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It may sound nice in theory but never works in practice. I've been doing Salesforce administration/development for about 5 years. They almost invented badge system followed by certification. On their trailhead platform,there are so many of those that it could take a couple of years to complete. They also have about 25 different certificates, varying from junior admin all the way to architect level. There are so many people out there who have 10-15 certs without even seeing the platform properly because they meemorised mock tests and etc. That's why interviewers rarely rely on certification and they are usually no more than a box ticking exercise.

Edit:
Even though I'm sceptical about certificate value in recruitment process,I strongly recommend spending some time poking around Salesforce Trailhead website. They are pushing it very heavily, most collateral is very slick, a lot of PR explaining that people can go out and learn how to use it. Recently Microsoft started offering very similar platform by copying most of it. It's an excellent example how company attracts people to learn, as opposed to something like SAP,where you can't learn shit without having it at work.
If Racket had packages functionally equivalent to the ones on the JVM that I can't live without (Selenium, JGraphX, ...) I would start learning it right away. However sticking to the JVM and Kawa I get a vaguely similar typed/untyped experience except for the un-lispyness of Java. Usually when I write a script I make a new Java project that also pulls the dependencies and then embed Kawa (or jshell/ammonite jupyter server) for interactivity. Between the pom.xml and the code itself embedding Kawa (or jshell/ammonite) in a java program is like 10 lines at most.
If you can ever pick up the book Fly Pushing in some library (or if you're rich just buy), it's a great read about drosophila handling and genetics that is fascinating even if you don't intend to work with them. And they constantly bash worm people. The two are at odds with each other and it's an age-old battle. I'm constantly torn between the two organisms though. Some of the most "pleasurable" science I have done I did with these creatures.
Thanks for the elaboration. I think I came from the perspective of a programmer myself, and I consider myself quite a capable programmer. However business-wise, all from idea to execution (i.e., marketing, finance, law, customer support) etc is very lacking. I know I'm not alone in this, and there are a few of friends in my circle that go to get a Business degree (MBA) to learn more about business and make connections.

How do you yourself find what to sell, and educate yourself in that domain specific knowledge on that particular business?
Not really. In Go you can `val, _ := func()` and use the value even if there is an error. AFAIK there is no equivalent in Rust (for Option) outside of unsafe shenaniganry. You can choose to panic / return err / etc, but you can't choose to use the value regardless of the presence of an error.
Isn't there a story about how a supercomputer used a macbook just to display a nice the logo on the door - and for nothig else?
I thought that was one of the features of Coursera. At least for some courses you join a cohort and all progress at the same pace: if you have questions you'll be asking them on the forums and getting answers from the same fellow students every week. Sometimes there's also peer grading where you review assignments for others.

Of course, they also try to make it so you can take the course at your own pace and for less popular courses there may be no one working through it at the same time as you. There's never going to be quite the same level of peer accountability/motivation as in an in-person class.
I visited the country a couple of years ago, and a thing that puzzled me was why almost all the cars were white. Do you know why this is?

Some said it was because it is better at keeping the cars cool, but this doesn't explain why surrounding Kazakhstan/Tajikistan/etc had different color cars.

The best explanation I heard was the president liked white cars, so only allowed white cars to get made. This seems most plausible to me, and seems like similar things happened in Turkmenistan: https://www.motor1.com/news/226932/turkmenistan-president-ba...
Pay may go down a bit. I don't have a source off hand but a huge portion of medical expense are due to administrator bloat, doc pay is much smaller. Ideally the regulations and billing gets simpler cutting that bloat. Regardless many docs advocate for better healthcare despite lower pay. I don't have data to say most, but my experience has been that in a conservative part of the US.

The NP/PA practice is also a growing concern amongst doctors. Those groups are advocating for independent practice despite reduced training.

I'll admit, I'm a fairly stereotypical introvert tech guy and tend to judge people more than I should. Talking to patients has a way of shifting your views. I used (and I suppose still do a bit) to judge alcoholics, drug users, and other preventable conditions. But you realize how they really are a result of social or medical circumstance and I think for that reason many doctors are willing to sacrifice some pay. Hell I went into medicine for the security and money (mostly, plus more academic stimulation than software), as taboo as that is, and I'd be ok with it.

That said I think specialty medicine pay is fairly safe. Fact is supply is limited, right thing or not.
> there are no big cats native to France

I didn't mean a big feline. I meant literally a big cat. Something with a head that looks remarkably more similar to that of a domestic cat rather than a dog's.
yeah...who needs radical thinking and left wing ideology that created the 40-hr workweek, overtime pay, the weekend, paid vacations, etc
If you'd like some feedback there's one/two things that stood out to me.

