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Interviewing for associate level position this week: requires “expert” knowledge
hi, hacker newsies:

i have a job interview this week for an associate-level web ui developer position. requirements for this job are "At least one year of production-level experience in web or application development" (of which i have almost 2), and "Expert knowledge of JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and CSS" (which i do not have). i have great breadth and depth of javascript and jquery. i love studying them and learning best practices, but i would never call myself an expert. same goes for HTML. my weakest point is CSS, but i'm always able to accomplish what i need to with it and am constantly striving to learn and grow. despite my flaws, i am extremely passionate about these technologies and love seeing the amazing things they can do. i want this job.

these two requirements seem to be at odds to me: if they're willing to consider a candidate with one year's experience, how can that candidate be an expert at anything? how do i address my shortcomings without sounding like i can't do the job? i have connections at this company -- i've worked with one of the current directors on an ecom project and one of my references worked there as a sr dev, but obviously i cannot depend on that alone to secure this job. i've never had a true technical interview and i am anxious about all of this. any advice would be fantastic.

thank you!
When you only have a small explosive, you want to detonate it as close to the wing as possible, as this is the weakest spot on the plane - you're basically hoping for the wing to fall off, or at least sever the connections to the control surfaces. Even with a decent hole in the fuselage, there is a very good chance of landing the plane safely as long as the wings stay on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243
There is no arguing with Turing equivalence of Go and most other languages but there are practical limitations which prevent more complete general purposeness.

I like Go since the beginning. However, Go cannot be easily used for kernel development, soft or hard real-time or embedded systems (no linker script support and porting runtime is weighty) and there are few transpilers.

Rust is slightly better, because PoC kernels have been put together with fewer hacks. Haskell, C, Ada, assembly are much more general purpose in terms of being able to build something like seL4, an F-15 cockpit, an engine management system or compiling code as ASIC circuitry. (Perl's supposed use in nuclear armaments notwithstanding.)

PS: I would like to see some geninuses come up with a back-back-end to LLVM or a disassembler which could formally prove binary satisfiability of program correctness without mind-bending, gibberish, over-mathematized, incantations inaccessible to us mere, stupid mortals.
Consider the Roth IRA backdoor whereby people who have too much income to directly start a roth can start one by converting a traditional IRA. This is directly in conflict with the intent of the law but is now a standard bit of financial advice.
LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
On a tangent: more countries named like that: Rhodesia. Bolivia. Colombia. Liechtenstein. Swaziland. Uzbekistan. Denmark. Russia and Belarus.
That's close to what my first fail felt like. Its been 15 years since but I remember it well. Let go. Park at a regular job for a year or two with no "side" projects to let your mind clear up. Maybe starting/running a business is not your thing - but evaluate that later, with a fresh mind.
Simple solution: you should stop using any GOOG products and convince others to do so as well.
Uber and Airbnb participated in the vTaiwan e-deliberation process, with quite different results — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbdvvStfWT0&list=PLdwQWxpS51... explains the crowd-policymaking process in 14 minutes.
But the context is that the tooling does type it for you.
Yelp Employee Protests Low Pay in Medium Post, Is Promptly Fired
Ok if "No one uses IE" means "Has 50% market share"
But that wasn't the point, the point was to expose the level of stupidity at play here.

I strongly believe the users deserve to know just how incompetent these guys are, because next time it won't be some idiot swapping the iso links. It'll be someone slightly more competent that pushes a backdoored commit or gets into the apt repos, and then _every_ _single_ user will be affected...

Also, at the time of the posting the site was down. And it remains so.
I just sent one to the address on your profile
I got my answer somehow :)
No. Why would it?
I'm using ES6 in strict mode with a linter and Babelify to transpile for browser compatibility and I stand by what I said. I've been writing JavaScript since there was JavaScript to write, and the situation has improved drastically, but JavaScript is still far from being a coherently designed language.
There isn't anything wrong with it per se, however it's lacking in many ways. To see them look at how libraries such as LESS (http://lesscss.org/) and SASS (http://sass-lang.com/) enhance the CSS experience. That being said it seems as though the purpose of this library is to bridge the gap between JavsScript and CSS that developers face when building moderately large systems (I know I have).
Do you want to know what's happening with String in JDK9? (Compact Strings)
Try to build a mobile app with Go.
Not only that, but for the plot to work, the hijackers had to start from within the US. Implanting them in the US long before the attacks made it easier for them to reliably get to their target airports the day of the attack.

In a sense, the comment upthread litigates the whole idea of a "sleeper cell."
I've only ever found two things publicly available on this. The patent related to DNS GSLB http://www.google.com/patents/US7581009 and the video by Simon Newton which describes the global footprint and some of the services https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpBNm6lBU4. Most of what I know about GSLB is from my time working at Google.
Clipper was horrible, that said:

John Kerry and John Ashcroft were two of the most prominent opponents of clipper. It is dishonest and inaccurate to claim that the Republicans were against it and the Democrats were for it, both sides were split.

