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Proof, yet again, that computers should be flying planes.

Humans are absolutely terrible at two kinds of tasks: 1) boring, rote tasks that require continuous attention for long periods of time and 2) high-stress, quick decision bursts.

Which pretty much describes flying a plane.
Agreed. I found Lynda.com to be amazing for learning programs like Final Cut in a very short amount of time.
We've had great success with Marionette, specifically by leveraging concepts from the http://backbonerails.com architecture.
Absolutely - as much as I wish she wasn't, our toddler is currently hooked on the equivalent of 'unboxing' vids on YT ('surprise eggs', if you're curious). We limit her time watching, of course, but I still have to keep an ear open for ads kicking in. I'd certainly pay.
Yeah but then you'd need a team who'd travel with you. And few people can just pack up and move every month. If you have kids, you'll want to keep them in the same school. Or you might be tied down to care for a family member. I would never leave my area for long because it's where all my friends live.

It's simpler to have a remote company. Then you can take all the trips you want, and your team can work from wherever they want.
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Is what they're doing legal? I'm pretty sure a tourist visa means you can't use it for work (activities for which payment is received or capital is gained), even remote work. I'm told that the Thai government is pretty harsh in punishing such things.
I have been using Debian, and then Ubuntu since 1996. It "just works" compared to other OS's that don't let me do things like focus follows mouse.

I also like having the source code for everything.

You should probably also add the BSD's to your poll.
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At my office they seem to be biased against this -- whatever time you get in, if you disappear before 5 there's a sense that you're shirking. And this despite what is, overall, a super healthy culture. There's no stigma at all about showing up at 830 and leaving at 1700, but showing up at 700 doesn't seem to allow you to leave earlier without incurring raised eyebrows. I wonder if this is unusual, since I've not experienced it before.
I'm not the most qualified to answer, but let's say you do freelance for a while, then decide to look for a job again and you see that your resume plays against you. Then, could you say that you were employed in a consulting firm and mention all the contracts you did? That would still be the truth, the only thing you don't mention is that you were the owner of that consulting firm.
It is hard for me to read stuff like this. It really is.

While I really am happy for those who do well for themselves by seeking venture capital, the desert is littered with the bones of startup founders.

As well as the bones of investors - this because Angel Investors are commonly friends, family members and colleagues who are not the sophisticated investors as VCs have to be. If your uncle invested ten grand in your iOS App, then it totally tanked, I expect your uncle would still manage to get by somehow, but you would always regret having asked him to invest.

Of more concern to me, in my actual experience, is that it is quite common for VCs to demand control of the company's actual operations, and then to rocket it right into the ground, because their concern is the exit revenue, and not for the end-users of the product or service, or for the company's employees.

Not all VCs are this way, many VCs are quite good. I have scads of respect for people like Ann Winblad (http://www.humwin.com/).

However there are far more startups than their are wise, or even ethical VCs.

Thus I have been determined for many years to demonstrate that one can succeed without investment of any sort. I know one specific person who did this, the father of a close friend. Dr. Sims and another physician founded California Cryobank in the early 1970s, each by investing $2500.00 of their own money.

Now California Cryobank is "The Nation's Largest Sperm Bank". Their, uh, "product" sells like hotcakes because our little swimmers just don't like they used to swim, back in the day before chemical pesticides.

There are many times that I do contemplate seeking VC. That comes to mind for the most part when I visit the offices of VC-backed startups, or of established and successful firms.

It's not about the foosball table or all-you-can drink microbrew.

It's about having coworkers - real live human beings - and an actual desk, rather than paying for my table at a wifi spot by somehow coming up with the two bucks required to purchase a Grande Pike's Place Roast.

While I do believe in what I'm doing, what I hope to achieve and to demonstrate by my own example that there really is a better way, it's hard sometimes.

It Really Fucking Is.
I meant the "small group" effect. I agree it's more difficult than ever to start over after you fall out with your group, but an ordinary person living ordinary, conforming life enjoys more privacy and more expectation of privacy than before.
The more recent Disney version was released in 1996. I have no idea how they got to 1985.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115433/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I boosted our Stack Overflow careers response quite considerably by posting a thread to my city's job subreddit with a link to the job. YMMV. Depends on how attractive your post is :)
That could result in some fascinating ad combinations. It could really help in breaking the filter bubbles around the web too.
Don't we already license hard drugs to pharmacist? Most hard drugs are available via prescription. Heroin is diamorphine, methamphetamine is Desoxyn, etc. Other prescription drugs are even more dangerous.

The problem isn't that these substances aren't available. It's more of a problem of who they're available to. If you're wealthy and informed, you can probably shop doctors or get prescribed a strong pain killer and even have insurance to pay for it. The less fortunate have to risk their lives to get the same kick with an inferior and less controlled product.
With you on your sentiments.

