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+1 I guess I’m old as well. The presentation makes it seem like I should recognize them, but obviously I don’t. Would love an explanation.

It depends on the job. I’ve had jobs where you couldn’t get approval to take a week off and a week off at my current job is no big deal. Generally PTO is more generous as you become harder to replace.

Legacy of the Wizard on NES. It was sort of an RPG precursor with multiple characters and different abilities that you would needed to use to make progress through a dungeon. I was too young for the game and never finished it but I’ve always wondered what happened at the end. Obviously I could look it up but I don’t mind it being a mystery. The box art was cool and the soundtrack still sticks with me today.

Can someone tell me how college can cost so much and still not have enough funds?

Save yourself the stress with one of these… https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Non-Contact-Voltage-...

The only thing I’ve gotten from hacker news is anxiety about not having started my own company and not being a tech genius.

Yeah it’s effectively dead. Also referred to as 120% time.

I also had a very convincing phishing email "from" Bittrex recently that said I had assets to withdraw. The email has my full name and everything.

Ajit Pai's punchable face stopped appearing in the news.

You'd be hard pressed to find a less controversial opinion for HN.

Easy peasy - Just use CGI and never call free().

In all seriousness, I use to work on a large web app written in C and it was fine for CRUD, but I would never use it for a greenfield project when there are so many other options.

In addition to the other replies, Lemon predates W3C, possibly by a decade.

You probably heard about Foobar https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/google-foobar-googles-secret-hi...

Note that client side encryption changes this https://support.google.com/a/answer/10741897?hl=en.

Where I live in the US any kind of fresh herbs except for maybe parsley and cilantro costs more than a box of mac and cheese. My kids eat it occasionally (maybe once a month) because they like it, it's cheap, and takes about 10 minutes to make. Still, >90% of what we eat is home made from scratch. I don't know anyone who eats processed foods for the majority of their diet, though I'm sure some people out there do.

I'm wrapping up my second to last class for Georgia Tech's OMSCS. Here are some thoughts from my experience in no particular order:

- The program is suppose to be the same as on-campus, so the degree is the same (MS).

- It's dirt cheap as far as master's degrees go. My employer is paying 2/3, so that sweetens the deal even more.

- Since it's online and inexpensive, the program is growing a lot. I think in a few years it would be safe to assume that if someone has an MSCS from GT that it was obtained online.

- I've learned a lot of things that I wouldn't have otherwise been exposed to.

- The workload hasn't been bad, but it definitely can be if you're not somewhat familiar with C, C++, and Python since most of the classes are project based. The workload exceptions have been ML and RL which are pretty time consuming. For context, I work full-time and have two toddlers.

- I honestly don't think the online program is the same as on-campus. Maybe the topics are the same, but I very rarely had to study anything outside of the lecture videos, which are almost always very high-level, and the classes have been much less rigorous than my undergraduate classes (from a different university). Additionally, the online demographic is substantially different than on-campus (I imagine anyway). I think this translates to less stimulating discussion and larger grade curves.

- Expanding on the previous thought, the program has definitely been a "what you put in is what you get out" type of thing. You can coast and still get decent grades, so getting the most out of the program requires some discipline to study stuff that isn't required to get the A.

- There is almost no interaction with the professors, but there is an instructor and TAs for each class who may or may not be helpful in answering your questions.

I'm glad I did the OMSCS program overall. I wish that I had the opportunity to get a master's in-person at a top school, but I don't want to quit my job, move, or pay out the nose, so I'll take what I can get. I don't think that the degree will result in higher compensation, but I've thought about maybe one day teaching at a community college or something like that and I figured I'd get the credential just in case.

I honestly don't think very many, if any, employers will care about the ranking of the school you got a course-based master's degree from. I think it matters more if you're doing a thesis based master's and want to do research.

I've used the Teensy 3.1 and it's more or less an Arduino (including uses the Arduino IDE) but lower cost and more powerful processor. There is also a way to build C/C++ code and run it on the Teensy. ESP is similar but has WiFi built in and Raspberry Pi is closer to a full blown general-purpose computer than an embedded platform. Software on the Teensy runs on bare metal, software on the Raspberry Pi usually runs on an operating system (Linux) and is not real-time.

The author points out a poor abstraction and blames the object oriented programming with its secret methods and private code happening behind the scenes, when the issue was just poor documentation or a flawed implementation. Would functional programming really have prevented all bugs?

