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I'd almost believe you if it wasn't for the part of the article that read "The participants at this session were sent by their employer, human resources firm Staffs.". I don't see staff members volunteering for this, let alone people signing up for this of their own free will.

I wouldn't necessarily trust the positive feedback from participants either. After all, who would willingly give truthful feedback to an employer that actually believes that this would have the kind of positive effect they seem to believe that it would?

> and you encounter a situation that requires it, you can learn it

Which is perfectly fine as long as you know what that "it" is, which assumes a base-level familiarity with subject X.

The problem cases I can imagine are ones where you don't have the base familiarity, or in other words the cases where you don't know what you don't know (as opposed to knowing what you don't know and where to look for the answers).

This is the case that I see leading towards the so-called "expert beginner" stage of understanding.

How would you know what you don't know, though? Or what you never experienced or could have experienced?

Genuine question, just curious how anyone firmly on the "schooler" or "unschooler" side of the fence can know without some kind of external reference, particularly one which they themselves didn't choose in case of bias.

The essay "Authority and American Usage" [1] is an essay concerning prescriptivism vs. descriptivism and the relations between grammar and class/power which (somewhat) masquerades as a review of Bryan Garner's A Dictionary of Modern American Usage [2].

This topic naturally includes discussion about the use of Standard Written English (SWE) at university/college level.

In one chapter the author talks about how he teaches a remedial English class to instruct students in Standard Written English (SWE), and always begins by stating that while there is nothing incorrect about their own dialects, the fact is (and whether they are happy about it or not) SWE is the only way to communicate on a level playing field, and if they were even to consider trying to change this fact they'd have to argue their points through SWE in the first place in order to be taken seriously.

[1] http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsag...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garner%27s_Modern_English_Usag...

Beowulf cluster

"Drink different"

I can't help but imagine a future where every single resource that we consume will provided by one of a small number of megacorps (gigacorps?) and branded, right down to the home that you live in, the people that teach your children, the food you eat, the water you drink, and the air that you breathe.

"Amazon Air. For a lighter, purer you."

Do you think the adage "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it" holds true in the technology industry? I could cherry pick some examples just to start a flame war, for examples Node's "invention" of single-threaded event-based concurrency, but that feels a bit unfair ;)

A lot of the "unsolved problems in the world" are either problems that more technology won't solve, or aren't things that can be solved easily by current technology. They are social and human problems, which essentially boil down to "how" we live.

I think that poster's point about the same ideas coming round again and again was that in some areas of technology "keeping up with the state of the art" is just a case of re-learning how to do something that you already understand and know how to do, but in a way that is now structured differently. Broadening your horizons can (in some cases) end up in you seeing the underlying same-ness in a lot of things.

27 and I feel the same way, in that I don't feel much excitement around technology for technology's sake anymore. The latest version of macOS? Neat, but unlikely to be as "game changing" as Apple might have you believe.

The rate of change in some areas of technology can make you think that you're missing out on some kind of important development, however if things are changing that fast then perhaps nothing is really changing at all.

Mostly it's important that in whatever you're working on you're applying technology to a problem or area that you find interest in, otherwise the only "fun" can be found in the tech stack, which is not (in my not-too-humble opinion) a good place to find enjoyment. You can enjoy your tools, sure, but it shouldn't be the case that "We're using X, Y and Z" is more important than "to make Foo".

> I suck at a lot of things:

> Trying to get too much done in a day.

> Working out regularly.

> Keeping my closet clean.

I like how the post is really just a cleverly disguised humblebrag.

Don't forget the crushing feeling one gets (literally) while on the rail network.

Some of us actually like the rain ;)

Another example of developers borrowing terms from other subjects in an effort to big up their projects. See: "Isomorphic" JavaScript.

This looks like an interesting project, but what makes it different from the CloudFormer tool already provided by CloudFormation?

On a slight aside, among the many features I wish CloudFormation supported, one of the biggest is the ability to create a new stack and fold existing resources into it, including highlighting but allowing any discrepencies. If you didn't develop with CloudFormation from the beginning (or perhaps are migrating from Terraform) then having to move your environment "sideways" into a new stack can be pretty painful.

London's desire to stay is not less valid than the overall nation's, but neither is it more valid, which is roughly the sentiment expressed by this petition. It comes across as a sense of misplaced entitlement for someone to believe that because they live in a specific region of the UK that their vote is somehow more valid.

Some of the comments in the petition page (https://www.change.org/p/sadiq-khan-declare-london-independe...) are interesting:

"Even though the Houses of Parliament are situated in London, Londoners are only able to elect around 11% of MPs in the commons; Londoners have no say in how the vast majority of MPs are elected, yet they are still subject to their laws."

Yes, as they are subject to the laws of the entire country. The location of the Houses of Parliament has nothing at all to do with this. Plus, are we talking about the City of London or Greater London? The "11%" number essentially comes down to area boundaries and what is and isn't considered "London".

"London has no control over its borders while it remains a member of the UK."

What borders? London is a single city in a country. By definition the type of borders they are referring to don't exist, as it's not a country boundary.

Instantly recognisable as the inimitable Slavoj Žižek.

Properties which both have to be built on top of the raw communications medium. Amateur radio is as private and secure as a basic TCP connection is, which is to say that it's not on its own but is ready to have additional protocols built on top that give you additional properties.

Something that surprised me when reading Flatland for the first time was the seemingly high levels of both sexism and classism.

While the classism mostly consisted of the typical oft-repeated jabs that don't really mean anything, the sexism felt much stronger. So much so that I assumed that it was meant to be satire. But is it reflective of the views that were prevalent at the time it was written?

Or, in summary, "Uninterruptable power supply is actually interrupted."

Your question is making me rethink all "formal" employment as "Someone with a side project looking for people to work on it".

Fun fact: The book Infinite Jest includes a character who keeps their artificial heart in their handbag. In one scene, the handbag is snatched by a passing thief which leads to the character shouting "She stole my heart, stop her!". As expected, this is tragically misconstrued by passersby who believe that the woman was in the middle of a sad yet not unexpected lovers quarrel, whereas in actual fact her heart had been stolen. Tragicomedy in the same scene.

An interesting read into the development of a project that started using MongoDB and switched to PostgreSQL after eight months in production: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never...

There's always Pokémon, as long as you're okay with trapping innocent creatures in tiny spheres and using them to battle as opposed to studying them (though you do get to catalogue them) ;)

I'm 27 and I find this bedding pretty rad.

I'm so sorry.

I wonder how effective systems like https://cvdazzle.com/ are against this. Will we all be putting on masks or face-paint in the future when we go outside?

This is the most beautiful commit message I've read in a long time.

https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

Now what exactly is the thing it refers to?

Don't forget CSSes.

I'm sure the countless hours of homework in every subject that I was never interested in (of which that number was a majority) has helped me in my current career in not-any-of-those-subjects. /sarc

I feel like the most important things in school at that age are:

- Exposing people to a broad range of subjects that they might be interested in (and thus curious enough about such that they end up learning by themselves)

- Having teachers that can teach their subjects with enthusiasm, so that other people can see what the teacher finds exciting so that they too can (potentially) share in that enthusiasm and curiosity.