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With all due respect, I hear what you mean, but further supporting an interview system so divorced from actual problem solving (because most everyone who really really wants a job just endures the empty tediusness and memorizes these algorithmic puzzles from CTCI and Interview Cake and other sources) just enforces a kind of innane candy-empty arms race just like the SAT did, before it was clear that there were proven ways to master it. (the SAT has become just another pay wall at this point) The ultimate effect of this race is to render every programmer with the money and time to practice this equal. It is, forgive me, an infinite loop (sorry) -- and the bar will just get higher and new innane hoops will be added to the performing monkey obstacle course. Then, employers will be (or already are) selecting for a kind of navy seal squad of pedantry-- coders who like to submit and follow directions and behave themselves. Creative problem solving requires a bit of the rebel/subversive spirit. These kinds of interviews may test for an intrepid spirit. But honestly, There is no more intrepid spirit than that of an actual well-programmed machine. This popular interview method reveals that we are merely looking for programmers to be as similar to intrepid, well-programmed machines as possible. It results in machine-like workers working on machines. In effect, perhaps, the blind leading the blind. Is that what we want? I could be wrong, but I think we need to more highly value what humans bring to the task/process/team that computers can't. It seems less nihilistic, anyway. Or do we not know what that is? Maybe that is the real problem. Ironically, so many job ads say they are looking for "passion" in their programmers. Passion is at odds with what they select for. I wonder if the employers even realize this. My puzzle for them is: Given n programmers (all have memorized CTCI etc) ... so how do you decide what to select for and how would you implement an efficient, blind process that is more likely to include a diverse array of programmers who could work together hapily?
Not a VS enterprise shop, sadly. Don't think I've ever worked for anyone prepared to pay for it! It does sound enormously cool. Does it also handle one of my favourite problems: when a method fails because a constructor parameter was wrong, it's pretty hard to rewind.

With that said, VS Pro still has one of the best debuggers on any platform. To the extent that I think C# developers sometimes cut corners because the debugger helps so much.
Check out kiwix.org they have all the dumps and readers. Even full text search works for many archives
Eto.Forms if you're going cross-platform.
George Carlin joked that every group that made it in America had its own magazine to show for it. I suspect industry conferences are the business version of that :)
Ahm, are you seriously offering those 'articles' as a serious defense or counter argument?
Dead like Perl?
Stroustrup brought sanity those of us that need to touch C based APIs, Hejlberg designed Java as it should have been done properly.

No need to apology for them.
read the comment again.

material is engineered to last, not decompose. in the sea Or land.

yet people use it every day. and when those news show up they show shock at a perfectly predictable outcome. then proceed to continue to use said product.
Yes I suppose it would. But if I had to choose (and I really hope I never do) I'd rather have silicon tetrachloride spilled in my town than nuclear waste.
It's really weird, because this is literally lower quality of life than USSR circa late 70s. Sure, we had really crappy and tiny in-unit washing machines (http://pics.rbc.ru/img/cnews/2007/09/04/41a.jpg) - but most people did have one. We didn't have anything like a laundromat.
When I lived in the US, the lack of in-unit washing machines was quite unexpected. I had to pay $2 to use the shared (between 2 apartments) machine even though we as tenants paid the electric and water bills.
Once you have the concept of user-defined aggregate types that are meaningful to the semantics of your VM (which C and C++ definitely do), then you're pretty far away from the machine. The difference between the C VM and the .NET VM is not nearly as wide as the difference between the native instruction set and the C VM.
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Hi,
maybe rclone + https://github.com/rhummelmose/rclonesyncservice
They are finally fixing it with .NET Native and CoreRT, but to enjoy them you need to target UWP or .NET Core apps.
Seems like they took the hint from haskell :) good job. We have WAI (https://www.stackage.org/lts-9.0/package/wai-3.2.1.1) a common interface for multiple HTTP Web Servers. It's very useful, and a rich ecosystem of middleware has flourished.
> China is planning to block VPN at the protocol level starting in February.

China has been banning various VPN protocols since forever, all working VPN software I'm aware of uses their own homegrown circumvention mechanism. However, these still work with the OS level VPN integration to reroute all traffic. (At least on Android, I assume it's similar for iOS.)
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I would try to build a product myself.

Being a developer for a company is pretty much tedious. I have many years of experience and would definitely trade it for a finance job(something I deeply enjoy, portfolio management etc) if I could.
Sorry, I was a bottom tier grunt and not privy to any management decisions.
I feel strongly that none of the VC investors in Reddit actually use Reddit regularly.
Do you have any links or a succinct explanation of how it works, then?
Ah right, thanks. I didn't know that :)
I used to drop my shirts off at the cleaners but now that most of my shirts are "wrinkle free" [1] I just iron the occasional normal shirt.

