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iratewizardon How do you break into a career in machine learning? (2020)

Starting the path is also age restricted. I've had some friends ask how they can switch into the industry by asking what languages they should learn. It's a hard pill for them to swallow, that they're better off becoming good at programming and great at IT, rather than trying to start from scratch after 30.

iratewizardon What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

The article is about a guy who finds a friend inside of his pallet of books and you're all arguing about the theoretical value of the books.

iratewizardon PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia

Not selling. As a 15 year old I had no access to a debit card or credit card. In order to buy computer equipment, pay hosting fees and pretend to be a 19 year old computer programming student, I needed to buy visa gift cards and use them for regular purchases. It wasn't until I was doing it for two years that I was allowed a debit card.

iratewizardon PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia

It's been a long time since I was a child trying to run a business, but gift cards as a payment proxy worked well back then.

iratewizardon Build your own web framework

That's HN. 8 years ago it would have been how Ethereum will make this all redundant

iratewizardon Build your own web framework

There aren't many good reasons to make good web content like that today. Money? It's way oversaturated with people who can live off $400/y. Recognition? Your content will be stolen by the previous group a thousand times over. To make a difference? There are more rewarding ways to do that if you've got the deep industry knowledge.

iratewizardon We don't do that here (2017)

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/613948-hitler-has-grasped-t...

Orwell's thoughts on Hitler don't line up with your convenient framing of his book.

iratewizardon We don't do that here (2017)

1984 might not have had the subtlety of what is happening today, but isn't that true of most literary evils? It was written post-communist takeover of Russia. Post-Weimar Germany. It abstracted much of what actually happened and what was being attempted throughout the world as power struggles erupted under instability.

iratewizardon We don't do that here (2017)

It's much appreciated. I try the best that I can to do the same from an EVP level, but the layer above me is intent on imitating the big 4 in every respect.

iratewizardon Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy

Imagining a world government as anything but dystopian is a failure of imagination

iratewizardon The CSS Behind Figma

CSS grid is hard for people to comment on, but their perception of Figma is easy. It's the root of why bike shedding is so commonplace.

iratewizardon Ask HN: Why are self-taught developers deprived of “free for education” tools?

The problems I'm paid to solve pay a lot more. More than triple the maximum salary of government officials.

iratewizardon Ask HN: Why are self-taught developers deprived of “free for education” tools?

f) Rely on teachers less and let their value be established by the free market

Being forced to pay a school that your children don't attend is rent seeking. Strip schools of all rent seeking funding, make tax money follow the child and let the parents on vote what education style works with their children's attendance.

iratewizardon Ask HN: Why are self-taught developers deprived of “free for education” tools?

Community college can be a great investment in some cases, definitely. Especially for people who struggle with setting goals and self-discipline. If you have self-discipline and know what you want to be able to do, there can be a lot of unnecessary time waste in the classroom.

I would be curious to break down and audit time against 4 buckets of things you will learn. Things you "need to know", "ought to know", "don't need" and "don't actually understand". I wonder how long it takes to fill each bucket and how much faster the latter two grow.

Experience is the best teacher of all and additional schooling is the biggest barrier to useful experience.

iratewizardon Ask HN: Why are self-taught developers deprived of “free for education” tools?

College isn't an opportunity for social mobility anymore. The cost of tuition shoots up as the curriculum relaxes. It's an investment trap for people who can't do the math and listen too closely to what their midwit school teachers believe about the world.

iratewizardon Ask HN: Why are self-taught developers deprived of “free for education” tools?

If you want to go into charity work, don't expect to be paid like a brain surgeon. If you can't afford the education required to go into charity work, start a GoFundMe or choose something more attainable. Stop spending other's money because of vague handwavey "we need it and it doesn't pay well"

iratewizardon Ask HN: Why are self-taught developers deprived of “free for education” tools?

In a sense, student loan forgiveness is making the financially responsible (self-taught, self-made, more valuable degree, worked through college) pay for the financially irresponsible.

iratewizardon A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter

It's better to face opposition like that than to be disappeared from the public square.

iratewizardon Zendesk to be acquired

Top notch documentation. Carefully thought out patterns like authentication pipelines. Simple syntax one you learn it. There's lots to like.

iratewizardon JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques by Example

Too mediocre to read deobfuscated JavaScript, yes. Many such cases.

iratewizardon Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

... you go to a doctor to have it set and casted. Unless the break is so minor that you can self-treat with RICE. You don't have to be a passive recipient of a medical treatment flowchart.

iratewizardon Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

Maybe you should understand what medical interventionism means, before typing out a meaningless and unrelated argument.

iratewizardon Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

You call it a scare tactic because you believe in medical interventionism. I respectfully point out one of the massive numbers of unexpected side effects of medical interventions.

iratewizardon JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques by Example

With how mediocre most developers today are, obfuscation is enough.

iratewizardon Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

Thalidomide is out of your system by your first grandchild.

iratewizardon Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980)

> It seems to require a very different kind of thinking than does programming in C

That's the beauty of it. The more exposure you get to these kinds of different paradigms, the further you advance your craft. It all transitions to whatever you're working on and helps you better speak the fundamental computer language.

iratewizardon People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows

Same. The best decision I could have made was skipping 4+ years of adult daycare. When my peers were getting out of college I was already in senior positions and 6 years of experience on my resume.

iratewizardon Ask HN: Tips on Trying to Be Serious?

It sounds like you make jokes when you feel uncomfortable. There's nothing wrong with that, and you're probably better leaning into it rather than trying to punish yourself for having a personality. Make light of the fact that you've got a little too much levity sometimes and others will get comfortable with the fact that that's just who you are.

iratewizardon SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)

This gives me a strong feeling of general unease and flashbacks to the days of WD hard drives.

iratewizardon Beginner's guide to error handling in Rust

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity

90% of their posts are self promotion and they've done it more than 50 times.