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You are just adding a lot of useless bureaucratic overhead. Are you sure that the problem you are trying to solve will not just be replaced with an even worse one?
I'm not American, and I'm not middle class. Thanks.
I recently had a round of interviews for a senior engineering position.

Luckily it was on hackerrank, but only as a way to store the exercise instructions with a timer.

The test itself was not terribly difficult, build a small mobile app (I am a mobile dev). It was still enough to demonstrate how you can architecture an app, good design patterns, clean code, etc

After that I had another round of interview with that same company.

I feared that ridiculous whiteboard was on the menu. One of the engineers reassured me when I inquired about the content of this interview : "we think that wb are bullshit, we just want to discuss".

In the end I was offered the job, with a really nice compensation package. I should mention that I live on another continent and did all these interviews remotely.

Is this a general trend in the silicon valley area ? or was I just lucky to stumble on companies that don't believe in whiteboard questions ?
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> most of your comments just seem to repeat the same old dynamic vs static linking debate that had been hashed out already for decades. There is no one right answer. Trade offs abound.

Rust doesn't let me make that trade off, it's made the decision for me.

> People who expect a stable ABI from Rust such that normal Rust libraries can be dynamically linked like you would C libraries would do well to adjust their expectations. It isn't happening any time soon.

I think it's the rustaceans that need to adjust their expectations, as long as this holds rust won't be a real systems language, it stands a better chance of unseating java than c.
Little different since one is an action, the other a state/symptom/result/outcome.

I guess there's an argument to be made against promoting/normalising activities that cause obesity, but I'd say current societal norms are set up to demonise smoking a lot more strongly.
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Well I don't really know. Maybe 5 kids is a trigger here in France.

But on a semi related subject, my wife and I decided to not put our kids in school this year and do home schooling.

To be well prepared, we asked people already doing it, joined Facebook groups of homeschooling parents nearby, etc...

The most frequent advice we had is to watch out when government will send someone to check out if everything is ok, as it's badly accepted in France to do homeschool. And they're known to try to corner you to get the kids back to school.

And a lot of parents think you're doing bad for your kids making this choice, so may be there is jealousy/angry involved.

But again, it's in France not Canada or US so it might be different.
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Why did you change the original NYT title, which is "Silicon Valley’s Politics: Liberal, With One Big Exception"?

What on Earth is "Far Left"? Surely Silicon Valley's politics are nowhere near Marxist or anarchist.

EDIT: apologies, you obviously didn't change it.
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> keep[...] the internet as democratic as possible and not let it be destroyed by corporate interests in the name 'terrorism prevention'.

Yups. Exactly this is what's going on in my opinion as well.
You are of course right, it's an exaggeration I shouldn't make, but it is something I've increasingly noted.
The chart in the fine article shows the "technology founders" are about half as libertarian as the general Democrat and nearly twice as likely to support redistribution - but hey, let's not call that or them far left.
How much does it cost to move to Postgres? How much does it cost to buy the assets?

How much of a halo do you get from writing a nice post about moving to Postgres? How much of a halo do you get from buying and open sourcing something cool?
If they side with moneyed corporate interests and management against labor then they aren't left wing.

The lack of an actual labor party in this country is a disaster, and is underpinning the wildly unpredictable and regressive nature of our current politics.
The problem was replication across the cluster and getting them to coordinate their values. We eventually did what you suggested in our dev environments so that we didn't lose our sanity. .
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I used to think that, but you'd honestly be surprised how many people it filters out successfully.

It is just an advanced version of FizzBuzz : even if it's not enough to determine whether someone is good or not, it definitely burns people that are not able to code at all. It also provide talking points for the interview afterward about coding style and all.

Of course, it's not sufficient, but it's just a stage among others if the interview is done correctly, and it's a useful one
I guess today maybe no, but 10-15 years later and after one or few terrorists attacks with standard narrative, we will get in situation where without government id you could not write a comment, like today in china. This is not happening because of need security, but because of people ignorance and government greed to control everything.
> There are so many programming languages, frameworks out there that are constantly evolving and companies have different demands.

An idea that I have thought of is to standardize on some programming language/frameworks/demands that are known to be supported for a very long time (15 years?). If you need something from this buffet, you are fine and have the advantages that this provides. If you have special demands, you are on you own - which is not a problem per se, but as all special demands this simply needs to increased risk or cost.
It'd be interesting to see their definition of "national defense"...
I am in my 40s and have a relatively safe job and not looking for a change.
A friend of mine told me to apply for a certain company and I did.
They asked me to free an hour one evening and they put me through hackerrank.
And I failed.
I failed big time.

