brunellus's comments

roryokane thanks for this example. I tend to stick with git CLI and this was new to me.

Agreed. Non-competes always seemed incongruous to the tech/startup zeitgeist of the last 10-15 years. But just by walking around in Boston, one can simply look at the architecture and infer it’s a parochial, old school little city. Power struggles abound, and corporations tend to dominate there.

Increasingly I have come to believe that managers learned to represent their tech companies as “startups” in order to justify disorganization and less than stellar salaries.

Indeed. Sports involve risk, and competition is about learning to navigate those risks. This implies a right to self-destruction. Without this sports are void of courage and competence, and their value is greatly diminished.

Tolstoy phrased it more beautifully

“If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.”

I’m pretty sure Lafayette had been training for this since he was around 12-13 years old.

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The individual commits aren’t interesting until you need them. They should be organized such that they remove the desire to squash them together.

Having a well written commit history is in the spirit of the tool and is the more professional approach.

I was in a nearly identical situation to yours about 10 years ago.

At the end of undergrad finance/economics studies I recognized I needed more technical expertise, so I went to a grad program and learned as much as I could about econometrics. I thought this would eventually position me as a consultant/data scientist.

As I studied, I realized programming was my favorite part of the work.

I used these skills in a few different roles. A couple years later a friend/mentor suggested that I just consider becoming a software engineer.

I never pictured myself in a pure tech role. It worked out better than I would have guessed.

My suggestion is that an engineering role is not as far away as you imagine. You have time to make a career in it, so you should reflect on if you’d enjoy it.

Which part?

Great point, I wasn’t aware of this.

The variety of investments available to the middle class is already too small.

The people who would be disqualified from investing by these increased restrictions are shrewd enough to not need such protection.

Totally. All of this crap mounts up to being a form of prosperity gospel.

I’m glad I’m not in college anymore

I’ve tried to articulate this a few times but you’ve bested all of my attempts.

Totally. The irony of this is lost on so many.

This point is reminiscent of the Chesterton’s Fence concept discussed on HN recently

Indeed if there were a standard format, there would be competitive advantages to using other channels to showcase your experience

It’s a good question. I would be interested to know which economic forces drove the price changes.

I suspect that prices could still increase even in spite of public funding decreases due to the point in my original post.

But to me, all of these side effects can be thought of as fruit from a poisonous tree, and thus unjustified.

My original argument still stands.

And the government was perfectly capable of bailing out private companies at the end of Bush Jr’s second term.

There’s no need to measure anything. The problem with student loans is qualitative.

Banks are allowed to make unsecured loans and the borrowers can’t usefully declare bankruptcy. Colleges have every reason to raise prices and lenders have no skin in the game.

It isn’t any more complicated, and no amount of data analysis can possibly refute this.