[1] L.L. Bean sell "wrinkle free" cotton shirts that you just hang up when they come out of the drier. They stay pretty wrinkle free even in a suitcase.
> globally

That's why I said 'for their countries'. In most of the West, LGBTQ discrimination is decreasing. Because if you look globally, then all sorts of innocent people are at risk , and the need for privacy is obvious - look at China or Russia. But the people making 'nothing to hide' arguments live in the here and now - sure, gays might need privacy in Russia, but we're not Russia lol
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Site looks broken to me. Using Chrome on Linux.

>There are 0 people here (NaN have typed stuff).

I'm also getting JS errors: "Uncaught TypeError: Object.entries is not a function connection.onmessage @ (index):403".
> Doctor classifies it under a broad diagnosis requiring little tests and you're screwed for life.

I don't understand. Can you clarify what you're saying?
>Only when that excuse involves some kind of foreign culture do we separate it out of the morass of all domestic violence into a scary new "honor crime" category.

There's nothing new about "honor crime". We had that in Europe, by Europeans, for ages, and it was a common enough practice up until quite recently (up until the 50s or so). There are lots of studies about honor crimes and the relevant cultural notions behind them.

As for the cultural connection is in there by definition. The "honor" part implies a cultural impetus about what's "honorable" and how a daughter/son/wife/etc should behave, that is not the same as the personal motives (e.g. jealousy, feeling of inadequacy, etc) for general domestic abuse.

In other words, it's a special case of domestic abuse, with it's own, long, history.

And it's by no means invoked only "when that excuse involves some kind of foreign culture". It might seem like that to someone from a place with no major cultural history of "honor" codes and "honor crimes", but in several cultures in Europe, e.g. in Spain, Italy, Greece, etc., honor crimes were a thing (and occasionally pop up still), and we still clearly differentiate them from domestic abuse, have different terms for them etc. In our own country and culture -- no second culture involved.

(Wikipedia: "Honour in the Mediterranean world is a code of conduct, a way of life and an ideal of the social order, which defines the lives, the customs and the values of many of the peoples in the Mediterranean moral") -- as a mediterranean, this is quite accurate.

It has been abandoned for the last 5-6 decades to virtual non-existence, but it's coming back recently because people come from places where this is still acceptable: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghanistan-wom...
If that VPN profile is limited to well-known VPN protocols, there is no possible combination of settings that gets you past the Great Firewall, a VPN app needs to add their own or it won't work.
The "Racket VM" is designed from the ground up for other languages to be built on top of it (hence the #lang line at the beginning of every file) so it would likely be much better. Hackett[1] is a Haskell-like lang built on top of racket, for a nontrivial example.

[1] https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett
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If you go to the listing of all Google extensions (the URL you linked) and open the "Chrome Sign Builder" Extension, go to Related -> "More from this Developer" you will find the User-Agent Switcher for Chrome. So it does seem legit.
Excellent book.

If nothing else, the chapter intros are definitely still relevant(informative and hilarious at the same time).
Apple fails to end lawsuit claiming it 'broke' FaceTime
I should have said as last line: A creditor gives debt for guaranteed interest and may get something to say, but usually not as long as you pay on time.
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Pump & dump is roughly the following:

1) Be rich/famous enough for people to pay attention to what you do

2) Pump a bunch of resources into something (company, stocks, whatever)

3) Everyone concludes there must be value, because you're investing your own cash

4) Others start investing, increasing the value further

5) You sell (dump) your stake at the new price before everyone realises they've invested in something worthless.

Say you invest $1 million in $1 shares and the extra investment/interest from others raises the share price to $1.20, you sell everything and get $200k profit for no work. Everyone else is left holding shares which turn out to be worthless.
That's simply not true - equity analysts can cover anywhere between 5 and 500 stocks, do you really think they have the time or skill set to track all of that? It really is laborious, grueling work.

If you look at the possible returns the equity market is going to make from a stock in a dollar value, and how much research spend is as a percentage of that, you'll quickly see it doesn't pay for much.

You can tell simply by looking at the broker research - that's probably the extent that analysts take things.

The big stocks obviously have a lot of it happening. (eBay listings, airline pricing etc is obviously touted a lot)

But once you start to go down to the mid caps, you enter a void where there isn't much heavy data focused research done, and it's very possible you can have a better gauge of the business than any other investor on the planet once you pull out this data out.
May I refer you back to

>> If you’re not looking at the public chain, you’re wasting your time

> I disagree. Not having a single point of failure (one place that can get hacked) is valuable.

