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I love SQLiteStudio. On my machine it starts up in < 2s. Version 3.2.1 takes 99MB disk space and is built against QT5. I just ran some queries and the memory usage is only 80MB for a not too large database.

Another self-contained application I like is racket/drracket.

The 1992 study is basically irrelevant since the job market has changed drastically. There are way more self taught computer people out making money without degrees than in 1992 as just one major factor that has changed in over two decades.

The Berkeley study is missing a lot of data and is dated as well from 1999. I searched for the most common high paying non-degree jobs and found nothing about them. Plumbers, electricians, construction contractors, certain kinds of farmers, etc... Recently on HN it was said that construction works in California were starting at $45 an hour in many places. I know plenty of people who got non-stem degrees that do not make that 10+ years out of college and working professionally in their field the whole time.

Furthermore there is the trend of people getting degrees in fields that will not yield jobs or fields that are over saturated. Take lawyers and this article from 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/business/dealbook/an-expe... and this one from 2017 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/28/law-schools-h... . There are plenty more articles going back more than a few years about it.

Then there is the issue of colleges and textbooks constantly increasing costs while not increasing the value of the degree itself. In fact in many instances degrees are worth less now since colleges pass students to keep that fire hose of government backed money coming in. There are numerous documentaries on youtube that go into depth of how colleges are ripping people off in many instances.

The main value of college is the ability to network with people so that finding and getting a job becomes easier. The job hunting process is broken and there are always new startups trying to fix it. In high school they pushed college as the solution to everything harder than a drug dealer slinging product. It is easy to find people who got that degree and their job and earning problems are not solved. Going to college no matter what is a dogma.

It is not clear at all that a college education is going to increase your lifetime earning. You have to pick the right field, get your debt settled quickly, live in or move to the right area and conquer the job hunting process and then you might come out ahead. I think high school students should be better educated on how the market works and there are plenty of non-degree jobs that have serious earning potential. Also the US has neglected trade schools as a job training solution while European countries have not.

According to a chart of the local LTE mobile internet options the max speed is 10Mbps. The fast test on my phone just reported the max speed as 1.9Mbps.

I am currently out in the sticks in the U.S. near a major interstate highway. I have one option for wired internet which is DSL. The max speed is 5Mbps down and 0.5Mbps up. I have a choice between 2 wireless companies that will gladly lock me into a 2 year contract at ~$100 a month with a bandwidth cap of 200-300 GB a month. I have asked around and it has been this way for ~10 years and the local ISP has no intention of an infrastructure upgrade. I check the broadbandnow website every month and there are no new options. This is the free market most of the people living in rural America deal with. I previously lived in a major city and had 100Mbps down and 30Mbps up with no data caps.

Now think about how slow that is. I have to wait for Youtube to buffer up and Netflix/Hulu were so unusable I canceled my service. Watching anything live only works at the lowest possible resolution. VOIP is completely unreliable and gaming is spotty at best. The last time I had internet options this slow was the end of the 90s. Using census data there are 10,000+s of people out here dealing with this garbage level service.

The U.S. government defines broadband as 25Mbps down and 3Mbps upload at a minimum. I currently do not have broadband internet.

There is an over saturation of lawyers in America in many of the legal fields. Making the laws harder to access is a way for lawyers to add value to their jobs because it erodes away the ability for the common person to read, understand, and use the laws. Carl Malamud has pointed out this protectionist racket in the past and actively fights against it.

Law schools lie about the availability of jobs post graduation to keep the student money flowing in. This has been mentioned before on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180690 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443739

This is covered in the BBS Documentary[1]. A comparison of Phil Katz work showed he just renamed variables and moved things around. Phil rallied the BBS community to character assassinate Thom. The documentary is shot years later and Thom still breaks down and cries when talking about what happened. It is very sad.

[1] http://bbsdocumentary.com/

Just tried out nextdoor.com. It tried to load 6 different tracking and marketing scripts that my browser addons blocked. Craigslist has 0. I will not be using nextdoor.

I read the language log pretty regularly and they tend to have quality content. Then you got a post like this which says the book is bad and everything about it is bad after skimming it in a book store. An entire review based on skimming and a few out of context quotes does not make a well researched and thought out position on a book. At no point does the author say they actually read the book cover to cover. This is just a rant against being prescriptive in your writing since it is not "the one true way".

I have read On Writing Well and there is a lot of material covered in this book. I recommend the chapters on editing as that was Zinsser's day job.

I like the new look. I have been trying it out for the last week doing searches and reading books. It feels cleaner than the old layout.

