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When looking for a new job I typically run a few applications at a time since companies are so unreliable and, frankly, I don't have the time or inclination for

* 5 x 45 minute phone screens

* 5 x 2-3 hour coding test (some of which will be the same)

* 5 x 3 hour face-to-face interview

Over the course of 2 weeks while attending my current job. Companies should consider this when trying to hire "exceptional" candidates who value their own time.
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You outsource what is not you core competency. Apple has never excelled at creating services.
Ask HN: When do you start using microservices in your sideproject or startup?
Microservices have lots of benefits (from isolating code, to letting different teams work independently). But they also have costs (e.g. complexity of deploying and debugging). In your sideproject or startup, have you been using microservices from the start, or did you find there comes a point when microservices make more sense?

Any thoughts on when the scale tips over in favor of microservices ?
I am currently half way through the original Getting Things Done book (GTD). I find the approach to be a possible solution this context switching if you know in advance what some of the other projects are. The idea that you have a plan for each project and the next action available, greatly reduces the stress of switching contexts.
I wouldn't be concerned with their being combative. I'd be concerned that, without any attempt to make sure they knew the full context, they assumed ignorance or stupidity on the part of the hirer.

This kind of approach is fine for a junior. I'd even encourage it because there's an attempt to change the parameters of the problem which is something we often have to teach people as they progress.

For a senior position, not so much. I mean, it might be that they're ignorant or stupid, in which case you've probably dodged a bullet when they don't hire you. Or it might be something else entirely.

A more sensible approach, in my view, would be to ask what they were looking for with the HackerRank test in a subsequent face to face. If they say that they don't have a better way to determine developer competency then, sure, suggest that you may be able to help with that when you join.

If it were me interviewing, I'd be particularly interested in suggestions that a) were developed from successful prior hiring practices and/or b) not so bleeding obvious as "look at their Github page".
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Way to go!

IMO If employer is adamant to rely only on cookie cutter first round interviews, then it’s probably not worth joining such places. It’ll be filled with people who are great at cracking such interviews and believing that these cookie cutter interviews are the only way to go.

There will be people on both sides of this debate, pro and anti.

If you don’t believe in solving algorithms/ hackarank type initial interviews, it’s good to challenge such requests.

If you are fine with it, that’s great. You and the employer have the same thinking. And it’ll/ May work great!
Another one I've run into, make sure that the surface of your chair is level (left to right). There have been several cases where I've run into issues because either the chair seat itself was bent or a bushing at the bottom of the lift tube had failed introducing a few degrees of tilt. Barely enough to notice, but enough to throw your back out of line over the course of several hours.
I find most trousers make it hard to do this. Maybe it was better before the current low-waist style took over, but the way my trousers or jeans tend to fit, there's insufficient space in the back of the leg, in the thigh region to allow for proper hip flexion.
Or, more likely, GCE offered deep discounts.
Apple does then get Google security. They have found most of the big vulnerabilities including Shellshock, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed, Broadpwn among others.
Nothing in public, no. Apple doesn’t talk about this stuff generally. But I know because I helped build a lot of it.
It's most likely a version of the ATM protocol[1]. Point-to-point, small packets, etc.. We used a version of that when I was working on the Iridium project.

Likely the exact same thing here, especially if they hired the same engineers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode
(In case they someday want to drop the business. They don't have to worry about shutting off their own capital investment - all they have to do is tell Google to turn it off).
I have a lot of problems with this paragraph, the same problems I see again and again on both sides of interviews.

> "Difficult to work with" is perhaps too harsh a statement

That's exactly what the OP meant to say, and verbatim what they would have said in an interview debrief. The interviewee wanted some amount of compromise, and all of a sudden they're "difficult to work with". Now everyone else in the room is framing this potential hire as an asshole. There's no coming back from that. I've seen this happen many times. One term of phrase like that and instantly a qualified candidate is out because someone latched onto a single fault and made wild extrapolations about it.

> just a low-investment screen

You have no idea how much of an investment it is. I've had hacker rank problems that I was expected to spend 3 hours on. That's a pretty big investment just to get my foot in the door. Sometimes (read: often) the juice just isn't worth the squeeze. The employer wants me to give it my best when they're not even willing to come up with their own questions.

> uniform across all candidates

I see this a lot as the panacea of interviewing. Sounds good to have everyone on a level playing field. But if you start out with a crappy process, applying it to everyone equally isn't going to get you good talent. As an interviewee, I'll still be bitter about the bullshit you put me through, even if everyone else had to do it.
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Yes, Wagner was a big influence on Debussy (covered well in "Afternoon of a Faun" by Snyder). Some say was an obsession. For example, to find what to do after Tristan. Prelude.

