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This is making me think that maybe I’ve been doing these wrong.

If someone says “don’t spend more than a few hours on it” then I assume that’s part of the task requirements. I’ll get as much done as I can in a few hours and put a TODO section in the readme. I assumed that the reviewer will go through the commit history and it’s a red flag if something that should have taken a few hours takes you significantly longer.

Perhaps this is the wrong approach as the last one I did I didn’t even get a response to my submission.

Of course, this all assumes that the interviewer has an accurate idea of how long it should reasonably take.
According to the article it is not sugar, but high-fat, high-sugar meals that do most of the harm. That is cakes and similar.
Unfortunately its the kind of culture most companies seem to get. The few that don't have that culture, like early Facebook or google, can skyrocket from getting actual talent, but even those companies start to devolve into the scripts once they get large enough unless there is a concerted effort to avoid it.

People are animals and animals are lazy so the path of least effort gets chosen the majority of the time, and that means going off of predetermined scripts.
Indeed, it almost makes me want to hire him, take his picture and share it with the world.
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Amazing writeup.
2017 remind me that life can punch harder than anybody, it can hit hard professionally, financially, and at the personal level.

You are not entitled to anything in life, you are not entitled to recognition, to success, to health or happiness. It reminded me that it takes so much work, so much pain, and so much luck to build something; and yet so little to see it crumble apart.

It also reminded that pain is temporary, no matter how long it last; you have to keep pushing forward.

Pain is temporary, but quitting lasts forever. In order to succeed you have to be willing to left everything on the table, to bet everything; to do whatever it takes to have a chance to achieve your dreams.
> No, I'm pretty sure users want more knobs or at least filter options.

Nah, 90% either don't or wouldn't use them if they were there.

Sure, if you ask people directly if they want more options, they'll say yes, who doesn't want more choices? But that's a different thing from actually using them when they're available. The vast majority of users for a utility service like a search engine just go with the defaults.
I have ditched google in favor of Searx, a metasearch engine that anyone can host

https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/

https://searx.me/

https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
The modern equivalent of this are “virtual communities” in the form of internal forums or distribution lists.

I’ve lost count of the amount of “community building initiatives” I am enrolled in automatically due to my role or background, and sometimes wonder what amount of useful work I would actually be able to do if I participated in half of them.
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Thank you all for your inputs and really interesting opinions and point of views. Appreciate it people :) I know mental toughness can't be learnt sitting at home reading a book, a combination of reading and maybe some physical, gruelling activities goes a long way in improving mental toughness. Putting yourself through that physical pain is a must.
> And why is some white dude in Oregon complaining about Kenyans? (Unclear.)

It's not unclear, it's because he isn't happy about them not keeping time properly, which is what the entire article is about!

> Punctuality is a sign of respect and goes a long way toward building trust and confidence. But must it be forced on the many Kenyans and other Africans who still believe in "African time"?

It doesn't need to be forced on anyone, but if they don't want to be respectful of others' time, or build trust and confidence, it's basically only themselves they're harming in the long run.

We have some of this in the UK as well. If people say a party starts at 7, they might actually mean "don't show up until 7.30". Personally I refuse to play such opaque games, and usually show up exactly at the time specified.
It was posted dec 11 2017, not dec 2011 :)
> No because atleast for Ethereum there will be a "point of no return", a number of blocks after which the blockchain history can no longer be altered except by the user manually switching chains.

The problem is this: the large entity (e.g. exchange), who just cashed out, will spend the proceeds on thousands of VMs, all sending its fraudulent chain to new peers connecting to the network. In this case it will be the “good” nodes’ word against a majority of fraudulent “exchange”-nodes.

> Additionally, the system will encourage users to swap and share which chain they are on so that fraudulent chains can be detected easily.

How is this supposed to work when the fraudulent entity has more funds than the honest nodes, with which it can purchase nodes who vote for its fraudulent history?
I have never seen a browser that requires the radix, and MDN specifically calls out that you should pass both arguments or you will get unexpected results. They wouldn't need to do that if the radix was required.

Now, should you treat the radix as optional? Absolutely not. I've got several commits on newly adopted codebases where I went through and explicitly used `10` as the radix anywhere `parseInt` was called. But is it technically optional? Absolutely.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/BnAiN8s.png
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While I agree with your sentiment, I don't think physical keyboards are a good solution either. Not having the smallest hands, I vividly remember trying to type on those tiny buttons of old and getting pretty frustrated, too.