Similarly, it's a bit of a reach to claim that "the Clinton dynasty" tried to mandate usage. The NSA offered the chip without royalties, and Bill Clinton endorsed it and proposed it be added to the NIST crypto standards. It was a strong nudge to make it available for free; but it never really approached the level of an attempted mandate.

Clipper was a horrible horrible idea; and there were (and still are) members of both parties who think that these sort of backdoored crypto schemes are a good idea. Clipper (and similarly flawed proposals) don't typically originate from a politician; they typically originate from the military-industrial complex and are expressed through a politician.

Partisans always have trouble remembering history though... they forget when "their side" does wrong, but they remember clearly the wrongs of the "other" side. And vice versa for good things.
One source gave Apple phones 41% vs Samsung 27%. So its not a sure thing. Samsung could cross that gap with good marketing.
I gave the example to point out that the government itself have historically often very explicitly not "obviously [been] fine with it being disclosed" even when they themselves have made the information in question easily accessible, such as by plopping down a 177m tower in the middle of London and inviting people to tour it.

It remains to be seen if "reasonable excuse" as interpreted under UK law will be interpreted the way you assume it should, but assuming that making information public in one context means it should no longer be treated as secret has often been a bad bet in the UK, even when it gets totally ridiculous.
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This is why one of the possible futures is houses where people live and work. Not uncommon in the SV even today, to my understanding. The only problem in that case is the boss :)
When I was in Taipei, the cab system was 100 times better than uber and had none of the problems of the cab system in the US. If uber's main value proposition is superiority to taxis, then it makes no sense for it to try to take over in a city where the taxis are perfectly fine.

Honestly, the same is true in NYC. I rarely call an uber because it's just easier to get one of the hundreds of yellow cabs than it is to stand on the street like an idiot looking for the Toyota Prius with the right license plate.

Since uber arrived, all the issues I had with cabs seem to have disappeared. The fares are lower, drivers accept credit cards, and don't talk on their cellphone to their buddy in India. Uber put the pressure on cabs and it worked. I see no need to use uber.
In what world is 6.3 % == 50% market share!?
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Netflix have something similar https://github.com/Netflix/Prana and I've got a Sidecar in Micro too https://github.com/micro/micro/tree/master/car. It's a solid model for integrating applications which you don't necessarily have client libraries for or don't speak the same protocol.
How are the Clinton's a Dynasty, if only one of them has been President?

When people talked about the Dynasty candidate I assumed they were talking about Jeb! (please clap).
What Facebook Knows (2012)
This is a good discussion to have if everyone can keep our feels to ourselves.

Why do some people seem to have the opinion that authoritarianism (anti-privacy) is a feature of one political party (or ideology) more than another. As far as I can tell, there are only a handful of congresspersons who are strong protectors of the fourth amendment. Amash - R, Wryden - D, Rand Paul - R, Ron Paul - R, Udall - D. and a few others. Most just follow whatever the party whip tells them to do, and then there are a handful of very authoritarian troublemakers: ie: Pete King - R and Dutch Ruppersberger - D, et al.
There are ways to simplify tax systems, although "tax only revenues" is too simple.

You can look at the Hong Kong tax system to see what simple looks like in this context (it's still not all that simple).

The basic problem here is not actually the details of the tax codes in different countries. The root problem is entirely political. Companies like Google, Facebook and Apple have lots of money and their products are sold in every country. Lots of governments very much want to spend more money without raising taxes on their own citizens, which means they need to raise taxes on foreigners instead. Thus it turns into a game where countries try to either find creative readings of their own tax laws, or try to publicly shame big companies into giving up more money. But played to its conclusion this game is zero sum: for one country to win, another must lose by an equal amount (once all the profits are being taxed).
Depends upon where you measure it. Extremely modal. I think the general public uses whatever they find lying around. But geek sites see everyone installing something else.
The Problem with Our Data Obsession
I really have no idea what it means to be a Salafist, but there's something unsettling about an HN debate about whether a particular religion is or isn't fundamentally terroristic.

That's especially true if you are yourself somehow affiliated with the religion, in which case: I'm sorry you find yourself litigating this here.

Whether or not you are, and whether or not these are good faith comments, I think this is a pretty weird place for HN to go.
Quit.

Take some time off and explore other ideas on paper, discuss it with people you think can give you feedback via email/live/phone etc...

Preferably spend time discussing with people outside of tech about their work, their companies, what they do in general.

When ready get back at it and be ready to fail again until you don't.
Article says it's not difficult to make a backdoored ISO with the same MD5 checksum as the valid ISO. I'd pay $1000 to see it.
Apple plays digital privacy hardball with FBI, 'but not China'
Descartes is just over 30KB when minified and just over 300 lines of code.

