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Do some opensource work, from fixing typos, to small bugs. Go to <yourprogramminglanguages>-meetups/events, and talk with people there (if someone needs a coder for <yourlanguage>, and they remember you from there, they just might call you). If you have enough free time, try getting a student job (even on campus) that has you doing programming related stuff.

Also, use github! Need a script to do some random task? Publish it there. Made an android app, to show you (or post, or whatever) some crap... publish it! Script to create a single page gallery of your instagram feed? Post it!

When i worked in larger companies, and also had to read CVs and give my opinion on students and fresh graduates (I hated that), I always prefered someone who had a github profile full of random scripts they wrote, no matter what their grades were (because they were lazy and decided to automate stuff, and that's always good), than someone with great grades and not a line of code to be seen.
Open source developers can keep working on the last published version but what happens after 12 months? Try to resolve 12 months worth of merge conflicts, hard fork and stop taking any further improvements from qt company, stop making any changes except the simplest bugfixes?
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It’s not a cop strangling a black man to death with his hands in his pockets, it’s the Russians.
Yes this is possible before JPEG compression, because convolution removes fairly little information but once you compress using JPEG you remove the frequency components that make it reversible.
> If anything, free software underlies and has enables the locked in, sever based, surveillance monetizing world we live in.

That doesn't sound right. There's an asymmetry here that you're ignoring. To use FSF-esque terminology:

Freedom-respecting software must be Free Software, and any software it relies on must be Free.

Surveillance technology can use Free Software, but can just as easily use proprietary solutions.

> Selling proprietary software for money is a lot less immoral than using free software to sell user data for money, or using scale to run roughshod over regulations

Agree.
I am an experienced iOS developer currently mentoring a friend. The time has come that we should look for an employer to get some working experience.

However this proves to be very hard, at least here in The Netherlands. If the boot camp comes with some sort of job guarantee, it might be worth it.
The conclusion doesn't really follow from the premise. If all crime were committed by one racial group it would be madness not to use that information to target crime-fighting measures.

If there are credible reports of a white man committing murders it doesn't make any sense to waste resources listing mainly female Asian suspects, for example. There are also other similar issues. For example, if a crime happens on my street I expect to be treated as more of a suspect based only on my proximity.

The issue of racism is (and needs to be) grounded in things other than rational resource allocation.
Amazon does lots of things: e-commerce, AWS cloud services, operating Whole Foods stores. Are these all trying to solve the same problem?
The skewed elements gave me a headache! :(
Can digital books ever replace printed books?
I vouched you, so don't start spamming; sorry I can't help with the career question, I'm a developer who also doesn't really know what I want to do from here.
so out of a billion true things in the world, you just randomly chose this one? What does it show, other than one person might have done the wrong thing?
Expanding further on this, I can say that times since TOPAZ were all about GTK becoming more, and more of a RedHat toolkit, with all alienation of non-RedHat affiliated maintainers coming from that.

TOPAZ was essentially a "coup" made by 3 RedHat affiliated developers. They worked completely behind closed door, and then came with fait accompli almost overnight, saying that the buggy hell of Gnome Shell, and its hello world level was the GNOME 3.0, and we will be wrapping all 2.0 development.

It always come to a point where they first manage to alienate all worthy maintainers, and then complain that "nobody maintains this crap, and I now do what I want"

Now, how do you go against such takeovers?
So, approx. 3 years == disillusioned?

Unless it was a planned stepping-stone all along, to land the real "dream" job and have the credentials to command a more magnanimous compensation than they would without that Google tenure.
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I can only guess it was from Hollywood, but in the military no one uses it because it's wrong. People down vote for several reasons, but I don't worry about that usually, I'm just here to talk to others a bit and read about technology.
It doesn't make sense to compare absolute number of deaths across different cities. You need to normalise against number of police interactions with the public (approximated by population size * crime rate).
Not sure I agree with the premise behind this map. The title says "Mapping Police Violence" and then "Police killed 1,099 people in 2019", which to me implies, that it shows cases where police killed that many innocent people/killed without any real reason. Then it also goes to say that "There is no accountability" and "99% of killings by police from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime" which further underlines that these killings were something that the officers should be charged/convicted for.

