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Yeah, although neutral to flexion is fine for a lower back for a squat or a deadlift. In fact, with a heavy weight, good luck NOT flexing your lower back on a deadlift or at the bottom of a squat.

The 'upright' squat you described is an Olympic lift variation - called highbar squat. I was going to send a link over but I hesitate to toss a random article or video (some of which are crap). But it's probably easy to watch an Olympic lift video from the olympics, as that's the cream of the crop.

A squat positioning with more of a hip hingeing is more of a Powerlifting squat. I can definitely recommend Rippetoe's explanations here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhVC_AnZYYM even though I myself do high-bar.

As you can see (especially as explained in the video), the bar positioning plays a role in how upright your back is as you squat (since you mentioned that aspect). It's because of the center of gravity and the straight-path of the bar. It's obvious if you see an illustration of the bar path and these positions.

However, a 'neutral' back, I don't know, I'd call it more of a flexed back (which may be neutral under load). A neutral back might be more of a gymnastics-specific thing.

Regardless, core strength (meaning lower back, abs and obliques, among other things) is VERY important here.
Yes, I would not be surprised at all if the majority of breaches went undetected, which means the number of them that are unreported will be very large as well.

I really do not like making accounts, especially where they are not required, such as when ordering something from some shop that I only intend to use once, or for my mobile phone company, who in their infinite wisdom have decided that having my email address is not enough to send me invoices, they need me to receive an alert that they have posted an invoice in their internal system for which they helpfully created an account that they mailed me the password for.

It really makes me wonder who comes up with these ideas.
Yeah, that's what galls me about it. They even give you (the proverbial you) tests so you literally have to spend zero effort, yet you tell the interviewee to spend 90 minutes on it because it costs you nothing. If you want me to spend time on your process, at least spend that time with me. I want to learn about you as much as you want to learn about me, but you don't see me sending you a Google form with 300 questions about your company to fill out.
Filed under sad-but-true. Worse, your ability to code doesn't make you special, and doesn't qualify you as an interesting human being to anyone outside of tech recruiters, and only then if you are able to produce code on demand in front of a whiteboard.

Thankfully, as a human being, you are not your ability to code. More importantly though, then it also means that people who can't code are worth just as much as you as human beings (more, if they've managed to learn social graces). If you don't hold it to be true, then code or GTFO.

Look for places like the Recurse center in NY that can help you find yourself in the context of being able to code, or more traditional non-traditional approaches like backpacking though India, or taking LSD in the Haight in the 60's (anyone got a time machine?).

If you'd like friends (who will be interested in your personality), go find some. Outside of work. Bonus points if you manage to find some that can't code.

Hint: companies are interested in your personality - if you come across as this caustic in a phone screen or in person interview, I'd be surprised if you get invited back. (Or at least they should be; Google's current HR woes are their own creation.)
I was surprised that wasn't mentioned; in addition to spacing issues it looks like the redaction literally just stopped too soon.
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In case this helps to debug the problem: there was a Cloudflare interstitial page for a bit before it started to redirect to the 404 page.

Also, I just re-tested and it is still not working.
I think you have a warped impression of china.

Bike sharing in china:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYu4wzy9Lw
They don't trust Azure as in "Azure is flaky", or "we're running our own unit, here"? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...

Though I think their average quality has went down lately (from the days of Excel pcode to the current days of Office 365), I've been seeing Powershell exceptions thrown directly in the UI in the Office 365 Admin...
> I think your approach would work if there was a shortage of jobs

There is always a shortage of good jobs. You can fight the process all you want, if any job at all will do, and you don't care how long it takes to get it.

> You are often asking accomplished individuals to waste their time on badly compensated job proposals

What do you mean by badly compensated?

Why would you assume someone else knows anything about your accomplishment and credentials and trusts the skills you list on your resume before you've demonstrated anything?

Also, if you're good, then why does a low bar for entry scare or offend you? A screen for basic aptitude is narrowing the field and removing people from competition who can talk well but don't have programming experience. That seems like an advantage for anyone who can pass the easy tests.
I remember years ago (2010-ish?) Intel being claimed as the largest ARM customer at the time (as in, the entity paying the most license fees to ARM).
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Our economic system is predicated on people having children.
I forgot who it was, but there was a good joke by a comedian on this topic. He was talking about people throwing out that common "we are praying for you" line and he was like "Oh, so you're telling me you're going to sit on the couch and do nothing? Thanks."
These are MEO sats, not Geo stationary at 30,000km.

