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Ask HN: Turned down an internship, did I make a mistake?
(This takes place a few weeks back, so imagine it's mid fall right now)

I haven't had much luck getting internship interviews in lower years (doing bachelor's degree). But this (academic) year I got a few interviews in the fall and I was happily surprised.

Most postings happen in the upcoming months (winter), but there are a few in the fall. Perhaps this is just my school or my maybe that's how it is, I hadn't started applying this early the previous year.

During that busy season the number of postings is suppose to double/triple of what it is right now, ofcourse more people apply during that time as well.

Right now I have an offer, company is good (7/10 IMHO), offer itself is good. But I feel I would be doing more testing/debugging/QA that actual development, at least for the first half (offer is much longer than 4 months).

Do I accept it? Or do I decline and interview some more (gain interviewing skills and get more practice) and hope a more interesting position/company's offer comes my way?

(Back to the present)

I declined the offer. Did I make a mistake? I feel as if I made a huge mistake and I'm now going to be competing with 2 to 3 times as many people (students) for the same pool of internships (albeit a 2 to 3 times larger pool) and maybe end up with no offer and spend rest of spring/summer hoping to find something or failing and going back to school the following fall.

Had I accepted I could basically lay back, finish up the school year knowing I had a internship secured.

But now I also have the motivation to apply more of what I have learned in the past few months during the upcoming holidays and building something bigger/better than anything I currently have on my resume/portfolio. As well as honing my interviewing skills as best as I can based on my first set of tech interviews.
Carry On, Jeeves is chronologically the first book where Jeeves appears. Any of these are good starts, though:

The Inimitable Jeeves

Thank You, Jeeves

The Code of the Woosters
Others have complained if the slot is too big for the piece, the piece falls one side and gets toasted in one part and not in another part. That's other people's feedback, not mine.

Some toasters have wire meshes that close in on the bread to hold it vertical, but they tend to leave marks.
Why not just ask for a permission from the management? Drop 'em an email, explain what kind of side projects you plan and that the work will be done strictly in your free time and not interfere with you work for them. It's 99% that they'll answer it's OK, it's at that early point insignificant issue for them, and later that email response is legally binding as much as any contract. Of course, it's a smart move that you get a legal advice how to phrase the question to cover your ass properly for your state/country laws.
I understand and sympathize with your frustration. A month ago I threw out about 10 gallons of cables (it was a 10 gallon garbage bag) that I had collected over the years. I have a pile of drive enclosures with at least 4 different port connectors on the outside and at least 3 different interfaces connecting the drives to the ports. I have to use two different dongles to connect the 3 monitors I have to my two different machines, one of which I can't upgrade beyond OS X Leopard because it's PowerPC.

I take issue with the held hostage hyperbole, though. Yeah, you're inconvenienced by the OS/hardware options you have available. Your freedom of movement is not at stake. Your life is not at risk. I know it's fashionable to take poetic license and raise the stakes for everyday inconveniences, but let's keep things in perspective. Nothing's preventing you from using your old phone, or switching to another platform, or buying a couple of inexpensive dongles (very inexpensive relative to the hardware you've chosen to buy into).
Also: Air Crash Investigation / Mayday / Air Disasters is an interesting series if one is interested in real-world, root-cause engineering analysis.
The best thing I love about Windows development after coming from playing with Java and Android is the power and flexibility and saneness (is that a thing?) of XAML and WPF. And even the C# language is very much compared to Java.
You are right I never worked in France. I worked at many companies and I never had anything like this in my contract. The only standard thing I get every time is to not be able to work on anything that directly competes with my employer.
Yes I have. But my context was modern mainstream hardware. We won't convince anyone on the merits of functional programming by pointing out the existence these old machines.
My argument was "have your cake and eat it too", use FP and low-level languages together.
I recommend steering clear of Phuket as well but there are some nice places down around that area. You can grab a ferry over to Ko Phi Phi for a day trip, there are a few nice islands around there. And if you want to stay somewhere nice and quiet grab a ferry across to Ko Lanta for a few days. Awesome wee island, nice and relaxed with bugger all to do, grab a scooter for a few days. You can do a lap in an hour or two.
A few years ago, I splurgled for an 8-bay Synology NAS and never regretted it. It has been rock solid for the past 5 years, all drives in RAID6

I had some drive failures at some point (a bad WD batch) and even though I messed up and removed the wrong drive at some point, was able to get everything back. Normal drive replacement is painless (barring stupid human syndrome).

