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Meh, another piece of trash writing.

I literally wrote a longer comment and erased it three times... Meh, don't bother getting certified if you can't see the value of it.

Some certs are more useful than other, of course, my experience getting certified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL - RHCSA) was immensely positive though: I was forced to do a thorough learning and to level up under many aspects. I'm using a lot of that knowledge everyday even though I don't always use RHEL anymore. And for the ROI... It has paid itself almost immediately and with very good interest.
The earlier related thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22073908.
I don't see that composition should be cause for repeated code blocks.
Decades ago, my coworkers and I would draw FSMs of our mgmt on the white board with cryptic lables. While they did get complicated they were understandable.
That's what they were doing. They vetted it, provided patches and examples of triggering UB, and the maintainer called it "boring".
The conclusion seems a bit strange.

Why does the Soyuz clock contain over 100 chips instead of being implemented with a single clock chip? Soviet integrated circuit technology was about 8 years behind American technology, so TTL chips were a reasonable choice at the time.

Because in the paragraph above:

I expected the Shuttle computer to use 1980s microprocessors and be a generation ahead of the Soyuz clock, but instead the two systems both use TTL technology, and in many cases almost identical chips.
this does not negate the fact that a breakdown in rationality is also caused by emotion. the human brain is emotional throughout. however the part of it that has "rational debates" is not an intrinsic behavior. that part is based on cognitive skill which will perform to a greater or lesser extent based on current brain state. if the amygdala is active in a state of fear or anger, "rational debate" skill will be compromised, since that is not a useful skill in the traditional evolutionary situation that calls for fear or anger.
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So you think the article is saying they have made improvements because it's the "ultimate goal" or something? This is kind of funny to me. The tech industry thinks it has a monopoly on the idea of improving efficiency or something?
I passed an all-day at Google in my 50s. No offer, though, and that job hunt lasted many months. Pleased to meet you. :-)
> Its author also works at Microsoft, and suggested that Microsoft is using actix-web in production. This was really exciting to people. This was the second project using Rust at Microsoft, and so this seemed really fantastic.

Well if the project isn't FOSS anymore I can't see Microsoft continuing to use it, which makes me question the accuracy of this statement in the first place.
the amplification of reasonable criticism into harassment campaigns is a major dynamic in the last few years, and it generally ends up pushing people completely offline instead of like, allowing them to improve.

It's in open source but it's affecting everyone who posts their work online, which is to say, anyone doing anything that's publicly visible, anywhere.
Can anyone comment on how close Rocket is to a 0.5 release? I’ve been wondering for awhile, but opening an issue to ask seems annoying.
More like "VC Compatible Startup Ideas 2020"

It's totally feasible to start a successful company outside of these ideas. I think this list is helpful because they answer the "why now" question that VCs are looking for.

In other words, this list is helpful if you're trying to start a $10B company today.
I, and many others, hold the expectation that we are quite capable of overcoming our animal instincts (in this, but importantly in many other aspects also) to make a better world. Especially if the presence of the instinct is used as a pseudo science excuse.
it depends, some vendor certificates are highly valued and signal your expertise, for example CCNP/CCIE. Cisco does a pretty good job here
The Kubuntu Focus Laptop
That is a false equivalence, roller coasters have far more material risk given human lives are at stake.
I thought I was going crazy when nobody seemed to express this point of view. These are exactly my feelings about this. Perhaps maintainers get the brunt of entitlement and lack of appreciation, and don't have any interest after all that in stepping back and seeing it from this perspective. I think that there may be a disconnect in understanding of words such as "owe", "expect", etc.

I think that we could use some norms around this. Perhaps there could be an EXPECTATIONS.md in each project where we lay out exactly what to expect from the author, if anything. Maybe even specify a monetary incentive to take things further. And then the rest of us know exactly what to ask for if things aren't up to expectations. But no matter what, make sure to show appreciation to everybody who does what they do as a volunteer.
The Law of Dark Mode
Things I’ve learned about commenting on HN: don’t criticize unions or nuclear energy, and don’t support college education.
Poor formating on mobile. Search results do not fit screen width. Annoying, but should be easy to fix.
I don't know, but I ran my own numbers for my car and ended up with $0.25/mile. I counted:

- insurance cost of second car (liability only)
- depreciation
- gas
- maintenance and estimated repairs

This was for my car, which was ~5 years old when I got it and is very fuel efficient. I found that depreciation makes up more than half of the total cost, so a newer car would likely have more depreciation than an older car. I got mine for $10k, and in 5 years, it's worth $5k. I think that's pretty common, regardless of the age of the car, so a ~$20k car would depreciate to ~$10k in 5 years. Also, newer cars are more expensive to insure, and taking a car to a shop is more expensive than doing it yourself.

