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Google Software Engineer, New Grad, Salary in Waterloo, ON, Canada
I have received an offer from Google, Waterloo for a Software Engineering role. I am going to graduate in May 2016. I was asked my salary expectation(in CAD) for this role, but to be honest i don't know what to ask. Can someone please help me ?
Great course, worth paying for IMO. There is also a Slack channel where people can answer any questions you have.
Smth relevant (note a nice flame in comments :)):
https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2007/11/30/volatile-a...
Guessing there are various holes in the narrative the writer is trying to flesh out. Not particularly surprising.
Yep. I don't need rules or grids for a lot of tasks, so I often just buy bound sketchbooks. But I was talking about market-share, and a significant chunk of the share Moleskine has been losing are the former "vrai moleskine" customers who care not only about actual quality but conspicuous consumption.
Oh, so that was the point?
The headline here is a bit odd - it seems self-evident.

If we define the poor as a group which relies on regular labour to survive, and the wealthy as a group who does not, then many income sources of the wealthy dry up if the poor cease to exist.

One fairly obvious example is renting. The existence of a rental market is not undesirable. People will always want to live in a place temporarily, as a trial, as a holiday, as a stepping stone. But I'd imagine a huge majority of the rental market exists solely because the tenants either cannot afford, or have too little financial security to risk a mortgage.

More broadly, the cost of labour is reduced by the existence of poverty. The minimum wage is an attempt to alleviate this - in a world without poverty, a minimum wage would be unnecessary.

The question is whether we can do better. Axiomatically wealth inequality is good for those on top, at least in a direct sense.
Nothing prevents you from using good ingredients and practicing till you can generate a really good pizza. The one tool you would have trouble replicating, a really high-temp oven, only counts as important for a limited set of pizzas. And you can take steps to get a high-temp oven, if you want to go all-out.
Steve Jobs' death, rank 1; Dennis Ritchie's death, rank 18? That's a little sad.
Depends, if you distribute resources aka stock land etc then you are going to end up with a different set of rich people. If you just redistribute money then it's like handing out money in monopoly after every property is bought, it might make the game take longer but the end game is not going to change.
"A spokesperson for GCHQ told the Sunday Times: "We don't comment on our defence against the dark arts."

I don't care about anything else, I'm just so glad that someone at GCHQ maintains their sense of humour whilst being a spook.
That's quite worrisome..
I wonder if the 'tick a box per day' model is a proper visualization of your life. You age, health and knowledge define your potential of doing and accomplishing things e.g.

-- the majority of your top quality relationships are build in the first third of your life

-- you are very attractive for females between 25-40

-- you can learn certain things very fast as a kid

-- you age exponentially after a certain biologic age et cetera
And how many times did they discover stolen credit cards, or evidence of identity theft, and helpfully notified the banks and account holders?
Even the payday loan guys aren't that bad, many of their users are people who legit just need emergency cash and will pay it back on their next payday.

Freakonomics did a pretty good episode discussing advantages and problems with it recently.
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Prior art doesn't matter anymore, it's first to file.

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/10/04/prior-art-america-inven...

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/09/11/a-simple-guide-to-the-a...
I should have been more clear: I call it a viable alternative because the workflow and quality is certainly no worse, and it is far less expensive. I agree that it's not ideal, and I only use it perhaps a dozen times a year. When I need a good digital format I do what everyone else does: use a computer or tablet. 95-99% of the stuff in my journal is already in its appropriate target medium: my journal. That's why it's in my journal.
Reminds me of Pixar's Inside Out, where memories are portrayed as little colored spheres, with different colors indicating joy, sadness, disgust, fear, and anger. These spheres end up getting stored in enormous warehouses, with enormous splashes of various colors.
What's different about the payday loan industry such that the "better to have some alternative than no alternative" argument not apply? Running such a business clearly takes lots of work, and clearly there is lots of demand for the services they provide. What differentiates them from other business that provide "value"?
I mean, it's all about "for whom" in this question. What's better, widgets and a polluted stream, or no widgets? Depends on whether society values the fish.
Wikipedia's mobile site really is a usability disaster, with low-density tables and most of the content hidden by default. I've always had to scroll down and switch to Desktop to do any serious reading. It's as if the interface was designed for the first-gen iPhone, and subsequently abandoned.

At one point, pages had a "Permanently disable mobile site" link at the bottom, but they scrapped that back in 2012.
Im already running the newest version. I hope they approve on it in future versions. Client side crypto would be cool.
Yes, exactly.

