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I'm not suggestng you fake references. I'm suggesting he find out what referees have to say, by getting a friend to ask them for a reference. There is nothing dishonest about finding out what a potential referee has to say about you, and how.

It's certainly no more dishonest than the hundreds of agents who try to insist on references before interviews - because they're using them for lead generation.

If it's an ex-employer, as many are, it's not unheard of for them to give minimal or less than glowing reference simply because theyre still unhappy you left and nothing to do with your skills and personality.

To use a referee without being as sure you're using the best names from the possibles is foolish.
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It could also be that they gave what they thought was a good reference while the interviewer saw it in a different light.
Or when you consider that most people in a relationship are in a heterosexual relationship, you target a lot of people.
>Didn't take much digging to conclude the author/organization has a preconceived bias against the subject.

Doesn't every journalist when reporting on any newsworthy item? Everybody has their biases, and they'll naturally come out in reporting. There is no "fair and balanced", it's just a matter of what extent these biases are hidden in the work.

I think the onus is on us, the consumers of this media, to take every piece as only part of the whole truth, and make up our own minds about the subject.
Nice.

I still wonder why HN seems hesitant to develop the HN platform further (although I'm relatively new to the site, so I don't know the history).
Here is the Louvre Architect demonstrating the use of F# to help with the design of the structure: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/FSharp-Events/fsharpConf-20...
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As someone who does a ton of reference checks when we're hiring, and who acts as a reference for people as well, here's what I would do...

Call (do NOT email) each of your references and state the situation: "Hey Ms. Reference, I recently got feedback from one of my job applications that a reference check did not go as well as I expected. Given that I use you as a reference in these situations, I wanted to check in to make sure that if you had any feedback on my past performance or had any advice on how to make a reference check go smoothly, I'd appreciate it."

A reference should not accept to be a reference if they will give bad feedback.

I do agree with folks here who are saying this might not be the real reason for the turndown, but definitely approach your references if you are concerned.

EDIT: to answer your question directly you really don't have much of a right here. This is all lovey-dovey-fuzzy human stuff. I doubt your potential employer will share the feedback, nor would I even ask. If anything, ask for general feedback on what was said or what could have been done better by you.
From your previous post:

> Yet these cards are what is being targeted, because only the poor use them.

Same reason as this:

>Employers use these cards because the debit card providers are willing to take on the cost of payroll for the privilege of gouging the employees in fees.

The poor do not have the ability to fight back, and their employers have the resources to make sure the gov't does not shut these things down and require proper paychecks. Never underestimate the rich's ability to exploit the poor.
any good tutorials for F#?
> opinionated, fixed configuration is a nicer experience

Even when those opinions are wrong?
My god what an abomination of programming simplicity. Do people actually write code like this? It's as if someone said you must use interfaces and you must use objects for even the simplest boolean logic statement. I think I would claw my eyes out if I had to read and write code like this on a regular basis.
Yeah, I found several decent read-only apps, but that hampers the experience for me.
If her intentions were pure, then she should have worked through the system to drive change, not sidestepped it in an effort to avoid her duties as a civil servant appointed to represent the citizens of our country.

She's never once said she did this to increase her security. If that was her motivation, why hasn't it been her defense of the act this whole time?

Maybe I'm just a tinfoil, but it seems much more likely that this was done in order to prevent information from legal public record keeping, than it was because she was an OpSec and ComSec wizard.
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I think the article is spammy and has a clickbait title. Unfortunately reading and addressing the actual article on Hacker News is old-fashioned.

StackOverflow surveys, while interesting, are probably meaningless because they suffer from selection bias. Even so, I would guess that F# developers are very well paid, like other developers of FP languages, but it's probably not because they work with F#. The causality is likely reversed - good developers that tend to be well paid are also the kind of people naturally interested in expanding their skill set, hence interested in FP languages.

