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Even if that were allowed as a solution, it is still a terrible prescreen interview task.

Depending upon whether or not you can use pre-existing frameworks/libraries they are either asking you to: 1) do something which takes so much work that it is completely unreasonable as a prescreen (which will filter out good programmers, who won't deal with that shit), or 2) they are asking you to basically edit some templates on top of some off-the-shelf solution (which will not filter out bad programmers).
Well everything that happens in a real computer is an FSM. There's a finite amount of memory and therefore a finite number of states.
Yeah, there's also that the naming convention has changed formats so many times in the last few years too. People need to see repeated pattern for it to sink in.
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git is a great example of this.
Are you serious? With many 9s of uptime, low latency requirements and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on the line? Uber employs over 2k developers right now.
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Finally. Reviews, especially on highly contested catgories, had turned into a cesspool over the last couple years. The varieties of gamesmanship will doubtless continue but this is at least one of the hydra's heads.
> you can only install programs from the Endless App Center.

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Your first point is flat-out wrong. CS had a degree of significance in HL's success, true, but TF was a quake mod first, and both only really hit the mainstream when valve picked up the developers and made the games standalone.

HL made its own legacy, and it's for a large part due to its mixture of story and gameplay. To paraphrase Yahtzee on the subject:

"The thing you have to understand about half-life is that in most shooters at the time, guns still hovered three feet off the ground, spinning gently like Barber's poles, and nothing else had ever felt so absorbingly real"
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I think the "right" answer here is to put something like nginx in front with load balancing, and rolling restarts, or something like that.

I'm in a very similar situation as what you've got described, and I'll start in on that part of the project sometime in the next month or so.

Also been looking at Elastic Beanstalk for deployments. Have you looked at that yet?
You're right. It shouldn't be necessary to network that much. But it can be necessary if you live in an area that doesn't favor the kind of job market necessary for tech opportunities.
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How to get traction on an open source JavaScript project? It depends on what you mean by "traction". I have been running an open-source JavaScript project in artificial intelligence at http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Mind and other venues for a number of years. The JavaScript AI project is mainly in support of my other AI projects at http://ai.neocities.org/AiSteps.html and at http://github.com/PriorArt/AGI/wiki/MindGrid and http://mind.sourceforge.net/js.html and a host of other sites. Upshot? The JSAI project does not get "traction" for itself; it exists to engender "traction" for the Mentifex Strong AI project in Forth and in Perl. Netizens who might not want to download Forth and the Mind.Forth AI will be perfectly willing to point MSIE at http://ai.neocities.org/AiMind.html and try out the JavaScript AI in English or the http://ai.neocities.org/Dushka.html AI in Russian. So, good luck in your search for "traction". Be glad that Netizens do not actively hound you and denigrate you like they do Mentifex.
Are there open source projects who are not prepared to receive this kind of contribution?

What are the funds used for? Hosting? Paying developers?

If it's for paying developers, then I imagine there could be political issues where some contributors are working for free, and some are paid. How do you apportion the funds?
I don't think you really need that many primes for Project Euler, but I can certainly imagine someone tired of including a call to her prime sieve in tons of problems, and of having to waiting for it to run, and thinking, "let's just make a library that has all the primes I could possibly need in a constant array".
Indeed Carmack was wrong. And the game that proved it was Quake, not HL.

Wolfenstein and Doom were both great, eye-opening games because their rendering gave us a visual experience we hadn't seen before. Nobody cared if they were the gaming equivalent of dumb, loud rock. Besides Doom's art had a terrifying -- if brainless -- grandeur.

Quake also delivered a step up in rendering, a great feat that I admire as a software engineer. But as a game, it was dull.

It was no more brainless than Doom, but we had already seen that particular kind of dumb-horror before, and the full 3d really just felt like an incremental improvement.
I left Microsoft in 2015 and at that time my team was in private offices. Some had their own office, some shared with one other person. It was based solely on number of years at the company.
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And with a fade out / fade in. Small details like these make for a great experience.
> You REALLY needed to be thick skinned back then as nobody got any support from anyone. If you expressed interest in computers, you were ostracised as a freak.

Reminds me of high school where I chose not to learn coding on the side since another kid almost got expelled for "hacking". Sometimes you have to really choose your battles.
If someone pressured me into doing something I didn't want to do I would wind up running into the ground. Probably not on purpose, but simply because If I do not enjoy what I am doing I won't do it well because I will be distracted by things I do enjoy. I would be do busy optimizing some meaningless backroom server to care about sales reports and other important things.

I know that plenty of people aren't like that, but it is a real and possible outcome.
Cross-posting my comment from reddit:

I don't know about anyone else, but the problem I personally have with the crazy, messy JavaScript ecosystem is:

- I am a relatively experienced amateur programmer (with limited [nine months] professional experience)

- I can learn any new programming language, library, methodology, or whatever pretty easily

- I don't have any formal experience using anything of this newfangled stuff; like the author of the article, my frontend experience involves plain ol HTML/CSS/JS, with a little jQuery to make things easier

- nobody wants to hire me unless I have `n` years experience with newfangled language/framework/methodology `x`, `y`, and `z`

- I don't have a CS degree

Unless you're a massive operation like Facebook or something... just give me a week to look through your website's codebase, I'll figure out how you guys do things and I'll start being productive before you know it. If you're using stuff that I've never used before, I'll learn it.