I.e. if your chain isn't public there are benefits to using it.

If you suddenly say the same benefits can be obtained with kafka or a relational database, you will be introducing proof of something... Which means you'll now have a blockchain / distributed system based on a relational database. Which comes with the limitations imposed by the CAP theorem.

The most popular version of event sourcing produces such a high throughput, because immediate consistency is sacrificed. I'd like to see what the author proposes in a production system. Global rules would not be enforceable (e.g. no balance under zero), unless throughput is sacrificed to allow for immediate consistency.
I don't, but I'd like to. Most of the online documentation on Foxpro is old, and doesn't convey the magic that I've seen happen with it. I'd love to see some combination of Delphi with Foxpro, probably with LISP syntax and Qt bindings. And a little bit of sugar from haskell and kona languages.

What made Turbo Pascal great was the help system. For every single standard library function, it had a snippet of code that you could cut, paste, run, and tweak.
What is the purpose of the parent comment? To score a point? To show us all the commenter is smarter than the vulgus?

It passes the "gratuitous negativity" test to me. The same point could have been made without the condescension.
Parsing would get into policy choices this crate doesn't want to make, like DoS protection (max request size, mid-request timeouts, etc), and often is intertwined with reading data from IO, which this crate definitely doesn't want to get involved in.
We had the complete opposite experience - we ran a tiny ad buy when the platform had just opened up, and the effect was amazing. The community embraced us and for years afterwards, people shared it in comment threads throughout reddit.

You have to make something they want, and you have to engage with them in the comments section as a redditor. If they feel pandered to, it's going to backfire. I see a lot of ads on there that seem like try-hard pandering.

It's certainly more difficult to use well than most ad platforms, especially for bigger companies.
Tesla's new Solar Roof is actually cheaper than a normal roof
It isn't science, or engineering, because many of the things that count in computing defy measurement :

- code quality
- software productivity
- expected time between failure
- tolerance to error
- expected life in field
- usefulness to users

Because the science and engineering cultures of computing have failed to address these effectively, or even create cultural norms that support their development, a craft culture has evolved instead. Coders are artizans rather like clock makers in the 16th century.
The Wire's creators were a local reporter and a former cop, and the series is praised for its realism, so there's nothing odd about that: their series was just about problems that existed in real-life Baltimore.

If anything, they only made these issues better known through their work.
I don't see how type aliasing negates anything of what I am saying. Types are an abstraction but C++ allows you to extract its pointer, to make a sizeof() of it, to do pointer casting and arithmetics.

You can go low level with most high level languages, what sets C++ apart is that using low-level instructions have generally zero overhead. ptr2 = static_cast<uint8_t*>(ptr)+5; pretty much maps to the assembly code you would expect.
Sweden and the UK seem roughly the same to me. The main streets of large cities are perhaps a bit dirtier in England, but the parks in Sweden are far worse when people leave all their trash for the bottle collector (not just the bottles).
These days getting a 4kb image into the blockchain would cost you around 44 USD.

i.e. 4096 x 200 satoshi fee = 819200 satoshis about .00819200 BTC.

Add approximately a 50% overhead in the way you would need to store that image and you're looking at about .016 BTC.
That's the point: C++ allows to go pretty high on the abstract side, but it gives all the tools to map how the high level abstractions are implemented on the low level side.
In the past, interviewing.io was free for anybody to try (it was when I looked at it three years ago) and if somebody hasn't looked at it recently they might not know when the situation has changed.
I haven't used their app, but I use the desktop site with the custom subreddit CSS option disabled because otherwise I wouldn't be able to tolerate it. Even /r/webdev is more usable with the default styles, and the ones that disable downvoting are downright offensive. If they're just cleaning up that side of the fence, it could be an improvement.
Firefox for Android also has built-in tracking protection. This will only block ads that track you, but wink.
https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/837735473745289218
Another likely factor related to the high Mormon population is the correspondingly high stay-at-home mother population, for whom MLM looks like a good opportunity to have a career while still being at home for their families most of the time.
I read this

What happens if we have the number 256 in an 8-bit unsigned
integer (1111 1111 in binary) and we add 1? The answer
(257) needs a 9th bit (1 0000 0000).

and I didn't read any further. I don't think many interviewers would be eager to continue after hearing that, either.
Have you tried Racket?
So you're able to jerkily refuse students to come and learn on patients, but you can't refuse specialists appointments (and these unbearable doctors keep doing their job, trying to do prevention by discouraging people from drinking and smoking !), even when you knew that this case was helpless ?

