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Should I quit my job or wait one more year?
I live in Seattle and I am a sort of PM for a construction firm. The last two years, work has slowed down and since I am hourly I don't get to work much over time, so no extra money.

If I wait another year before quitting, I can finish a management BA/MA online which hopefully would make it easier to get another higher paying job. Also I could have another year of profit sharing at work.

If I quit now, I could spend a whole year learning to program by working in entry level positions and working my way up as I learn. (I could also still do online school for the degree, which is not that hard)

My main reason for leaving would be to get a technical job where I get paid 100k+ in a couple of years after getting experience. Currently I feel stuck financially. I know some Python and Swift and I want to take the full stack and ios nano degree certificates from udacity.com . Currently I don’t have enough time to fit all the learning in. I spend at least one hour a day reading and practicing to code. I want to learn Go, Elixir and Rust next.

I am 31 and married. What are your suggestions? Thank you
I love cmder and my whole team is starting to use it now.

Only thing I miss is broadcasting keystrokes to multiple panes when i'm ssh'ed to multiple servers
I hate death. My regards to Sheryl Sandberg and the rest of the family.
All the best to Dave and family. Very tragic.
You're reading too much into it. I could have taken out the word "linear" and it would have been fine, but it wasn't exactly a random math term.

A linear model is the simplest model, which is sometimes an asset (in some cases, linear regression is the best statistical model for its simplicity) and sometimes makes it crude and underfit to the problem. I was focusing on the latter.
Stanford doesn't sound like a "university" in the traditional sense of the world. Perhaps a vocational centre, where the pursuit of knowledge comes secondary to application?

It is interesting to note that Stanford is a "true" American university (unlike east coast universities which were meant to be copies of oxford and cambridge), and that may explain its readiness to embrace the juggernaut of the capitalism.
This seems to be true from a short-term perspective. From a more long-term perspective, factors that led to the crisis have not really been dealt with at all. Dodd-Frank is hardly Glass-Steagall. The revolving door between finance and government is still spinning. Regulatory capture is in full swing.

And that means -- if I might be prophetic for a moment -- that it's all going to happen again.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9477667
Small startups are often just a handful of people, and devs can and do pull double-duty as QA and development, and sometimes customer support for engineering issues! Freelancers also don't have customer support teams. For larger orgs, however, you're right. And also, like I said in another comment, the "customer" doesn't have to be your customer -- your "customer" could be the QA guy who says he found a bug, or your boss, or another engineer. Whoever tells you they found a bug, you should not dismiss their report with "well, it works for me."
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I mostly agree, especially with the emphasis on teaching.

The way I typically deal with this situation (and it's one I encounter almost as a matter of course with new people, and they all grow beyond this) is to have a high-level, in-person conversation about the code. Many professional programmers are actually quite good (whatever you think of this particular pull request) and the conversation is a chance to simultaneously de-escalate (whereas a nit-picky code review can escalate) and give them a chance to see their code anew from your perspective.

Good luck!
I always wonder if they really think they are "changing the world" it seems like a very well optimised system that bonds rich investors with already affluent students to generate money for themselves and other already rich people in rich countries.

However the social impact and real innovation ( the one that improves drastically people lifes ) is lacking.
Because some of us may not have seen it yet?

Can we please stop with the posts in every thread being pedants about article age without any useful comment of their own. It's been getting noticably worse into the last few months.
When I started to see similar things happen to friends or acquaintances when I was about the same age every time I heard of someone getting sick or dying prematurely I would say to myself "time to buy that Porsche you always wanted". So I did. My parents generation worked hard but never spent any money always assuming they would live to a ripe old age.
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I started the site about 8 years ago because 1) these lists have lots of great selections that you might not come across otherwise (e.g., "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat) and 2) .mil web sites tend to get reorganized regularly and older content seems to get swept away. So I hope this site helps to preserve some things that might otherwise be lost.

FWIW, for an overview of all the lists, there's a "map" page:

http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/map
As the code reviewer you should probably not be doing any writing. Instead, you should send back the code with notes. An in-person meeting would be better to go over the changes.

Teach a man to code, he can write crappy code. Fix it for him, he still writes crappy code. Make him fix it himself, he learns (hopefully).

