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not saying these companies[0] wont ask these types of questions, but at least they wont ask you to answer them on a whiteboard

[0] https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

related HN discussion thread[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13874026
No, sorry, I studied APL in the early 80's and used it professionally for ten years straight and have been using it sporadically since then.

Only APL is APL. Notation is as much a part of APL as is it's linear algebra/array orientation. One can't remove the notation and call it APL just like one can't take C and convert it to icons to drag around the screen and still call it C.
At some point, some politician is going to have to man up and speak the truth. The public will have to either accept that the government can try and protect it from low probability events by invading every aspect of our lives or people will have to accept the idea that there is a sub 1% chance of being killed by a crazy person.
Unfortunately I've met some devs new to SPA stuff and they believe it's either react/flow or angular/typescript. They're being promoted this way in the intro docs on both sides.
The thing that concerns me about this perspective that everyday use of encryption is bad is that it makes no damn sense. Pandora's box is opened; if you force software solutions to backdoor their technology, someone will just step up who doesn't care about your laws. There are no global treaties on software development, and we aren't going to be signing any such thing any day soon. Even if we could force something like that down the throats of every country on Earth, the knowledge exists, and anyone can roll out their own solution with a high-school level understanding of the topic.

It's absurd to think this can be resolved through legislation or cajoling companies into cooperation. But what really bothers me about this whole issue is that we already have laws in place that handle this situation, at least in the USA. In the USA, if you refuse to hand over an encryption key (or can't) and are being compelled to by a court, you can and will be held in contempt of court, and possibly convicted of destruction of evidence. The only thing that forcing people to backdoor their crypto does is allow government entities to investigate people without having sufficient evidence to compel them to give up their keys, and destroy the marketability of large scale, centralized end-to-end encryption solutions.

I mean, you could make the argument that end-to-end encryption restricts the ability to wiretap people, sure, but a wiretap warrant should require a decent amount of evidence, and at that point, there are most likely other options.
> Their three children, ages 9, 5 and 2, each wore shirts saying “I Am Not Pizza #pizzagate.”

Reality consistently outpacing the Onion..
equality of outcome, marxism and feminism

here's more of the author

https://twitter.com/littler_jo

http://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/jo-littler
Ah, yeah I forgot about that. It doesn't make a Diablo 2 remastering any less likely though, IMO, as opposed to a Diablo one.

This is what I remember seeing: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-looking-to-revive...
I have heard rumors that path 1.28 is coming out soon with some quality-of-life updates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_paedophile_dossier
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We were running heavily on Amazon AWS, and I changed jobs shortly before the migration, but I think they moved to a variety of Amazon solutions (Kinesis, RedShift, etc). Not sure what they are running on now.

To be honest, Hadoop on AWS through Elastic MapReduce (EMR) actually served us really well. The cluster downtime we had in our early days were all "human error" (configuration and Map/Reduce programming mistakes). Once we fixed those, EMR served us like a champ.

The bigger issues we had were with HBase actually, particularly during its region splitting. It was great for storing massive amounts of data that you could store and query fast (with the right key design), but we weren't able find people skilled enough in HBase ops to make us comfortable with continuing to use it.

I have seen Teradata, Netezza and Vertica being used heavily at that time (circa 2010-2013) but never worked on them directly. Like you said, they are extremely expensive, and I can imagine why some of the larger installations were trying to move to alternatives.

End of the day, I don't have any perfect solutions to recommend to Hadoop or HBase. I think there are a variety of cloud-based solutions from Amazon, Microsoft and Google; as well as hybrid open-source solutions that do the job, but to each his own!
I thought Hedgeable's perspective on not doing tax loss harvesting was interesting[1] I have been looking at these robo advisers since the start of the year.

https://www.hedgeable.com/blog/2015/09/how-to-protect-your-p...
When I learned to drive I was taught to always drive defensively - basically to avoid situations that could result in the 'chance of a risk of an accident'. Sure, 16-year old me and my friends joked about the terminology but the lesson stuck with me.

Other driver going faster than they should? Switch lanes and avoid the situation.

Turning into traffic and there is a car in your intended lane signalling that they're going to move out of the lane? Wait for them to actually move and make space for you - don't trust that their lights are the whole truth.