I should be a more attractive hire than someone who has `n` years of experience only using `x`, `y`, or `z`, because the way I think about getting things done with computers isn't tied down to any one specific framework... but it seems that this isn't how hiring works in the industry right now... which is directly at odds with the rapidly-changing nature of web development!

As a result, I don't feel inclined to learn any of this new crap. What's the point? Apparently I should've learned it all `n` years ago, and it's too late now?
iPhone 6's are considered old these days? Yeesh. I thought they were still fairly powerful for a mobile device.
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Since HL3 is probably never going to be released, I'd love it if Valve released any script or story notes they had for it. I want to see what would/could have happened.
I agree.. My Skype is always unhappy to send images for me. Whereever I am.
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How can you get your contacts migrate to Telegram?
Please, everyone in the IT/CS world, ridiculous health "benefit" claims are in fact the origin of the term "snake oil." There is no accepted guidance from the biomedical community regarding fasting that draws a link to autophagy. Please keep your completely unscientific and unfounded health "benefit" claims to yourself.
I hear you, but now they're starting to make it possible to get away from JSPM. I recently ported my "old" Aurelia app to the new Aurelia CLI version and it's great!
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Whatever the theory, years ago I used to find Amazon reviews mostly helpful -- you had to read between the lines sometimes, but for an intelligent reader the bogosity was basically under control -- and now I see many products with an unearned high rating, but I have to wade through the reviews for each one to make that judgement.

These free-copy reviews are not the worst of it, but they're mostly noise. They're not like either a professional reviewer with a reputation to groom or a regular person with an opinion they want to share.
I'd argue that their Surface line seems to be going on quite well - in fact, its been inspiring a lot of copycats itself (e.g. Elite X2, Asus Transformer Book, IdeaPad Miix)
Retailers are shady... but so are the customers too.

Source: my SO worked on phone support in her last two jobs, one was selling old books on-line, the other selling various appliances. Man, you wouldn't believe the horror stories I heard from her every other day. Having a phone number seems to somehow attract the worst subgroups of humans to it.
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Out of curiosity, why do you say "don't care much about performance"? Redux can be _extremely_ performant, although it does take a bit of thinking about how your data is organized. I've got several articles discussing Redux performance [0] in my React/Redux links list [1]. In particular, check out Dan Abramov's PR to a MobX/Redux benchmark [2], and the article "High Performance Redux" [3]. Finally, the upcoming React-Redux v5 release shows noticeable improvements in a variety of scenarios [4].

Any specific issues with Redux performance that you've noticed?

[0]: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links

[1]: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[2]: https://github.com/mweststrate/redux-todomvc/pull/1

[3]: http://somebody32.github.io/high-performance-redux/

[4]: https://github.com/reactjs/react-redux/pull/416
Not GP but I assume he means something like what is provided by weavescope [1]. I've tried weavescope but not kube-ui, although from what I can tell weavescope looks a little nicer and provides more functionality.

[1]: https://github.com/weaveworks/scope
> > in the absence of any overriding environment variables

> Sigh.

Almost as if they are deliberately trying to make it hard...
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Assuming it never gets released (never is a VERY long time), I'd rather get a documentary on how it failed to get made.
They've all failed in one way or the other, but "copycat, throw money efforts with no originality or differentiation" doesn't seem like a fair description. They just consistently fail to make enough progress from their initial offerings or fix miss-positioning, loose all momentum as a result and then are cancelled... which is kind of sad, since there are a lot of good ideas.
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How strange, just today I've heard the Event Sourcing name and thought I don't know what it is. (Turns out it is this old idea I knew under various different names). And at the same day I hear about Event Sourcing on HN. What's the buzz?
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Wow. This is stupidly beautiful.

Can't believe the amount of time I've spent here. I even found a stamp from a small city in Mexico! (anyone in Chilpancingo right now?) Never thought someone would be using this there.

Very nice.
Hey Alex,

I have a quick unrelated question. Why is Walmart.ca contracted outside if you have walmart labs? Well at least the front-end. Hope it's okay to ask you that.
Then shed some light on it, don't spend a handful of posts complaining about it while cryptically suggesting the value of your own neutrality and what you might or might not know. Again, this isn't a controversial topic, and just a case of one poster who didn't seem to know about the topic in general, as indicated by believing that one aspect of the Macdonald triad being diagnostic for a child.

So again, if you want to add to the discussion, add to it, don't try to control it.
How dare he not humble himself before the god-kings.

The negative passages are an integral part of the story, which is about a wealthy and powerful guy living in a closed-off bubble of wealthy and powerful guys with limited or no outside supervision, and a capacity for self-reflection bounded within an extraordinarily limited scope. It may not be the story you want to be told, but it's a perfectly legitimate take on the situation.
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>as a game, it was dull

My guess is that you only played single player. Single player Quake is indeed less exciting than Doom, largely because of lower enemy counts. The people correctly praising Quake as a classic played multiplayer. In multiplayer the 3D environments really matter. It's more than just an incremental improvement because full 3D gives you so many options for movement. Quake has very high skill ceiling and mastering movement is a big part of it.
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Wait, he's complaining cause there's a higher theoretical risk, even though he's experienced exactly zero consequences?

