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However, I set a minimum font size, so all pages have readable-size text by default.
Those are not at all the questions asked. They don't ask you to prove A*, they ask you to filter a binary tree based on some predicate. It's much closer to real life than people on HN like to admit -- your coworker wrote some code using some datastructure and you have to figure it out and modify it.
Obama tried to convince congressional Republicans to do an infrastructure bill for all eight years of his presidency. Republicans refused to even try to find common ground. Obama talked about it a lot, too, during both of his campaigns.
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> If you were traveling with said friend (you being the foreign national and friend being the US citizen), CBP would just make you unlock your own phone. This is not like a logic game you can outwit.

It's not a logic game, you're just adding hurdles to the search which make it less likely, and leaning on the legal privileges of the citizen. To do what you propose, CBP would have to flag the citizen for search and connect them to the foreign national before they pass immigration and customs. If they manage to do that, the foreign national needs to comply. If compliance is not an option for them, this idea won't work.
Heh, I just started my kid in a private school.
It's a bit far fetched to equate taxing capital with enslavement.
> by far most devs use macOS

I'm not sure about this - that seems too extreme of a statement. If there is any winner, it's going to be Windows. IMO, Linux and macOS will be within 5 percentage points of each other. From what I've seen at university, it's something like 60% Windows, ~20% macOS, ~20% Linux (usually Ubuntu). Much more Linux/Mac in the "hackier" courses, usually with a slight majority to Macs.

Where can reliable statistics be found on this? HN isn't exactly indicative of developers in general.
I think when a company reaches a certain size it is hard to expect that there is such a thing as "a manager looked at my github/qualifications and decided they need me so they will tailor the interview to my skillset".

Why? As a matter of fact, I have a friend who met a manager at Burning Man, then was hired into Google in just such a manner. He described the Google interviewing process as "a breeze!" My reaction: What!?
The ion computer achieved a 77.1% success rate, whereas the superconducting computer succeeded only 35.1% of the time.

I mean... however long it's taking for the ion trap computer to achieve that, they're doing markedly better than a coin flip; I find that impressive.
There are numerous cases they got caught making up stories.
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She'll be right, mate.

(I'm so happy I don't have to use Jira any longer.)
OK, here's my last stab at making this small point: The only reason FB is successful is because 'we' CHOOSE to use it. No one is coercing FB users physically into it's usage.

Thus, once we acknowledge this simple fact, we can also CHOOSE not to use it anymore.

That's the core of my point I tried to make originally.

Thanks for your patience and feedback.
I find it hard to believe they simply disappeared. Recruiters will pester you until you give up or say you aren't interested. They even make promises they can't keep, in order to get you to the interview.

The last time I was looking for a job, I talked to recruiters from Facebook and Amazon, and the first thing I told them were my salary requirements. They told me it "wouldn't be a problem." Then later on, I found out I was going to be offered a lot less.
> That's going a little far, filter bubbles and propaganda have existed since forever. The public sphere was never a panacea for these problems.

I'm not sure the kinds of bubbles we have aren't brand new. The bubbles used to map pretty closely to geography and political structures. The bubbles now are oriented around where our information lives, not where we physically are.

Also, I think you're overstepping with 'panacea'. I don't think anyone who believes in decentralized life thinks universal panaceas even necessarily exist. But it can still be true that central planning has displaced local living without fulfilling all the same purposes. And if so, the result could be a net negative.
fair, but if I have a storage unit do I 'possess' those things? If asked would you tell people you 'have in your life' thousands of books because you have access to a library in your community

i also think it unnecessary for someone to have access to junked capacitors

it was mentioned in response to the phrasing utilising 'all' which to me implied a preference for fewer things..
too many things would render the exercise of documenting it 'all' improbable.. and I was trying to express my own opinion of content stead numerosity when living in a comfortable yet clutter free environment

also, i failed to see a bank statement or a pile of cash or stacks of gold bullion, so this all feels editorialised anyway
Assembly, did you apply for some low-level embedded system job? For most software engineering jobs, I would drop my jaws and freak out if someone asks me to look at an assembly bug. I probably will look at it and try to figure the shit out, but oh lord.
>the userland here isn't just GNU

Ah okay. Shame that calling this "GNU/NT 10.0" would not be proper then.
I was a civil engineer in the late 90s. They've been talking about infrastructure spending running short in the US since then. Nobody listens.
Upkeep is expensive and nobody wants to pay for it..

occasionally a big project gets funded but for the most part it's just highways that get funding.
Don't forget that HTTPS everywhere is not just about privacy.
I don't know what you mean by neglect.

