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> Yeah, us software engineers are renowned for our communication skills.

I like to think that I have some pretty good communication skills, and that they make me a better programmer.
The idea is to keep it out of that nasty salt water (cold salt water + hot rocket engines is a bad combination...).

That's why they're going for a Corona style recovery.
I think this an example of the overly-simplistic logic that kept women from voting. It still happens today, CNN pulled a sexist story that attempted to link women's ovulation with the way they would vote. http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/25/after-reader-backlash-cnn-...
> The vast majority of the population will be unemployed, living in cardboard boxes down by the river

Who is going to consume all the goods that the machines produce? Who is going to buy these, and how?

However much you might not like factory owners, they are not likely to deliberately shoot themselves in the foot.
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There is no such thing as "publish without a license". Everything always has a license attached and if you don't specify exactly what, it gets the default license, under which the creator reserves exclusive rights for everything.
I don't know enough about lifestyle businesses to give a good answer to that. But one difference is that you're not being judged by others based on your growth rate, which means you can afford to start the business while there are still certain skills you need to acquire. Whereas with a high growth business, you really don't want to go full time until you have the ability to hit your metrics like clockwork.
I'm also very interested in this. I'm a SW engineer who has worked mostly with C, C++, Java and Python. But now I would like to learn web development.

Although I suspect learning HTML and CSS to be manageable, with CSS having some weird corner cases.

However when it comes to JS and all its frameworks things get more complicated. Especially when deciding which JS framework to choose from. It's of interest to bet on something that will still matter in the next 3 to 5 years.

edit:
This resource was posted some weeks ago on HN. Although it's more of a set of tutorials from different sources than an ebook.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Tutorials
Docker is either going to find a way to be a major player in the VM/Container market or its going to crash and burn.

Raising money when the VCs are willing to throw it at you is a good strategy when you know you'll burn through alot.
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Plutonium makes a rubbish dirty bomb, it's too heavy to disperse.
I hope you have better citations for the gender gap being disproved than a HuffPost op-ed by someone from the American Enterprise Institute.
I understand why you think that but I don't agree. I made a clear argument that there was no bias here - this is a sensible, rational practice on the part of employers.

Besides, this is "news" for a reason - nobody would be shocked if the result was in the other direction, because that would be normal and expected in a lot of society.

There should be more examples like this, in this direction, because it represents a minimal counterbalance to all the thousands of advantages that men have in STEM/skilled jobs.
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pogoscript.org has some nice features to let you use async like it was sync.

fs = require 'fs'
mojo = fs.readFile 'mojo.txt' 'utf-8' ^!
console.log (mojo)

(note that if readFile returned a promise you wouldn't need to use the ^)
If you want more, I can definitely recommend the video lectures from MIT's linear algebra course by Prof Gilbert Strang:

http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/videos.shtml
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Fair point. Let me rephrase. Of everybody I know how's done a late career switch, engineers are extremely underrepresented, to the point I can't think of any. The closet I can come up with is a surveyor, which I suppose counts an engineer in some places.

The most common educational backgrounds to lead to a later life career switch in my limited observation is either teaching or banking/finance.
Agreed, but people Nokia's handsets were traditionally sold under the Nokia brand name, not Lumia or whatnot. Everybody knew that there was a lot more to IBM than ThinkPads, but most people didn't realize that Nokia had a huge business selling network switching infrastructure to telcos.
He didn't attach a license to it, so it gets the standard "creator owns copyright on this until Disney stops prolonging copyright terms" license. The fact that he didn't sue at first in now way implies that it's public domain.
I borrowed at 90% LTV at 0.59% over Bank of Englands base rate.

But yes, the expected payback is pretty close to 1. Especially since of course you're required to insure the house etc., so their risk is mainly that property values could tank but of course that risk for any given loan diminishes rapidly over time as more gets repaid, so the average risk across a large pool of loans is pretty low.
Yes, but over $100M on that sort of bet is very different than $3M. $3M is frequently like 1% of the money raised on a billion dollar company and could be done as a bet to sustain the ecosystem it depends on.

Betting $100M+ needs real return. xD
Sure. but I'd wager the average developer wouldn't benefit to talking to the creators of Swift to the tune of $1600. If you have some very specific requirements and questions, it might be worth it. Otherwise, the video streams will likely suffice.
https://www.bento.io/ is pretty good for a list of teach-yourself-technology.

I would also check out Codeschool (although they're not free) because they have some really great classes on everything from Rails to jquery and CSS.
I don't know how far along you and the parent are in your bachelors, but there are BS completion programs that you might consider. I'm now 35 and I left my undergrad EE BS in my senior year to start a software company. Thankfully it worked out, but I have at times wished to be able to get a masters degree and have found the bachelors requirement troublesome.

