges have better ROI than others.

As is always pointed out when someone mentions ROI: No one should look at ROI when it comes to colleges. You can end up with more wealth going to a lower ROI school. What matters is how much more you earn than your costs (difference, not ratio).

Spending $10K total for a very cheap undergrad and earning $30K/year means an ROI of 3. Spending $100K total for undergrad and earning $120K/year is a lower ROI, but you'll be a lot wealthier.
I’d have more sympathy for this view if police officers denounced other cops who broke the law. But they never do: the “Blue Wall” effect where they close ranks around dirty cops is well-known. And if that’s how they want to operate, fine, but it means it’s perfectly valid for us to consider them all guilty.
You’re not wrong. I could have mentioned “Penny Arcade” or “Frogpants Studios” just as easily, I just figured that xkcd is better known here.
Socializing in NYC is much more intentional than most other places. Basically you go do stuff you're interested in and socialize that way. The casual "oh you're also into that" or meet cutes almost never happen.

My advice is to look for meetups, look in your neighborhood for ways to volunteer, get on Reddit and Facebook, and don't be shy about asking people to hang out.
Slow and sans-serif loaded, in my case.

I have directed by browser to use Linux Libertine in place of all web fonts, and have a much improved experience, bad icons notwithstanding.
I like libraries, in principle.

However, I'm concerned about literacy rates. Access to libraries and literacy are not related. Examine the Pisa rankings, for instance. Furthermore, why is it that literacy rates in Scotland are falling, but rising in England?

Access to a library does not make you interested in reading.
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Tremendously insightful comment.
Not everyone on HN lives in places where Christianity is the dominant religious tradition.
Capitalism, American style. When profiteering takes over every aspect of business (and charity), this is what you get.

That's not to say another system is better, but as with most things in life, the best answer is some balance between options. That requires giving up some things in order to get other things - usually a trade of short term goals for long term.
I see many open positions for devops engineers at some large companies. You’re manifestly incorrect.
California public schools can’t suspend students for disobeying teachers
This page by the same author is also fantastic: https://observablehq.com/@mourner/non-robust-arithmetic-as-a...
So what you are saying is that Black and White thinking limits your options because its only two colors.

Adding Grey is good, unless you only think in Grey because that is only 1 color, and 1 color is less than 2.

We should all think in at least 3 colors. Which requires a basic understanding of statistics.

But what about thinking in colors that are actual colors? Like... at least the primaries. What type of education would be required to throw in some Blue or maybe Red?
Why do you think Google hosts all these fonts for free? Nearly every webpage today has a request to fonts.googleapis.com. Most adblockers don't even blacklist it.
Laws are as good as enforcement. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics) somehow they are still doing it
Tangible metaphysics is an oxymoron by definition of metaphysics (something beyond/above physical, i.e. tangible). If it's tangible, it's not metaphysics. If you can subject it to the scientific method, it's not metaphysics. Your EEG experiment is nowhere near metaphysical, it's as positivistic as can get - you very crudely measured cognitive load using EEG.
Well, of course, if you consider psychology to be metaphysical, you are only partly true - Freud, for example, can be neither validated, nor invalidated. Skinner or Pavlov, however... and anything published in respectable journals for the last 30 or 40 years.
In my country people try to convince them but mostly they end up saying "well, if that's what they really want... they can always change degrees or do another one later". Several of my friends did that and ended up fine.

Of course, from the replies, I notice that in America the price of degrees makes the perspective very different because the decision may not be easily reversible...
I definitely recommend Vitamin D as well. It's one of the only supplements that I use.
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I agree, and like the right click, force touch options were always accelerators for more confidant users (rather than being the only way to complete some task).

Personally I loved force touch and a few months on iOS 13 I’m still struggling with transition to long press gesture instead.

The problem with long press as an accelerator is that it’s triggered by a deliberate pause. It might just be a few hundred milliseconds but the perceived time is very frustrating.
I think all that counts. I guess I’m just tempted to make a game engine as a hobby project. I made an OpenGL renderer in uni once (it was fun), but I don’t really know what the scope would be to extend it substantially - obviously, not to “unreal” levels or anything even close
Are you saying that this is a longer tenure than other industries? I see in the link you shared that "Internet" has 387 people profiled and a high percentage 78.0% (which I don't quite understand, the page seems to be lacking information.)
Additionally student loans should be something you can refinance. When I took out loans in the early 90s, interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans were about 8%. As interest rates dropped during the course of my education, I was locked into that interest rate and the only way to get a lower rate on those high interest early loans was to consolidate loans. Loan consolidation doesn’t get you a market rate new interest rate instead you get the average of the 2 interest rates.
I always found that calorie counting is much easier if you primarily eat packaged and/or prepared foods. Popular apps and websites already know the nutritional info for what you're eating, so it can be as easy as searching by brand name or UPC.

