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> But in practice there are a zillion things you believe not because of logic, but because other people told you to.
> Red lights mean stop

The author ignores second-order effects. Red lights meaning stop is arbitrary, but I believe that I should stop at red lights not because I accept the arbitrary assignment, but because of the objective fact that if I don't I'll eventually end up in hospital.

> The most successful companies all use whiteboard interviews

The most successful companies all use bank accounts with million dollar balances. One shouldn't confuse cause and effect.

I've worked for a few (arguably) successful companies, and I'm firmly of the opinion that they are almost invariably pathologically averse to risk and unwilling to experiment with new ways of doing things, especially when those ways aren't used by their competitors.

Conversely, every such company seems to believe that their competitors are doing rigorous scientific analysis of business methods and so if their competitors are all using whiteboard interviews "there must be something in it".

> The most successful companies all use whiteboard interviews

Do Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon or Facebook owe their success to the quality of their developers, though? I would suggest that they do not. They may be relying on the wrong signals when hiring developers, not hiring the best, but still succeeding due to other factors.

Heck, Google made a new programming language designed to make it hard to confuse mediocre programmers. That tells me something about the average skill of their developers.

> The most successful companies all use whiteboard interviews

The most successful companies also have lots and lots of applicants.

Even if whiteboard interviews meant you automatically fail 50% of candidates because they're no good at them, that's not such a major problem if there are 100 candidates for each job. If ten of the candidates are top-class, you still have five of them left after half of them flunk the whiteboard.

OTOH, if you have 10 candidates, the likelihood increases that the actually superior candidate will be the one that flunks.
You can also do procedural plot generation. It's pretty doable as long as you don't set your literary bar too high :)

You kind of need to get a feel or knack for navigating the so-called "edge of chaos" between order -- too many restrictions/rules = predictable patterns = boring -- and disorder -- pick everything random and it becomes the conceptual equivalent of the "rainbow puke" mush of random RGB pixels that is always infinitely different but always looks like the exact same flavour of static. Similarly if you pick random notes from a few octaves to make a tune -- in theory you should come across all the famous earworms like Axel F, Smoke on the water, Final Countdown, etc etc, in practice you get a different slice of the same warbly nothing 99.9999% of the time.

That is, in some sense, where the Infinite Monkey theorem seemingly breaks down, while at the same time it is also exactly where it derives its poignancy. It's a very powerful pulling force between two opposites.

Either way, read all about procedural anything generation for games on this great website: http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/

One very interesting idea, that has become quite feasible with modern computing power, is to use constraint solvers. Sure they are NP-complete but in practice they do a pretty good job. Imagine if you have a loose framework for puzzles, or challenges (maybe rooms with monsters and items) and it generates a beautiful wide variety of novel game play. Except, just like in real life, you can't always win. But you want it to, just like in a "hero's story", be just winnable, all the time. And you want your player to be able to trust that it is (it doesn't sound like a lot of fun bashing your head against a random-generated puzzle that turns out to be logically impossible). Constraint solvers can actually do this! There's a few articles on the Games By Angelina website.

I think that a constraint solver could very easily generate random Sokoban-levels that are guaranteed to be solvable. Now you need some (relative) measure of "difficulty" to sort them in order to create that feeling of progression and challenge. Which I also think is doable (amount of backtracking, "mental stack" required, etc).
This is rich coming from theoutline
Douglas Coupland: The nine to five is barbaric
But were only an option if you are from the city. There's a considerable risk ordering any minicab service if you don't know your way around the city. Uber and Lyft change that by verifying drivers.
Are recruiters/companies too picky about specific skills?
Do you get this kind of detailed experience requirements from recruiters? Does it seem like they're being too picky?

Experience with C# Required8 Years

Experience with .Net 1.1 to 4.0, ASP.net
Required 8 Years

Experience with SQL procedures, functions tables views, etcRequired8 Years

Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to 2012Required 8 Years

Experience with MS Visio or any flow diagram tool Desired 3 Years

Experience with Version control tools, ODRC uses TFSHighly Desired 3 Years

Experience with other programming languages such as JAVA and JQueryHighly Desired 3Years

Experience with the programming language of JQuery Mobile Highly Desired 1 Year

Experience with Knockout Library web framework Highly Desired 1 Year

Experience with the front-end framework Bootstrap tools Highly Desired 1 Year

Experience creating test documentation and performing System Tests Required8 Years

Experience with creating technical documentation with application functionality and test methods Required 8 Years

Experience with DotNetNuke (DNN) web content management system Highly Desired 1 Year
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> It's not a dubious claim

The claim:

> still see some ads using Origin, where with ABP I don't

... is definitely dubious. I still have to see such vague claims to be substantiated, with actual examples of where this happens.

