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> Tell me [...] why you want to work here.

This part always makes me laugh. The only possible true answer is usually "to get a job", and not much more. The applicant generally does not and cannot know about the company, nor about the job at that point.

The only info about the company is some bullshit in the job posting; and on the company website, some info intended for clients, i.e. in advertising format, and a bit more of the same bullshit in the company description.

The job is just described through technical requirements and a list of tasks. Tasks that you may or may not have to perform on a regular basis, you don't know. You cannot know which task will represent 90% of your work, and which one will in fact never show up, because it was there "in case", or to attract answers.

There are so many different domains in computing that you generally don't know beforehand which will really interest you; and you often have no idea of what the specific domain in which the company works even is a thing. Anyway you could work the same way on the same satisfying job in various domains and trades, whatever these are.

So, why this specific company? Because I need a job, this offer seems to fit me, I seem to fit it, the purpose of the job does not make me sick and the location is OK for me, the rest remains to be discovered. During the interview process, for example. But why this specific company, I cannot answer, for I don't care what its name is, and yet I have studied it more than most applicants who will write how much they'd love to work in company XXX to design YYY.
2x scale is perfect but only OS X gets it right. Windows breaks dragging Windows between average DPI screens and HiDpi screens, Gnome does too except if you use Xrandr to halve your resolution (and patch it to disable the bicubic filter), but then text is rendered at half resolution and it shows. OSX renders almost everything at half resolution, but renders text and GUI elements at full resolution at 2x scale giving the best of both worlds
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Seriously why don't all software projects do this? It is a no brainer!
Doesn't make a real difference, in some areas of Greece prices multiplied in mere years during urbanisation periods and during asset bubbles. Also, in rural areas plots and properties can go back several generations quite commonly.
There's a difference between cognition and consciousness. It's generally accepted that cognition is caused by electrochemical processes in the brain, the exact details of which are still to be worked out. However, there's no generally accepted, or even widely accepted, theory of consciousness.

I think that consciousness might be necessary to make quantum measurements, though. So did Eugene Wigner. This suggests to me that consciousness might have something to do with quantum mechanics at a fundamental level. Exactly what the connexion is, I don't know. I don't think it's helpful to point to particular quantum processes (possibly) taking place in the brain and claim they cause consciousness, because that still wouldn't explain how quantum phenomena give rise to consciousness.
I'm typing this post on an android right now. I can barely go a few words without mistyping something.

It's almost enough to make me miss my first phone, which was rubbish as a smartphone, but actually did have a real keyboard.
Big porn companies are very serious about PCI compliance. They also closely monitor their fraud numbers. If a MID (merchant ID) goes above 5% (volume or cash amount) fraud, the processor could get fined by Visa/MasterCard/etc ($50k+) and lose the right to accept credit card payments for that particular payment network. Processors who handle porn (high-risk) accounts will often have a general, shared account they'll let you use, because they can take measures to average down and hide the fraud. However, they charge you a premium to use that general account, so you're better off using your own if you have other measures to control fraud.

My former company solved this problem by simply acquiring a payment processor company. They had total control over their processing that way. As a bonus, they had access to other porn vendors' account activities, since it was one of the 4-5 major high-risk processors used by porn companies. It was a win-win for them.
We learned our lessons from the JVM, and the verification algorithm for WASM is vastly simpler. It's even been formalized and fits in about 3/4 a page.
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* https://plasma-mobile.org/technology/

* https://plasma-mobile.org/nexus-5/

In the second link you can see a reference to KDE Neon, which is development distro based on Kubuntu.

See also: https://neon.kde.org
That would make sense if they weren't also complaining about the fact that there are fewer [group X] applicants in the first place (and then using that to justify accusations of systemic discrimination).
Ah, it's one or the other. That sucks but thanks for the clarification.
People in other fields do not go through this while simultaneously being told how their is a critical shortage of people with their skills. The disconnect is probably very off-putting to people of certain persknalities. Personalities which happen to be over-represented in certain minority groups.
I suspect the reason is that it is just straight up expensive to ship to Australia from most places. We're actually quite a long way way. Adding to this is that most only retailers aren't shipping enough overseas to negotiate bulk rates like they can for domestic shipping.

