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>People don't expect aspiring accountants to spend their weekends managing their personal finances or imaginary companies in QuickBooks

I do understand (and sympathize) why many job candidates disagree with the importance of a "personal portfolio" and so we get repeated frustrations of comparing it to accountants, lawyers, pharmacists, etc. E.g. if pharmacists don't dispense drugs on the weekend "for personal fun", why do we "expect" programmers to do the same?

The way to make better sense of it is to not frame it in terms of "expectation" of a job seeker but of "identification and preference" of employers choosing one job seeker over another. Whether the preference itself is flawed is irrelevant. The point is that it's human nature to use a preference as a tie breaker.

Programming, much more so than accounting/law, is an activity that many more people like to do for personal "fun". Because of this, it's inevitable that some employers tend to want to identify them and prioritize them over others.

And hiring preferences are not unique to computer programmers. Here's engineer Ben Krasnow (of popular channel Applied Science) explaining how a "personal portfolio" helps him stand out and get good jobs:

- deep link and watch for ~30 seconds:
https://youtu.be/ihbYtxaEDSk?t=248

So, if you're an electrical engineer getting angry at the world because employers shouldn't "expect" you to design circuits for fun on the weekend, don't be surprised if they hire Ben instead of you.

Edit to add another Ben K video covering the same topic but mentioning Valve & GoogleX and choosing between prospective candidates:

- deep link: https://youtu.be/4RuT2TlhbU8?t=112
It's $€2 per month difference. You still get part of the benefits, such as access for more devices. While I'd appreciate getting those €2 honestly I find it pretty small minded if that's your first concern. They were asked to reduce load to avoid issues for vital instructure and all the people working from home. I appreciate and am grateful that they followed this request. It's for the benefit of all and if they save a few € in the process there really is no reason to be upset about it.
Generally I agree. I don't know enough to really weigh in, but I suspect some combination of shipping logistics and trade agreements are the cause.
That isn’t a valid IP address
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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop. It is a rolling release and so it is very up to date. And if something goes wrong with an update (happened once in 2 years) there is root filesystem snapshoting via BTRFS can roll back to the state before update. Also I like the Yast settings manager and OpenSUSE has one of the best KDE apps support. So these are the main reasons for using it as my main home and work GNU/Linux desktop.
I think Qt documentation is very nice https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstring.html
Hi Reddit,

You are certainly asking yourself what to do with this sudden amount of free time now we are all in quarantine and no longer have to commute every day.

The answer is obvious: VIDEO GAMES!!

This is why I dedicated this week's issue of OpenSourceWeekly.org to open source & linux gaming.

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Feedback is welcome :)

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The average skill level of your peers has a severe impact on the curriculum. I went to a second tier state school, and the majority of my classmates could not write code and struggled through basic data structures and algorithms theory.

I ended up learning some data structures and algorithms through ACM and codewars.com, where my peers from better schools learned them in class.

I've had multiple classes where professors said they had to remove programming assignments and projects from the course because it was reducing the pass rate below acceptable levels.
To contrast this, every Comcast tech (3) that's been in my home has been very knowledgeable. Once they see I'm a "geek" they unload with technical knowledge and generally talk my ear off. That's how I learned my town has less nodes/per subscriber than any of the surrounding towns which is why my Internet speed is frequently ass.
How can we help if Italians themselves are not taking the virus seriously? Many members of the Italian public continue to act with no respect for protecting the public health.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-imposes-coronavirus-lockd...

Part of the reason new infections have increased rapidly is that many Italians, including in the worst-affected areas, have been reluctant to adhere to the new guidelines, such as avoiding crowded places. In recent days, for instance, ski resorts were packed. The government on Sunday ordered them shut, too.
Why wasn't she in the movie credits?
Even if it can't increase supply it will decrease demand (hoarding). If the prices is higher people will only buy what they need rather than buying all of it out.
Having 50% of all tests come back positive is way too high and makes the test basically useless. But having 50% or more of positive tests being false positives is probably the right tradeoff, though you probably want to re-test people who don't show symptoms.
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The viruses are not similar at all, the symptoms are to some degree.

SARS-CoV-2 is in the same family as SARSv1, MERS, a number of viruses that cause the common cold (229E, OC43, NL63), plus a number of bat viruses. But not influenza!

The test would cause a false positive for the most related ones, specifically SARSv1 and some bat viruses.
If you read/watch/listen to Peak Prosperity, Imperial pretty much copy/pasted everything what was said before by them, plus added some charts which everyone can understand. Nothing to be proud of to be honest, especially coming from university.