I understand it is painful to lose a parent and see them in such distress, but I really don't get patients/families who
turn into salt mines when the unevitable happens. Some patients are very willing to sollicitate many specialists in hope for good news, no matter how unlikely they are, and hold praticians responsible for what is often more of a patient/family's own unability to deal with [diagnosis]. Good luck with your grief.
To see something that acts like a point of light, size doesn't matter at all. Glowing objects are visible even when their area is a small fraction of a pixel. But your chances of noticing occlusion are much lower.
I would just add one other idea as no one has mentioned it.

Although not "part-time" as such if you can't get part-time or contract work there is another approach - mini-retirement.

The basic idea is this: these days you almost never work for one company for ever. So, work somewhere for, say, two or three years, then take a year out. If you ram down your expenses and save hard during your two or three year stint you should be able to afford to do this.

A mini-retirement can be of almost any duration you like. Before I went contracting I took several, ranging in length from three months to one year.

You need to plan carefully, but you will find the break of great benefit. My productivity after returning from a mini-retirement was breathtaking - I was like a completely different person.

If you want to stay with the same company discuss having a sabbatical - if they say "no" screw them - you are better off with another company.

Reading this comment thread and previous threads on HN I think there is a lesson here for HR departments in software companies - why are you running your engineers ragged when they would be so much more productive if they had more time off? I guess the old 40-hr week mentality has not quite caught up with modern developments...
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Totally agree. I've worked for several big corporations and they are extremely inefficient; as a software dev you could do nothing all day and nobody would say anything... I think sometimes it's actually better FOR THEM if you do nothing all day than add more code to the growing pile of over-engineered garbage that they're building (and which will need to be rewritten)...

Big companies are so entrenched in their over-engineered ways that they develop very low expectations about productivity.

I mean, if you look at Facebook; does anything actually change? No, it looks pretty much the same as last year - 5000 Facebook engineers working on it full time for a year and there is no noticeable, meaningful improvement.

I don't know if these big tech companies are hiring all these unnecessary software developers out of duty, for competitive advantage (just draining the talent pool) or what else but it definitely looks like a bubble.
Western people object to a lot of that, too.

Here, we're objecting to Apple's behaviour.
At some point in the (very) near future, we'll all be forced to realize that the deck is stacked against you if you're black in America.

It's just one of those inconvenient truths.
How does your friend deal with Processes, OTP, Supervision trees and so on?

I'm a huge Elixir fan, but always thought it would be a hard first language because of OTP, the benefits of which are kinda hard to appreciate without some experience making production software. Happy to be wrong on that though.
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I don't know why people that love Apple find it so hard to admit that ultimately Apple first and foremost care about money. (And that's ok!)

That's _all_ that this issue is about at the end of the day.
I can see this as a way to configure IoT devices more easily. For example, setting up a new printer is often a hassle; using a tiny, barely workable, touch screen and an inefficient menu system is no fun. Imagine you could just plug it in and your smartphone comes to life with a nice GUI. It could even pre-configure it for you. Another example is Amazon's Alexa devices. Currently, you have to push buttons and install a custom app on your phone and it can be very confusing.

The classroom examples also ring true to real world experiences. My wife is a teacher and has used several different proprietary "voting" devices in the past to great effect. However, they all used different hardware/protocols and didn't integrate with their current environment at all. This year they are moving to Chromebooks and my hope is that Nearby Connections might provide an "open" foundation on which a new breed of apps can be built.
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Kudos to your manager. He or she knows how to keep someone loyal for life. Suggesting a holiday is a rare thing for a boss to do. Most can't see beyond burning down the backlog.
It is still for personal use, but I really hope that by the end of the summer I'll have something ready for public consumption
I tried to build my app server as a library and a framework, but to hot-deploy code you need a framework.

Also if you want to offer leverage in distribution and scalability you need a framework.

https://github.com/tinspin/rupy
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Humans went back into the plant not knowing if it was going to explode. Whether they survived is not the issue. It's that they had to do it. Think 9/11 firefighters.

You're constantly reminded of Fukushima because the disaster is still ongoing. An earthquake happens, people die, and we get over it. It's the ugly side of mother nature, and we get over it. A nuclear disaster happens, and it's a shit storm. Stories of incompetence, greed, shame, conspiracy, tragedy, and betrayal. It's the ugly side of human nature. And we can't get over it. Like the several radioactive isotopes that have a half-life of 30 years and remains in the environment for decades, it continues to be a problem, and a reminder of the worst of ourselves.

You don't get to decide who gets offended. Justifying offending people based on what you did or didn't see, just shows you lack empathy. If you don't, I would choose my words more carefully.
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