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I'm not a software developer. I have passable understanding of what computer science is, and what goes into software (a few semesters of programming at a bad level). The following list is some things I keep in my list of ideal interview parameters/meta-questions. I'm not sure if they are really for me, since I doubt I would ever be interviewing a developer for a job, but who knows, maybe I'll need to find a technical person some time.

1. I feel strongly that people should be allowed to prepare for interviews by seeing the actual questions. In fact, I think the questions should be public. What might these questions be? I want to immediately know if someone took the time to do some diligence and also to make certain that my own biases didn't cause me to avoid hard questions for candidates I liked.

2. I don't want to ask something which can be easily googled. Simple answers aren't any good; I need something where it is open ended enough and the answers to the question can be "good enough" where I feel the completeness is sufficient for the role.

3. I need to be able to practically communicate what the real purpose of the role is. the Job posting will not always be allowed to do that, but through the interview I need to make it clear what work I actually need done. Should I do this via questions (keep this a secret from the interviewer) or tell them the honest truth and risk losing potentially excellent employees. Both employee and employer have high frictional costs in this case.

4. Interviews are a mostly artificial format - similar things do happen in sales and client-facing scenarios, but usually in a toned down way. In an interview, the risk of performance is entirely on the person interviewing, in a customer-facing scenario, the person is representing the company, but also has the company support behind them. How could you put the interview into a position where the interviewee felt as if the company interviewing them would back them up to help them succeed? (could you do a pair interview where someone already hired for the role helps them work on an interview problem, while someone else interviews them?)
The text in that PDF didn't show up correctly for me, but there's an HTML version of the paper here:

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds/sds.html
My advice is to network, to never give up and to attend more meetups. Its a numbers game. Eventually you will find the right match.
You're already on the Pacific coast. Not everyone on the planet is.

Under optimal circumstances, not including airport time which can be considerable, flight time between New York and Shanghai is 15 hours.

Add in a few hours to check-in, clear customs, plus other nonsense and you're up to 18. Under ideal circumstances.
How is brute-forcing a concern?

Your password might be a guessed in a dictionary attack if you have a weak password. Or if at some future date a KeePass specific vulnerability is discovered, someone might be able to use that.

But someone trying to brute-force your password isn't a problem anyone needs to worry about.

To my mind, the real downside to using dropbox to store encrypted stuff is that the existence of the encrypted stuff is not a secret. And recently it seems the spooks look upon encryption with ever increasing suspicion.
It just won't be providing any memorable 3D experience.
The majority of people do not leave the country they are born in. I am saying that in the cases where there is a pattern of people born in your country going to other countries and causing problems, maybe it might not be a terribly bad idea to consider whether actions can be taken to decrease the problem.

It shouldn't have to be said, but this is completely independent of which country, religion, gender, show size, eye color, or any other nonsensical conversational loophole. If no one will ever take responsibility, how will this improve? Hopes and wishes? How this is controversial is beyond me.
Azure has always been charged at "1 core = 1 Oracle Processor" so this new scheme only harmonizes licensing on Azure and AWS. It's still double of on-premise pricing.
Locals don't have to learn immigrants' languages. They also don't have to integrate with them. But they can. If you value integrating and sharing a language, then you personally should go to the trouble of doing that, not complain that somebody else isn't doing what you want.

Expecting things to stay the way they are isn't compatible with economic growth. If you want a stagnant place, you should find one which has such restrictions written into its laws or bylaws so you can have more confidence that it'll stay how it is. What else don't you want to change? Young people looking at their smartphones all day instead of having conversations with you? No new slang words? Where are the boundaries of what you expect other people are obliged to do for the benefit of your feeling of familiarity?
Spain, the very south and in the mountains.
Firefox for Android is the exact same codebase as desktop Firefox. Many Gecko features are turned on for Firefox for Android at the same time as desktop. In other cases either Firefox for Android or desktop will have features before the other. For example Firefox for Android had HTML date/time picker support years before desktop because the OS provided widgets. In the other direction EME has been on desktop for a while and is in the works for Firefox for Android.
From the preface of The Productive Programmer[0] by Neal Ford:

"Many years ago, I taught training classes for experienced
developers who were learning new technologies (like Java). The
disparity between the productivity of the students always struck
me: some were orders of magnitude more effective. And I don’t
mean in the tool they were using: I mean in their general
interaction with the computer. I used to make a joke to a few
of my colleagues that some of the people in the class weren’t
running their computers, they were walking them. Following a
logical conclusion, that made me question my own productivity. Am
I getting the most efficient use out of the computer I’m running
(or walking)?"

