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>This is the unfortunate paradox that Matthew Yglesias highlighted in "American Democracy is Doomed" [0]: people are raging against horse-trading, organized parties, and 'elites' poo-poohing the "will of the people". This is totally defensible, but to some extent horse-trading and elite rule are the only things that make governance possible. I don't know any solution to this problem.

Well, I think a parliamentary system with proportional representation would help a lot. In those systems, the parties/lists might trade horses, but you know that your vote bought some measure of strength for a platform you actually believe in. Oh, and real civil-service protections to keep government staff from being fired for political reasons, including for security and military officials.
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This is a great response to almost any: "Oh, that's never come up, it's just in the contract" argument.
That is similar to (if bit more extreme) what I've done too. It is truly baffling how bad European layouts are, especially for programming etc. But because my native language(s) have couple of accented characters, I couldn't just switch to US layout. So I ended up transplanting those characters to US layout, which required shuffling few things around. Overall I'm pretty happy with the end result, even if it is still "just qwerty". Some things could be tweaked bit more in altgr layer but that is fairly minor thing. It is especially nice that I can fairly easily use US layout if necessary.

http://zokier.net/stuff/nappaimisto.png looks like this old picture is somewhat out of date, but shows still the basic idea.
“One last build” generally isn’t enough because software might have many issues, including:

— Dependencies on other 32-bit libraries that have not changed.

— Dependencies on entire OS frameworks that have not migrated to 64-bit (and Apple has at least one of these).

— Having a “plug-in” feature, whereby cherished plug-ins have not all migrated to 64-bit so the user must then choose a 64-bit subset.

— Any number of problems in the code itself, such as improper assumptions made about the sizes of data structures or creative solutions that only made sense on 32-bit platforms. After a simple recompile, the code may crash in places or consume much more memory. Floating-point values may produce subtly different results, creating issues all over the place.
probably someone paid a lawyer to draw up, or copy-pasted that contract and then people who don't really care about their job to a serious level, or maybe just don't think very much, are saying it can't be changed - probably without even asking anyone who has authority to make that kind of decision.

if you can get in touch with a director about this, and they are smart, they will probably want to fix this for everyone after about a moment's consideration.
OT, but it's annoying the way The New Yorker writes cooperation 'coöperation' (ditto 'reëlect'). There's zero justification for this, etymologically or orthographically, it's just pure pretension.
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If you want to be precise, it means "trust in a person" in the original Greek. As in, the New England Patriots have faith in Bill Belichick.

That sort of faith can absolutely be rational.
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"We never had a problem with this clause before, why would you want to change it?"

Oh do I hate this line. But it's a two-way street. I'm very fortunate that for one of my first freelance gigs, I read the contract and specifically pointed out that I would be using personal/open sourced code snippets, and that I might want to reuse/open source some of the code I produced for them (only snippets with general interest).

They agreed without a flinch, and thanks to that experience, I'm going to hold every other employer to the same standard "I never had a problem with this request with any other employer, why would you want to refuse?"
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This is correct with respect to Google's process.

When it comes to Amazon, you have employees sending patches upstream anonymously because the company culture is against contributing anything back to the open source community.
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That they've read far too many threads of rabid unthinking "conservatives" and have now concluded that all conservatives are idiots. It's difficult to blame them to be honest.

Personally, I will always challenge idiots on my side, I don't often see the same on the other side, they tend to be much more unified and don't tolerate dissension.
I've only been coding for 11 years professionally, but also as a hobby before that. Only in 2016 did I move most of my work out of VIM into an IDE: the Jetbrains family. That mostly started for better interactive debugging, but with IDEAVim handling 95% of my VIMisms I find that I'm simply coding in PyCharm and PhpStorm by default now.

The base editor is open source but you can get the full PyCharm for $99 per year. Worth every cent.
Apple does allow developer users to install IPA files outside of the App Store. I can easily take an app off Github, build it with Xcode, and install it on my iPhone, for example. There are even scripts to do this similar to a "configure; make; make install", eg: https://github.com/phonegap/ios-deploy

This doesn't require the $99 it used to either, anyone can do it, though it does require you to get a free signed developer certificate from Apple which signs the app (you'll also need to tell your device to trust your cert).

You can even distribute an IPA file and install it via iTunes and not the App Store, but it needs to be signed by a trusted authority (your company; your dev cert; or most likely Apple, as long as it is a non-revoked cert).
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> It is something that sounds great, but if you have any drive at all it will drive you crazy after a month or two.