Once in a while someone will provide a URL in support, but it turns out upon investigation that ABP also suffers the issue. I can readily provide URLs where it's actually the opposite, uBO works where ABP does not. For instance, try:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Internet

http://kissanime.ru/Anime/Demi-chan-wa-Kataritai-Dub (click on an episode link, start the player)

I absolutely don't mind if people prefer ABP (or whatever else blocker) over uBO, but I will dispute vague baseless claims made about uBO. Surely one can prefer ABP without resorting to spreading misinformation.
Not just that but they did it multiple times - 6.5, 7, 8, 10 - all pretty much incompatible from both a handset and even a developer's perspective. Imagine Apple doing that and having their first four iOS iterations all going in different directions every time, they'd also br in Microsoft's position now. They seem to have learned now and I could still see them turn around.
I guess the problem you'd see with that is exactly how this service is differentiated. Yes, it blocks spam ( but so do many other things ), but that's more of a side effect.

It's really about purchasing access to busy people. As you say.

That's an understanding I have anyway. Please correct it if it's missing something.
The corp ones, somewhat. The kind the lowly citizen would hire is more of a hired guide to hack his way thru the red tape to the goal. Dont paint all lawyers with the same brush.
Your comment reminds me of this dystopian essay, written by Richard Stallman 20 years ago: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Definitely not Shanghai (unless you consider everyone heads-down on their phones a symptom of cyberpunk.)

Shenzhen is a good choice though.

How about Tallinn
Twitter currently occupies 195 MB on my mobile device.
Got a source for the Cold War stuff?
Crew.co sold to Dribbble
More on Sebastian Gorka
There exists a message board called "Credit Cards and Consumer Debt" within the Motley Fool. I commented there for a few years on a variety of subjects, under a pseudonym (which is laughably transparent to anyone who knows me but please don't take that as a challenge, HN).

I was originally there because my credit report suddenly got $100k+ of debt added to it due to a series of errors. I researched the CRA and FDCPA and, in the process of doing so, found that forum. Many folks with different fact patterns needed relatively similar resolutions to mine or ones which were predictable based on information I had access to, so I started writing replies like "Yeah just write your bank and tell them $FOO." It turns out that the types of folks who end up deep in credit card debt often have some difficulty in banging out a quick professional letter. I didn't, and I had a lot of free time on my hands, so I drafted perhaps a few hundred letters.

This is one of my more esoteric hobbies, but it has been occasionally useful over the years.
The only reason I read even a few lines of this was to see if the layout was supposed to ironical. It wasn't. I don't know what was going on with my scrollbar but they managed to jack it up better than any site I've ever been to.
But that's because in London, Uber competes against public transport. That's not the case for many US cities (New York is an exception).

Even though as a London resident, I've never heard that argument. Most Ubers are either new petrol or even hybrid. Black cabs are (mostly old) diesel.
I've wondered lately what exactly "not open" means in the hardware context, and why so many manufacturers do not make "open" hardware.

Can someone enlighten me? I do understand what blobs are, but I guess I'm not clear on why they're needed.
I guess if you're drunk driving at ~10mph the reduced reaction time isn't as important as when you're doing forty.
Using Postgres with Parse Back End
it's actually a full 2d voxel made only of rectangles, using the classic position_(x|y) / position_z * focale method, and drawing them from farthest to nearest z :)
Why 8 why not 7?

Why DotNetNuke? why not another CM system?

Do they want TFS or any version control will work?
"The contradiction is that growth isn’t the only thing we want. We want to build a company that promotes remote work. We want to try new ways to motivate employees that don’t revolve around stock options with unknown value. And we want the ability to not grow when circumstances call for it."

Then use the model outlined in https://qbix.com/blog right now :)

Perhaps thinking of people as employees is outdated. Let's face it, these days the typical company or corporation doesn't care about its employees nearly as much as the product they produce. That's why your grandfather was a company man who worked 40 years with one firm, and today people flit from place to place.

It's also why people make less than they did then. Automation and outsourcing has reduced demand for human labor. Today (Real GDP / Population) is 10x more than in 1950s - so each person is 10x more productive on average - yet back then one regular man could pay for an entire household in the suburbs. Today both parents work, stick their kids in glorified daycare (public school) and still can barely make ends meet.

Perhaps the compensation model should be more project based.

Perhaps we should have single payer basic healthcare, food etc. unconditionally for everyone.

People live lives.
Companies build products.
This is absolutely true. I guess I'm avoiding people who explicitly use my data for profit, in favour of those whose profit model doesn't require it. The trust is that Fastmail et al. are successful enough, and honest enough to not use it.

Ultimately I'd love to host everything myself. But, at present, I don't have the technical knowledge to trust myself to secure everything.

