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In my case, that was half a lifetime ago. I'm mid-career now and doubt I'd ever study at a school in France unless maybe it's just for language study.

I'm guessing the OP is in the US if they're talking about Lambda School, but even the full foreigner price for your school looks substantially less expensive than Lambda.
Deferred actions are not explicit at the exit points.

That's quite implicit. You can no longer reason about a local piece of code; you now have to know its lexical nesting up to top level to see if it's inside a guard block that might trigger hidden behavior.
I'm running my own mail server, and I think anyone who has some experience with Linux should be able to do the same in a day or two. Once it's set up it just works.

You can still use Gmail and fall back to connecting directly to your server if Gmail is down.

Some mails might be flagged as spam if the IP/domain has no reputation, but that quickly passes, at least that's my experience.
It's not weird when you see how broken and unserious hiring is just about everywhere in the industry. On top of that the pipeline to hiring entry level/junior programmers is dominated by newly graduated college students, and of those any particular large company with the best salaries is going to prioritize former positively reviewed interns. The intern path is a sweet one if you can take it but is closed to people not part of the college system (and often companies won't take interns until the student has completed their third year).

I do still think it's quite possible to bootstrap a programming career without a degree or any formal certification. In some ways it's easier now than say 15 years ago, in some ways it's harder. But hustling is key. There's hustling on the material you need to learn (which is going to be off-putting to many programmers who started for the joy, not the hustle) but there's more important hustling outside of that which well-meaning advice on e.g. what programming language to learn always misses. It helps to see universities, bootcamps, contracting agencies, consulting/freelancing groups, well-connected recruiters, etc. as all being opportunities that take some of the burden of hustling off of you, deciding which ones to try and take advantage of is then partially dependent on how much you can do yourself. It's not helpful to blanket-recommend anything and even when talking to an individual they need to do their own introspection and surface results of that in order to receive useful targeted advice.
That's an impressive time series and some pretty interesting results. How do you log that? How do you measure productivity?
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Usually it's the other way. I don't know of any studies (although I'm sure they exist) but after a certain size, companies stop being agile. Too much management, too much protecting what they have rather than seeking out the new. And then along comes some small, lean, agile competitor running out of their garage and disrupts them.

Sometimes the large company can buy them. Sometimes, they can copy the idea in time and name recognition carries them through. But it's not uncommon for the big giants to topple when this happens.

Game development seems to be in a weird spot though. Many game devs seem to follow the pattern of making a name for themselves by releasing some hit, leaving, and then making an indie game "by the makers of X". Not going to stop companies like EA from regurgitating the yearly Madden / CoD release or whatever, but it does keep things interesting.
I'm doing that too. I am waiting for Vagrant to install Windows :)
It might also be a simple cases of selecting the in-group for funding rounds. That is, "they're like me, so I'll give 'em cash".
Can I run it with Tokio?
Yeah, downvotes are weird in that way. Comment sections that marks posts and comments with more downvotes than upvotes as "low quality" also seem to encourage "pile-on" behavior.
I wish we could properly account for this negative externality. To me the ideal state for every inch of land is it being a wildlife refuge. To that end I'd love to see a tax that gets charged for using land for anything else. I think it would drive a lot of improvements like vertical farming
Woah it's a crime to flip someone off in a car in Germany? TIL
No. You, as a point of fact, don't know what I'm doing in the bathroom.

* I might be picking a big booger with my pointer finger.

* I might be cleaning my butt in ways which are offensive in your culture, whether using my right hand in the India, without TP in the US, or in a hundred other ways.

* I might be managing a really nasty fungal growth somewhere you can't see.

* I might be pleasing myself.

* I might not be washing my hands after I pee.

* I might be inspecting a polyp for cancer.

* I might be writing "For a good time, call" graffiti, leaving the phone number of your mother/sister/daughter/wife.

* I might be dealing with my period.

... and so on.
Among other sources, microplastics are often used in toothpaste.

Quoted from Colgate's site [1]:

> Because microbeads aren't biodegradable, they pose a significant environmental concern. Research from the New York State Office of the Attorney General shows that microbeads can escape undetected into rivers and oceans after being washed down the drain, since their small size means they often aren't captured by regular sewage treatment systems. The report found that approximately 19 tons of microbeads are washed down New York drains each year!

> The beads can be mistaken as food by fish, birds and other wildlife. When animals fill their stomachs with microbeads, they may spread the plastic up the food chain. This can lead to contamination of the fish we eat, since microplastics soak up pollutants in waterways, according to the Australian Department of Environment and Energy. Once in the environment, microbeads are almost impossible to remove.