So $0.50/mile sounds reasonable for the average, relatively new car that is taken to the shop for maintenance and repairs. Insurance was a pretty small item in my calculations, so I doubt the difference between corporate and personal insurance would change the figure that much.
Office hours is the wrong approach or terminology - I would recommend focus hours. The later is more about your block of time to do deep work and less about them but serves the same purpose.
Stripe lets you put your .com or business name in your cc bill description that customers see on their bill, even if you aren't an llc or inc. You want to put whatever the customer knows you as, to reduce them not recognizing the charge.
It is indeed a very sad day. Personally I enjoyed being a small part of this community and amazed how welcoming and constructive it was. But yeah as we grow, we are bound to face this.
You are more than right. This is just my first assembly project in 20 years, put together from scratch in a couple of days. Therefor I am more than greatful for every constructive hint, that helps me improve. Thanks!
Watch a Cruise Autonomous Vehicle Drive an Hour Continuously in San Francisco
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Wrt. to flatpaks it is somewhat interesting to note, that very often when there is some kind of ASIC (think alarm clock or calculator or even “PDP-11 on a chip”) in 80's soviet consumer electronics it is packaged in metal/ceramic hermetic flatpack with legs bent and THT soldered.
The problem I see with certifications is that a lot of them tend to have trivia questions that are easy to look up but relatively unimportant, e.g. naming restrictions on azure resources is one the comes to mind.

I'm currently following a couple of certs for the learning paths, might even take the exam for one if my employer pays for it and the time off
True, but starting from $200 there's still room for improvement. I would purchase in no time a $350 model with double the battery plus high power LoRa RTX module with external antenna connector, and GPS receiver.

I've used a few different small ARM SBCs which were a lot less powerful than this laptop, and the software availability is astounding: Codeblocks, Boa Constructor, Anjuta, Lazarus, Geany, Notepadqq, most languages and libraries, and many other non development related software.
As an example, Libreoffice on Debian Stable is available ready to install (no build required) on i386, amd64, armel, armhf, arm64, mips, mipsel, mips64el, ppc64el, s390x. Same for example for lua (the language) while the sid (unstable) version adds another bunch of unofficial ports (alpha, hppa, m68k, powerpcspe, ppc64, ppc64el, riscv64, sh4, sparc64, x32). In many contexts one could move from x86 to ARM and never feel there is something missing because really there is almost nothing missing, save maybe for the horsepower.
I thought the same thing too. Just being able to add some tags to my cookie session saying:

"Developer, Ruby, Ruby on Rails"

DDG is not very workable with 'ruby gem' searches without more context. Or at least when I last used it. I was using ddg full time, but found myself back on google.
I'm not saying I don't want one (I rented a P100D on vacation and it was fantastic). Its just not the right decision for me to use as a commuter car despite how much my heart wants one, and I have to actively supress my desire to purchase one, but it does make me feel more fiscally responsible not to buy it. I also probably don't value safety as much as you. I have a twin turbo 300zx track car which I'll never sell and goes completely against everything I described above to be honest, so I'm a hypocrite regardless!
I would offer that you’re simply bad at it.

A mentor of mine, the great historian William Durant whose 11 volume contribution “The Story of Civilization” tells us of the wonders of learning the steps humanity has taken from barbarism to civilized, not without plenty of depressing digression in between.

The problems with our age are numerous, The greatest is the delegation of our authorities away from ourselves. Before gamification of governance, concerned citizenary were themselves it’s governance.

Now we avoid jury duty when competent peers are an advancement of our justice.

We have too many things we would rather do than truly familiarize ourselves with issues and take their direct evolvement.

We are a culture of hypocrites on the bleeding edge of our own obsolescence.

