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He's emphasizing how determining whether a candidate is good or not is hideously inaccurate and frustrating for everyone involved... Even without barriers of language, ethnicity, culture, age, or discrimination-of-same.
I did something similar with another company wherei did remote part time work for 2 months to see if they would like me and vice versa.

Didn't end up working out so I was glad it was only part time and I didn't make the jump. If I made the jump directly, I likely wouod have been laid off and unemployed.
Except groups exchanging capital are still an GAI-complete system, unlike atoms - even if they behave predictably, they can start doing weird things completely at random. Also, atoms themselves don't have equal voting or influence rights to change the way we compute temperature when it suits them.
The same reason unicorns and fairies don't exist.
Badly. Gas stations make a considerable portion of their profits from the store. If a station does not make enough money on the store it is one bad season away from being converted to fully automated.
Would love to build this out more if there's interest, particularly the Extensions section.

Any feedback appreciated
How come it doesn't highlight "self"? I think that is an important enough keyword to be highlighted differently.
lol. I couldn't finish the book, it was so annoying. Nothing draws you in (the calculations were fine but that's not a plot) and the blog style was really offputting. I loved the movie though.
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I upvoted cause not dumb question. Yes they do to an extent. One of the major reasons the engines are mounted on pylons is exactly to make maintenance and replacement easy.
pedantry, but probably relevant to the decision: self is not a keyword at all, it's a conventional choice.

(I'd probably elect to highlight it, just saying that it's not a reserved word in any way.)
I think that there is nothing to accept.

These patches are going to the portable version - which has always been a separately maintained branch of openssh.
e.g. no PAM, no Kerberos ...
I can't rattle off the model numbers, but some commercial jets have a turbine in the tail section for auxiliary power. If there's something that looks like an exhaust pipe in the tail, it probably is.
I'm not even aware of go compiling most of the time (it's typically under 1 second). go's build system handles these sort of things without a more complex workflow.
It's not a keyword in a classic sense, but yeah, we can assign it a distinctive scope. Feel free to open an issue!
> and alcohol is certainly as bad as cocaine or heroin.

statistically speaking alcohol isn't even in the same league as any other drug. it ruins and kills more people than any other drug period. it's highly hypocritical that we as a society are accepting of it (and glorify it), yet we shun e.g. marijuana. just look up the numbers they don't lie... (ftfy)
One can have a consistent set of ethics in which imaginary property does not exist.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but an NBA player's livelihood depends quite a bit on the "imaginary property" that makes it illegal to rebroadcast games and sell counterfeit jerseys.
I know someone who stayed in a GEO prison. Based on everything I heard about it, I have to imagine that there's some mid-level accountant who knows exactly, down to the penny, how much money they make per inmate per day.

One example: when you're given a spork with your first meal, you might think that was the spork for just that meal, and toss it out with your meal tray. Wrong move. That was your prison-issue spork. Enjoy eating with your hands for the remainder of your incarceration.
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I prefer Buffy's line: "acute testosterone poisoning."
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Notably absent from the "Statements of support for DOT's approach to UAS registration" [1] is the AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics)

Congress (and Obama) asked the FAA to write rules integrating UAS into the national airspace by September 2015, back in February 2012. [2] By all accounts, the section 333 exception policy does not meet that request... and now they expect to develop a full-blown registration process ready before the end of December? Please, don't make me laugh. They couldn't even answer at the press conference what the benefit of registration will be, arguing that it would be used to track down owners of drones flaunting the rules, but seemingly having forgotten that they already can't identify airborne drones properly.

I think Motherboard says it best. "It's clear that the agency, which oversees the Federal Aviation Administration, wants to crack down on the unsafe use of drones, and it's looking like it's going to try to bypass as much of the traditional rulemaking process as is possible... The short answer is, the FAA will probably cut corners and perhaps 'reinterpret' existing manned aircraft regulations" [3]

[1] https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/statements-of-s...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/faa-regulation-of-dr...

[3] http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/8-questions-raised-by...
Create a redundant setup across multiple popular cloud providers (ec2, gce, azure, digitalocean). Replicate each node type in your architecture at each cloud. At any given time, there is a high chance that at least one datacenter will be available. Setup monitoring infrastructure to route to whichever datacenter is performing the best for a given node type at a given time.
in 2010.
Ok, so we've never seen something to be exactly 0K. We've probably also never seen anything to be exactly 3.14159K. That doesn't mean objects with temperature of exactly 3.14159K are impossible, neither that we should assume they don't exist until you point out an example.