My laptop is being repaired since last week and I'm on a temporary desktop now, desperately trying to find things to do that won't cause merge conflicts with the unpushed work that's on my harddrive. Just got told the CPU fan that arrived was the wrong size and I'll have to wait another week to resume work on the tasks that I was doing before.

I feel like I'm going crazy already, and it's been just a week!
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In Japan, cutting back on hiring is a huge problem. If you don't get a job straight out of college, you're effectively a second-class citizen. There is no second chance, there is no plan B. The job for life cuts both ways in Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_recruiting_of_new...
It' a non-technical way to see if it's a great fit or not. Before an interview, you should always prepare the following 3 key points:

- My XXX will help your company succeed.

- Your YYY will help me grow

- I believe in your ZZZ

XXX: skills, experience, etc.
YYY: technology, project, product, etc.
ZZZ: vision, culture, values.
Was this question not originally intended as a nudge to drop some of the implicit formality of an interview -- where even if the atmosphere is colloquial, the power balance tilts in favor of the company -- and prompt the candidate to plainly speak about their thoughts?

Some might propose that it's advantageous to play the mind games and construct an answer tailored to the culture fit of the company. I question the wisdom of this: this is akin to lying on a dating site, where the truth, irrespective of its subtlety, will come out in a relationship sooner or later.

In my opinion, the point is to find a good employer-to-employee match, and you won't know what answer the interviewer is looking for -- so it's best to drop all pretenses and fall back to primal emotions: excitement, desire, etc. I want this. I want the challenge of working here. I think I'd be a great fit because <short but authentic personal anecdote>.

I don't think this is akin to a retail employee reluctantly feeling pressured to pledge their allegiance to the brand, but rather a plain assessment of why you felt to apply there. Perhaps they're looking for a little reassurance that they're not an interchangeable cog in your plan, just like you want to feel like you're valued as a person, not just the sum of all your skills.
I don't think that's actually true. As a native to the Northeast, I was quite surprised by just how many guns I saw everywhere when staying in Mountain View and working in Redwood City for a short while.

Also, many Republicans aren't big fans of this new administration.
Ask yourself what you haven't covered. My go-to answer on this is cultural, not technical. Explain the perspective you approach problems with, how you interact with others, the experience you have that might not be obvious in a resume. Maybe even reach a little and go back to something a family member taught you, or how some life hardship improved your outlook.

This is a great question to me as it provides so much opportunity. If you can't answer this with enthusiasm, then I think you should reflect on what makes you valuable. I promise that there is something...
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Businesses hire people to solve a problem. (Big surprise.) Therefore, to answer the question effectively, you need to figure out what problems they need to have solved[0]. Figuring this out includes the research on the company you've (hopefully) done before applying, reading and fully understanding the job description, and asking questions during the screening & interview loop along the lines of "What issues is your business trying to solve?", "What role(s) do you want the person that you hire to play?", "What pain points does your organization have?", etc.

From there, the response should more or less write itself: "My experience/skills in X, Y, and Z are going to help you solve problems A, B, and C that you're having" or, for less senior applicants, "I'm very interested in learning more about the technologies/skills you need me to have to solve problems A, B, C and my past work in I, J, K shows that I can acquire those skills easily and will be effective in applying them to your problems."

[0] This includes ones that they may not even know they needed to have solved.
Successful general strikes (a longer list than many people believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_strike#Notable_general...) usually enforce it somehow. Possibly through illegal means.
Your reasoning makes perfect sense, but the answer is a bit dry and, I don't know how to describe it, robotic? As someone who has sat in the hiring chair, if I heard "You'll make more money from my work than I'll cost in salary and benefits.", I'd get the impression of that person someone who maybe views themselves as a profit-generating widget in the grand scheme of the company. I'd wonder a bit what enjoyment/passion that person gets from their work. I know that's completely unfair, but it's just not a very natural-sounding response. I just think there are, I don't know, "warmer" ways to phrase it?

Keep in mind, the person deciding to hire you is often somewhat removed from the bottom line of the company's financials. Even though the end-goal is to make the company more money, the hiring manager is often not primarily motivated by that. They're looking for someone who will deliver quality work while fitting in well with the rest of the team (this part is so important).

So my advice would be to add a tinge of enthusiasm and a display of personality that you believe would mesh well with the "vibe" of the existing team. Something like "Given that you're working on projects A, B, and C, I think my experience with X, Y, and Z can really help improve both the velocity of the team, as well as the quality of our output". You're saying basically the same thing, but more in manager-speak (depends on the manager, of course).