Debussy wrote in 1910 - I am neither revolutionizing nor demolishing anything. I am quietly forging my own way ahead without any trace of propaganda for my ideas - as is proper for a revolutionary. I am no longer an adversary of Wagner. Wagner is a genius but geniuses can make mistakes. Wagner pronounced himself in favor of the laws of harmony. I am for freedom. But freedom must essentially be free".

I play a lot of Debussy. His art is wonderful.

Note that March 25 will be 100 years since he died.
Same. I got the email this morning and looked to see what I need to do. Turns out, what I need to do is just, like, be wary? No way to know what accounts I ought to go change passwords for. Seems unreasonable to go change literally all of them over this, that would take forever. This news makes me panicky but gives me no reasonable course of action.
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It's arguably the first First Person Shooter game, recreated as per the title as a shader.

The enemies are Nazis, since few people would object to a game about an American soldier escaping a Nazi Castle and leaving a pile of Nazis in his wake.

Or at least, that was the case in 1992.
> I haven't seen a single company doing that outside top 5 to compensate you properly for it.

There are small financial firms which will conduct significantly harder interviews than Facebook/Google. The offers are also commensurately higher (significantly so).
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That's a lot of satellites. What are they going to do with the deprecated ones?
Ask HN: Is there a market for a service to defeat Chinese firewall?
Various people tell very different things about how bad things are there. Starting with scary posts like

http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewall-of-china/

and all the way to several people i know and don't see a reason not to trust, who claim that they simply bought a $8 a year VPS, set up SSH tunnel there, and work that way with no problem for years.

Building such a tool (with some video streaming experience i know a few ways very hard to defeat) - does it have any market perspectives? Will people pay for it? How much is reasonable?
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I've seen (via Little Snitch) at different times, Apple Photo has been downloading data from Amazon, at&t cloud (?) and Azure — at least it's what I allowed it to use up until now. I didn't see Google yet, probably, it's recent development.
Shielding mass = inertial mass. How do we give it enough delta-V?

Bringing from Earth a few tons of nuclear-powered jet engine to use water as propellant would take building such an engine first. We're not even close.

Chemical engines are lightweight and well-understood. Lifting kilotons of chemical fuel is not feasible, though. So we need to build an orbital chemical / cryo facility to produce at least something as simple as liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, again by the kiloton.

This is on top of building an orbital shipyard to construct the actual spaceship, with all that heavy shielding around it, and the skeleton to carry it, the fuel, and the habitable compartment. It's going to be a spectacular feat of space-borne metallurgy, mechanical processing, including precise machining, quite some chemistry to support that all and produce necessary plastic parts, saying nothing about the power plant to feed this all.

Here we assume that we have an asteroid that has enough metals, carbon, and water neatly parked on Earth orbit. How do we achieve that, and how many decades would it take to bring it here, is not even considered.

This all would be great to have! But getting straight to Mars seems simple in comparison.
They had problems with CocoaPods and Homebrew each using up several servers worth of CPU/network, and rather than ask those projects to change Github added functionality to make the workload lighter (an HTTP code for checking if there's an update to a repo).
iCloud is a product with much larger storage requirements than compute.

Prior to iCloud's launch Apple built a massive $1bn datacenter in North Carolina and has continued to build new facilities at an aggressive pace.

I presume they are leaning into large public cloud platforms when their own capacity runs low.

https://www.cultofmac.com/31260/aerial-footage-of-apples-new...

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/02/apple-inc-massivel...
For related explanations: Esther Gokhale worth looking up, and also Kelly Starrett - lots of videos
> I'll never understand the all glass trend.

I think Samsung and other manufacturers can't win there. People complained about the perceived build quality when their flagships had a plastic body. Unless you use harder and thicker polycarbonate (like the Lumias or the iPhone 5c) it's hard to have something that truly lasts. You're left with aluminum, which brings tons of problems (it's easy to bend, scratch, the anodization will fade, it feels cold and it's also slippery, and you need to make way for antennas), or glass.
I might not belong to "poor" because my parents had money, but the thing was that they were extra ordinarily stingy when it came to spending it on me. This resulted in me going to school in torn pants etc

So now that I have money, I don't spend a dime of it. I use the same clothes, same cycle, the only thing I spend money on is books: I buy lots of it.
Where is the map stored?

