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Rejection massively reduces IQ http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2051
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Let's just remember that Steph Curry is the guy that took Davidson College to the Elite 8. Davidson. Davidson is not a school that's known for it's great athletic talent, so I actually would give some credence to the idea that it really IS just him.
If you weren't trolling, I'd suggest you to leave your bubble from time to time. There are pros and cons to everything, and finding the good parts is usually more productive.

Just for fun, here's a version of your quote from another perspective:

As a Linux user, FreeBSD does nothing to attract me. I dislike it because it feels like it's stuck in the 70's, with a mess of shell scripts for system and service management. Now with the SCO Unix compatibility layer they added something absolutely prehistoric to what already felt old. Count me out.

Also, how did you post this, is there a browser for FreeBSD now? ;-)
Go play a single game of Go and tell me how it goes.
What are you more afraid of? Rejection from a company you never have to talk to again OR your family being unhappy as a result of you 1) being unhappy with your job 2) feeling like you aren't doing as much as you can or should.

This might just be something you have to confront. But I think constantly confronting your fears is healthy, even if it's difficult and stressful.

It sounds like you're genuinely enthusiastic about engineering and computer science. I think talking about your side projects (deep learning, blockchain, etc) will show this very effectively. Actually, having side projects to talk about is sort of like a secret weapon at job interviews. You'll find if you learn how to talk about these your interviews will go really well, so long as you can do a somewhat above average job on the technical questions (which can happen with practice and luck).

That being said, I can't give much help on being shy as I've never really dealt with that. I did used to be kind of.... not the best with social situations, and I found that by being chatty and going out of your way to meet people randomly, you end up getting good at it pretty quickly. Of course I sucked at this at first, but I had a friend who was extremely chatty and whenever we hanged out in public he would always be talking to random people. By joining in I sorta got the hang of it, and that helped a lot.

Also never be afraid of being silly. Making mistakes can make people feel more comfortable around you because they stop worrying about keeping up their own image of being a normal human being (what does normal even mean?). That works more for meeting people and MUCH LESS in job interviews, but meeting people will make you less shy, which in turn can help with interviews.

Don't fall into the trap of believing you can't change yourself. Simply by acknowledging what you'd like to change about yourself, you've already begun the first step. I think you already know you need to do something. Hopefully this is the impetus. I've seen friends totally change personalities and go from being shy to confident, or silly to mature. You can overcome your fear of rejection. Just get rejected a lot so that it becomes a trivial thing you can laugh at.
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good question but I don't have a good answer. this might help - https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/473vu9/slockit_th...

Ethereum itself was crowd funded and they registered the foundation in Switzerland mainly for legal reasons. The status in US is unclear atm.

and digix is registered in Singapore again for legal/regulation reasons
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Gonna have to disagree on that one. If some fraction of that bottom 60% gets through, that's perfectly fine - this is only the first step after all, and there are real interviews still to come.

And if this mystical top 5% can't spare the ten minutes to run through what is essentially an interviewing captcha - for a job they were obviously interested in enough to apply for in the first place - then how do I know they won't consider themselves too good to do their actual work if I do end up hiring then? I'm happy to hire the next 5% down the list of it means they have a good attitude and a willingness to do their job.

And what's the alternative? I waste my team's time setting up screening phone interviews for every halfway decent resume that comes down the pipe? With the number of applications that we get, we'd be losing days of time every time we look to hire, before we even got to the actual interviewing.
That would involve a full ground-up Visual Studio rewrite. It's not going to happen.
when I worked there I always thought it was odd the concept of "green eye" and how every service can define it themselves. one of the few political stuff I remember during my time.
Mathematica at least has a Linux version. :-)
Of course there is luck everywhere. But most owners don't get articles written about them in the New York Times about how great they are because of their luck.

> No, he simply hasn't been as aggressive as Pop in resting starters. He's behaving the way literally every coach but Pop behaves.

Eh, he can easily rest his starters much more often. The other night he kept his starters in the 4th when they were up by 16 or so. There are definitely some coaches that would do that, but generally most of those coaches are considered terrible.
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I think everyone can agree that Microsoft is really embracing GNU+Linux these days.
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Right! This whole thread has me scratching my head.