And yet when I was clicking through the cases most of them seemed to be armed suspects that were shooting at other people and/or at the officers arriving at the scene. In which case I don't see how shooting at the suspect should be condemned in any way.

Maybe I'm missing something here? I'm all in for charging and convicting unlawful use of violence and firearms by the police but this website seems a bit misleading to me because it misrepresents the scope of the problem. It would be much more useful to prove its point if it only showed cases where the suspect was not armed and dangerous.
Then we wonder why Electron has become the platform of choice for multi-platform apps.

There's (part of) the answer.
It's interesting to read about accountability (just scroll down a bit on the page). 99% of the officers involved in a killing are not held accountable. It could mean that 99% of killings were lawful, or it could mean impunity, and that while there are lawful killings (when facing armed criminal posing a threat), there are cases where officers are quite literally getting away with murder.
The lack of correlation between killings and violent crime rates (also on this page) makes it likely unlawful killings do not result in the prosecution they require.
But it uses an interface, which means dynamic dispatch and an allocation most of the time (because IIRC it tends to break the escape analysis).

That's a recurrent issue with Go: you can either have ergonomic tools (with interface and reflection), or performant code (with no allocation) but you generally can't have both at the same time. Sure it's better than scripting language where you need to use another language when you need performance, but it's still kind of sad.
Which apparently hasn't been updated since August, 2019.

https://github.com/ccbrown/wasm-go-playground/tree/master/ex...

So this is the prototype used at the GopherCon talk.
See also PAN-PAN, from the French 'panne' meaning breakdown.

The story I was told behind the origin of these was that they evolved from British <-> French air traffic and was a reasonably logical thing that everybody agreed on and could pronounce intelligibly for the other party.

Edit to add: English is the official international language for naval/aviation communication. Having really important words in another language makes them stand out and hard to say by mistake.
We should be storing code source with no formatting and let the IDEs display the code (and diffs, and...) according to your personal settings.
> I suggest you to watch any talk by Richard Stallman, if you want to understand why some people think proprietary software to be immoral. You might not agree, but for sure it is not something that "philosophically makes no sense".

Yea, I've met Stallman, been to plenty of his talks and had this same discussion for the last 15-20 years. Thanks for the advice though.

> immorality of proprietary software.

I don't believe it is. Plenty of others accept a perfectly valid dual magisteria as I proposed. Even in the commonly cited logically incongruous value systems that redefine the baseline of ethics I think that view can be accommodated.

But the blanket statement that "proprietary software is immoral" is fundamentally broken
While perhaps not directly relevant to you questions, your comment made me think of a book I read a while ago called The Information (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_...).

It's well worth reading and made me appreciate the importance of Information Theory (and computers)!
Man it's crazy how to this day even FOSS advocates will confuse proprietary and commercial. It's like confusing ethics and law, where at this point I have to assume the person I'm talking to still holds this false equivalence in their mind because it's so common and clearly not going away.
Even the photo that he's describing has the arrowslits as you say they should be.
It depends on how things got there. If the law was made because of unjustified paranoia, to settle it, then you can't use the existence of that law as justification for the paranoia.
Maybe free software advocates should START by having a rational discussion with their partner organisations like qt to determine their intentions instead of starting an Internet dumpster fire flame war based on rumours. The qt company has said repeatedly they will support the open source community as they always have done. Maybe start by clarifying the situation with them before flying off the handle.
well it's more like musl/linux. by default it uses busybox for most things but if needed the gnu variants are also in the repositories.
Police killed 1,099 people in 2019.

As a contrast 3 people died at the hands of the police in the UK in 2019.
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Until someone is convicted of a crime in America, they are presumed innocent. I don't see why that should change just because a suspect was killed before they could be tried. All police killings should be thoroughly investigated. The statistic that 99% of them do not lead to legal punishment is extremely suspicious.
> I've been coding since I was young, so I'm not worried about struggling academically, at least in my CS classes.

Lamentably, this sentence tells me you think coding == computer science, which betokens you are not prepared. How's your discrete math and computational theory? Coding is scratching the surface of CS. A programming language is a software engineering tool, software engineering is a branch of CS, but CS encompasses much more.
The same is true for bestseller business books, all concerned with the How and not the Why, when it's the Why that moves the needle.