The round trip for these will be about London to Edinburgh and back and we video conference that distance all the time.
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Can you retract those funds at any time?
Lived in the EU all my life and I did not know that. Bit silly to surpress important (nasty but important) history: it is also not taught in school then or are the exceptions?

Edit: specifically asking about highschool kids learning about the symbols, not about WOII in general?

Edit2: as far as I can find online the bans are about the flags and greet. I have been to brocantes in France where they sold SS pins etc so maybe it is not as strict?
Very interesting. I haven't used GearVR much, but Google Cardboard/Daydream SDK's can be annoyingly bulky and inflexible at times. The new input methods that VR has brought about can be useful in non-VR scenarios as well.
She's a lawyer so I got a decent alimony tho
Check out Coyote America by Dan Flores. It's an amazing account of the coyote's spread across the continent in the face of extreme pressure to extirpate it in the west.
Well, washing cars turned out to be the point for The Karate Kid... and humility before technique. I agree that few employers will be like Mr.Miyagi though ;
How certain are you that you've appropriately fit yourself to these pants?
I worked in a job a couple of years ago with a small team that was hiring quite fast so it was typical to have to evaluate 10 applicants a week. Since as leads and seniors we were very busy Hackerrank was a useful way to evaluate lots of people without much effort and easily compare them by “score”. That said I regret it because the results were not as good. Every candidate is different enough that each interview turns out completely different. I think a better policy is if you’re too busy to give people the attention they need as they go through the pipeline - just wait until you’re not busy if possible.
Considering that the original document linked to in the article also explicitly mentions S3, I don't think anyone is lead to believe they use GCP for everything.
I would posit that if Al Gore is all it took for science to have its credibility undermined in your eyes, you don’t actually know what science is, how it works, or much about the issues at hand.
I politely tell them I'd be happy to have a call or phone screen with them, but I don't do automated puzzle-type tests. This gives them an opportunity to give me their side of the matter and also gives them a signal that at least one candidate dislikes automated puzzle-solving tests.
After making my own clothing(because sewing is the ultimate 2d->3d mind game), I would be okay with mens yoga pants.

Easy to make, comfy, can be made in many colors.

Guess I'll be back here to show off my Mens Business Alternative Yoga Pants...

(would there even be an interest in posting it here?)
The kettlebell swing is a great way to train/fix your hip hinge. Squatting is also another movement/position we in the west have seemingly lost the ability to do well.
Perhaps it was this article -- where analysis of age-50+ members of a particular Amish community showed that lifespan of mothers increases linearly up to 14 children, and increases with later age at last birth:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16510865

(Interesting... it also shows a positive -- but lower/noisier -- effect for fathers as well, so there may be more at work than just stem cells.)
I'm not sure if you have ever been involved in the hiring process from the first stage of screening resumes, but my experience has been that when you post a developer job, many people will apply with very weak coding skills and those people need to be weeded out. Some of them have strong-looking resumes, but I often come across people who stretch the truth on their resumes. So when I do a phone screen, I start out with a basic question that surprisingly weeds out a lot of people. I let candidates code in a language of their choice after hearing the question.

Is reversing a string something I do in the real world? Very very rarely if ever. But it's not meant to be a question that simulates a real world coding problem. The point is that it's a very simple problem that anyone proficient in almost any coding language should be able to do. And I don't know anyone I've worked with who wouldn't be able to do this in 5 minutes or less, with or without practice.
> I am curious why people thought it was interesting.

I'm thinking it's because lots of people dream of doing a radical change in their lives (I've read about a study that said that something like 70-80% of people dream about it), but few actually pull the trigger. So, they want to hear how it went for someone who actually did.
He said it in that order for a reason, Comrade, one that I don’t think people really appreciate. It means “if you don’t work you don’t eat”. Doesn’t sound so benevolent now does it?
Thank you. Yes I don't think it's going to be easy.
I don't think it's a fad, we will see more like this, just another layer of abstraction.

Might have been better to write, assuming the OS is unreachable - which is the security contract I assume.
Im all for skipping the human shipping and go full VR-Robotdrones.
> useless tests

These tests aren't useless. Tons of candidates have never seen a REPL before and are totally unable to solve even a trivial coding assignment.

I suppose your company is too clever to waste their time on such useless tests? Who at your firm wastes hours interviewing candidates who have no ability to code?
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“Learn at least one new language every year” is bad advice
I wonder what happened to human discernment. It’s like people think liars get away without detection. The only reason a person who bullshits an interview gets hired is because the interview was a formality to begin with; eg. Friend of management who the whole interview board knew was BSing but also value their paycheck too much to object. Yea, we don’t want that situation, and clamping down on nepotism etc. at the candidate level is just wrong. “Boo hoo, too many candidates, lets engineer a rube goldberg machine to make us feel objective.” Just treat candidates as people...