I know these are all qualitative/subjective things whereas your statement is very objective, but that's because I don't believe the hiring process is all about technical merit and productivity. As much as we might dislike it, it's about "fit", whatever that means.
I wouldn't ask this question because it's pointless, but I would expect the best candidates to answer the question reasonably. Indignation is not a mature attitude to demonstrate in an interview.
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This is just rich-people worship. What this has to do with tech, other than that a bunch of tech people also worship the rich, is beyond me. Pass.
Regulations like the DMCA are what got us into this situation, by creating an environment where companies can declare that it's illegal to use "your" hardware in ways they don't approve of. We could start by getting rid of those restrictions, rather than creating even more surface area for regulatory capture.
> With an aging population, how can you simultaneously have too many workers?

Automation.

> how can you allow such misallocation of workers?

Try telling a "sarariman" that from tomorrow he's supposed to be a janitor. "Workers" are people, and over a certain age most people simply don't like change, let alone change for the worse. It's not as simple as reallocating bodies.
Similar discussion that didn't gather much traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13491466
No comparison to the cost of a bicycle helmet and the taxes levied on cigarettes. Depending on where you live, how about $50 a week to rent a government approved bicycle helmet?

It's starts to sound much more unreasonable when you compare the taxes.
Not to mention the primary source of BPA usually being cross contamination from thermal receipts.
> additionally also redundant too.

Not sure if deliberate
It used to mean metal instead of plastic and way better specs.
So what's your theory of the mind as to why they would ask this question.

I have two scenarios:

a) They don't want to hire you.

b) They do want to hire you, but are incompetent at interviewing.

A key realization from poker is that if you're in the a bucket your answer to this question _literally doesn't matter_, so you optimize for the case where they do want to hire you. I think that this would counsel a response which is chest-thumping by HN standards but still likely to be effective. (Think of how you would deliver the answer to that question if you were utterly indifferent to their approval, because it's so patently obvious, and a little bored before your next meeting.)
> But C++ and C developers would never switch to anything else

There are many people who considered it and rejected, or even moved to other languages. C++ developers with existing large codebases may never switch to anything else, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the world is stuck. People are writing databases, browsers, operating systems and device drivers in rust right now and eventually some of those will become successful project defining state of the art.

> I'd like to see a version of Rust with garbage collection. The language itself is good.

There are myriads of languages with GC. There are very few modern ones without it.
>If anything, developers who ask questions are the ones you want most. One of the worst traits in a developer is the tendency to say yes to everything.

I didn't say that. I said that I disagree with the way he framed his questions.
I can't see any reason to believe this is true. It's not stated or even alluded to in their literature or admissions criteria.

Moreover even if it increases your chances a bit, it's a massive investment with no guarantee. Why not simply let the students who demonstrate excellence in earning the certificate a chance to spend another 50k for a degree?

The reason is to maintain artificial scarcity. Stanford has done a lot of great things and all the grads I've worked with have been top notch. However in some ways, Stanford is to education as De Beers is to diamonds.
I think devs at all levels can help a company reduce waste or increase output. The answer is always, "I will help your company be more effective (at making money/executing its non-profit work)".
So like a lexical DNS service for figuring out DNS names.

A Domain Name Name Service - DNNS!
I think the key was that the neural network didn't compute the fluid model accurately so much as a compute a simulation that looked accurate to humans
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The macports Python works fine, if you are able to use Python 3 you can also just use the official installer instead.
How do you know? Gigster has raised $10MM+. For a business that actually drives revenue (as opposed to Random Social iOS App), they have quite a long runway even if they lose a few thousand dollars per project.
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By no "experience", I mean I did some stuff, but it was just freelance and probably not resume worthy.
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Minor nitpick 1916, the year U.S. output overtook that of the entire British empire. And that was in the middle of WWI. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/the...

Further, the US has had several boom and bust cycles people only really hear about 'the great depression' but there have been plenty of major slumps in the US economy for example around the Civil War. So, a nominal lead in good times is not that meaningful.