Link: https://www.peakprosperity.com/

Edit: for downvoters, would be happy to hear your thoughts. Especially let me know if you have followed Peak Prosperity info since January and if you read Imperial report.
Common reply seems to be 0.4 . I trust this old Doctor who likes numbers. https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching
Why would you use milk rather than the grains used to feed the cattle? It seems like a loss in efficiency for a spirit that's neutral.
I don't think comparing CS with Accounting grads works. Accounting is more like law school, where you're studying for a specific qualification, like the bar exam.

Accounting students are studying for a CPA, a similarly regulated exam that tests your knowledge of the rules and how it can be applied to specific cases.

By passing the exam, you're licensed to practice law or start doing tax/audit/advisory for companies or individuals.

There's no such analogue for CS grads, because CS programs aren't focused on training you for a specific credential.
Carantine has its own down sides. It may very well finish as worst solution. Massive H1N1 vaccination decade ago also had its own problem [1] and we are talking here about bunch of other things: effects on economy, domestic violence, etc.

[1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/why-pandemic-flu-sho...
How about this: it's far easier to critique something than to make something better. I find that this is true with photography: my taste is so much more sophisticated than my abilities, so when I make art I am forced to be humble. Consuming others' photography is still crucial to my development.
I have no love for GameStop, but I really liked Thinkgeek, which got bought by GameStop. GameStop already ruined it AFAICT so I don't mind if GameStop goes out of business...
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It is confusing though, my initial reaction was that such evidence should not exist and I only realized my error after browsing it for a few minutes.

Replacing "supporting" with "provided to draft" would prevent my problem.
I think this looks very cool, but this quote concerns me:

If you’re into laziness and magic (who isn’t?)

Magic is great until you run into an edge case, or try to do anything complicated. Then it tends to bite you in the ass.

I can see this being a great tool for whipping out quick prototypes, but I'd be scared to use it for anything bigger.

That being said, it does look very cool!
A dashboard of Coronavirus outbreak in India
Nonsense,

People call themselves chemists, geologists, etc. without ever publishing anything.

Ditto computer scientists.
Okay, Italy's numbers are not too far off from China's.

CCDC Data shows that out of 44,672 confirmed cases, 63.8% of deaths were Male, 36.2% female. [1]

1. http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...
Given the name, I expected more focus on stuff like lattices, instead it seems mostly numerical stuff.

Still neat, though!
Yeah he is insufferable. Who is he to decide what a programmer is or is not?
Also it is pretty impressive how transaprent the UK prime minister has been in dealing with this pandemic.

- 100% scientific driven approach

- Daily briefings and updates addressed to the public

- Daily Q&A where the PM addresses questions from the press

- Publication of all scientific papers and studies conducated in this short amount of time which are fundamental in decision making

Nobody has a crystal ball to look into the future and therefore nobody can say if what the UK gov has done so far and when they have done it and how they have done it was any good or bad, but I rather have a government which takes such a scientific and transparent approach than anything contrary.

Mistakes can happen regardless which approach one takes, but I rather have a mistake done based on best scientific effort than through negligence.
This library is cool and I may end up cribbing some of its design. It's unfortunate that they did not include semirings directly, which have many interesting algebraic uses. [0]

[0] http://stedolan.net/research/semirings.pdf
Great to see some discussion about this ecosystem. I literally started playing around with NaviServer just 9 days ago. It's definitely worth a glance. There are a lot of great utilities built right in: database connection pooling, a key-value cache, and more [0]

Tangentially related, I've been making my way through Greenspun's Software Engineering for Internet Applications [1] and have especially found the metadata section to be enlightening [2]. I like to think of myself as a competent engineer, but this quote hit too close to home

If you're programming one Web page at a time, you can switch to the language du jour in search of higher productivity. But you won't achieve significant gains unless you quit writing code for one page at a time. Think about ways to write down a machine-readable description of the application and user experience, then let the computer generate the application automatically.

[0] https://naviserver.sourceforge.io/n/toc.html

[1] https://philip.greenspun.com/seia/

[2] https://philip.greenspun.com/seia/metadata
I despised the academic parts of school. The work was hilariously irrelevant, the requirements totally arbitrary, and the expectations set so ridiculously high that even though I've been in the workforce for a few years now, I still have anxieties and insecurities about my engineering ability that trace back to school being set up such that you're expected to fail all the time yet still somehow graduate. Often, it felt like school was actively working against me in my drive to become a better engineer.

