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I just recently accepted my first Software Development position. Copy pasting from another post but this is basically how I did it:

2015 - Graduated with BA in History.

2018 - Started self teaching how to program, got an office job and automated everything I could.

2019 - Took four semesters of night classes to meet the math per-requisites for my local CS program.

2020 - Took a butt load of CS classes while working.

2021 - Finally convinced my company to let me help the software team (part-time).

July 2021 - Partner gets job out of state, apply for dev jobs in that city even though I hadn't finished my degree.

August 2021 - After a long interview process, accepted an offer for my very first software development job!

Books that really helped: The Players Guide to C# by RB Whitaker, Learn to Program by Chris Pine
HAProxy vulnerability enables HTTP request smuggling attacks
I spent an almost pathological amount of time reading this site as a teenager in the later half of the 90s. It's really cool it is still online.

This is what peak websites look like: packed full of information written in text with images. Nothing needing to be executed, function over form, and incredibly long lasting and robust.
I literally pointed out externalities you were missing.

Its hopeless conversation.
Aliexpress in Dutch is lovely!

Plenty of items on Aliexpress can be shipped from multiple locations. "China" is almost always one of the options. Well, in Dutch they've translated that to "Porselein". That is a valid translation, if you are talking about plates and dishes made from porcelain)

I wonder how actively harmful this bad translation is to their business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_(material)

screenshot: https://fransdejonge.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screensh...
It is a tough feeling to see someone else's design for a library that would be literally perfect for my needs, but I'm unable to use it because of the license, so I have to spend weeks implementing my own inferior version while carefully avoiding making the code too similar to what I happen to remember.

I'm past believing that I'm smart enough to always be able to come up with/reimplement a competent enough solution for all my needs by myself every time. But copyright still has to be respected.

When I'm forced into that situation from licensing issues, it really makes me feel like my skillset primarily revolves around gluing together other people's well-designed code, and being left to my own devices exposes my weakness in implementing something from scratch.
No, it's not. An education at Random State College is still rather more than "employee training".
Agreed. The title sounds like Amazon will pay any college tuition, provided the student incurs a cost of some sort.

This seems like more of a PR move than anything.
The main point of this article seems to be to highlight the 20 million requests per second arbitrary metric.

Otherwise the bullet points are about the functionality in place in the infected clients. The port is likely a detection metric for infected clients.
>The cost of PLA is about $2/kg, or equivalent to about $600/tonneCO2. About how much Climeworks currently costs for direct air CO2 capture.

It's probably even better than that, if the PLA cost is for ready-to-use PLA, because presumably dirty/unprocessed PLA costs even less.
>"We launched Career Choice almost ten years ago to help remove the biggest barriers to continuing education—time and money—and we are now expanding it even further to pay full tuition and add several new fields of study.”

They acknowledge the two key constraints but aside from one program for AWS that supposedly provides on the job training, they failed to mention how they helped on the time aspect, only money. 40 hours at Amazon from my anecdata seems highly optimistic, it's probably 50 for many.

I'm highly cyninical of any of these such programs. The last thing I want is a privatized business like Amazon trying to educate and having incentives to lock people into their ecosystem at a fundamental level such as education. Education should acknowledge the downsides of Amazon as well as the upsides and I doubt you'll see much of any of the former.

On a likely related note, I had 4 Amazon recruiters contact me in the past two days which is higher than normal (at least, for me) even after I've told multiple recruiters I'm not interested in working at Amazon until they have a shift in how they treat their labor culture. Frankly I'm not even a good fit for most the types of development Amazon is interested in.

My, again, cynical view here from anecdata of Amazon employees is that Amazon is struggling more than most to hire in tech careers, largely because they've turned off many who have other options. Higher pay to many isn't worth higher associated stress and instability. This looks like a new flailing attempt to plug the hole or perhaps set the stage to request special exemptions or drastic increases on H1B programs to again try and drive down labor rates while also help meet their demand.
As others have pointed out, it's not too bad in your early 20's. I worked full time, went to school part time, then to another part time job. Mainly because my local didn't offer evening full time schools, and well, I needed money more.

What's odd is that it didn't even feel like much of a chore. You stayed so busy things just kinda flew by.

Thinking about doing that now completely stresses me out.
Thank you! I prefer native applications for the same reasons. Whenever we hear advocacy of web apps, it’s always from devs about dev problems. “I don’t have to learn more than one language!” and “Distribution is easier!” and “no AppStore rules!” and “It’s easier to monetize + no sharing revenue with the store vendor!” and “I don’t have to worry about supporting multiple versions floating around!” These are all developer problems, not user’s problems. I think we are shifting to more web based software simply because users really don’t have much pull—they take whatever junk is available.
Wind-powered vehicle that drives downwind faster than wind speed: analysis
Play Funny Thing Happened on Way to Forum used lots of these jokes. Still funny.
Good. Western Union sucks. If there was ever an entity that needs to be destroyed by modern tech even crypto it’s those money sucking lames.
Yeah, most expensive choice, unless you count externalities of coal.
> At what point is a person a person? "at birth" seems arbitrary

All lines dividing up creation into named categories and entities are arbitrary.