It has Plex built-in and loads of other apps. I use it to automatically get a full and synched version of my dropbox account, it does my automated torrent download for me, and a host of other ready to use functions. Has data dcrubbing, drive health monitoring etc, with email notifications.
Downvoted because your comment is only tenuously connected to the subject: which problems in your industry could be solved by a startup? We're talking about problems that need solutions, not the worthwhileness of the financial rewards from problem-solving, an abstraction and question that is wholly irrelevant to the topic at hand.
Can you summarise that?
Show HN: Visualization of Indian road accidents data and other statistics
First off, you can spend a lot of time adding amazing features that are never used.

Second, many successful products weren't all that complex. (though I'm not sure if these days still exist)

Third, realize that most stuff that gets created disappears into the infinity of time & just gets replaced with other stuff.

Fourth... do you love your grandparents? (or parents, or friends) I hope you still have them. If so, then be sure you call them on their birthdays & on holidays. Maybe even send a card. Spend as much time with them as possible. They are truly the most important things to your life. The rest is just icing.
What is annoying about Companies House in the UK, is that when you open a company, and even after you close it, they make your Name, your Address and your Date of Birth public on the internet, inviting thus Identity thieves to fraud you. It wouldnt be enough to publish just the name of the company name and your name. Moreover they pass these details to third parties for over a decade.

Search engines should ban these websites:
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk
duedil.com
companycheck.co.uk
companyformationuk.co
companieslondon.com
wearing of the padded scull cap headgear becomes mandatory.

Thanks for the personal perspective. Do you think this would lead to the same situation the NFL finds itself in now? People hitting harder in part because of the protection provided by the pads?
I don't think anyone is intentionally ignoring them, just accepting the present reality of hardware designed for C. When Intel finally start selling reduceron hardware graph reduction for my Haskell, I'll be the first in line.
Goverminator.

For some reason, not remembered as a bodybuilder or Conan.
Furthermore, there is no way of knowing whether the code you see is version 1 or version 10. Maybe they hammered away at local copies for months before finally figuring out the optimal design.
Child proof knobs exist, yes, but there are million of other dangerous things all around us. In my eyes, trying to fix the world instead of teaching the kid to follow some basic rules is a completely wrong approach. It's like the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, you just can't hide all the spindles in the kingdom, it never works.
You can, that's how sheer luck works. It sometimes clumps.

That said, being a bodybuilder, an actor and a politician has some skills and talent in common.
Would you have said the same about 8GB three years ago?

Because that's how long these machines have to last, realistically. And I'll bet that 16GB in three years will feel pretty cramped for a lot of higher end users.
Which is precisely the point that drove me back to Windows, Mac and mobile platforms.

No point trying to play D. Quixote attempting business on the desktop with such mentality.
in some alternate dimension you are Kirk taking a programming class. and this was his Kobayashi Maru moment. ;-)
That's how you can tell flat isn't just a trend - it's going back to what worked, after years of doing rounded corners and drop shadows because we can and never stopping to wonder whether we should. There's a lost decade in web design, but hopefully we're now starting to recover from it.
Ok, we changed it, albeit a little late. Btw, anyone being driven batty by an inaccurate title is welcome to email us for a quicker fix: hn@ycombinator.com. We don't come close to seeing all the posts here, but we do see (and reply to) emails.