And you see this blind adherence to "process over purpose" everywhere in software teams, with things like Agile, Scrum, Kubernetes, microservices etc. where none of this actually matters to the user.

Henry Ford's autobiography is one of the few that focuses on the Why, and it is ironic that business schools tend to talk about him in terms of the How ("he revolutionized the production process"). Henry Ford's secret to everything was not his production process, but the basis on which he conducted business and approached industry.

The thing is, if you get the Why right, then the How automatically follows: do things in the most direct way possible with a minimum of red tape.
Scroll down a bit for the graph contrasting violent crime rate per 1K population (according to some metric) to police killings per 1M population. Really interesting seeing absolutely no correlation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

If you look at the rate per 10 Million people, we're right in-between Mexico and Bangladesh with 28.4

Germany is 1.3, UK is 0.5, Japan is 0.2

That tells me there's a problem that isn't solved by breaking the numbers into two columns of justified and non-justified.
good to know, i hadn't fully dug in yet.
Let's start with the most jarring aspect of the movie Helm's Deep scene: the elves! So said Elrond in the Council:

> Never again shall there be any such league of Elves and Men; for Men multiply and the Firstborn decrease, and the two kindreds are estranged. And ever since that day the race of Numenor has decayed, and the span of their years has lessened."

Haldir:

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It is indeed perhaps the biggest fault of the otherwise excellent movies. Replacing Glorfindel with Arwen didn't bother me at all, for example.
> Proprietary software is undeniably immoral.

At this point no discussion can be had as it depends on a persons own beliefs which are rarely changed by fact or argument. This also skips over any nuance concerning the benefits, costs, and externalities of a particular subject.
This I concur. Highly thought-provoking and takes you places which otherwise you don't normally.
One of the keys to the success of the NATO phonetic alphabet is the disambiguation across various accents.

Let's say you're talking with someone who doesn't have a distinct V or W in their native tongue. Victor pronounced Wictor and Whisky pronounced Visky are sufficiently different from each other.

If you're making it up on the fly you could easily pick a word that could be confused for another. Vine/wine, while/vial, etc.

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A police force headed by a minority means nothing if the racism before that person joined is still there and he or she does not do anything to help change. It's like getting a Black president and saying racism and lynching was abolished by voting this person in office. The statistics show that the murders of unarmed people of color at the hands of police officers is disproportionately higher than that of the white people. And the is specifically true for back men. Out of every 100K black people 8 of the men of that population will die, unarmed, at the hands of the police force that happen to be white. These statistics enable the "seeing" process. Sources for the statistics are given in the article. You are free to calculate your own conclusions.
But how many criminals in germany and UK shoot at the police officers? I think that this US number is also very different from the German/UK number.
There is absolutely nothing new in the statements reported in this article. It would have been more informative to report on the weather in Taipei.

Sometimes I feel that this sort of article is simply timed to be inflammatory, not least by using sensationalist titles (the quotes are not that they will use force, bu that they will not rule out anything).
I personally have only had substantial experience with react (and its hooks), but the replacements for hooks in this library look very exciting to me, though I'm not sure I fully understand them on a first reading.
One thing that react hooks require is the placing of hooks at the top level of a function, which precludes dynamically creating hooks in a loop, or lists of effects. While usually there is a way to achieve whatever you're trying to achieve anyway, it's still a bit of a restraint on what you can write with React. I haven't tried Solid yet, but if its hooks are nestable and composable as the Reactivity page says, then this could enable some patterns that were previously impossible with react hooks.
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I always struggle with racial (and religious) topics - everything about it is so emotionally charged and a lot of the time I find that data is presented superficially and can support any claim you'd like it to support. I'd like to imagine that we're living in 2020 and that race is not as much as of a problem as for example economic inequality.

For example - to me, a more plausible hypothesis in this "modern world" would be that people from poor neighbourhoods suffer from police violence more. Has anyone correlated those police departments with median income?