Also, as a code reviewer myself, this is really difficult, but the best way to fix this kind of thing in the future is to get involved in the code much earlier on. Watch the commits as they get made, stop by occasionally and go over the code while it's in progress. If the guy spends a week working on something and you send it back, he basically wasted a week. If you can spot a problem within a few hours, then you saved both of you a week...
Thanks, I will have to check out using "fetch" next week. I'm not sure what happens if I do a fetch while my workspace already has "master" checked out, but if I have a local working branch checked out, this looks like a safe way to peek ahead at what others are doing before I blindly start merging/pulling.
Here's the kind of thing to expect from the article:

"Research with second language users shows a relationship between linguistic proficiency in such grammatical constructions and the frequency with which speakers mention the goals of events."

—where 'mentioning goals of events' means using the grammatical constructions these people are more proficient with. So, people who are more proficient with X use X more...

But, they're really trying to push their perspective, saying things like:

"The worldview assumed by German speakers is A HOLISTIC ONE – they tend to look at the event as a whole – whereas English speakers tend to zoom in on the event and focus only on the action."

The capital letters are mine, referring to their hypertext connecting to this paper: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ling.2012.50.issue-4/ling-20...

—whose abstract makes it clear how much they're stretching it by saying "the worldview assumed by German speakers is a holistic one," and then following up with a section titled "Switch languages, change perspective"

edit: typo
Smart. I will see for myself in a minute how much space such an approach takes; I would imagine the compressor size gets nontrivially large on big files.

Well, my exact use case, which I imagine I'm not alone in, is indexing a tab-delimited file with a single-line header containing the column names. So indexing by column index would be adequate, but it would present two very minor problems: 1) I'd have to figure out a way to exclude the header row from output (or alternately, to always output it), and 2) it would be slightly more convenient to refer to the columns to be indexed by name rather than position, as some of these have thousands of columns.

Can you have multiple indexes on the same GZIP file? And if so, does it create multiple .zindex files or re-use the same one?

I don't know if SQLite supports custom data retrieval backends like Postgres, but what would be REALLY interesting is to write one such that the indexing information is in SQLite, and you can use SQL to query row data directly from the GZIP index (I know this is beyond the scope of your project, I'm just thinking out loud now).
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A couple of things that bugged me from this writeup (these may be attributable to Anderson instead of Snowden):

1:

Homegrown crypto is routinely problematic, but properly implemented crypto keeps the agency out; gpg ciphertexts with RSA 1024 were returned as fails. is later followed by The NSA is even more cautious than the FBI, and won’t use top exploits against clueful targets unless it really matters. Intelligence services are at least aware of the risk of losing a capability, unlike vanilla law enforcement.

Reconciling these statements is disquieting. Snowden has never seen a successful decrypted RSA-1024 intercept. But he also believes that the good stuff is kept under wraps, which is what everyone else who understands SIGINT thinks as well.

2:

We can push back a bit by blocking papers from conferences or otherwise denying academic credit where researchers prefer cash or patriotism to responsible disclosure, but that only goes so far.

Well, that, and the whole thing about how publishing papers isn't merely an exercise in making the authors feel better, but also how science works.

3:

People who can pay for a new kitchen with their first exploit sale can get very patriotic; NSA contractors have a higher standard of living than academics.

I have a problem with casual innuendo about how vulnerabilities are expensive because exploiters pay so much for them. In fact, ever-increasing dollar amounts for serious vulnerabilities is what you want to see: if there's a liquid market for vulnerabilities, the last thing you want is for serious ones to be cheap. This is highly specialized engineering work; whether Ron Paul likes it or not, it commands a high rate.

A simpler response: lots of people have made enough off vuln sales to replace kitchens without ever selling them to anyone who would exploit them.

I do have a moral problem with people who sell vulnerabilities to (a) the USG or (b) people who exploit them. I do not love the emergence of vuln markets. But I am not willing to tar everyone who earns a living doing this work as an NSA shill.

Moreover: all reverence for Snowden stipulated and set aside: nobody has ever made a claim for his expertise in vulnerability research or sales. Can we be clearer about why we're meant to carefully consider his take on it?

•:

Generally, this reads a lot like STRATFOR to me. It starts out with facts and stuff that appears verifiable/falsifiable, but it trends into a sort of geopolitical/legal LARPing exercise.
Quality of content aside, this is an article from a tabloid site. That's two strikes against it right out of the gate.
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If energy is not conserved across distortions in space time, then neither is momentum. That em-drive people have been testing is forcing a distortion in a resonating wave that should just be varying the flux density from one end to the other, it it looks the epitome of something that should just sit there and do nothing. It's a lopsided microwave oven. But that could make a pinch in spacetime that isn't completely symmetrical at the neck, so you end up with a sort of spacetime ramjet.