Last year I enrolled at UT Arlington to get a BS in University Studies via the Finish@UT program (http://www.finishatut.org/). I am specifically planning on finishing a CS masters via the Georgia Tech program. To finish my bachelors I will need to finish 4 semesters of part-time coursework, essentially picking up where I left off in my undergrad EE at UT Austin, but of course not getting a EE degree, but still getting a BS degree.

Anyway, as a means to an end, I can stomach 4 semesters of undergrad online coursework to (a) finish my degree as an example for my daughters and fulfil a promise to my father; and, (b) enable for me the option to get a masters in CS for personal fulfilment reasons.
I use the terms interchangeably. I know there is a subtle difference mostly of maturity but don't care enough to pay attention.

No need to get offended over every little thing.
The problem is that stepping into this minefield with your own comments is just going to get you downvoted into oblivion yourself.

The view that equality means you judge people on merit, not their gender, is not a politically correct one.
Agree. Young people tend to get skills from youtube and online rather from academic institutions. But the dicipline and focus to my mind cannot be learnt online.
Nobody is doing that. The parent was dismissive of the solution without offering an alternative other than a vague 'promoting respect'. I am asking how that is done in an environment that tolerates disrespectful behavior.
I think this may be a narrow view of humanity...

Everyone's an engineer in one way or another - that's just who we are as people. Just because the stereotype tends towards "engineers" (traditional meaning) being into mechanics, logic, programming, structures etc. doesn't mean that everything can't be viewed this way.

The popular guys at school and politicians are social engineers. Footballers look to solve the problem of helping their team to win. Dancers and bartenders look to solve the problem of how to get people to spend/tip the highest amount of money they can. We look to manipulate logic to get machines to do what we want. Others may look to manipulate emotions and perspectives to get people to do what they want - i.e. spend more money, help them earn more commission. It's all engineering in one way or another.

So to assume that we make more logical choices prior to marriage that result in longer lasting relationships might be a touch narcissistic. We are no different than anyone else, it's just that we're machine nerds. Other people are people nerds, football nerds, modelling nerds, advertising nerds, music nerds, history nerds, science nerds, food nerds etc. They all have problems they're trying to solve and they all use their problem solving and logical skills to solve them, everyone a nerd in one way or another.

To typecast "engineers" (reading between the lines) as desperate does us a disservice. Everyone suffers from self image problems in one way or another - you can thank the media for that courtesy of beauty magazines, wrinkle cream, modeling mags, diet mags, a constant barrage of advertising telling you how to solve body problems and look better to get that hotter partner who also suffers from poor self image problems. You may suffer from poor self image of your perception of your lacking social skills (you really just never had the social training for how to talk with people) but want a hot model type. She may have poor body image because the beauty magazines make her feel ugly and you're all she can get blah blah blah. It's all quite nauseating really.

We all live in this Venn diagram of people we're attracted to that would make good life partners. The intersection of which is where we'll find long term relationship satisfaction (I'll refrain from calling that happiness, because the relationship isn't the whole picture of happiness)... but nobody knows where the intersection is and that's the joy of life. When you're not true to your Venn diagram, it's painful. When you are and you find someone who intersects with yours in the right way, it's amazing.
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I would say the engineers that can't communicate aren't the married ones, thus, not bringing the average down. So yes I agree but that doesn't mean that the article is false either.
They also don't have gigabit ports.
When looked at from a pure cost/benefit standpoint (on a salary ruler), it doesn't make much sense. But perhaps there's still an intangible benefit.
The Boston Beer Company (which makes Sam Adams) did something similar when they went public in the 90s. They set aside a chunk of their IPO and allowed their customers to buy shares at 25% less than the IPO price:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/24/business/boston-beer-the-s...
I haven't heard the phrase "human related" in relation to this. Anyone know if ULA will seek human spaceflight rating for this rocket?
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We are not all equal in every way, and neither are the biological difference in the genders.

Men tend to take more risks, while women tend to take more safer routes.

Men tend to spend more time at work, while women tend to spend more time with family matters.

Hence men tend to be both at the very bottom (as the larger percentage), and at the very top. And women throughout in between.

> Women do make less money even if you control for expertise and experience.

It's something like 97 cents to the dollar when you account for time on the job.

It's only when you pretend that 5 years of total pay (to a women) should be equal to 10 years of total pay (to a man), when you have the disingenuously reported "pay gap".