Nothing screams spam more than usage of a hot keyword like "functional programming" while leaving hints that you don't understand what you're talking about. I would expect an article that reads like a marketing brochure to at least make a short attempt at explaining what functional programming is. If you copy/paste testimonials from fsharp.org/testimonials, you could also copy/paste from Wikipedia. But then, their own course named "Functional Programming" doesn't seem to have anything to do with actual functional programming: https://fsharp.tv/courses/functional-programming/
Touch screens and gestures for one thing.
My first tech job assignment required SQL. I didn't know it, didn't claim I knew it, got the job, read the O'Reilly book on SQL on the plane on my way to California. I learned about joins (although maybe not the JOIN keyword).

This was about the time MySQL came out, and years before Postgres added SQL support, so at the time your rather pathetic argument might have had merit, because there wasn't actually a way to get hands-on experience with SQL without a pricey license for proprietary software.

I still don't think it's reasonable to claim that you have "SQL experience" if you haven't touched joins. That's like saying you have JavaScript experience but don't know how to define a function.

Now, though, Skype and every browser embed SQLite. If you don't know enough SQL to do a join, it's because you lack intellectual curiosity. Don't blame your employer.

When I was hiring people, I wanted people who could do the job, not people who would lie that they could, then blame my company.
Nothing, really. It's just time consuming and tedious.
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But thats what the author wanted :P

https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp/blob/master/LICENSE

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THE LIST IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES.

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Call the people who acted as referee to thank them. You should do that anyway. In the process mention that "one of the other referees gave a mixed references, so I couldn't get the position", without accusing him directly. See how the conversation goes from there.
You are surely correct, however, I think there is a difference between a reporter recognizing their own biases (to the extent they are able) and striving to write objective, fair pieces that are properly sourced, fact checked, and give both sides a fair hearing.

It is impossible to completely escape one's own unconscious biases but this particular example is a blog post written by someone in an obvious attempt to put forward a personal (or business) agenda.
Sorry I'm with snovv_crash here. I can only speak for iphones, but I have never had a 3.5mm jack fail on me, and I used to go through a pair of headphones every 6 months or so.
Sadly that's the main problem in my opinion. As far as I know there are still some rare events which can bring players back but it has been stagnating for years now.
> Do I literally have to take them to court to find out?

Let it go. You've stated elsewhere you nearly damaged a friendship over this. Don't go full Don Quixote.
Since it doesn't actually solve any problem that any consumer actually has, I predict that it's going to go away in about 2021 and the 3.5mm jack will stick around. Personally I don't care about USB-C because it doesn't actually solve any problems for me. At least when we went to Micro-USB my device chargers became interchangeable and I didn't have to go home to charge my phone anymore.

I have USB-C on my laptop at work, and so far I'm pretty unimpressed with it. I'd much rather just have a second DisplayPort.
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Software, if written and adjusted incrementally without refactoring, tends to evolve in similar way.
I did not know GDB and its Python interface. I think it may be a better way. Expect for your tool!
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My guess is that it wasn't one of your "official" references. Even though they're generally not supposed to, every employer will consider "backdoor" references from other people in their network who know you. Often, these are given greater weight than the references you provide, because those are known by all involved to have been picked and prepared to put you in the most positive light possible.

Asking the no-longer-potential employer or your current references about it is unlikely to do any good. Using different references might, but then again maybe not. You probably already know what negatives might have come up in a conversation with people who've worked with you. If those are affecting your career development, the solution should be obvious.
This is their standard M.O of late. Remember the misfeature where depending on the Summon Mode settings, accidentally double-tapping rather than single-tapping Park would cause the Model S to start driving forward a few seconds after leaving and how Tesla blamed the driver after this caused their car to crash into a truck, obfuscated how easy it was to activate, and made it sound like they'd deliberately activated it.
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After a month-plus long interview process that ultimately resulted in the prospective company hiring someone else, I have decided to start thinking seriously about what I've always wanted to do: travel full-time. I am a recent graduate with some money saved, and am seriously starting to consider travelling across Europe, picking up freelance and side-jobs along the way to sustain myself. Not much outside of family and a few great friends are keeping me in my home city, and I'm starting to seriously think about moving my life in this direction. I do want to acquire a few skills along the way, namely a new language (I'm heavily considering learning French -- I studied it in university but am not what I would call fluent), a few more coding courses under my belt (wouldn't mind doing these at the beach!) and a few other cool life experiences.