Probably not, but it would be nice.

edit - this nonsensical waffle was brought to you today by too much coffee, not enough sleep, and the number 7.
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> "...Silicon Valley wage-fixing sandal."

That sounds way more interesting than a scandal. Too bad it's probably a typo. :)
Interesting read. I would point out that the "distinctively American" nature of the hobby only stands true if you restrict the idea of model-building to model cars and planes. Model trains enjoy a certain amount of popularity in other places, and Europe has a massive sci-fi/fantasy/steampunk model community which is also mirrored in the US. I'm sure that in other places there are also many popular kinds of models to build and collect.
One interesting thing as of late is that there are some deaf people who are against ear implants because, as it solves deafness, it weakens deaf culture.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/17/1256259/-The-Cochle...
No problem. Doing a valgrind run on the sample, let's see how it goes.
I'd rather not see these kind of posts stop. Frequently, there's a good reason to post an older article on a particular day, and calling it out helps bring out the new modern context. Otherwise, reminding readers that a submission happened in a different environment from today is worth while on its own.
> I do agree that the advisor should have pushed back lots harder on the methods; it's a weak paper, even as an experience report.

I agree - this seems to be mostly the advisors fault, by the looks of it it's not that the student didn't put a lot of work into it but methodological problems are what advisors are supposed to be there to address; I saw a lot of this back in college, at least with technical papers it's easy to tell what's wrong, with the humanities it's just a complete disaster.
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The whole aftermath of this wage-fixing scandal was just a slap on the wrist. The amount they paid in fines and settlements was less than the amount of money they saved by suppressing wages.
Just adding '(2014)' should be good enough for everyone, I think.
Or you could avoid the fallacy of the excluded middle: list in a clear and objective way exactly what is wrong and (if applicable) points to fix it. "Sucks" is a subjective comment and not very useful feedback. I know my code sucks but not why it sucks - that is partly why it is being code reviewed.
Then the author should leave a comment explaining the significance of the day...otherwise, these posts tend to just clutter things up.
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> Everyone is a potential rights holder

In my case I would be happy to supply whatever legal evidence is required to satisfy youtube that I own the full rights to all the music I've written.

Perhaps your point is that even running checks like that require manpower that google/youtube simply aren't willing to commit to.

In that case what about a simple transparency type report? Assuming all videos are analyzed by content id, couldn't youtube publish or maintain an archive of songs used in video that would be searchable by any interested party.
Yeah, it was too bad they could not course correct it, but the telemetry is also cool. I agree with the author that it really boggles the mind that we have the ability to use our laptops, tethered to a phone, to send commands to an ancient satellite, to turn on its sensors. If that isn't the hook of an alien invasion thriller I don't know what is :-)
He didn't call you a mercenary. You did imply he was a con man. I know the difference seems subtle, but one is much worse than the other. Even if you disagree, two wrongs don't make a right.
I understand that generated log files are generated upstream of you, but how much does compressing them actually wins?

I guess for most of us it's better to just search plain text files, if possible?
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Early employees of Google and Facebook made pretty good money.
I work with a lot of contractors and so I end up doing this frequently. Here's the pattern I follow:

1. Reject the PR. It needs to be clear that this isn't acceptable.
2. Realize that stopping with rejection doesn't help the problem at all. :)
3. Start with some light comments and refactoring a couple of sections (usually it's the same bad patterns repeated).
4. Only provide the refactors as comments. Try not to fix other people's PR and then submit. It makes it hard for that person to improve.
5. Talk with the individual about it. Ask about the issues they were having and offer fixes.
6. Ask them to try again.

If this cycle happens a few times, you either need to break down tasks into simpler, smaller bites, or let them go. This can quickly turn into negative productivity for the team.
Isn't this a lot like Gobolinux again?

http://www.gobolinux.org/

It seems to go a bit beyond just treating each package as its own fiefdom but all the way to doing it with separate OSes, but it's the same basic idea: cooperation is impossible, every package for itself.

It's essentially how Apple's app bundles work too: everything has to package all of its dependencies. This seems to use btrfs instead of dmg.
Fantastic! You should add all of this immediately. Suddenly you are a M.Div from Princeton with extensive experience in counseling and families. You have done extensive research. You have a process that beats what people are thinking about as the established processes. You still need to work on the product differentiator, but go for it and do it. The problem I am pointing out is that right at this moment your material doesn't show this at all. Fix it and you may get even more to sign up.