So it was only during WWII that the US went from near parity to a massive and sustained lead. And it did not take that long before we gave that up to either China or the EU depending on how you want to slice it.
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I like the Pay What You Want model because the "good" doesn't cost me any money - I've already invested the time in building the site, and at this point I only have a small amount of fixed costs (server, hosting, domain name). So if more people are incentivized to try out Paralela but only want to pay $1, or $2, then that's fine with me, because new users don't cost me anything.
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Modern GNU/linux filemanagers support connecting to ssh server and browse and open and edit files just like they are local. You can do it in two seconds.

In ubuntu it's file -> connect to server -> type in ssh://username@ip

That's it you are done. You can now browse the files as if they are local and use sublime/gedit/VSCode/Pycharm/whatever you want
There may be multiple candidates who fit this criteria. How do you set yourself apart?
Interactively executing code on real data, with real dependencies, is vastly different from a junit test, for obvious reasons. It's not hard to get the features you listed, e.g. Clojure REPLs have all of those features (CIDER/Cursive).

Why do you think statisticians and data scientists don't write Java programs that they must recompile and rerun every time they tweak it? The statisticians I work with are obsessed with Jupyter notebook, because the iterative, fast-feedback development lets them almost touch and feel the numbers they're working with.
You're absolutely right that this is a multi-dimensional issue. We're starting out with just one dimension but want to add more in the future. What are the alternative sources you're thinking of? We're considering how to add libertarian to the mix, but there are other alternatives, of course.
Ex Amazon employee here: Amazon requires employees to obtain written permission even to contribute in your free time and this makes many developers unhappy.

However the company does not claim copyright or patents on work-unrelated ideas and (closed-source) projects.
It definitely comes off as 1) "I don't know how to do my job, please explain it to me" or 2) "can you tell me why the salaried employment relationship exists?" I mean, I'd answer (while trying desperately to contain the sarcasm and not to talk to the person asking it like they don't know WTF they're doing) but the answer is always something like "you should hire me if you think I can and will complete tasks that are worth more to you than what I cost you". Obviously. You know your business, we've talked about what I can do... so figure it out.
I read the link and am left to wonder at the role of business ethics in a business deal. Was it unethical for her to start a competing business? Seems like an uncool move, but of course I'm reading this years after the fact.
Yeah, that sounds right. But $160k sounds super-high. I would be very surprised if a new grad at Amazon made more than $130k total compensation in the first year.

Of course, the way the RSU vesting schedule works you would have a more-or-less guaranteed raise to $160k/year by your 3rd year or so, but $160k/year is not "rock-bottom" starting pay.
The military uses "intention" rather than "I will" because they understand that no plan survives contact with the enemy. It is also higher level so that when exhausted, stressed subordinates find themselves in life threatening circumstances the most important thing they need to remember is the intent. If they forget steps 1-5 of the plan but recall the intent they can't go that badly wrong in using their initiative.

There's also the distinction between specific orders - "you are to". Knowing the commander's intent, and his commander's intent (known as 1 Up and 2 Up) enables Mission Command, the concept of giving latitude to subordinates to achieve the mission in the best way possible within the confines and direction given to them.

Finally there's the ritual of it, NATO forces expect to operate within multi-national structures where English won't be a first language. There is a "NATO sequence of orders" which should be roughly followed. It means everyone knows the structure of what is coming up and when in the brief - so you don't get people asking questions about equipment when the limitations are being explained, they know that comes later. Opening, especially from a junior officer, with "my intention is" is essentially like having a schema definition at the start of a document - it defines the structure of what is coming for those who are going to be parsing it.
The article didn't explain the "how not to ruin your life" part when doing a startup.
> I am not a math person. I can do math, but my brain is wired for language.

Not a good time to introduce not's in my opinion. It might work (as it did for you), but it's high risk.
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Guidelines vary by country, but 2-4/day is high at least by current UK and US guidelines.

In the UK it was lowered a year ago to a recommended 14 units per week (UK units - "14 units is equivalent to a bottle and a half of wine or five pints of export-type lager (5% abv) over the course of a week") [1]. CDC website says "According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans,1 moderate alcohol consumption is defined as having up to 1 drink per day for women and up to 2 drinks per day for men. This definition is referring to the amount consumed on any single day and is not intended as an average over several days." [2]

Actually, there's a Wikipedia page with various countries' guidelines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommended_maximum_intake_of_...

[1] http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/01January/Pages/New-alcohol-advi...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/faqs.htm#moderate
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Which VIM plugin are you using? I've tried them all, including the recommended one simply called 'vim', and they are all missing the most basic of features. Go-to-definition (Ctrl-]) was one missing for me just a few hours ago when I last tried it!
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