Do enough people really have a subscription to the Washington Post? Or is this trending purely because a lot of people agree with the opinionated title?
I have one. You get like 6mo free if you sign up with a Prime account and only $4/mo after that. I read more than a handful of great articles from them each month and that price seems fair.
No subscription is needed to read the article. (However, the link is broken and leads to a page with no actual article; several people have commented with corrected URLs.)
It really is frustrating. I know it doesn't help the WaPo, but I subscribe to the NYTimes and the Economist and my wife's got a couple of other subs in there somewhere, but instead every site wants their $10-$20. Micropayments now!
Outbrain is the source of the "from around the web" advertising links at the bottom of news articles. They're generally just ads for diet pills and the like, disguised as other news stories.
Other similar vendors of the same kind of service are Taboola and Lockerdome.
Outbrain is one of the ad companies that creates the ads that blend in with the article recommendations that appear at the bottom of the article. They often use misleading photo/headline combinations. It really undercuts the credibility of the organizations that use it and contributes to an a culture of distrust towards the media.
Does no one see what's happening? This whole thing is a massive sign of progress. Men are deeply scared of an increasingly growing population of female developers. This is a pretty significant moment of anxiety and fear. That's good. It means there's change. It's no coincidence that more women are joining CS AP courses than ever before:
"HIGH-SCHOOL GIRLS ARE taking more Advanced Placement computer engineering exams than ever before, according to a new report from Code.org and the College Board. In 2017, largely thanks to a new test aimed at expanding the reach of engineering classes, female participation in these AP tests increased at a faster rate than young boys’ participation on the exam in 2017."
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Hi, just first want to say I think this is a great product so far. Being able to switch between the Kanban view and the list view is key for me and some folks on my team.
Regarding the calendar, I'm having the same problem - 4 of my tasks are showing up correct, but 3 are showing up on the wrong date as gray bars. I will send a screenshot and more details to that email address.
I think parts of the US have already started making coding mandatory (like Chicago: http://cps.edu/News/Press_releases/Pages/PR1_03_19_2014.aspx) but it’s a slow uptake. I think other countries (Finland and other EU countries) allow kids to specialize in CS early on (~age 14) when American students are starting high school which gives them more of an edge.
Really interesting graphs at the bottom of the article, which compare the rise of FinTech and the rise of Python. Makes sense why finance companies use Python--they're usually less interested in mathematical languages and more interested in getting stuff done faster and more easily.
Computer science is not really a brand new field. It's built upon decades of programming in physics, bio, etc. etc. basically most scientific fields.
I think that millennial gif is cool.
I guess this is the up side of coding interviews, where academics can avoid the "overqualified" or "irrelevant experience" or "no recent experience" problem.
I very much disagree. I suppose it depends on how exactly you define "far"... but I've been a professional programmer for 15 years now, and have very little math skills (maybe some algebra? mostly forgotten by now, and calculus always escaped me).
As a web developer, most of my skill have to do with designing user interfaces and API's, learning various libraries/languages/frameworks, defining problems, estimating, communicating with other humans, etc.
But I've had a 30 year career in software development (covering everything from low level comms software in the 80s through to workflow automation software today) and I never got further than A level maths - which for non-Brits, is the exams you typically do at around 18. I don't feel the lack of a university maths background has ever particularly held me back.
Good resource list at the end of this article for people who want to become better at math/coding:
Resources to Help Boost Confidence in Math:
Forget what you learned in school (memorizing theorems or trig identities won’t help you). Instead, learn to recognize problems and choose the right formula.
Read great books (Links to free versions in the article)
Art of Problem Solving
Mathematics for Computer Science (free eBook)
Godel Escher Bach (free eBook)
Yeah, I think we have all been there at one point. Spending hours tweaking every single line in a resume to make it match the job description perfectly.
It just doesn't work for people that come from different backgrounds. This story offers some hope.
Even though he's from hardware, and his programming experience dates back to the '70s, he was able to prove his skills by solving a coding challenge.
I'm working on hardware right now along with software, and I'll have to be careful when I apply for jobs in the future.