Temperature scale is a good model that maps the territory quite well. There is nothing to suggest it will suddenly stop working at 0K, if it works very well even as we get closer and closer to absolute zero.

Contrast with most economic models which as maps correspond to territory in a similar way the map of China corresponds to the Middle Earth - there are trees and not trees, you have to turn it around to make the sea be on the proper side, and... that's about how much it matches. Be wary of zooming too much in, lest you get eaten by an Orc.
I am in the same situation as you but what keeps me from going back to Barcelona are not the salaries, but the kind of uninteresting jobs that are offered.

I would go back home for the quality of life, not for the salary. But only if I could join a company that is actually creating something, instead of just using products created by others.
> American correctional standards have been a sort of standard for policing and punishment abroad

I don't see much support for that statement, fortunately. There may be countries for which this is true but for the vast majority of countries in the developed world this is not the case.
Since starting to build a networking software startup a year ago, that RFC has become far less April 1st material and so much more "advice to live by".
Thanks for the concern. The logic behind the scenes goes like this:

- You pay 20K for a house.

- You owe 80K + 80K * 2.5% * 40 years. That's your total debt.

- If you want to cancel the mortgage, you must pay 80K, and your net worth will go up because you do not have the 40 year mortgage anymore (even if you just paid 80K).

- If you buy and sell one year after, the same happens with mortgage towards your net worth. In terms of savings, during 1 year you will get approx 600 * 12 rent, -350 * 12 mortgage. That's 3K more. Then your remaining savings will go up 1% (as savings account return) which is around 200. Last, Since it's a boom in the economic cycle, while your debt will have diminished, the value of your house will have increased. So basically you sell the house for more, owe less and that is the result.

This situation is what makes the world go crazy over real estate, become overbought and then, BOOM. Economic crisis.
Why not have a roundabout with traffic lights on the entrances which are turned on at peak times only to ensure even flow.
> Nobody checking to see if cops are playing by the rules?

Other cops.
I think that would be a fun way to practice kanji, but I'd much rather just type "seikai" and press enter. Modern IMEs are awesome.
I've seen this criticism in a few places, that Watney is a terrible character because he doesn't sit around writing about his feelings, he just gets on with the job of surviving on Mars. It seems to miss the point that this is his character, the kind of guy who wouldn't spend his time wallowing in his fear and loneliness, but would get on with the job. And that's the kind of person you'd choose for a Mars mission-- indeed, that's the kind of person who has been filling up the astronaut corps for decades.
Another 1M q/s nonsense benchmark to add to the list : http://maxdemarzi.com/2015/10/16/benchmarks-and-supercharger...
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Earlier in my career, I have been asked to design circuits in interviews. Phone screens have also included in depth discussions of component tradeoffs for various circuits.
My most recent interview, after 20+ years of experience, wasn't very technical at all, mostly focusing on team fit and personalities. The whole discussion here of software engineers with 20+ years of experience having to code up fairly simple things on a white board is very strange to me, and fairly far outside my experience.
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I've been using AirBnB to find some of my longer term rentals (1-2 months) while traveling and I'm forced to look elsewhere because of the fees. A $50 fee on a $400/mo place is not small change when you're trying to watch your spending closely. Plus, that extra $50 will get you a slightly nicer place in most areas.
Thanks.

I'd rightgraded to a feature phone, which often gets left off and/or at home. I recently picked up a WiFi-only tablet. For much use, that's as much connectivity as I need, though the ability to access a very small set of tools while in motion (mostly transit/navigation related) would be useful. There I could get a 4G LTE wireless hotspot, and the price for both devices and services is about right, but, as with the tablet itself, my concern is control. I'm fighting Samsung for who's boss of my tablet (have yet to root/re-ROM it), but for now, I most definately am not, and no, I'm not OK with that.

A hotspot would have to support very extensive /etc/host blocklisting -- I've grown quite fond of my laptop's 60k+ entries, and use of dnsmasq. Actually starting to look at what I'd have to do to build and configure my own device, though I'm not sure that'll happen.

Among other benefits, battery life for both phone and tablet is vastly better than what I'd previously had for smartphone alone. Phone'll last a week, tablet at least all day, heavy use.
The author's frustration with the lack of customizable shortcuts is my biggest issue with chrome devtools as well. This is especially frustrating when I just want to pop a debugger statement in the middle of a node.js unit test so I can step through things, but node.js requires that you use the browser for debugging. (EDIT: apparently there is an IDE from jetbrains[1] that lets you do this too) This past Friday I started poking around to see what it would take to write a terminal-based browser in the style of the python debugger and found that the v8 team at Google has been working making the debugger separable from the browser since at least February of this year[2].