Being a safe driver means not causing accidents but it also is on you to avoid being in situations with greater risk - "identify and reduce".
sorry for the stupid question, but how do you "apply" color palettes? i mean, sure they look great as colorful columns, but how do you put them into UI?

let say Bootstrap. i tried using 1st color for button, 2nd color for "success" label, etc. it ended up ugly.
The 4K graphics are still pretty pixelated.
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Interesting. I'm not much of a football fan myself, as I'm apparently missing whatever part of the brain is required to enjoy watching team sports.

However, I'd certainly encourage any sports fans who specifically dislike football to read what Hunter S. Thompson wrote on the subject. His passion has sold me on the merits of the game - even if it's still not my personal cup of tea.
There's a clone of StarCraft as well, but as far as I know it doesn't have feature parity with the original game; http://stargus.stratagus.com/
"richer"

Being middle class in a third world country and being poor in a poverty-stricken American zip code are different enough that it's not even worth deciding who has it worse.
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>Something like a year where both parents are /required/ to be home taking care of the baby.

That solves the problem (?) that men spend less time with the newborn, but I have my doubts that it solves discrimination problems. Employers would just start hiring people who are less likely to have children (big data will make that even easier) and discourage their employees from getting families and thus children. Now the discrimination is just shifted around instead of removed, and on top of that it decreases the already low birth rate.
Blizzard has stated that StarCraft Remastered will incluve native support for FISH -- which is apparently a Korean server with ranked match making.

This presumably means ranked matchmaking is to be expected for Western players as well. Whether that included iccup or not, I don't know.
Agreed, I've seen reports on ElasticSearch's website that their largest customers are running petabyte-scale data on ElasticSearch clusters, but my rule of thumb has been: HBase for petabyte-scale data, ElasticSearch and others for terabyte-scale data.

As for Kafka, I was surprised to see the article lump this together with Hadoop. I've used Kafka exclusively as a messaging bus or to stream large amounts of data. It doesn't exist as a replacement to Hadoop or Big Data technologies, but as a perfect complement, because it doesn't process data, just streams / moves it efficiently.
I feel you. In the last decade I have had to dial my outside tech/networking way back due to other obligations.

You can pick a few meetups (or even just one) to focus on, or you can be on the lookout when you meet casual acquaintances (perhaps at other social events).

I wouldn't want to spend all my social time in work hunting mode, but a small regular investment can pay dividends (depending on how happy you are in your current position).

Another reason to do such activities is the opportunity to help others. I love when I am talking to others and find out about a position that isn't a fit for me, but may be great for someone else I know. Hooking up two acquaintances in a possibly mutual beneficial way is low energy (not too much work) and yet high impact (people remember who helped them get a job).

I discovered this can be as easy as clicking"like" on a LinkedIn in post: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2180
But wouldn't ignoring gender and race show that you are valuing everybody equally?

Its a Chinese finger trap. You have to ignore race to have better race relations. If you try to nurture race relations, it causes rifts.

I have the same viewpoint as Morgan Freeman on this subject. He said to get rid of racism, you have to "Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man"
I personally love color palettes generated by Coolors https://coolors.co/.
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The market is wasteful. Lots of things are subpar because of the competition requiring adhoc solutions pushed to market, then becoming standard, so on and so forth. You can blame the game or not. At least if there was some acknowledgement of that process and a little cleanup time to spread good ideas and good fix ...

Personally I always feel weird booting up old boxes (say old = Pentium 2) and realizing how much the whole platform could do. It also felt quite sufficient in terms of UX and presentation.

That's odd because, everybody (I assume) feels how quickly we feel our newest gear gets slow, and how a new generation improves speed. But when I pop a very old system I don't feel slowed down much. It's just of a lesser resolution (hi res images, sound, videos); which for my needs doesn't really matter.
Part of me wants to flag this, but it is actually a pretty good read. If things turn out bad here in America, I could see a lot of folks giving the same answers that the author's grandma is giving in the piece.
You very well captured the intention of this (or at least what I think is the intention). I mentioned above that in highly abstracted systems it is not at all unusual to spend more time with inefficiencies rather than doing real work:

You noticed here that it is also hard to tell in a high abstraction layer which operations might be fast and which may be slow.