[1] https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/brushing-and-floss...
It's not so bad if you obsess over valgrind warnings.
The idea before was at least partly that you get a great deal more structure, feedback and accountability than you do in any university. Now that all seems to have been jettisoned but a learning community with a schedule and a curriculum is worth something. Udemy courses plus a knowledgeable lecturer and a lot of TAs who know the material less well but can solve most problems and a schedule of full time study/building for nine months would absolutely be worth Lambda’s upfront or ISA cost for a lot of people. I paid £10,000 for a Master’s that was basically a textbook subscription service with access to past exam papers and two graded essays per module.
I get the feeling some older VCs are playing out their mid-life crises by vicariously enjoying the lifestyles of their "crazier" founders. Perhaps it would be better for the world if they just bought that motorbike or sports car instead.
It's more utilitarian than that. The power law is a tool for inquisition, you need to verify your assumptions when possible. If you can't, the power law is one of many models which you can apply to seek insight into a system.

A good heuristic for knowing which model to apply is tantamount in absence of a testable environment.
Except when there is no cache warming when you turn it on
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Is such a thing possible? Yes.

Has anybody built it? No :(.

That would totally be the dream though. No reindexing. Pg_search is def fast enough for a large swath of use cases.

What I do is I’ve built a real barebones search controller that connects to Postgres. My controller only lets you search on one attribute, and I use it for autocompletes. Anything more involved, I use typesense.
For me it really depends on what I'm working on.

If it's something I really enjoy doing then going 8+ hours isn't a problem and I'll even feel energized afterwards and catch myself saying stuff like "I know but you need to stop, let's resume tomorrow".

When I'm able to financially afford to spend blocks of time such as working on creating programming related video courses, I've done that type of schedule for 3 months straight multiple times in a row. Basically work like that for 3 months, ship a new course, take a 2 week break and repeat. The only reason I even took those breaks was to reflect on what I learned and figure out how to do things better for the next one.

But when I'm not able to afford doing that and I need to mix in contract work, especially contract work that I feel doesn't help me in the long run because it's doing things I wouldn't necessarily do in my own projects, that shit drains me like nothing else. Just working on stuff like that for 2 hours destroys me for the rest of the day.

That and personally I find that I'm not optimized for juggling many different things at a time. I work best when I can block out large amounts of time and just plow through 1 task instead of chopping up smaller amounts of time to do things in parallel. I think it's because if I don't finish something all I do is compulsively think about it until it's solved, so trying to do that with many concurrent projects leaves me in a constant state of feeling like nothing is ever going to be done which drains me overall.
This doesn't strike me as a very compelling response.

If someone is arguing for dragnet surveillance with the idea that it only really impacts the guilty, and you respond by pointing out that you're innocent so there's nothing to gain by surveilling you, you haven't refuted their position at all.

edit I see we're retreading an exchange (between others) from a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709602
Because life is good.
It takes a long time to scroll to the bottom of bash man page.
> 250x less water

Compared to what exactly and for what crop? Rain is free and is all that is needed for plenty of crops
Nope. Greenhouses use very low grade heat, so they can be run on 'waste heat' from pretty much anything, including server farms. The light they need is a different issue...
I know you’re joking, but I am curious if Waymo’s fleet was affected. Shouldn’t be right? But I’m also surprised every time I fresh login to Gmail and YouTube shows up in the intermediary redirect chain.
Thankyou. Amazing work. I was writing CDP requests by hand the other day.
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>> "[0] unlike this surprise I found on Google satellite view: https://goo.gl/maps/EjD4CNCkQB3aziR97"

I don't think it's "greening the Sahara" so much as "trying to keep the last bits of green." This is on the Nile.
I hear you and understand where you are coming from. This is the reason many websites use cookies and many of these cookies may be functional in that sense.

However a grey line starts to emerge when companies use the argument “tracking to make better recommendations and improve your life in general”. This may be innocuous on the company’s part, eg “we just want to make a better recommendation out of the hundreds, maybe thousands or millions of products we have”. And yes it may improve my life in so far as consumer satisfaction is able to momentarily or even permanently do so.

However there is a weight of responsibility here, which other comments also refer to, and this that in totality the privacy cost may actually be so invasive and so easy to aggregate in the wrong hands, and so difficult for individuals to have control of, that “make better recommendations and improve [consumer] life in general” becomes hard to justify.
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When I first saw defer I thought I'd use it much more. With Rx-type programming it's kind of even more obsolete no?
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I made no comparison between “defer” and the current C situation.

In comparison to RAII, “defer” as a language feature is a kludge. Mainly because RAII completely solves the problem of correct resource cleanup for API users while “defer” does not.
I’ve asked about this before, it’s on their roadmap.
Defer is a jump forward (at error points, to scope end) but it's declared in-line.
Codemasters are ancient! Amazed their still around - I remember some of their ZX Spectrum Games as a kid in the UK
Irrelevant to the discussion, but I just wanted to say thank you for the categorized list of users I can follow on your profile!
You're welcome!