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Productive-Programmer-Theory-Practice...
Has anyone been able to get the developer sku of sql server running on docker for Linux or windows? I'd like to get replication (pub and sub) working but it's slow going. Microsoft has since pulled the dockerfile that enabled the developer sku and has only given us the express file even though the developer edition is free.
Theories are never proven correct, they can just predict more experimental results. Assuming they're true is what you do.
Pay now or I will leave the Justin Beiber station on forever.
I'm a New Zealander, and strongly pro-immigration. Given how many emigrants there are (including, currently, me), if nothing else we'd run out of people pretty quickly without it. And I don't believe integration is currently that much of an issue in New Zealand. However:

> "Of those who do choose to move to New Zealand permanently, analysis of the New Zealand General Social Survey show immigrants integrate well. They are less likely to claim a benefit, more likely to be employed, and their children have better education outcomes than native born New Zealanders."

None of those show integration in a way I recognize as valuable culturally. They would be equally true if we were measuring a segregated expat enclave in a developing nation, but that's simply a factor of leveraging existing power structures.
Simplex. If you can transform your NP hard optimization problem into an LP, simplex can often work like magic.
It's so sad to see the President-elect of the United States using his power to divide this country.
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> since you don't know me but what I am saying is that this plan is not always possible.

Ofcourse, did not mean to imply you should pack up and leave, but it is an alternative scenario for some and they might not have considered it (well). It took us years of planning and checking out locations when still in fulltime employment, so it's not this 'f*ck it, we're off' kind of thing.

Edit: checked your profile/site and I do believe the 'unintended privileged' (you cannot help where you are born or who your parents are) like me cannot really understand how it is not to be able to just travel anywhere, so sorry if I stepped over that too easily. I just try to help as I was in your position 10 years ago work wise, but not in quite in the same region...
Regarding point 4: what is your opinion on Edge and its exploit mitigation strategies, in comparison to Chrome?
Sorry, mods can be real asshats on here.
I prefer Linux too, but I recognize MacOS is really polished and consistent. The overwhelming majority of applications use the same Cocoa libraries, so look & feel is enforced all over.

On Linux we have a myriad of alternatives.
'Bout dem yoga pants, too, bruh.
Your demand is impossible. Any software update mechanism relies upon trusting the software vendor.^ The only thing you can ever hope for is that the update mechanism is capable of trusting that the update has not been tampered with in transit.

^ with the debatable exception of software distributed in source code form in a language you're able to audit and compile yourself, though you'd still be vulnerable to cleverly concealed exploits
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A lot more people on the planet live near Beijing than near Iceland.
No it's not a Muslim ban we know, it's just targeting certain countries, some very unfairly like peaceful
Iranian students.
That only mods are 'dang and 'sctb. Are you referring to them? Or do you mean members who are downvoting? If the latter, please don't refer to them as mods.

And regardless, kindly don't resort to name calling.
Based on our current theoretical understanding the we should expect overfitting. In practice however, a very large number of parameters does not necessarily lead to overfitting. Clearly there is a gap between out theoretical understanding and practice. Check out a recent paper that explores exactly this questions:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03530
All of these things have been working fine for me, and unlike many people, my experience is consistently that Chrome has significantly worse performance than Firefox. That said, I cannot remotely condone the removal of Xul without a firm commitment to either replicate functionality or a firm commitment that it will never happen, publicly. I love pentadactyl and Vimperator, and the idea that they may get killed permanently is infuriating, but not as much as the fact that the wiki page on that functionality has gone dormant.
Bloom filters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
Well, now I know! thanks. :)
It's a matter of agency - in one case, the breadwinner can choose to move here, in another, there is no choice, and (what's really got most people in arms) is that it was not future-dated, like most impactful legislation is.

It feels like the summary judgement of a dictator or king, not a republic or democracy. Tell me again, which one do we live in?
It's also a Muslim ban.
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Literally every other phone on the planet is vulnerable. Even some garbage flip-phone you got at Wal-Mart thinking it's not smart and therefore secure is likely a joke for anyone to crack into. That software hasn't changed in years. It's full of unpatched holes.

This is why Snowden wanted people to put their phones in the freezer to avoid eavesdropping: https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/why-snowdens-vi...
I honestly think liberals need to lie in the bed too. Liberals chose to reduce the required votes to effectively confirm cabinet members to prevent Republicans from opposing Obama's nominees... leaving us powerless now to oppose Trump's.

Do we have a worst case scenario? It kinda seems like it. But don't sit back and blame the other side when your side is pretty much equally to blame for gutting the checks and balances our government was based on when it was convenient.
That. Is. Bloody. Frightening.
>> The false negative/false positive question is more about the costs of hiring a "bad" engineer than how hard it is to find a "good" one.