With regard to your font weight problem, looks ok to me (Win7 x64 chrome/ff/IE latests):

http://imgur.com/NPSDsWg
Lol, 8am Pacific Time. If the developers I worked with were in by 10am scrum I was surprised.

I called it CA time. Roll in at 10am, 1.5-2 hour lunch, surprisingly most everyone gone at 5pm because kids or something else.

My coworkers would ask me how many hours I was working, to which I'd reply 40. How many are you working?
Not sure how I missed it - Reading "Ready Player One". Can't wait for the movie, currently in talks with Spielberg behind the camera.
Are you sure you're not talking about the Balearic Islands? The Canaries are not even close to Barcelona, they're off the coast of Africa.
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Can a computer land in the Hudson? To generalize, how does the computer decide where to land?
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Bah, everyone's in their 20 with no family!
Google Sydney's internships are indeed primarily intended at students in Australian universities. However, if you apply for a full-time job that's specifically listed as open in Sydney, and you get it, Google will pay relocation costs:

https://www.google.com/about/careers/search?jl=Sydney,Austra...

Disclaimer: I applied to work at Google Sydney, got the job, and was relocated. (From Melbourne, mind you, but there are people here from all over the globe.)
Reading through this, I was kind of annoyed that the author hinted at the fact that today's English bull dog was a bull baiter ("But they didn’t quite look like the jowly little gremlins waddling around the world today. Can you imagine any bulldog you’ve ever met taking on a bull?"). While in fact bull dogs were much more like today's American bull dogs. Further down, there's a picture of an English bulldog with the caption "An American bulldog named 'Spike'."[1]

I find it curious that an article about dog breeds incorrectly identifies an English bulldog as an American bulldog. A simple google search of the two breeds shows the very clear differences.

1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/cmichel67/13829224774/in/photo...
More and more people do that, but they don't get mindshare, mediatic exposure. The most common images conjured when one talks job are:

* unskilled people piling on minimum-wage jobs to avoid bankrupcy;

* start-uppers who clock insane hours, in the hope of becoming filthy rich through Google ads revenue on their new "AirBnB for pets" or whatever;

* IBMers (do they still exist as we picture them BTW?);

* jobs of limited interest and impact, done half-arsed if not worse, as seen in tv shows like _The Office_.

The skilled guy who goes part-time because he makes enough working 3 days a week to enjoy the 4 remaining ones exists, but he's not thought about. When his female counterpart is considered, she's typically seen as sacrificing her career for her kids, rather than buying herself time by not working more than whatever she needs to earn.
We were there on holidays ;-)

But I know what you're talking and while what we're doing is technically a gray zone, what the government is after is mostly freelancers that basically live in Thailand, but are not paying taxes there and are constantly on a visa run to re-enter the country.
Yep, Jack3d was pretty famous for that. The banned ingredient was DMAA, by the way.
http://www.fda.gov/Food/DietarySupplements/QADietarySuppleme...
There's a v amusing sketch about Crufts and the rise of the dog show by John Finnemore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG0BGqOKer8

I've tried to talk friends out of getting problem breeds such as bulldogs, considering so many dogs are left in shelters, but to no avail. To breed an animal to extinction for fashion is an extremely odd thing to do, when you think about it...
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Yeah - I used to feel like Arment was in he bag for Apple (and I say this as a hardcore Mac guy, though I use Android phones), but these days I find myself respecting his take a lot more. Gruber...no. He is a very good writer who uses that skill effectively, but he's so far in the bag it's not even funny.
"I spent two years in the Apple camp managing customer service improvement for their technical support contact centres and out of the fifteen plus years working in this industry I’ve never witnessed so many bizarre and unprofessional things, only some of which I have time to touch on here."

In the next 15 years (probably sooner) you'll learn that the world is the same _everywhere_ and quiting your job at apple won't make a silly difference.

I've had a ton of jobs, ALL MY BOSSES STOLE from the company. And i don't expect my current bosses to be any different. no i will not resort to such, but i stopped caring. And if i was you, i'd probably not quite my job, and simply not care about the fopping idiotic things and people i'd see around me.
I've hosted four Dutch trainees on five-month placements in Adelaide. They did general web work and also worked on side-project, startup-style web apps. Great experience.
This is the problem. In an emergency, you need a trained and experienced pilot who can find a way out. If you replace pilots with computers (well, software), even if you have a pilot sitting there, they will have less experience (because they just sit and watch) and they'll have less immediate understanding of a situation when they're called upon to take over the controls.
One of the many steps we will see that will have a net effect of disintermediating traditional secondary education. With companies like LinkedIn filling an Uber type role.

