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That point you've apparently missed is that current hiring
practises among some companies can be discriminatory.

Totally agree that current hiring practices have implicit biases that can be discriminatory. What I don't get is how people can consider alternative hiring practices that are explicitly discriminatory okay, because they are discriminatory in the opposite direction.

It would be nice if people applied some heuristic like the "5 whys" and tried to actually perform a root cause analysis and try to resolve the base causes instead of plastering over the problem with practices that are at best no worse than current practices.

Explicit reverse discrimination is still discrimination. Quotas result in a situation where brilliant majority developers get passed over because they are in the majority. How about we try and come up with a solution where equally brilliant developers regardless of their minority or majority status don't get overlooked?
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I bought an Unofficial Cardboard 2+ after being blown away by the Samsung GearVR demo I tried. I've used it maybe twice since then.

Granted I am using it with my old Nexus 4 which doesn't have the greatest resolution, but the experience still is way off. There is a certain level of tracking that is very noticeably missing when going from a GearVR to the Cardboard, and I can only imagine a similar gap between the high-end dedicated desktop-driven headsets about to hit the market and the GearVR.

The gap is the difference between "crap, it's out of alignment again--maybe if I just keep my head slightly tilted..." and "whoah, I just jumped when I turned around and saw a shark swimming at me."

I agree that in the future low-end headsets will likely be dominant, but the motion tracking needs to get a lot better with them to even be worth going through the hassle. The app experience also needs to dramatically improve in terms of quality and input options.
The addiction can be a pretty serious side effect.
Is there a reason why Acme doesn't use a monospace font? I couldn't find any justification on that site.
I poorly worded it :).

I'd rather be inconvenienced if I know my data is safer.
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> Drugs are actually pretty safe

I do not believe for a moment this lie! If you ask anyone involved in the anti-drug business, both directly and indirectly, they will tell you that drugs are serious problem in this country. Likewise, if you ask EMTs about alcoholism, they will you alcohol is a significant problem in this country. They have even termed a person who has been drinking alcohol for many years as a "wet brain" because even when they are sober their minds don't function fully.

> And I'm looking forward when "harder" drugs like cocaine, meth and heroin are legalized or at least tolerated - no more drug turf wars, no more shadow states in Latin America, and especially far fewer deaths and medical issues from contaminated drugs.

KEEP DREAMING! The legalization of marijuana in Colorado did not get marijuana dealers into legal territory. They simply moved on to more horrific drugs. Legalization of all drugs will only invoke the dark side of street pharmacy, similar to "medicines made in Canada" bs.

> what makes them ... dangerous is the contamination

And I am sure that the drug itself poses no affects on the mind! Are you retarded?!

> Just look at the millions of dollars pot alone creates in tax revenue.

Yes! of course why not! Let's make all sin a legal thing and tax it like crazy! Money, after all,validates anything long-time wisdom deems to be a problem. Now if there was no money, maybe it should not be legalized then, shouldn't it?
You've mentioned this twice. Yet, it means nothing for vast majority of people in the workplace. The majority have to be at work programming instead of interviewing for programming positions. They neither have unlimited vacation time nor a 100% guarantee using a vacation for some interviews will go anywhere. If anything, the OP's post shows quite the opposite for them in common case.

So, how does a trial week work for candidates committed to another job? If anything, it seems to self-select for part-time or remote workers that are already in a position with time on their hands. The best I know don't fit into that category: you'd miss them.
Yet serious economists openly argue about the term.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/01/11/after-the-blowu...
I guess I'm daft, but if they'd just flip a coin each time on who pays, in the long run they'd each pay the same, if each payment event were to be random (let's even say within an upper limit, to keep the 'in the long run' within the lifespan of their relationship). Why wouldn't the dollar amounts of these events be essentially random?
Many cars are designed to take more than one grade of gas, generally with some acceleration trade-offs. Another consideration is you can significantly impact mileage based on driving habits and expensive gas is a reminder not to be overly wasteful.
Wow. I don't think it would ever cross my mind to by higher grade gas, perhaps at least until it was a literally negligible percentage of income. But even then...

Who are these people?
Do you literally mean arms bearing, or do you mean the right to arm oneself?

There are also other categories than citizen/slave.
> Putting on my tin foil hat but didn't Microsoft hand over a back door to the NSA already.

What incident are you referring to? I can think of a couple of possible ones:

1. PRISM, which is still a big question mark, and if it's in your threat model, then running Windows, let alone running Windows with an SSH server of any form, is not something you want to be doing, regardless of whether a particular library in it is open-source.

2. _NSAKEY, which MS had a decently convicing explanation of: it was a signing key used to indicate NSA-approved cryptographic providers (for FIPS-ish auditing), not anything that could be used to break into a user's account remotely.