I'm familiar with the argument. Erring on the side of caution is wise. Thinking that the current interview process saves you from this is stupid.

Gameable systems are won by people who focus on the game. They are not necessarily going to do well if the job requires something different

The current interview process is a GAME.

From the employer perspective, they can never be sure if they hired someone who memorized stuff for the interview or a really smart guy.

It's very similar to the current US election process. Everyone thought the forefathers made a rock solid constitution. The few cracks it had was fixed with amendments. Lo and behold, the only person who could make it to the top was the one who gamed the system and not someone with real merit.

Aren't the parallels strong?

P.S.: Not claiming Hillary is meritorious, but at least she's not one to make radical decisions without counsel
I Guess you have to live in NZ to really understand. In Auckland, a lot of Maoris treat everyone like crap. Outside of Auckland they are Super nice people.
A provocative article about how being special may hurt your company nowadays
If you're talking about India and China, sure.

If you're talking about America and Europe? Nope.
I'd be interested to know for sure too, my intuition tells me it was a pivot to self-driving
The tube design is not final. They included a variety of features to allow some flexibility in designing pods. The radius is smaller than a full-scale hyperloop. Depressurization is not catastropic, as it would be for an oil tanker, so there is no need for a double hull. In fact, some leakage is expected. The real tubes will have airlocks. The test track was originally going to have airlocks, but they were scrapped for complexity.
Almost no pods have any kind of self propulsion. IIRC the whitepaper states the use of linear accelerators on the tube I-beams to propel the pod. That hasn't been integrated in the competition so the teams just coast at the pusher's 94km/h
What about the following?

x=5
y=5
while True:
if y%2 == 0:
y=y/2
else:
y=3y+1
if y == 1:
x=x+1
y=x
if y==x:
return x

Please predict the code. I'll even give you $500 in memory of some guy named Erdos if you get it right (and I haven't even gone for a provably undecidable example! :) )

PS: Don't waste time checking x values less than 1000000000000000000
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> Not everyone needs an opinion or stance on everything.

Absolutely. But what you prioritize, what you view as important enough to establish an opinion on, and what you view as beneath your concern, says a lot about who you are as a person.
I'm currently learning mandarin and traditional Chinese. But I also try to experience the local experience.
Yes. Firefox for Android uses the same Gecko engine and release schedule as Firefox for Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop. They all share most of the same code in the same source code repository [1]. Most of Mozilla's "Quantum" project to start importing Servo code into Gecko will also run on Android. Firefox for iOS has its own release schedule and shares only a little code (e.g. Firefox Accounts sync for browser history/bookmarks) with the other Firefoxes.

[1] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/widget
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That's fine; you haven't. Googling "catharsis myth" turns up various (unscientific, opinionated) stuff about anger. Perhaps some CP fans are motivated by anger (toward children?), but to generalize from that to all the other motivations for CP is a non sequitur. I'm not normally the "citation needed" dickhead, but you started out by specifically claiming "studies are all fairly conclusive", which seemed like a unique situation for psychiatry so I thought maybe I could learn something...

Freud being wrong about something only tangentially related (what are the chances?) isn't a valid justification for prior restraint. If the work in question hasn't been shown to harm, there would be very little reason to censor it in USA.
There is no such thing as popular demand, only what major web companies think will benefit their bottom line. They just supply what they want to supply and invent demand to justify it post facto.

Nobody outside of the MAFIAA demanded a flickering, crashy, proprietary DRM module for the web. But since that's what Google can supply at this time, they would like all of us to pretend that there's some sort of popular demand for it.

All these players add so many layers of deliberately misleading interpretation and assumptions on top of what ordinary users might actually want, it's impossible to figure out which "demands" are authentic and which ones are mere illusions anymore.
Peter Thiel is right. If there was a religious test then Saudi and Pakistan should have been top. This is move like "hit someone who cant hit back" test.

The retrospective nature of the order is what is very very concerning here. Why do people who have already gone through green card/visa process cant enter USA overnight but those who have already in can stay ? So the people outside are more of a threat than those inside ?

This has lowered my faith in DHS and US Gov. This is more of a witch hunt than systematic policy changes to keep Islamic radicals out.
The burrows-wheeler transform is pretty interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf.... It's behind the bzip compression format.
> We're a cheaper conference destination than the USA, Europe, or Japan

Errr, our field's major conf is in Vancouver every other year and those hotel rooms are crazy pants expensive.
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That would be great for conferences if it wasn't for everything you mentioned plus high levels of govt corruption and IP theft. The lack of open Internet alone is enough that the vast majority of conferences simply cannot be held there.

