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hlfw0rd··on It’s a Tough Job Market for the Young Without College Degrees
This greatly depends on the industry. I dropped out of high school after my freshman year and have never had any issue finding a job as a software engineer or project manager. I haven't even been asked about my education in 5 or 6 years. You just need to market yourself, be open to relocation and make your skill set seem like an asset to the companies you are applying too. This is an odd industry though.
hlfw0rd··on It’s a Tough Job Market for the Young Without College Degrees
Modern cars often consist of millions of lines of programming. Especially electric cars.
hlfw0rd··on Image Scaling using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
You might like this paper. Multi-view Face Detection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks : http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02766
hlfw0rd··on Imba – A new programming language for the web
Ruby did not popularize nor invent REST. The other points I don't feel like arguing about..
hlfw0rd··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
Cue the automated blackmail emails requesting bitcoin to be delivered... etc..
hlfw0rd··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
Strange, I would expect hackers to be the first to reject the silly social construct of monogamy.

I think this is ridiculous and nearly pointless. The only benefit I see is exposing how carelessly ALM handled personal data. However, they could have accomplished this while still blinding the data.

Edit: Not sure why this warrants downvotes..

hlfw0rd··on How Google killed my startup
Seems as though the author got scared and gave up.
hlfw0rd··on Amazon boss Jeff Bezos defends company's workplace culture
That is what happens if you don't pay for their managed support plans. If you do, they provide spectacular service.
hlfw0rd··on Oxford University Machine Learning Course
"Machine Learning is a mathematical discipline, and students will benefit from a good background in probability, linear algebra and calculus. Programming experience is essential."

Check Prerequisites: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2014-2015/ml/index....

hlfw0rd··on Extending Watson to Interpret Medical Images
The statistical hierarchical nature of Watson could be exceptionally useful when determining the probability of an anomaly's existence.
hlfw0rd··on How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries
I stand corrected. Wow..
hlfw0rd··on How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries
New York legalized cannabis for medical purposes in July of 2014. You should see dispensaries opening in January of 2016 (18 month implementation plan).

http://nypost.com/2014/07/07/ny-becomes-23rd-state-to-allow-...

hlfw0rd··on How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries
How do you relate cannabis plants with serial killers?
hlfw0rd··on Anomalyzer – An Anomaly Detection Package
touché
hlfw0rd··on Study Reveals That Microsoft Azure Is Leading PaaS Over Amazon, Heroku, Etc
... Nothing in their study says Azure is better. You can not deny it is a definitive market leader, both by market share and functionality.
hlfw0rd··on How I Got a Tech Startup Job- with an Art Degree
Well of course. You do not need any degree for the majority of tech jobs..
hlfw0rd··on Anomalyzer – An Anomaly Detection Package
Super cool. Now I can organize a statistical hierarchy of anomalies and assign to appropriate workers!
hlfw0rd··on Resize.ly – Images resized, responsive, and retina ready
Meh. Not impressive.
hlfw0rd··on How I develop with Nix
Seems like it would be perfect for declarative deployments!! So neat!
hlfw0rd··on GitHub Desktop is now available
Both open source and close source have their place, and a bias towards either should be avoided. It frustrates me that so many view the two as mutually exclusive company decisions.
hlfw0rd··on “It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
Please quit. If not out of self respect, then to protest these horrid rates for software engineers everywhere.
hlfw0rd··on Firefox Under Fire: Anatomy of latest 0-day attack
A quite beautiful bug! The fact it searches your computer for filezilla/etc server credentials is just as beautiful!!

This is a lesson for those who continue to save their filezilla/etc passes in plaintext.. Stop being lazy and type your password each time.