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I strongly disagree. Racism has long existed in American society and isn't going to disappear if it's ignored. Black Americans suffering from discrimination, and their fellow Americans who care about it, shouldn't keep quiet because it makes others uncomfortable.

I've seen many, many excuses for not wanting to deal with the issue, but it's a serious problem and it's not going to go away.
The author is breaking the rules of HackerRank and should (hopefully will) be banned.

Anytime we share challenge problem solutions in the open there is an ethical issue about it. HackerRank specifically even does plagiarism detection.

I some of my own solutions to challenge questions in a public repo on GitHub [1] for educational purposes. I recently slapped a big disclaimer on that for people like this.

> Disclaimer: These solutions were developed by me individually unless otherwise stated and are shared for education and curiosity. Please do not use them as your own. If you're working on the same problem, please do not view my answer until you've solved it on your own. If you're working on a related problem, it's generally okay to cite a solution to another problem as a reference.

[1]: https://github.com/tedmiston/challenges
Here is an example of wording on this type of topic that you may find useful:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/not-really-r...
Webpack is weird in that it's lumped with task runners/"Make"-like programs but it actually it's a configurable and hackable version of the browser asset pipeline.
How long do you think something like that should take? It's already been 25 years... I think it says something about the browser ecosystem and the language itself.

The entire WPF ecosystem for example was developed and refined in a fraction of this period. Heck even .NET itself is only 14 years old.
I am afraid you are wrong. Requirement analysis is step #0 in the SDLC. You are failing to capture non functional requirements and moving a technical discussion to a interpersonal level. Until you understand that you will be stuck.

In this thread for example. I have proposed different rational courses of action that you dismissed without providing a reason. This communicational style will certainly bring you issues at the time of capturing requirements for your deliverables.

Ignoring requirements from technical stakeholders will only reinforce the idea that you need more feedback and more mentoring, or that you just need to be let go.
Wow those asus ones look like straight copies of the macbook, but with better hardware. Pretty impressive!
Not only do people do this to do proper work, but the major companies people look up to do and want to work at or emulate do. Hence the problem.
>Have you tried Gnome 3? Not being sarcastic :). These days it's a very stable, slick environment with a very good window manager. Beats the pants off of OS X at least.

I used to use OSX but now I use Arch with GNOME3 and your comment is not based in reality. GNOME3 doesn't even have feature-parity with Snow Leopard. It's many years behind the OSX in features and polish department [0]. I encounter various GNOME3 issues and bugs daily and have been subscribed to many issues on GNOME's Bugzilla to keep track of fixes. The worst issue, by far, is memory usage and memory leaks. On my PC, GNOME3 sometimes ends up using 1.5GB or RAM. GNOME is also infamous for being the only Linux DE that regularly removes features that people use [1].

Anyway, while I do like GNOME and have used it every day for the past 4 months, it's nowehere near OSX's Aqua.

[0] https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti...
[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2013-March/msg0...
Wix's library appears to be a wrapper for Wordpress's GPL library. I am not a GPL expert, but I believe that Wix has the right to publish their wrapper code using any license they like. Publishing their code as MIT is not the same as them trying to change the license of someone elses code. Wix explicitly state it in their github repo:

> Code in this git repo is licensed MIT, please consider the licenses of the dependencies separately.

With a link to the Wordpress library.

Regardless, reading Matt's original post, I see that his complaint was not about relicensing at all. It was more to do with whether Wix's app is allowed to use Wordpress's GPL'd code, without attribution or providing the source to their entire application.

The whole thing (IMHO) boils down to whether you can use a GPL'd lib in a codebase without having to:

1. provide attribution

2. apply GPL your entire codebase

I believe 1 is not required. A quick google says 2 is not "ok". If you use a GPL lib in your application, you must open source your entire application (LGPL is the GPL license created to allow you to use a GPL lib without "infecting" your codebase with the GPL).

That said, I can understand someone misunderstanding the implications GPL and believing they don't have to open source their work that utilises a GPL library.

What I believe should have happened is that Matt from WP should have reached out Tai from Wix and quietly informed them of their obligations WRT using their GPL'd license, giving Wix the opportunity to correct what could have been an honest mistake.

Taking this public and accusing people of "stealing"[0], as a first step, is a selfish action will make people even more wary of using GPL'd code in their projects.

[0] I hate it when people abuse the word "stealing" WRT intellectual property rights, it smacks of either dishonesty or ignorance.
It should still have 87W through, might heat up a tiny bit more, but I really, REALLY doubt that a power cord rated for 60W would be unable to handle 87W too, the safety margin would be way too low.