If you keep overspending on new roads and bridges and sewer lines, you're going to see your maintenance bill come due.

As an example, I see sidewalks being built in the middle of nowhere, or that people so scarcely use them, that you wonder why spend money at all. I see parking lots half empty of cars, or worse.

All that means is longer roads, wider roads, longer sewer lines, and so forth. Somebody has to pay for all of that.
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I think you got it right. The fundamental issue seems to be that the recruiter flattered the candidate and made him/her think that they had genuinely looked through their profile and determined that they would be a good candidate. Most recruiters will not do this, simply because their priorities are not aligned that way. I think the OP revealed a very important mechanism: recruiters' job is just to get bodies in the system, which needs more people continuously for replacement and expansion.
> Nearly every programmer nowadays knows that naive string concatenation is inefficient, and so they should use a stream or something like that.

You and I live in different worlds, or have vastly different definitions of 'programmer.'
That sounds like a lazy way to dismiss a guy who maybe deserves more credit than he gets.
The dream of an electorate too stupid and uneducated to grasp even a basic consensus reality is going to be arriving in a hurry.
The interesting thing here is the disconnect between local and national politics. Butte and Plumas counties went to court because the dam's operations did not properly account for climate change. But the two counties are represented in Congress by Doug LaMalfa, a stereotypical climate change denier. LaMalfa has vociferously complained about all climate change policies at the state and federal level and constantly publishes press releases questioning the facts of climate science. He has a lifetime 0% score from the League of Conservation Voters. He is, in short, the kind of dangerous know-nothing who is bringing about the end of civilization as we know it.

One does begin to wonder if his constituents perceive the disconnect. One major problem is that Butte and Plumas counties taken together do not constitute a majority of the district (Butte is about a quarter million people and Plumas is ten times smaller). Relatively well-educated and affluent Chico is completely buried under a huge, rural, and very poor 1st district, most of whom are not threatened by these particular waterways.
No offense, but I think you're swallowing a lot of right-wing lies about what "the left" believes. "The left" is as opposed to the plutocratic tendencies of globalization as it always has been. Believing in freedom of movement, and that immigration does not lead to the downfall of a society, does not mean having to believe in, for instance, corporate sovereignty.
It seems likely that basic income would have a similar lobby, once it's been around for a while.
VS not only could build C and C++ since I can remember, but was a pioneer in the recent C++ revival. Btw VS 2015 installer offers Python tooling install if I remember correctly. See also: https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS
Scheduled call. They forgot to call.

Back in the 90's and early 2000's in non Silicon Valley tech companies, this was Simply Not Done. I find Silicon Valley tech culture a little loose when it comes to interpersonal morals.
Why does it matter if the income comes from a basic income source or not? Rents rise only if there is more demand than supply. And it seems silly to say that we are not capable of supplying enough housing for our current population.

In nations were economic equality is higher, and where government's provide a strong safety net, there is no indication of rents spiralling out of control.
I can concur. Used to do long fasts when I was in high school, so tried doing it again in the past couple of years, and suddenly I couldn't function at work.

That being said, I've successfully gone 18-24 hours without eating multiple times without any real noticeable detrimental effects on my ability to concentrate on programming or get work done, especially if I time it so I stop eating at 6pm one day and start eating again after 12pm the next day.
I live in a liberal bubble and hear about infrastructure woes often enough, for example from John Oliver here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzvaqypav8
There is a ton of development that doesn't require knowing advanced algorithms. When I develop for iOS, most of my data structures are provided by the OS, including generic data storage. There are compelling reasons to use them, most importantly speed of development, and the fact that my apps simply won't have performance issues noticeable by my customers.

Once in a blue moon I will have a hot spot that is noticeable. So I'll break out a hash table, not a book on algorithms, and solve it in a few minutes.
> Nearly every programmer nowadays knows that naive string concatenation is inefficient

Now that's what I call naive! Or maybe hopeful. Just saying you're giving an awful lot of credit here...
Reposting a dead comment on this parent, because it's entirely reasonable.

No, I believe they're not really after the enthusiasts. I think they're after the fence sitters. Implementing these tools on Windows removes motivation for casual dissenters from building intertia and leaving their platform.
This is of course not the first time Microsoft has done something like this. Historically, step two is where they extend the functionality for Windows only. Let's keep them honest and make sure they don't do that again!