The exception is businesses that do ship a large amount to Australia. Examples of this are online book and bicycle retailers in the UK and Amazon themsleves in the US. Their lower shipping prices are likely a combination of subsidisation and bulk discounts.

If you want confirmation Death Wish isn't trying to rip you off, compare against the USPS pricing calculator for a similar package. You can also check against what a freight forwarder (who do get bulk discounts) charge, and you'll see it's not much less. I recently got a similar package shipped to me and I remember paying pretty much bang on $27.
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Does it double the speed of my scrolling on my phone like the website does to my browser?
I had a friend how got a Freerunner, but he returned it after a few weeks because "no matter how awesome it is, I need something that can actually make phone calls". So it certainly didn't work for him on day zero.
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One more:

Moving daily huge amounts of data into some cloud and then back out might be too slow or too expensive.
Quite honestly, when wikileaks releases material such as the Podesta emails, undoctored (most Podesta emails are verifiable by checking google's DKIM signatures), it does not matter what wikileaks objectives and motives are and if they are ethically clean.

Corruption is still corruption, no matter if it is made public by a "good" organization or another corrupt organization.
The corrupt organization does not get a free pass just because their competitors might be even more corrupt (and wikileaks might know that and hold back that information).
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To add to my own comment even, that's why we have the Electoral College vs. a simple majority, it further allows smaller groups to have some say.
A general rule I follow on my Mac to minimize memory and power consumption:

- Use Safari

- Avoid web based desktop app like Atom, Slack, etc.

- Limit maximum of 3 app open, e.g. Xcode + iTerm + Safari. Bonus: I can focus my mind on the things that I need to do.

- Limit maximum of 3 open tabs on my Safari.
Well I should have stated a realistic goal, the the dissolution of the state of Israel is still the long term goal for many within the PLO, not to mention Hamas and their marry bunch.
There's just three sorting algorithms anyone cares about, and they're not particularly complex. Someone with a math background should be able to pick them up in a few hours at most.
When I went through Ranger School there was a similar mentality. You learn pretty quickly about how far you can physically push yourself, but the real true test was how much you could endure mentally. Sleep deprivation combined with a low calorie diet and extremely taxing physical tasks, I would say, ends up attacking your mental abilities in a way it's difficult to prepare for. I was probably in the best shape of my life when I started (and the absolute worst when I graduated) but the fact that you could quit at any time meant that you had to dig elsewhere for motivation.

I think more importantly than anything you learn about your own physiology or mental dedication, you learn how to motivate and lead people who are as broken or more so than yourself. So when people ask "why is it necessary to destroy people like this" that's why.
The main reason to prefer protobufs is GRPC: there is now a pseudo-standard HTTP/2-based RPC format with many robust language implementations. That's mostly to say: I think I've generally observed GRPC being embraced. My intended deployment profile is having a single HTTP(/2) server listening on a single TCP port which can speak JSON over HTTP as well as protos over GRPC, both of which can be authenticated by the same objecthash/signature.

You can store whatever format you want on disk, but if you primarily intend to serve proto-consuming clients, you might as well store protos on disk so what you serve to the network is an opaque blob of bytes with no transcoding.

Don't get me wrong, I really love capnp, particularly the CapTP-like features, but I feel like many of the novelties of its IDL/serialization format (possibly ones involving kentonv's original work before he left Google) have actually shipped in proto3. I really love capnp, but there's this handwavy "this is the way the wind is blowing" argument to be made for GRPC, I think.
FF 49 on Linux here - and everything scrolls as expected. No hijacking.
Hm, I wonder if there's something similar to what's happened with Terry A. Davis, author of what's been renamed to TempleOS [1]. He became schizophrenic, and has become less and less coherent over time. He used to have an account here, but either I can't remember it or it's been deleted: most of his posts were of the vile variety.