I was thinking about switching from Android to Sailfish OS for a while now and quickly realized that my personal reason for Android lock-in is a keyboard called SlideType[1]. I really have to figure out how to write keyboards for Sailfish one day.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.latinsud.a...
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Who decides whether you've acted in 'good faith'? Could this mechanism be abused to burn perfectly valid stakes?
In Behasa Indonesia there is a phrase that is very close to this: "jam karet" — rubber time.
good advice, and add a different 'feature vegetable' each time
I interviewed a lot @google and read other people's feedback - a lot of those were super lazy write ups with questions like "guess what i'm thinking". Recruiting/hiring managers don't seem to be tracking any other metric other than "response time <2d" and interview "training" class was basically "don't ask these things or we might get sued".

That said, a lot of candidates also failed at very basic things (basic coding, cs trivia that everyone should know, experience questions, etc).

If you are really sure in your performance, my guess would be you just got unlucky with one or more interviewers as there seems to be a lot of randomness in the system and they just err on the side of "no hire".
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Only problem is: if Coinbase does this, they can offer a return on deposits — unlike exchanges who refrain from staking their users’ funds.

Additionally, Coinbase would be able to sell its future profits (from staking) in the futures market, and use the proceeds to honor an unexpectedly high demand for withdrawal.

But why would users want to withdraw? They’re making more money by having their funds deposited with Coinbase than if they stored it themselves.
>How is this supposed to work when the fraudulent entity has more funds than the honest nodes, with which it can purchase nodes who vote for its fraudulent history?

The answer is also for the previous part, ie, the "spend the proceeds on thousands of VMs.

The plan, AFAIK, is that users must pick a chain. The process is entirely in meatspace and subjective. So even if someone purchases a million dishonest nodes which have a wrong history, that doesn't mean shit if not enough people, real meatspace people, agree that it's the correct chain.

In case of a hostile takeover, this means starting a new chain is also super easy and can be done in a single day without any additional loss.
actually I moved back to friends and family. But it does get lonely sometimes when you don't have a strict schedule and lots of free time when people are locked in at their 9-5 jobs..
Very heart warming article, glad to hear about empirical evidence that basic income leads to fruitful, productive lives.

Personally, I believe that basic income would be a net good if 99% of basic income recipients wasted money on booze, as long as there’s a 1% doing interesting things with their lives.
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Nope, in Sweden
In Hawaii we call it Hawaiian Time.
No. It's more like to implement ranger's functionality using neovim's rplugin framework. Vim8 support would require other framework such as nvim-yarp.
This is an excellent idea! I often 'save' packaging from Amazon in case it comes in handy but honestly don't usually find a use for it. The best I've done is to reuse the thin packages as padding for devices in backpacks and cases when travelling.

If this forum existed I would definitely use it.
> I just read the post and there are points where it flat out lies about what a source said.

Thank you. I was just about to comment the same. But I suppose accurately quoting the Wired article didn't support their opinion, so they decided to make up their own conclusion in the Wired article and ignore the one actually written in the article.
What those environments offer is not quite what Smalltalk is capable of.

Imagine that your hot code replacement is also possible at any level of the JVM or CLR.
The idea is that, if a staker refuses to include a proof (digital signature) that it has staked on multiple chains, or double spent coins, the network will fork the chain to a new one which includes this proof.

How the network will reach consensus on then following this new chain is not clear to me.
It's related to a benefits reform designed to cut costs by giving people less and making them jump through more hoops to get it, without providing any additional support.
Sure, all the SNES RPGs, fighters and platformers were extremely original, every single one of them :) And Nintendo first party games of course. So many original games. Mario Party 7 was a blast and nothing like Mario Party 6!

My main point, though, was about the impact. GTA3 was a revelation for millions of people who have not even heard of GTA1 and GTA2. Saying it's "a sequel" is as meaningful as saying FF XI is a sequel. Millions of people first online shooter was Halo (2), not Quake. Millions of people first MMO was WoW, not UO. MGS2 was the game people could not believe it's real time, it was nothing like MGS1 on PSX.

In the 6th generation games became mainstream. I dare you to name a movie, where adults play games, made before 1999. I don't recall a single one. After 2000 it's a common scene where young and not so young adults play games. The main guy in House of Card plays games. This alone makes the 6th gen special even if you don't care about all the original games it produced.