3. The removal of the Elephant diffuser from BitLocker. My personal opinion is that all "diffusers", custom block cipher modes, etc. for full-disk encryption are pseudoscience; if you really want integrity protection, change your filesystem so it uses 4064-byte sectors, a 16-byte IV, and a 16-byte authentication tag. In any case, it still requires physical access to the disk to attack, so it's not particularly useful as an NSA back door (unless your threat model is one of the "then you have bigger problems" ones).

But maybe I'm forgetting something else?
I've started to not like them. They have been stopping me from getting free certs if the site even remotely looks like an ecom site. I'd rather pay a bit and not get hassled.
it seems like this could also be explained by people being more willing to drive luxury/sports cars when prices for gas are cheaper?

running the incorrect octane is at a minimum bad for your mileage and can also be damaging to your engine...
It's more that there's a lot of cargo-culting and "Google did this, so it must be good" flying around, and a lot of really bad CS programs which revolve more around the Feynman-rant memorize-and-regurgitate style than actually understanding performance characteristics. Which in turn produces interview processes that really are of the See-'n-Say variety.

Though to be honest, for a lot of what I do my working set in memory (metaphorically) involves very very little algorithms/data-structures stuff and a lot more quirks of libraries/frameworks/protocols stuff. When I need the algorithms and data structures, I pick up the reference I keep on my desk and look up the thing I'm thinking about to double-check that I'm using the right approach.
Yes it was just for the HN connection. I will look into letting the user decide what he/she wants. Thanks.
> not slander if it's true

but that's trade secret!

no seriously, I wonder if that's been tried.
Exactly. At the pallet level, the equipment to stack, wrap, or receive them are way too expensive. So, humans it is on both parts.

I'll also note for shipping that it's useful to have people to deal with problems caused by port regulators, pirates, and other odd situations.
You do have to be careful though. VPS offering is a pretty easy business to get in, and there are no shortage of people operating out of the proverbial "parents basement".

I've had some weird stuff from cheap providers including being down for days with no response, sudden price increases and having them go out of business all the sudden. Even for hobby projects it sucks having to chase people around set everything back up. I have found a couple more bucks a month to deal with a larger company that's it for the long haul to be money well spent.
You can operate any car sold in the US with any octane fuel.
I've known heroin users, and I also know chronic alcoholics. Heavy consumption of alcohol is at least as bad as a heroin habit and can be as hard or harder to quit.

Both are fairly dangerous drugs. One is legal.
One of my economics professors in undergrad used to say, when teaching Milton Friedman's monetary theory: "Given these assumptions, only GOD could reach a different conclusion." And then he would cackle absurdly. The point was that the ideology was hidden in the assumptions, and economics as a discipline was a) corrupted by ideology and b) using mathiness to obscure that.
There are these two interesting commits, "Add pty mode support code":

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/commit/55f2ec682...

and "Add ANSI parsing engine and console draw support to SSH client":

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/commit/7aac59e52...

Something about this reminds me of ANSI.SYS.
News flash: use the octane rating your automobile requires. (period)

Higher octane is for high compression engines. It's a waste of money to use in in most cars.
A physical reality we describe with mathematical constructs - like 0.

People acting as groups exchanging capital is just as real as atoms acting as groups exchanging energy.
>In practice, ProFinder allows employers to post jobs on the platform — separate from “Job Search” — and use LinkedIn’s vetting services like endorsements, skills, and recommendations to find the right person for that job.

I am not sure of how trustworthy those LinkedIn endorsements are IHMO..
Germany somewhat recently added a required E10 fuel mix (10% ethanol), cheaper than normal super, and uptake has been slower than expected (certainly going by compatible cars).

A lot of people, as it turns out, are not particularly bright.

(Now, ethanol is less energy dense than gasoline; right now the gap is 2 cents between E10 and E5, so you might make the calculation if you actually get more energy per buck from E5. It's another story for fuel consumption, though.)
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Thank you so much for the excellent feedback. I have a few things to look into :)
Another one who gave up after 3 tries of keyboard/mouse didn't work.
Can't seem to move very far
content is what is important. technical content and content of character.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
color of their skin, but by the content of their
character."

How about running conferences on a completely blind process where the identity about the potential speakers are obscured by hashing, and people instead choose which speakers will present based on abstracts of the topic they will present on and some indication that they are qualified/knowledgeable to speak on the topic.

The best solution for inclusion is by eliminating the privilege through a blind process.
Different people seem to have different propensity for addiction, and it is likely genetic. There's also such thing as psychological dependence, which is different from physical addiction but can be just as powerful. I don't think you can create a simple score card for addictive potential that applies equally to everyone.
The truth is neither ugly nor what you describe. Owning a gun, or even a bunch of guns, doesn't free you from the obligations that come with being a citizen of a nation or state.