Not long ago Microsoft schemed to stomp out Linux and now they've had a change of heart? Fuck Microsoft! To this day even they engage in anti-competitive bundling with OEMs, not to mention their seedy history in relation to open source.
Finally... Hope MS will also port Office to Linux;
It's really cool that this can be done. But why would you not run Ubuntu on Linux? What is the advantage of running it on a windows kernel?
What appeals to you about the certification? Are there ways in which OS X behaves in a "more standard" way than FreeBSD ?
> all the teams would use the metric system, except one

We all know which one. Side question: why don't tech companies help push the USA public towards the metric system and the SI (International System of Units) in general?
Yeah I think it's primarily intelligence. (Although I've read only a tiny portion.) Odd in a way, because the physical attributes are easier to argue and test. My guess is that Moldbug would rather shoot for him being smarter by nature than him being weaker by nature.
Names are generally not a big deal, but when you are selling a tech solution, it does come into play.

I dislike CouchDB too for many of the same reasons, but when selling it to clients, I first point out that I know the db is not winning marketing awards and then go into why it's awesome and the proper solution.

I'll have to do this for CockroachDB too, but it's quite a bit worse than CouchDB IMO.
Does the last minute of basketball still take 15 minutes? If so then I'm not coming back.
Almost all of the userland command-line tools are from BSD. The most important exception is clang which is independent (though Apple has historically been the biggest contributor).

Also, large parts of the kernel are from BSD.
I found apps using xming in a VM to be quite laggy, not fast to the point where I could use them regularly. e.g. SublimeText.
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I think functional and declarative are widely regarded as closely related paradigms, certainly you might call a FP program a declarative program. After all a declaration of a value as being derived from some inputs is very similar in concept to an immutable binding in a function or the concepts from functional reactive programming.

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming#Functi...
Don't know I'm afraid. I wish someone would build something with a better UI for iOS. At the moment I use 1Blocker with an explicit whitelist and it's a PITA
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Don't be so quick to speak for all developers. Most good developers I've encountered are willing to put some effort in to find the right job.
a lot of assumptions here. I thing the major point is that Windows will be less a pain in the ass if you have to deal and develop for Linux production systems. So IF I ever have to use Windows I don't need to deal with Cygwin anymore.
But for me the biggest reason not to switch is the hardware. Sorry @all Windows folks but Macbooks are playing in another higher league for me. I would never ever switch away from Macbooks because of the build quality.
Hey, just so long as it's not an infinite amount.
You can't regulate machine instructions, dude. Are you gonna build a computer that can run any sequence of instructions except the ones that implement a cryptographic algorithm?
We've weathered the last few outages very well, but we got hit badly by this one.

This is what I believe happened to us: We had a lot of Spot instances. After about two hours of not being able to spin up instances, the Spot market went screwy and prices shot up on multiple instance types across multiple availability zones at the same time.

This screwed us. Many of our redundant services were deployed to multiple spot instances across multiple availability zones and most of them were terminated at the same time. Afterwards, we weren't able to spin up replacements and had to scramble to move our key services onto unrelated instances that were spared.

Lesson learned. Multiple availability zones aren't enough to protect you from wild spot price fluctuations and an AWS outage can aggravate spot prices pretty dramatically.

Also, as a final note, I feel this outage was severe enough to warrant something other than a green, everything's OK!!! icon.
>Typically corruption undermines normal competition, reducing efficiencies.

...

>corruption increases the cost of doing business

these statements make sense and are true only than normal competition is a real alternative. Which it isn't in those corrupted countries.

Without normal competition as a feasible alternative, the things are the other way around. Corruption way of doing things is cheaper, while doing things "by the book" is much more expensive if at all possible (an attempt to do "by the book" is basically denying government people an income they are "entitled to" and they don't take it lightly and would make sure that it is less profitable for you :)
Control (i.e. 'moats') is where the real value is, always has been and always will been for all businesses.

