chenning

Yes, I was referring to programmer (or related) for a university.

You may want to consider looking into academia. Everyone knows the pay isn't as good, but that can be an advantage. Academia loses (or never gets) a lot of talented engineers due to the pay, lack of fancy perks, etc. There actually are perks though. Also, for some, the sense of personal fulfillment depending on the field or project you're working on can be of significant value (just not monetary). There's also the fear that academic jobs are solely dependent on grants, which is true in some cases, but there are positions that are funded by the institution itself. Also, I wonder how much more "job security" the typical person really does have in industry. Regardless, It's something to think about.

What's really crazy to think about is how much flak Java took for YEARS upon YEARS from a rather non-trivial number of developers, managers, and media. It was ruthless at times. Looking back, it was pathetic. Now, all of a sudden, look at where we are. We're seeing all these not-Java languages looking more and more like Java, and conversely Java starting to impersonate the not-Javas. Weird. You have to give the team behind Java credit for pushing forward in spite of this. There's a real lesson to be learned here.

I haven't read the entire article, but the title and first few paragraphs and images/tables are unfair and misleading. This looks like a stereotypical jab at Android that you would expect from a company like Apple Inc. If you want to compare Apples to Apples (no pun intended) you should compare how fast updates roll out to the first party devices iPhone and Pixel. I've used the first two generations of Pixel now and I've never had an issue receiving updates. Google obviously has less control over what Samsung, LG, Huawei, do and that's not even taking into consideration carriers.

Would you classify someone like Linus Torvalds as a manager and an individual contributor? I see a lot of obsession with pigeonholing and defining roles with zero degrees of freedom. "A manager needs to stop doing ____ and needs to start doing ___". Who's making these definitions? I know plenty of small business owners who are quite successful at wearing both hats. I personally don't have a problem if someone out there decided that in order to be an effective leader they have to abandon their previous responsibilities entirely, but I don't see how that becomes a universal rule. Just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right and no longer worth looking at.

I might be putting words into the op's mouth but, what I think the they were trying to say that this is what their life looked like right before experiencing a severe panic attack. So if you find yourself making decisions like this, you might be on a path that doesn't end well. I don't think the shaming was entirely necessary.

In my opinion, Julia has everything you need to be productive in a scientific computing or academic arena right now. In fact, if you're in an atmosphere where there's a lot of chaining together various command line tools Julia actually does subprocesses and pipes quite well.

As a more general point though, I work in an academic environment and I see tons of languages whizzing by. I routinely see C, C++, Python, R, Matlab, csh, bash, and the list just goes on and on. I've even seen someone write a command line tool in PHP that had no justifiable reason for being written in PHP. But it works, so whatever. If it was written in Julia, maybe it would be uncommon, but also slightly more refreshing.

So, really, why not Julia?

Yes. I didn't really consider that. I was thinking more along the lines of an expiring token. If you had to punch it in, someone who came around and Thermanator'd it would always be too late.

How is it 2018 and I can enable 2-factor auth on Twitter but not where I withdraw money from my bank account?

Fair enough. I shouldn't have used the word "always".

I would also argue that a healthy dose of tech illiteracy (if that's what you want to call it) is precisely what we need in this situation. Tech minded people will always find a way to decide in favor of technology. They are loyal to the technology. We need people who can look at all of this from the unbiased perspective.

Netflix should validate the email account. But, also, when you get the email to update the invalid credit card information and you click on the link, shouldn't Netflix force you to Sign In? This kind of security step is already common to thwart attack vectors where someone finds your computer unlocked and tries to reset your password on you. Google does this when you go to accounts.google.com. They always verify it is you sitting in front of the computer. So getting back to the Netflix situation, once you click on the link to update your credit care info you won't know the password for the rogue account and it's not your account UUID or whatever so I'm assuming Netflix is smart enough to make you prove it's you by entering the password. But you won't know the password. If you were tempted to click Forgot Password and go through all that rigamarole, then you hijacked the attacker's account. I guess what I'm trying to say is, most of the issue here should already be solved by appropriate defenses against different types of attacks. No?

I agree with this. I don't think these companies need to tap your phone to figure out how to choose an Ad for you. They can do an excellent job just knowing that someone is at your house looking up something specific. I suppose one could argue that your privacy is really only worth as much as the person standing next to you values theirs. People just need to understand that their personal privacy decisions really aren't so personal after all.

Nothing like a good feud to warm up credit cards. Wonder if sales are up today?

be mern (sorry)

Soooo... should people get recognition, or not?

Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10838166