Edit: turns out this thread is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12562392 though.
Out of curiosity (having never watched sports), what causes these blackouts? Is it contacts with the service providers?
Or buy one with a really small SSD and upgrade?
Is there a place for a law consulting company that just consults you on how to save money or how to find what's "good enoudg" ?
So get involved then. Voting is a blunt instrument.
Expanding Chromebooks for all learners
Relevance of Red Color in Hindu Wedding Ceremony
It's a compiler but not a Scala compiler. Rather it's a compiler for a smaller language, whether one thinks of and names that language or not.

(I actually recommend pushing that line of thought all the way through, and using something like thrift (with Scrooge) for this kind of problem. The thrift compiler is a compiler and the thrift IDL is a defined and specified language rather than an ad-hoc subset of Scala)
You don't even have to trust the software or the hardware. All that is important is votes to be cast as intended and the tally to be correct. End-to-end cryptographically verifiable voting systems achieve that by different means (zero knowledge proofs, etc.) An example is the Pret-a-Voter voting protocol. It uses re-encryption mix nets to provide verifiability (close how Tor works).
Disclosure: I am an engineer at Clever
I think the argument here is that stability is gained from having code shared as closely as possible with the Windows codebase, which is where most of the QA work happens, and what the real experts debugging their ASICs use.

From a hardware and driver development standpoint, I think that makes a decent amount of sense. Hardware is often weird and quirky, so making sure you handle all the edge cases in two different codebases is a lot harder than doing it once. Certainly too much work for a handful of people who just want to plug their code into Linux.

Stability here is on the driver/hardware interaction, not the kernel/driver boundary, which is what the kernel folks seem to care about, naturally.
The mystery to me is why sites like the Washington Post have a comments section at all. Think of the time and money they spent implementing and running it, possibly requiring the most technical effort out of their entire publishing endeavor.

All to get tons of horrible garbage dumped at the bottom of their pages every minute of the day.

Tons of high traffic sites have these wild west zones at the bottom of their otherwise tightly controlled articles. They have next to no oversight, there are barely any technical barriers to prevent abuse, and yet they still command a significant portion of the main content's reach.

This is absolutely not lost on people who want to promote certain views loudly, quickly and cheaply. I really doubt that all (or even most) of the comments on a site like the Washington Post's are actual people who actually think those things.

But somebody does, and some people will start to find those views more acceptable when they see them everywhere at once.
I highly doubt they'll answer "Ok". That makes the contract void and pointless.
In fact winning in slots is less lucky... You have to play the slots. Having random advantage also takes some capitalising on it, but then, a lot of it is our of your control, especially early in life.

Even winning in slots can be smartly capitalised upon.
I definitely agree that I'm more willing to watch something that happens to be on, but might not watch the same thing on Netflix (same with the radio and Spotify). Is there any scientific research that proves these thoughts?
When I was a kid, we had a monitor that whined when there wasn't any video going to it. My parents couldn't hear it, but I could hear it from across the house. I'd get up when my father went to bed to turn it off.

Closer to what I think you're describing: The TV didn't "whine" really (at least, I was never completely conscious of it), but I always knew when it was on.

My hearing isn't quite as good now, but there are still a few devices that I keep unplugged because they're loud and high-pitched.
Ships can bump each other to prevent them reaching safety, to manipulate ranges, cause them to lose their targets (ships within a pos forcefield can't target anything, disrupting logistics) or to knock stranded friendly ships into the safety of a force field.

It's actually quite nuanced. Bumping doesn't damage shops though.

In this case, I think it was simply a turn of phrase.
Thanks for the update, I missed that!
Just be careful. A company and its board isn't a person - it's a legal entity. The company exists solely to make profit. That's it. And, the company will do everything in its legal power to do so. It doesn't matter what the intent of the founders were, nor how nice your boss or even the current owners are. They are not the company.