One other large issue you may run into is geography area issues. But if you get to that point then you will have solved other major areas of issue with your business plan and you can probably solve the geographic ones as well.

As for the benefits from the Episcopal Church, I assume that those cost money from the Church. I know you do not draw a salary from the Church, but pensions and health insurance still cost money. Many of us, myself included, have given up the safety and security of main stream jobs in order to handle start ups. You may have to do that yourself to make this work.
Cool video with Dave about startups:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtnSgQL-Bg
Today it is even better. 2GB of updates will get applied after rebooting, before system starts.
Cmd only gives you bash style keybinding, the "bunch of cmd tools" you are referring to is from mysysgit.

Anyway, neither of cmd or mysysgit is coming from cmder, and ConEmu has already made it straightforward to use these "add-ins". For me cmder is just a set of configs wrapping around ConEmu.
I am not saying he is automatically correct. I am saying that one should consider his profession, expertise, his level of skepticism, and then reconsider priors.
China is working on that. But I'm not so sure it's democracy that will come out of it.
That point about employees not having friends at work being at risk is true in my case - if I don't have friends where I work I don't feel at home, and am indeed more likely to leave. Which is a force for anti-diversity, since I only rarely make friends with Asians (of either sort). And I'd bet that this is the rule, not the exception.
Or HN could just have comment folding baked in. There's more than one way to solve this problem :^)
First, be polite. Actually, I've found this to be a useful mantra for all things business-related.

Next, realize that if it works, the developer may consider it done. Many organizations don't see maintainability as an important goal and stop at functionality.

So, with those two things in mind, I'd suggest to the developer to keep functions small (do you have a coding standard?). Show him how the logic can be refactored (a surprising number of good developers never think about refactoring).

Next, consider that you may be imposing your personal preferences on him. Does your team as a whole generally follow the practices that you are telling him? I find that this can be a difficult topic in code review: of course I want everyone to do things the way I do them, but I have to stop short of trying to create little "mini-me's"

tl;dr: be nice, point out how the rest of the team codes, suggest a rewrite based on the concepts you bring up.
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Is also note worthy that the bees in the hive are in effect slaves of the queen, acting in the queen interest and not on their own. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_mandibular_pheromone. As such the bees may evolve behavior that would not appear in a colony of truly independent "voters".
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English is really consistent here. 4321 is four thousand three hundred and twenty one. Probably the biggest inconsistency in English are the numbers 11 to 19.

Many European languages are not. Often with numbers between 11 and 99 are a weird special case. German puts the single digit first. As another poster mentioned 23 is "dreiundzwanzig" (literally "3 and 20"). French is worse where 97 is "quatre-vingts dix-sept" (literally "4 20s 10 7").

These are just the last remnants of a pre-decimal ("vigesimal" specifically) counting system.

I don't really see how weird rule exclusions on certain numbers would give anyone an advantage in math, particularly because even though the word means "4 20s" when you learn it, it's just a word and it may well just lead to questions like "why isn't 40 2 20s?" There is a cognitive cost with exclusions.

I remember reading a study once about how verbs became regular in English. There was a mathematical relationship between how often the word was used and how quickly it became regular. The less used, the quicker it happened.

This is why "to be" is irregular (as its the most common verb) whereas most other verbs (with <100 exclusions) follow a simple pattern.

It's probably the same with numbers. The numbers less than 100 are used far more often so their irregularity is preserved far longer than the less common numbers above 100.
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I come from a conservative background and I've never been discouraged from hanging out with different ethnicities and cultures. We are not the strawmen you apparently think we are.
Pinterest? Spreadsheets? Business apps?

Not applicable everywhere, but for certain applications (near-) infinite scrolling is extremely popular with the target users.
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So I would use Cmder instead of the standard console cmd.exe?

When would I use msysgit? Is it a competitor to Cygwin or does it solve a different problem?
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The most genuine, respected person in our community. My heart breaks for Sheryl and her family.
"The Cruel Sea" was also made into an excellent movie with some genuinely shocking moments for a film made in 1953.

However, I am particularly fond of Nicholas Monsarrat's "Three Corvettes" his non-fiction account of his wartime experiences, one of the few books that has moved me to tears.
I've noticed a lot of people just downvote his comments without even trying to understand anything he says - in this case, it was an amusing Earthbound related joke, and unsurprisingly downvotes follow because of the commenter, and not the comment itself.

Goes to show how broken the system is.
You probably mean "concubines".