For comparison, there's 12KB of text on the page.

There's something about writing 30KB+ of code, plus chunk of CSS-in-JS-syntax, and then using the energy of every single visitor's machines to duplicate the work at a massive scale to generate another chunk of CSS that the browser then has to parse, after executing that JS, which you could've just generated once on the server, that feels fundamentally wrong. IMHO this flagrant disregard for resource consumption is one of the reasons why the "Modern Web(tm)" is as unpleasant as it is.
That looks amazing but the "functional" bit is offputting me as I am a stupid user and never got functional programming. Something like this for dumb scripting would be a godsend.
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This alone doesn't prove anything since Apple doesn't give 3rd party apps same capabilities as its own apps.
A trick that worked for me is getting a dog. They keep you on schedule and give you breaks along your day (since they have to eat, go potty and go for walks).

Plus they are better than rubber ducks.
That's one thing yes. Another is the aesthetics of Safari that feels like it belongs inside of OS X, which I use, where Chrome just looks like it's own kind of deal. There's also the thing about battery life, which again, is a design decision Apple has made (lightness over ultimate performance), and I like that too. I don't do heavy webgl or css3 stuff every minute every day, so I don't need my browser to go "all in" when it comes to performance that I don't feel anyway that in turn reflects badly on my battery. And truth be told, the only place I use my computer plugged in is at work. The rest of it time it runs on battery power, so that's a big deal too.
Its called 'scaling'. There are 1B personal devices and only 1 server. So anything that unloads the server is a good thing?
that doesn't work and if it worked it would cripple WebRTC apps
> Yes, I know. This is okay. Whatever time you think you wrote the message at is fine. Even if your clock is off. Even if you lie. That is (part of) the message content (in this case).

Yes, it's part of its content, sure. That doesn't make it an identity of the event that originated it.

> The time the message is sent is meaningless and can't be used, I agree. The time the message was written, or created, or "thought to be created" is what matters (or doesn't).

But still doesn't provide an identity of the event.

> Git does this and works great. If your entire message history (via hash chain) is identical, then you really do have duplicate messages.

But that is simply because you have defined message identity in this context to mean just that, which is fine because of the semantics of the "messages" that git is made to manage. What it does not is provide identity of commit events. You can not, for example, implement a distributed counter in git that works by committing changes to a file that add a line with a number in it. If two git instances commit adding the same number based on the same parents at the same time with the same authorship information [...], the merge result might not reflect all counter increment operations that happened.

> I agree, you're right. However, this is a feature.

Well, it just is what it is, and each has its uses, but they are mostly orthogonal. It's just that when a UUID is part of an identity, summarizing that identity is easier done by dropping everything but the UUID instead of hashing everything.
Uber applies competition. If you get rid of competition, it will go back to the way it was over time.

It's not something you can do once, and that's it.
Tapes Reveal Apollo Astronauts Heard Unexplained ‘Music’ on Far Side of the Moon
Iran Web and Mobile Conference to Be Held on Feb 22nd NewsFeb 16, 2016
Sure they may genuinely believe what they have been told, but repressive regimes hiring commenters is pretty common now, perhaps not on hacker news.

I do not believe people have to be paid to disagree with me, that would be self centred delusion.
Normally I would be more skeptical. But the assertions Hersh is making about this is so far beyond the "official" narrative, you can't seriously think someone with Hersh's reputation would just make that up?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
President, Governor, Senator, Secretary. For decades in national politics. That's a dynasty.
> Is there a line?

There's good reason to believe that there isn't. Which means it's ultimately a political question and will always have an arbitrary answer.
Which is all why you should never ever drink the option kool-aid.

I have stock options. If you listen to our CEO they'll make me filthy rich, but it doesn't take a math genius to see that if I clear, say, $200,000, I'd be doing pretty well!

Now make no mistake, that'd be a very nice payout. But it's not life changing and I have no delusions it will be. And the (increasingly likely) reality is that my company may never enter the public markets, in which case they could very well be totally worthless.

Instead, find work you love with people you like paying you a salary you think is fair. That's what matters. And if there's a little windfall as part of the deal, well hey, that's a bonus. But don't assume you'll get rich. Because you probably won't.

The reality is, even during the late 90s, it was a lottery. Survivorship bias means we all remember the guys who got filthy rich. But no one remembers the guy who just managed to pay his mortgage off.
How did you try to learn functional programming? What was the most difficult to grasp?
PHP flatbuffers (experimental)
Two things. First, there's a weird genius loci factor in humans. I used to think that not having to switch context would allow for more throughput, but more and more I love splitting things in rooms, places. It allows for single task deep focus, and when you do something else, you're into that other activity. Be it eating, reading whatever. Going to an office can be part of that.

