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I respectfully disagree with your argument in relation to this article.

Dan Luu is describing a method that would help people achieve a better success in their exams and classes, he's not even pointing their usefulness in the workplace. Therefore, your point about him thinking that universities are here to produce skilled workers is a strawman.

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I wouldn't recommend using this unless you're trying to shove milliseconds in this type of operations.

Pangea | Senior Server and Mobile Software Engineer | Tokyo, JP / Chengdu, China | ONSITE | VISA | Full time

Hey guys! We're in the middle of shipping a few products and modernizing large codebases, so we are looking for:

- A Java backend programmer (devops background appreciated),

- An experienced iOS developer,

- A lead Android developer.

We use CI, can deploy code fast, work from a cool shared office in central Tokyo, and can provide competitive salaries. We're still a relatively small team, so there's a lot of room for impact!

Reach me at klodio at name of the company dot com.

People keep complaining about how hard and expensive it is to attract top talent. This kind of measure is exactly how you do it. Provide an environment where employees feel trusted and empowered, pay market rate, screen properly instead of having applicants jump through hoops, and you won't have much trouble hiring.

Kudos to github for this, I'm impressed!

> As for homework, that's a giant can of worms. There is plenty of research on homework. It shows that homework is net neutral on actual learning, but a strong negative on creating stress. Digging in, it turns out that it can help or hurt, but whether it helps or hurts depends on whether there is someone at home who makes sure that the child does correct practice rather than incorrect practice. Therefore assigning homework's main impact (after home stress) is to widen the educational gap between children of different socioeconomic statuses.

That sounds very interesting, and really matches what I've seen so far. Do you have a link to some of this research? I'd like to share this with some friends but would like to share more than a link to a single hn comment!

Simple questions :

- Where are you based, and are you legally able to work where you're applying without too much overhead? Sometimes a company may like you but not be willing to jump through hoops after they realize how hard it will be to hire you, in which case they still interview to check if your talent justifies the hassle.

- Are you always on time, and always replying fast to emails? Lack of punctuality hurts bad, especially in a management role.

- Do you have a tendency to blame your current environment or your co-workers in interviews? No one wants to work with someone who's going to blame them or their company.

- What do you answer to the classic "where do you see yourself in 10 years?" Interview questions? This has a very strong impact on any large company.

- How long did you stay in your previous and current gigs? Job hopping can be a red flag.

- Did you ever get to the salary negotiation phase? If so, were you the one asking first? A candidate asking for too much might not look attractive.

- What is the size of the organizations you apply to? Your experience might not match what they're looking for.

- How do you define product management? Product Management is such a wide net (Design / Management / understanding of tech/...) that what you're currently doing and what the companies are looking for might not match. This happens more often than we could expect.

To anyone else reading this, but looking for a programming job (and not product management like OP), add those questions to your list:

- Do you contribute to open source? A lack of contributions will prevent your interviewer from selling you properly to a team.

- How good are you with algorithms and data structures on a whiteboard? This is like a sport, and as backwards as it is, it is different from actual programming, so you should actually train interviewing as a separate skill if you're not proficient.

Finally, 15 interviews for 50 application is not terrible, answer those questions honestly and you're probably going to do better!

Those two wordings aren't even coming from the same source, what exactly are you trying to prove here?

I think the x270 is coming soon, you might want to wait a bit!

I second the lenovo recommendation. An X220t with 16gb ram and ssd would fit your needs and budget for sure!

This.

There might be more Python jobs, but a lot probably require knowledge that most people can't get in bootcamps.

A simple indeed search of Django vs Flask vs Rails shows there are much more demand for Ruby web developers, which is what bootcamps train for.

> P.s. don't let my username fool you ;) I'm just unfortunately hipster.

The HN gods said it, you're not a n00bie but a real leet. ;)

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Back on topic, I would argue that it's more because bootcamps are here to get you a job fast, and that Rails and JS (maybe followed by Swift/iOS) probably offer the best (available jobs)/(time to learn) ratio of anything you can learn in a few months.

Tbh I never realized it but I feel the same way. I used to try to convert people to Linux when I was in high school, but those times are over and I'm okay with having my friends and family on MacOS.

That's a reasonable frustration, but I haven't seen anyone complaining that pc manufacturers still ship trackpoints. That's not to say that any pc comes close to Apple's trackpads though.

Most people switching, however, are annoyed by the absence of visual polish everywhere (hardware and software) and the lack of robustness compared to Apple laptops, which you can literally walk on or drop in your bag without paying attention to what else is next to it. Except for mil-spec laptops and thick toughbooks, I wouldn't do this with any computer.

Apart from console apps, there is no unified visual language on Linux, and most desktop application developers do not expect to make as much money as with mac or Windows. This often results in apps that just "get the job done", without much extra polish, but sometimes a LOT of extra features, which can actually confuse users. The best advantage of most Linux software is to be open source, which is unfortunately something 99% of people couldn't care less about.

