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I'd consider Russia as being accurately described in that list. Putin has been in power..how long now? And yes I agree with your sentiments on the US as well.

The thing about the US is that there isn't an apparent law forbidding the forming of 3rd+ parties like there is in other countries.
I think he was mildly amused.
I interpret it as
"individuals from an angry underclass" vs "far-right groups [that] have organized bitter protests against immigration"

So the far-right is implied to have something to do with these crimes, in the sense that they created an environment that triggers the crime.
I said that once about the hello world tutorial (which had a larger footprint than you stated) and was deluged with "did you set it to production?" comments. It was clear I was referring to the tutorial and the immediate defensiveness really told me a lot about it all.
I don't think such a system would be a technocracy - it would seem to be more along the lines of a Corporatocracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy)
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You're on Python, but it might make sense to look at the choices made by https://github.com/hotsh/rstat.us and https://github.com/gargron/mastodon , to get some ideas. They're in Ruby, but the language is more similar to Python than PHP is, and some of the tooling and libraries in Python and Ruby are inspired by each other too.

It always helps to look at those who came before you.
Most people, at every level, are terrible at interviewing and hiring, and in fact a surprising number are conscious of that fact. As a candidate, you just have to know this going in, and expect to be made to jump through a lot of irrelevant/stupid hoops. Eventually you find someone who is adequately amused by your performance to give you a chance and hire you.

I don't think the recruitment industry is going anywhere anytime soon. I just wish there were some worthwhile recruiters in it (out of the dozens and dozens of recruiters I've dealt with, I've met one who is semi-competent (which is to say, not fully competent)). This is an area I'd love to try to startup in, I don't think any of the startups I know about are doing it right.
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A friend of mine was offered a similar position and had a similar interview. Annoyed by the questions and the "my solution is the only right one because I have to stick to this script"-attitude he asked: "So what do you want me to do at Google, how can I help you" the recruiter could not really answer and ended the call shortly after.
You can fire this Director of Engineering.
> The problem with US/Mexican "relations" isn't cultural, ideological or philosophical it's mostly due to the economic disparity between the 2 nations and a city won't change it.

I don't believe this is completely true. How does an economic disparity happen? Through material factors or cultural, ideological, or philosophical factors.

Mexico for various reasons has had an incredibly difficult time having a stable political system. Santa Anna came back from exile and screwed his people over how many times? How many times did power violently sway back and forth between the liberals and conservatives in the early part of the 20th century? Why is Mexico now effectively a narco state ruled by the cartels and crony politicians?

I'll give you a hint: it's not because of resources or good land or good people: all of which it has in plenty. Mexico should be booming due to NAFTA. So much of this development we now see in East Asia could have very easily gone right across the border if it had a working political system.

No, there's clearly bigger issues. Building a new city on the border isn't going to fix that. We already have Juarez.
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Also the terrible docs
Buck's speed improvement is heavily dependent on breaking your code into modules. What was your project setup like?
Having had some experience with big companies, I doubt that. They'll probably just write this guy off as being 'non googley' or whatever, and keep on keeping on.

(assuming the interview really went down this way. Which I have a hard time believing)
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It is scary if this is how Google hires engineering directors. Passing this test would select all the bad candidates! Answers to many technical solutions are "it depends". If you have a director that "knows" the right answer, they won't be very likely to encourage their engineers to experiment and find the best solution to the specific problem at hand.
This guy has taken a page right from Ryan Lochte. He should have owned up to it instead of deflecting.
This is what happens when a non-technical person conducts a technical interview.

Though I'm surprised this happened for a Google interview. Their recruitment workflow should now have allowed this to occur.
The Aero UI is exactly as pretty as it was 10 years ago, and I think that it all still looks good.
Rust would be a perfect GC-optional language as, having per-thread heaps, GC using threads can be completely segregated from the non-using ones.
I'm trying to fathom how you thought he loaded Tessaract into a live dog.
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This is very hard to believe. In most big tech companies technical interviews are conducted by technical people, not recruiters. Especially for a senior role like Director of Eng. the experience described here stretches credulity.

Also most of these companies have policies which don't allow any feedback to be given on interview performance. In light of that the recruiter saying "you don't have necessary skills" is extremely surprising.
Very much the same with the time I saw him. I think he spoke to the audience once during the entire gig.
Breitbart is a tabloid that pretends to respectability, much like the British tabloid The Daily Mail. They use that respectability to push their (explicit, strong) slant. If you're comparing CNN and Breitbart then their camouflage is sucessful.