I quickly learned to give my engineering side-projects a higher priority than schoolwork. Schoolwork could always expand infinitely to fill as much time as it wanted, and school was a hideous monster that would swallow every ounce of effort I put into it, take it for all for granted, and only greedily demand more of me. If I'd played along with that, I would've had to give up the drive to build things that made me want to pursue engineering as a career in the first place.

I had an industry internship every summer while I was in college, and I found an industry job - which paid more than my program's average undergrad starting salary - the afternoon after my last final exam. I say this because I want to emphasize that even by the standards of my school's career department I have """succeeded""" - yet every single one of those positions made absolutely no use of the things I was forced to do or learn to get my degree, and extensive use of the skills I learned by ignoring schoolwork and focusing on personal projects.

I can't say with certainty that school did absolutely nothing for me: my current manager says that even though he didn't look at my academics at all, he likely never would've seen my resume if it didn't have a degree on it. But while I can count on one hand the number of times something at work has been remotely relevant to my schoolwork, the number of panic attacks and depressive spirals caused by anxieties rooted in my experience in the academic environment is beyond countless.
That would be true if we were talking about consuming code, not theory.
They also use their superior communication infrastructure for basically total surveillance of affected citizens.

This is something that isn't technically possible in Europe and simply doesn't fly with the vast majority of the population. Their strategy is based on policies that just don't work in Europe.

EDIT: also not to forget that South Korea is technically an island with its only land border being the most fortified one in the world...
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Caffeine is unquestionably a drug. While you can even give caffeine freely to kids, use of mostly all other substances may even cause death penalty in some countries. Pure caffeine powder is actually very dangerous, even in small quantities like 1000 milligrams.

"That chemical of course is caffeine, which is now the world’s most popular psychoactive drug, used daily by 80 percent of humanity. (It is the only such drug we routinely give to our children, in the form of soda.)"
A clock seems like a poor choice for an e-ink display. It's going to update once a minute or whatever interval you pick.

A calendar will only update when your calendar events pass, which at least for my usage tends to be limited to 30 minute intervals and generally only a few times a day.
This is reprehensible. Under no reasonable definition are they essential retail, and they are putting human lives in danger.
> place me in front of a window I'd stare out of it for several hours and if you would ask me what I'm thinking about I wouldn't know

Isn't that called meditation?
It was only one of the tree parts of the CDC test that was giving false positives in most cases. Also, the experts on This Week In Virology thought that the CDC was being too clever in how it designed its test and that's why it got into trouble but I don't feel qualified to try to explain why exactly.
any hospital will gladly take them from you, if they won't try old people care homes
I wanted to build something related to the pandemic. Some of my friends were unsure if they are sick. One way to tell is to check your temperature and quarantine yourself if it's over 99.5F.
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If you are using the checkout flows, they will use SCA. I am currently working on a solution to swap to the payment-intent (SCA compliant) driven flow for elements, but I found that I wasn't getting the events back which I needed from the Stripe API immediately following the payment creation, so I couldn't create a JWT with the payment's status. I have opened a ticket with support - its on the radar!
Companies are scrambling to fix the coronavirus testing fiasco
In a sense, this rings true in this pandemic, right? Many people are relying on video games for entertainment while confined to their homes.

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Edit to reply to the comments below: A lot of good replies, thank you. I've largely been on the "doom and gloom" side of this COVID-19 debate, so I'm surprised by the other angrier replies, but here's my thinking:

- People that download games aren't going to GameStop anyway.

- As some comments pointed out, you can't download consoles. You also can't have anything shipped to you if you don't have a credit card.

- GameStop transactions don't require close personal contact (unlike e.g. tattoos or massages).

- GameStop must discourage congregation of groups in their stores. I imagine very low foot traffic.

- GameStop must provide staff with appropriate cleaning tools. If they can't, then they should not remain open.

- I do really like the idea to transform the store into a local delivery service, or to offer pick up only.

- I have no connection to GameStop nor have I been to one in over a decade.
It’s been a great opportunity for me to finish several half completed gardening projects. Don’t know if any studies have been done on this, but for me personally, digging in dirt for an hour every day has the same mood improvement benefits as exercise.
Google discounts Stadia for the first time just as Doom Eternal launches
You need to separate two aspects of this argument.

1) Recent grads should not feel entitled to pay, respect, etc. etc. just because they have a degree.

2) Someone does not need to have a wide portfolio of projects to be a good developer, but those will probably make them a better developer.

The best junior developers will be the kinds of people who build constantly, but you don't need to be that to be a good, competent programmer.
> Finally, proper ethical triage never looks at how long a patient is expected to live after their recovery as a condition.

