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Texas Education Agency (TEA)'s Accountability Report shows "NO DISTINCTION" for Science at MacArthur High School in 2015.

You would think these teachers would appreciate all the help they can get to earn some distinction in Sciences.

http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2015/static...

I work for Rackspace.

On [1], you can actually keep your app in AWS and connect / migrate your data to OR over Direct Connect.

On [2], you don't have to shard. There is an option to scale vertically when you need to.

You can call RS people who can help guide you making the best decision on [1] or [2] based on your current and future situations.

I think that is the point. I would tweak the definition a little and say "Legacy is anything that's not fashionable anymore, but working and still being used just because it's working."

Mason55, I work for Rackspace. The ObjectRocket service does not run on the cloud servers you get from RS. It's actually a different architecture just for MongoDB: flash drives all over, containers, pretty much tuned for MongoDB across the stack. While we don't describe the full details of the architecture, you have a very valid recommendation that we will take into consideration to make sure it is clear what you are getting for your money. Thanks.

But wouldn't the experiments at least indicate the possibility that they reflect reality?

Customers of any product rarely care what the people involved with the arts and sciences behind those product's creations do.

That observation is not restricted to coding or comp sci.

Sometimes you just bet on red AND on black to stay safe while keeping the wheel rolling and the drinks coming.

After reading this, i know I am unworthy to comment.

However, I will be forwarding this to my wife who gives me a hard time when I, before getting rid of an old computer, remove the HD and give five or so well placed hits with a hammer on the whole HD assembly.

Two things are striking: - The amounts under debate are small - The DFAS agency's budget is huge (1.36B)

Why not eliminate the agency altogether? If we divide $1.36B by the number of active military members 1,429,995, that results in $951 / active military personnel.

If we assume payment issues happen to 10% of the military, then that means we can just institute a rule that would give every soldier up to $9,510 in free "payment error insurance."

But I guess having a government body of 12,000 people with the task of giving soldiers a hard time makes more sense to some federal bureaucrat.

You were really learning through playing. Learning is an investment. Not all play is learning.

Another distinction is that children are fed by their parents. So if you have a "parent" in your company who "feeds" you then you can play a lot (of course, until they realize you are 18 and kick you out of the house).

OP's point is that you need to build code or sell code. If learning helps you do either one, then I think it is not procrastination.

Maybe the title for this should have been "Building a simple app is easy"

After a while, most HN posts just fade away in my memory.

I will remember this one forever.

Minority Report? The Matrix? Office Space?

Which is what bennyg said, except in negative numbers.

The worst database design mistake is starting database design after development is almost done!

Going back to school does not automatically make you "look bad" at all. It shows your commitment to education and to finish what you started. There has to be some other reason you are not being called back. Maybe it's a bad resume, or your targeting is not good, heck, as we have seen in previous posts last week here, it may be that your name is "Kim"! (Look it up), or its your location or skill set presentation.

I find it hard to believe you cannot find a rewarding job in software these days! Assuming you are good, it has to be your presentation (in whichever format, paper, voice or email).

I agree. Basically, do something. Don't just sit there. Too much reality for some.

Where is data that link political persuasion and clothing preference? I see all kinds of people at Babies'R'Us making the same color choices.

That is a simplistic definition. You exclude actions or systemic patterns, just to name a few things to think about. Go to implicit.harvard.edu for a couple of eye opening experiments and tests.

Probably as much as google did for search back in the day.

The purpose is also to... Learn.

Not to mention that you end up knowing a lot more about [the tool] than you knew before the project, given that it is such an unusual project.

I don't know if this is obvious, or if it applies to all kinds of jobs. Something I do is give all candidates an assignment: here is a problem, solve it, and let's discuss it over Skype/Webex/etc.

The best solution typically wins. There is no way to fake talent when an actual job-related problem needs to be solved and then a solution sold to a team of folks.

There are issues with this approach too: somebody else could help the candidate, the presentation style, etc. Picking the right problem to solve is important, as is deciding ahead of time what is the criteria for selection.

At some point you do have the phone screen though.

There is an implicit big assumption there, that HR actually determines who is screened in and/or hired. It's typically the hiring manager who does.

I recommend this submission:

If Correlation does not imply causation, then what does? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6030627

Landing a real airplane is a little more complicated than landing the one in the video game.

My brain always thought that was a no op, but the rule says infinite loop. Why would void be true? Not sure, but there likely was a good reason.

It's interesting that there seems to be a lack of appreciation for having a single way of doing things. I think there are very few applications for which the performance gains of additional flexibility are significant, whereas the productivity and test simplicity can be more significant for non trivial apps.

Or why this goes into configuration management and is verified before shipping. Seems not just the "young technician" failed but the process failed to catch the defect.