PS. Actually, an adult plays game in Clerks, though the scene is to show how nerdy he is.
US is hiring lots of former soldiers as LEO.
Also the training for the soldiers is not to break the human instinct not to kill (there is nothing like that), but to follow orders, react quickly under pressure, reduce the risk of panicking and to use superior tactics for killing the enemies. We train soldiers to be effective killing machines, nothing else. And many become LEO after retiring from the army.
It's not the scalling that locks you on GAE. It's about the proprietary services. I have 32 micro services, all depending by datastore, task queues etc. The only contigency plan that someone could implement is to do not use GAE in the first place. Almost 70% of the app code is really just about different ways to index/store and return data. Rewriting all the datastore ops is just like rewriting the whole application. With GAE you get stuck and there is little you can do! I had to choose between moving to their "flex" version or just dumping all the code and start over. Starting over is not an option so I'm still on GAE paying the flex prices. Now I pay regardless if the microservices are running or not. If it would be that simple to just move it all to an open source stack you can be sure I would do that.
Wii U are XboxOne are recent gaming consoles that failed to meet the expected sales target and got little momentum. And WinPhone 7-10 was a recent smartphone gaming platform that failed to gain traction.
- Read a ton. In about six months I'll be applying for a masters degree programme in literary studies, and from this year september I'll have about an academic year to stabilise the topic of my thesis. But as a rather late-comer to literature (I was all about IT my late teens, interested in humanities when I was 19-20, and re-started undergrad education in the faculty of letters a bit later), I find my knowledge rather shallow. I've been reading lots of books, both fiction and things like major philosophical works, ancient literature, the scriptures, art history, theory of art, etc., but much slower than the rate I'd like to maintain. This year I'd like to read about a hundred books, and complete reading the scriptures (I'm reading it cover to cover, takes some time...), the Odyssey, the Histories, and maybe a couple more. The coming 6-7 months will probably be the last ones where I can postpone working as a 24-yrs-old, so I must make good use of them.

- Fix my sleep cycle. For lots of time I've been sleeping every now and then, randomly, and the last months I feel like I can't do so anymore, especially can't wake up with little sleep. I should get to sleep more regularly.

- Learn at least one of French or Portuguese. Certify my knowledge of English and Italian (both foreign languages I know).

- Do some travelling, both to shake off some stress and to find a cosy place for my PhD.
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2 hours late is a bit extreme but I personally think that being late by up to 30 minutes is acceptable in most cases. I really don't mind at all if someone is 20 minutes late and I appreciate being given the same flexibility.

When it comes to real life and you factor in transport delays and other life factors it's not realistic to expect people to be exactly on time all the time.

The attitude in the west seems to be that if you arrive late then it's disrespectful. I feel that expecting me to be exactly on time to non-work events is even more disrespectful because the stress of trying to make it on time makes my cortisol levels go up and probably shortens my life expectancy.
On the other hand, if you are a woman Tinder is an unbeatable proposition.
> But is there still a blockchain?

Yes.

> How is it secured?

By the consensus of the stakeholders. Think git and signatures (blockchains are basically a degeneration of that), people agree what master is by signing the "master" commit, then everybody goes from that.

The proof of work of e.g. bitcoin is trust-less, but if you have trust (because you're working with a small group and you have legal regs or whatever) you don't need it, you just need a predefined quorum of stakeholders to agree.
You can never force your employers or subcontractors take pride in their work. From experience it's mostly an issue of how the hiring organization views itself, or the guy/gal in charge of it.
I am in my mid 30s, started my professional career in 2008. Hard to tell if when is a good time for doing it. My feeling is I should have done it earlier but I guess it depends on your situation. Maybe if you have an active social life and hobbies you love it will be easier at any point. If you have worked a lot and over long time I think friends/hobbies can fade, and it will be easier to fall into loneliness/depression if you quit working.

But, I think doing it early (say after ~3 years) has the advantage of settling/deepening the understanding of your work. Often the early years are super hectic and you try to be your best, neglecting things like mindful reflection. I believe sabbatical can help this, kind of like how sleep organizes and "cleans up" thoughts/memories. We need both the short sleep and "long" sleep.
To evaluate that I'd look at the effect on the kids of the 99%. If it enables their parents to drink a bunch more than they would have otherwise, it might not be a net positive, even including the 1% who use the money wisely.

I'm slightly suspicious of the self-reported drinking levels. I'd be afraid that the aid recipients might fear having the money taken away from them (no matter how much they're assured otherwise) if they report their true amounts of drinking or other behavior they assume the study organizers don't approve of. Do surveys of people who drink typically reveal true results, when further investigation is done?

The incentives here are so painfully slanted. Is there a B Team investigating this adversarially? Ideally this study would be done by researchers who aren't true believers in basic income. If it really works, it works when those carrying it out don't believe in it.

Especially considering that if this does get implemented globally, a big percent of those running the show will be bored bureaucrats, not people passionate about the fate of the impoverished.
> Is this strictly superior to PoW?

No. It's more efficient and simpler, but it requires a somewhat trusted network of good-faith actors.