The promotion of women is a fine idea. Not that women cannot be as foolish, misinformed, or corruptible than men, though I complement a sense of enduring commitments and humanity as a foundation over ambition to merely do more or seek devices for ever increasing returns.

One caveat is the uncommon knowledge of power’s tendencies to destroy even the bravest and most noble. We are a culture who devour our idols. I wish the popularity of power upon none I would care for.

I define evil as a) the maiming and mutilating of our humanity; b) the making corrupt or perverse the potential of being.

The difficulty is not in civilization but in culture.
Man is corruptible and has a treacherous heart. We need culture to save us.
There are plugins that reduce the height of "empty" lines such as those with a single curly bracket. Combined with the suggestions in this article, code is much easier to read.
These are merely your expectations, and this will probably disappoint you in the future.

I have replied to logged issues with the question: "I don't work on this, unless you have set aside a budget that pays my hourly rate".
To some extent it was both. The web made programming relevant to a much broader audience, and JS is much more approachable than other popular languages from that time (eg C++).
I'm still enjoying Reddit. I can consume whichever content I like, and filter out whatever I don't like. It really sounds like you were just engaging too much with the things that annoyed you. That said, time off from it will give you some perspective, and you may never go back. In which case, good for you.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22077019
It seems much of the disagreement may stem from lack of consensus around the semantics of:

'responsibility'

'requirement'
'obligation'
'should'
'can'

I believe responsibilities are personal/societal. They're part of a value system. However, I think I could collate a breadth of sources from landmark open source discussions which show that there are existing major themes for what a maintainer has a responsibility to do (that the open source community has a somewhat predefined value system existing wrt to topic).

I accept that it's not a consensus.

I just don't think we should conflate obligations, requirements, and responsibilities. That leads to vehement disagreements.
GP claims there is healthy competition, eg ddg. Therefore I guess by your claim that monopoly blocks competition, there's no monopoly, unless you want to claim DDG actually sucks, which would be an unpopular stance to stake here on hn.
Even better: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
It is January: layoffs often cluster during January. I'm not yet seeing a flood of candidates for our open roles, so I'm not worried.
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I've been using AirCare to offset my flights.

http://air.care/
Please don't post flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN—especially not on powderkeg topics. We ban accounts that do that, for what should be obvious reasons if you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
HotChips 31 RISC-V track
The answer to this will vary hugely on a case-by-case basis. I don't want to speculate on what the sign of the net effect is.

So without trying to answer the question one way or the other, I just want to share this link which came to mind: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Exacerbating the issue, the quote is likely from a time when Apple was still pushing for 3D touch on the iPhone, but not the iPad. Meaning the iPhone would have had less volume and more to fit inside the case.
Sure, many more women may choose to take the more active role, but it’s important to consider that these conscious choices are affected by implicit social pressures and expectations that are placed on men and women from childhood onwards, such as men being expected to be breadwinners and women being expected to be caregivers. These are pretty arbitrary social constructs that are not universal or intrinsic to nature or even human societies. So it follows that what men and women would say they desire is not the full picture, since they may be unaware of the implicit forces acting on them.
is this just about cpu power from exploits?
Some certs are probably worth it, if only for your own edification. I've been picking up the AWS-specific ones as time goes on and while I am not impressed with the rigor asked of candidates for the Associate certification, you have to be pretty on-the-ball to pass the Professional exams. (I haven't taken them yet, but the samples convinced me I had best brush up.)
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4522. Let's focus on the author's own argument now please.
"Structural sexism" implies nonintrinsic forces causing discrimination, hence why I called it an external force, as it's a force not generated internally.

I think the effects of evolutionary biology need to be considered when looking at behavioral differences. Evolutionarily speaking, women invest much more energy into growing, giving birth to, and caring for children than men. This leads to innate differences in behavior separate from social forces you are describing.
worker/manager?
Modern wireless microphone transmitters are configured and updated via audible tones generated by a smartphone app.
DO will be just fine when GCP closes a few years hence, which Alphabet accidentally "announced".