It used to be that the secondary degree was the middle man between employee and employer (for many professions).

Certifications from companies like Microsoft and Cisco changed this in some realms.

MOOCs and companies like Lynda expanded to different sectors.

Now layers like LinkedIn can essentially be the Uber between employers and the myriad of certifications and degrees that will be available to employees. An Uber layer for connection, credibility, aggregation, certification, etc.

I don't believe traditional secondary education gets completely disintermediated. But I believe the landscape becomes much more heterogeneous, which is a good thing.
That may be so, but imagine when they get cheap enough that e.g. NSA installations must be kept at ridiculous cleanroom conditions because every speck of dust may be conducting counter-surveillance, or automatically dump footage onto Youtube.
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It's interesting to look at murder rate over time: https://madeinamericathebook.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/hom.... It was already extremely high at the turn of the century and only went up slightly during prohibition. And after the trough in 1960, it started rapidly rising before the drug war got going up in the 1970's.
A roguelike. I get started and then one of the following seems to happen:

- I become disillusioned with the whole project and walk away

- I get distracted by another technology

- Laziness sets in and I spend my time playing roguelikes instead of programming one.
In the place I worked we had this old ho who could take 3 in the ass, 3 in the vag and 2 in the mouth. Simultaneously. We called her a hero.

That stupid stretched-out bitch made us a pile of money. Of course we never called her a "stupid bitch" to her face, that would be tactless. We called her a "hero".

I think she died of kidney failure or something.
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Very smart move. LinkedIn == career. This might mean heavy competition for Coursera & others going forward.
The government's real interest in protecting the sanctity of information flow etc is very much pertinent to the matter. The government has demonstrably zero real interest in that. Thus the sentencing is arguably too harsh.
3) Doesn't explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.

I don't think the OP was making any correlation with crime in the 70s and 80s. You could however link that rise in crime to the spread of crack cocaine through NYC and LA if you really wanted to.

4) We are at one of the least violent and peaceful decades in US History

Interestingly enough, while that is true, our incarceration rate is the highest ever and it started just as the drug war started. See also The New Jim Crow [1]

[1] http://newjimcrow.com/
HFS is a terrible fs design. HFS+ marginally improves it.

Consider that in HFS (and early HFS+) had a fun limitation -- you could only ever create 65535 files. Didn't matter if you deleted; the Catalog (CNID) incremented with each new file created until it ran out.

Also HFS+ only has 1 second resolution for timestamps and can't do timestamps later than February 6, 2040.

Other dreadful details here:
http://blog.barthe.ph/2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/
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Computers are flying planes.

This is a training issue more than any definitive "proof".
Standard WSJ hit piece. It's all the fault of unions.

In spite of the fact that out of 178 people the superintendent and 34 principals were in on it. People very much NOT in the teacher's union and generally hostile to it.

But, hey, an actual conversation about education, socioeconomics, and achievement? Can't have that--people might actually figure out that testing is a gigantic Republican boondoggle.

Just blame the unions--it's what our readership want.
The kids get two months off every summer. Take them then. Consider it a vacation.

The most capable, adaptable, and accomplished adults I know moved around a bunch as kids. It forces you to learn how to live in the world and get out of your comfort zone. The most anxious, bitter, and underperforming adults I know grew up in the prototypical suburban bubble environment. End meaningless personal anecdote.
Ok, that means I don't have to check out git-lfs, git-fat or git-bigstore. My annex is 250k symlinks pointing to 250 GiB of data. It's slow enough as it is.
Does MCSE still pull weight? Are there newer certifications that matter now?

What fields do you think will benefit from this certification? In design (one of Lynda's pillars), half of hireability is portfolio. I suppose in production roles, you'd want to know you're hiring technically proficient people, but that too you can mostly tell from the work.

Perhaps this works as well, or better, from the angle of "People who had this skill got looked at 3x more than you. Go get that skill."
Bugger all. Australia used to have traineeships for trades, but even this is falling by the wayside.
Congrats to Lynda.com a service I can't recommend enough if you want to get started with programming.

It's been around forever and the quality is amazing. I learned to program using it and I always recommend people to use it if they can afford it.

Going to be interesting to see where they will take this.
It takes a lot of work in software and design to make 100PPI look good. Ya, we can do it, hinted fonts, manually red lined and aligned pixel output from illustrator, etc... 200PPI+ is just so much easier to develop for...the vectors render with much fewer artifacts.

I have a 150 PPI 4K desktop display and I'm pretty disappointed compared to my retina class laptop. But this disappointment comes from the extra work needed to make my software look good. I really can't wait for the day when all screens are 200+, it will be much easier for us.
I'm having the exact same issue. Using ubuntu 14.04, zsh.
>> If the environment that produced this horrific behavior in Atlanta is “toxic,” blame the people who control that environment, not the testing regime that attempts to hold those people accountable. The teachers unions that run our schools view public education, first and foremost, as a jobs program for adults. That is why the unions fight so hard to keep open failing schools and want seniority—rather than teaching ability—to determine layoffs.