You could fork Go and add generics support, but you'd be maintaining that fork forever. The Go core team would never allow it to go back upstream.
Edited. Thanks. I want points for remembering the two 't's though.
Lots of "upscale"-ish Chinese restaurants try to offer Sushi dishes.

There's even a fair amount of Thai and other Asian cuisines shoved under one roof.
I didn't downvote myself and also have no intention to further explore the works - awful vague pompous stuff that they seem to be from the few pages I've read.
That doesn't subsequently mean "non-exploitive" alternatives would exist, it just means those customers/employees would have no options (not even "exploitive" ones).

The hidden assumption here is that producing the goods and services required to keep a single human being alive in relative comfort (fed, sheltered, educated, healthy) necessarily requires an expenditure of manual effort roughly equivalent to what that human being can do.

Or, in other words, the assumption is that it is not and never can be the case that N people can be provided for by the effort of K people, where K < N.

And yet that assumption is obviously false: we have, here and now, the ability to feed, shelter, educate and provide health care to every single human being on the planet, and the ability to do so without the need for many of them to work for it. In the western world this has manifested in the explosion of service-oriented industries and administrative roles, which are essentially make-work jobs to give society as a whole the feeling that people are "earning their keep". Even among these affluent, supposedly highly-skilled people, probably the majority of the jobs are simply unnecessary.

What's needed is a realignment of our mentality about work: now that we have the ability to provide for everyone, we should simply do it regardless of whether everyone works or not. Will there be free riders as a result? Sure, but they're not actually a problem, and become less of one with every passing day (since the system that produces the necessary goods and services continues to grow in efficiency), and we just need to get over our fear that someone, somewhere might manage to have their needs provided for without working for it (we're already content to do this when someone inherits sufficient wealth to live without working, so this would just be an extension of that attitude: people living now and in the future will "inherit" the wealth of the past of the human species and be provided for out of it).
Wealth inequality is good for all in a lot of ways, so I hate it when people talk about it like it's an inherently bad thing. If someone does something amazing and unique, they should be able to profit from it.

Think about a world with perfect wealth equality and you'd have the opposite sort of problems - like it or not, capitalism and yes, wealth inequality have brought more people out of poverty than any other system in the history of the planet. More of those poor people in 1st world countries are fighting to pay for high end smartphones than to pay for food these days. It's far from black and white, but China is an amazing recent example of this. Going from an agricultural nation of the dirt poor to a highly industrialized nation with a decent middle class in the span of a few decades.

http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr...
Too late to edit. Note that I misspelled <Long German (Dutch?) Word>. 'Leuchtturm'. I think.
People in city government absolutely depend on the poor and fine-based revenue. To use a recent example, the Department of Justice found the government of Ferguson colluded to give so many fines that they actually became a substantial and essential part of the city's budget.

"For years, Ferguson's police force has meted out brutality, violated civil rights, and helped Ferguson officials to leech off the black community as shamelessly as would mafia bosses...

"Ferguson officials repeatedly behaved as if their priority is not improving public safety or protecting the rights of residents, but maximizing the revenue that flows into city coffers, sometimes going so far as to anticipate decreasing sales tax revenues and urging the police force to make up for the shortfall by ticketing more people. Often, those tickets for minor offenses then turned into arrest warrants."

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/03/ferguson...
>You don't choose to make umbrellas for the umbrella market, and just keep churning out umbrellas, perpetually disappointed by the fine weather.

You do if people keep buying them, irrespective of the weather.

You've misread my comment. I'm not saying that the landlords create the market; simply that the landlords chose a market that requires less capital outlay, and also with full knowledge that the market is not typically upwardly mobile.

In other words, it's fairly rare that landlords buy mobile parks with the intent of later upgrading their customers to upscale condominiums.
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The thesis is transparently false. While the deprivations of poverty may be exacerbated by exploitative business practices, they are self-evidently caused by a lack of income. Software developers in San Francisco or lawyers in NYC may complain about high rents, but they are not impoverished by those rents. Someone living on $733/mo of SSI remains poor even if their rent is free.

The author mentions a significant root cause in the first paragraph - de-industrialisation. Like so many other American cities, Milwaukee was relatively prosperous before the collapse of the manufacturing industry.

