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This is both off topic and a flamewar topic, which the site guidelines ask people not to introduce.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please do not use such generalizations on HN.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
The trolling on HN gets better every week!
Ah, ninja'd!
It is not. Rather, you could say that it is congruous, or, seeking the more emphatic tone, apposite.
No idea why you are being downvoted. You are correct -- one of the forms of irony would, for example, entail the specific intent of making a movie in the most aboveboard manner, only to have it mired in fraud.
applications require a student signature or electronic affirmation to the accuracy of their submission
Yes. I fail to understand all these people stating that it was not the fault of the students. They lied on their applications. It is akin to being asked at an airport if you packed your bags yourself.
These students signed a legally binding affirmation that the information they submitted was accurate (and sometimes a statement that they completed the application without assistance), and, thusly, they are as equally guilty of fraud as their parents.
Why would you chose this line of work (serious question, not a value judgment)? Did you know how amoral it was when you first applied? What caused you to leave?
personal responsibility
Blasphemy! I'd rather cry on the internet and collect sympathy points! Individual worth is derived solely from external validation by the social collective.
The fact that they alluded to their predicament being unethical or inhumane made me actually laugh out loud. The author is absolutely delusional.
Even funnier, my initial response was that there must be some dietary or medical/hormonal issue, prior to reading the article. I was downvoted for this almost immediately. Then, whilst reading the article, came across this gem >On top of that, I'm mentally ill and thoroughly medicated< So, I was correct, and yet was downvoted. Really makes you think, doesn't it?
Spot on. Which is why you are being downvoted (no, not sarcastic) for offending the sensibilities of the self-entitled masses who have no innate drive for self-improvement.
^This. First Slashdot, then Ars, now HN filled with an ever-increasing amount of mediocrity. But, I passed bootcamp! I have more structured hours of experience sleeping at my desk and slacking off in the nap room -- that makes me a better programmer, I promise! If it wasn't covered in a test or in my assignments, it doesn't exist! The Office Space meme has come full circle, two decades later.
Afraid not. The "good" programmers/engineers/whathaveyou are, more often that not, the ones that proverbially "live and breathe" their craft, and have done so for a very large amount of, how should I say, "units of actual work-effort." Pulling all-nighters on personal projects just for the fun of it, constantly learning and improving for the sheer bliss of the challenge and seeking of knowledge, these are the "good" programmers. They are putting in concentrated, heavy effort, which is far in excess of a mere 40-hours of unfocused, drone-tier non-effort per week. It is also why there are teenagers who can sprint circles around big-corporate code monkeys sporting 35 years of "experience."
The downvote/bury mechanic makes HN just as poor as SN or Reddit. If one must implement downvotes, at least provide tally, such as on Ars, rather than the default silly text fading (which one should disable).
It's going to sound elitist
I do not believe prefacing your argument with a hedge in this manner is necessary :) Barrier to entry and positive attractors, including, in the case of the early web, academic mindset, for early technological adopters are real phenomena. cf. Eternal September
Tired after a 40-hour week + commute? lol... hormonal imbalance or diet/health problem.
In Japan, a comic book about the adventures of a boy modelled on Bill Gates is called "Young Jump."
My curiosity has been piqued. Does anyone have a link?
All legality, copyright law, etc. aside, how did this even create a problem?
Even on small projects, basic build engineering dictates that you are cognizant of which package versions against which you are building. Furthermore, all packages should be locally cache-isolated on your build server (or local box if you do not have a build server). Building against the most "up-to-date" versions of remote dependencies puts you completely at risk for situations such as this, let alone at the mercy of malicious updates to such remote dependencies.
What sane (pun intended) person would ever build against the most recent version of all packages (including small ones such as this) from a remote build server? Also, for larger (i.e. more than several employees) type operations, how could QA possibly function when building from "most recent version of all packages"?
All these entities that are suffering because of this should immediately fire all their build engineers, because they are not only a reliability concern, but, more critically, a vulnerability concern.
:D awesome!!