On top of that, on an even more emotional level, the principle of myself being the product doesn't sit right with me.
Generic drivers have made explicit support mostly unnecessary in the desktop space. This doesn't exist on mobile. I've installed Linux effectively on many many pieces of junk whose designers never intended their hardware to be used that way.
You kids today and your fancy command lines. When I was in sixth grade, state of the art joking around with technology meant multiplying two numbers on a calculator with red LEDs and turning it upside down to (sort of) spell SHELL OIL
> the community can't support a million devices

If anything the open source community is a lot better in supporting large numbers of devices than closed source has ever been. Witness the incredible hardware support in your average linux kernel. The only reason they're a bit behind the times is because hardware manufacturers are loath to open up their specifications to open source implementers.

> The fact that I can pick up a PC from the nineties and install an up to date Linux

See, that's exactly the reason why this works.
Dribbble is owned by tiny.website and they own a good part of the design market. It seems the really want to corner the design market, given how many designers use Unsplash, the product that Crew made.
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but a fast forward merge isn't really a merge (there is no merge commit) and by definition doesn't change any commits. So it doesn’t require changing any commits, and therefore no signatures need changing either.

Is there some other part of a workflow that you're inferring here that will need changing commits?
Is it possible to view emails that haven't been paid for so you can check whether there's something important?
Bad engineers and internet, India is far from becoming the next Silicon Valley
> when isolated from the central brain.

does that mean "cut off" ?
Just get the GTX 1060 6GB variant & that should be enough RAM to run most models without suffering pagination.
It really depends on the circle of people that are at parties in the US. I've been the DD and have been at parties where there is at least one DD. I think there was a general consensus not to bother or pressure the guy DDing. All the fraternities and sororities would have a DD system running on fridays and saturday nights for their members as well, this is typical for a lot of universities but it only covers those members and their friends. I've also been at parties where I know there was no one DDing and I knew pretty much everyone drove there and didn't spend the night. Thankfully I lived in the college town with a decent bus system that got us around to most of the area for free so even if I couldn't get a ride, I could use the bus. I also purposely moved downtown just to have a ability to get almost anywhere without a car. The bus system was nice but getting between certain areas of town was hard depending on where you lived.
I'm using them at $work. But they are expensive, but so is EC2.

Unless you are able to get a decent deal (far better than reserved instances) then for raw CPU/GPU power hosting your own is better. Its the whole package that makes AWS attractive. (RDS, S3, instant spinup)

Spot prices is a good place to start if you are doing batches. just make sure you checkpoint little and often.

However if you are on your own, with limited funds, Get a second hand workstation (dell or hp z620/600) they tend to have decent PSUs, loads of ram and decent support, and a couple of Geforces with more Vram. (Quadros you are paying for the double float performance and ram. transfer Bandwidth and speed are the same or slightly better on geforce class cards.)
The consumer guarantees are specific rights that you cannot sign away; that is, there's no such thing as no warranty. Whether you agree to it when you turn your phone on is irrelevant.

As for misuse, that applies only if it caused the problem. The ACCC's case is that Apple refuses to do any repairs, even when they would be guaranteed (such as a manufacturing fault in the speaker), when the phone has been repaired in any way (such as the screen being replaced). If Apple can prove that these third party repairs do affect their ability to comply with the law, then they may win. I doubt that's the case personally.
javascript often is just unnecessary bloat (advertisers, trackers, useless animations, and so on) that's why people are angry at it.

More often than not, bare html do the trick.
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Answering my own question, I just unpacked the iOS Twitter client thinking that it must contain massive graphic resources or something. Nope: mostly frameworks, the biggest being the T1Twitter.framework - 80.1Mb of who-knows-what.

That doesn't include the 17 other frameworks all over 1Mb in size (there are innumerable other smaller frameworks) for periscope and other features.

Seems to me they could ship a 5Mb app that just wraps the Twitter web site and provides iOS native experience (notifications, apple watch, etc) and call it a day.
Is ironical a word?
Fully agreed. You can certainly deal with some aspects of variable framerate integration. But it's by far a better solution, more future proof even, to just have a fixed number of iterations by second and don't account for time deltas in integration.

My physics-based game is using the method argued against. Never again, integrating every behaviour over time got sometimes surprisingly hard. It also costs a lot of exp() and log() calls.
https://auburnsounds.itch.io/vibrant
(of course multiplayer is impossible now)

Some of the AI is still framerate-dependent, because:

// fixed framerate
if (randomFloat0To1() < 0.1f)
doThis();

becomes a Poisson distribution sampling.
It was community peer reviewed. As long as the 'game' didn't break in any obvious ways it was allowed on.
Currently no, that would be an idea though I can implement it if there is interest.But then why would you give out this account and not your gmail if you want to manual go through them? Kind of defeats purpose?
As a vet I can tell you all healthcare for vets is a joke. And mental health? LOL!