Improved regulation of the rental market would be a minor improvement at best. It's wishful thinking to imagine that poverty could be fixed quickly and at negligible cost to the taxpayer. The problems of poverty are systemic and so are the solutions - better welfare provision, better education, better support for job creation. If we wish to see an end to poverty, we must be willing to pay for it.
>I haven't been in this situation, but I believe very strongly that you should consult an attorney before going to HR.

The first thing the attorney is going to ask is "What have you done to alert the company this problem exists?" The company isn't going to be liable for something like this if they don't know about it, particularly if they have a policy against it (and I assure you they do).

Yes, it's HR's job to protect the company. And the way they protect the company is by acting on these kinds of complaints.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Issues

There is always what we had before: ASCII + Codepages, 128 standard fixed chars and 128 "extended" chars dependent on the selected Codepage. We could've just agreed on a control character to use as an escape for switching codepage and called it done. That wouldn't have given us such robust support for diacritics however.
Wistron will probably sell them:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10230/ibm-nvidia-and-wistron-d...
You don't see any alternatives because you are not challenging the premise of private property enforced by a state. That is a very strong assumption that precludes most possibilities. And state property is just a degenerate form of private property where one entity owns everything.
> quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketing, and basically everything sucks.

That sounds pretty painful.
I second the pressurisation and humidity features. Also, they use electric compressors instead of bleed air, which helps to reduce engine fumes in cabin.

These things made my trip significantly better.
This makes little to no sense. Flight schedules are worked out months in advance, it's a carefully planned system where many pilots fly particular routes only, and often back and forth. There's no way it could work with pilots signing up for arbitrary flights to whatever destinations mere hours before takeoff, unless there was a huge surplus of pilots waiting at all airports who are willing to constantly go to random places and have no certainty about where they might be tomorrow. It would be massively inefficient. I doubt any current pilots have unplanned 15 hour downtimes because they have to wait around for the right flight to come along. I just don't believe that many pilots want to bounce around randomly, never knowing what's happening beyond the next flight. The article also seems to ignore the existence of short domestic flights.

Passengers more freedom in deciding what's safe for them

This seems to be creating a problem where one doesn't exist. Today most people accept that any pilot on an established airline will be considered safe, and you don't have to give it any more thought. I don't think any airline will want to advertise varying levels of safety...

And yeah the Bitcoin product placement seems totally unnecessary.
So what exactly are you proposing then? If no one can own anything then the best available will be little more than tents; think nomadic hunter-gatherer societies.
> they feel no remorse for taking advantage of someone else

I don't understand what it means 'to take advantage of someone else' in the context of this thread.

Is Starbucks taking advantage of me when I want a coffee by selling me a coffee?

Is Elton John taking advantage of my desire to see him play live at my party and the fact that there is only one of him by charging me a million dollars to appear?

Are the bus companies taking advantage of my need to get to work when they sell me a ticket?

I don't get where normal economic transactions and supply and demand becoming 'taking advantage' or 'exploitation'.
Promoting the Browser to the OS level!? Read-only for private key loading may be useful but beyond that seems dangerous. Use standard download and save method.
Well, the other thing affecting the regionals is that while lots of people have the skills to be pilots and many even have the training, there are increasingly few who have the skills and training and are willing to put up with the wages and conditions of the regionals. And since the regionals are the only way to get funneled into the mainline structure of the big US carriers, we get the much-discussed "pilot shortage".
Cycling typically doesn't lead to brain damage. I suspect it is lower risk than sports with high rates of CTE.

Also, the Netherlands is unusual in being so cycling-friendly. I suspect risk is much higher almost everywhere else on the planet.
Only checks certificate, not ciphers... And does not offer monitoring
gcc at least also had a major issue with streams and multithreading because of some global locale locks. Not sure if it was fixed. More than once it caused writing some alternatives.
How would traffic controllers handle them over US or busy cities? Just see them on radar, would they know that this object is not someone drone? Or would they rely on matching with a flight plan and expect it.
Yes, because just as in the game monopoly when you have land ownership from which you can derive rent you inexorably end up in this situation. All value added flows to the landlords.

This was the original point of the game, originally named "The landlords game" and later renamed "Monopoly".

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-h...
How much risk-adjusted-reward is there in loaning Vimes money for the boots? Or in loaning him money for an annual bus pass that saves him 10% over a monthly bus pass?
It sounds like for him, being able to sell some of the power is important- which does not work well with batteries.
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I don't know why they sell the 3mgs either because nothing less than three of them has any effect on me. Thank god for 10mg tablets.
> bad at math

It's not primarily that people are bad at math. It's that they don't see any other way out. I've seen data that show that people play lotteries "for money" at higher rates the lower their income is. I can't find the exact citation, but here's a CMU article about study that shows something similar: http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2008/July/july24_lottery.sht...