Also, your dramatic learning experience is dumb, shorting a car battery will do probably do a few hundred amperes, two orders of magnitute more than in any laptop charger ever...
There's lot of senior people out there who work in "doer" type roles that can't design, code, write tests, etc despite that being their role. As long as charlatans exist I think every company should expect some demonstration of ability, because talk is just talk (unless they're hiring for a sales-type role).
Depends on how attractive you are. The line between creepy and flattering is in the eye of the beholder, rarely in the behavior.
Thanks! I'll go check those out sometime today, hopefully one of them does what I need.
Yeah, we've already upgraded the electric. Definitely could have rerun ethernet then, but did not want to deal with moving any outlets. (Or, really, thinking about the problem hard. We have barely 1000 sq ft, so not hard to cover with wifi.)
No more ridiculous than women listing height requirements in their dating profiles, asking about height, and filtering out people with too low a number -- even though they don't actually care, it's not actually a requirement they have[1], it's just one they list and filter against at the online stage, despite not actually caring.

By don't actually care, I mean that when they meet those men in different settings they don't care about height, when very short men decline to mention their height or match with women despite not meeting stated "requirements" it isn't an issue, and indeed some men lie outright about their heigth but women get over it and enter happy relationsihps with them once they actually meet.

In many contexts stated requirements or the hoops applicants have to jump through don't match actual requirements. Fundraising would be another one. VC's don't invest in companies that actually meet whatever requirements the VC's list on their web sites regarding what kind of opportunities they're looking for.

In short, people are lousy at stating their requirements and sabotage processes. For my woman example, the same woman will complain that no good men are available, while having an irrelevant filter in their dating profile: then, when they meet someone nice in real life, they're happy. It does not occur to them that the person they have met does not meet their stated requirements.

Here is another case of someoen with an impossible laundry list of requirements: https://www.reddit.com/r/dating/comments/58uoo7/should_a_gir...

That post is titled "Should a girl go on a date, even if the guy doesn't meet the requirements for dating?"

When that person actually meets someone in bible study (say), I doubt very much that the person will meet all of her requirements.

Rather than "Should a girl go on a date, even if the guy doesn't meet the requirements for dating" we might be reading a Quora post about "Should HR still interview a candidate, even if the guy doesn't meet the HackerRank requirements?"

Those requirements are irrelevant and just weed out qualified people. (And the answer is, yes, they still should.)

[1] Example: Tom Cruise is officially 1.7m (which could be inflated, celebrities often pad by a little bit) which is 5'6.9". That is lower than many women's stated requirements, but those requirements are not actual requirements and I doubt he had any trouble dating women he literally didn't meet the requirements of at the time. The requirements aren't real, they're fake and invented, made-up. Not true.

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EDIT: I absolutely stand by this comment, even though it is being edited to -1 and will likely end at -4. I completely stand behind every word. Lest you think I'm speaking with a bitter tone, I'm not. I'm average height or slightly above, no issues for me or disqualification due to it. I was using it as an example of a "number" that is a requirement, only it's not.
How do you get to the $25-$35 number? The article mentioned $7/month
The alt-right wants to insist they are the norm, but it's not true. Americans elected a black President, interracial marriage is increasing dramatically as are other black elected officials, and racism by a political candidate is a career-ending mistake.

The big football markets are major cities, such as New York, which are even more liberal and ethnically diverse than the rest of the country.
You did all that work and couldn't bother to take the 5 seconds it needs for any half-decent text editor to re-wrap your paragraphs?
> by distributing an app that is comprised at least in part by GPL code, they are required to provide the source code for the app

Well, almost. In order to have permission from an author to copy or distribute a GPL licensed work, I have only the GPL to look to as a source for such a permission. The GPL states that I have to choose one of a number of options; if I choose none of them, I can’t distribute, because copyright law states that only the authors have that right, unless they give permission. The available options are listed in section 3 of GPL 2. The first option is to simply always send the source code with every copy of the program; as in, include the source code in the app or binary sent to every user of the program. The second option is to include a “written offer” for source code to every recipient of the app or binary, so that anyone in possession of this offer can take me up on it and have me send them the source code upon request. Note that the person using the offer can be anyone, not just the original recipient of it. The third option is only available if I myself received such a written offer – I can then choose to simply forward this offer on to you instead of making my own. Note that this third option is also only available for non-commercial distribution.