So far there seems to be no texture and all textures are procedurally created, but I can't figure out yet where the map is. Is it in isMap and isDoor? They are very short
What is a more important duty to our neighbors? To lock up and force drugs on homeless people who have no one to talk to but themselves; or preventing them from becoming homeless in the first place?
I'm a neophyte to this area, but did I read this correctly, the stratix 10 SoC comes with an ARM cortex chip? Intel sells solutions with ARM chips?
Ultimately if your input is never expected to pass a semicolon, quotation, bracket, parentheses, or other special char I explicitly remove them from the user input. I also believe that using POST inputs is less of a temptation/invitation for injection. Sure anyone can send a crafted CuRL request but it's a lot less inviting than just plugging your injection into the address bar.
What about a standing desk or walking desk?
Changes ZIRP in 2018 by the Federal Reserve in the US will generate volatility in the markets.

This will shake up the tech sector a bit, and companies that are not cash flow positive will be forced to layoff tech workers.
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Well it's based on comps which is the last 3 houses to sell within your neighborhood. After 2008 things also got stricter. You can also "check" the appraisal by asking your insurance company for the rebuild value of your house. That may have limited utility though but if you have new development of similar sized houses in your area then the rebuild should be close to that and that will set a max prices anyway. Since why buy the old house when you can buy new. Again it's a limited argument but it's another data point.
The question I have is: in the ideal society, should anyone have to live with the consequences of their actions without a government safety net to save them? It seems that the liberal answer is "no" and that "nobody is ever at fault for a bad circumstance, and the government should always provide a free solution to get people out of any trouble they are in"

- Examples: health, abortion, addiction, debt, bad money management, etc.
I thought this was the case. I was sharing mobile data over wifi to several iPhone users with some basic data use monitoring so that I could firewall services that used unreasonable amounts of data.

One of them, despite having all the automatic update and backup features we could find turned off regularly attempted to upload gigabytes of data to multiple IP addresses that resolved to Google Cloud. Since there were fairly few apps installed (none of them suspicious) and a large number of photos and videos on the device, my conclusion is that it was a spurious iCloud photo backup.

Unfortunately, iOS does not appear to provide a way to see what's using data on Wifi, only mobile, nor to designate a Wifi network as metered.
It is incredibly easy to ensure that a controlled fire combusts all of its fuel completely. You just add excess oxygen to the combustion chamber.

Uncontrolled fires, and things burning under a blanket of ash, will not have sufficient oxygen in some places, will have CO as a reaction product instead of just CO2, and may leave unburnt carbon. Think about how charcoal is made--oxygen-free pyrolysis.

The waste product of a document incinerator is ash, water, and CO2. It is literally impossible to recover any information content from it.
Why would that be insane? I'm sure that you can negotiate a better deal if your use-case is beyond what a normal customer would use.
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And that's totally fine. If they offer you 500k or work on space ships/self driving car core then I am willing to go through a grueling interview process. If all they offer is 50-80k and a vision of making founders rich, they can go literally stuff themselves.
Personally, I'd prefer to have things a little spread out. If you end up with account problems at one provider you still have other copies. (I'm thinking of scenarios like "mistaken DMCA takedown" or "account mistakenly flagged as fraudulent" or weird things like that.)
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So, is that mean lawyers can be replaced by robots in the future?
You worked on the original Iridium satellite architecture? I am sure a lot of people here may not know how fully groundbreaking it was. Considering it is now 20-year-old tech the satellite-to-satellite Ka-band trunk links are an amazing technical achievement. That and the voice codec they came up with to make humans intelligible at 2400bps.
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Really nice! The UI has a great flow, and it works great on mobile. Will be checking out the chrome extension shortly. Are you planning to add more crypto options?
> Does she have a 6 month emergency fund, health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, a large enough home, home insurance, a stable marriage, stable employment, flex in the budget?

Are you proposing that only the top 10% most economically secure people should have children? Because if you check those critera you'll find it's a surprisingly small minority of people that meet all of them.

(Something like half of all Americans have no emergency fund at all. Is anyone who lives in an "at-will" state truly in stable employment, either? And so on.)
The United States is presently set on a course of self-destruction, and there appears to be little one can do about it. What would you have done if you were on the Titanic and you had already decided to be a gentlemen and let the women and children have the life rafts? I would have went and listened to the band. So it is with the United States. Just do your thing, be kind to people, and live your life in a way where if everyone did so the ship would right itself. To do otherwise is suicide.
1: I'd suggest you'd check out the book and bring it home with you and do the scanning at home.