We really just need to end state-run lotteries. The problem is that the states depend on this regressive tax for revenue.
That is entirely the point though.

If a landlord is about to chose a market that requires less capital outlay it's because there is an unfilled need in that market. Without the lower cost housing the tenants will only have fewer options, potentially more expensive ones at that.

If all of the needs are filled and somebody else decides to target the market then they have to find a way to disrupt it, in this case that probably means figuring out how to reduce costs and charge less.
Prior art continues to be a basis for invalidating a patent: the prior disclosure of an invention to the public invalidates a later patent. All first to file does is change the rule for deciding who gets priority in the unusual case where there are simultaneous patent applications before the PTO. Before, there was an inquiry into who was the first to reduce the invention to practice. Now, priority goes to the first to file. But a patent still cannot be issued if the invention was previously disclosed to the public either by the inventor (outside the one-year grace period), or by someone else.
We should start calling intelligence analysts "Dementors"
That's an incredible statement, what's your support for it?
wow, those are some poorly flown lines in [2]
"The beggar is the necessary supplement to the millionaire." - Henry George, as paraphrased by Tolstoy.

Ever since I first saw Henry George's ideas, I can't stop seeing it everywhere; there's a very real difference between the return to rent than for other capital or labor.
Don't you want to get the highest salary for a particular job? Don't you want to pay the lowest price for a particular product? Employers are just doing the same.

So what if WalMart wants to hire someone for 3 cents an hour? Maybe I'd like to pay my doctor $1/hr. Either way, it's probably not going to happen. People will not accept $0.03/hr for a job unless it is of benefit to them. Also I find it incredibly condescending to believe you (or the government) know the opportunities available to people in poverty better than they themselves do.

Lastly with regards to 'government forces the wealthy to distribute their wealth', wealthy people generally have quite a few options, to include the option to exempt themselves from paying what some would consider "their fair share".
Did the time spent editing the audio outweigh the time spent studying the shorter lectures? I guess there must have been some cost/benefit there otherwise you wouldn't have continued doing it.
Just because an act provides net value to a community does not mean it is ethical.
Poverty has ultimately nothing to do with opportunity, but those less unfortunate; literally, those without luck. Buffett would be the first to acknowledge that he's been lucky, and I would claim that while it's completely true that poverty has many sources, I would not agree that luck cannot be removed from the process. As such, poverty will always be with us.
Anyone have any idea on the rough prices of these systems?

Or is it the "if you have to ask, it's too much for you" as seem to be the case with the IBM power systems?
Clinically, I can state that I am a live and let live person. Am not quoting that as a boon or bane. I suspect most people are. And this lot, while they can dig themselves out of poverty, cannot become rich. The reason is there is the small group that does not have the live and let live wired it. That that trait is good or bad is up for debate. It is this small group that ends up being rich given enough catalysts. They think only about themselves.
Yeah I now realize that I should have done this, but I have the feeling that they are trying to push me out now and I only have so much time to try and collect anything. I suppose I could try and get witnesses
Being from a country where we have suffered populist governments who "defend the poor" by increasing their numbers, I am convinced that this is very true. Instead of creating jobs and improving education, they give handouts to the poor, and their number has dramatically increased. These jobless people depend on the handouts, so their vote is guaranteed to go to the populist party. In my country, this technique has been used effectively since 1946.
It depends on how you define "project."

Most people have life goals that filter into professional, personal, family, etc. Some goals might not sound like projects "go on more vacations with the kids," but require a sequence of things to be done in order for them to be feasible.

In "the end," the ones that are most valuable will probably not be the professional things, particularly in the technical space. Most because they'll feel especially inconsequential 10 years out. The professional projects I spent weeks and months on a decade ago are problems largely solved and turnkey in 2016. That said, they're fulfilling, and that's why we enjoy doing them and challenging ourselves.

So unless you're doing some really monumentally important-for-humanity professional projects, their value is probably ephemeral. They should play into a larger set of life goals.
Your use case makes sense to me. Prior to reading your post, I was always of the opinion that ripping vinyl kills the warmth that vinyl offers in the first place, so why do it?