Of course your comment also violates the guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." Reinforcing my claim that violation of the guidelines is the norm here rather than the exception.

My point was that authors of HN submissions are almost always treated with disrespect by HN commenters, and I was citing my repeated personal experience of having been such an author. (I believe the HN moderators are in denial and view the site through rose-colored/orange-colored glasses). I don't view having been #1 on HN to be an "accomplishment". I don't find it useful at all, because I run an independent business, yet being #1 on HN never increases my software sales at all, so it's pretty useless as far as I'm concerned. It just increases my server usage. I've sometimes considered (as I'm sure many people have) simply blocking Hacker News referers on my server. Could still happen...

In fact I finally created an account on HN simply to try to have some "control over the narrative" in HN comments about my own authored articles, because there are often some really dumb misunderstandings in the comments. Not sure it has been worth it though.

Technically, I "lost it" on HN about 3 weeks ago, when I got sick and tired of accurate information being downvoted. The only reason I'm still here now is that I have way too much free time on my hands due to the pandemic/social distancing.
Plants use two (they're probably fine with just one) specific wavelenghts of light, so if you're solar power is broadband you can be saving energy this way.
Why would you automatically assume a hiring manager wants the exact opposite of what he/she claims? I tend to take people at their word.
It's expected that not much embarrassing information would be out in the open under a person's full name.

I have nothing against giving my name to in-person acquaintances, simply because they don't have access to the right resources to dig under the surface of my public image. If they do have access to such resources, I trust them anyway to not pry too hard.
I'm curious, what do you feel meilisearch offers that is better than elasticsearch or solr?
Why is there a special guard keyword? Scope limits are already clear.
I had a similar impression. His most of his tweets veer off topic from education and feel a little forced.
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Yeah, I’m not worried much about it either... it would be a benefit to reduce phosphorus mining in general due to its environmental impact, but even that can probably be addressed in other ways.
It's a shell, I don't necessarily have any pipes from the child. Moreover a child playing games with it's file descriptors shouldn't fool me into thinking it's dead and either cause me to block waiting for it to actually die or move on and never reap it.
Some people hear this and it doesn't click but for me this phrasing of the point articulated a sense of unease of over the idea that "if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide."
KaiserPro had good rebuttals to some of your points[1] so I won't repeat those, but here are some more:

> - 250x less water

Most crops are grown with this thing called "rain" and without any supplemental water. Using just rain means they are part of the natural transpiration and precipitation cycle, so their unnatural water usage is 0.

> transport

Bulk transport is incredibly efficient. IIRC, many food products spend more carbon on transport from the grocery store to home than they do getting to the grocery store. I recall another study showing that it was more carbon efficient buying frozen mutton from New Zealand in London than it was buying local fresh mutton.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415773
I don’t want heroes on my team. It isn’t sustainable. Heroics are discouraged in performance reviews and promotion considerations. Nobody will die if people aren’t working nights and weekends. If I see people engaging in what seems like heroics I will have a very serious chat with them to understand why they are doing it and make absolutely certain that it isn’t coming from any pressure to do so.
Most of the poaching happens (well to me anyway) because the jobs became unbearable. And because it was the only way to get decent salary increases.
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When I worked, I tried to get in 5 billable hours a day. That's all I had the mental energy for. I'd work a little longer than that but anything over 5 hours was gravy.

I know everyone says to bill by the day but I billed by the minute. If a friend called me, I would stop the clock to talk to him. Billing that way I never felt guilty taking a walk or talking to a friend.
In short, it's infrastructure monitoring software. Stuff like CPU, Network, Memory utilization, is this process running, etc.

It's used to set alarms that will go off if "process XYZ is not running on server 123" or "CPU Utilization is over 95% for 15 minutes on server 456" that kind of thing, as well as dashboards.

The special thing about Solarwinds is that it's agentless, meaning you don't have to install an agent on the boxes you want to monitor, I think it uses ICMP to ping the instances you're monitoring.

It's terrible software (compared to say, Datadog) and I've been saying I want to short it for a year. Obviously I should have put my money where my mouth was.
- Post pictures naked ?