The public, press and government can pay as much lip service as they want toward "caring" for their veterans. But that's all it is. Some momentary hand waving and noise whilst there's a new story making the circuit about the most recent veteran failure. Five minutes go by and it's a forgotten issue again.

We've treated service members as consumables publicly since the Vietnam war. For those who come back broken, not much has changed since 1955.

I know a lot of messed up vets. I've watched them struggle with their issues while fighting a broken, uncaring system. I've been aware of many enlisted suicides over the years. I know when I was self destructing I was lucky to be in a really good financial position and have a caring and resilient significant other. Without those two things clearing paths for me (which has still been a disappointing, frustrating slog) I'm pretty confident I wouldn't be here right now. If I had to rely on the VA or any other "programs" I probably would have ended up scrambling my own brains about 4-6 years ago.
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Oh yeah, of course you prefer to render the rectangles like that, my mistake. I insist on the 3d terminology though :)
Judging by Marilyn Mugot's photography, I'd say somewhere in China.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/mar/02...
Wow, that homepage provides zero information on what the project is/does.

Much more info on wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS
It's a way to weed out those who aren't confident enough in their abilities. Apply anyway.
lite.twitter.com IS mobile.twitter.com - it's just a landing page that links you over to the mobile site.
Sorry, not familiar with that area. How metropolitan is that? When I say metropolitan, I mean something like downtown Toronto, where ridership averages about 3M people per day.
I was just thinking why not go the extra mile, I'd pay for using this though 1$/month - but I could also make it myself through tampermonkey or the api
Either somewhere in Asia or Berlin
Root – APIed bank account for developers
I know many practicing math PhD's who I wouldn't expect to remember Banach-Tarsky. Especially if you spend your time doing discrete math you really don't have much occasion to worry about the implication of AoC or non measurable sets. Heck I probably only remember due to giving lectures on it, rather than having taken them. Not that I'm really practicing much these days.

Math is a big place. Most of us will have at least heard of it, just because it is counter-intuitive and easy to describe. Some might only remember it as "oh, yeah, that sphere thing".
Inside the next Xbox: Project Scorpio tech revealed
Most of the launches are simple not competitive. SpaceX can not bid on Government contracts in China.

The actual commercial market for launches is getting taken over by SpaceX. The only thing that holding them back is launch cadence and their government contract requiring them to make launches (COTS, Commercial Crew, USAF and so on).

They are building more launch sites as well, so they are really just pulling away from the competition in that area.
This really only affects distribution through the Windows Store, correct? I don't anything saying the execution of console emulation software is now impossible on Windows 10.

While it is possible this is a slippery slope that leads to the case you are referring to. It's still not clear if it will ever reach that state.
A Neuromorphic Person Re-Identification Framework for Video Surveillance
That's pretty weird and questionable interpretation, since if I have a binary — I have the key, even if in some obfuscated form (even that isn't usually true with APKs though), but whatever, if it works for you — fine, then I have a solution to your problem.

Don't include API_KEY in the published source, include rot13(API_KEY).
I use the Windows Store for media apps, specifically Twitch and YouTube, because I find their UI and UX much better than the original websites. Plus I like the notifications and live tiles.

I think my favorite Windows Store app is KeePassReader* though, which adds Windows Hello authentication to my KeePass database. It's a very simple app, and isn't exactly easy on the eyes, but I like being able to swipe my finger or just look at my camera whenever I need to open my KeePass database.

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/keepassreader/9nblgg...
...why not? I'm not saying it's the correct business decision and there are pros and cons. But if Nintendo released an official Virtual Console for PC, Android, iOS, etc. (not their own platform) it'd sell like hotcakes if implemented and priced correctly.

One of the reasons they wouldn't do it is because emulators and ROMs are already rampant on PC and mobile (less so). So the idea of all of a sudden releasing a bunch of classic games in your pocket is heavily diminished.
>"In my opinion this is the problem of monopoly. US ISP don't have to compete among themselves to offer a better service as I learned recently."

This is true, in some cases there will be a duopoly where Verizon FIOS might exist but that's it. The really unforgivable part about all this is that these local monopolies uses public right aways to lay their cable that allows them to deliver service at all. This is because local governments must approve their charter to operate there. These local governments are bought and sold by these monopolies/duopolies the same way Washington is bought and sold by them.
Jesus woodchopping christ, this is parody right?

Did the author not see where his article would be posted? Is this some Tim and Eric level artistic dissonance? Or are we still that blind to our own shortcomings?

Being shown you are wrong is the great liberator. You get new options, and get to learn something. Lets hope.
This happen in my school in Ireland also - with false credentials.

This part of the story I really respect:

"Under Kansas law, high school journalists are protected from administrative censorship. “The kids are treated as professionals,” Smith said. But with that freedom came a major responsibility to get the story right, Smith said. It also meant overcoming a natural hesitancy many students have to question authority."