hotcrossbunny

+1 just for the Victor Borge reference. Maybe his first ever appearance on HN? Who knows?

Also the self direction is neither taught nor encouraged in the existing model of education

This is as much about their lack of historic engagement with new platforms than a fundamental difficulty in adapting the teaching process or content. Universities have been very invested in a high cost model. It's time to change. This like many things we are now discovering are ripe for reform and have lacked only the right catalyst to set a painful but necessary progress in motion.

Eric is a super nice guy too. The whole clojure community seems uncommonly decent in my opinion

Also check out @reborg and his much underrated YouTube channel. I really hope he can get his book finished

If not already mentioned, John Stevenson's Practicalli site and YouTube channel are very good and active. If you are going down the Emacs route for the first time, his contributions in and around and explaining Spacemacs are pure gold

I think I could use a little help expanding no 19. "Be firm and constant in the exercise of rational religion. Considering he was a clergyman, whatever did he mean?

Need a bad sector on your disc? No problem, just make a little sticky tape handle on the last edge of the disk in the drive. Open the drive door, leaving the disc in and spinning. Then wait till the computer says go, and pull really hard on the disk against the drive head. I couldn't believe this worked back when I was 10.

THIS is a great little number!

https://operatr.io also expanding into this space

Can you elaborate a little please? It's unclear to me if you are taking about merging data, code changes, or something else

Summarised conversation I had with my interviewer during a FAANG interview:

Me: So why do you work for FAANG company X? Interviewer: Mainly so that other companies will take me seriously when I'm looking for my next gig

I appreciated the honesty, but disappointed that this was the honest response

You are so right regarding the communication challenge. But rising to that challenge can be immensely rewarding, both on a personal level and for growing a vision for the emerging software. Big ups indeed to Kent for writing about stuff like this, but also to all you folk who thought it was worthy reading and commenting on.

If you do go for it look out for one with an original battery that may well fall into the battery recall that Lenovo has been running for years. A "dead" battery to the seller may represent a free replacement from Lenovo without any cycles it's clock.

Couldnt agree more.....I type on my X220 with 9 cell battery.

... caution.... absolute caution

> Today, anyone can broadcast. But that doesn't mean that everyone should broadcast.

I don't agree here. Perhaps "not everything should be broadcast" might be better?

I would up vote this.

There's a distinction between self promotion and genuine honest expression of who we are, what we presently think is true.

I feel like there is something fundamentally human when people try to do that with each other.

I'm going to opine that you probably are a lot more interesting than might think.

Granted that most people's lives don't serialise down well into a regular stream of weekly episodes. If one can put aside the requirement to "be someone" on the internet, I think maintaining a personal site can be a really great form of self expression, albeit with a few provisos.

NZ cracked the robot sheepdog back in the 70s https://youtu.be/T1cmPNYb5Ko

Broadly speaking, that used to be how design patterns were often treated in interviews. Could you recognise, describe, code, discuss pros, cons and applicability for pattern X in given circumstance. Pretty easy stuff to cram unfortunately, which may be why they may have fallen out of favour in recent times as proxy measure for brains, but depending on the role in question that sort of material was often more likely to be useful in the job than a similarly broad knowledge of algorithms

I'm about 20 years too late, but me and my boys still think it's flipping cool to drive our car onto a train that goes under the sea to France. Love it.

Loved the point about needing to think about/teach curiosity for the core ideas of computer science aside from the keyboard and screen

Well said!

Took me quite a while to work out you weren't talking about pancakes

To add unbounded credence to this idea, it's basically what Macgyver did using nitroglycerin to put out a wellhead fire in the 1985 episode "Hellfire"

Yay for Atari basic!

A sitter for the kids, good restaurant, fine food and a glass of wine with my...er.. time picker. Oh wait. Damn punctuation!

Perhaps it's less useful as a roadmap, and more as a React centered map of the frontend tech landscape. Some crossover with Thoughworks Tech Radar perhaps?

Had the same experience