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I'm curious, do others perceive undeserved upvotes as an issue? As far as communities like this go, I think HN is pretty fair about what kind of content is valuable.

Sure, maybe some high-quality niche articles don't get a ton of attention, but that's the nature of writing about niche topics.

I took networking courses at a community college. The professor was fantastic, a former IBM employee who'd been doing network stuff at AT&T for 20 years. He wasn't a professor, but this guy knew his stuff. It was the perfect way to get some "hands-on" experience with routing and switching.

Community colleges don't do everything well, but when it comes to building hard skills, it's hard to think of a better bang for your buck. (Particularly if you live in NY like me, it's free!)

Why just those two countries then? Why don’t I see a thousand get requests for /wp-login from countries all around the world? Wouldn’t that be significantly more effective since you can’t simply block a range of addresses to mitigate it?

Sounds great until you consider that the vast majority of users just tap/click “yes” at every prompt.

End users don’t even know what’s best for them. My family acts like I’m a conspiracy theorist when I talk about privacy. Yes, that’s anecdotal, but I’d bet most people would behave similarly. Consider the sheer amount of articles in popular media about Facebook’s privacy violations. Now consider how many people in your family either haven’t heard about them or simply don’t care.

Even other tech-savvy people don’t care. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the phrase, “what do you have to hide?”

It is possible to convey much more nuance through speech.

I like to think of myself as an effective writer. Nonetheless, it is incredibly difficult to express nuanced emotions through writing. This is particularly true in “professional” contexts, where an informal message may be perceived as rude. In many situations, I suspect that the same message, delivered verbally, would not even warrant a second thought.

The reality is that few people are taught to write in a manner that allows them to actually express their feelings. The fact that we even need to learn this indicates to me that speech is a far more effective way of getting our thoughts across

You’re spot on about the diversity. I did not grow up in a very diverse place and it’s one thing I feel that I really missed out on.

But parks? In the NYC suburbs (maybe exurbs is more accurate) where I grew up, I had like 5 beautiful state parks within walking distance from my house. I could walk through my friend’s backyard to a pair of beautiful lakes where we could swim, fish, kayak, whatever.

It’s interesting. I’m not trying to be argumentative, but when I go to the city (any American city, at least), I find it to be really dirty, loud, and I find the people to be generally rude. I also don’t like the complete and total lack of outdoor space that isn’t public. Nothing beats a backyard to me.

One thing that will keep me from living in the city for the rest of my life is how much I enjoy having private outdoor space. Being outside by myself is one of my favorite feelings in the world.

I returned to college after 10 years in the insurance industry. I’ve always viewed programming as a hobby, but decided to take the leap and pursue a career that I might actually enjoy.

Anyway, I notice a lot of younger students have this attitude and it frankly causes them to produce really crappy work. As long as they pass the class, they don’t really care to absorb the material.

I can’t help but wonder what kind of job they’re hoping to get when they leave school. What will happen when they get a technical interview? I can’t imagine them doing anything beyond answering phones at a company’s IT Help Desk.

I dunno. I listen to every word the professors say as if they’re telling me the secret to eternal life while half the class is dozing off.

I love that area.

But how many of those friendships with neighbors really boiled down to friendships of convenience? I’ve always liked the people I live near, but I’ve never felt that I connect to them on a deeper level.

If I couldn’t spend time shooting the breeze with my actual friends on Discord, maybe I’d be more inclined to spend time with my neighbors. Even if we didn’t really connect a deep level, at least we could converse for a few hours.

I have no interest in that though. I have no need for that kind of interaction. If I want to be social, I can contact people that I feel a deep connection to at any time.

Part of a previous internship of mine involved teaching Scratch to kids in 2nd to 4th grades. We taught Python to kids around the 7th and 8th grade. Scratch is much better suited to younger children, imo.

I suppose the obvious answer is web back-ends, though that is true of practically every language.