> Women are far more likely to be sexually assaulted.

And men are more likely to be killed. And they also die earlier.

But what does this have to do with anything?

I'd rather focus on doing the job well, hiring the person that produces the best results, instead of pretending that if we just have this perfect diversity through forced quotas, and push to having 50% of women in all fields (except for the fields that they don't want), that magic will happen.
I went to one of the early ones, back in '87 or '88. While we were there, they gave us a copy of the game Alice, that one of the original Mac team had written. I still have the game and the box!

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Alice.txt
When I filed my taxes this year, I wrote what was on my business card "Software Engineer". They're self reported titles.
> please share your thoughts instead!

Alternatively, don't feed the trolls.
efficiency is such a tricky subject. What is an efficient system, take for instance engines, some might say a very complex engine that gets the best output per unit input is very "efficient" however others would claim a simple two stroke engine is more "efficient" from a design perspective.

In that sense "efficient" and this metric are at odds as the more complex the thing gets the more "efficient" it is.
A desktop app on Windows either uses WPF or WinForms. In either case F# doesn't stop at all. In fact I would say that building WPF desktop on F# is more intuitive than C#.
Another way to look at this is that the State is making it possible for the employer to pay less for labor than they otherwise would.

As a thought experiment, imagine the State promising that so long as you work, it would top off hourly income such that you're guaranteed $12/hr. What is the likely result? Every employer drops their pay of people making less than that amount to the legal minimum wage, and the government is effectively subsidizing and encouraging companies to use low wage labor over high wage labor or capital.

Unless you think companies are driven by goodwill and not the profit motive, this is the more significant effect.
Corona used a C-130 system as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_retrieval#/media/File:C...

Thinking about it, it might be a weight constraint to cause them to use a helicopter. The sudden capture of an object weighing a few thousand pounds by a plane flying 350 mph could be too dangerous.
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Wow, those testimonials really speak to the quality of this app!
I'm in a similar situation as yours. Have you checked code academy (http://www.codecademy.com/)?
Perhaps it isn't always obvious in this lovely epistemic closure of the tech industry, but there's very often no more work than that. Forcing workers into laughably tiny shifts and providing no recourse except to quit the job barely covering part of their needs is par for the course.
Meh, it really doesn't come up that often. Every method call is an opportunity for the scheduler to run, not just specific ones. I find it is very rare indeed for a significant amount of work to be done without making method calls. Go also uses threads and makes parallel programming easy.. For me anyway.
>I like to think that I have some pretty good communication skills

You can have excellent communication skills, but there is this 'nerdism' that comes from being totally into computers, and that renders people away from social skills, I feel the OP meant that. So you having pretty good communication skills is an exception rather a norm
You're buying an Apple product, you're getting ripped off either way. You just haven't realised it.
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Fun aside, what a horrible article. It's a good reminder why you shouldn't trust the press.

The press gives more opinions than information, has a political agenda and doesn't get the facts straight.

An ideal information source would just deliver tuples (fact, source) and leave the evaluation to the reader. Optionally, it could provide another stream of tuples (opinion, author).
First you need to get rid of criminals from the government
The most interesting part of the article seems to be in the video in which it is mentioned that part of the goal is to create easily reconfigurable assembly lines that "fit together like lego bricks". It is also mentioned in the article that many of the manufacturers that have already implemented these automated and configurable production processes are in the business of producing the machines used in other assembly plants.

Could it be possible to produce a set of standardized manufacturing machines that can be swapped out or reconfigured to produce different end products? This would require an incredibly high degree of automation, but that level of automation is the stated goal of this movement. I don't see how you could feasibly do it today but given some combination of rapid additive manufacturing, conductive ink circuit printing, and some future generation of baxter like manufacturing robots capable of handling pick and place as well as assembly or other more general tasks could move us in that direction.

If this is implemented it might be used for simple customization for individual use. Smartphones whose dimensions are tailored to your hands or usage patterns. A flatscreen designed to match the aesthetics of the room in which it will be placed and integrating your preferred console or other gadgetry. Mass produced prosthetic limbs designed to perfectly match their owner. Hololens' in whatever style you choose so you feel like less of a space cadet while wearing them. Driverless cars geared towards your lifestyle and family size. It'd essentially be the end of the 'model' as we know it for products. Just provide your body scan and bio-socio-informatic data along with your credit card number and you can expect a drone delivery in the next 3 hours.
There was obviously some kind of misunderstanding. Khachian found a polynomial algorithm for linear programming. And the travelling salesman problem has a formulation in terms of an integer linear program. Unfortunately, solutions to a linear program are not in general at integer points, so a solution to the real-number version of the problem doesn't, in general, solve the integer problem. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming_relaxation
I am an engineer. I used to be married to a dancer.

