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Re:Why did AirAsia fly a crippled jet away from a nearby airport yeste...
on Sunday June 25, 2017 @11:02PM (#14633747)
Al Jazzera has a great exposé on the issues of quality and supply / demand for pilots in Asia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSZ-R5HdPQU
It's truly frightening, and makes me think twice when any of these airlines come up when I'm searching for flight deals.
Re:Ask HN: Why do coding bootcamps teach Ruby on Rails and JavaScript?
on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:38PM (#13396917)
Quite simply, it's great market fit.
JavaScript has extremely low barrier to entry. Everyone has a browser, so you can get someone to get started without download any software. That's huge.
Rails has the benefit of providing a framework that can get someone building functional CRUD apps in a tremendously short period of time.
Between those two, you've hit a nice sweet spot where someone can be fully functional as a developer in a short period of time (talent/quality/patience aside).
Re:SoftICE: a kernel mode debugger for Windows
on Saturday September 12, 2015 @09:13PM (#10209992)
During the early 90's we used to reverse-engineer computer viruses (DOS) at the Peter Norton group using SoftICE. All in the name of creating repro's and fixes of course.