Even statistical claims on this website seem charged to me sometimes - for example this is the first sentence on the site "Black people were 24% of those killed despite being only 13% of the population." - however upon (superficial) research - in 2016[1] of all crimes committed 26.9% were by black perpetrators. So in relation to that statistic - the other percentage doesn't seem that surprising any more. But without that extra piece of info the whole sentence (any maybe the whole site) exhibits bias because the correlation is skewed.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
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Sure, but those usually have a gun shield protecting the gun crew & it is done due to the gun barrel being long & the gun being heavy, so it is better to mount it on a single point, instead to jave it traverse on a curve (which is not a problem for an archer).
Now I have to watch the trilogy :) I probably know all the dialogues by heart now but still, it will be a good exercise to study the battles rather than just watching them. I always thought that the assault was poorly planned blindly charging the wall, the berserker etc. But I never thought of it as a strategical mistake. Rather I thought it was more about the characteristics of the Uruk. Fearless horde of savages charging without any fear.
> These statistics enable the "seeing" process.

I'd argue, you aren't really "seeing" the whole picture without also knowing that blacks in the USA are 13% of the population, yet commit 52% of the crimes.
City planning and architecture (facades) are generally not orderly and elegant either. The practical benefits of the Japanese approach have been discussed on HN before, but they don't produce the most pretty looking results. The cities are very clean, though.
So why don't we start providing Qt binary version installers ourselves? Most Linux distros already do it, so we can focus on Windows and MacOS. Maybe some subdomain of kde.org?
Also, regular people using guns for crimes is also probably way, way higher than Germany and Japan.

It's not that surprising IMO for a country where there are so many guns for the police to encounter more hostile situations that require utilizing their gun for theirs and others protection.

Guns are a weapon that quickly escalates any situation to life or death.
To simplify, if someone shoots at the police first, and police shoots back, and kills him.... what's the point of the whole trial, if the suspect is already dead? Should they be on trial for the thing they were suspected to be doing? Or for the shooting at the police? Both? If you're a store owner that called the police on the suspect, because the suspect robbed your store, what good would it be, if you had to go to court and testify for a full robbery case (apart from the shooting case, where you're just a possible witness), if either way, the suspect is already dead?

Edit: to clarify, i'm talking about the suspected "original" crime, eg. a robbery, and not the shooting part. The shooting should of course be investigated, but i see no point in holding a full trial for the robbery part, if the suspect is already dead, and if there is no actual benefit for anyone.
A couple of interesting points:

- "Compare Places" -> "Compare States" shows consequences for officers involved.

- The 10 highest rated police departments in CA are in Tracy, San Mateo, Carlsbad, Palo Alto, Tustin, Escondido, Alameda, Mountain View, Chula Vista and Salinas. It is interesting to note that East Palo Alto (once the crime capital of the US) is in San Mateo.
2019 was a bit of a bad year for the UK: the 2010-2019 average was 2.2...
See the series of Youtube videos "Life where i am From" (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqwxJts-6yF33rupyF_DCsA) by a Canadian who moved to Japan.

There is much that other countries can learn from Japan while steering clear of its faults.
But is is due to prevalence of guns in criminals, militarization of police, outright executions of criminals or simply violent culture - either among criminals or police (or both).
Stupid example, but how many people in the UK shot at the police?
This is another evidence USA system is insane and needs to change.
Surely you’d agree that “keep going” is rather different from “just don’t do it”?
Makes me wonder how an ergonomic phone could be shaped. I imagine placing all content at an angle would be problematic. Anyone have RSI from holding a phone?
References? Have you ever heard of KDAB and other companies supporting Qt on a professional level?
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It rather shows that how people treated the lockdown has a inverse correlation to its fatalities. In countries with a 0.2% fatality people don't take it as serious despite the massive threat campaigns. In countries with a 1% fatality people were really afraid.
>You can pay for software even if it is not proprietary

You can, hardly anyone does though. Donate buttons make a pittance. Nearly all the times I've given one I get back an almost embarrassingly grateful response because A. the amount I give is always a small fraction of the value I've gained and B. it's obviously a rare event for the receiver.
Absolute numbers are meaningless.
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It's a shame really, I both really want to see the technical details from that post-mortem but, at the same time, I don't want to see such an amazing project go.
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