I can’t imagine hiring to scale product development inside such a dirty room. The most successful businesses I know of simply don’t complain about these things, nor have personnel problems; people do the work that needs to get done with a good attitude etc, with little awareness of title... acting more like “mom and pop” businesses who value relationships.

How is any company building an awesome thing with an awesome team, with word of mouth not bringing a torrent of personal references from the rank and file? The good ones have that going on in my experience, there is just a glut of shit rung employers (and candidates) here shaping our views toward defensiveness.
Does perfectionism have good signs in long run?
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Adderall and Cocaine.

I remember a CEO of one of my early startups would give me 5mg addies to help me get more done. I appreciated it because it was great to get the added boost to focus.

I eventually worked my way up to taking 30mg of XR daily (legally, doctor prescribed) and it was the most productive I have ever been in my life. I worked 24x7. I was working a normal consulting job while also working on a startup/app in my spare time. I did ui/ux/frontend/backend/api development and sent cash overseas for an iOS developer that I managed. None of this would have been possible without stimulants.

It's only way to do some of the things that the really successful engineers are doing. You forgo eating, exercise, etc... and spend 110% of your time on working and chasing the high of getting shit done.

It's not sustainable though. I eventually went cold turkey. I do NOT recommend that as it will completely ruin your life for 6 months to a year. I was not productive, I gained tons of weight, my self-confidence went to shit. My life really went into a downward spiral.

Now I am 100% drug-free and am not at the same level I was back then, but I am very productive and focused. I would not go back to where I was, even for the productivity gains. I eat clean (low-carb, ketogenic), weightlift in my basement, row 5k/10k every few days for cardio. My only vice is really coffee and the low-carb cocktails on weekends. Best of all, I do not wake up in the morning needing a tiny pill full of amphetamine salts.
I don't think this is true long term. The cheapness of cloud applies when and where deploying otherwise complicated systems - eg. a hadoop cluster - can be done in matter of clicks, but for something simple - file storage - I'm finding it hard to believe that it's cheaper. However, in case of apple, geo distribution and locality is probably very important, which adds to the cost for sure; I'd still be surprised if long term own/rented hardware wouldn't be cheaper, than SaaS.
Some robotics startups mentioned in the article:

https://www.softroboticsinc.com/ (soft robotic grippers)

https://www.righthandrobotics.com/ (order fulfillment, picking, sorting)

http://www.codewithroot.com/ (educational learn-to-code robots)

http://rewalk.com/ (licensee of exosuit technology)

https://www.k-team.com/ (licensee of kilobot swarm technology)
Yeah, here I was, just happy it's moving from whiteboards, and all these people are complaining about it...
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Thanks! More crypto/fiat options will be added weekly. Instead of listing 2000+ random coins and tokens, I wanted to focus on only listing the pairs that are in higher demand to keeps things from getting too convoluted.
> how deep of a discussion you can have over a single line of code

That's the problem with HackerRank: You can't! Every single time I've tried one, it was a dismissive "do this on your own time and we'll check your answers".

Not to mention that their question sets tend to be full of puzzles, which are the type of thing where I'll have an epiphany over lunch, rather than something I'll figure out how to optimize in the ten minutes I have to code the solution.
Intel only recently signed a manufacturing deal with ARM in 2016, I'm not sure how extensive it is though. I'm only aware of LG taking advantage of it until now.

Intel used to both design and manufacture their own line of ARM SOCs back in the 2000s under the XScale brand, but they sold it to Marvell in 2006.
The summary of his personal life in Wikipedia was also interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy#Personal_life

Thanks OP, Bioshock's use of La Mer introduced me to Debussy and that was a great read.
I remember how I didn't dare to touch the computer during burning other than move the mouse a few pixels here and there so it has it peace and the screensaver do not kick in. CDs were expensive and burnig was a hour-long process.
Any chance you can explain why? Not enough hours in the day kind of thing? Is the only route to success in software engineering to work 24/7?
This game was responsible for two amazing moments in my childhood.

1. Realizing I wanted to be a computer programmer

2. My parents being confronted by school administrators because I was whistling Horst Wessel Lied, or as i called it "the cool Wolfenstein song." at school frequently.
That's been my observation. Tons of openings, but many companies lean toward denials, under the assumption that firing the wrong person is more costly than not hiring the right person. It also seems that many companies are looking for ready-to-go engineers, rather than being willing (or able) to build talent in-house. The only door open to many junior devs is the internship-to-hire funnel.

This reminds me of this recent HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16337434
Very true.