Watch Jason Scott's BBS documentary to see the people who built many of the icons of the bbs world. It is 8 episodes long and is available on youtube right now. I have watched it multiple times and the depth it provides into what was going on is why I like it. I dialed into bbses for years to post messages, play games, and get patches. At the time I didn't fully grasp how wide spread the phenomenon was so when your favorite board went away it was brutal.

I see a lot of the bbs community feel in many online forums so I know it lives on.

Now thats some good documentation.

This book needs some serious editing. There is clunky English which native speakers can figure out the gist of it but English as a second or later language would have a problem with. There are parts where I wonder why certain terminology is not explained before using it and other areas where terminology is explained that I assume the reader needed to know before reading this material. Good technical books have a section in the beginning usually called something like "Intended audience" or "Who should read this book". I only did editing for a few years but those are the first things I noticed after reading the intro and chapters 1-3.

I have a portable air conditioner but it is not as portable as you would think. It is about 2.5 feet tall, sits on nice rolling wheels and has a small exhaust and fitting so you open your window and put the pipe end in place to vent the heat. You do not have to mount it in the window which makes it portable. I can move it from room to room and it only takes about 2 minutes to setup the fitting.

After reading this article I can tell that the author does not understand the problems going on in Detroit and has not even been there. The city is a 3rd world country. Besides the abandoned/burned out buildings and crime the city has serious business relation problems. There are no grocery stores within city limits because of lack of customers and local crime rates. Go to google maps and look for meijer, walmart, target, etc and none are in the city. This is a very unattractive position for both businesses and employees since most other cities do not have this problem. Shopping in Detroit is not convenient at all.

Add to that the high unemployment rate, the police problems, the near infinite amount of house and building fires, the poor public transit system and the total lack of bike lines. The only positive to Detroit is cheap land and buildings in many cases. Almost forgot about the city filing for bankruptcy too, that never inspires confidence.

They are watermarking scans of items that are not in copyright since they predate the copyright system. What kind of bullshit is this?

These should all be public domain. Is there anyone besides Google and the Vatican that watermark public domain works?

Another New York is the best at X story. Every time another city does something good New York tries to copy it. They have to keep this kind of PR up to promote living in an ultra expensive area.

The content is not licensed creative commons. The code to the actual site is not open source, only the code to use the API. I would not call this an open source project or a major win. A major win would be a uniformly licensed content base that is CC-BY and they provide data dumps.

It is a slight improvement over bikepedia but not by much.

The city I live in now only has 2 traditional style malls left. When I moved here numerous years ago it had 7 malls, all of which were accessible by bus. That is a major change and there has been no new malls built. The buildings just stand there like relics of a time gone past. Retail and restaurants have moved into existing strip malls that had space available due to businesses folding. Back where I grew up it is the same story.

I miss the tradition malls because some had unique and good food places. As well as arcades, movie theaters, and places to hang out. Malls that are thriving do so because there is enough population around to support the businesses and they have new stores coming in to fill out the empty spaces.

I recently moved an application off mysql to postgresql after hitting this error. After over a decade of mysql doing things their way and it always being a pain in the ass for everyone else when is enough, enough?

I no longer develop software to run on mysql because I like my sanity.

> Node is a general purpose language that can be used for all kinds of things.

Node is a library that can be used for all kinds of things. FTFY

Lets not forget the benefit of the automated test army known as CPAN Testers. You release to CPAN they test it across many versions of each major operating system Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, etc...

I like the SPORE (Specification to a POrtable Rest Environment) approach better. You create a description file in JSON and each native language client can use that file to access the HTTP API. https://github.com/SPORE/specifications

SPORE already has clients for Clojure, Javascript, Lua, NodeJS, Perl, Python, and Ruby. I have used SPORE in a few projects and I was not disappointed. Another approach to solving the cross language library problem.

If only someone had saved these for future generations :) https://archive.org/details/computer_shopper

Once again Archive Team has a job to do.

The "Modern Perl" book did this a few years ago as well. The crowd sourced nature of it helps keep the content up to date and error free.

The title should really read "GNOME dev bans bugzilla user for drawing attention to bad GNOME developer processes"

Here are some of the list resources:

20 Perl libraries for fetching web content - http://neilb.org/reviews/http-requesters.html

An SO wiki page for html scraping - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2861/options-for-html-scr...

Yes to this article. Using small fonts on a website makes too many bad assumptions about the audience.

Anyone got a download link that does not require me to sign for another service?

Brainfuck really does not have much going for it as a platform. For an example of what I mean check out Jeff Atwood's article http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/reddit-language-vs-...