I'm a day to day Linux user, and I couldn't be happier to have switched back from osx (2004-2016), but the switch is clearly not for everyone yet.

In case anyone else is looking for a transcript: I can't check right now if this talk is much different from the one he did in 2015, but just in case, here's a link to the Youtube video for the older one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKgJeqF1DHw

That's the only way I found to get any sort of text.

Well, no ops is not really no ops, but more "Google/Amazon is paying ops people for me".

Never tried RawTherapee, won't be able to help here sorry!

Just found the plugin doc thanks to your comment. I'm kind of ashamed I didn't know that...

Many people ask the question indeed!

I sell prints and license photos to a small list of corporate clients I slowly grew with time. I haven't been lucky with marketplaces so far, and I'm doubtful it would be worth the effort with my type of photography (abstract/achitecture).

Any monetization strategy is probably too tied to the corresponding style of photography for any generic advice to make sense. A few of my friends have their income coming mostly (or 100%) from photography, and not three of them monetize the same way. None of them use any marketplace though. Artists, fashion photographers, event photographers, social media content producers, all have a different business model which more often than not looks like classic b2b.

I was facing the same dilemma, and photo is a source of income to me. I made the jump, use Linux and Darktable every day, and experienced no frustration at all. I didn't try to run macOS in a vm though.

To answer your questions : it is quick, and I find it to be a very good replacement for lightroom. To me, it's actually easier to extend than adobe software, mostly because Lua is very simple and the documentation is crystal clear.

The best advice I could give here would be to give yourself a good dozen of hours of deliberate practice on Darktable, maybe more if you're into very advanced editing, but no more than a week.

Definitely agree!

I make a substantial part of my income (just enough to pay rent) selling photography, and I recently dropped ps and lightroom in favor of Darktable. The change didn't happen in a day, but Darktable is so good I don't think I'll ever need to come back to Adobe. Notable plus, I can now spend most of my time on Linux, no more need to use my Macbook for photo work.

The interface is not really good for smaller displays and resolutions (adobe stuff was better on my 11 inch mba), but on anything with more than 1280 x 960 px, it's great.

Congratulations to the Darktable team for this 2.2 release!

That's a very fair point. IIRC WebP uses more cpu than JPEG, so, faster transfers but will it actually enhance my customers experience with their various Android phones?

This reads like the author really wants his kid to learn programming, and the article shows more interest from the parent than from the child.

That's obviously anecdotical but I'm very glad nobody steered me into programming. It was my private garden, and I enjoyed every single second of the freedom it gave me. Writing my Delphi programs was funnier to me than programming books.

I think my point here is that I'm not sure it is in the best interest of children to push them into our passions. Then again I'm not a parent, so my opinion doesn't hold much weight!

Where I live (Japan), this is the most common strategy. The best way to get a job in Japan is to tailor your resume in order to show a maximum of loyalty. Anything too far from the norm can be a red flag (like not being married).

The best advice to take from your post is to make sure you know which type of company you're applying to. A small bootstrapped lifestyle business probably won't hire like a hot SV funded startup, which makes a lot of sense.

Having a system that is better unfortunately doesn't mean that this point is overblown.

That's similar to an idea I had a while ago. A cryptocurrency based open source application, using a margin generated on rides to fund maintenance and insurance, but I decided to pick something else (which I thought could be more helpful) as a startup idea.

I'd love to see if there's been any work on something in this vein regarding any company in the sharing economy. Traction/Marketing would be hard though.

> As an Obama executive order concerning immigration, it is one of the things that Trump has promised to annul on his first day in office.

I don't know if you're referring to his "Contract with the American Voter", but it states cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama . IANAL, but I don't think this qualifies as unconstitutional.

Then, it would probably be very easy to realize a PR campaign showing the startup visa as a great way to bring jobs to the US, so even though I have no real answer to the question, it would sound rather logical that this visa plan is here to stay.

> I think that one very underrated skillset is the ability to implement a data structure or algorithm on top of an existing platform.

Spot on. This sort of out-of-the-box thinking is definitely one of the most important things in the career of an engineer.

Yes, sometimes the data structure you need is either:

- unavailable (in a permissive license in) the platform you're currently using.

- available with an unsatisfying implementation.

If you're lucky, your employer will allow you to contribute to open source during your working hours so other developers won't need to re-implement it.

Now, if the question is about whether I needed to come up with a totally novel data structure at the office, the answer is no in my case.

At this time you'd already be under arrest tough, and probably in a tiny cell for a while. That was my point, this is what trolls look for. Then, unlike with other trolling methods, I'm pretty sure you need quite the clever lawyer to get out of this.

> Security researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis told Ars that “it’s a pretty reasonable assumption” that at one point the FBI was running roughly half of the known child porn sites hosted on Tor-hidden servers.

We're talking about a very large sting operation, just browse a few of those, I guess?