Plus, I've seen way too many nice people turn into 'dicks' when it came down to money. This is the primary reason why it's a bad idea to go into business with friends or relatives.
"The painless death of a pious relative at an advanced age is not an evil. But an earnest desire for her death on the part of her heirs is not reckoned a proper feeling, and the law frowns on even the gentlest attempts to expedite her departure." - No matter how much I disagree with C.S.Lewis on matters of religion or morality, I simply adore the way he puts words together.
Indian entrepreneurs seeks government support
What would prevent you from building a skyscraper then renting it out? Tax is still suppressed.

And only rich can afford such an investment.
> not supporting over 16 gigs of LPDDR4 RAM

The limitation is actually 16GB of of LPDDR3.

Intel Skylake CPUs support up to 128GB of unbuffered DDR4, depending upon chipset, and don't support LPDDR4 at all at present.

Apple chose to use the older, lower-power RAM specification and thus adopted the limitation. If they'd left the battery capacity unchanged then perhaps they could have used DDR4 but apparently their priority was reduced overall volume.
Idk seems like common sense.
2015 and 2015 they suspended having blackouts. The NFL will re-evaluate the rule after going through the season. The blackout policy was instituted in the early 1970s when NFL teams relied primarily on ticket sales to generate revenue. The rule stated that if a game wasn't sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff, they would be blacked out in the local TV markets. It sucked. If your favorite team was bad that year, you ended up being blacked out as no one attended the game. Sure I was a fan of the Dolphins, but I am not going to spend $100+ to watch a 1-16 or 6-10 team some years. I would watch at home in the background.
This really is about Google putting a foot down on territorial limits of enforcement. Without those we will be living in a lowest common denominator world.

The stance they are taking is important beyond this specific issue e.g. warrants wrt. data stored in foreign data centers and law enforcement hacking foreign computers.
Your correct link also broke. I didn't see why, but now I realized the period at the end is what's messing it up. You have to put it manually.
Hm, some folks have installed Ubuntu, plugged in monitors, and it works for them.

KDE usually screws up when I plug a monitor into my notebook, but Xfce doesn't.

It's not a kernel issue.

KDE has a guy, he's singlehandedly awesome, yet of course a bit strange when it comes to interacting with mortals, who works on "these" things: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/09/to-eglstream-...

And see, that it's NVIDIA that's currently holding back the year of the multi-monitor Linux desktop, because they're not supporting Wayland, like the others (Intel, AMD, Android).
Good, now we have one internet data point about that.
Solution: play something that has essentially zero strategy, where who wins is close to random. Like Ludo or Yahtzee.

My daughter often wins at Ludo, but it's not because I let her. She also often loses.
I have not. I used the term "gross profit," which is reported on their annual income statement exactly as I suggested. You can argue whether I should have talked about their net losses, but you can't claim I've confused anything. You don't need to operate at a net profit in order to be able to devote resources to a strategy that you value as a company, but you do need cash flow.

http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-fundIncomeA
I am ok with it, as it means less C code exposed to the world.
The previous years they always let us choose the "give it to charity" option and I never did. But I much rather a kid in a poor school get a chromebook... I'd probably vote for my taxes to go up more... it's psychologically easier.

Was clicking a 'give it to charity' option too psychologically hard?
It does, in fact, report around the gross profit I specified. Why don't you look at the financials [1]. I think many people in this thread, including you, don't know what the term "gross profit" means.

[1] http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-fundIncomeA
While this is probably not a too bad idea, I just can't stop myself lamenting over the customisability of Jira.

Before going bananas with Jira, either be very strict or use separate instances.

I currently work at in a relatively large organisation where all teams of various crafts and trades - not only development - share one Jira instance, since Jira is obviously what 'Agile' teams use.

Let's say that not all teams are equally equipped for analysis and generalisation.

Although there is supposedly some control process, there are now several hundreds of custom fields, many duplicates of the standard fields, and duplicates and triples or more of many custom fields.