I don't think the author of this piece manages to back up his argument very well. The teachers' union says that the testing regime is flawed, and that the toxic environment is created by it; the author says that the testing regime is "flawed" but not "fatally" so, without substantitively adressing that concern. The "people in charge" of this environment are in turn governed by No Child Left Behind and state/federal regulation and laws -- there's a chain of authority here, and the brokenness of the system can rightly be argued to flow down from the highest policy levels all the way to local middle-management.

>> Would you want your child taught by someone who flunked the certification test five times, let alone 10?

This is a silly argument. How many people take multiple tries to get a driving license? The test either ceritifies you or it doesn't.

>> And would that instructor be more or less likely to resort to changing student test scores to hide his own incompetence?

Absolutely no logical connection, other than a wild assertion by an author clearly hostile to the teachers' union, and it seems to me, teachers in general.

Like it or not, public school teachers in the US are vastly underpaid and overworked (especially in urban school districts with low budgets), and have their ability to teach severely hampered by testing requirements that may or may not be beneficial to their students. The whole system is broken, but demonizing the people that are attempting to educate in these conditions without trying to understand the pressures at play isn't very constructive.

Further reading: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/275/t...
The more time I spend here, the more I suspect that HN is populated with single 20 year olds with no friends or family. Thus, they create a "work family" to fill their social needs. The result is insular teams with mandatory beer pong tournaments.
Do any of you guys have children?
Are you tempted by 7 day roguelikes, or do they fall to the same problems?
Wonder if they will cut their podcast ad budget... they are one of the big advertisers on tech podcasts.
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The Codebreakers by David Kahn,
The Road to Reality Roger Penrose,
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
I worked 40 a week during my trip. I'm not a developer though, and my coworkers worked similar schedules.
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I was recently on vacation in Fiji for 2 weeks. I visited a couple islands - even some that were quite tiny by island standards. What impressed me was that there was fast 4G wireless service everywhere. Would definitely think about working remotely from Fiji with that high internet quality.
For the Hudson, interesting question. Probably you need humans in that loop. However, you can probably preprogram the scenario (I recall that Sullenberger actually did practice it).

For TransAsia, the point is that a computer wouldn't have needed to land. It still had engine power and could have moved the plane to a stable situation.

The problem is that the TransAsia-type pilots and situations far outnumber the Sullenberger's.
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That's a personal blog, not some official Microsoft thing. I think that, regardless of the source, it's an important point -- at a really big environment it's hard to introduce new software packages for nontechnical reasons (like the licensing stuff) and for technical ones too (gazillions of machines with different configurations you have to worry about breaking). I've been a system administrator at a small place and even then it's not fun to try to roll out something like that.
I'm not sure how easily one could leave a small town in, say, feudal Europe. Most serfs lacked travel rights, and while one could escape from their lord's land and move to a city (depending on the country), the cost was prohibitively high[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom#Villeins
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Are you sure that causation between advertising spendings and economic collapse exists?

When economic collapse came (as it is now in my country) the advertisement spendings grows, because business people want to warm up consumers, to maintain sales level and to reduce debts and inventory costs.

Obviously, competition become growing and small or inert businesses start to fail or throw off from the market. And it's the time, when new businesses come, the economics reorganize and recover itself.
Lead poisoning due to leaded gasoline has been one of the more interesting (and common sense) explanations of that rise and fall of crime.
Thank you for taking the time to comment. My motivation behind this is to teach people who have a goal or dream to be a software developer that can't go to school for whatever reason and can't afford a bootcamp.

By Unicorn I mean rockstar or be in the top percentage among peers instead of just being average.

It has been hard to find quality people who have the motivation, passion and drive to be able to have the determination to teach themselves.

What I meant be exceptional is someone that has tried and failed to teach themselves but is willing to give it another go. I should have used dedicated instead of exceptional.

I have already done the Front end curriculum this past year and weeded out all the bad videos and books to find the best material. It would take a part time student learning at night about 9 months for the bootcamp.

Thank you for your input.
LinkedIn just dropped $1.5B to buy online learning company Lynda.com
They could very well partner. Let's say you are a recruiter looking for someone who knows machine learning and is based (or wiling to move to) a certain place. A quick search on linkedin and you are shown, amongst others, all the candidates who completed the Machine Learning course on Coursera and match your location criteria. And the other way works as well: if you completed an online course and tell linkedin about it, it can indicate you positions in your area were your new skills could be useful.