My take away: Surely we all need to revise if we seriously want to apply for a job
yet it did feel like the screening was asking me to see how good I am at resolving small problems quickly.

Yet, my 25 years of experience told me that we don't need to solve problems quickly
we need to solve them rightly.
and that takes "mulling over"
I've been burned out at the office (recently) and at prior a while working at home. I was working 100+ hour weeks while at home because they decided to RIF everyone and I was basically working 4 jobs. It's possible to burn out at home, but it takes a lot more doing.

At home, you can get up and watch a show on TV for 30 minutes, or play a quick game or something to alleviate the stress. You can't do that at the office typically.
Non-EU readers should bear in mind that the presidency of the EU is much much weaker than that of, say, the US. It's rotated around the countries on a schedule, and has mainly agenda-setting authority.

That is, countries who hold the presidency will use it to try to get movement on some issues that they care about, but it doesn't have anywhere close to enough power to get something passed which the other member states do not agree with. Real power sits with the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament in various proportions.
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Completely agree.

When corporations are allowed to enforce the rules, they bend them so that the corporation profits. They also then 1984 the whole situation by using double-speak to explain the situation.

I once worked for a company that announced they were doubling our conmission rates from 5 to 10 percent.

They couldnt be happier to tell us all about how they were going to pay us more, so we quickly suspected something weird was going on.

Well that all was slowly revealed when 3 months later, commissions on deals were being "denied" in full. "Deal is too large." "Deal is not in your territory." "Deal is not on a commission elligible product."

So the rates were doubled. But 2x of $0 is still $0.
It was the NYT that changed it, not the poster on HN.

The NYT changes headlines constantly, it's actually sort of fascinating to watch in real time, which you can do by following this automated Twitter account: https://twitter.com/nyt_diff/status/905407322658402304
It's mostly virtue signaling as far as the eye can see.
This is maligned and dangerous. It has been shown that credentialing hurts the marketplace and consumers. Having a credential authority would not cause there to be a skill bar, it would just require all of us to pay money to a worthless authority.
If that's not what True Libertarians think, maybe it's time for some PR to explain to the public what it actually is?
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It exists: https://ncees.org/engineering/pe/software/

No one cares though.
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TL; DR summary: programmers... err.. software engineers discover that fundamentally most of the companies consider them to be be totally interchangeable, just like janitors are fundamentally interchangeable or models walking down the catwalk during the NY Fashion Week are interchangeable.

Since they did not save money for the twenty years that they have been paid quite well, they dont like the prospect.
Sure, but that said, no other DB Jepsen tested til that point necessitated the kind of gymnastics he had to do to get it to fail. It's pretty solid CS, and it's a shame the project had the end of life that it did.

[0] https://aphyr.com/posts/330-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-2-3-reconfigu...
Just want to say-- I will never come back to this site if it devolves into the political bull shit of reddit. If you folks want to reddit-ize HN, go for it, but be ready to reap what you sow.
> WAOW SUCH GREAT, UBI, AMAZE, BEST, SMART, PROGRESSIVE

Unhelpful and counterproductive rhetoric.
I love, love love my Windows desktop (home built BEAST for gaming) but anytime I'm doing work, I have my Macbook at my palms. Unless Apple continues to tank the Macbook (I currently have the Pro 2014 model) I'll never buy a Windows laptop again.
Chuckle. Same experience. As far as I can tell the estimated time is about as good as the Windows 3.1 file copy time estimation.
Oh wow, thanks! Apologies to GP.
Then what was it? Genuinely curious what happened here...
Thank for asking. Guadeloupe Island is now safe, without major damages, but the French northern islands (St Martin and St Barthélémy) have been heavily impacted.

Don't have much news by now, but I saw video feeds that were very concerning.

Stay safe, I wish you the best. And tell us if you're ok tomorrow.
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Note that Synthorn has absolutely no contact details available (and an anonymised whois) except an address to send them Ether. They have a promotional Facebook and Twitter, I suppose the SEC could subpoena them ...
Damn dude, awesome work finding this.

Completely changes the dynamic of the accusation above.

It seems NYT follows the "post now, edit later" approach
and they still call me paranoid ...
I don't know. I think this[0] qualifies as far-left tactics.