That one is arbitrary is not an argument against it and in favor of a different (and equally arbitrary) one.
They run anything that can target WebAssembly (so Erlang would be waiting on Lumen).
This announcement is more that the is now a idiomatic Rust API; you could already run Rust workers fine.
Rust in peace, Anna.
The trailer was bad(ly done and implemented, wrong music choice etc), but holy shit HYPE!
Schopenhauer is a twisted firestarter. See picture.
Did you learn on an amiga, or did you build on another platform? What tools did you use?
You would generally do part time undergrad and full time work.
A $500 won't even get you proper training or a certification from the vendor of that massive tool and/or service that your business relies on, that's why it goes unused. It's large enough that you feel like blowing it on a Coursera course or a book feels too little and small enough not to be of actual importance.
That point is incorrect given he's not meeting the standard of "published" in real journals.
Sounds like a fantastic initiative. Kudos to Amazon. However, I still think that something like college education should be a government priority rather than a company benefit.
How is this post any different from the ones you linked?
I know the technical aspects I was just curious what they were allowed to do legally.

Are they legally allowed to force someone to implement nonexistent functionality?
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This year with the labor shortage has shown we need more "basic" employees getting a livable wage than a country full of college educated students chasing white collar positions
Bilal here, I’m working with Chris on v2.

Caddy providers benefits compared to Nginx, like

- Out of the box SSL certificates

- REST api for providing configuration

- A vibrant plugin ecosystem to extend traditional web server functionality

- Easier setup for load balancer

We are quite happy with the results so far.
How do devs ask to get offers in writing? It's always been verbal in all the interviews I've had, and they're resistant to putting things in emails.
Maybe it depends on gcc so it can use gcc's assebler for inline assembly?
I'm starting to wonder if Bitcoin's extremely high fees are a feature and not a bug, at least for national governments. Sure, you can spend $10 to send $5 with your non-custodial wallet... or, you can just let your friendly government institution hang on to those Bitcoins for you, and then your transactions are free.
Couldn't find a definitive source for this. Wikipedia states it was a neighbour who wouldn't leave his entrance so he pushed her out of the way. She then sued him claming she was violently assauled, had become paralyzed, and was unable to work. He was found guilty and he paid her pension 15 years until she died.
This looks like the right approach: giving context to the translation strings.

Many translation tools give the locations in the code where a string is used. It's a first step, though translators are not always able to read code.
very cool. does this work with celery/redis?
HN also seems very positive about Proton. Interesting that they aren't always negative about electron.
Don't the elite universities already tend to have generous financial aid programs? For example, Harvard waives tuition for families with <$65k/year income.
This seems... not hard. For non-recyclables, just use the same recycling symbol, but put a diagonal bar through it, like on a no-smoking sign. And then provide whatever info you want underneath, same as when it's recyclable.
Yes, that is true. The Animatrix is a great film, and The Second Renaissance is in my opinion the single greatest piece of animation to have ever been created.
Another concern: If your app/website is available in a language, customers will expect support in that language.
It's not used by Netflix/Youtube/etc so it's not important to Mozilla's current leaders.
Here's a quick and dirty DIY system:

1. Create 10 files of encrypted random data. Discard the passwords.

2. Replace a random selection of these files with encrypted fake data, using different passwords for each one.

3. Replace one file with the actual encrypted data.

If challenged, openly share this scheme you used with your opponent. Under durress give up the passwords to the fake data files. Insist that one fake data file is the real data and that the keys to all the other files were discarded.
In my job I sometimes have to do with rollouts of a centrally maintained software to subsidiaries in other countries. Translation is often done by simply sending a Excel file with all string identifiers and their English value to a key user in that country, and maybe they translate it themselves, maybe they give it to some agency. So we can be 100% sure that now, there will be several additional rounds for them to figure out what the string is really supposed to mean versus what they initially thought it would mean.

Yes, we improved on this somewhat. In the last rounds they got access to the software in English beforehand, and there are now also access keys to press to see the string id for any label in the app. It is still a very time consuming process, and I love it when a rollout is done to a country where we can just say, consumer facing texts get translated, our employees all speak English well enough to use this as is.
> On a likely related note, I had 4 Amazon recruiters contact me in the past two days which is higher than normal (at least, for me) even after I've told multiple recruiters I'm not interested in working at Amazon until they have a shift in how they treat their labor culture. Frankly I'm not even a good fit for most the types of development Amazon is interested in.

They must be desperate. They’re the closest thing to a tech company that has recruiters send me a message and the only FAANG that ever would contact me.