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/

[2] https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/14174a95a597cac7b848fe...
I buy the gas that my car recommends. In my people hauler(we've 7 in the family) I run 87 octane at the cheapest price feasible. In my commuter car(2.0 turbo) it wants e85 or 91 octane. Texas sells 89 or 93 octane so I buy 93, with an occasional 89. When I want to get 10% more horsepower for 2/3rds the fuel economy I buy E85. Price doesn't have any effect on what I purchase. I think it only would come into play if regular was 1.85 and premium was 4.00.
> I would encourage you to read the article.

I would encourage you to assume that those commenting on an article have read it.
Great work. What's it built with?

P.S. Reminds me of (a slightly more serious version of) the wonderful Tumblr blog "lol my thesis" (http://lolmythesis.com/).
I suppose the world is big enough for both. Sadly, media follows the kids more often than the adults.
> If your business starts to hit a wall on compile times you can buy a computer that can compile twice as fast.

Buying a fast machine only gets you so far. Large C++ projects take minutes to compile even on the fastest machines available. Plus, you'd need to buy one for every developer.

> when you have a 2000-line Go project, in language X you'd be able to cut 500 lines from each half of it considering each half in isolation - and then you'd be able to cut some more because of things that were common between the two halves - so you'd end up with just 750 lines of language X.

While this is true in theory, in practice I think the effect is not quite as large. As the project grows, developers take ownership of certain parts of the code and become ignorant of other parts. This is the whole point of abstraction. Under these conditions it will take a heavy investment of time and effort to find and replace the things in common between the two halves. So you might cut 250 lines in common between two 1000-line halves, but you're not going to cut 25,000 lines in common between two 100,000-line halves without a serious amount of work.

I think Go's design shows awareness of this effect. The Go literature does not preach the battle against code duplication as strongly as, say, Java. The goal is to make it easy to understand the other team's 100,000 lines, even if that comes at the expense of some code duplication.

Note: I am not a Go programmer, but I do think that optimizing for ``code entropy'' (lack of duplicated code) over all else is a mistake.
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-online-ddl.ht...
Yes, at least ostensibly.

But the author wasn't the one who brought up ethics. A "hustle everything" set of ethics seems like it would include both breaking copyright law and utilizing it, depending on how it benefits oneself. Perhaps this is approaching a "null" ethics, but if those values are shared by his peer group then it seems like they should still qualify as ethics.

It's just a bit disingenuous to appeal to ethics and morality while really referencing laws, especially when we can see (historically) that laws are often wrong.
Every single quacky treatment has "striking improvements", and so do pretty much all open-label trials which later turn out to be useless. I've been looking into this for a long time (for other illnesses).

I would recommend instead of using unproven treatments, go with the proven treatments and also look into the placebo effect itself and how it works and then replicate that effect without spending money on dubious treatments.

EDIT google "liberation therapy" for a good example.
Are we looking at the same website? It looks very clean to me, with the exception of the animation at the top.
Yup. Those are called "off target effects". Think of a drug that has a well known mechanism of action like beta blockers (they block the beta form of the adrenergic receptor). Go one step further and find a beta-1 antagonist like atenolol.

Now look at the binding constant across other receptors. The selectivity can be relatively small! A beta blocker will often bind with relatively high affinity to another 5 or 10 receptors!
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Every car I've ever owned, I've done the experiment and compared $/mile (dollars per mile, not per gallon) on premium and regular. Every one of my cars has had a noticeably lower cost per mile on premium compared to regular (I'd love to quote the number but it's been around 10 years since I ran the rest on my current car so all I recall is the outcome). I've encouraged several friends and family members to run the same experiment, and all reported the same result. Significantly newer cars with octane sensors might change this result, but I suspect it holds for most of the used cars on the market out there, so for at least some of us the more "expensive" gas is actually the cheaper gas.
Where in the supply chain are they added?

Regionally, virtually all petrol (gasoline) for all fuel companies comes from the same refinery, with the same treatment.
Fair enough, but then you should explain that what you're against is mindless regurgitation, not good CS education (which again, has algorithms at its core, but goes far beyond that).
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This is true, but in practice you are one flaky knock sensor and a lead foot away, because detonation really is only an issue at high power levels. I'd wager most people don't really ever go full throttle and if they do, for a few seconds at most, so I suspect the potential for damage is not that great.