- You close the door of the toilets. You do have something to hide (we all know what you're doing. you're hiding anyway)

"I don't need privacy because my actions are questionable, but because your judgment is"
(think dictatures, wrong guys at the top of the decision pyramid, 2nd world war ..)
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I did that for Richard Burns Rally
I don't understand Brave. 'We protect your data! By stealing it ourselves and having less accountability than the larger companies.' Am I missing something? They blatantly collect and use (monetize?) the same data they pretend to protect.
Interesting, the wikipedia right before your quote says that the "journey" "comes from the French journée (day)," as you say, charging for a day of work. But the next paragraph says:

> In parts of Europe, as in Late Medieval Germany, spending time as a wandering journeyman (Wandergeselle),[6] moving from one town to another to gain experience of different workshops, was an important part of the training of an aspirant master.

So I guess at least in some times/places journeymen also did actually journey? Whether wandering or not, I'd think the right to charge a fee for each day's work is also the right to leave at the end of the day if you'd like, having gotten paid. Unlike an apprentice who is tied to his master and does not get paid for a day's work, if he leaves he's out of work entirely.
I think optical waveguide is really interesting for AR (and maybe VR?)

And actually there are some ways that could start to replace laptops and desktops as well as phones.

Also wondering when there is going to be a real competitor for Neuralink. Or if it's just up to Elon to prove everything first.

Another crazy idea might be something you wear on your head that has a microprojector.

Or we just start wallpapering every room with OLED screens so your work follows you as you move around.

I think AI has a ton of potential as far as realizing the dream of the personal assistant.
> They themselves demanded controversial content to be removed

I don't think this is necessarily true. They demanded that their ads are not shown next to controversial content.

An unintended consequence of this is that the definition of 'controversial' is fluid and open to abuse. So if a pressure-group deems your thoughts and opinions 'controversial' you get no ads. And if you get no ads there's no real incentive for YT or whatever to serve your content; they're not charities. Your only other option is to self-host. So advertisers and indirectly control the societal narrative, and that should be troubling.
Take a look at a game called DRAG. It's still in beta, but it has good reviews so far and does have a native Linux version. The devs seem to be pro-Linux. It looks to be very much in the simulation category of racers.
I think lot of people here are going to disagree with me but seems to me there's a case for putting limiters on cars.

Drivers sometimes hit other vehicles. Airbags go a long way here. Sadly, drivers will often hit less fortunate road users such as pedestrians and cyclists.

We already know that pedestrians hit at 30 km/h vs. 50 km/h stand a much better chance to survive. Sadly, cities are rarely designed for 30, and usually more 50+, depending on the city.

Changing cities is, well, possible, but also kind of difficult and unpopular. You know what's easier? Making car manufacturers limit cars' speeds in cities.

It's not technologically difficult. Lots of new cars already read speed signs. Almost all of them have some sort of GPS component.

Geofencing speed limits seems like a pretty easy fix compared to the infrastructure changes of traffic calming (which we should do anyway). You can make it opt-out (and non-trivial enough to do so) so that most new cars on the road have these limits at least in cities.

Does this sound crazy? I'd argue it isn't. Consider that E-bikes/E-scooters are limited to 25km/h in a lot of countries. Similar story with small 50cc scooters. In some places rental E-scooters even have geofenced speed limits already, and the Netherlands is considering a similar plan for E-bikes (ones owned by ordinary citizens).
"It's a niche genre that requires a specialized physics engine"

That will be a big problem as EA tends to push all its companies to use the Frostbite engine.
Would you say you're most alert in the morning or the evening?

I've always found myself alert and energised in the evening, and sluggish and unalert for the first few hours after waking. I'd be very surprised if my productivity drops exponentially in the evening. My partner on the other hand is most alert in the morning and loathes doing anything complicated after dinner.
Welp, as a new grad there, I had brought down one very important database server on a Sunday night (a series of really unfortunate events). Multiple senior DBAs had to be involved to resuscitate it. It started functioning normally just a few hours before market open in HK. If it was any later, it would have been some serious monetary loss. Needless to say, I was sweating bullets. Couldn't eat anything the entire day lol. Took me like 2 days to calm down. And this was after I was fully shielded cuz I was a junior. God knows what would've happened if someone more experienced had done that.
Reading the PDF, I got the impression that the main thing in favor of using a guard keyword is that it would allow it to be implemented as a library. That way it wouldn't require changes to compilers and it might also be possible to adopt into the C++ standard. However, the version without the guard keyword is arguably more ergonomic.
Every iteration under Moore laws gets costlier (roughly by 1 order of magnitude costly than the previous iteration, iirc). So sooner of later, well run out of money evn if theoretical potential remains to be exploited.

And current status of research in physics doesn't give me hope that some affordable breakthrough is coming soon.
Richard Burns Rally is still played today. Unfortunately due to Codemaster's requirement for RaceNet, Dirt Rally 2.0 will not see the same longevity. CM should remove this requirement before the EA acquisition. EA has a long history of shutting down online services required to play games.