Think of a git repository where the "core team" decides which commit is the new master by signing them, if a quorum (could be 51%, could be 66, whatever) agrees on a commit, it's the new master's HEAD. That's what a PoS is.
Yes, I am a great believer that setting and achieving tough physical challenges can do wonders for your mental toughness. A marathon for example is well within the physical capabilities of most people, but many have not got the mental toughness to see the training through - getting up at 5.00am and heading out in the rain and dark of November is pure mental toughness. When tackling a modest mountain like Snowden or Scafell Pike in foul weather conditions it is primarily mental toughness that keeps you going when hail is lashing your face and all you want to do is go home and throw some logs on the wood-burner. You can build that mental toughness though just as you can your leg muscles.
Generally I just go by a greedy algorithm of reading or listening to the currently most appealing thing, which keeps changing based on my mood and energy levels and what I find through reddit threads and other serendipitous discoveries.

I did find a great new podcast recently: omega tau science & engineering podcast. I'm looking forward to listening to that in the new year. It's a long form (2 hours+) podcast taking a single sci tech area and interviewing an expert on it, without shying away from details.

In books, I think I'll be reading more of the Very Short Introductions series from Oxford press, and also more of web fiction (including fan fiction). I was impressed by how effectively the VSI books (at least most of them) convey a large amount of understanding in that small space.

I also discovered Mother of Learning (web fiction) and Brutal Harry/Harry Potter and the Natural 20 (fan fiction) in 2017, and realized there's a whole new form of fiction content that I'd been missing out on. I think (and hope) I'll be finding more of these this year.
Very true. Edit distance is well formalized, wheres defining a mutation on a business operation is not (though it would be super interesting to think about). So yeah, totally a fuzzy analogy.
> So the jersey was manufactured in China, sent to the UK, and shipped to Germany. The advertising company is based in the states (like Facebook or Google). Which country should Facebook/Google pay taxes to?

Germany, where the sale happened. The other countries are transit countries, and the intermediaries are paid accordingly (e.g. shipping & handling fee for the UK company), so their taxes. This is very well defined in international commerce. In the EU, when you ship abroad and you get a review by the tax admin, you have to prove the goods left the country, otherwise you pay the VAT (sales tax). These international rules are very well defined by the WTO and harmonising laws by the EU.

On the other hand, politicians should not blame these companies because they use the loopholes. Legislators allow these to happen, and the legislators job is make better laws that are not allow to e.g. transfer money into or have direct or indirect relationship with tax heavens. It is hard to blame Google and Facebook, when the royals use tax heavens to stash their cash, or Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the EU's EC, made Luxemburg a tax heaven when he was minister of treasury, finances then prime minister of Luxemburg. The fish stinks from the head.
I've never heard of those algorithms you mention, are you able to give a brief description of them and how they are superior to PoS?
> PoS has the benefit that the network can simply cause the attacker to lose their funds and no longer have a stake.

How will the network reach consensus on this? Why is it assumed that a well-coordinated network of decentralized nodes will exist independently of the attacker, and that this honest network partition will be able to reach consensus on which chain to follow?

> Each time the attacker attacks, the network will force them to lose their stake, and their money.

Again, how will this honest network partition coordinate their efforts to reach consensus on which chain to follow?

It seems like in all these scenarios, coordination by honest nodes is assumed, without giving any explanation as to how the nodes are able to reach consensus on which chain to follow of the many valid chains in existence.
Interesting to hear results in the field.

My question is how does that transfer to other environments? Do the results at $22 a month in Kenya translate to the results at $1000 a month in the US? There's a lot more interesting things to buy with a $1000 in New York than there is with $22 in a village in Kenya. It's also a different society, different people. Maybe more religious, etc.

Just throwing out a stupid idea: Kenya's population is 47 million. To give all of them $22 a month (ignoring age cutoffs), unless I'm doing the math wrong would be just under $13 billion a year. If some really wealthy people really want to test this, it's not impossible.

Unlike the article's repeated claim that this is the "greatest myth" (it's really annoying how news articles editorialize with untestable statements like that), the biggest issue is still cost. How do you realistically put together and pay for a program that can become policy in the US? It's the 3 trillion dollar question.
Heheh good one. I thought my plan to walk at least 10,000 steps a day for 365 days was quite a challenge. I can't help thinking that eating 777 types of fruit might be the biggest challenge there though! I've travelled pretty widely and am a great fruit lover, but would be surprised if I've eaten more than 100 types of fruit!
Obviously fine when there’s a reason. Drives me crazy when there isn’t.

For example, I’ve been asked to join a meeting (online), I join, organizer is 10mins late, spends another 5mins trying to get the conferencing system working. At this point, I’m generally super annoyed. As a programmer, there’s not much of value I can do with that 15mins. I’ve also lost another 5mins because I’ve made sure to log in early so I don’t keep you waiting. I do find it very disrespectful.