If you habitually floor it, though, then yes.
That's a bit of a link-bait title, the first line of the abstract reads:

"This case report describes a patient who had hypoxia and posthypoxic intention myoclonus and subsequently developed clonic seizures while solving sudoku puzzles."

So the patient already had some brain damage and the puzzles were a trigger (there are many known potential triggers for seizures including stress).
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Not sure that this case is a good example of your point, but in general what you say is true.

It's interesting to consider why this is the case. Biology probably has more in common with the study of history than it does with physics or chemistry. The difference I think lies partly in the power of abstractions relative to each field of study. Abstractions in biology are generally pretty useless I think, whereas in physics in particular they are incredibly powerful. It seems that we pursue knowledge in biology under certain misleading assumptions - that what we find in one system has some universality; that the dynamics of the system are not that important; that the functional elements we discover (or invent?) largely have one function. So we like to say that Gene X does this, then publish it. Actually Gene X does many things that vary depending on the context of the cell, the organism, the environment etc, which we neither understand nor have the ability to control very easily. The knowledge is mainly in the details rather than any abstraction about it's function. We are confusing the issue by trying to think this way. It's like trying to understand the empire of Genghis Khan by looking at ancient Egypt - there are some broad similarities, but what is interesting and informative are the specific details in each case. The problem comes with making predictions about the perturbation of biological systems. With faulty abstractions and no understanding of the important assumptions, predictions inevitably fail miserably.

Biologists work out the next experiment with their heads. Even the simplest bacteria or virus has been around for billions of years, shaped by interactions with countless other organisms. How can one human brain possibly comprehend the important details that are known, let alone everything we don't know, to make a valid prediction?
The point, though, is that these technologies aren't in use anymore, and therefore no one new has a good reason to know the acronyms... There are plenty of new acronyms to know, after all!

Ultimately, this is why we write textbooks, to consolidate knowledge for the next generation. It may not matter if you know a particular historical example, so long as you know the ups and downs of a given approach.
Just get a microeconomics textbook and a price theory textbook. Hal Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics is probably best if you know calculus. Undergraduate macro bears very little relation to what economists believe and macro is a mess besides. Olivier Blanchard, former director of the IMF wrote an article on the state of macro, pronouncing it good just before the Great Recession. The field has barely moved since then. Macro is an intellectual monoculture that's not going anywhere. I personally am partial to Scott Sumner, who blogs at the Money Illusion abd is a market monetarist.
That gives me an idea: prison vouchers.

Give each prisoner a voucher for a certain amount and let them choose where they want to serve out their sentence. Prisons will compete to offer tolerably humane conditions to inmates while still keeping under budget. (Prison escapes will be punished by huge fines so there's no incentive to cheap out on security.)

Flaws with this system: do prisons have to take a given inmate? If not, there will be troublesome inmates nobody is willing to imprison. If so, there will be a lot of incentives to try to get rid of these troublesome prisoners as soon as they arrive. Also, there's potential for cosy arrangements between gangs and prison operators to direct business towards them in exchange for favourable treatment.
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This describes nobody I know. For my part, I dollar-cost average my gas purchases. I buy a fixed dollar amount regardless of the price. That way I automatically buy more when it's cheaper and less when it's expensive.

I do buy premium for my small engines (lawn mower, etc) because (at least in my area) it's less likely to have ethanol added which is bad for most small engines.
Economics often mixes up normative and positive stances but at least it makes it easy to separate them by using models. It makes the assumptions explicit. You can then take the models and relax or change the assumptions and see Evart changes. That's why and where macroeconomics approaches a science.
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I wonder if this is purely a result of calling the high-octane gas "premium" or "super" or whatever. If it was just called "87" and "91", where one doesn't sound obviously better and more exclusive than the other, I wonder if the effect would be the same.
I've been interviewing recently and it does suck just as described here, so I'm glad somebody called out these issues.

One company I talked to was like a caricature of the bad startup interview: we have a billionaire founder, we have wine on tap, a totally disorganized 4-hour series of discussions where the first person just sat down and started quizzing me with hardly an introduction, and I had to ask the second interviewer how many people I'd be talking to, technical questions ranging from the simple to somewhat difficult (using paper and pencil), with less and less time for each because they couldn't follow their own schedule, followed by an interview with an arrogant, hypercaffeinated CTO, consisting of two brain teaser questions and a series of elevator pitches, all in a tiny glass room near the back storage area, devoid of oxygen. And the following week I found out, sorry, they'd cut funding for the position the day before I came in.
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Rather than highlight the specific string "self", instead highlight the first parameter of any non-static class method?