There was an extensive profile of him on Motherboard [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

[2] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer
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Paywalled; content similar to this LA Times story, which cites WSJ, and is free:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-nasa-20161101-s...
Best pun of the week so far. ;-)
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Totally need to change that phrasing. I swear I thought it's a Kali Linux on Android sort of thing!
You can have different instances of VSC open if you want to use 2 different workspaces at the same time. On Windows I just right-click the task bar and do "New Window" for that.
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It depends what volume driver you use. In general if you want an HA pet container you're going to need more than vanilla Docker.
At a previous workplace, that telework laptops were definitely a problem: someone senior broke policy by letting their teenage son use it, which was first noticed from the heavy P2P traffic over the VPN but the excuse was accepted when the porn browsing continued while the exec was in the office explaining.
> the key here is to get women to know the odds and keep trying

That's getting hold of the wrong end of the stick. The real key here is to fix the interviewing process, like the article said. Quit with the cargo-cult technical questions that don't mean anything, and just _talk_ to people.
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There are efforts to try to get more men into teaching and nursing. Unfortunately, teaching pays shit and requires a four year degree and student teaching to get a teaching certificate, so it's not the most attractive option.

Those other blue-collar traditionally masculine jobs have a hard dependency on brute strength that most women can't satisfy. Physiology is almost as cruel a mistress as physics.
That has already been explained so it does make sense:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/59yrxg/the_true_reas...

Since I'd like 32GB in my next mbp, I'll be waiting for the next rev
Off by 10 errors are my specialty!!

Good to know it's stable for awhile, thanks for the update. Go Mozilla, go!!
It's comical and at the same time disturbing that people would actually think this way. I guess it's just another case of bubble living.
Of course, if you're not touching it, that's a fine strategy. But maybe you're transforming it. Or you want to parse it, extract some value and send it somewhere. There are lots of use cases where there's no way around parsing and interpreting the data types in a JSON blob.
The bloodshed in Iran and Iraq are shining examples of the extremes of what can happen.

That leaves me scratching my head. I know that Iraq is a mess, but how is that because of diversity, or lack of it?

And about Iran. There's bloodshed there?
I have the same conclusion. The pipeline problem cited in the article is real problem, imho all the diversity efforts have to be directed at schools and parents. This is were the decision is made for college. After that you can't do much. My team is mostly male, we'd be happy to hire female developer, I think being a female would actually help to pass interview. But the resumes we see are all male, with very rare exceptions.
My analogy for the situation are as with seeds, if you only planted "potatos" in spring, there's not much you can do in autumn to get more "tomatos". (hope this is not offensive analogy in anyway, English is not my native language)

Situation with lack of female developers is not US-specific. I went to college in Ukraine, of ~100 sudents on computer science faculty, less than 10 were woman.
Isn't this the ugliest UI.
Obviously this report is social commentary and does not represent all tech companies, but it does show some general trends (that are not new). Let it serve as a reminder of where we are and where we need to go.
Mostly I agree, except they're not sacrificing a lot of power compared to competitors, with the exception of not using certain power hungry components (GPU, RAM). Apple is clearly moving, as you have noted, to ALL portable computers prioritizing portability over raw power. This is something I agree with, and something others don't, but it's not a "disappointment" as fact so much as a difference in philosophy.

As a professional GIS user and engineering drawing reviewer I theoretically should have opted for a more powerful laptop to replace my work machine this fall, but instead went with the smallest, lightest machine my company was able to provide that still met my day to day usage needs. I travel a lot and portability was high priority. For me, Apple is on the right side on the portability/power curve.
I think that's an overly cynical outlook on job hunting and not in line with what I've actually found on the hiring side. In general, I've found that people have specific areas of interest. Some people love social products, others love enterprise, others love hardware products they can mail to mom and pop, others love games, others love productivity tools, etc. The list is really endless.

Of course, people have different personal situations that might result in them ending up at a job that's not in one of their particular areas of interest, but it's overly dismissive to say "the only possible true answer is to get a job", when in fact many candidates could get jobs at tens or hundreds of companies and are very selective about where they end up. We recently hired a candidate who took a sizable pay cut to work with us. I'm sure he could've gotten a meaningfully higher offer to work elsewhere, but ultimately he actually just believed in the long term value of what we were building, and that's valuable for both parties.

It is true that some people don't really care at all, but that actually seems to be the minority in my experience. I've had candidates answer me in the past with "to be honest, I saw a job listing and applied" when I asked them why they want to work at our company. I appreciated their directness, but ultimately if that's how they feel, it probably wouldn't be a good fit for either of us.