My question for you is: Have you ever just got up and left? Bought a one-way plane ticket to somewhere you've never been and lived to tell the tale? In hindsight, what would you have done differently? Am I nuts?

As always, thanks HN.
I have an iPhone 6s. Can you show me where Apple says out right that they will refund an application before 14 days? I'm not being snarky, I just haven't seen that written before.
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I agree with both commenters above. You don't know for a fact if the liar is one of your references or the headhunter. This could very well be a lame excuse to pass on you as a candidate.
Interesting that the AI is able to produce a meaningful storyline without fully understanding characters; makes me wonder how it would do at producing stories without any characters; such stories exist, bit SciFi feeling too.
USB Type C is a de jure standard only: the de facto standards are 3.5mm TRSS for analog audio and Micro-USB for charging and PC connections.
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I think math is "easier" to learn while it still holds a clear practical value, up to calculus and linear algebra. Past that, when you start to enter the world of "pure" mathematical s, it can be muh more difficult. The practical value of earlier subjects allows a student or what have you to draw connections between what they already know and this new concept. Something like group theory however is more difficult to find a "use" for, outside of solving problems in your text book.

There are some good texts out there for learning by yourself. I currently own 7 or so Dover Books on Mathematics, and I could understate my appreciation of them.
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> So I had to either rewrite the code to use another library or give up on SteamAPI.

You could have fixed the bug yourself instead. Parsing JSON is not exactly rocket science.
I think this might be similar to buying a house with a conditional offer of home inspection and then deciding to nullify the offer on a mixed/negative home inspectors report. It is entirely subjective, and the report could have been positive, and in the hands of the buyer. It is a way of backing out of the deal if you cannot come up with financing, change your mind, etc. Could be similar.
I think http://rossumblog.com/ is a fairly impressive portfolio of embedded development.

I've only done very small embedded projects, like http://canonical.org/kragen/light_sensing/ and https://github.com/kragen/ar_bytebeat.
People will complain about anything.
It's not minuscule at all. The 3.5mm jack is deeper than even the old dock connectors, and with a device as small as a phone every bit of space counts.
Exactly my thoughts.
This is the best resource by far: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com

Update: There is also a collection of good books, videos, etc. here: http://fsharpworks.com/materials.html
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> Apple dropped full-size display connectors, people complained. This, too, became the standard on laptops.

Not really. They had a few generations that just had a DisplayPort connector. Now Macbook Pros have HDMI plugs, which are full sized connectors these days.
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That is hilariously cruel.
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Vote buying and selling is election fraud per 18 U.S. Code § 597 [1]. In fact, it's not even legal to make the offer, in either direction:

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Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—

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I'm using the latest stable release of MonoDevelop (5.10)
Because target progress's each memory allocation/free API invokes a TRAP, the performance influence depends on how often the target program calls memory APIs.
For example, it impacts lightly to nginx with HTTP, while heavily with HTTPS, because OpenSSL calls malloc seriously.

Although performance influence is worthy of consideration, since `memleax` is run to attach the target progress only when you certain it is in memory leak, and stopped after real-time memory leak report, so it is not need to attach the target progress for long time.

-- I have added the above to README.md in new version.

Because you can stop memleax as soon as you get enough memory leak report, so the sampling idea will delay the stopping, which make the impact longer.

-- My English is poor, and hope I can make myself understood.
Are you actually arguing that a USB-C / Lightning connector will be more reliable than a 3.5mm analog connector?

You'll have to produce data to back that up.
After hearing about people arrested for the content of their private chats on Facebook I basically act under the assumption that everything I do on Facebook is public.
The wording of the tasks is in some cases really vague.
Depends on what kind of software you want to buy. I can buy a computer without an operating system. I can then buy an OS separately. If I want to use that OS to run a web browser, I have many options. If I want to use that OS to run the new Tomb Raider game, which is published by Microsoft, I must buy Windows.
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tl;dr: "there is too many setting, most people won't even use them".
The solution IMO is not to remove those knobs completely, but to set defaults well and be able to 'pop under the hood' when you need as you probably know what you're doing by then.
A good use case is an editor - most recent successful editos such as Sublime, VSCode etc are minimalistic to begin with, but very configurable behind the scenes.
For starting user it's nothing but text editor, for an advanced user it can be a full blown, build, testing and deployment enviornment
It is not the responsibility of the hardware seller to know what your intended purpose is. To continue on your graphic card example, perhaps I want to buy them to use in my custom bitcoin mining operation, for which I have created my own more firmware that provides greater efficiency. I would then appreciate not being forced to pay extra for general-purpose graphics software I do not need.
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I don't find calculus and lin alg very interesting, school ruined those for me forever I guess. I am mostly interested Logic and Information Theory but I guess the latter doesn't go with a good calculus base.