[0] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/street-artist-sabos-fa...
>> "When you have your own business, you have a little more flexibility," she says. "But I'll tell you one thing that's constant — that's eight hours, at least, of looking at the screen and sitting in the chair." <<

Above quote is from the case study at the end of the article. Just wondering about tablets/phones and moving people away from the PC with screen.

Anecdotal Observation 1: My daily journey involves a local train ride from a large main station. The inquiry staff no longer sit at desks in a counter/office. They have 'stands' around the concourse and use tablets to query the national timetable system. The same people help with the barriers when there are problems &c. They are moving most of the day.

Anecdotal Observation 2: Teaching: this time of year we are advising and assessing large numbers of prospective students. Used to be rows of PCs/monitors. Now again, tablets in use and colleagues just use their phones. Far more mobile and a lot less queuing up to see people &c.

Just wondering about 'business logic' applications on a tablet? Just do your stuff while walking about?
> I've never once seen such a program that actually is out of memory safe. Invariably the codepaths triggered by malloc returning null are never exercised.

sqlite takes care to correctly deal with out of memory conditions. It has explicit tests for that code too. See section 3.1, Out-Of-Memory Testing, of [1].

[1] https://sqlite.org/testing.html
That's good advise, but most companies are toxic, and they don't even understand why.

I personally think scrum has a lot to do with it, but there are many other things like cube farms and open workspaces.

A very dear friend of mine who is a high level manager (and used to be a developer) was extolling the virtues of open office and how it improves collaboration. He didn't understand that we collaborate maybe 1% of the time and code 99% of the time. Though open offices help that 1%, it greatly harms the 99%.
As someone from a country who has been a colony of a handful of other countries during its history, I understand and can relate to your argument.

Also, as someone from a continent that still has millitias funded by other countries, I find the idea of funding a militia appalling, specially if the purpose is not to at least try and save people, but to save cultural artifacts ...

That said, I think you are oversimplifying things a bit in your comment.

This part:

>Those people have a right to decide what to do about the destruction of their cultural artifacts, because they are people and have agency.

Think of how even in geographically small countries, there is often cultural heterogeneity, and you can see that it's not easy to say if those deciding to destruct some cultural artifact actually "own" it. I think this is specially important since cultural artifacts tell a culture's history (books are the most obvious example, but we are able to learn basic things about pre-historic cultures by looking at their non textual artifacts), and the aftermath of a war typically includes the winner rewriting history, which is something that destroying the loser's artifacts makes easier.

Let me finish with a quote I identify a lot with, from Lukas Ligeti[1]:
"It makes no sense to group people together according to superficial characteristics. There are no majorities in the world: we are, each and every one of us, a minority of one"

[1] "Secret Instruments, Secret Destinations", from ARCANA II
> Are there any HackerRank-like apps out there that go beyond simple code challenges?

What kinds of challenges to you have in mind?
We (the company I work for) use Codility for some of our roles. I think you can add your own tasks/questions.
Would love to hear more about how and with what you build that site.
So what is being 'stolen' is something that largely comes down to a 50% probability in most situations?

People like to say this, and cite statistics and measurements for it, but it's true: hitting a ball thrown by a major-league-caliber pitcher is one of the most difficult feats in sports.

For a good major-league-caliber fastball, the total time available, from when the ball leaves the pitcher's hand to when it's past the batter and no longer possible to hit, can be around 400ms. And even for well-trained professional hitters, the time necessary to make a decision and swing the bat far enough around to make contact is around 300ms.

That means a major-league hitter has essentially 100 milliseconds, after the ball leaves the pitcher's hand, in which to decide what to do. This means it's not possible to spend time watching how the ball moves; if you do that, it will already be past you by the time you make a decision.

So major-league hitters rely on a combination of whatever information they can get in that 100ms of observation on each pitch, plus whatever they saw just before (pitchers try their best to be consistent no matter what pitch they throw, but there can be visible differences in arm angle and grip which provide extra information), plus known patterns both of pitchers in general and of the specific pitcher they're facing.

And even with all that, the best hitter of all time -- Ty Cobb -- had a lifetime batting average of .366. A batting average of .400 or better in a single season hasn't happened in over seventy years.

So yes, any extra information is a big deal. Just knowing what type of pitch is about to be thrown is a huge advantage to the batter, because it provides so much more time to think about what to do and act on the decision.

