maverick2007

Congrats Zach! I owe you a lot. I started using Codecademy in 2011 or 2012 when I was in high school and it was one of the main tools I used to teach myself programming. Fell in love with the hobby/profession and it's what I'm doing (and still love doing) 10 years later!

There's a surprising amount of coasters that run backwards nowadays! You have a handful of wooden coasters that generally run (or did run) backwards as part of a Halloween event (Racer 75, Thunder Road (RIP), Racer at Kings Island and Viper at Six Flags Great America) but a lot of modern steel coasters actually do it by design. Like Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure at Islands of Adventure in Orlando has a decently lengthy backwards section (plus some other surprises I won't spoil) or Mr Freeze at both Six Flags Over Texas or Six Flags St Louis both go through their courses both forwards and back. And that's not even counting Boomerangs like Bat at Canada's Wonderland that another sibling commenter mentioned

(PS glad to see my favorite hobby being mentioned on HN, I could literally talk about this stuff all day)

I feel the exact same way. I went through the interview process with a handful of good startups through Triplebyte (and got offers from almost all of them) and even though I ended up taking a job with a company outside of TB, I still walked away extremely impressed and confident that I'd use the platform again in my next search. I loved that I was pre-qualified and didn't have to intensely prove my technical chops at every on site. With this change, I don't see the benefits for me to use TB over a competing job board or just applying to companies directly. With these changes, I don't plan on using TB for my next job search.

Edit: just saw the comment that TB is keeping the quiz. Would consider using the platform in the future as long as that pre-qualification track is available and that this new direction is just a superset on the existing TB features.

Adding my anecdote to this thread:

Started noticing hair loss in my early 20s but managed to convince myself that it was just stress. By my mid 20s when I was in a very low stress position I finally concluded that it was just plain MPB. I continued to ignore it for a while, just cutting my hair a little shorter than the longer hair that I wore before (usually more out of laziness than anything else). It finally came to a head a couple of months ago when I noticed that I had stopped turning the lights on when I went into the bathroom because I didn't want to see how thin my hair looked that day. That day I made an appointment with my doctor and got a prescription for Finasteride. Since I was very afraid of the sexual side effects of the drug, before I started I decided to shave my head to confirm my suspicions that I didn't like the shaved look. If I hated it, I'd start the medication and deal with the sides. Funny thing is, I really liked it. People don't treat me any differently than they did before which is what I was afraid of. Sure, women don't come up and hit on me but they never did when I had longer hair either so I consider it a wash. And I like it more and more now that I'm hitting the gym and adding muscle. Bald + muscular is a great look. Shaving my head (down to a #1 in my case) isn't my ideal situation but the way I see it, MPB is a better condition to have than many, many other genetic conditions.

If you're where I was a couple of months ago and your thinning hair is stressing you out, just give it a shot and shave your head. Best case, you like it like I do. Worst case, you hate it and you can see if fin would work for you.

I might be remembering this totally wrong but didn't a mobile browser (maybe Opera?) offer this feature as well, like 5 or 10 years ago? I seem to remember trying it out for my Android phone back in the day

Most of those issues have been resolved and I wouldn't call it particularly downtime prone anymore. In case you're curious, here's a video from one of my favorite theme park YouTubers describing the ride and why it took so long to get the kinks ironed out: https://youtu.be/iXBkB5xjFR8 (TL;DW: an insane amount of animatronics and effects that are rare to roller coasters)

I'm also curious about this. Maybe OP was struggling with "what's the point of life if we all die anyways" and found Catholicism gave them an answer more quickly and efficiently than other methods like reading/synthesizing/applying what philosophers and other thinkers had to say about the issue?

(I consider myself Catholic so this is definitely not meant to be a dunk on religion or Catholicism)

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but don't the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines not grant sterilizing immunity, aka you can still be a carrier if you're immunized?

Same issue here, thought I was going crazy with speed being WAY down and random websites giving me errors.

Also found a Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/k87h2f/psa_att_fib...) about the issue that advises to contact the executive service customer support (https://investors.att.com/resources/contacts#customer-servic...) if your calls to regular customer support don't fix the issue - I did, we'll see how it goes

I'm maybe a little older than what you had in mind (25) but still young enough to really grow up with Facebook. I think even in my age group, you saw tech skills primarily being taken up by people my age as "you can make a lot of money with this", or at least that was the mindset of most of my classmates at a mid tier state college.

Most of them seemed to have taken CS classes in high school and enjoyed it reasonably enough or have had CS recommended to them as a major since you could easily get a job in it (like the other reply to your comment suggested).

On the other hand, my interest in CS and programming was a lot more old school. I got on the internet for the first time in the mid 2000s and learned to make basic websites for my hobby and then JS, PHP, MySQL to make them interactive. I'm not sure I would've followed the career path I'm in now if I'd been born 5-10 years later. The epicenter of my hobby moved to FB/Discord/Instagram/Youtube and if I were growing up now I think I would've tried to share my hobby through those platforms and therefore never gotten into what I did now. I'm lucky I was born the time I am and thanks for an interesting question to think about!

