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Comment Re:WFH (Score 1) 231

Tech CEOs are gonna fall back in love with remote work.

Since leaving my mega corp of the past 21 years, I've been working with startups. They uniformly don't give a shit where employees are. Everything is online and people are employed all over the world, where they are.

When you care about the costs, efficiencies and efficacies of engineering, WFH is the best option for design work. The data supports it and small companies are way more sensitive to costs. RTO is the preserve of large companies with lots of case and warped priorities.

Comment Re: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 2) 231

>I've always wondered if it's true or not that the mostly Indian workforce in US is paid way below.

I came in on an L1 for a temp assignment. I was paid competitively. I did bring specific skills that were unavailable otherwise.
25 years later I'm still here. VP of engineering in a tech company and doing ok.

I'm not Indian though, although I work with many. Skills tend to count over origin in my field.

Comment Re:As one of the victims here... (Score 1) 24

But a body of text, taken from the book, including the equations in exactly the format in the book (when there are 32 ways you could choose to arrange the terms if you were doing it from scratch). That's not ok.

Citing "So and so in the book xyz derived the following equation ...." would be fine. Copying and pasting with neither attribution nor rephrasing to make it fit the narrative of the chat is copyright infringement. More importantly they clearly have absorbed my book into their model without paying for it.

Comment Re:Sold his stock (Score 5, Informative) 98

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Programming

The Toughest Programming Question for High School Students on This Year's CS Exam: Arrays 65

America's nonprofit College Board lets high school students take college-level classes — including a computer programming course that culminates with a 90-minute test. But students did better on questions about If-Then statements than they did on questions about arrays, according to the head of the program. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp explains: Students exhibited "strong performance on primitive types, Boolean expressions, and If statements; 44% of students earned 7-8 of these 8 points," says program head Trevor Packard. But students were challenged by "questions on Arrays, ArrayLists, and 2D Arrays; 17% of students earned 11-12 of these 12 points."

"The most challenging AP Computer Science A free-response question was #4, the 2D array number puzzle; 19% of students earned 8-9 of the 9 points possible."

You can see that question here. ("You will write the constructor and one method of the SumOrSameGame class... Array elements are initialized with random integers between 1 and 9, inclusive, each with an equal chance of being assigned to each element of puzzle...") Although to be fair, it was the last question on the test — appearing on page 16 — so maybe some students just didn't get to it.

theodp shares a sample Java solution and one in Excel VBA solution (which includes a visual presentation).

There's tests in 38 subjects — but CS and Statistics are the subjects where the highest number of students earned the test's lowest-possible score (1 out of 5). That end of the graph also includes notoriously difficult subjects like Latin, Japanese Language, and Physics.

There's also a table showing scores for the last 23 years, with fewer than 67% of students achieving a passing grade (3+) for the first 11 years. But in 2013 and 2017, more than 67% of students achieved that passsing grade, and the percentage has stayed above that line ever since (except for 2021), vascillating between 67% and 70.4%.

2018: 67.8%
2019: 69.6%
2020: 70.4%
2021: 65.1%
2022: 67.6%
2023: 68.0%
2024: 67.2%
2025: 67.0%

Comment Re:Repeat after me (Score 1) 35

What are you on? I use Dropbox Passwords. When they announced this I exported my passwords and then imported them into a new manager. It took twelve seconds.

Do you think people are going to lose their passwords because Dropbox Passwords is closing?

Yes. People will ignore the email and carry on oblivious until they find all their passwords are lost.

Comment Re:Repeat after me (Score 1) 35

I have my password file on a google drive. It syncs automatically to my local drive. I can access it with Keepass clients on my phone, MacBook, linux machines and windows machine.

There's a sync process that frequently transfers a copy to a backup drive locally, which isn't otherwise mounted, so malware wouldn't be able to get at it if it landed on my machines.

This has worked for many years. I had to do some hacking when google messed up the google drive client and made a bunch of files "cloud only" without asking. That's why I am dropping google drive and moving my off site data hosting to another provider.

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