The contents of them all are like the dwtf meme: True, False, FileNotFound.
> That way anything that is not a URL is treated as a search query.

And if your search query does look like a URL, you can just add the !ddg bang to it & you'll be sent to DuckDuckGo instead of having your browser try to navigate to the URL! (At least, that's the only semi-legitimate use for !ddg that I can find - when else could it be used?)

Btw, you can also just use !w for Wikipedia.
Base ability matters a lot when learning any skill.

Apparently you do not have any special ability for languages, but you do for cooking. (e.g. being meticulous, having physics and chemistry training and so on)
The problem is that like Alan Kay states, the industry has become pop culture, and very few believe what can be achieved, rather take what they can see today.

To prove a point one is forced to create a system just to prove the others wrong, without any ROI.
A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade [PDF]
All of those people campaigned for a change in the law, so my point stands.
This is cool. Of course the other approach is to brute force everything with GPUs like MapD does (https://www.mapd.com/demos/taxis).
https://lwn.net/Articles/446297/ - 2011
https://lwn.net/Articles/481661/ - 2012
https://lwn.net/Articles/602521/ - 2014

Android is important, because it's successful, despite how crude it is. And the Kernel maintainers - basically as a modern-day abstracted version of self-preservation - want to see the mainline kernel in/on Android devices, and so they are thinking about __why__ Android had to fork. (Had to? Or were they just that stubborn and time-limited?)
We are definitely peak NFL for several reasons:
1. Head trauma. People watching now actively know about it and it turns some people off. Those who don't care about players getting injured, then gripe the game is being changed. So the NFL is caught in the middle of losing fans for putting out a rather barbaric sport of causing head trauma against those who think they are making the game worse.
2. Stadiums. Owners simply were greedy and pushed to far. This turned off various fans and groups.
3. Kids. A lot of parents don't want their kids playing. So that will have an impact not on the player pool, but those who will watch and live the sport later.
4. Time. Games are way to long. It's 3+ hours for 10 minutes of action. Seriously, Comcast edits all games and you can watch them a few days later. They take 8 to 10 minutes to watch all plays. You lose the anticipation, but still too many timeouts and stoppages.
5. Watching patterns. Many people, escpecially those under 30, don't watch tv for 3 hours in a row. They are doing multiple things. They want bite size content. NFL simply does not fit into that currently, unless you have the red zone package. That is the only way I can watch football now, unless my home team is playing (Dolphins). Even for the I watch flip back and forth and do other things.
6. Costs. It is ridiculously priced to go to a real game. Parking is $25 to $40. Tickets are $100 each for decent seats. Food is 4x what is actually costs. Just crazy. Plus I don't have a full day to kill, to drive, park, wait, and watch the game. Easier to turn on at home. Unless it's a big game or playoffs, live NFL is not worth it at all.
We are definitely peak NFL for several reasons:
1. Head trauma. People watching now actively know about it and it turns some people off. Those who don't care about players getting injured, then gripe the game is being changed. So the NFL is caught in the middle of losing fans for putting out a rather barbaric sport of causing head trauma against those who think they are making the game worse.
2. Stadiums. Owners simply were greedy and pushed to far. This turned off various fans and groups.
3. Kids. A lot of parents don't want their kids playing. So that will have an impact not on the player pool, but those who will watch and live the sport later.
4. Time. Games are way to long. It's 3+ hours for 10 minutes of action. Seriously, Comcast edits all games and you can watch them a few days later. They take 8 to 10 minutes to watch all plays. You lose the anticipation, but still too many timeouts and stoppages.
5. Watching patterns. Many people, escpecially those under 30, don't watch tv for 3 hours in a row. They are doing multiple things. They want bite size content. NFL simply does not fit into that currently, unless you have the red zone package. That is the only way I can watch football now, unless my home team is playing (Dolphins). Even for the I watch flip back and forth and do other things.
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