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-reportedly-set-ambitio...
Shit, you've just reminded me that I have to finish some ansible playbooks I started in september. The VPS they were supposed to configure only had some hardening an no traffic since then.
Ancient fossil 'may prove scorpion was first land-dwelling animal'
Assuming you're in software -- study machine learning! It's going to be hot for a long time.
This could have solved a lot of problems...
Although I love my kids I would go clinically insane if I had to do the stay-at-home raising of them full time. My wife OTOH loves it and would rather do nothing else. I know that this is swapped for many couples, but I still argue that reality is more skewed this way than the other. Maybe that will change over time.
It definitely is for cloud provider consulting, as those also factor into your MSP status.
I agree. To add another industry, with government and/or defense contractors, certifications matter immensely - sometimes more than actual work experience.
I’ve also come across a few that seem to be downright scams. CREST security Cerys are ~$6k AUD, but from people I’ve spoken to they’re largely irrelevant to modern day security practices but required for various work in certain fields such as finance.

I imagine the people who run the cert board are making a fortune at least.
> I remember my high school counselor filling my head with these ideas of becoming an MD and how much money I could make. Don't recall ever asking if I liked that sort of stuff.

Not liking your job is the most normal thing in the world. It is incredibly privileged to have a job that you actually like doing.

> There are folks where a degree is really just a debt and they'd be better off learning a trade.

There are large problems with going into a trade, too. It's hard work, your body is destroyed after 15-20 years of it, you are incredibly vulnerable to economic cycles, you don't make much money in most of them, unless you become a business owner. It's better than stocking shelves, but that's a pretty low bar to clear.

To tie back to your earlier point, tradespeople almost universally hate their jobs. Most of them like the money, but hate the job.
Yes, I have an electrical engineering degree, I now work as a software developer, and the last two project managers I worked under had no degree. They are great developers and leaders.
> Open source participants are volunteers and owe you nothing.

And a lot of the internet has this wrong, including you.

Let me start by saying that Open Source is not a zero-sum game. I can make a library like your library and it doesn't have to be an adversarial relationship. I have users, you have a few less users.

But there are costs to having more. There is still only so much space in the ecosystem for so many actors. The more logging libraries we have the harder they are to find, the more drama there is over picking one...

The best analogy I have is a party. If I throw a party this weekend, and your birthday is next month, then I'm not hurting you. If I throw it the weekend of your birthday, knowing it's your birthday, I'm kinda being a dick. That's not cool, and you have every right to be upset.

Okay, but what does any of this have to do with Open Source projects, hinkley? I'm within my rights to throw a party. But my guests are within their rights to be upset if I throw a shitty party. They showed up. They could have been doing something else. But I insisted on taking up space and now I'm being ungracious about it. It's my party and I can treat people how I want is technically the truth, just like "I can do Open Source and ignore the concerns of my users" is technically the truth.

What I'm saying is that the people who show up don't have to like it. They're entitled to complain to people about it, especially if I don't apologize and say I'll do better next time, or get help.

It's my party, I can cry if I want to, but people are gonna talk.

[edit to add]

I think the problem is that we have a bunch of people who throw themselves into software at a young age because of or at the expense of social awkwardness, and we insist on treating things and other people as if they are machines instead of people who are also just trying to do the best they can. I'm fully aware that this observation cuts against my argument as well as supporting it, but we can't go on coddling people and organizations for ignoring the very real social aspects of our work. For being poor hosts.

And it's really hard, believe me I know. But people want to see that you're at least trying, or they will paint you the villain.
Please don't make the thread even worse by posting unsubstantive comments about it.

It's a divisive topic, so fractiousness is not easy to avoid, but everyone should make sure they're up to date on the site guidelines before posting. They include: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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There is a difference between general education and those software certifications. I have masters in physics and had never really studied software formally. Having studies in University I believe had set me up for life, very grateful. However I've switched from science to being a programmer fairly quickly for financial reasons. I've never taken any software course and in my about 40 years long stint I was never asked about any software certification.

What did happen instead 2 or 3 times when I was getting some consulting gigs was that the client would try to have me pass some IQ / Aptitude / Whatever else test. I already have a reputation for delivering solutions and whole bunch of nicest references. So I just apologized and walked away. Not playing these kindergarden games.
Your judgement of the article was nearly entirely informed by who wrote it rather than its contents. That's a good way to continue a culture war, not a good way to discover the truth.

I implore you to consider the well-founded facts on both sides, not to claim this piece has absolutely nothing worth saying.
Having been in both sides: Consultancy and Client. My experience suggests that this is far from universal.