Experience and standards? It's like asking what's the difference between NY Style pizza in NY and NY style pizza in LA. Do you think they are the same? It's also like saying that TexMex in MN is the same as in TX or CA.
Anybody can open up an BBQ place in Anytown, USA, and it could be passable or even pretty good, but it'll not beat a moderately good place in a town known for BBQ. It's mostly because the low quality places get run out of town to those with exceptional BBQ, and maybe even thrive in places where BBQ joins are scarce. Making really good BBQ is an art, and takes many years of experience and practice, maybe even mentoring under a master. Some guy smoking a brisket following a recipe online isn't going to come near even low quality BBQ restaraunts. Not without a lot of experience, trial and error, and by that point they aren't even following the recipe any longer.
My first job out of college was starting at 15/hr. I did that for three years, getting a $1/hr raise every year until I landed a "sweet" job for 55k/yr. It wasn't until a couple years after that I realized I was still underpaid. I'm not a ninja programmer, and I'm doing mainly web development, but I'm outside of the Seattle area, and there are places hiring jobs with my experience level paying 100k+.
Oops, you are right. I'd say I hadn't had my coffee yet when I wrote that, but even that's not a good excuse. How embarassing. 100 books does seem right though, I thought the 10 seemed a little too light.
I set up an account yesterday and did like that Amazon import feature. I wish It imported all the books you read with Kindle Unlimited though. Thanks for the heads up with the bookmarklet, I'll check it out.
Logging what you read is, oddly enough, a new idea for me. One I'll have to seriously consider doing. In 2003 I started college, and an exercise in a class I had we had to tell two truths and one falsehood and let the class guess the falsehood. I don't remember what the falsehood was or the other truth, but the truth one that everybody thought was the falsehood was that I had read over 2000 books.
I only know that I read that many because I owned that many books (and didn't own every book I ever read). I was 26 then, and reading since 5-6, so that's really only 10 books a year. The real number of books at that point might have been more like 3000 - but I did re-read a lot of the books I owned so maybe not.
Since this time last year, I've probably read 30+ books. Gotta love the Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.
To be fair though, he did say the amplitude (shaking apmlitude) was 10 times that of a 6.9, which is true, the energy released was 30+ times though, that is correct. (42+ PetaJoules vs 1.4 PJ in the case of the 6.9)
Well, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are both involved in Planetary Resources[0]. They are actively doing stuff even now[1] (their product is the Arkyd in this case). Not quite officially Google, but I can see where people would assume so.
I may have glass windows, but usually they are covered up with blinds and or curtains. Especially in the bedroom. It's nice to be able to open them up and let light in when I need to, but I wouldn't put it on a list of necessities.
Also in the Seattle area (Tacoma, really). There does seem to be a lot of activity up north there, I get calls from recruiters all the time, but I just can't swing that commute at this time - or work all of the hours above 40 I'm assuming I'd have to work. It doesn't surprise me that the labor market is pretty ridiculous for developers though. It's pretty awesome that you picked up coding and got a job that fast, it's pretty good news for my sister if she decides to go that route.
My sister recently finished a postdoc and her and her husband moved to the SF area (Mountain View), and quickly realized she couldn't do another one (that limit mentioned in the article I'm gathering). She's not had any luck finding a job in her niche (Virology), and I suggested she hop on a bootcamp type training for software development. She's right there where it's hopping, she could pull it off (she's smarter than I am and I manage).
She's fallen off the face of the earth I guess. I've tried contacting her a few times over the last month or two and never get a response. Maybe she's busy doing just that. Hopefully, the way she was talking finding an Industry job with her PhD is hard.
That's probably true, but at least in my school, the greatest increases had been in the last few years. When I graduated in 2008, 2009 tuition was increasing something along the lines of 7.4% Probably the majority of that 14 years it went up relatively slowly and has gone up much more lately.
I'm kind of baffled at the downvotes here, is this not a legitimate question or method of debate? I'm not spewing tropes or memes like on reddit. I thought here it's discouraged to downvote because you disagree as well as reddit, but it seems the intellectual levels are even lower than reddit.
Oh, I see, you downvote people other than the hivemind comments so that they never reach the levels to downvote themselves. I get it. Kinda sad and pathetic, but whatever, Internet numbers don't mean quite that much to me. It's additonally sad that I don't have any discreditation to my comment. You know you are wrong, but you downvote me anyway.
