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by alanh 11y ago
I read up on the court case, and the ruling was that you couldn’t require people to have (in this case) a high school diploma without it having a defensible relevancy to performing the job. I do not understand your argument.
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by alanh 11y ago
0) Administration size and budget. Even public university presidents are paid like CEOs.
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by alanh 11y ago
You’re still buying into the myth/propaganda that higher education is only good because it makes someone more employable by providing skills (and/or connections) important for job-seeking. Wouldn’t you much rather create and live
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by alanh 11y ago
Do you think everyone who has gained an education should then be burdened by an inescapable bondage to a particular high-paying career? What if they decided they would rather be a teacher? A musician and band director? A serial backpacker?
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by alanh 11y ago
I posted this deeper in the comments, but since it’s so directly relevant to the topic at hand: http://www.salon.com/2014/06/08/colleges_are_full_of_it_behi... This Salon article says: “Tuition is up 1,200 pe
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Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition(salon.com)
14 points by alanh 11y ago|10 comments
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by alanh 11y ago
I am afraid you are wrong there. It’s a myth that the reason we have public funding of higher education is to help people get nice jobs. We have public funding of higher education because a better educated populace is a better democracy and
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by alanh 11y ago
> splitting hairs No we’re not! The framing of higher education as a career enabler with positive ROI is the #1 bit of propaganda that has justified and reframed how tuition is evaluated and is directly responsible for the steady and i
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by alanh 11y ago
I really wanted to go to MIT, but I couldn’t believe my eyes when they were bragging that average student debt after graduation was “only” the price of a brand-new minivan or sports coupe.
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by alanh 11y ago
I think so, because I don’t think "updates" are a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440659 But I wish they would clarify this, either way.
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by alanh 11y ago
I’m potentially one of those people, at least for personal projects and such. But I also need to understand what the hell I’m getting into before I make the leap. I haven’t kept my personal site up with no linkrot for the past 10 years by m
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by alanh 11y ago
> so env variables would not be necessary My initial thought as well — but it’s simply not true. Let's say you want to demo something that is using Firebase on the back end. You can't just give away your credentials or your d
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by alanh 11y ago
I think there is CSS that can make your scrollbars actually visible
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by alanh 11y ago
Something that’s bothering me is: Is there any way to deploy via `now` with secrets? You know: API keys or the like? `_src` is always public in the free plan and I don’t see any documentation around providing environment variables.
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by alanh 11y ago
No, it doesn’t. Elements of it are great. The design screams “We’re programmers too,” which is great. But as the comments on this page attest, this landing page does a simply horrible job of introducing what `now` actually does.
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by alanh 11y ago
I see. They shouldn’t use the word “reproducible” then, because something is either reproducible or it’s not. If they just mean, “We ignore everything but your package.json to generate a deploy,” say that, don’t mis-use the word “reproduc
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by alanh 11y ago
They seem to be one-time deployments that never go away. Since there is no updating and no "down" at all, I think the answer to your question is "N/A." But I may have it wrong. It’s a unique-seeming service, which c
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by alanh 11y ago
Protip: put an extra new line between items or HN eats your line breaks :(
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by alanh 11y ago
Is there really no way to delete a deployment?
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by alanh 11y ago
> Every time you run `now` it's as if you had installed from scratch (including semver invalidations like ^ or ~). The focus is on reproducibility. This is very confusing to me as these seem to be contradictory statements. Install
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by alanh 11y ago
Yeah. Making Google Maps for the moon (with cheese at the maximum zoom level) was a combination of interesting and funny in a way that wasn’t absolutely contemptuous of the user
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by alanh 11y ago
“I’m just worried that someone might —” “Shut up Kris, you’re not being Googley.”
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by alanh 11y ago
Congratulations on learning it, but that hardly means that it’s particularly user-friendly or intuitive. I also like rebasing from time to time, but I do feel like I’m tiptoeing on a tightrope above the alligator pit when I do so.
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by alanh 11y ago
Confirmed as not a joke. (The change is subtle as you have to click the green Merge button before being presented with the ability to choose a merge type via a combo button/dropdown component.)
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by alanh 11y ago
from article: - bugs - contained secrets (accidental publish) - embarrassment - open-source fatigue
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by alanh 11y ago
> If you contact support, they will check to see if removing that version of your package would break any other installs. If so, we will not remove it. You’ll either have to transfer ownership of the package or reach out to the owners of
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by alanh 11y ago
Funny! Now for a business name... "Palms Up, Inc."? Or maybe just "Public Relations LLC."
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by alanh 11y ago
Clarify? Who would have committed a felony, in what circumstance?
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Ask HN: I’m writing an OTP encryption algorithm. Where should I ask for review?
9 points by alanh 11y ago|24 comments
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by alanh 11y ago
CN = china. So, computers based in china, although I am at a loss as to what the thread parent is saying exactly about "CN computers actually being US". Same with "zero day'd/patched" — aren’t those opposite no

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