Often this is even found in seemingly simple places, e.g. traversing a List<> in Java can have vastly different performance characteristics (LinkedList vs. ArrayList).
So bouncing ideas off of a colleague is asking for a reach-around then? And open offices are a big orgy!
> For a few years I followed SC2's e-sports scene, but my interest slowly died out.

if it's any consolation your interest died with the game. :(

still one of the greatest games of all time. just always had a hard time finding traction in the west where players and fans seem to prefer games like Dota/CS. i'm not sure why exactly.
> Cloud Saves for Campaign, Custom Maps, Replays, and Keybinds

So I guess it will be always online, no lan, Blizzard blessed servers only just like sc2...
I wonder if New York Times authors with Communist grandparents are similarly ambivalent.

“But what did you think when you started hearing the rumors about the gulags?” I would press her.
If I received a resume from a collegiate track person I would probably google them out of curiousity to see how fast they were, and in this case I would realize it's a fake name and resume, I wonder if that had any effect on the results
I am still n2 programmer :)
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Shorter explanation: Monoids are things you can concatenate together.

That's in the same way that (as the article says) monads are things you can bind together (in Haskell, binding will tell how code flows, so monads in Haskell are things with a defined kind of code flow between them), and functors are things you can map over.

A list is all three.
They could just be realizing that with an online store you don't have the same inventory limitations, so they're experimenting a bit.
It's pretty much what we have today but the veneer of meritocracy is what makes it insidious. There is rarely anything more dangerous than people who don't realize what they're doing because people can't change what they don't realize they are doing.
It's not about "introducing them to modern society", but rather to establish contact and communication. Maybe learn something about them, and being able to help when a disaster strikes the island.

A population of 50-500 individuals must be extremely fragile, even if they survived on that island for so long. They could become infected through anything, even bird excrement or something, also tsunamis or other bad weather. It would be helpful to respond to a crisis.
> The gameplay balance and idiosyncrasies have been painstakingly preserved from the original game. Mutalisk stacking, magic-boxing, unit pathfinding, control-group limitations, and more will all remain intact, allowing veteran players to enjoy playing and watching high-level competitive matches as before.

I get that esports are serious business by now, but are we really at a point where we have to stay bug-compatible with old releases?
Oh, no. Not this bullshit matrix again.
>The game is widely considered to be well-balanced

With almost two decades since release, and people are still playing it competitively, it's probably the most balanced game in history so far.
hopefully nothing changes. lots of players based their technique around those bugs. having it behave "correctly" would make it a pretty different game.
I'm with you on the complexity of OSGi, though some of the complexity plainly arises because it truly forces you to modularise vs. just winging it. In that regard, the new Java 9 module system has less of the service dynamics and classloading tricks going on. Very curious to see how the community will pick up the new module system.
Cursive is free for non-commercial use: https://cursive-ide.com/buy.html

If you are working on personal projects, you are good to go.
If the hobby involves something that the company does, listing it can indicate that you might be a more useful or versatile employee.

For example, if I was applying for a programming job working on the billing system at a company that does electronics, I could add a hobbies section to my resume and list there that I have an extra class amateur radio license.

That would let them know that I probably know something about electronics. That's not relevant at all to working on the billing system, but it would let them know that I might also be able to work on other programming tasks they might have that do need a knowledge of electronics (for example, working on diagnostics software for their service technicians).
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The idea that human beings, with all of our evolved biases and social needs, could ever fairly administer a system devoid of merit rewarding but not full of other unsavory selection biases such as nepotism or "ass kissing your way up" simple fails to realistically account for the underlying nature of humanity.
I am wondering how this will effect some of the companies working on media monetization, in particular medium.com . . .

Cf: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13933550
I think they don't know because I've never seen any of them describe encryption in a way that would suggest they know what they are talking about.

I don't doubt that someone in government knows. Probably an entry level staffer. But whenever technology comes up (such as blocking types of content from the internet) the policy is always utterly ham fisted.
Many of the top competitive games are good by accident, brood war is a classic example. Yes, it should stay bug-compatible, otherwise they can call it starcraft 3.
You do realize that Street Fighter 2 "super canceling" was a bug, which has been painfully recreated in virtually every future 2d Fighting Game, right?

Within a gaming community, bugs can often become features.

Mutalisk Stacking is an important strategy for Zerg players, and requires the Magic Box to work. So... yeah. Unless you want to completely screw high-level Zerg players over... you have to recreate Mutalisk Stacking and Magic Boxing. Its part of the balance of high-level play.
The lack of callbacks can be for all sorts of reasons, but I'd speculate that a lot of the employers simply tried to do a really quick validation check (name, school affiliation, etc.) that may even be automated and upon realizing that the individual is made up didn't call back.