Sure, I'm not doubting that SCFA don't have health benefits (or that Coconut Oil doesn't), but just the claim that this rice has "half the calories" or even significantly less. Making even all of the starch present in rice "resistant" depending on the gut microbes present, it could be just as much calories (2.5-4.1 according to wikipedia) from the SCFA.
So healthier, but not "less calories" really, especially with the Coconut oil added (MCFA do have slightly less calories than LCFA, but not all of Coconut oil consists of MCFA).
I'm all about this though, and will probably give it a try myself (I like refried rice).
Soluble fiber which is fermented by certain gut bacteria[0][1] and product short chain fatty acids (2.5-4 kcal per gram). Those SCFA has a slew of health benefits which the article kind of alludes to but doesn't name.
I've read though, that that same bacteria produces short chain fatty acids with some non-trivial amount of calories. Also, where is this coconut oil they are putting in going when they cool it? Wouldn't the fat from the coconut oil counterbalance the savings by utilizing this method?
That said, I'd rather have the short chain fatty acids than the excess carbs, so it seems a fair trade off to me.
Correct, workflow. Even with the tools themselves, rather than "best practice" it seems mind boggling using SFTP within the editor. With things like SASS, bower, grunt, npm and the like - it doesn't even seem like it'd be compatible.
We use git and have branches designated as Dev, Test, Prod (etc) with webhooks or other scripts that automatically deploy the branches based on the workflow. At my last job (small webshop) it was automated, but my current job is more "Enterprisey" and we have separation of duties and other work flow constraints which mean that I never push anything to production myself (or test for that matter).
It's pretty impressive, then, and nonetheless, I'm just a lot less impressed when somebody says they have 10 years experience and it equates to 2 years of full time, enterprise or startup experience, and 8 years of "I'm going to school full time and program 3 hours a night." I did program and experiment when I was in my teen years too (late 80s, early 90s) and still cringe when people count that as actual experience. Not that I'm constantly learning and growing at my full time job, but meetings, documentation, paperwork, etc are a large part of the job and count more than not having to bother with it.
I think this is the right answer, it's pretty high level, and maybe more nuanced than "it's my tribe" because there's always infighting amongst the tribe, but it cuts to the chase, this whole attitude is endimic to the human condition.
Sometimes maturity cuts through it, but IME, sometimes it takes maturity and intelligence (though not a huge amount of it), and on the rare cases, there's something more, like a primal competitive nature.
How long have you been programming full time though? I find too many people on HN are 25 and count "15 years experience" because they started programming at 10. It's just not the same thing, especially when most people only count professional experience (and full time at that). 15 years of programming experience < 10 years full time experience in an enterprise or startup environment.
Interesting. Just to clarify why I asked, I googled "MM millions" and saw the answer right away but a search for "BB billions" came up rather empty (I read the first result and skimmed the title and snippet for the first page). "1BB" came up with bed and breakfast results. "$1BB" did have some results, though some were like me that this was the first time seeing it and they were asking about it. The other sites are blogs and nothing like Bloomberg.
Anyway, thanks, next time I see it, I guess I will not be confused.
MM is often used to denote millions, but I don't think BB is used to denote Billions. Do you have a cite that indicates otherwise, because I don't see it on a quick search.
Great post, that's some vivid imagery. There's many great writers here on HN, though I'd like to mention that your style of writing is fairly unique (and very good) and might point to your main account, especially if your main account is prolific (which, If I'm right, is true).
I was seeing white and gold this morning. Read the reddit post, somebody had done a contrast adjustment showing the black/dark brown and blue and when I saw that, front that point onward I only see blue/brown (still don't see the black, it's a dark brown to me).
The funny thing is, this morning when I first "got it", the blue was very light, and I've been looking at the original tumbler throughout the day and I swear it's getting darker blue every time.
Now I can't even see the white and it's kind of blowing my mind. I remember the WTF moment when people said it was blue/black and only seeing white/gold, but I just can't reverse it and see it again.
I grew up in the KCMO area, and can confirm a similarity there. Actually, as you mentioned, I didn't actually LIVE in KC, I lived right outside in a town called Independence, but nobody really knew that town very well, so we all just said KC. Downtown was something you tended to avoid, at least until relatively recently where there's been a lot of stuff added to do, but now I live out West. People live in Seattle, but I live south of that, in Tacoma. Still say I'm from "Seattle" or "The Seattle Area." I wonder if that's a carry over from when I was in MO.