2: This is not Google's first rodeo when it comes to scraping. I'd be surprised if you got more than a few days into the described process, so no, it certainly does not scale.
> "But on Android third party password managers can also utilize the system APIs, whereas on iOS they cannot.", which isn't 'absolutely accurate' at all.

Yes it is.

The global autofill APIs on Android are available to all apps. The global autofill APIs on iOS are available to Apple.

> Your statement is demonstrably inaccurate.

Only if you intentionally strip out context of the statement and paint it as saying something else entirely. Let's look at that line in-context:

> To name one current example, both Android and iOS have the concept of a global password manager for third party apps (and the web-browser). Both Google and Apple offer a password manager that hooks into it. But on Android third party password managers can also utilize the system APIs, whereas on iOS they cannot.

It is pretty obvious IN CONTEXT which "system APIs" I was referring to since the previous two sentences and the entire thrust of the post is about one specific topic. Pulling apart my post to strip out context, and then attacking the context-less parts is just arguing for arguing's sake.

You aren't even making a point about the issue I raised (restricted system APIs), you're just being pedantic.

> Ironically, that list totally disproves what you are suggesting, and arguably, the bad actors here are Facebook and Google who own most of the titles listed.

They aren't "bad actors" because they choose to use native controls instead of a webview.
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Really? I've seen the terms "pastiche" and "parody" carefully delineated in scholarly works, though these have been commenting primarily in the classical eras and later, long after the parody masses. Charles Rosen (whose The Romantic Generation is now a classic, if controversial text) in particular has pointed out quite a few works he sees as pastiches as opposed to parodies.
I don't think anyone has a problem with perfectionism when it goes perfectly... (and when ignoring the costs)
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How often does one have to reverse a string? What is the purpose of such a dumb test? How often have you had to do such a thing in the real world (outside of tests such as interview questions?)

I suppose you could make the argument we do have to reverse arrays, but strings? Give me a break, only idiot programmers spend their time practicing for useless programming interview questions.
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Interesting idea. I do think that it will end up having the same major issue that bounties suffer: Users/donators will vastly undervalue the time of the project contributors/maintainers.

Good luck on getting the service up and running though.
Not to mention the difficulty that would be trying to roll your own https.
In Europe, we are seeing an reverse trend.

5 years ago, selling SaaS hosted on AWS to retailers was an instant no-go "we're not funding our competitor" was told to many of my competitors

Nowadays, they've come to the realization that by refusing to do business with companies relying on AWS they were in effect loosing more money.

(I am specifically referring to retailers in orders of magnitude of WalMart. mom & pop shops never cared or asked questions)
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I didn't say you need a better product, or the best product, but you need a great product. If people hear about your product, and they think it's great, then they'll buy it.
GG vodka is a great vodka (not a vodka pro but definitely in the high end of consumer vodka I believe), and coupled with their advertising they sell a lot of vodka.
One of the nice things about changing email addresses... every single notification I've ever gotten from this site applies to my old addresses. A couple years after switching, no breaches of my current credentials have appeared yet.
As we move into space we're going to notice just how sensitive we are to our environment. It's like the higher rate of skin cancer among people with less melanin - not noticed until people moved far away from where their ancestors lived.

Gravity is more pervasive. It affects everything in biology and why shouldn't it? It's been a constant in the background that every direction evolution took transitively depends on.
Probably plan to make fireworks out of them. Without periodic boosts, LEO satellites fall anyway, but I believe all new satellites are launched with reserve fuel for a controlled reentry burn over uninhabited ocean.
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I think you have to formalize the process first. If everyone in the company does something different every time a requirements doc is written, it is just chaos. Steli and Hiten had a great podcast episode on this recently.

As part of that process, you will need tools to capture the documents and track changes to them. Consider something like Confluence or another type of wiki. You will also need good training. If you expect people across the company to use the process, you have to make it accessible and easy for them to learn.

A book I would recommend that I am working through now is Writing Great Specifications by Bicieja
If you look at the list of the 3000 breaches in the blog post, these are mostly small websites. I am sure the majority of those are still unaware they are breached.

I remember a few years ago creating an account on a small online clothes shop with a unique randomly generated email. I almost immediately started receiving unrelated spam on that email. Clearly their database had been breached. I still haven't received any notification on haveibeenpwned for that email. I am sure there is an enormous mass of breaches of small mom and pops sites that are out there, unknown to both the users and the owner of the sites.
It's not the bandwidth I'm curious about, I'm wondering what the latency will be like. Satellite connections usually have bad latency because of obvious physics laws limitation. This can be bad for real time apps. Still great for most web applications though.
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