If you do a lot of cooking and baking yourself, counting calories is a painful process. You have to weigh everything going into the recipe, understand how cooking processes alter the nutritional makeup of your ingredients, calculate the probable calorie count of the finished product, and then weigh each portion while it's being served. If you like to use specialty ingredients (e.g., different kinds of grain flours in a single recipe or fermented vegetables in Sichuanese cuisine), even figuring out the calorie values of your inputs can be challenging.
It is simpler to manage a company without arrangements like this. It makes ICs and Level 1 managers more interchangeable. If you moved the 1M employee over to another group it would blow up that manager's budget. The more interchangeable employees are the better for some people in upper management who don't actually care about maximizing cost efficiency and productivity. They are maximizing other metrics.
IMHO, as an American native, I like the cultural experience of americanized Chinese cuisine as adapted to locally available ingredients, especially in the southwest US (with it's subtle leavening of Chinese culture dating from the railroad era). We often make hot chile oil with dried chile pequin or dried chile negro (minus the seeds). Achiote is a great addition to the 5 spice, and with no Sichuan peppercorn available I often just add whatever dry spicy chili I have available (i.e. the pequinos) rather than substitute the ubiquitously mediocre black pepper. The bay leaves I get in the Chinese market are from the same source as the Mexican grocery.
ICs are architects and as such create rules about what is to be done and maybe more importantly what must not be done. While it is often said product follows organization there is also something to be said about organization following products - once the initial architecture is established in a new undertaking the team structure is usually aligned.

Some ICs are not really architects but work on tiny scale on critical bits. There is often some fractal quality to their work and the tiny structures are reflected back into the organization.

Some ICs have come up with patents - the foundation for building businesses with a profitable moat around them.

Last but not least are ICs role models and can have a large impact on the development of other individuals.

It is often not easy to find a way to impact the organization on a larger scale but it is possible. I think the I in IC is not helpful.
Why they would market it? Education is subsided by government. Hope is that student will stay after finishing Uni. Mostly it targets students from poorer countries, for example Polish universities are attracting people from former soviet union.

Some ignorant american would just drink, cost money and move away at end.
But to be able to play at the top of the field you'll have to have attended something like Penn Law or Yale Medicine. SUNY Downstate won't cut it.
>Also, only a Sith deals in absolutes (generally).

Anyone uttering the phrase "only a Sith deals in absolutes" must therefore be a Sith.

Dammit Obi-Wan. You fooled us all.
Professional intelligence analysts qualify everything with confidence intervals. When conducting formal business or technical communications we ought to follow their example. It would greatly reduce errors and misunderstandings.
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They usually have enormous technical debt that elite engineers could disentangle

Doing so will not be recognised nor appreciated by management.
Okay, this may what it has become but I've done both jobs at the same time.

To me DevOps: One must understand the build system, stack, and the minutiae related to maintaining that build stream. It's a lot of work and at least in the past was more of a developer responsibility and not a "System Admin" type responsibility.

System Administration: Security, User Accounts, Policy, Backups, Network Configuration, Automation, Reliability.

Sure there is some overlap but these used to be completely separate functions and with good reason there was a lot to understand about each workflow.

Modern workflows (K8s, AWS, Docker, VMs, Jenkins, CI, TDD) have mostly take the "System" out of system administration while improving reliability and speeding development while (I think) suffering security. But that's another post or maybe I will write an article about it.
I once read an article about computer security that talked about why your passwords are displayed as asterisks but omitted mention of Van Eck radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_radiation
In many cases, the FOP is really "give us money to get a sticker for your car that means some of our members might go more leniently on you".

See also: companies on eBay selling counterfeit stickers.

See also: the FOP designing stickers almost like vehicle tabs, with color coding so they can see that you're "paid up", sorry, "have donated".
This argument gets rehashed in HN pretty often. When I just worked in ops or support my job title had the word “technician” in it. When I was designing systems my job title had the word “engineer” in it, even if I also had ops duties. As far as I can tell this is a regional thing, where certain jurisdictions have laws that regulate who can call themselves engineers, just like certain jurisdictions have laws about who can call themselves hairdressers. That doesn’t stop people on HN from thinking that for some reason, we can all agree on a definition for “engineer”, even though we have regular disagreements about the definition about almost every other word in the English language.

“DevOps” is at least ill-defined from the very start, so if we have arguments about what “DevOps” means, at least I can learn something.
The average rate of return in 529s is about 3%.
Yes but that is for "prestige" shows, of which you get 6-12 episodes for a season. Used to be you would get an average of 22 episodes a season of any show. Also season breaks are getting longer used to be 6-4 monthes between season now you get 8 months to two years in some cases.So now a network as to fill a lot more time with a lot of inexpensive content so we get tons of crap tv shows.

There is no middle ground any more. it is either cheap simi-scripted reality series, music/tallent shows, and game shows or high budget prestige dramas.
Congratulations.

I was using similar project 'feathericons'[1] in my website, but later went on to use just the requisite couple of svg's directly with href.

Reasons being,

1. JS, although OP project doesn't seem to need one.

2. Missing icons, e.g. Reddit was missing in feather icons.

3. Only few icons were utmost needed and that doesn't justify a library.

I think the real use case for such libraries are websites were there are user generated content and they are allowed use such icons; then again with emoji's I don't know how many prefer this. On second thought, themes for CMS may be the prominent use case.

[1]https://github.com/feathericons/feather
> Visigothercize is the hottest thing right now: "burn! and loot! and turn! and burn!".

I live in Santa Monica (just a little south of Malibu) and given the number of exercise/barre/yoga/soul cycle/equinox/pilates/crossfit places near me, I have to say: Visigothercize sounds like pure genius and I have no doubt it would IPO within a year or two.
It's still a great language and still the industry standard for embedded. If you can't figure out C, an incredibly small and simple language, you probably shouldn't be programming.