As to your other questions: "stealing" signs is perfectly legal and has a long history in baseball, but as the article notes the rules forbid the use of technology to assist in it. The batting team generally can only do it when there's a runner on second base (able to look directly at the catcher and see the signs), and teams always switch their system of signs in that situation to try to make it more difficult.
Hmm, pretty sure you can add your own questions...

I like to add simple coding tasks, multiple choice stuff, and a free form text with 500 chars to explain something..
Site can't be reached at the moment. Anybody care to provide a TL;DR?
It is very interesting to find discussion on this. We have actually a group of friends who are all kinda connected with this same issue more or less. We have only recently started to discuss it; framing it "lazy smart" people. Part of our group never got back on track in life despite "high iq". The reality kinda came after people got to good universities and realised that you have to work to progress. Finding motivation to gradute seems impossible when you are used to get everything without effort.
I'm pretty sure there must be an API.

Businesses want to respond with a text immediately and provide a way for people to interact with the company even outside business hours.

What would be cool is a way for the app to hand over control to a manual WhatsApp user (i.e. the employee) if necessary and continue the conversation there.
I get idea that these questions are exactly same from that you get from clients and incompetent bosses, where you expected by other side to fill the missing bits and show your brilliant intuition to solve the right problem.

they are entertaining to play with(solve), though i haven't encountered any serious algo problems during my line of work in 15 years. my friend, game coder, always does.
> Is Riak so critical to Bet365 that the right move was to _buy the company_ versus switching to a different storage system?

Quite possibly, yes. Data has incredible inertia. Not only because of the storage system used, but also all of the years of ops tooling, application integration, etc. that surrounds it. I don't know anything about Bet 365, but if they had any non-trivial amount of their business data locked up in Riak then from a cost/risk analysis they may have decided that purchasing the company was the safest and cheapest option to protect their own company.
The problem isn't the velocity IMO, it's the endless grind that sprints create. Back when, we used to do quarterly releases (back when you would burn to a CD and ship it). Quarterly releases were pretty aggressive, but at the end of the release, we would celebrate. Biweekly releases are just insane and no celebration, just another sprint. Grind, grind, grind.
Real power sits with Merkel.
That's probably right, but in some areas SV politics seems much more left-leaning and extreme than anything seen in Europe: Diversity, Gender-identity nonsense and third wave feminism (things like making "meritocracy" a borderline fireable offense).

I guess it's not as simple and one-dimensional as one would like it to be ;)
> Children have much more personality. I am of the belief that this should be the case with kids too with proper parenting,

Agreed, but the key word here is "eventually." Humans are more complex and seem to require more reinforcement learning in some behaviors.

Sometimes there's just no quick calming down a three-year-old despite best efforts.
Big companies already spend a lot of time and money interviewing candidates to figure out if they should be hired. Credentialing will turn that into either a standardized test (which is known to be inferior) or simply require a degree (which will exclude too many good candidates).
True. One wonders what Estonia, or its government, has to gain from this, though.
This really doesn't surprise me. My experience with Riak (admittedly in 2012-2014) was that it did not live up to the hype. As strictly a key-value store, it wasn't bad, but toss in 2i, etc, and it quickly became problematic.

Open sourcing the software will surely be a good thing, though. I'm eager to see where it leads.
> it would just require all of us to pay money to a worthless authority.

Today these authorities are universities.
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In my experience with exaggerated statements like this, all kinds of more or less non-work related activities count as work for these people.

Example from my formerboss: weekend get-aways with clients involving alcohol binges, strip-clubs and prostitutes were "work" by his standards.
HackerRank and all those online coding challenges cater to a specific type of skill. Which is wholly learned by doing lots of online coding challenges. As such, they're not really a good barometer of skill in anything but doing online coding challenges.

I don't think anything I've done on a coding challenge has ever manifest into something useful at work. So to have it as a task in an interview process strikes me as a bit lazy.

However, for general brain exercise, they're good.
Looks a lot better but you probably need darker font...
Font is gray on soft white background (soft white is a big improvement) but now you prob need black font.
> Surely Silicon Valley's politics are nowhere near Marxist or anarchist.

Replace Marxist "bourgeoisie" rhetoric with "white males" and you have the ideology of Silicon Valley.
The integrity of the Win-tel platform is not preserved at all, yet games are still being sold there.
Far-left is a bit of a stretch for me, this sounds slightly to the right of Canada's big-tent Liberal party, which is centre-left on a radical day.

For reference, a far-left party is the ML party of Canada.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada_(M...

That doesn't remind me of Elon Musk for some reason...