If you got a GPL licensed program from me, and I did not choose any of the three above options, I have violated the GPL and consequently violated the copyright of the original author. You don't have to write me and ask for the source code and be refused in order to know this: If I’m distributing commercially, I can’t use the third option; if you didn’t either get the source code on the disk or in the downloaded archive or had it available on the site for download where you got your app or binary, then I didn’t choose the first option; if you can’t find a written offer from me anywhere, then I didn’t choose the second option.
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No, for development positions. If a recruiter can't weed out posers before a manager/developer talks to them, that recruiter should be dehired.

To get jobs at my current and previous company, I just talked to the lead developer for 3+ hours. No coding necessary. I was quizzed on design patterns and given architecture problems, which I find more appropriate than FizzBuzz.

Also, my alumni association is very useful for job hunts. I'll never go back to cold-calling or responding to LinkedIn solicitations again. I chat with an alumnus over coffee for a few hours, and twice it's resulted in job offers without the need for a formal interview.
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I'm pretty sure that is a smart option for a lot of people, especially web developers, but me personally, I'm not so interested in HTML/CSS/JS.
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It should also be pointed on that #1 is not an exclusive position on HackerRank's leaderboard. It it shared by everyone who got full points on each Java practice problem [1]. I see 16 full pages + 1 partial page = 166 people who are tied for "#1 in Java".

Furthermore, "#1 in Java" is not "Hacker Rank #1". Each leaderboard is broken up by language, topic, or contest. OP is trolling really hard here. There is no overall ranking across boards, so this claim doesn't make much sense.

(All this aside, I do really like the HackerRank platform and have been solving quite a few problems there lately.)

[1]: https://www.hackerrank.com/leaderboard/java/practice/level/1...
Yup. Not worth my time.
Often more than just two cores. Samsung's latest PCIe controller increased from three to five ARM cores, and most of their SATA SSD controllers have also been 3-core designs. Phison's mainstream SATA SSD controller has four cores.
> I fail to see how Oracle would be relevant

This sounds like a legal conclusion. Care to back that statement with your real name?
"Block the user"--that requires the app to have a block feature. Would you say that's something to be taken for granted? Something we can rightfully expect in communication software? Something the service-provider has an obligation to provide?

If 'bullying' in a social app/service continues, then yes, there is option to stop using it.

But if that service has value, users are going to want to keep using it, but they're going to ask for a better service.
IIRC Christians prohibited charging interest on loans (usury), not banking per se. I suppose a bank could be operated by Christians that simply accepted deposits and charged a sum for safekeeping with no loans whatsoever. I don't know that anything like that ever happened in practice, however, since anybody with enough money to require safekeeping in a vault probably had their own vault.

Likewise an interest free loan would be permissible, though there wouldn't be great incentives to offer them except to family members, for example.
You guys really should spend a few moments doing a quick google search before responding. USB doesn't just magically deliver power, its negotiated between the device and the power source. In the case of USB-C, the cable is involved in the negotiation.

See slides 7&9 here specifically: http://www.usb.org/developers/powerdelivery/PD_1.0_Introduct...

More details here: http://www.usb.org/developers/powerdelivery/
I understand that coding interviews are frustrating. Believe me, I've been there. There should be some other way.

But you are closing some very weighty doors by refusing to do coding interviews. Google requires them. Amazon requires them. Microsoft required them back in the day, and still may. Those are some mighty tempting opportunities to say no to, over a point of pride.
Her post is largely vacuous and superficial. Why? Because it doesn't really provide any evidence that would help the reader understand what really happened. Most of it consists of descriptions of her feelings, uncorroborated accusations, tired ideological slogans, a pervasive self-pity, and the presumption of racism. Add to that the other interesting bits in the article such as how she demands to be recognized as an "academic" even though she isn't even a graduate student. What delusion! The topic of the essay also suggests she's been indoctrinated with the ideology of resentment, one that recently has taken on a frightening degree of irrationality on college campuses in the US. Many of these people require psychological help and should not be roaming around college campuses where they quickly find convenient scapegoats for their issues and rationalize their choices.

Also, it's not like she's going against the grain here. Academia, especially where the humanities are concerned, is overwhelmingly leftist in this country. An accusation of racism in one of these departments is socially damning. If she were a conservative Catholic arguing in defense of sexual morality during a gender studies class at one of our glorified ivy league universities or women's colleges, then I'd say she's got courage. However, this is not the case. Her choice of language indicates that she is riding briskly and blandly on the profitable coattails of the oppression gravy train. Whether it is calculated or merely the result of intellectual error upon intellectual error is another matter altogether.