What is he writing about? "Sometimes something you do has potential future consequences." Sounds like life.
For what it's worth, the walmart.com websites takes forever to load (> 10 seconds) on my single core laptop in Firefox.

edit: I should also state that my OS is Ubuntu.
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> Why is their gender so important?

From the article, "A World Wide Web Foundation study found that only 20% of women from Nairobi's slums - like Ms Wambui - are even connected to the internet. That's compared to 57% of men." That is the premise of the article. Women becoming engaged with technology against the odds.

> Why is there a competition for girls only?

There is an underrepresentation of women in tech [1][2][3]. Regardless of how your political beliefs might sway you to think about this issue, the perception that women are underrepresented in tech will compel people to attempt to solve that problem. An all-girls competition is one approach.

> It saddens me that people actively promote sexism as something to be proud of.

It saddens me that people on the Internet actively water down language in an attempt to espouse whatever banal contention they have to opposing political views. You want to talk about sexism in Kenya, what about the fact that 21% of women in the country undergo female genital mutilation to prevent them from experiencing sexual pleasure [4]? The fact that a women's programming competition even lies within the same spectrum to you is astonishing. But I guess that's the world we live in these days...

[1] https://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/womenint...

[2] https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/05/17/women-not-ke...

[3] http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-holding-back-women-in-tech...

[4] http://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR308/FR308.pdf
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Considering how important Open Source is to modern tech companies, 300k is just a drop in an ocean.
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Are there similar programs for engineering? I'd imagine many of the challenges in the developing world require technological innovations that involve engineering challenges, not just mobile apps.
Doesn't it become a prejudice towards minority answer?
Old and dependent people might be pressured by their families into agreeing to euthanasia. After reading this article i think that they don't have enough safeguards that could prevent such a scenario from happening. I have come to think that any framework that allows for euthanasia is creating the possibility of abuse in similar situations. The physician in the article kept referring to the free will of the patient; now Free will in personal matters is not an absolute entity, in practice it may quite often be limited/influenced/determined by ones environment.
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By pipes as conduits did you mean empty PVC piping or routing within existing pipework somehow?

Thanks for mentioning fish tape since I wouldn't have heard of it before, it looks like the correct terms are 'draw wire' and 'fish tape' and they are used together.
> It would be extraordinarily difficult to prop up this delusion in the tech industry where staying at companies more than two years is unusual, so I can't imagine many employers care.

I dispute that. I generally stay at companies for 4 or 5 years, and I know multiple people who have stayed at Google for 10 years.

>If you agree there should be no trust here, why are you making an argument based on trust?

I'm not making an argument. I'm saying that trust (rightly or wrongly) sometimes seems like something that should be expected (to those who haven't been working for a while especially) and can be used to guilt people into acting in not their own best interests, or to act in a retaliatory way against employees.
If I understand the saying correctly, this idea might be contained in the aphorism, "encapsulation breaks inheritance."

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Most of the news outlets reporting on this are using that term, which must have appeared in a press release. I think it's just a layman-friendly version of "autophagy".
Freenet is facing this. They got a 25k donation from duckduckgo and for the last couple of months debate on how to spend it, whether the previous paid developer gets to continue, etc. They're running a poll at the moment to decide on projects and priorities. The developer mailing list is the details.
>This was actually a didactic piece.

As a matter of curiosity, would you mind unpacking this statement?

Not really sure if you mean to say the piece imparts a moral lesson. Or perhaps it relates to the writing aesthetics; Or something else
Does postgres count?
First impressions matter.

When people are talking about moving fast an breaking things it does not mean to move so fast as to skip quality. They mean they are delivering new goods and old services can be torn down (or something similar enough).

A half uploaded you could have taken 15 minutes to proofread is a clear indication that you are more focused with quantity than results. You then expect us to see you as automatically deserving of a high end tech job. Is it possible that you did something, anything to give anything less than a perfect first impression in interviews?

If you must code take some of your many lines of code and put them on github and use that as portfolio. This is a strong way to make a first impression. Don't tell people you wrote a bunch of code, show them how awesome your code is.

If I were you I try to land a job at company in your town writing software. Even if it is one of those ever so hated insurance company jobs. You will be held accountable and forced to deliver. You will earn money. You will get at least some perspective you haven't had yet.

Then you can try again at doing whatever you like with a little cash in your pocket and no one breathing down your neck.
Been using ember productively for years; didn't even see the survey link
> Half-Life is such a powerful experience precisely because you never leave the shoes of Freeman.

I felt much the same way about Marathon, which ended up being under-appreciated by virtue of being Mac-only. A shame.
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If you give your cell phone number out to random companies on the Internet, then yes, you can expect to get spammed. What in the world makes that seem like a good idea to so many people?