There is a fundamental role that lawyers play that is an intangible: to pursue justice for the client.

Much of why law is expensive and has been slow to automate is because of intentional and unintentional barriers.

Unintentional because it has developed in evolutionary form, over hundereds of years, and during that time has imperfectly used human language as its protocol. Contracts and statutes are difficult to make perfect using the English language. Lawyers thus argue over what the parties intended and understood when they fixed their promises into words.

Intentional because of, for example regulatory capture. Law is an industry that has taken actions in the past to make itself necessary.

But even if these barriers are fixed and much of law is automated, there remains a notion of what is fair and right, or ought to be fair and right. This is a human concept.

Take for example blockchain and its contracts, which remove some of these barriers. Currency is transferred to/from one address to another because that is what the code intended, and the code is law and the transaction immutable. But what if the other side fraudulently misrepresented who they were? Do you not want a human advocate and arbitrator there to determine what is right in this situation?
Well, although I'm not one of these types that is insulted by online coding challenges as a hiring prerequisite, I think they're probably a lot more pointless than you believe. I've been working as a developer now for a little over 25 years - although online coding "challenges" are a relatively new thing, I've been given actual sit-down, pencil-and-paper, quiet room for an hour aptitude/language trivia tests as prerequisites for jobs in the past. This was actually the sort of thing that certifications (remember Java certifications?) were supposed to obsolete but never really did.

Last year I found myself back on the market for the first time in quite a while and was presented with an online coding "challenge". It was actually really trivial, but I failed it anyway, because I'd never done one before. I'm used to coding in an IDE (or just in good-old vi), not in an online editor, and not with a ten minute time limit. The "challenge" was to write a Java function that would take in a number in words (like "four") between one and ten and spit out the numeric value of that number (like "4"). Well, it was timed, and I sort of panicked, thinking I wouldn't have enough time, so I jumped into it without reading the description. I skimmed over the description, and though I had to write a Java _program_ that would accept a _list_ of numbers, parse the list, and output their numeric values. So I hurried up and started coding in the (completely unfamiliar) online editor. Then I copied and pasted the whole thing into an editor on my local machine so I could compile it and run it and check for silly mistakes (since I was under the gun). Only after I had verified and tested it locally did I re-read the description and realized I had done the wrong "challenge"... so I tried (with three minutes on the clock) to refactor it so that the part that read in the number in words was a function inside my overall program. With maybe 30 seconds to spare I had refactored and re-tested it with a note that (/* here is the function you asked for */). Well, they failed me. Why? Because I took way too long to complete such a simple task...

Now, if I had to take another one of these today, I'd read the instructions very carefully (I'd probably spend the first minute reading and making sure I didn't overlook anything - which of course we should always do anyway) - but it struck me how infinitely game-able and simplistic that portion of the modern job interview is. It doesn't much measure programming ability so much as your familiarity with that sort of exam, which us old folks ain't.
Last week I heard an interesting interview [1] of Antony Sammeroff, author of a free e-book titled Procrastination Annihilation. [2]

I hesitate to recommend to you yet another anti-procrastination technique. Most of them are probably gimmicks that wear off quickly, as you have testified. But this book sounds like good stuff to me. I know this guy a little, and I think he's really smart.

[1] https://tomwoods.com/1090

[2] https://beyourselfandloveit.com/en/doit
I give my workouts thought so those are proper form. When I pick something up, I don't consider anything and curl my back.
Reading the sample of Dunne’s temporal geometry, I was reminded of the film Donnie Darko, in which the protagonist repeatedly attempts to figure out a similarly complicated early 20th century theory of time travel.

There's also a (possibly apocryphal) quote by Nabokov ('All the Russia I need is with me, always with me. Literature, language and my own Russian childhood. I will never return.') that would be burnished by the inclusion of dreams of his long-lost homeland.
By this reasoning the US Navy apparently would.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Naval+Amphibious+Base+Coro...

Showing a symbol is very different from endorsing the "ideals" behind it.
I'm 100% against fascism and nazism, but if we make illegal or even mark as unsafe showing their symbols, how do we let children watch documentaries about those atrocities before their brains are caught and ruined by the neo nazi/fascist propaganda?
Thanks for sharing about Scratch Jr. I had never heard about it before that I think my son is going to love it, not for the programming aspect of it but because he loves to make up stories with characters and being able to make them move around the screen I'm betting will be something he enjoys quite a bit.

It feels like a nice mix of Kidpix and Flash, both of which I spent a lot of time with as a youngster (obviously much less of a youngster during the Flash time).
I'm definitely open to that possibility
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