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This is why I say it hurts businesses too.

If they're interviewing people and giving them trivia questions, they fundamentally don't understand the job.

We keep docs open all day. That's what browser tabs are for. Even seemingly basic stuff. Too much to keep fresh in memory.

I don't remember libtmux's API (a library I created). How do you expect me to remember python standard libraries I never used?

It's futile to explain to the interviewer - no matter how gently - that it's not the way it's done. That's being a prima donna. That's upstaging them, and going to be taken as a slight.

Part of the reason I'm passive in interviews is they already googled me (even if they don't mention it). They know I can program. If they're throwing curve balls at me, I ask myself if this is someone I want as a colleague. Is this someone who would take my technical advice.

I leave the interview with a sense of relief I don't have to live through the hell of a nightmare boss or toxic environment. Like a MoBA game, this is the chance to dodge early.

Screening can works both ways.
False. Berkshire Hathaway has no dividend.
The problem with private spaces is the pricing is out of reach of the vast majority of early-mid-stage startups since it is only available under the enterprise model.
That's a good question. It comes down to how much you want to control the devops vs how much you want someone else to handle it for you.

App Engine is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) which generally means a lot of things are done for you. You give App Engine the code, and App Engine builds it, deploys it, scales it, monitors it, applies OS patches, and generally provides a bunch of related services for you.

Compute Engine is more infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) which means the service gives you VMs, and you handle installation, build, deployment, and setting up load balancing, scaling, monitoring, etc. the way you want.

There are also hybrid products that fall somewhere in the middle. Kubernetes Engine is an example. Indeed, you can locate most hosting platforms somewhere on this spectrum.

Note also that there are trade-offs specific to Elixir as well. PaaSes generally have to be opinionated about application architecture. Most PaaSes assume a stateless web application well suited for container-based deployment, which runs somewhat counter to Erlang's stateful services and hot code swapping. If you're writing a typical web app (say, using Phoenix) then a PaaS like App Engine will often work very well. But if you are doing something different and managing persistent nodes and processes, you may need to control deployment yourself, which makes a lower level service like Compute Engine more useful.
I read and write at about HSK 5 right now. My oral is not at that level. I often dont hear the correct tones, nor speak the correct tones. I love handwriting characters! Every day I try and learn one new character. Every week I review the characters I learned that week and write over and over as many sentences as I can think of. Each month I use one Sunday to try and write the 1500 most commonly used characters to see how many I can remember. (https://store.mandarinposter.com/shop/1500-character-mandari...). My wife thinks I use entirely to much paper. :-)
Cop in my family. Everything about the "blue wall" frustrates me to no end.

Instead of corrupt junk like this, I would much prefer what the US military culture has evolved, recently covered on 99% Invisible[1].

A "get out of jail free" card is ridiculous on its face, but even worse, it's effectively a joke which is extremely sobering if you think about it.

I have a cop in my family and I see what entitled attitudes are adopted by his wife when she is pulled over for her illegally tinted windows and then acts like she is too good to get a ticket because she is "in the club".

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/coin-check/
Can you share insight on how intensive of a task this is?
Can't you transfer them to another wallet and sell via another means? I agree that's lame on their part, but you should be able to work around it.
Historically churches and other community groups, including the Masons, would help in this regard. It appears as if this gone now. For example, black churches use to have get out the vote buses that helped people register. They would work with their paritioners and the large community to make sure that people could get to DMVs or wherever the locality required people to sign up. It appears like that is largely gone. Masonry and church attendance are on the wane. The government as god seems to have grown in its place. Unfortunately, many of the new adherents don't understand community nor civics. It will be interesting to see what happens as millennials gain more power.
Virginia has a sticker as well.
Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffet's company) is valuable yet does not pay dividends.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/021615/why-doesnt-b...
Semi-related, Josh just gave some great advice during the last k8s office hours regarding running postgres databases: https://youtu.be/Aj0yozuQ0ME?t=50m39s
After having similar trouble I started working on a "social network" of sorts to assist with networking and learning programming career related things: https://coderpact.com

I am available (to you or anyone else) for mock interview sessions.

If you sign up I'll contact you or feel free to email me at: contact@coderpact.com
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It's more an intriguing hypothesis than an accepted finding. The reasoning is interesting and plausible.
Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It
Would having TLS on the localhost endpoint (without client certificates) make the attack more difficult? the browser would have to validate the localhost-returned cert against the attacker.com hostname.
> They'd rather stay in their houses with all of their stuff

Or they're old and poor, have little more than a house to their name, and the alternative is indifferent care by bottom-feeding nursing homes.
Yeah, I can imagine it. Perhaps their experience was that people selling inferior services by trying to freeride on the name were actually hurting tourism. You appear to have assumed your conclusion.
Gender abortion isn't legal in China. In fact, they aren't allowed to tell you the sex of our kid. When we did our first comprehensive ultra-sound at UFH Beijing, the technician couldn't say anything but hinted to my wife that we were having a boy. Oh well...