Bottom line: these shows of support she's receiving are not only inappropriate, but presumptuous. This idea that we must believe what people say on their own authority, or based on their feelings (constrained by the prevailing ethos, of course), with no evidence is a worrying trend in left-leaning humanities departments.

I've come across jerk teachers myself. I have been suspected of plagiarism when my essays exceeded the average length for the class. I've had arrogant teachers presume things in ways that defy common sense. Just because some teacher is an ass (and for the purposes of this post I'll grant her that much) doesn't mean there's any reason to invoke all of that baggage. Victimization ideology is a pathological condition that's being propagated by leftist academics that does severe harm to those concerned. It's used for political gain in the Alinsky style and has the effect of entrenching poverty and cultural pathologies. Sure, upper middle class white (or occasionally black, etc) academics can generate this vile substance with no effect on them, but it does have a real affect on those whom it concerns.
>thoughtful, informed, intelligent, passionate, articulate, ambitious professionals struggling with how to do the right thing while playing just enough politics and marketing to get elected.

These are people who took out fakes craigslist ads in someone else's name. People who wished that mass-shooters were white before the news broke. People who paid off journalists to get debate questions. People who accept large sums of money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, while days earlier acknowledging that they fund terrorism and ISIS. People who deliberately withhold emails from the FBI. People who were openly against gay marriage and for the war in Iraq ten years ago. People who acknowledge the shadiness of using private emails and talk about "cleaning it up".

The emails only show corruption, deceit, and a disregard for the law and the American people.
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Here we go again. Another Peter Thiel story on HN gets flagged and removed. For a discussion on why Peter Thiel stories are getting flagged and removed, see this thread (which, ironically, has also been flagged and removed lol) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716662
I kind of understand why people ask coding questions. I've seen people with "ample experience" that can barely code a hello world. Or have major vices and bad habits (like creating constants like HELLO_MSG="Hello World" - typical of old people writing Python/JS/etc).

Just don't ask me to code a FizzBuzz, that will just p. me off
This is all well and good but doesn't change the fact that the Wix app is violating the GPL. They need to fix it. I don't see any commitment from Wix or Tal Kol that this will happen.
That's fine, it can loop around the back and run along the left edge of the computer. Better than having to stick straight out there.
That doesn't sound accurate.
We interviewed someone with this exact same attitude. He actually said "I've moved past doing these exercises in an interview" and refused to answer the question. Basically we just sat there for the rest of the interview. Afterwards I talked with my colleague about it. Is his mentality that the questions are so easy they are a joke to him? His skills are so far beyond whatever simple questions we are asking him to solve that it is insulting? Does he think that by giving us that answer we will believe he is superior? I cannot fathom going into a development interview and then refusing to answer "simple" questions on development. More than likely THIS person just was looking for an escape before getting called out on his bullshit.
On that topic (contemporary monetary policy), I've found "the end of alchemy" by Mervyn King fairly interesting and accessible.
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Is this what you saw in those emails? Time to send your resume to DNC!
Yes, just because you charge up a computer with a 60W A/C adapter but it can take 87W, doesn't mean the A/C adapter is all of a sudden putting out 87W. The cable itself doesn't create more or less flow.
We're gonna need a culture shift away from "higher education" being the only option for middle class kids. Go to any middle/upper middle class suburb and tell parents their kid doesn't need to go to college and you'll get laughed at.
Yeah I priced Azure as well, and it clocked in at just over $60k USD
I have! In fact, I wrote an early PoC implementation of a hAxe <-> PHP "compiler". When I learned someone else was doing it, I scrapped mine and helped with theirs.
Totally, I agree. Out of curiosity: what software products do you make?
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The tragedy of unaffordable art school cuts even deeper than the scope of this article. It's really sad, more and more art school is a playground of the wealthy leisure class, leading to a smaller pool of outsider perspectives and new ideas. Hopefully things will change within these institutions, but until then, as the author states, the internet is quite good for basic instruction. You still can't replace the value of group critique, building relationships with your instructions, and networking- but that isn't exactly worth a quarter of a million dollars either.
Whenever I see absurd stuff like that, I wonder if the companies are really worth working for. What's your opinion? Do they feel worthwhile despite the silliness of the hiring process?
You are wrong on a few different levels.
It's not about being superior but questions like this at an upper level interview are a waste of everyone's time. Some startups insist on asking devs with 3, 5, 10 years of experience the same CS 101 interview questions as someone just out of college.
Not a terrible attitude at all. Its unacceptable for a corporation to maximize its efficiency while frowning on a potential candidate doing the same.

Level the playing field. It's a seller's market (tech workers are still very much in demand).