Why is this dead? It even has a name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
If they loose DARPA funding they go away or re-organise e.g. innumerable research Depts at universities they constantly have to hustle for funding and follow the grant money, Musk and Bezos are independent, their income streams are not going away.
Speak for yourself. As a white male myself, I have no problem acknowledging reality, which is that men are responsible for 99.9% of the sexual abuse in the workplace. I don't do it myself (at least, I sure hope none of my actions are perceived that way, but I'm pretty sure they're not), but I'm not going to get mad that men in general are painted with that brush, because it's been earned, even if I personally didn't do anything wrong.

And when would a woman turn around and sexually abuse another individual? How often does that happen? Pretty much never. I think I've heard of maybe two instances of sexual abuse by females in my entire life, and they weren't in tech (one was a publicized case at a Domino's Pizza about 25 years ago, just to give you an idea). Cases of abuse by men are extremely commonplace.
Very wealthy individuals hire private security to protect themselves because they are targets for a class of crime (kidnapping, extortion, etc) that average people have a negligible chance of being targeted for. Private army is a stretch of the terms but technically accurate.
There's tons of information online about what the big companies' interview processes are like. If you show up to an interview without bothering to do any research or preparation (like the author clearly did), then it's not going to be surprising when it doesn't go well.

Maybe I'm setting too high a bar, but I feel like it's not unreasonable to expect someone to spend an hour or two doing research on the interview process before flying out to Seattle. If he had, he'd have realized it was going to be heavy on the white boarding and algorithms, and then could have chosen either not to waste anyone's time, or to really prepare.

The recruiter totally should have let him know what to expect of course, but it's a strange sort of entitlement that leads someone to be upset when they don't get a job just for showing up.
No: see Table 1. It's possible to write partizan stories without using false facts. The Other 98% does it. However, the right-wing sources used -- Eagle Rising, Right Wing News, Freedom Daily -- had a higher proportion of false facts than the left-wing sources.

You must surely know that many right-wing sources are notorious for lying, especially Breitbart and Infowars. Being a right-wing source shouldn't mean your lies get a free pass.

For some interesting information on how right-wing sources are obliged to lie or be rejected by their target audience, see http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudg...
As a bit of a layman with this stuff, I'm wondering if "running the parallel version on a single CPU" means running a parallel algorithm (which is different from a sequential algorithm) on one CPU, or if the sequential and the single-threaded parallel algorithms are equivalent, and it's measuring the difference between e.g. 8 threads per 1 CPU vs. 1 thread per 8 CPUs (in which case, obviously, context switches would account for the performance difference).
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Actually you can't. There is no prior information about the distribution of correct answers given in the question so everything is uniform distribution and there is nothing to set up "pre-arranged" entropy encoding with.
Quite frankly, I look at Congress, I look at people like Paul Ryan, and I see a complete inability to look at things like that. I see people who feel that if you are not working, you should be punished. And in seeing that, I see a Congress that would be unwilling to make the shifts needed if the robots take more and more of our jobs.

I love the ideal that, if labor is automated, that we would be able to spend that time and energy on things that would better society. Making art, scientific research, all that good stuff. But, before anyone can do any of that, they need their basic needs to be met. They need food, shelter, and clothing. Currently, the only way to get that is to work. If we take away the basic jobs that millions, if not billions of people are doing, and our leaders don't want to invest in the basic income idea, they're not going to be able to meet those basic needs or go on to those higher pursuits.
Yeah, I engaged a recruiter who seemed pretty decent at the onset. Then when I expressed interest in 2 positions, they demanded that I provide detailed salary for the last 3 jobs I have worked in.

I gave express disinterest in doing that, and had no issue with providing salary expectations. But I made it clear that this behavior was completely unprofessional and unbefitting of a recruiter.

I then told them in no uncertain terms that as long as they have this policy on their books, do not call back. If however, they change this, I would consider them again.
Or visa-versa, that the company always cared more about the sw than the customers, and the hiring methodology reflects that.
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> In computer programming, a thunk is a subroutine that is created, often automatically, to assist a call to another subroutine. Thunks are primarily used to represent an additional calculation that a subroutine needs to execute, or to call a routine that does not support the usual calling mechanism. They have a variety of other applications to compiler code generation and in modular programming.

The term originated as a jocular derivative of "think"
yes. in short, it didn't work for me. either your ROM supports that out of the box (mine didn't), or you install xposed (should be rather simple with their installer, but didn't work for me, likely because my five year old device isn't supported), or you patch your ROM manually to enable "app impersonation" (signature spoofing), that didn't work for me either.

but the xposed route should be simple, provided you have root access.
I agree, especially when designing programming languages that it's a bit weird to not know how to traverse a tree.

There is one thing I want to point out though. Before starting my algorithms course I knew how to solve problems recursively. I had done project euler tasks and what not. I just never knew the words abstract syntax tree or binary search tree. I could guess what they were prior to the course but I didn't know what they were off the top of my head.