But it does look at chances of survival, which for this particular disease looks very closely correlated with how long a patient is expected to live after their recovery.
Here's a transcript from yesterday's press conference. Of the 42 hits of a search for "test", not one of them is Trump referring to the availability of tests. It's either other people mentioning tests, reporters asking about tests, Trump using "test" as an imbecile's synonym for "clinical trial", or referring to various peoples' test result. No "tests are being made available", or "we're working with industry to increase production of testing kits" or anything similar.

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronaviru...
Honestly for pour over methods I think a Baratza Encore or similar is plenty fine and will get you probably 90% of the way. For coffee snobs like me and you, maybe that is only 50% :).

Obviously espresso is completely different, and agreed, you'd have to be at the mid-hundreds to get to a barely good-enough starting point.
I doubt "most people" want each bag of their coffee brand to taste different.
I've been having to deal with this lately; I've never really been someone who likes working from home. Typically when I've told coworkers that I'm "working from home", I'm actually "working from McDonalds" or something, and I just don't feel like taking an hour-long subway ride for whatever reason.

Now that everything in NYC is closed or on restricted hours or whatever, I have been getting a little stir-crazy, especially since my already-too-low amount of exercise that I got from my commute to work has now been reduced to "me walking downstairs to my basement", which has made it very difficult for me to sleep.

To combat this, I ordered an exercise machine last night, to at least allow me to get an approximation of what I'd be doing at the gym, and hopefully ameliorate the sleep issues, but I have no idea how I'm going to deal with 3+ more weeks of this quarantine.
I loved this episode and was really impressed with how much work went into it -- all the way down to recreating the song with a band from that guy's head.
I did not know the name for this - thanks for sharing!
I feel very bad that this couple was falsely accused of sexual harassment under Title IX.

I'm sure almost all claims of sexual harassment under Title IX are valid, but as this article shows, not all are. I think the number of false accusations are extremely small, but not zero.

The article also shows the limited options of the people who are accused. In this case, the accuser made a few critical mistakes which allowed the innocent to be exonerated. If it weren't for those few pieces of evidence, the professional careers of both would have been over, with no recourse for appeal.

This article shows that Title IX, although written with good intentions, is tilted too far in favor of the accuser. Unfortunately, it does not allow the accused to defend themselves adequately.
They are going down and dragging their minimum wage employees with them.
I suspect that certain pharma drugs given to elder people for cardiovascular and diabetes diseases may be in part responsible for current state. The similar thing was probably partly in effect a century ago with aspirin and Spanish flue.
Bahahaha that's about as likely as pigs flying.

"You were instructed to keep the store open, but were unable to perform your job-required duties because you got arrested attempting to do so, therefore you are fired. Request to pay your legal fees is denied."
Anecdotal but, I feel like I can tell good vodka from cheap vodka easier than good wine from cheap wine.
it's very hard to buy right now, there's been a run on them due to coronavirus, and the rings are manufactured in China so supplies may not be replenished. They're going for hundreds of dollars.
Thanks for the kind words; I just got a ping on Twitter and found my way here, almost certainly because of your comment. Thank you (:
Only if you live in previous century.
Something dumb that happened locally is, they shut down the public restrooms in the local parks, but not in the grocery stores. So now the local parks are as full as ever, but everybody is cramming in to the one open bathroom in the nearby store.
We vs. Virus Hackathon by the German Government
It's using the whey that's a by product of the cheesemaking process. It's currently disposed of, either on fields as fertilizer or in landfills.
I think this will be a driver to reduce this sort of dependence on one country. Given that SARS, H1N1 and Covid19 have all originated in this one geographic area iexpect a lot of supply chains will be changing, especially those related to medicine and healthcare. it doesn't mean abandon China, bit it means you probably only want 1/3 of your stock from one country.
In no sense is this true.
And how it infected the band members to the point they couldn't get away from it. It's amazing how close the recreation was and how it compelled so many people
Good. Failing businesses should fail. That's Capitalism. And that's exactly why we need social safety nets for their employees.
Reminds me of an idea I have been kicking around. I thought it would be nice to build a search engine where the websites are submitted by users instead of a robot.

To prevent spam/commercialization/hostile take over, it could be invite only so you could "trim" off any rotting limbs efficiently.

I also considered black listing all the popular sites to give it a more community feel. I imagine there are thousands of websites out there that cover so many niches that will never appear on google.

One thing I miss about the old web was how personal it felt (or maybe it's rose tinted glasses). Now everything revolves around LCD* and $$$

edit: *Lowest common denominator
I'm not surprised, they're essentially making a statement that they'll stay open unless forced to close.

I'm disappointed that it's taken weeks to get to a point of just considering forcing closed the pubs.