Readit NewsHow dare they use a compelling example to demonstrate a problem.
Seriously. As an avid NYtimes loyalist, I'd prefer they exhaustively enumerate through EVERY company where contractors outnumber FTEs. And then I want an equal amount of coverage distributed over all companies.
thebooglebooski commented on Ask HN: Advice for Hosting and Deploying My Side Project · Posted by u/the_wannabe
I third Heroku.
I fourth Heroku.
thebooglebooski commented on Believing without evidence is always morally wrong aeon.co/ideas/believing-w... · Posted by u/ibhosszu
I think the author missed an opportunity at the end, when threading the role of AI/decision-making with respect to our lives...
Our behavior in society is fluid and dynamic. And so the extent to which data gets used to influence our future can, and should also reflect our changing values and beliefs.
The caveat is: what's the lag behind to which automated systems accurately reflect our beliefs of what's right and wrong?
Things like the semantics of words change regularly, at least in English.
And so is it safe to assume and believe that systems using "big data" accurately project and reflect society within a given moment of time?
"Our findings suggest that positive well‐being may protect against symptoms of depression in people with autism."
Wait, so the theory is that if you're generally happy, you're less likely to be depressed? I know that depression and sadness are very different things, and happy people get depressed, but... it sure seems like you'd expect a correlation.
Not only does this seem a little bit obvious, it also doesn't seem immediately useful. And further down it notes that this is entirely consistent with research in the general population, so this result is... also totally unsurprising. Is there a reason at all to believe that this would be true for people generally but not for people with ASD?
I'm confused, where does it say the sample of people with ASD is generalizable to people without ASD?
thebooglebooski commented on Show HN: App Academy Open – Free Online Coding Bootcamp open.appacademy.io/... · Posted by u/CesareBorgia
> "I learned more real-world skills in 12 weeks than my Stanford degree taught me."
I'd hope the author of that quote was paying very little attention, because I find this hard to swallow.
My problem with these programming bootcamps is that they seem almost more focused on a shallow but fun dive than teaching people thoroughly. That's not problematic in it of itself if it gets people interested, but I'd hunch a guess that most of the graduates of these bootcamps are not going on to self-study more intensely after.
In my opinion, these bootcamps generally teach you to be a barely average web developer. If you are sufficiently self-motivating, self-study is a great idea, but you don't need a bootcamp for this.
I'm not one to judge people on whether or not they have a degree, but I think there is real value in an equivalent curriculum for self-studying.
If I have the choice to hire someone fresh out of a web development bootcamp and someone who was self-studying compiler design, I'm hiring the compiler design person every time, even if it's a web development job.
I don't know why this is teaching jQuery anymore. But why do you need this course for JavaScript when you have the excellent MDN guides for beginners to use? I think people are afraid of reading and prefer to be spoonfed.
If you want mentorship, there's usually a good subreddit, Discord or Slack server that doesn't cost you $30 / month.
I'm just extremely skeptical of the value that any of these bootcamps bring. AppAcademy appears to bring good results for hiring, but I don't believe that it's the most effective method of learning.
There are a lot of comments in here saying instructors spoon-feed content.
I attended a bootcamp, and maybe other bootcamp grads can back up my claim here but...
Instructors don't spoon-feed material.
Curriculums are set up to be project or goal-based, kind of like being given specs or requirements in the working world.
What instructors do is teach you HOW to effectively learn. They also explain some of the more complicated nuances of a language...spots where a learners mental model typically struggle, that aren't well explained in Stack Overflow or MDN. And that's probably where learning gets expedited.
I don't refute self-learning as an effective means of finding an engineering job, but if you're starting with zero programming background, your only feedback loop is the compiler or interpreter giving you a result you didn't expect.
Sure, there's definitely some curated content. But it's not the job of an instructor to diffuse every API or system design needed to stand up an app into a students brain.
There's a difference between being told what to do, versus being coached how to do something effectively. And I think the two are conflated because of the perception or marketing bootcamps offer.
Any other bootcamp grads with the same experience? Or am I alone here?
thebooglebooski commented on Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’ daringfireball.net/2018/1... · Posted by u/okket
No but the gov might be unhappy that the secret is out while they were trying to use the chips to infiltrate/reverse engineer wherever the chips were reporting to? Amazon has gov contracts it wants to protect so Im not surprised they would deny this at the govs request, and Apple's #1 product is privacy so having something like this show up on their servers would undermine that product strategy so I can understand their denial too (homegrown or at the govs request)
This seems like the most likely reason for domestic companies to deny everything, and for their supply chain distributors to play along.
1) Big company partners with distributor. 2) Distributor has security issues. 3) Gov is already aware of security issues, says nothing. 4) Big company becomes aware of issues. 5)Gov steps in and pitches a deal: i)Both big company and distributor must deny. ii)In return, gov gets to: iii)Preserve any existing contracts iv)Protect the big company and distributor, with any legal, trade, or commercial benefits
I don't really understand how you can measure popularity without doing a census-like survey, reaching out to every developer possible in a coordinated effort.
Awhile back, I took a statistics class that explained how polling everyone by calling everyone with a phone landline resulted in a misrepresented sample.
The reason: not everyone has a phone landline. And those with phone landlines had a tendency to belong to specific demographics.
So...if you survey everyone using Github, and not every developer uses Github, are you not prone to the same fallacy?
When someone actually has a legitimate emergency, the emergency service provider is essentially overwhelmed by the volume.