It's not "China hate" when there's legitimate reasons.
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I graduated quite a while ago with a CS degree, and am still searching for my first entry level position.

I have been asked the most ridiculous questions in phone screens and on-sites.

"What is your SAT score?"

"Why did you choose your university over a better ranked one?"

"Tell us about how you used connection strings." (is a CS grad really supposed to know this)

"Do you volunteer teaching kids how to code on your off-time?"

"How do you use this HTML API?" (stuff like micro workers)

"How do you find about the latest tech?" (they weren't satisfied with just HN and Reddit)

Some companies gave me comprehensive projects to spend two weeks or more to work on, in a dozen or so technologies I never encountered.

With one company, I spent a week working on their project. They told me that since I had only 90% done, I didn't pass. Two weeks later, they call me back and ask me to complete the last 10%. It sounded like they were asking for free work. I finished it, then they lied about the expected salary. I wanted an X average salary for the area. They cut it down to X/2 with no benefits, a 6 month probationary period, and no perks.

Another company wanted me to solve a challenging, practical problem. I spent a month figuring it out. Then there were two more parts to this prescreen. The next one wasn't too bad. For the last one, they wanted a written report. I wasn't smart enough to solve their impractical problem for the report. Don't forget this was only step one of the interview process.

Sometimes company reject you due to a bad day. I interviewed with Walmart. The recruiter never set up an appointment, then decided to randomly call me in the morning. The person who referred me to the position said there were no hard requirements about knowing a technology. The recruiter on the phone questioned why I had C# projects instead of Java keywords like Spring listed on my resume. She kept yawning throughout the call. She thought I applied to the wrong job, then abruptly ended the call.

Sometimes I would pass interviews, and told I made it to the next round. Months passed, no reply, not even a rejection.

I'm still searching for a job. I'm honestly scared of all these job posts I see that require experience in a dozen different frameworks. It's getting harder every day.
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Why DHS and US gov? Why not Trump in particular? This was all done in keeping with the Exexutive Order.
For anyone who wants more info: here's the blog post that accompanies the simulator https://medium.com/@agordhandas/residency-match-simulator-78...
They aren't making any more land. New Zealand has very lax laws regarding property ownership compared to many countries. No capital gains tax. Very limited ownership restrictions.

To pick on a common scapegoat, Chinese citizens can buy a house in New Zealand, so as their economy improves it drives our housing prices up (same level of supply, greater demand), but I can not buy in theirs.

I think it probably only has a small impact on housing prices (a much bigger problem is the political impossibility of any measure that drops housing prices) but I don't think you can say it has none.

I would personally be in favour of introducing a capital gains tax (but, as a renter, I would say that).
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Redhat too, since 7.2 on x64 (with some support requirements).
No experiences though.
I just upgraded the the latest ClojureScript two days ago - big thanks to swannodette and all the ClojureScript contributors!

It's really a killer feature that allows generating externs almost pain-free! I'm making the jump to advance compile my React Native ClojureScript code because of that. :)
Filing bugs on bugzilla.mozilla.org in the "Core::JavaScript Engine" component for performance problems should get the problems in front of the right Firefox developers. However, many site performance problems are related to DOM or animations and not necessarily JavaScript. For slow sites behind logins, there's not much that can be done other than someone creating a standalone test case or working with the site owner to get a temporary test account.
44, myself. I tend to interview well, which frankly surprises me, because I'm on the whole not as good at people as I'd like to be. I think, though, the thing that has best served me in that regard is walking into every interview remembering that I'm interviewing the company, as much as it is me.

Are these people I can spend as much of my life with as I would by taking this job? Do I respect them? Does the person I'd be reporting to seem like someone I'd be okay reporting to?

I've no shit been in a place where getting this one, specific job was the only chance I had — less than a month's burn rate in the bank, and with no other prospects — but walking into an interview like that has, in whatever part, landed me an offer every time.
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Side note: Could the mods remove "?m=1" from the URL? On a mobile device, the URL without that GET parameter redirects to the URL with that parameter to show the mobile site. On a non-mobile device, the URL with the parameter looks rather different from the URL without the parameter.
> I have been to 5 interviews this month and nobody gave me a fucking job.

1) People don't "give" you jobs, you earn them.

2) Swearing is unprofessional

> SQl

Hmm, ten years of SQL and you can't spell it correctly? Something is fishy there.

> Every single one of these interviews was somebody asking me some random shit

I admit a lot of interviews focus on the wrong stuff. But there is actually a LOT of leeway in interviews, where you can show your understanding of software engineering even in the presence of dumb questions. If those companies were actually dumb about hiring, then you probably didn't want to work for them anyway. Find some quality companies to interview for.