#FML
Quit blaming the employers, if you want to set an arbitrary value for living wage then adjust the minimum wage paid or benefits granted so that individuals exceed that level.

The Federal Minimum wage is 7.25, the minimum wage paid to those on Federal contracts is 10.10 Seems one hand of the feds knows something the other doesn't. If you want business to pay these wages then quit dancing around the political hot potato and do so.

How about special local sales tax options to push up low paid worker's wages? That way all the altruistic types out there can contribute each time they purchase their seven dollar latte? How it works is this, for every hour the low paid worker works at an approved job the local government adds an amount sufficient to equal a living hourly wage they failed to mandate.

Regardless of the down vote brigade, I do agree with another poster that we should look at many of these companies as removing the whole or partial burden to the tax payer.

Yet we must also consider one other item, a great many people don't want to work, either from laziness, mental illness, or sense of entitlement. Which means some obtain jobs and put little effort into them going from one employer to another and off and on assistance. How do you pay a living wage to these people?

People are all incredibly generous when it comes to telling others what they should pay employees without ever experiencing personnel issues at this skill level. Your in a whole different world here. If you want to identify those who are busting their butts to change their lives the easiest way is finding who is working more than one job.
I'm underwhelmed, and not surprised. Typically for the big, slow defense industry players, they're planning a more complicated system that does less and will not be ready until 2019.

Meanwhile, SpaceX will be attempting to land their entire first stage again this afternoon.
> Are you upset that you didn't get an internship,

No.

> have you considered the possibility that you aren't as good as you think you are.

Every day, more than you can imagine.
man if only they had something like this for hipchat, slack, and skype i'd be set.
You can use XML in any language. No one forces you to use XML in Java. Yes, if you choose a crufty framework like J2EE or Spring then they'll use lots of XML. But you can just as easily choose a modern tools like Guice or Play Framework and not be forced to configure everything in XML.
> This is more than just a nice gesture

No gesture was made though. My wife is an Etsy vendor and never received any notice about this.
the remainder of the paragraph you have quoted from explains it.
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If you're interested in getting your feet wet with JS, not in a web developer sense, Codewars.com has some cool coding challenges that can be done in JS. When it comes to frameworks, I've found that AngularJS is probably the most entry-level friendly but I absolutely love using React in my projects.
It seems to me that Docker is heading down the same path as MySQL, whether knowingly or not. Perhaps they are trying to get everyone on board, then sell to a BigCo a la Oracle, telling them "here's the whole Docker ecosystem, go ahead and extract money from it." Who is Docker's actual customer? The user or BigCo?
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Can't read the article yet, but I'd put money on Palantir(1)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
All of which can be useful, but also had for much less than $1600. Heck you can get most of that for free in your own backyard if any hacker-event or similar is held there (most are free/sponsored).

I think events such as this do have an innate value, and have no issue paying for them. But $1600 is clearly a ton of money that could be better used elsewhere. Having a 10 minute conversation with a language designer is not worth $1600 in my book (and you can often find interviews with them on YT or articles, or get white papers).
I am not talking about suffrage, but in a usual scenario a woman has "higher level of progesterone" than man is a _fact_, isn't it?

--

EDIT: the hormone related to care-giving behavior is oxytocin and not progesterone
What it shows is that if all things are equal then there is bias. Of course if the premise of a material implication is false, the entire proposition always evaluates true.

That hiring processes in US academic institutions are subject to sex gender bias doesn't require more than looking at the diversity among the highest paid employees in US higher education, coaches.
This is exactly what I came here to say. When considering market forces at a high level, no effect occurs in a vacuum. If the government subsidizes farming, then food prices WILL go down (which is arguably a good). But subsidizing fast-food workers just means the fast food will now become cost-competitive with the healthy food because the fast-food employer can afford to pay less for the job and still have job applicants.
Large percentage in cost. Tiny percentage in ROI. Blue ocean for disintermediation.
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I read a few months ago about a startup I'd not even heard of that was valued in the Billion dollar range. Snapchat. I was like, they let you take a picture and upload it while chatting and that's worth Billions? So yeah, Docker should be worth some decent cash.
trying to profit from it.

Which some people might believe as part of the unwritten rules. For example, see both Open Source and Free Software (as defined by the OSI and FSF, respectively), which state that licenses must allow the users to sell the works. The idea that doing stuff for profit is fundamentally different is far from unanimously accepted.