shinjitsu | 3 months ago | on: The Junior Hiring Crisis
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shinjitsu | 3 months ago | on: The Junior Hiring Crisis
Sometimes people who are able to talk a lot do quite well in interviews - and University students need to be exposed to a wide variety of topics, but rarely support large projects for a long time, so that wouldn't be something that would come up in an interview.
shinjitsu | 1 year ago | on: D&D is Anti-Medieval
So Thundarr the Barbarian?
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: Are US EV sales a disaster or a booming segment? The answer may be both
Right you are - if cheap was all that matter the Yugo would have been everywhere
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a21082360/a-quick-hist...
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: Why Is the Press Attacking Home Schoolers?
My parents were public school teachers for decades. When our oldest son was getting to be school aged they recommended that we homeschool because as they said "It is nothing like when you went to school".
When I met an old high school classmate who is a public school teacher in the district we both live in (300 miles away from where we grew up), she also said something similar.
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: Gen Z is lonely. Going back to the office may be the cure for some
large cities seeing erosion of their tax base are also hiring PR firms I think
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: SCOTUS to decide if public officials can block critics online
Well The local governor of Hawaii used twitter to cancel a missile alert - so it isn't that wild an idea
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16923080/hawaii-governor-...
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: 13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep firms dropped the ball
Now if only they could do something like this for states. Some of the high pop high tax states are far worse to file for than the feds.
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (2009)
Wayland has struck me for years as being the new IPv6, the tech that the deep technical people tell me needs to come and replace the old thing that "doesn't work any more" and yet never quite takes over.
maybe the year of critical mass switchover will be soon?
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: I thought I wanted to be a professor, then I served on a hiring committee (2021)
Was the one who got tenure the one who brought in bigger grants? Unfortunately in the R1 Universities these days that is probably the most important thing, even more than your academic family tree https://academictree.org/
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: Are the Americans Awake?
>then I'd argue Maine should be in -4.5 instead of -5.
Maine knows it should be in Atlantic, it just doesn't want to be more isolated from the rest of the country than it already is
https://www.pressherald.com/2017/04/27/maine-may-switch-to-a...
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years
An interesting take on this. Will it lead to a general increase for the Global South?
shinjitsu | 2 years ago | on: CodeWeavers Now Controlled by an Employee Ownership Trust
I was a subscriber 10-15 years ago, but I used steam/proton now, I wonder how large the market for something like codeweavers is in 2023?
shinjitsu | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
Command line heroes was amazing, I was bummed they ended - but I guess they did cover a lot. (https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes)
I'm also a big fan of Coder Radio (https://coder.show/) Tagline: "taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development" They called the layoffs and salary adjustments happening now back in April 2021
If you want to look at software from a non-coastal US perspective (and don't mind occasional [or in early episodes not-so-occsional] profanity) I like Friday afternoon deploy (https://friday.hirelofty.com/)
I also was to second the Go Time recommendation from another post (https://changelog.com/gotime) - while it is Go focused more often than not, in recent months they've done show on intellectual property, tech horror stories and code maintenance
shinjitsu | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was being a software developer like about 30 years ago?
emm386 Error #06
And a subscription to the Microsoft knowledge base which came on CD (in addition to the books others have talked about)
And I vaguely remember that the debugger inserted itself between DOS and windows, when meant that it could bring crash windows if something went wrong.
Fun, but slower than today.
shinjitsu | 3 years ago | on: Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu
I've loved ubuntu for a while as well, but snaps are making me want something new - any suggestions for a "I'm middle aged with children so I need an it just works distro"?
shinjitsu | 3 years ago | on: What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft
Most of these (Kosher Butcher for example) are going to be very small companies and these kinds of requirements don't usually kick in till you have a certain minimum level of employees since there is an assumption in most states that very small businesses will mostly hire (extended) family.
shinjitsu | 4 years ago | on: I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears
This works fine for research universities, but in teaching universities (couldn't find the statistics, but there are a lot of them out there) someone has to subsidize the new STEM programs until the alumni start giving grants. In my experience, a lot more STEM alumni give large donations than humanities and social sciences. But that does mean a bigger initial outlay by someone.
shinjitsu | 4 years ago | on: Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
In my high school a few years before me there was a legendary cheating ring that would tap out the answers to each other in Morse code which was presented as tapping a pencil eraser on the desk like they were thinking. Unfortunately for them it was long enough ago that one of the teachers knew Morse code and so it didn't last.
shinjitsu | 4 years ago | on: More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years
Unfortunately a lot of this is because many faculty of 'liberal arts' colleges/universities believe "we are here to give an education and open student's minds and broaden their horizons" but even more often I have heard "liberal arts are not intended to be job training institutions"
so it is a much easier sell a creative writing major in a faculty senate or something similar than Aircraft Maintenance. And when you do get Aircraft Maintenance it usually gets tucked into the engineering or business schools in order to survive.
also: https://thedispatch.com/p/we-are-less-educated-than-we-think
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and before that is was hippies with "Don't trust anyone over 30" which became deeply ingrained in at least American culture.