Benefit of the doubt needs to be earned. I mean, hopefully you are not taking supermarket-checkout tabloids at face value, right?

CNN may be terrible journalism that's full of softballs and "clickbait" but at the end of the day the things they report are true and when they're not they retract them. Can't say the same about Breitbart in the least.
What the heck is a "Quicksort big-O score"? I've never heard anyone use the noun score when talking about complexity analysis.
Which is also possible in GC enabled languages, so one can make use of a GC and then make use of similar technics for the code path that really requires them.

For example in real time JVMs
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> it's best to ignore that topic altogether until at least it falls off the news cycle

I think it's unfortunate when people stop talking about the issues. You're right, people may have made up their minds, but the debate process is not just practice for the candidates, it's also practice for the public to get to know the issues the country is facing.

Of course, it's always up to you what you want to ignore.
That would definitely be very handy! Haven't seen anything similar.
I was joking. And I do know that the iPhone 7 has an adapter for the 3.5mm jack, as it came in the box with my iPhone 7.
I'm curious how they are ascertaining whether a dictator is on board since I don't think a flight manifest would be available, so while tracking the tail numbers lets you know what country and might not always tell you who is on board.

This brings up an interesting question though, if it is not a dictator but rather a rank file U.N envoy why are they traveling by private jet?

Anyway I think this project is neat and worthwhile. There was someone a while back that was doing something similar, albeit without a twitter bot, that was tracking the CIA's rendition flights using similar tactics.
Perhaps they are looking for a pointy-haired-boss type rather than someone who actually knows his thing.
Hehehe - that's really funny. Why did they even need a "body" behind the test? If all the person is doing is reading from script - it could have been just web based.
In other words, people who already have money would see that money devalued, perhaps very significantly and in excess of the new money they receive. I'm not terribly averse to the concept, but it would seem to be a redistribution of value that would significantly impact the wealthy. Which makes it tough to actually pull off, because they have a lot of resources to fight such a thing.
You are not. I still remember how well it worked out on Windows 8...
Why are we holding computers to such higher standards than we hold ourselves? I wouldn't know what to do in the trolley situation either but I can still get a driver's license.

As long as the computer makes a decision where we can say "that was very reasonable, even if better decisions existed" then it seems ok to me.
Last time I checked Xamarin Forms about a year ago it was still limited.

Is it better now? What are some of its limitations?
Believe it. The depths of corporate absurdity know few bounds.
Laredo / Nuevo Laredo are pretty close to this already. Just remove the border guards and build a couple more bridges.
Not saying that this "ceremony" is right in the first place though. But it is easy to prepare for and go through.
First off, I've always been a huge fan of Cohen.

But the opening paragraph made me bristle slightly: "He got by on a three-thousand-dollar grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. This was 1960..."

I'm assuming that's Canadian dollars. So he was living abroad doing what he loved, and presumably not breaking much of a sweat.

No less than ten years later, in the same country, my parents were struggling to bring up two children on my father's wage which was half that amount - and for a 40-hour week of very dangerous, manual work.

Now obviously people aspire to successful, creative careers, and most people don't begrudge them that, especially if they bring a great deal of joy to others. But I notice there is a phenomenon quite common in journalism, esp. regarding artistic figures, a great many of whom were actually born into relatively privileged circumstances, and a number of whom, especially during the sixties, wanted to display their bohemian credentials by living in somewhat spartan conditions. Strangely, however, they can always afford an air fare (decades before budgets airlines), and often inherit a house here or there, and always able to afford recreational drugs.

The image of the impoverished poet has long had journalistic appeal, but it is often a lie. They were actually in a very privileged position compared to 99% of people.
Here's the good news: Google will get the directors of engineering they deserve.
Yah I get the feeling you're supposed to "act stupid" so you can get to the next interview.

Definitely not an idea way of getting candidates - you are selecting for people who know how to manipulate screens (and thus increasing the risk of getting a bad candidate), or rejecting otherwise knowledgeable people who just don't have the time/inclination/"social savvy" to pretend to be stupid.
> the Republicans moreso since apparently the nationalist faction of their coalition is larger than the labor faction of the Democrats' coalition.

Trump is grabbing votes from the labor faction more than any past Republican candidate -- his stance clearly taps into the American psyche, that American exceptionalism is real and that every American company should put American workers first. Jobs, jobs, jobs! is a great platform to run on.

