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The linked article from 2019 is someone's trivial analysis of why Chrome based browsers became popular; then a rant about the evils of google. The only reason given that I have a "moral obligation" to use firefox? because it sucks slightly less than it used to?

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Show HN: Google translate fails.

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I learned what a hashtag is. That's it.

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How about: noon = 1200 and midnight = 0000 ?

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Yeah, that's what I thought. Intermodal containers already exist. If you want more rail okay good idea, but loading a truck on a train...

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Telegram version, same, but different. Top stories from https://news.ycombinator.com (with 100+ score) https://t.me/hacker_news_feed

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It's legal where I live; ymmv

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Likely not the answer you're looking for ... I was in the same situation as you. I just sold mine.

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I enjoyed reading your background and methodology before you subtly pitched your solution.

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My 2 cents at 24 units of.. whatever it's called here. (i don't care)

Internet points don't add value to my life.

I don't come here for "salty opinions" I come here for polite, insightful, hopefully entertaining conversation. Endless "salty opinions" aren't any of those three things.

You can disagree without being "salty" -- and this website owes you nothing. You have freedom! You can go to some other popular website where downvoting is the norm.

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maybe https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/ ? if that resolution is fine enough.

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I think you're good. The only things I would expand on are:

If you work at a for profit company make sure the "motivation for change" is framed in a way to satisfy the "profit motive" itch somehow. (save time, increase sales, whatever)

Ensure your "proposed solution" is articulated in terms of optimizing the workflow for all users. Try to avoid suggesting things that come down to your personal preferences. Avoid suggesting a specific technological solution. (build this in x because I read on HN ... or ... FAANG company uses x and they're awesome so we should use x)

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Lots of discussion about degrees as signaling and such around. I didn't realize this was where we ere going.

If you walk out of a university only knowing how to code, you've wasted an opportunity. (and a lot of somebody's money)

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If the entirety of Computer Science == write code to you .. then nothing, I guess.

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I can't know what the poster was thinking obviously ... but what I took the comment to mean was, within the context of the actual article, they were happy that they now have FU money .. and absolutely can say "no".

Then the comment was them imparting a personal story framed by what they assume the employer's thought process was. And how they were happy to be privileged enough to have reached FU Money.

The fact that you say "it seems nobody is being forced in to anything" I think is kinda missing the point of the (imho substandard whingey) rant the posted link actually was. I mean, it articulates (poorly) how people are/feel forced in to accepting such situations.

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I wouldn't say I "write software" but I have a computing job in the field of animal/landscape ecology research with a pure CS background. I guess I'd say it's part scripting ETL type jobs, some parallel processing stuff, and ... I guess I'll call it DevOps to keep it short.

Make friends with people in national-level government organizations (whatever would be most like USGS wherever you live) or university "geomatics" type people. A good start would be those involved with remote sensing (satellite [radar or optical]/drone/other sensors). These are the people that know of or are sitting in these types of jobs.

If you want a web dev type job find a way to get experience with scripting for ArcGIS Portal.

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Bye? Nothing says commitment like a 35 minutes old throwaway account, like you said ...

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Wait for the AOL cd to come in the mail?

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How much knowledge of CS did you have prior to taking these classes? What takes the most time? Are lectures long? Are there a lot of homework? Big team projects/labs?

Previous CS knowledge -> If you gave me a design with some business requirements I could kludge something together that worked in Java. If you told me to code a linked list, traverse it, delete from it, explain A*, explain probability properly, explain any of the core design paradigms, programming paradigms, or any of the other (really trivial) core CS concepts, I could not. At my uni anyway, most classes met two times a week for 1.5 hours per meeting. Completing the homework in 2 hours may have been possible in 1st year during the intro classes, but that just simply wasn't enough time for me during algorithms, linear algebra, or discrete math classes. 3-4th year classes had lots of group projects, and it took over 2 hours a week just getting the group focused and on task in a coordinated way. This doesn't include the time to revise, understand the content, or actually code something for submission. Additionally, my degree had electives. I tried to pick things I found interesting, but writing papers on Pliny's views on mining, (and other somewhat interesting but unrelated to CS stuff,) took time =)

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Maybe this isn't the type of answer you're looking for but …

Today I am 44. I started my CS degree at a Canadian university at 38. I was a self-taught programmer, but had never worked in industry.

- What doors will the degree open? Will I still care about those then (i.e., trying to get a job in the US at FAANG). I don't know the answer to this. I'm eligible to work in the US through another method so I never looked in to it.

- I would (hopefully) graduate at 32. Then what? I graduated at 44 and found a job immediately. Maybe not a sexy job with a ping pong table in the break room and beer on Friday, but it pays.

- Can I both get a CS degree and work full-time? I worked full-time, except for in the final year, I worked 22.5 hours for the final push. That said, scheduling everything was … hard. I couldn't find a way in Canada take an entire CS degree online (except Athabasca, and I was not interested in a degree from that school). So attending classes, mostly during business hours is required. If you don't have a job with flexibility in scheduling you will use a lot of vacation time. Sleep was minimal throughout.

- What's the opportunity cost, in time/money/experience? Only you can answer that. What else is going on for you? What are you going to do with the degree when you're done?

- How likely am I to complete the degree, given that things in my life could change (opportunities, disease, motivation, depression, passion, love, children)? Again, only you can answer that. Does taking 3-4 classes a term and working 40 hours a week sound like something you can do? I would work, in one form or another, from 6am-10pm for months on end.

I would say only the first 1.5 years worth of classes was easy for someone who could program. After that things weren't really programming directly anymore. Once the higher year classes started I was able to aim my projects to things I didn't know, or things I knew (depending on how busy I was that school term and how much effort I wanted to put in to a particular class)

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