When you click on the pricing page your navigation bar becomes a mobile style one, those are usually only shown if the screen width is small like on mobile.

When you click on the live demo page you get a back button top left thing that seems like it belongs to a mobile app, on a desktop where the screen is wider this design choice seems a bit odd.

I'm guessing this stuff comes from still being in a bit of a learning phase with Vue or some library you're using. Otherwise great site, just something to look at in case you want to improve on it.
> That being said, Coursera is doing a great service for humanity, and I hope they succeed.

Better than the Wikimedia Foundation? Last time I checked, they were asking for donations.
There is no perception of scarcity in the market of online certification so they carry little weight.

That doesn’t mean you don’t gain valuable knowledge but it’s unlikely to be in demand from an employer.
https://www.backcountry.com/kuhl-silencr-kargo-short-mens?sk...

This is an example using the same exact design they display
Ancient humans did not have a continuous supply of food, refrigerators, enriched foods, supplements. They would regularly have to choose between eating decomposed food or starve.

Iodine consumption alone is responsible for a moderate IQ boost (15 points). And if you start making nutrition worse, you will see more cognitive impact.

During pregnancy, they could not go to the doctor and get their blood tested and given dietary supplements. And newborns did not have access to baby formula when the mother's milk supply was insufficient. These factors can also result in lower IQ.

Humans mixed with neanderthals because they had an immunological advantange. Anatomically modern humans inhabited Africa, Neanderthals inhabited other regions. Neanderthal territories had different pathogens that Neanderthals were better prepared to deal with, so the humans that mixed with neanderthals were healthier that the ones that did not. Eventually most neanderthal genes not related to immunity were knocked out from the gene pool by natural selection.
I've taken a few courses on Coursera, including the deep learning specialization, and I thought the material was great. However, I noticed that in courses with ~5 hours of video, quizzes, and a project, the average completion times were measured in minutes. Based on this, I assume most people who received certificates cheated and didn't take the course, though I'm very much open to alternate hypotheses.
Summary from the reddit post (written by reddit user Tomlacko):

Minecraft@Home is a volunteer distributed computing project powered by BOINC allowing users to volunteer their idle computers to help advance Minecraft-related research, one of which was this panorama project. In less than 24 hours after launching the panorama application; a volunteer host on Minecraft@Home found this seed. This was approximately 93 days of processing time at a total of 54.5 exaFLOPs compressed into 24 hours. Another ongoing project is search for the tallest cactus (currently we have found a 22 block high one!).

Github: https://github.com/minecrafthome/b1.7_seedfinder

Same team is also working on a much harder problem which is determining the seed of a screenshot included with the Minecraft distribution. There is a nice video about current progress here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7f9tMslVE There are so many reverse engineering tricks done to reduce the 2^64 possible seeds, such as training a neural network with the specific job of upscaling minecraft screenshots.
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The modern zeitgeist appears to disregard individualism in exchange for group identity. Thus by having diversity of group identities you are supposedly getting diversity of thought. Each group bringing their own backgrounds and experiences, with all members within a group adhering to the narrative of said group. I find the whole thing exceedingly racist but even that term has been redefined so here we are.

By focusing on diversity like this you are elevating these immutable characteristics beyond the importance of individuality, pre-judging what people will bring to a team based on things like skin color or gender. It seems like racism has just gone full circle. I'm sure I will get downvoted to hell as this is a very unpopular take.
I meant 2 weeks a month! I wish in a year :)

People also bring up malpractice but a good employment contract will include that with tail coverage.
Maybe making the player part of a DDOS botnet? That's all I can think of.

The only consumer electronic in my house I allow to talk to the internet is the AppleTV. Nothing else is allowed on the router. Not the TV. Not the disc player. Not the refrigerator. Not even the "smart" thermostat.
Propaganda, advertising, and politics (arguably all the same thing) absolutely have access to the funds for this.

Facebook and Google, the biggest investors in state of the art ML are advertising companies. Their customers have the funds to do this independently.
We don't do live challenges. First interview, we bring the applicant up to speed on what our company does. Our market and products, and then our technology, dev processes & tools. We look for how much they've studied us before they interview, what kind of questions they ask, how are they interpersonally, where are their interests as evidenced by where they spend their time outside of work. If that seems to go well, we send them home with a set of 5 coding tasks. They are to choose one, use their preferred language, and code it. We ask for about 100 lines of code and not to spend more than 2 hours. The tasks are all different, but all of them are directly relevant to the type of software we develop (embedded industrial control systems).

They take as many days as they need, then come back and conduct a code review of their code with our team. This shows us how they approach coding, how they think through problems, how well they communicate their thinking, how much curiosity they have about the their own solution, how they respond to criticism.