I recently decided to, for the sake of practice, build some single page apps using Vanilla JS. It was such a pain. Maybe some of it is due to my relative lack of front-end JS experience, but I found it nearly impossible to avoid duplicate code. I’m interested to know how people architected apps like that before. I was under the impression that SPAs were not nearly as common before frameworks like React.

Yes. They play on a heavily modified client as well.

https://www.engadget.com/2014/01/17/wow-archivist-wow-in-chi...

From another non-lawyer perspective, might it be different since there is money involved? I view it as potentially infringing on some people’s livelihoods.

Again, just spitballing. I have no idea what the reality of the situation is.

While I appreciate the firsthand information, I think this is true of practically anywhere. Frankly, trying to prevent catastrophe through changing individuals’ behavior is practically impossible. Consider the amount of people who still smoke cigarettes as an example.J

If I am being frank, I mostly use DoorDash/Uber Eats when I’ve had a couple drinks and I can’t drive somewhere to get food. Pizza is the only delivery option if I don’t want to use an app. Most restaurants around here forgo offering delivery themselves and advertise the fact that you can order from them on Uber Eats or whatever.

I love Clojure, but I felt like 90% of the time it took me to “learn” Clojure was spent actually learning how to use emacs and working with a REPL. Once you get it down, it’s easy to be super productive, though.

I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding, but you will need a Real ID to board domestic flights as well.

Oh, very cool. Sounds like something I’d love to use. I always loved the Clojure REPL.

I don’t do data science and I really don’t understand what Jupyter notebooks are used for. Are they just a way to explore ideas with immediate feedback?

As the years go by, I find myself craving a job with a physical labor component to it.

A friend of mine studied enology (wine making) at Cornell and his job is about 50% business management and 50% wine making. Some days he has to wear a suit to work, other days he comes home in a wine stained smock. It seems like a good balance.

For better or worse, UX is as much about curating a company “image” as it is about creating user-friendly interfaces. When users see that your website looks like Apple’s, they immediately think, “Wow, this company is the real deal.” This part of the user’s experience is, unfortunately, the focus of many marketing/design teams.

I am not lonely. I'm lucky enough to have had the same group of close friends since we were like, 5 years old, a girlfriend, and family about 35 minutes away.

That being said, we live in a relatively rural place and I see a lot of people struggle with loneliness. It's not as simple as "joining a group" when there aren't any around. Maybe you could go to a bar, but the people at the bar are mostly older townies (we're mid-20s to early-30s). Plus, going to bars is less fun when you have to think about driving home. They could go to church, but most people around my age aren't religious, and the few people who do go to Church around here tend to live very faith-focused lives.

I guess the ultimate solution is to leave their hometowns. I've pushed several of them to go back to school as a method of getting out of their situations and meeting people, and it's honestly been kind of successful. We live in NY, so school is free if you meet certain economic requirements. It's been great to see them flourish.

I'm not sure what the numbers show, but I think, as people who are interested in tech, we often forget a large segment of the population needs some in-person assistance when choosing new devices. My dad asks me every time he needs a new laptop, TV, or whatever. He has no interest in doing the research himself.

Anecdotally, my local Best Buy is always packed. I do a good amount of shopping online, but I also like to get certain things in person when possible. To me, it's much more satisfying to buy something and be able to use it on the same day.

meaningness seems really interesting, thanks for sharing!

Some of these ideas are not too far-fetched. Lab “grown” meat, for example, isn’t too far from becoming a commercially viable product.

I think it had an effect, but it is possible that, through meditation, he had already achieved similar states of mind and become adept at controlling/navigating them.

This is totally anecdotal and based only on experiences I've had though. It's hard to make blanket statements about the nature of psychedelics.

I think Ruby developers are a lot more likely to switch to Crystal than Elixir. Elixir encourages a much more functional style than I think Ruby developers are used to.

Name calling was not my intention, I apologize.