Luckily for theme parks, the pandemic hit right as winter maintenance was wrapping up for seasonal parks so it shouldn't have many adverse effects if any. And since then, maintenance workers have been on site running and getting the rides ready to reopen. Actually, it seems like this might be a good things for parks since the extra time has given them a lot more time to do more long term projects and refurbishment they never had time for in the past.

Fox News is absolutely bad for the country but can't we condemn it when we see similar tactics on both sides of the aisle? Condemning NYT for its wrongs doesn't make Fox any less bad.

Tell us more! I'd be interested in reading that explainer on journalism if you have a good one to link to.

In case anyone reading this is like me and hadn't heard the 3 month immunity window news, here's an Ars article that does a pretty good job summarizing what it is and what it means: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/immunity-to-covid-19...

I love grime but only know the more mainstream artists (stormzy, dizzee rascal, bugzy Malone), do you have any recommendations for any more under the radar artists?

How accurate was the Chernobyl mini-series wrt damage caused by radiation, specifically to the firefighters? If it was accurate at all I think I might pick Hiroshima, at least it would be over quick.

Not too derail this thread too much but I like the idea for your app, I made something similar for platonic friendships a while back and still am a big believer in the idea! How much traction have you gotten with your app?

Interesting article, thanks for sharing! That everyone seems to have different definitions of what "defund the police means" and urge each other not to take the meaning too literally whereas others do take it literally reminds me a lot of Peter Thiel and his comments about not taking Trump literally during the campaign.

I used interviewing.io and pramp really heavily in my most recent job search. I found that interviewing.io interviews were of a much higher quality in general vs pramp which was pretty hit and miss, some interviewers were well prepared and helpful and some clearly checked out after their half of the interview. But I ended up using pramp a lot more since they had unlimited interviews and used interviewing.io as benchmarks to see how close I was to where I wanted to be. Recommend them both!

Out of curiosity because I have little to no knowledge of immunology: what do you think that means if someone that already had the disease can be reinfected? Does that have any implication on the efficacy of a vaccine?

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it also a bet on the future in the sense of "I think our stock is undervalued right now and that it will go up in the future, so I should buy it cheap right now and then I can reissue the stock and raise a significantly more amount of money"? At least that's how I've thought about it

I'd definitely recommend the book as well. His books are easy, fun reads and I personally enjoyed the fake scientific rigor (like fake citations) that get put into the books as mentioned in the linked article. Also of interest to any Michael Crichton fans like myself is that there was an authorized sequel written by a different author named the Andromeda Evolution just published in November 2019. It's not quite as good as the original since it deviates a little from the original "we're trapped in this facility with a virus that's trying to kill us", scientific drama into something more action movie-y - I don't think it's a spoiler to say that it involves a space station and space elevator along with exploring ancient structures. Even with that complaint, the sequel was still a pleasant way to pass a few hours on a plane for me!

For what it's worth, some (most?) Catholic diocese in the U.S. are not having services and the usual requirement to attend is not in effect.

Really? Their own website[1] lists that any domestic or international flights in March, April or May are eligible for cancel or change without fees (it does appear that you can only cancel to get credit but it might be worth giving them a call to see if you can get an exception made). I say that because I have flights with them in early May that I'm increasingly thinking isn't going to happen and I've been assuming that I'll get to change it for free.

[1] https://www.delta.com/us/en/advisories/coronavirus-travel/ca...

Honest question (I initially reacted strongly against their herd immunity idea but I've started to rethink my position):

Isn't there evidence that a high enough proportion of those low risk people would require hospitalization too and that would overwhelm the capacity? That's my only remaining concern about the idea.

Nothing super innovative, just working on some forum software to power a ring of forums I'm building around my love of roller coasters and theme parks. If by some chance you're interested, the first site in the ring is up (minus forum) at https://norcalthrills.com

He didn't play Wednesday but did mockingly touch all of the mics Monday in his media session: https://mobile.twitter.com/Davefox2/status/12379063821934387... so could've been worse but could've been better too

I worked for a D1 track and field team while I was in college and I found the Pent/Hep/Decathlon some of the most fascinating sports with how coaches approached which athletes to submit. Some coaches (like the one at my college) chose to submit true generalists, athletes that wouldn't usually win an individual event but would get points in most of them. But other coaches favored submitting athletes that had distinct specialties, assuming they'd win that event and then get points in a couple of the other events. It's been a while so I don't exactly remember which approach seemed to work better but I found the strategy fascinating!

The Traitorous Eight (the highest profile case of what the OP was describing) is one of my favorite Silicon Valley stories. If you haven't read about it, you really should! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight

And that's fair. I should've done a better job differentiating between the official word and the word of random Redditors that have a vested interest in making themselves look better. I have to assume the actual implementation will look for like the former than the latter.