We like this approach because it is much more reflective of how developers actually work than white board or academic type testing. It tells us where their intellectual focus is, their level of humility about learning from others. Surprisingly, what they can teach us. We've had young applicants stump 30-year veterans, which was awesome.

So far, we've had nothing but very strong hires with this approach, and the applicants have all said they very much appreciated how we roll.
What do you mean root hormone atop a cutting? On the leaves as opposed to the open stem?
That’s the picture I’m getting after doing a little research on them, the number of similar complaints was enough to make me chicken out of using them.
Thats a very interesting paper. Thank you.
It was always on the radar for me so I just worked for a few years and applied.

I do know people who were engineers for a decade plus, and they had to do a year of coursework (special medicine program) before applying to med school.

If it's something you personally are interested in, happy to talk more.
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You're blowing my mind. You just made me look up cargo pants on wikipedia.

Apparently cargo pants have "patch pockets", which I guess is the difference.
A percentage fee, or even a per-user fee, would push me to do it by myself. A bad login mechanism takes a couple of hours to be integrated. A well done one, could take maybe a week (very well done, 1 dev, extreme case), but a percentage fee for any kind of decent revenue would reach that same cost within a year.
I see this working maybe for a single dev shop, but then you might prefer saving every cents you want.

Paying a fixed fee might work, but if you start charging per single user, it's problematic. I can see some value if it's per bundle of users (e. G. Every 10 users the pricing increases)
> but it’s facing a lot of opposition from people concerned with strain on small businesses.

Wouldn't it make more sense to say that every couple can collectively take the previous duration of maternity leave? So, if it used to be 16 weeks, make that into a bucket that each parent can spend as they see fit. Each parent could take 8 weeks, or the man could take the entire 16 weeks with the woman returning to work immediately, etc.

Maybe there's other reasons why the length should be extended or what have you—I'm not familiar with the situation—but this is how you'd correct a sexist policy in a way that shouldn't make businesses any worse off.
Just curious what company is that if you don’t mind sharing
I don't care if you followed a two month course by Joel Grus on Fizzbuzz and graduated magna cum laude. I care if you can actually code Fizzbuzz.

Coursera courses on your resume, is like listing your Microsoft Office skills. It would be noteworthy, if for some reason, you can't find your way around MS Office, or can't pick it up in a weekend.
I just checked, I already own a pair like this. The pocket is horizontal, not slanted, and the pants are dark grey slacks. The pocket is only on the right side. It fits a smaller sized cell phone or a money clip. They were bought at a thrift store for maybe $10, so I've no idea on retail prices. I can't say I ever use that pocket, but more than a handful of times maybe. When I put my keys in there, they bang against my knee and make a weird bulge when I sit down and cross my legs. Fit is super important here. Either that or very lightweight and small objects. I'd rather just have deeper 'normal' side pockets.

What am I missing here?
I’ve done it as a new grad because I didn’t have much to put on there. I think it definitely adds value. It shows them you’re intrinsically motivated to improve your skills.
I don't get it at all. Nothing stops you from writing you code in your own language in most other prog langs (as long as it has unicode support). The reason a lot of us chose to write in English is because we want to share our code and English is the most universal lang we have right now. As a non native English speaker I most definitely see the problem in this but it is also an imperfect world and communication is one of those problems which will never have a perfect solution.

Programming languages should imo from the offset be steps ahead of this. They have simple rules that can be parsed despite understanding the subjectives. I could probably understand some rust code written in mandarin after studying it for a while. In our line of work it is important with clear communication. Spoken languages are not good ways of accomplishing that.
Right, when I care, the requirements is just some 4yr, accredited uni. But, mostly I don't care about that either. Experience is my key metric. And for entry level (which I do a lot of) it's about a code profile and showing you can hack stuff together.
This is best posed as a more specific question. The answer depends on your background bad skills, generally being, find something that people have to do repeatedly at a price point where they can see the money / time benefit.
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> ... and I would argue has been to the detriment of the State of California.

I am suspicious of all of California's policies, your opinions and the apparent link between direct democracy and material success (Switzerland and California both being synonymous with outrageous wealth).

If the US just tried direct democracy without heavy modification the complaints would be thunderously louder than they are now. No question. The oligarchs would be furious and the media would never shut up. What would actually happen on the ground is unclear.
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Another potential point of interest that I remember is that in the Zig 0.5.0 release notes, where UEFI support is mentioned [1], they provide a few links relating to UEFI programming with Zig:

uefi-examples - tutorials https://github.com/nrdmn/uefi-examples

uefi-paint - UEFI-bootable touch paint app https://github.com/nrdmn/uefi-paint

uefi-freetype - changing the system BIOS to use Comic Sans https://github.com/nrdmn/uefi-freetype https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1176561072398098432

[1]: https://ziglang.org/download/0.5.0/release-notes.html#UEFI-S...
> Maybe making the player part of a DDOS botnet?