E.g. with Google Search it is was perhaps the algo at first but now I'd say it is partly that and partly the high barrier to entry in obtaining all the data (although the data itself is freely available)
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For GitLab CI we just released deploy to Kubernetes https://about.gitlab.com/2016/03/22/gitlab-8-6-released/
The "mouse" (computer hardware) has an equally bad name, and yet...
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Do you think printing a matrix in spiral order is a simple problem. If an experienced person who spent 10 yrs on file systems didn't get that in a 30mts period, would you eliminate him/her? And oh btw, you are supposed to talk through your thinking process as well in that 30 mts... while youre at it, don't forget that semicolons :)
I've been using Git Bash (installed with Mysys Git) as my Windows command line for years now.

It's not perfect, but I much prefer it over cygwin.
I've never had the courage to build Webkit on Windows but Midori (which is webkit based) works quite well on Win 8
How does the prosecution prove the plaintext came from defendants' devices? When DNA is used as evidence not only is there chain of custody rules for biological material, but the details of DNA extraction and comparison are openly documented. You don't just have someone claim something is a match, there's proof.
They're not mutually exclusive. I've worked at least 40 hours a week as a developer ever since my freshman year of college.
You are a brave soul to use Spot instance for key services. Just curious, what kind of workload do you do on the spot instances? Fact: spot instances are usually cheaper and more stable in a less dense region outside of U.S. if you don't care about latency.
It's not the most popular system on phones, unless you are using "Linux" in the correct sense to mean the kernel. But I believe GP was using it in the colloquial sense to mean GNU/Linux, since this thread isn't really about the Linux kernel, but the ""Linux"" userland.

Android certainly doesn't have the userland that is typically (incorrectly) called Linux.
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"Self-taught developers dominate technology: 69% of the developers who responded to the survey are at least partly self-taught, and fewer than half hold a formal degree in computer science."

It's fascinating to read this article on annual StackOverflow developer survey [0] then compare it to this article on SV wanting devs with degrees. [1] SV requires a very narrow skill set compared to the rest of the world.

[0] Direct link to the survey from the article ~ http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#work

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11393671
"Self-taught developers dominate technology: 69% of the developers who responded to the survey are at least partly self-taught, and fewer than half hold a formal degree in computer science."

It's fascinating to read this article on SV wanting devs with degrees, then compare it to this article [0] on the annual StackOverflow developer survey. SV requires a very narrow skill set compared to the rest of the world.

[0] "Two out of three developers are self-taught, and other trends from a survey of 56,033 coders" ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11395207
This is essentially an anxiety issue. It's definitely possible to hack anxiety - it might be a good idea to see a psychologist/psychiatrist to help figure out how, cause that's essentially what they do.

And if CBT doesn't work there's always beta-blockers, heh.
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I'm sure Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and probably Penn have finaid that would make going there worth it.

Honestly, I'd take out loans just for the name and prestige.
It's not very known but I also made a little script for managing dotfiles.

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If you use your iPhone 6 WITH touch ID, that is, you actually use touch id to unlock it, it makes it all the more easy for them to unlock it. They can not compel you to provide a password, as of yet, but they can compel you to provide a finger print, and they would probably have a fingerprint of yours anyway, as that is a standard procedure during booking. If you (for some reason) are concerned about FBI having access to your phone, do not use touch ID.
> the fifth amendment does not protect you here under any current caselaw

I can't see even a speculative 5th amendment argument. If they can crack your phone without your cooperation, how could they possibly be forcing you to incriminate yourself?
I'm just elated to see that 538 was able to see the own bubble that they live in and comment on it.

I've had it with the Ivy talk, given I have no chance at that sort of prestige now.
OS X definitely doesn't ship with gnu coreutils. Sure, it's possible to install them manually.

Also, why gnu and not bsd? OS X's find, grep, sed, and so on work fine for me and are not gnu.
You're always welcome to come try Preemptible VMs (https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/) so that bidding isn't what kicks you out. Massive regional failure could absolutely still stock out any spare capacity product, but it seems doubly worse to get charged extra for it.

Disclosure: I work on Preemptible VMs at Google.
"Everything is working!"