I think that this experiment indirectly showed how ineffective "cold-calling" via resume-dropping really is for even highly qualified individuals (although they'd have to do it with other industries perhaps for better validity, for example). Meanwhile, I'm sure callback rates are probably higher for industries with no shortage of demand for highly qualified individuals such as software engineering. Law and medicine are a bit overwhelmed with more students than there are jobs for them last I heard.
You do if you want to bring original StarCraft players back into the fold. Muscle memory is a huge part of the game.
I wonder how she felt about private communication during her directorships in off shore tax havens?
It seems that this article only really asserts that "meritocracy is a myth", without much evidence. Most of the article is just saying "these people we don't like support meritocracy, and these people we do like don't support it".

They give three examples: grammar schools, which use tests of academic ability to determine which school you go to, this seems like a fair test of merit unless you give evidence it isn't. A fair point about Harvard, but from 1920. And an anecdote about Matt Damon insisting that something be based purely on merit, which regardless of what you think of it, doesn't argue that "meritocracy is a myth".

There's also some mentions of inheritance and ability to pay private tutors. In the case of inheritance leading to wealth you could argue that is unfair, but inherited wealth is one area where nobody pretends that it is a meritocracy. For tutors, while they may affect grades, there's not much evidence they affect the kind of aptitude tests that matter like the SAT and grammar school tests. See http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/c... where SAT prep courses are found to have very small effects, in a correlational study that is bound to be riddled with confounds like smart students who care being more likely to take prep courses, so if anything the effect is probably smaller.

Income on the other hand, many contend is a meritocracy, and there is some evidence for this in the form of a large randomized controlled trial where adoptees where randomly assigned to families of widely varying incomes (the threshold for adoption was lower at the time). While the non-adoptees income correlated substantially with family income, the adoptees incomes didn't. Many studies have attempted to find differences in how parents treat adoptees, but so far they've failed to find any difference, including for example how much inheritance they get. See http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2004/11/nat...

That isn't to say that their thesis isn't true, it may well be, this article is just a bad argument for it. For example, there's good studies showing discrimination in resume screening based on the gender/race associated with a name, even with the contents the same.
It's going to be perfectly playable with the old client. You can play people from both versions.
> really think encryption is dangerous or is it a devious way to expand mass surveillance

The latter her and the precious home secretary (now PM) have been banging on about how under threat we are from the terrorist hoards for years now - all so they can erode freedoms and increase mass surveillance under the guise of 'keeping Britain safe'.

The idea that banning encryption of private conversations will prevent these few crazy people from causing damage is of course ridiculous.
> You're never going to get equal pay for equal work on a global scale.

Sure, but does that mean unequal pay is fair? And if it's unfair, isn't it unfair to both the worker who is paid less, and the worker who is paid more? If the system becomes more fair, workers who were paid more will see a wage decrease, but won't typically be excited to see more fairness.

Maybe I'm just not understanding what you consider to be fair?
I heard John Hodgman use it on his podcast and thought it was a funny way to communicate that I'm just not interested in that category of entertainment. I find it works for all televised sporting leagues in the US. I use it mostly when people try to talk with me about sports at work.

"Did you see last night's game?"

"Were they playing sportsball again last night?"

"Oh yeah, you don't watch sports"

This conversation works without me having to know which sport is in season.
My workplace uses a rubric for determining when a developer qualifies for a promotion (+raise), which seems very similar to this. I'm not sure why both spur an immediate sense of revulsion in me, but they certainly do and the feeling is intense. Just wondering, but does the same happen to anyone else? Did you ever figure out its root cause?
currently the colors don't encode context, so you have to be a bit creative in applying them.

I am working on something that does encode context though.
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I just watched the GSL finals that happened a few hours ago, for the first time in a few years, and it was thrilling. RTS is the only genre of game that makes a great spectator sport to me, and I hope Remastered brings the whole RTS scene together again.
I used wine for a bit but feel its important to mention warzone 2100 its what seems to satisfy my starcraft urges. At one point i feel that it was more in depth. they have online servers ip play very detailed and still being updated muilti platform.

once I got my head around the game I am addicted to it.
https://wz2100.net/ They have many AI modes for the computer. Its very popular in the Linux world.

I had to mention it. I too would like there to be a Linux version available for the latest Starcraft. but until that happens I feel this is the best alternative.
I wonder how this matrix will look like when AI becomes better in programming. :)