Increasing net welfare of the planet by globalizing as fast as possible would undeniably end in failure as the resources would not at all be redistributed evenly, as can currently be seen as plain as day. Globalization is a threat to everybody as it increases instability across the board except for the very wealthy.

There is value in retreating to isolationism.
I will second the author's remark about "Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel". It's a magnificent book.
Well, you hear it in Led Zeppelin, too. While the members were heavily influenced by the blues artists of the time, songs like "gallows pole" and "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" and "Hey hey what can I do?" show that influence. They also have a variety of songs heavily influenced by the Rockabilly genre, which also has a folk-roots influence. "Hot Dog", "boogie with stu", and "Candy Store Rock" all count in that regard.

Rock and Roll has key influence from both the folk traditions, and the blues ones. And in many ways, baroque and early music which influenced bluegrass.
As a person who's taken this exact same test:
1) it's a pre-screen from an in-house recruiter. If you have 37 years of experience with computers and 24 years professional experience and any references/reputation, they should have skipped you straight to an phone interview with an engineer.
2) Were you recording the interview? Because if it's an accurate transcript the recruiter should be fired.

I assume question 7 was actually "give the Big-O of Quicksort", if you refused the recruiter might have assumed you didn't know it and were trying to BS through the interview. If the recruiter was too stupid to ask, once that person is fired you'll get a new recruiter. Google is (was?) notorious for contacting the same candidates every six months regardless of previous interviews.
I find this argument to be an unsatisfactory against "algorithmic consciousness". There have been automated proofs of Godel's theorem for a long while [0]. I don't mean this to be evidence on the contrary, but Penrose seems to ignore the fact that a computer can realize multiple axiomatic systems, and use them to make statements like Godel's Theorem(s). Godel's Theorem(s) are often taken out of context for philosophical purposes, for better or for worse, and it's important to remember that Godel's Theorem(s) relies on a meta-language (ZFC) to make statements about PA.

For a much more intuitive explanation as to why consciousness is not algorithmic, I recommend "The Neural Basis of Free Will" by Tse. His argument is that neurons and neuronal circuits (and more) harness randomness to provide inputs to "criterial detectors" which are satisfied when the right combinations of inputs (spatiotemporal patterns) arrive at the detector at the right time. This can't be algorithmic, because of the requisite noise in the inputs and because the brain realizes true parallel processing. As a further note, he posits that free will is realized in the resetting of the input weights, so "current" actions set up the criteria for future actions avoiding the issue of causa sui in free will.

[0] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0505034.pdf

[1] - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/neural-basis-free-will
And then there are nested fragments and all the caveats associated with them, but it's all good, it just requires some simple fixes everyone could come up off the top of their head, like http://stackoverflow.com/a/23276145/168719 (the top voted answer)

It's good, because it doesn't require you to use the workaround of deluding the user with a SCREENSHOT of your layout (sic; see the accepted answer above).
They are not free, though, as they trade throughput for a guaranteed latency upper bound.

edit: clarify
I believe you want to start with the Michelson-Morley experiment, and the reasons why it failed.

Modern physics, so far as anyone has explained it to me, seems to be two partial responses to the results of that experiment (and the behavior of their test device, the interferometer) that we're in the process of synthesizing in to one result.

Wikipedia reasonably outlines the main features that modern physics has to account for, and links out to the two main bodies of work.

The problem is once you get away from those broad properties the model has to satisfy, there's several competing inplementations with somewhat different features/explanatory power.
i've only flirted with vim, but my experience is that while it was admirably fast on medium and small files, it fell over completely on large files or even normal-sized files with long lines.
I did the same years ago, I had to decide and... well iOS is a paradise compare to Android
The inode question gave me flashbacks to my interview with Amazon. They wanted me to explain what a hash function is. I kept giving answers for about 3 minutes explaining hashing, common algorithms, reasons to use it and places it applies.

Recruiter: "I was looking for you to say it's a fingerprint"

So I guess I was wrong, because despite explaining them in decent detail, I didn't use the one keyword.
Why not just pitch Jon (creator of Sublime) on open sourcing his editor. A business model where there is a community version and a professional version could work. I am sure you would be able to hit a Kickstarter goal pretty easily.

Disclosure: I've worked with Jon previously
I've been at Google for five years as a SWE and I've been interviewing for 3 of those. I'd fail this pop quiz.

This strikes me as bizarre and inconsistent with all the practices I'm aware of. The idea that we'd ask anyone this stuff, let alone director candidates, strains belief.
It's possible you solved a problem only your company has. Did you try to evaluate other options in this space and see what you have that is new/different that other options? (If you have distinctions, are you marketing them well enough?)

