thatwebdude

Possibly, but talent-based scholarships (supposedly) are not discriminative.

> Yet I'm looking at 5 years of debt with a tech industry salary.

And that's a pretty optimistic observable.

I truly understand your argument, but I'm becoming more under the impression that degreed education isn't necessary to nearly as many people as we think it is.

> Why on earth should 18 year olds be entering financial transactions over hundreds of thousands of dollars, where they, but not their counterparty, get to shoulder all the risk?

I'm a firm believer in maturing before entering a transaction like that. Maybe even "taking off a year" or working full-time for a bit to understand how "the real world" may work from what you understood it as at home (hint: it's much easier for some than others).

You do have a right to public K-12, and it's free (your taxes pay for it).

You can pay for private K-12, or "pay up" and move to a more expensive school district (read: taxes) which would theoretically give you a better education.

School districts have problems with people claiming grandparent's home addresses to attend a better school, and it happens across the country.

> "with multiple hashing iterations and individual salt per password."

If your username is...

> the right fix would have been an online UPS here with an app that shuts the machine down on power loss.

That's my thought.

I've done enough end-user work to know I really should try to avoid all possible issues relating the user, assuming my work allows a timeline to do so.

> I did not have a single lecture or discussion with any of my professors about how I could use my degree to get a job, what kind of careers I could pursue, and how to use my degree for anything outside of academia.

I agree, this should be something more emphasized.

I also blame (to a degree) my K-12 career for not putting an emphasis on any courses related to budgeting or Home Economics.

Useless majors are only ones where the recipient fails to utilize it.

I set myself with a well-known localized (to the industry) degree (Music Performance), but still couldn't implement it; even in a sense where I could turn it into something a bit more "useful" (Music Education).

Plenty of my classmates have gone on to utilize it effectively.

My major wasn't useless; I was.

A poor choice in majors is still sometimes a poor lifestyle choice in any school, Ivy League or not.

I think this a great opportunity for trade schools, community colleges, and apprenticeships to reinvent themselves.

For $300,000 cash I'd be tempted to do a lot of things, including selling my home.

I'd worry about buying another one later.

Your market is red-hot BTW, so if you feel like a gamblin' man/woman...

A professional could tell me it wasn't my fault over and over again; but it'd honestly take years (at least) to get over that fact. That's just something I'd be hard to un-program from myself.

(Regarding a featured photo) Man, I really gotta find a way to invest in shipping containers. It's foolproof as of late!

"When dad jokes go too far, Musk edition."

I laughed at "disposal".

Perhaps they aren't fully aware of the volume disturbed soil takes up. Logistics of moving it could be a cost not necessarily considered.

X city is important, too!

Bring it to X; after you figure out how to deal with the super cool and unique geographical features of X!

+1, I couldn't even finish reading. The scary part is the consistent fear of "raising" that behavior; that somehow it's your fault. It would be very hard to live with that idea.

Is 404 sufficient?

I could see a use case to see which emails are from what TLD.

For instance, all @gmail, all @yahoo, all @aol.

Maybe you want to do the cool "hey we noticed your email on haveibeenpwnd, you should change you password here just in case". In which case, anything other than plain text could prevent that from happening.

Hashing an email in that sense gets much more difficult, no?

That's too often a "reason".

Your sign isn't the same they're talking about. But don't worry, I assumed the same initially.

God, I hope so. Google Fiber is feet from my home, but refuses to lay cable. Those who got it seem to like it, but it looks like it's just too expensive for them to continue at this point. And that's in the city they started with!

ISPs are holding out though, when Google came into town the current monopoly "magically" came up with 3X speeds. (300mb/s). Seemingly out of nowhere.

A common misconception with "self-taught" is that theoretical knowledge is always a black hole. This isn't true for music or development.

There isn't anything keeping you from learning the Lydian-Chromatic Concept, or how to fully understand the 12-Tone System in music. There also isn't anything keeping you from learning key fundamental concepts taught in Computer Science. The information is out there. And most information is free.

I wasn't under the impression we were separating bootcamp from self-taught.

I took them both to mean "no formal schooling" and "self-taught". In my brief experience with I.T. training; some knowledge already had to be assumed.

About how long did it take for the washout to occur?

Wanted to know for my own financial planning.

Sharing your finance planning with someone close who also shares your finances makes a lot of sense.

I've never found myself not knowing what I should do, or threatened by a hiring/skills bubble.

When I stopped feeling like I was getting anywhere with front-end I started to take on more back-end projects and sell myself as a full-stack developer.

I've never been in a situation where I've felt "man, I really should have gotten a CS degree": but what do I know; I'm just a web developer.

Maybe we're not talking about web developers?

No advanced engineering skills have been required to make the frontends/backends/architect a system for Fortune 500s and local businesses that I've been involved with. (I'm speaking of things I would have learned in school with CS and math principles had I been able to get past CS 101).

-- college dropout with successful programming career.

u mad, bro?

The technology interests me and I would gladly work on a system that implemented such features.

As an ethical programmer, I'd be sure to incorporate security, anonymization, and be able to draw the line so that I can help businesses make more money (since that's what they pay me for), and advance technology at the same time.

This is only unethical when it's used in a system that infers more information aside from general demographics (which, BTW nearly everywhere collects), and makes them vulnerable to interception outside of the pizza company.