Do you think that it's possible that a self taught engineer would know how to solve these problems given time and enough questions to the interviewer? Maybe get frustrated with "How do you balance a search tree?" questions under pressure?
Your argument is that privacy and security stances for web browsing should be driven by what is appropriate for the 10-and-under crowd?
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I've never heard any media (of whatever bias) report either that Sweden stopped immigration, cutting asylum to half the level of 2013, or that refugees have ceased trying to immigrate to Sweden.

If either of those are true, that would be a story I'd like to read.

Has anyone reported that?

I'd like to know why those numbers fell. Did Sweden stop immigration? Did refugees stop coming? Are refugees being admitted in some other way, not counting as asylum?

Edit:

I found an article in Foreign Policy from over a year ago. According to them, Sweden closed the door.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/10/the-death-of-the-most-ge...

Interesting that the media continues to chide Trump and laud Sweden, if they've both done the same thing.
I seem to miss the point why this is huge. Why can't the project compiled for Windows in first place? Are there System specific calls?
What's boring here is there's no suggestion as to how this utopia of digital parks can come to be. Even if we have the resources to invest in development and operations, who without a profit motive, will devise the marketing campaign for privacy and common good?

This guy wants a world like Craigslist, but Airbnb already taught us that free and p2p is easily subsumed by slick and centralized.

In BitTorrent and Usenet we've had great, free p2p media distribution for years. How does iTunes, Netflix and the rest compete? By doing all the evil, centralized, corporate stuff -- like advertising -- the pirates won't do because pirates have morals.
Harold is a ghoul with a tree growing out of his head.

Herald is the word you were looking for.
> Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and most likely the NSA

And all of them (well maybe not the NSA not sure on that one) do the entire "algorithms quiz".
I am not a standardized programmer, so I have no interest in Google's standardized interview. I tell their recruiters I am not interested as I doubt you would hire me anyway given I don't fit your standardized system. When you design your system for some specific person type, that's all you will get.
I dug around a bit for materials related to the lawsuit. Found some:

http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/progr...

The county complaint is written by the lawyer quoted by SciAm. It does talk about climate change impacting the operations of the dam, but that is about as detailed as it gets. It reads to me like the county was after funds from the California DWR more than it was looking forward to the spillway failing in an especially wet season.
> I'd rather hire someone who knows exactly why it's O(n^2)

"How do we satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources?" - economics to the rescue again.

Everyone would love to hire Linus Torvalds for that matter, but there are plenty of programming jobs where you don't really need to, or don't want to, or can't spend that kind of money. There are plenty of useful, productive positions for people who aren't up on their O notation. The important thing is to be clear what kind of person you're looking for.
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Optimal algorithms are not the only most important thing that a software developer should know. It depends entirely on the type of the job. In most cases an experience of "design patterns" is most important.
I understood your point. You were not unclear. You're just not talking about anything meaningful. That we can "choose" to do something is irrelevant when the choice is not impactful. You aren't turning two billion people. You aren't going to make them choose. If a million people left Facebook tomorrow, Facebook would not notice nor be materially weakened. Your "choice" is noise.

And the harping on that choice is, by people much more malicious than you, designed to disempower movements to rein in organizations like Facebook, because--hey, people can just not use it. (Even though choosing to not use it doesn't do anything.)

You're providing cover for a narrative that wants to hurt you.
I think it's a rather bleak story, "woman can see future events, prefers to live out the spoiler version of her life rather than changing anything and being surprised", but whatever, at least it's internally consistent.

In theory Louise could have told her daughter not go climbing because she can see the future and knows her daughter would die but that would probably result in:

1. Mom getting written off as bat shit crazy and ignored.

2. Teens and young adults being teens and young adults tend to shrug off warnings and advice of their parents and she would have died anyway.
This is just all around bad planing maybe not accounting for the more rain they are getting, but also not building for all the snow in the mountains. I'm sorry but this is not a climate change issue as much as a bad plaining issue. The changing weather in California is just bring it to light. yes I know the article says that. I'm just saying that trying to control the weather and the effect we have on it is no excuse for this kind of neglect. And it so often is. "Well if we can just control how much rain falls out of the sky we wont have to worry about this." Man has come far but we are not there yet. Hay California you are men not gods start planing for the future your always babbling on about how important it is.
Interesting question. I wonder if it was prior to when BB moved to the "direct wire" architecture in Storage Pod 4.0.
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Consider that you may not be a safe person for women to tell such stories too, if your first instinct is going to be to minimize and dismiss.