At best (e.g. the land-use fee scammer Cliven Bundy situation in Nevada) you can delay enforcement of your obligations, but that doesn't make you "free," it just means you're reneging on your part of the citizenship bargain wherever you live.

Why that's considered a good thing, I have no idea. I certainly don't want to live in a might-makes-right world. I'd rather live in one consisting of a democratically-enacted rule of law.
That's because actors have a union.
You can even use a lower octane than recommended since modern cars with computers can compensate.
Never gonna happen, Go 2 is considered harmful.
How in the world did somebody with decades of mainframe experience wind up in an interview for a SaaS tech lead? On the surface, it sounds like there was a fairly obvious misalignment between the candidate's experience and the experience required by the role.

Somebody like this almost certainly should have been filtered out at the resume review stage or in a phone screen. There is no reason a company should be investing staff time in an in-person interview before it has a clear understanding about a candidate's experience.
It's incredible what a complete ass you are.
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These problems aren't that hard, although they do not say anything about the person that solves them. One can prepare for a Google interview in 1-3 months and I'm sure there's a pretty high chance they would pass it.

I've seen tens if not more people from my unknown middle EU university nail the interviews, ending up with jobs at Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc. and I've cooperated with some of them, knowing that their programming skills and knowledge, teamwork are lacking. But they can solve some simple dynamic programming problems, or maybe a silly breadth-first-search, and they'll get the job.

I, personally, wouldn't like to be hired at a firm that evaluates me that ridiculously. Yes, I'm a fresh graduate but thinking that knowing Dijkstra's algorithm evaluates my abilities makes me believe the whole culture is entirely deformed and I do not want to be fascinated by these ridiculous puzzles when I'm working with others.

Give them a week to implement something of larger complexity and they are drowned by so many concepts they decided to skip to earn an internship/full-time position at their beloved giants.

But I guess giants can afford having engineers that aren't that productive, or aren't doing projects that matter. I wouldn't like to be one of these engineers.

So, the real question is do you want that, or is the cash blinding you? :D

Books like these below can increase your chances significantly:

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Inside...

http://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Programming-3rd-Steven-Hal...

http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-6th-Edition/...
We use this on a couple of our sites. The screenshot doesn't show it, but one of the items that can be included in the Slack attachment is the top referrers and/or top landing pages for that period. Very handy to see if some topic is suddenly interesting to others, or to have a more organic feel of the "long tail" of a piece of content.

It's a slick Slack integration.
Some newer Fords, at least, claim to detect and adjust for the kind of fuel you're using, producing less power but avoiding knocking when running on lower fuel grades.
E10 fuel is about 3% [1] less efficient than more pure gasoline, and much harder on car engines, even ones designed for it (unsourced, but so my gearhead friends have told me)

So, no, maybe consumers are making the smart choice.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=27&t=10
Then do you believe that alcohol should be illegal and that alcohol sellers and users should go to jail?

If not you are a hypocrite. I have alcoholics in my family and I've also known users of other "hard" drugs, and alcohol is certainly as bad as cocaine or heroin.
I'm not sure what government you're talking about, but where I live (the U.S.), I think of the government as made up of people largely like me, and I'm neither wealthy nor well-connected.

Is it perfect? No, but nothing human is. Is it accessible? Oh yes. Is it something I, and everyone else, can work to be a part of and make better for all citizens? Of course. Do guns play any role at all in that work? Not a one. This--the discussion of the role of government in a democratic society--is a place for words and ideas, not weapons.

We are past the might-makes-right attitude of "I have guns so I'm OK". Now we talk.
E10 has a very noticeable negative effect on fuel economy and a poor reputation because it would cause fuel system issues in older cars. There's even a reasonably-sized group of people in the US who seek out non-E10 fuel even though E10 has been the standard here for some time. I don't think avoiding inexpensive E10 is nearly as silly as putting more-expensive higher-octane fuel in cars that don't require it.
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I like things like this standardization I find it interesting almost insect-like how uniformity and simplifying tasks improves efficiency.
We are heading there, but very slowly.

I've only ever seen one merchant (Target) that requires the chip. Every other store is still using the mag stripe. In fact, while travelling this weekend, I used my card in a dozen new stores. But none used the chip.
>> demand onsite only!!

The companies making the most demands usually offer the least. My favorite new flavor is recruiters saying "well for remote the pay rate is lower" to which I answer, "will I be doing less work in that case?".
Fwiw, the thread you linked is from 2013, not 2003. I don't believe the technique existed in 2003 (or if it did, it wasn't under this name).
I recently interviewed with a company that had advertised (in my paraphrase) "we've noticed that a lot of perfectly good developers do poorly in interviews for reasons that appear to be unrelated to job performance. So you can now interview with us by completing a project on your own time, and during the interview we'll talk about that".