Thanks for the links, I will read the book of proof and try the exercises, though mostly studied those topics already.
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hello hn.

i would like to share a story that happened to me few days ago and shook me deeply.

we do it support and some development at the company i work for currently. got one of the boring cases of a faulty laptop to resolve. nothing comes up on the screen or external monitor via hdmi or vga.

took it apart, check what i could, motherboard issue. checked the warranty, still on. let's call the manufacturer, lenovo.

talked to support lady, got asked to reset to factory settings. there is a hidden pinhole on the site to do so. i did not believe, but indeed there is one. so keep your laptop with you if you don't want somebody to reset it for you as a joke :) anyway, nothing changed on the screen. we agreed to send it for repair.

she started to read long list of points lenovo is not responsible for, standard stuff like data loss etc. then she asked for local admin password. i politely refused, explaining that is's against our policies. she said they cannot accept the laptop if i do not pass the admin login. asked to talk to supervisor, she couldn't pass him\her on but can organize a callback. i went thru this one with lenovo, was waiting for call back 2 months, received none. i refused.

i needed the laptop sent, so tried different aproch. told her we do not know the password. she still kept on insisting they cannot take it on for repair without it. so i told her the password is 123. guess what? she did not believe me. told her that that's the password and please prove me wrong. she said, if the engineers discover the password provided is incorrect, they will charge me... please fix the screen and check the password, i said.

laptop is getting picked up today, will see how the story ends.

let me know what you think.
it's really hard for me to understand why they need the password to repair the hardware. i'm really concerned why they asking for it.
That was submitted yesterday and flagged as a dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871658
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It might be possible, but is it common? Is a Honda Accord going to crumple politely?
You say typically, but Tesla has sold over 100k cars and has never seen anything like this before. It hardly sounds like a typical situation.
See, but that's a reasonable answer. I might take that and pivot to like "if you had to design an ideal language, drawing from the strengths of the ones you've worked with, what would you think most important?". The idea is to get you talking about things you've worked with to show familiarity and critical thought about your tools.
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I don't want a thinner phone.

Cellphone thinness reached the "good enough" stage a very long time ago. Then all making them thinner did was start to make compromises for that thinness. For one example, while components and software continue to get more and more power efficient, they're removing more raw battery capacity within the phone so they can shave 1mm.

No 3.5mm is a deal breaker for me. I don't want to have to remember to charge my headphones, or add extra weight to my IEMs, plus now I cannot charge and listen at the same time (or use the port for anything else).

All this move will result in is more people sitting on public transport blasting audio through the front speakers because their headphones died or they cannot afford $100 IEMs or $150 headphones. I think it will be extremely telling if the iPhone continues to ship with free IEMs, if not then that is proof enough that even Apple cannot make the economics work.

Overall this is a horrible step backwards.
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Getting the 80/20 rule right on defaults is extremely important. I see this especially in well-written mobile sites, where the GUI complexity cost of configuration is higher.
> useful methods such as ajax() (no, in vanilla js it's not "solved")

Right - I use jQuery because I've greater confidence that `.ajax()` will behave correctly across a wide range of browser versions, though I don't have any good evidence about using that vs vanilla `XMLHttpRequest` these days. I'd be interested to know which bits of "not solved" - which aspects in particular are not yet well supported?
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If that's the case, that's just dirty.

As the OP notes, this killed off the other leads the agency was giving him. If that is what happened, this company might have caused him serious professional & financial harm. There's probably nothing to do there but if companies are doing this, it should become well known as part of the reference check on them.
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