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> wouldn't they burn out eventually? They also might not have a choice depending on how much their skills are worth to the gov't... if North Korean.
by unhappy_meaning 1y ago
> wouldn't they burn out eventually?
They also might not have a choice depending on how much their skills are worth to the gov't... if North Korean.
- ferguess_k 1y agoYeah I heard the security is tight. They are basically just sitting in the hotel full-time. They can't get out because it's foreign land. I hate to admit, but sometimes I wish someone forced me to sit in a hotel to learn fundamental CS stuffs that I want to do but passion comes and goes so I never got the grit to actually learn much.
- barnas2 1y agoBrings a whole new meaning to the idea of a "coding boot camp".
- ferguess_k 1y agohaha a true camp...
- _factor 1y agoKnowing NK, they’re probably part of a genetic breeding program targeting complacency and intelligence. Why fix the system when you can fix the individual?
- pelagicAustral 1y agowhat a sick thought! imagine that, people that are born to code, hack, reverse engineer, etc... and loyal to the core. I want a book on this...
- notyourwork 1y agoDidn’t the nazis try something similar?
- dleary 1y ago“A Deepness in the Sky”, by Vernor Vinge. Excellent book, with a concept very close to this as an element. You don’t need to read “A Fire Upon the Deep” first… the stories are more or less unrelated except for setting. (There is one character who is sort of in both, but going into detail about what that means would spoil it too much). Both are excellent and worth the time. Skip the other Vinge books until you are sure you want to read everything he wrote, they are “merely” 8/10 instead of 10/10. Vinge was a CS professor who really made sure everything “fit” together in his works. Although “A Fire Upon the Deep”, started in the late 80s and published in 1992, posits that civilizations much more advanced and capable than ours would be communicating primarily through something like Usenet, which feels a little quaint. NB that Vinge was the one who popularized the concept of “the technological Singularity”. His books have interesting authors notes where he talks about coming up with ways to write about a far future when he believes that the Singularity is right on track for 2050-2100.
- throwup238 1y agoFWIW I found A Deepness in the Sky to be much better than his other books (I read Deepness first). Vinge’s talent for prose got better over time and it’s one of the more imaginative scifi books I’ve read. It can be consumed completely independently and after that one character’s big reveal in Deepness, they just weren’t as interesting in A Fire Upon the Deep. I really wish we had gotten a sequel to Deepeness. Luckily I quickly discovered that the Children of Time series filled my need for more spider scifi.
- Aeolun 1y agoI don’t think Children of Time really matches Deepness in terms of quality, though I guess it’s a distinction between 9/10 and 10/10 :)
- bitwize 1y agoA Deepness in the Sky conceptualized "weaponized autism" before that phrase became a thing and I love it.
- brazzy 1y ago
- dp-hackernews 1y agoAlready been done, "A Brave New World" by Aldus Huxley
- piuantiderp 1y agoPlato detected
- unsupp0rted 1y agoReal autists don’t need to be forced. They’ll put themselves into that cram room. It gives them superpowers. Really. I don’t get why more companies don’t leverage this better.
- ornornor 1y ago> I hate to admit, but sometimes I wish someone forced me to sit in a hotel to learn fundamental CS stuffs that I want to do I don’t think that’s appropriate. You’re jesting about it, NKs working abroad are basically prisoners and their families taken hostages (as in don’t come back or do something we don’t like and we’ll kill your wife and children) Hardly comparable.