My project was a regex matcher. I ended up getting the following feedback:

> We thought you wrote a great, very full featured regular expression matcher. It was especially impressive how much you dug into the academics behind regular languages.

> However we made the decision because we felt that while going through the project together during the interview, we didn't see the fluency of programming when adding to it that we had hoped for. While we specifically designed the take home project track to help overcome the difficulties of coding under time pressure with someone watching, we do still need to see a certain level of programming during the interview. This didn't seem to be the case here.

It's hard to know what to do with that. :/
We need a union then.
Instead of repetitively saying that you went through this same gauntlet yourself, how about an argument for how you think this is possibly a valid strategy for attracting good already-employed developers?

As I see it, there are 2 huge barriers to me ever doing a trial week while currently employed:

1. If it doesn't work out, I've just burned 1/4 of my vacation time for the year. That's a pretty massive ask for a company to make. I could do a bunch of math with expected values, but I'm sure it would work out to Weebly having to have insanely great compensation (>$300k) for me to do it.

2. Even if it does work out with Weebly, it makes it impossible for me to concurrently solicit and evaluate multiple offers, which I absolutely do when looking for a new position.

How do you overcome those problems which make it very unlikely that 99% of employed developers will do your process?

Of course, it could also be that this is a brilliantly designed strategy for weeding out expensive employees by focusing on the unemployed and unsavvy.
Slippery slope fallacy...You are incredibly oversimplifying what he is saying. Sure, he is generalizing but he isn't citing a single coding interview to judge the entire process.

Having said that, I actually agree with him because I've learned that it's not always simple as who can't write code. I would much rather assess a candidates' ability to learn (sharpness) than the current skill-set.
In this message I'm trying to make the argument I think they would make (I personally use monospaced fonts).

It's not that Acme can't use monospaced fonts, it's that Rob/Russ/others don't want to use them. Proportional fonts are better fonts, so why not use them instead? One possible reason is that existing code formatting conventions assume that text is lined up in columns, but we have a tab key that magically lines things up: it's the whole job of the tab key. So, why not forget about space-based alignment, use the tab key for the job it was built to do, and get the advantage of using pretty fonts?
EVERY job switch has inherent risks. It's unreasonable to expect otherwise. No one can help that and OPs situation wasn't crazy. He/She took a risk and it paid off. The downside is just a lost week of PTO? Not too crazy and anyone with a full-time job and some PTO could do this. I'd even get 'really sick' if I had too.
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Honestly it's pretty amazing that having a physical piece of paper collected, sorted , put in a plane, and hand-delivered to someone's door thousands of miles away is so freaking cheap. Postage stamps are crazy.
I've mentioned the theoretical energy density, and notice that this is what the EIA uses to derive the 3% efficiency loss. This is a highly theoretical value; combustion engines are very complex beasts and theoretical energy density is a poor predictor of their efficiency, but what is known is that higher octane ratings are beneficial for fuel efficiency. Since ethanol has a high (>=100) octane rating, it might actually improve fuel consumption despite being less energy dense.

Also, E15 and higher fuel blends have been in widespread use in the US for 10+ years now. I don't think car engines die quicker in the US.
Please don't. You force the car to retard the timing, get less power, and burn fuel less efficiently.

If you really don't want to pay for higher octane fuel, buy a car that runs on lower octane fuel...
It looks like the name of this software is actually MagicPython, and MagicStack is the company who made it.
I wouldn't say this is in the same league as the many other unproven quacky treatments. For people in the late-stage what do they do in the mean time if nothing else works? They mention striking improvements. I wonder what they mean by that. From not talking to talking is pretty impressive. I understand one shouldn't be leaping at every faint glimmer of hope though. It will be emotionally draining.
> For much the same reason that someone who has no CS background can productively do a short coding bootcamp and be employable, someone who has a theory-heavy and practice-light CS background can almost certainly pick up practical skills quickly.

I don't think they're equivalent at all.

The truck driver simply never had the opportunity or exposure to programming. He didn't know what it was like and hence couldn't do it.

The theory student did have exposure but was either incapable or uninterested in pursuing it. Even in the most theory-heavy of programs, you program a little. The kids who actually understand and like the programming aspect latch onto it and continue to learn and grow, ending up employable. The kids who, having been exposed to programming and realized that it's not for them, never learn any more and continue to flail around in masters programs teaching mathematics in the guise of CS.
Here's a github link to the emulator: https://github.com/OBattler/PCem-X