The point is that gender selective abortions are absolutely not legal in China. However, it is difficult to tell why you are aborting, and it is easy to look at your ultra sound pictures and tell.

(Anyways, our son is great despite me wanting a girl!)

The nongminren might have a different outlook, but in the cities girls are perfectly acceptable and welcomed.
I think he makes some really great points here, and obviously has some pretty good experience at running data stores in the real world, at scale.

I think his comment about stateful sets is more focused about running data stores on distributed filesystems, or network attached storage. This isn't a good idea generally, and I am not going to go into why, but Cassandra and Etcd advise against this for a reason, its well documented. It wouldn't just be using a 'better' storage system, it would be designing and implementing a very complex operator as he mentions.

The real take away which I think we should all realise is that, this is shiny tech to run mission critical data stores on, unless you know what your doing and want to invest a lot of time and effort in to it. Right now it's probably better to use RDS/Cloud SQL, or just run a traditional postgres setup with a SAN and decent failover that is tried and tested.
They might not "handle" it until there is a POC?
... Until they did? Your comment is true of all bills and all proposals. "Party X was free to vote on it, they chose not to. Until they chose to." Furthermore, the minority had promised to veto all funding unless DACA was included, at all times. Regardless, the above comment was simply pointing out the difference in terms of magnitude.
Entitlement to what? Staying alive?

Most old people don't have the money to move into a retirement home so where would they go if they sell their house? Even with high housing prices, the money from a home sale isn't going to net more than enough for 2-5 years in a retirement community.

And yeah I've dealt with these issue for both my parents.
It doesn't really even represent an expectation because nobody expects their financials to stay the same. Forward P/E fits that bill a little better.
Not to mention recent efforts to do Clojure/Clojurescript stacks. Not to call someone full of shit, but this guy has drunk the Go kool-aid a little hard.
I suppose it helps that they're paid a living wage!
>> it's getting more difficult to flash ROMs onto most phones, not easier

Turns out, that is a niche use of a phone. Few people really need it.

But, some of them post on Facebook and Twitter "here is how to flash your phone and get unlimited games"

... and then many of those get bricked or attacked by viruses, and/or get otherwise disabled, and now the provider needs to deal with the tech support issues.

Plus, the ads may be redirected to someone else.

So yeah, if I was Samsung or Apple, I would not want you to flash the ROMs.
FairX is an near-term project assumed to be targeting this space.
Thing is, the Chinese companies who do shady things absolutely get punished. Not just slap-on-the-wrist fines, but jail time and sometimes death penalty. Legal precedent is not why legit founders get harassed for being Chinese.

We're not talking about well-thought-out questions about legal precedence, but random trolls calling their products 'cheap Chinese knock-offs' even when they are original, and even in cases where it's a similar version to something, if it's made in the U.S.A., we call that "private label" or "white label." Or "generics."
Agreed. They are my least favorite burgers and fries but the service is absolutely incredible. Every single person I have EVER dealt with is very professional and polite. I have never seen another restaurant with employees like that.

It's often compared to Five Guys but the vast majority of Five Guys I've been in have employees that don't really seem to care.
And whom do the elderly, physically weak women, and children call when faced with this threat? Who responds to hold-ups, hostages, organized racketeering, riots, and theft after the fact? The real world is a little more complicated than the "Don't be a d*ck" principle. Who even determines whether thr level threat rose to violence or who instigated?
It's baby boomers. Overwhelmingly the baby boomers I know are all: driving is a right, not a privilege, and I'm insured and insurance solves all problems and mistakes, rip out those damn trees and put in more car lanes so I don't have to wait in traffice. Gimme! And my grandparents' generation were fans of the bus and trollies before big oil got them ripped out of most American cities in favor of buses, and wanted people in general to have an easier time to get around.
This is accurate, my old childhood buddy worked through In-N-Out for something like 7 or 8 years before and through college told me several years ago that managers make great cash and the whole In-N-Out ecosystem is really top notch in their employee dynamics.
What exactly are you looking for?
Does anyone know if they hire store managers from outside or whether they have to rise up through the ranks?
Until we have functional decentralised exchanges, using a common protocol would be a nice thing for humanity. Most people don't care about the bigger picture, they just want to get rich quickly, rather than try and make the world a better place by working together.
How I got fired for the first time
EBS is replicated inside of the AZ (Availability Zone) that it is in which is what makes it durable. An AZ is a data center.

