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Regardless of the fantasy sold about what a university degree entails, it's ultimately designed to get your foot in the door, and maybe even prepare you at a very basic level for navigating the professional world. It sounds like it is certainly doing the latter. Especially with a rapidly evolving field such as CS, I would say it was the case for all of us regardless of the phase that whatever technology we were using in the coursework was at best going to be different by the time we got into the field, and at worst (and more likely) very outdated as it is taught at the time of learning it.
It is now, and always has been IMO, up to the individual whether or not they want to learn deeply the material being presented, or just do what is necessary to get the grade as a means to an end. In the past, accidently learning something deeply was a little more likely than having the answers at our fingertips via AI, but the possibility is still there depending on how you use the tool.
It fascinates me what people will defend publicly in the name of “hacker good, advert bad.” One of these comments also just builds a straw man: “it’s like someone yelling ‘fuck’ at a ballgame… it doesn’t mean the kid’s ruined,” but at least they don’t go as far as claiming it might actually be a good thing because “seeing some girl get ploughed by a slab of a guy” might just raise a constructive question in a child.
Yikes.
You're kidding, right? Am I seeing correctly that there are multiple people on HN actively arguing against children seeing porn being a bad thing?
Do you already sleep with a wrist watch on? I got one for the same and realized I can't stand sleeping with something on my wrist. Also realized if I want to use it for anything else throughout the day, that's the best time for me to charge it.
I guess this explains why it cost me $60 to fill up a handful of birthday balloons a couple of months ago.
Outside of development in many of my org's potential use cases in the enterprise, you have to hand over your data to be processed in the cloud, and to be in control you have to develop an API (MCP) to control it's abilities anyways.
Every time anyone is given surveillance tools the same thing happens - we can't just act like it's because LEOs are some type of certain person.
The AIM days are one for the books. What a time to be alive and interested in computerin'
Vibe code it without dependencies?
I had a dentist once tell me they needed to graft my entire gumline with bovine tissue. Never been mentioned since, so I explicitly ask now and there's been no more concerns.
I had a root canal done on a molar when I was ~16 that a dentist in basic training said needed re-done, because it wasn't done correctly. At a different duty station a couple of years later it was required that it me redone again because it wasn't done correctly the second time. Years later a civilian dentist wanted to re-do it again, because it apparently wasn't done correctly the third time. I had never had any problems whatsoever with the tooth since the first root canal.
My old man is going through the exact same thing (squamous cell carcinoma, back of the tongue), kinda weird to see this on HN of all places. He did chemorad treatment and it appeared to get it all, but then they found another localized area they want to cut out. All of this has been very invasive physically and mentally, even for finding it "early."
I suggested getting a second opinion from MD Anderson, KU, etc., on the surgery but I ultimately couldn't contend with the sense of urgency to get this thing started and rolling. It's going to be another rough year.
With absolutely zero due respect - Fuck Cancer.
Sounds like every other corporation in America?
My working life has always been exactly like this. I'm not sure why, but I always tried to avoid doing tech for a living. Grew up in construction, joined the military, when I got out I was just going to follow in Dad's footsteps and went to finish my journeyman as an electrician. But as the company was growing, the technical and managerial skills were harder to come by and they wanted me to give it a shot. A similar cycle kept happening in every position I've held - facilities management, stationary engineering... once my technical skillset was realized, both the skillset and it's direct skills (development, etc) and the problem solving skills were asked of me to be utilized.
With that, never having a reason to intrinsically develop that sense of solving complex problems is one of the biggest heartbreaks to come along with AI.
$25k to build the next GitHub for $125B company? How generous.
I worked as a civil servant for a decade and a half in various capacities up until a couple of weeks ago. I'm the last person that would tell you that there isn't plenty of fat that could be trimmed. Slicing at random, multiple delayed resignation opportunities, and threatening cuts to benefits, however, is doing the opposite. Those that are skilled enough and in demand, or like me lucky enough, to quickly find other employ, are the ones that are going to leave- leaving behind nothing but the fat.
Being able to paste source into early version of Dreamweaver really made things "click" for me. Image maps, IFrames, and SSI really set you apart. Ah, thems were the days.
Lest we forget that Python is ~4 years older than Java.
That makes much more sense, thank you. I just looked at the table on the linked page and not the *.pdf of the deck itself.
I would've imagined these numbers to be much more than they are.
What caused the drop in popularity in RoR? It seemed like ~10-12 years ago RoR was the de-facto startup standard. On any given day there were multiple items on the HN front page having something to do with RoR.
Adderall, I would presume.
It seems pretty simple: we get paid on the perceived business value of what we provide. Some organizations may take a holistic approach to determine that perception (our contributions to other things, and the advancement of the industry as a whole) or not.
Articles like this terrify me, and recently they are plenty. I have had a lifelong interest and participant in development, doing freelance at times, always utilizing it in my career when approved, and contributing to opensource. I finished out my BS:CS while working full-time and although my general-IT career has been pretty successful, I have always planned on trying to pivot into a proper development team full-time from the public sector.
Now that the structure of my organization, benefits, and even my job existing is on thin-ice (again, public sector), I have been dropping my name in the hat to open positions. My numbers are much better OP’s (landing at least a 1st round with ~10% of apps), but the closer I get to potential offers with some [great] companies, I can’t seem but to get even more worried about the stability or if this is the right choice for me and my family. My physiological and safety needs are met (i.e. Maslows), for now, but I have a longing for the rest of the hierarchy.
Is the industry forecast as bad as these outlooks paint it?
In a data conscious world, the complete and utter disregard for PII and lack of competency in design and implementation would result in catastrophic business failure.
They may have "patched" the ability to exploit it in this way, but the plaintext data is still there in that same fragile architecture and still being handled by the same org that made all of these same fundamental mistakes in the first place. Yikes.
Affecting their bottom-line via litigation, less usage, whatever...
The complexity justifies the salary.
First and foremost, I am sorry that you experienced abuse. That is never okay. I will not pretend to act like I understand the depths of forgiveness, or agree that it is possible for certain things. Abuse should never be justified under religious teaching- period.
From the Catholic Church's point of view, there should be no worship except to God. Not parents, not saints, not statues: God only. Likewise, it is certainly a mortal sin for a parent to fail in their responsibility towards education of their children- the Catechism of the Catholic Church (the official text that comprehensively explains doctrine, beliefs, and teachings) specifically points that the first steps toward bearing witness to that responsibility is by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule.
> the case that all religious or other organizations that regularly supervise children need to be willing to report and deal with abuse by their staff is very strong
I completely agree, and would never argue against that. It appears that this is precisely their angle - to back them into a lose-lose corner. It is a 100% guarantee that the Church is not going to remove the 2,000 year requirements of a sacramental seal to appease a state law. So this will be booked as more "evidence" of the Church failing to protect children.