(Minor note: It's not working.)
I have incredibly strong doubts that this will ever be open sourced, as Microsoft does not want third parties to implement NT subsystems. If the emulation target is itself an abstraction, then maybe. Maaaaaybe. But that delivers pretty much the same result in practice.
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We have exactly what you're talking about. It's called POSIX.

"The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX)
Amazon often hides issues behind a green icon and you find about issues post factum. This wastes so much energy instead of being open and report in real-time.
Uncrackable, or uncrackable to the FBI? It's not exactly known for its strong technical chops.
But why the name?
D-Wave is 100M times faster than regular computers
I don't really have a too much of a problem with them unlocking individual phones. I have a problem with them asking for the master key to all phones, which is what they were doing in the San Bernardino case.
It is not an anxiety issue. Interviews are structured ridiculously, most being the equivalent of a dick wagging contest or a beauty pageant. Companies are falling over themselves not to hire the best talent, but just the youngest people who can recite the algorithm to find a subtree in a tree.
The main difference is more that small children often put small objects in their mouths, toy or not. Most tools, knives, etc. are stowed away from the reach of children, these small magnets can be used on refrigerators or desks, etc, things these children readily have access to and frequent and consequently could wrongly ingest them.
But this request also shows that unlocking was never about just that one phone.
What's different now:

* Better BFT algorithms (e.g. lower network load, more reliable in practice)

* Faster computers

* Better computer networks

* Cheaper storage

* Better software development and deployment practices (faster, more reliable, more secure)

* and yes, the recent interest in BFT spurred by Bitcoin.

For example, the original algorithms had network load that was exponential in the number of nodes, O(2^N). Some newer non-POW algorithms are O(N*polylog(N)).
PIDs from Windows are not exposed when looking at /proc, so I am guessing you will not be able to `kill -9 explorer.exe` unless there is some real voodoo going on (and then it would not be POSIX compatible, anyways).

I think the command that you meant to say was killall :) `kill` will only kill pids, not process names.
I have a CS degree, and I still encounter countless algorithmic questions in interviews. I don't think the lack of a degree is much of a factor as far as whether you get asked those questions or not, sad to say, as I'm don't usually keep it too fresh in my head and/or somehow manage to study the wrong things when preparing ahead of the interviews.

Sometimes I just want to yell at these people "Just watch this video. I did that! That's my name in the credits, under 'Lead Programmer'! And here's my iPad, launch this app! Now click credits. See, my name!"

Instead I get asked virtually zero questions about my past work and get a test thrust in my face, or a marker shoved into my hand, or I'm asked to "sit and code this while I stare at you over your shoulder as you try to remember whether it's NSJSONReadingMutableContainers or NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves. But don't you dare make a Google search!." It's frustrating.
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I don't think you understand how machine learning works. Better not to opine on something you don't understand.
There is no "New Kinder Gentler Microsoft". Corporations just do what they see as more profitable. They do not make decisions based on morality per se, but they try to maintain a certain public image when it helps profits.
Apple is hardly out of business and they don't support the Linux API or ABI.
Is this wordplay similar to a minister "marrying 70 people" throughout a career?
headless, you're still stuck with Windows Explorer as a window manager.

I don't use a particularly fancy WM/DE under Linux but it's the little things such as middle click paste, and window operations such as maximize horizontal/vertical (by using the middle and right mouse buttons) that I miss.
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You should also check out Ambari, fantastic open source Hadoop/spark cluster management tool.
After the tay.ai fiasco I would be reluctant to represent a company with such bots.
Doesn't stop you from installing homebrew, and installing a newer version of bash though.
Can you list those three?
Chisel doesn't help. It just converts to verilog. The verilog is then converted by a closed source program to a closed file format that is then uploaded by a closed sourced program to closed fpga hardware.
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I think there's a strong case for first-amendment rights in code signing even in the case of a non-ephemeral signing key. In any case, look at the use of a search warrant with Lavabit—is it clear that the All Writs act was even their strongest legal suit?
On the other hand, using Touch ID allows you to have a much longer/stronger passphrase, since you don't have to enter it as often.
Not talking about this talk in particular, but the other interviews and his overall message.