You could always sync to another volume in another region if you were concerned about a longer term region outage. Note that RDS already mostly uses EBS.
Definitely what you’re saying about China, especially historically, is true. Thanks for leaving your comment, to acknowledge this.

But these days what they’re doing is end-of-days stuff in my opinion even without bringing Judeo-Christian morality into the mix. Mass collecting DNA to catch criminals. Etching IDs onto knives. Convenient—yes. Desirable socially? Questionable.

(America doesn’t seem secular. I am, however, excitedly watching it progressing back to paganism. Who knows where that will shake out though.)
You just increased demand and took away the capital that I could have used to meet that demand. I don’t need a cartel to tell me to raise prices.
Due diligence guy here.

VCs don't necessarily do rigorous due diligence, especially at the early stages (where ICO's typically play). That being said, VC's typically do some soft diligence checks that investors of ICO wouldn't normally do, for example: personal check backgrounds within their own network, personnel reference checks, review potentially proprietary/confidential information, etc. So it's not necessarily that they have monetary resources to expend during the transaction process, but rather informal/trusted resources at their expense.
> This made sense to an extent when the Democrats were in charge, because US solar panel factories were in blue voting areas and US polysilicon factories and suppliers were in red voting areas. Now it's simple pandering and incompetence.

I don't follow. Don't both scenarios wreak of pandering and incompetence?
NVDA is doing well. God, that company has nicely leveraged their core product to hit on all the growth cylinders.
And my point is that you are just offering simplification that has no merit. It's a cheap ploy I expect from silly journalists, not on HN. Regulation isn't why there is a biotech boom. As I stated, it's money, people and infrastructure.
The salary comparisons are also hurt by the fact that "architect" and "lawyer" are titles you have your entire career, while "restaurant manager" is a title only one person in the restaurant has.

If you compared the salary of an in-n-out manager to the engineer running the team, or to law firm partners, you'd get a different conclusion.

The fact that someone who's worked for a good chunk of their life at an In-N-Out makes more than a young professional fresh out of school seems pretty reasonable, when you think about it. (Although it still makes In-N-Out an exception, which is too bad.)
Gigalixir runs on GCP and seems to fill all of the Elixir specific gaps for a PaaS offering. Just knowing that there are first class API clients for the rest of GCP’s offerings makes Google a pretty clear choice for Elixir devs at this point.
Hanlon's Razor is stupid... actually I misspoke. It's just evil.
The french call orgasm "la petite mort", or "the little death."

Indeed - extreme pleasure and pain approach each other in many ways.

"Passion" comes from the word for suffering - so also is an emotion that has strong elements of pain.

A good thing to remember when you are hurting.
damn what was it though ... can't remember where I read it.
It's amazing how different a franchised versus company owned restaurant can be. When I worked at a franchised McDonald's as a teenager we were all jealous of the corporate McDonald's a few miles down the road as they had better pay, benefits, uniforms and everything just looked way cleaner there. At my franchised McDonald's we were told to do the bare minimum for _every single thing_ we did.

I'm curious if there is any data on franchised versus non franchised restaurants and if there is a way to objectively compare them.
Getting a device alone is not enough, they need to sign up too! And most devices comes with Hulu, Amazon, HBO, Fandango and a ton of other media apps.
My guess is that he was being sarcastic about cryptos.
Indeed. The majority of my longs only need a few bits more than an int. The largest value I’ve ever needed was a 58-bit index/key for a combinatorial thing.
I agree. I mean, we shouldn't treat all Chinese startups suspect because of shady practices by Baidu and the PLA. Though that the PLA was involved in that medical scam a few years back does make the whole government as suspect. Baidu also didn't get much punishment, they pretty much got away with it.
Convertibility has always been based on a fundamental misunderstanding of money, and always fails because it's a flawed concept (and requires fixed exchange rates, which is always a bad idea).

Money has always been based more on representing debt than actually having intrinsic value (that misunderstanding comes from the barter myth, that pre-money economies had markets that used barder, which there is little anthropological evidence for - see Debt: The First 5000 Years for a pretty good overview).

As for now, the US dollar has a baseline demand because all business and income in the US requires taxes to be paid to the Government in US dollars, and all spending by the Government happens in dollars. The rest of the domestic economy emerges out of that, just as market economies always have. The value of the dollar is effectively ultimately 'backed' by the goods and services produced by the US economy. Herein lies the problem with convertibility - why would we expect that the amount of gold the Fed corresponds to the size of the economy? It won't, so the value will always diverge and hence how the system failed (more than once).
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How much did hydrocarbon barons pay for this?
Netflix is going to tank if Disney makes their stuff (including Fox) exclusive to hulu or a new service.
It's tough to go back to the stock market after bitcoin's daily 10% increase this fall. Might be wise to take 10% and invest in some coin.
Oh indeed. A man must have a code.
What homes are those?