That being said the recruiter messages always feel robotic and impersonal, even worse than the keyword dumps from guys shilling there shitty low paid c2h enterprise roles. I just ignore them. Not interested in the FAANG interview circus anyway.
Depends on what is meant by 'global civilisation', but it has happened several times in many countries during the 20th century. The US has been immune to events like that throughout its short history, so there seems to be a very strong sense of "can't happen here", but it can. These things happen and people live through them. It's not a collapse you'd see in a Hollywood movie, in real life it is more mundane.

Just look at what happened with the collapse of the USSR, for example - that was just 30 years ago and affected a massive part of the world. Hyperinflation, many people had to resort to small-scale farming to feed themselves, specialists and academics with advanced degrees had to become taxi drivers and many older people had to resort to dumpster diving to survive. Crime of all sorts went way up. All sorts of factories/organisations/societies/buildings were near abandoned/were sold off for scrap and became derelict.
xhk (etc). Nice spotting. You saved someone from drownig.
Since when do people think of 4-year degrees when they think of "employee training"?
I think the core goal is to have one machine-readable source of truth for your API. You can write docs, the API interface, API input validation, API correctness tests, performance tests, and 10 per-language SDKs & clients all by hand, but then they very quickly get out of sync, and nobody knows which is 'right'. If you write docs as prose, good luck keeping it updated when management wants it translated into 10 languages and the API changes every week.

Meanwhile, at least in theory, with a good central spec you can generate at least the docs & much of this code, or alternatively automatically validate custom implementations & real traffic to get immediate warnings if there are discrepancies.

There's a lot of power in formal specifications.

That is all dependent on tooling though. OpenAPI is far ahead in that respect, and can achieve this goal for most HTTP APIs & a huge list of languages (see https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator) pretty effectively. AsyncAPI is much newer though, and I think the ecosystem is still quite small, but hopefully they'll get there too eventually.
TOTP two factor authentication protected me. They attacked my recovery email to go for my primary, at the time my recovery provider didn't offer 2FA. I think they may have social engineered the recovery with my SSN (it was a randomly generated password). Then they used the recovery provider to buy time by adding 2FA options, I began recovering within a minute. It was impressive how quickly they worked, they tried to compromise 5 other accounts in 3 minutes. Unfortunately for them, all of the accounts they targeted from that point on had 2FA, and they lost access in 15 minutes.
WW is looking for a 100% Remote Back end Software Engineer II
Typo in the very first sentence: yourhiring
> Do you mean "suspected of committing a crime"?

No, mere suspicion is not sufficient for arrest.

> "Probable cause" relates to searching or entering private property.

It also relates to arrest. The Fourth Amendment provision applying the standard explicitly applies to searches and seizures of persons, houses, and effects. Arrest is seizure of one’s person.
Of course Dartmouth won't. Why would Amazon pay ridiculous amount of money for the same education you can get much cheaper somewhere else? (e.g., Coursera or many state universities). This program is about people gaining useful skills to advance their careers, not about fancy diplomas and networking. Do you think that Dartmouth or any elite school can better teach someone intro to coding than thousands of other legit places?

Update: this is getting downvoted. I guess many Dartmouth graduates here with ego...
Wait, does plastic really turn back into oil over time? How much time are we talking about here?
I don’t believe that logic is universal.

For example greenhouse gas emissions were not realised to be harmful for something like 146 years (from the beginning of the industrial revolution)
I like to think of it as: insurance = risk pooling = “socialism”, whereas markets = information pooling = “capitalism”, and risk is simply the negative of information.
Yeah it can deal with symbolic memory. As long as the memory allocation is fixed size the contents can be fully or partially symbolic. We also support symbolic addresses for allocations to ensure that pointer arithmetic is fully tested.