I've never met someone who hates on OOP like this and has also spent time working in a multi-team setting on a large codebase. Given enough code it's impossible to grok everything that is going on and some kind of abstraction is necessary. This is where OOP really shines; OOP is great exactly because it abstracts away data so I don't have to think about it. Sure, multiple inheritance and deep class ancestry can make OOP code hard to follow, but it's just as easy to write bad code functionally. This post is just comparing the worst of OOP with the best of FP without doing the reverse.

Hangouts has video and chat and is being discontinued.

- Google Meet: Zoom

- Google Duo: Facetime

- Google Chat: Slack

At Google (the original audience of the "rant") tools like Moma and Code Search make it much easier to find the relationship between commit messages and code, so it makes more sense to avoid duplicating information in comments. Finding the commit message for a line of code literally takes one press of a button.

If it's really tedious to find relevant commit logs then I think the right answer is to improve the search process rather than compensate with more comments.

I'd actually suggest you consider telling your wife for a few reasons:

1) It's really unfair to go on letting her believe an untruth. She should know the reason you have not been intimate with her. She may even be relieved to know that what she thought was the issue, her getting old which is something that she can't change, wasn't actually the issue and the real issue can be changed. 2) You have been hiding this habit for 15 years, surely this will not be a complete surprise to your wife. 3) The most important reason is that once your wife is aware of your struggle she will be a strong motivation to quit and potentially even a supportive person who you can be vulnerable with (as opposed to strangers on HN).

It might help to picture yourself five years from now. If you don't quit (the trend for the past 15 years) then your relationship with your wife will only have become worse, your wife will continue to believe that she is undesirable, you will continue to have this part of your life that you are scared to share with your family, etc. If you come clean with her then you will (likely) be forced to change and hopefully your relationship is improved and you no longer have this baggage in your life. If she loves you (which it sounds like she does) she will probably be more understanding than you picture in your head.

To share my (religious) experience, I struggled with porn for several years and became extremely frustrated because I felt like I became a slave to the urge, no matter what I tried I couldn't seem to quit. Eventually, in my frustration, I prayed to God and begged for help to break the habit and in that moment I got a calm feeling and with time I felt that my prayer was answered. The addiction didn't go away, but I seemed to find just enough self control/motivation/discipline/whatever to quit cold turkey. I know religion isn't usually a well-received remedy, and it's not required in order to quit porn, this was just my experience.

I live in Longmont as well and can confirm that internet here is awesome. I've never once had to think about it and always get at least 800 Mbps.

Longmont as a city is great as well. People view it as a cheaper place to live than Boulder, but I'd much rather live here.

Google's paper on Percolator from 2010 says there are more than 1T web pages. 9 years later there is surely way more than that.

https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36726

The real issue would be crawling and indexing all those pages. How long would it take for an average user's computer with a 10Mb internet connection to crawl the entire web? It's not as easy a problem as you make it seem.

You could argue that is happening in a sense. However, they make it clear up front what behavior is expected and what the results of breaking the code of conduct is. This is not dissimilar to any employment relationship. My employer could fire me for things I do during my personal time that are not consistent with their standards, so I have a financial intensive to conform to their code of conduct. Additionally, I have an obligation to not do work or accept payment for things that I believe are morally or ethically wrong, even if it is offered by my employer and it is substantial.

The difference is where the line is drawn (what the code of conduct requires). My opinion is that the low tuition costs are not reason enough to say that the school is coercing students to live a puritan lifestyle.

I went to BYU for my undergrad as well. As part of a job I had on campus I had some exposure to Honor Code processes. From my experience Honor Code enforcement was not as strict/retaliatory as people make it seem. Many times students would have multiple (e.g. 7) violations before any action was taken. This is just based off of my experience.

My personal opinion is that you shouldn’t sign the Honor Code if you don’t intend to keep it. It’s rediculous that students agree to the code annually and then are surprised when someone holds them to it. BYU Tuition is subsidized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, so it’s not unreasonable that they ask you follow some code of conduct.

I was able to graduate with an engineering degree debt free and land an awesome well paying job afterword. Keeping the Honor Code for four years is such a small price to pay in comparison.

Here is a link to some version of the Honor Code. I’m not sure how up to date it is, but it’s probably close if not the same to the current version: https://policy.byu.edu/content/managed/26/ChurchEducationalS...