Secondly, isolation can lead to depressive states, but being surrounded by people is also a burden and some times worse. I can remember the feeling of joy when my floor left the workplace as I had to stay longer. I felt my spirit grow and fill the room, ideas, drive and motivation came back strong.
It has not been my experience that web applications are I/O bound using typical architectures in Python. I think you would have a very hard time arguing that Node.JS is more performance than nginx.
This looks too good to be true.

I always thought there should be a graphical language to do the high level architecture.. And a text representation to do the details. But it should be the SAME language.

Not like CASE tools where the uml diagrams are different than the code.

'The good thing about bubbles and arrows, as opposed to programs, is that they never crash.' — Bertrand Meyer

Now in visual languages.. The bubbles do crash.

I'd love to learn more.
Is that the right word? Validates? mitigates?
Very interesting perspective.

Thanks for sharing!
> Once upon a time, working from home seemed a romantic and highly exclusive option for a luxury creative class.

Even this is not true; working from “home” used to be the norm. I ask you, did a cobbler of old or a general store shopkeeper commute? No, they had their home in the same building. It was only with industrialization that commuting, i.e. not working from home, became the norm.
Also notable is IE's "CSS expressions", which let you embed JS in CSS property values, but they were deprecated and then removed completely:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn384050(v=vs.85).a...
"Living in the Age of Software Fuckery" isn't about capturing value of others. He isn't peddling a work place or fix, and it makes it a honest post. It is a verbalization of what some developers including me feel are wrong. Bryan isn't right in every word but it gives some solace to me that I'm not alone.
If someone like Putin had been in charge at the time, it might've gone differently, for sure.
I'm a huge fan of Freight Text Pro for serifs (https://typekit.com/fonts/freight-text-pro). It's like... just rounded enough to be soft and kind, but still be professional. I'm talking mostly about the medium weight, but the whole series is nice.
If for example you use all Google apps, then it's better integrated in a different platform. So it's a slight advantage to then switch so things like OK Google will update Google Calendar instead of Siri updating Apple Calendar even though you mainly use Google Calendar on your iPhone.
That's actually one of my favorite party games: Get out a volume of an encyclopedia ( I know, right!), find a word whose meaning is likely unknown to the circle of people eagerly sitting around the room with a scrap of paper and a pencil, announce it, and have everyone make up fake definitions of the word. Mix them in a hat along with your copied down correct definition, read them aloud and then everyone votes on the most likely to be correct. The person who collects the most votes wins.

So glad this tedious procedure finally got automated! Well... almost, we still need the bots to vote for the most plausible one.
Not having one?
How do you say in one sentence that the regime "does not care in the least what the west thinks," and then in the next sentence that they feed westerners a propaganda machine? Obviously they care very much what the west thinks...
Holy crap, it's pretty obvious that under the first amendment that the guy can publicise he is getting sued! There are no grounds for a gag order, whatsoever.

Global Archery are bullies. I hope this action causes their sales to shrivel.

edit: actually, it looks like things are much, much worse for Global Archery. It appears that iDV filed a German patent in 2004 for much the same thing as Global Archery's patent. It's where the guy is importing his arrows from!

Something tells me that they suddenly have a far bigger problem than they original anticipated. That $150,000 legal budget? I hope they top it up - I think someone is about to challenge their patent.
Why is everyone assuming ants were killed in the process? There are plenty of abandoned ant colonies in the world.
I think a big problem with the UK is that its people are comfortable with their ignorance. Would you agree?

That's a human problem. At least the Brits are lucky enough to be ignorant about issues that rarely affect their daily lives.

When the majority of the world has government-induced issues like corrupt or racist judicial systems, conscription, violence, a lack of universal healthcare, the death penalty, a lack of food and water, disease, etc. it seems rather first world to talk about violent revolution in a country that's easily in the bottom quartile of countries that needs it.

Is this idealistic, positive talk? Certainly not, but do I feel "oppressed" by living in the UK rather than, say, Russia or the US? Heck no, I feel very lucky to live here and I know about the problems. Could it be better and should we always remain vigilant as voters? Definitely! :-)
What is that good reason, pray tell?
Unveiling the Vive Consumer Edition and Pre-Order Information
Great idea. Looks promising.

Questions:

* The website states that a compiler and an interpreter will be open-sourced, but this language probably requires some kind of "graph IDE" as well. Will that tool be open-sourced too?

* Are the authors trying to make money from this? How?

* Who is behind this?
Your game is called Balderdash or Fictionary.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balderdash
You're asking for an act of faith in murderers, assassins and spies, people who believe that public scrutiny is a nuisance. The whole point of a democracy is that "what benefits America" must be determined by an active conversation amongst the public. The idea that a few individuals can decide what is best for our "national security" is antithetical to any notion of democracy.