We're currently simulating a lot of the underlying system at the C std library level. For a number of reasons we'd like to lower this to the raw syscall and assembly level. This would allow any lib C implementation to be tested along with the application code, and we may even be able to simulate threading and the file system. Syscalls could be made symbolic along with files by treating the entire system symbolically, but obviously this is a lot of work so it's something that we're gradually building towards.
looks like they will do anything to avoid paying their employees properly
I recall after WW2 Japan was desperate for $$, so they had a huge export push. The trouble was crappy quality. Japanese and US industry suggested they adhere to the Deming quality control process, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
They did, as did Korea after them, but Taiwan and India did not. After a few years Japanese and Korean quality increased dramatically.
China is learning this lesson. After mosst buyers buy some disappointing crap on line, they shear away, and shift buying to transhippers who buy in bulk in China and warehouse in the USA. They soon come to grips and choke off the crap - some persists. I expect a lot of this decrease in online China purchases is due to this. China gets steadily better, year by year, so the USA rest of world need to smarten up.
The Chinese wage scale is so low by US standards that this is easy to win in this game. The Chinese currency needs to approach parity with the US$ in terms of same wages for same job. China deliberately keeps their currency down. Duties and the World Trade Org are gradually rectifying this. China now must pay developed country postage = a lot more than the underdeveloped country postage rate they had for a long time - this also explains the reduced imports..
QM works even if there are no humans or other subjective "observers". Any theory of QM that involves subjective observers for wavefunction collapse is quantum woo.
In a war many thermonuclear weapons would be targeted at hardened military structures and so detonate close to the ground to maximize local pressure. In a scenario like that you'll get a large amount of fallout just from neutron activation of what was once the ground and the bomb casing won't expecially matter.
I have read the leaks which are apparently accurate and have matched up with the trailer and teaser. I’m so disappointed. Imagine what could have been done with this. There were several iterations of the matrix according to the lore, and each one of those offered an opportunity to host a whole new story with a whole new protagonist while maintaining all the tropes and themes that made matrix 1 and 2 so good — all while staying true to the lore!

The bread and butter of the matrix is represented by the château scene in matrix 2. It is the epitome of tight computer-accelerated action. Such an amazing and elegant sequence. Maybe I missed it but I didn’t see enough of that in the trailer. And based on everything I know, the movie is a meta critique commentary thing. I don’t like that.
Scientists win $3M 'Breakthrough Prize' for mRNA tech behind Covid-19 vaccines
Maybe the OS and everything we run today will be considered "lightweight" 50 years from now...
Can I blow it on books? That sounds like enough for two of the ridiculously overpriced books I constantly eye.
Stable coins scare the hell out of me. Yes, they are stable, but for that convenience you get a non-zero chance that they will instantly go to zero.
It's not done using dynamic SQL tables.

The key insight is to note that FIELDS table actually defines the name, ordering, and config for each of the fields of a given note type, and that the actual notes data is stored in the Notes table in the DATA column, most likely as JSON.
Get punished anyway because "only bad people have things to hide" would be my guess. It's a shame we even need to have plausible deniability in the first place.
And if you were an asshole, no-one would like you, too.
It's pretty similar to a Star Trek Voyager episode

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thaw_(Star_Trek:_Voyager...
My kids (12, 14) watched the Matrix for the first time recently and loved it.

They thought the two sequels were, less, and much less.

Will this be fresh, or rehash?
Urban Warfare as the Great Leveller
how is this against the rules?

its literally the article title
Brenthuisman/par2deep: Produce, verify and repair par2 files recursively
Is this a signal that 2022 will be the year of DESKTOP LINUX?
Honestly, it's fucking complex, which doesn't help it's adoption or popularity. I've been throwing away my previous life for nearly a year in reading, watching, and listening to all manner of news, deep dive explanations, technical analysis, price predictions, "fundamentals" definitions, pundit commentary, etc, as well as participating, in non-financially-ruinous-risking ways, in trading, swapping, DeFi, yield farming, lending, (not borrowing).

It's difficult to define what I've learnt, and maybe that's indicative in the opposite way than I'd like.

You have to dip your toe in to check the temperature.

I've known of Bitcoin since it was $1, and was very skeptical of it until I dipped my toe in. Both my feet are wet now though, right up to my knees.

I believe cryptocurrency has a bright future. Bitcoin is the first, Ethereum added something amazing to bitcoin to become a platform for other ecosystems, and now there are smaller competitors that are going to be "the new Ethereum" by being faster and cheaper and more decentralised so the ecosystems can spread wider to cater to more people.

There are a couple of cryptocurrencies that are hoping to be able to soon compete with the transaction speeds and volumes of Visa but with lower fees.

But, admittedly, that kind of performance level is vaporware after 5 years, but work continues and "revelations" always seem to be round the corner:

Cardano smart contracts go live this weekend (I think, unless it's the last testnet release).

Ethereum 2.0 is scheduled for release in December (this will probably make people 'in the know' smirk - so let's say Q1 2022).

Solana is gaining popularity and has the potential for the Visa stats right now, but it's just waiting for the volume to prove it.

Polkadot has its parachain auctions coming up later this month (or next...).
Contrary to popular belief, you can get a quality education at programs that don't put you $200,000 in debt.
Because it runs counter to the narrative of gun control advocates. Almost no gun crime is committed with legally obtained guns by previously law-abiding people.

The pro-2A response to gun control requests based on crime is often to say "don't ban my guns - just make 'felon in possession of a gun' a life-without-parole offense".
Marvin's Dream – Children's story written and illustrated by ML models
I imagine there would be an extremely large energy cost to spraying such boatloads of water in the air.
> what is required to cause it to collapse is still not a solved problem

From what I've read, the existence of "collapse" of the wave-function is not established, and not even widely accepted as more than a useful computational tool by practicing physicists.