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Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling

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Re: Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

Broken_Hippo wrote: post #53
gedy wrote: post #32

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> Let's not pretend that being in prison is anything other than a moral judgement rather than an indication of someone's character. There's.. a lot of bad people in prison, and for good reason -they've done empirically terrible things, and many without remorse - no matter the "POV"

only most of those "bad things" are things like non-violent drug offences and other such things. I'm not saying they are all good folks, but most of them are just folks that messed up a little bit, and have to pay for it for years. Once we get people in the system, it is likely they will be in and out of it their entire lives. And what is even worse, it doesn't have to be this way (We refuse to take more compassionat…

See this comment, which has sources refuting your claim that "most" are non-violent drug offences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14095968

Re: Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling

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Post by sharun »

Lord_DeathMatch wrote: post #51

Hah, reminds me of the plot of "The Blue Nowhere", wherein the protagonist builds a computer (and a modem) from discrete components whilst in prison

The craziest story to me is the building of the Colditz Cock - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_Cock

Re: Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them in prison ceiling

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Post by i336_ »

sametmax wrote: post #68
adrianN wrote: post #44

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What's a more likely job for a former inmate: Computer repair technician (rip out broken parts, put new parts in) or Javascript frontend engineer?

Anything dev. People in computing don't care that much about your background if you are skilled. You can even work remotely for/from companies in another country. And the good news is, good devs are rare, but the demand for them keep increasing. So if you become productive and reliable with a pinch of people skills, you are pretty much guarantied to have a job in the next 20 years. And probably a good one.

I disagree based on this interesting story of an incident that reportedly happened at Google approx 3 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245316

This is all the data I've got on the state of industry; genuinely interested to hear tidbits from anybody that things aren't this ugly nowadays.

I'm not in the demographic of people dealing with problematic pasts (and very thankfully so; I don't envy those who are, at all) but I think that reasonable analysis of situations like what is described in those links is not at all too much to ask (?!), and I wouldn't want to touch an employer who deals with such situations in the way that is described in those links.

(Also, if you go through the user profiles of the usernames who wrote those two comments - based on the fact that the first comment links to the second I presume they're the same person - I must note that I observe a general pattern of cynicism which I think has an obvious cause and is sad because of its trivial avoidability.)

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Post by metafunctor »

sametmax wrote: post #67
metafunctor wrote: post #59

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Hmm? Electron? What is that? Are all comment threads on HN now supposed to be correlated? I pick and choose. I read maybe 10% of what's on here.

It's a joke because we argued a lot in that thread about electron success despite the quality of it.

I never figured HN is like Reddit, where inside jokes get you votes.

I hope HN never goes there.

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Post by metafunctor »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #63
metafunctor wrote: post #59

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Hmm? Electron? What is that? Are all comment threads on HN now supposed to be correlated? I pick and choose. I read maybe 10% of what's on here.

Well it was meant to be humour, I guess it's wasted here.

Humour is appreciated. I usually don't upvote humorous posts, unless they are exceedingly funny, because I don't want this site to turn into Reddit.

But hey, go ahead and try to turn HN into Reddit if you guys feel that's where it needs to go.

I feel we've already seen how useful a Reddit is to the world.

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Post by omnimus »

metafunctor wrote: post #74
sametmax wrote: post #67

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It's a joke because we argued a lot in that thread about electron success despite the quality of it.

I never figured HN is like Reddit, where inside jokes get you votes. I hope HN never goes there.

I hope it does.

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Post by mrleinad »

CalRobert wrote: post #48
paulajohnson wrote: post #39

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Right. You can learn a lot of Javascript by breaking up old computers. This isn't an "education", its just slave labour.

Which, indeed, is legal in the US. " Amendment XIII Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. "

I didn't know about this bit. It all makes complete sense now.
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