I mean "nursing home" and "retirement home" are two different things. One houses the chronically ill, often old - at very high prices but payable by insurances/the-state and the other houses old people at merely high prices but these prices have to be paid by the residents and there's no way to make them low even cutting all your costs. And apartments and trailer parks that house seniors at a slight discount.

But yeah, you're basically right, selling one house to movement into uncertain housing is terrible decision and there's
You'd have to be living under a rock to not know who Zinke is right now.
I say this as someone whose recently been through YC. YC is getting phased out anyway. Crypto economics are doing what YC did to startup financing a decade ago. It's no longer any more valuable to even go through YC since it's so jam packed and over crowded. Maybe the network is slightly valuable, I concede, but my recommendation would be to not put yourself through the hassle and just create a normal business that doesn't need YC financing (or even VC financing for that matter).
California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?
I once did a quick "anthropological" study with In-N-Out employees (read: fancyspeak for sitting down and talking to them about their job), I was quite surprised.

Most of them were very happy with their jobs, not just happy with pay and benefits and so on, but happy to work there. They found it a very welcoming and friendly work environment, where people were rewarded for initiative and trying to improve things.

Most of them didn't see themselves leaving the company any time soon, unless it was for a different job type (such as moving to an office job after finishing school).

It was a very good lesson on how job satisfaction doesn't need fancy cafés, ball pits and slides.

PS: Those were just my impressions from talking to a limited number of employees. Endless numbers of caveats apply.
I gave up when Disney wanted me to sign up for yet another service and link my old account to the new one so they could transfer movies before they shut down the old one. That would make 3 accounts, old, new and whatever the one is that lets me watch on Roku (4 if you count the Roku account), for access to a single movie.
My initial reaction to reading this - 'Hey old people, just die already!'

A more considered reaction - shouldn't you at least offer 'older folks' an incentive to give up their lives other than 'it'd be better for society'? I'll be one of these older folks in a few years, and were I to stay in my house into my dotage, I'm three minutes away by car from the emergency room, less than a minute from several groceries, coffee shops, barbers, laundries, parks, etc., ensconced in a building (a future coffin?) whose wiring, plumbing, masonry, landscaping, etc., are all known to me. Please feel free to enlighten this middle-aged goat on why he should be put out to pasture to give room to 'new homeowners.'
A small downtown apartment in a smaller city would be affordable, easier to clean and maintain, have elevator access so it doesn't require climbing stairs, will have transit options and amenities in walking distance. It's what young people want to see more of, but NIMBYism (often by aging people) constantly blocks that kind of development.
You don't "need" to, though. We're talking about internet pogs here.
Grid storage is the bottleneck today. You make the problem worse by splitting things up.
General argument is that we're running out of those due to either natural processes or political processes. We aren't making new dams due to environmental concerns. We aren't even creating dams as a means to sustain California. Instead, we shunt that water to the sea. Add to this a desertification due to global climate change, and you're needing to look elsewhere for power.
I think this is an awful situation, but at what point do we call seniors’ desires unreasonable? Is their want to stay in their suburban homes which are designed for cars really something the state should be concerned about when the working poor struggle to afford the subway?[1]

I think we should make relocation easy for the elderly who aren’t able to get around. I think it is terrible if they can’t move from their houses to places easier to get transportation from. But I really don’t see how this problem is more urgent and important or even independent of the general problem of people not being able to afford housing/transportation. Are we supposed to prioritize the elderly who already have houses over those who don’t?

1: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/06/16/when-people-cant-affo...
Thanks for replying here. I'm not so interested in the debate about decorum and word choice as the technical matter, but it's good to head off the branches of speculation (if you will) into them to have your insights.
Hmmm. Is this true? Seems like the ideal way to get a disgruntled front line... You're in a service industry, making 30k a year - 15/hour as a cashier (regardless if you're getting any extra benefits) and your direct superior makes 160k?

I don't know, but I can't imagine a scenario where people don't get pissed-off with such a massive difference for two jobs that are performed on the same location, imply interactions with the same people and are only one command-chain level apart.
> Even then... Where are you going to start in reading references? A random syscall or function a day?

Sure. Or browse through a bunch of them?

> think it is far more useful to e.g. read the late W. Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix environment.

That is closer to a reference than a novice tutorial.

> It puts everything in context, provides historical background where necessary, and gives examples.

Sure. So do good references. Even man pages do.

> Reference pages are not really for brushing up, but more for the 'what was the address family field of sockaddr called again'-type of questions? Or put differently: they are external memory.

It depends on your level, experience and your competence in the material I guess. I'm not saying it's the only thing you need, but in many situations, it's the only thing you need to brush up.