When I read your writing and you say things like

the purpose of the job does not make me sick

that makes me quite sad actually. You should aim much higher.
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I wish wish wish MS would add built in, offline spell checking. The plugins I've tried are pretty buggy, and I would love to spell check markdown and documentation. (Also, spell check applied only to comments would be cool too!)
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This pairs well with this discussion from four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12824380

There are obviously glaring holes in HOW the features are generated and recognized.
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Why not try unorthodox solutions: cap engineering salaries so men no longer rush to fill the jobs.
I know the famous quote. But I also know many professional ballroom dancers, and how good a couple looks is mostly determined by the man. The man drives the dance. It's his job to make his partner look good, and that means adjusting things to the skill level of his partner. A very good woman will have a much harder time making her man look good if he isn't, because she cannot backlead.

Ginger Rogers was a very good dancer. But she just isn't as good as Astaire. If you watch closely, for example, he is always perfectly positioned, Ginger, not so.

Astaire also developed the dances in parternship with Hermes Pan, who would play the female. They'd work it all out to perfection, and then bring Ginger in to teach it to her.

Also, stepping backwards is not a problem for professional dancers, and women ballroom dancers spend thousands of hours dancing in heels, so those present no special difficulty, either.
It's not just political correctness. The socially optimal future is one in which anyone, regardless of race and gender, can become a software engineer. Someday, we're going to put in effort to move from our current world to this better future. Software engineering is a highly-desirable, well-paying, forward-looking job and it's still early days. Why not give it a shot?

There are of course many PC-police types who can't give a clear reason why we should pay attention to diversity, but there are good reasons nonetheless.
Yeah, this is typical. I know this lady who owns one house in Plaka [1] right under the Acropolis, another in Kifissia [1] and lives in a house in the Liston [1], in Corfu (think Plaka, but on an Ionian Island). She never stops complaining about ENFIA [2] and how unfair it is that she has to pay property tax.

Well I don't have to pay any tax at all. Because I don't own anything. Sometimes it's just very hard to sympathise with people who are several times as wealthy as I am, and who complain because they will now have to pay taxes for it.

Because let's not forget that the devaluing of properties is a very recent thing. Until now having a couple of properties meant a steady stream of income- which most people would probably not have paid any tax on... because they dodged it. Which contributed to the dire situation we are in right now. And in particular caused the current government to resort to the harsh measures that are being imposed.

No, really- I don't want to see anyone punished, or having their properties repossessed, that's truly awful. But I can't really find it within me to feel, you know- compassionate.

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[1] To non-Greek readers: all those are very posh, very expensive districts in Athens or Corfu, the latter being one of the more well-off (and therefore, expensive) islands in the Ionian sea, the more upmarket set of Greek islands.

[2] A newly introduced property tax.
I think many HNers would enjoy the Australian version of this:

http://worldrogainingchamps.com.au/

A rogaine only lasts 24 hours—no one has been tempted to organise a longer one. On the other hand, the requirement to keep staggering along a running track is replaced by a stricter one: you need to keep navigating precisely, in the dark, away from tracks, using only map and compass. The need to stay alert and keep thinking makes for a more subtle contest, and in some ways a more interesting one.

Then there's the aesthetic part. Instead of a marquee full of used bandages, you get the McDonnell Ranges by moonlight, and the feeling of autonomy that comes when you're running through the middle of nowhere at 3 a.m. with a water bottle, a snakebite bandage and a few muesli bars.
> But then knowing Big-O, algorithm, data structure, etc. became a way to "show off" and impress the interviewer

How is knowing the very basics of CS a way to show-off? It should be requisite shouldn't it?

That said, I agree with the degeneration to arms race. I'm awaiting an interview question on Shor's algorithm. "We like to be ready for whatever the future may bring here at LolCorp."
Unless we have a more considerable amount of power generation from renewable sources, this is all bad news for the environment. The efficiency provided by larger power plants, electric motors and some percentage of renewable included would be offset easily if all the cars start to get more mileage in a shorter amount of time as the article suggests :(
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Yes, I realize that now...
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Wow that's incredible. I'm sure you know this by now, but I don't think there's any fixing that situation. Good luck!