Maybe your product does too little? If people are looking for a Standup Replacement/Aid there are more dedicated Slack bots. First example in bing: https://standupbot.com/

I realize that in my case at least, what I might use your app for can already/is already handled by Skype for Business. SfB has a "What's happening today?" status message that is easy to fill out as things change. It also has things like OOO and WFH (and busy and available) status information at a glance and pulled automatically from my/my coworkers Outlook calendars... Can you offer some reason to add another application to that equation?

Similarly, .plan is a million year old way of handling some of this; I can't quite see from your marketing how much of an advantage you offer over even a traditional .plan file (other than the fact that no one hardly uses .plan these days).
wow, thats especially terrible. The engineering interview pre-screen I had at Amazon was better than that. Can't imagine why a company would do this for ANY technical position, much less such a senior one.

I did have an HR pre-screen one time where they sent me a SQL literacy test (did not specify sql dialect). One of the multiple choice questions had all correct answers, in different sql dialects, with no "all of the above" option. I corrected the test. I did not get a call back.
This is really weird and should not be happening. I am a software developer and do a lot of interviews including phone interviews.

These kind of questions are not expected, but I would say the lightbulb one is not super horrible as long as it is the discussion that was valued and not the answer. I have gotten weirder questions for sure when interviewing.
If this is true, then it's not surprising as usually the person asking the question is not up to speed on the details of the question being asked.

I recall a question, which was how do you stop a socket from overflowing?

I said what do you mean? If you write to a socket and it fails to accept the write it will fail. Sockets do not have any option to stop this.

Naturally I failed the question yet I asked for the correct answer and was told the answer is simple, just use a cache.

Nice answer, excepts sockets do not have caches.

Correct Answer: Add a cache to the socket to stop them failing but that was not the question.

While that answer is obvious, it was not the question asked!!
Google and all the other mega-tech corps do a similar tech phone screen where they're reading off an answer sheet. (powers of 2, sort these functions, linux kernel calls, etc).

Sounds like you dodged a bullet, this sort of thing speaks volumes to how the company is run internally and how you'd be treated there.
I'm reminded of a story about Einstein in the 1930s. The fad at the time was to have a "skills test" which was supposed to place you perfectly according to your results.

Einstein took the test, and did terribly. Everyone was shocked, and asked him what was going on. His response was "The questions tested memorization. Why would I remember what the capital of North Dakota is? I can look that up in a book!"

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the tests faded out of popularity.

It's sad that 100 years later, even Google hasn't learned that lesson.
It tends to be incredibly helpful to know details like the length of a mac address and what tcp flags mean what if you're looking at an unformatted memory dump.

One example of how this can be handy is when doing low-level NIC bring up, I've read PCIe TLPs from a logic analyzer to correlate them to network traffic.
I'm feeling a bit confident looking at the questions. Woo.
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yeah but what if it's this or being hunted?
The US generally didn't even support the Arab Spring, and actively worked against it in Egypt, a country with nearly as tight a relationship with the US as Saudi Arabia, that receives nearly as much military aid from the US as Israel. Everything is so much more complicated than you're making it out to be here.
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The point is that being very wealthy can in fact improve happiness. This is contrary to conventional wisdom that once basic needs are covered, any additional money only serves to keep people running on the hedonistic treadmill.

To support this argument I cite real world scenarios where the difference between your loved ones living and dying could possibly come down to how much money you have.
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I've never interviewed for director-level positions, but I have definitely received a few technical questions from recruiters who didn't seem technical. The questions were generally easy.

I still think it's a bad practice, though. If you absolutely insist on doing so, multiple choice is the right way to go.
I'd love to highlight Lynyrd Skynyrd as a prime example of American Rock. I think the link in their music is much clearer.
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AM is used to describe a frequency range here (the 'AM Band'), but it is actually referring to 'Amplitude Modulation', a way to superimpose the signal on the carrier wave. You can do 'AM' at any frequency and your ability to direct the radio waves goes up as the frequency goes up. AM transmitters at the frequencies associated with the AM band (550-1600 KHz) can be directional, in fact, every antenna is more or less directional.

What makes it tricky is that at those low frequencies the antenna elements are very large, and this is what will play havoc with any attempts to make a directional antenna for the AM Band that is still practical to use for the purpose described here.

So in all likelihood you'll end up upsetting all your neighbors instead of just the one you're targeting.