This only works if the player is connected to the internet, which shouldn't be necessary to begin with.
>> You make this whole mythology up about how the fish are. I'm not sure why. Yes they are black.

Funny that the one in your picture isn't. The lighting is so poor in that photo. There is more shadow than illumination, and many parts of the fish are definitely not black.

Proper black looks more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY4YX-ofE60
It's a bit chicken and an egg situation: if one has a degree, nobody ever asks about it except the very first job after graduation. So any course in addition to your normal degree will matter more because of what was learnt rather than the certificate at the end. Now for those without degrees taking coursera courses hoping they'll land a job,it may take more than just 2-3 courses, especially for the first job.
Also,it depends a lot on the market: certain countries are obsessed with certifications and will be very happy if candidates can provide them,so cultural context can't be dismissed completely.
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Per capita, that is true. I mostly picked cities off the top of my head by how they are reported in the media, since we are discussing people's perceptions of gun violence.

Also, I think I meant to write Baltimore instead of Boston, but I think the point stands regardless.
Yes. Pro-Slavery Democracy cat is out of the bag.
I know people who freely admit (at least to me) of speeding through the courses and just getting the cert.

I have also done it for various unwanted corporate training. :)

So that hypothesis makes sense.
I use this too but have already extended it a lot. What I don't really understand is what the Foam extension itself does (I think nothing yet?!).

I'm not interested in publishing so I instead focused on adding extensions for things like tags (to get closer to the Zettelkasten principle) and more features like graphs (e.g. using mermaid). I would recommend installing 'Markdown Preview Enhanced' to really improve the experience.
There are some Brazilian researchers in the process of mapping the whole genome of some samples collected and frozen back in November 2019 that they believe to be SARS-CoV-2.

It will be interesting to see how that compares to a Wuhan sample and see if it had most of the novel features of COVID-19, but is maybe missing one thing like how it binds to ACE2 which is probably implicated in all the cardiovascular issues it causes.
Posting this because it's a great overview of vaccines in general and some candidates in the pipeline.
I published a response today to the sudden hype urging people to temper their expectations for GPT-3 a bit: https://minimaxir.com/2020/07/gpt3-expectations/

GPT-3 is objectively a step forward in the field of AI text-generation, but the current hype on VC Twitter misrepresents the model's current capabilities. GPT-3 isn't magic.
Audio doesn't work for me, but if you have a written source I would be curious to see it.
>It's about social justice and corporate citizenship. Viewpoint heterogenity and other arguments of private benefit have always been secondary arguments.

it's more akin to a sales tactic

compare the shift in preeminence from "free software" to "open source." the pioneers make a moral/ideological argument why doing such-and-such thing is an imperative, get visibility and carve out a niche, but don't achieve mass adoption. bit later, the strivers show up and argue such-and-such actually just makes good business sense, and this proves interesting and palatable enough to get fully institutionalized

or, say, the shift from "gay liberation" to "gay rights." the argument in the 60s and 70s was that we're inherently subversive entities whose lifestyles by their very nature go against the status quo. by the 00s the dominant line is if only we had these and those legal rights, the final obstacles to our complete willing assimilation into the status quo!

as "diversity" continues its transition from ideal championed by believers to administrative function served by a professional class, it will continue to mutate in a way that benefits those who implement it
An individual in what context?
A lot of companies value some sort of deliberate continuing education. I doubt that MOOC certificates are worth all that much--maybe with the exception of micro-master type of things from name institutions.
In this vein and previously discussed on HN[1], but there is a weird DX3D bridge in Linux that is available on WSL2. Still not "cross-platform" and seems to mostly exist to support ML workloads for Windows users.

1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23241040
For those responding to the title or first half of the article, you are missing the point!

Edit: the comments that are reacting to the article's content are from people who didn't read it to the end, wow.
I think the mistake could be assuming that empty "from" statement would not match any routes while in reality deactivating everything inside "from" statement removes it altogether and makes the term match all routes which is indeed somewhat unexpected.
People should do some research about the etymology of words.
In Java (among others), you can use any unicode names. Yes, reserved words stay the same ("if", "public", etc), but most of the code still reads like native.

Also I've seen business ERP languages, completely localized. Those who program on them usually laugh on it, they say it's not hard at all to get used to English keywords, business logic is what's hard. Even better, the fact it's English means it's built-in.
There could be scarcity if few people could successfully complete the certification. The problem is whether it is trustworthy though.