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Won't less aggressive language result in more applications from those who are less than 100% qualified, whether male or female?

I don't see where the article shows that men will apply at the same rate regardless of aggressive language.
I think the Computer Science degree was supposed to basically be that, in theory. It obviously isn't in practice.

I've overheard some other fields and the rigueur they go through is laughable in comparison. Heard a Marketing guy brought in for an interview in the next room go "I'm the right guy for the job!" basically, his only credentials being one previous job in the field and a Marketing degree, and my boss comes back and goes "Hmm, he seems very confident! Maybe we should hire him!"

Meanwhile in our field, having 15+ years of direct experience means basically nothing other than they will set up a phone screen. The inevitable technical interview seems to be designed to rob us of our confidence as soon as possible, putting us on the defensive when we dare to get one question wrong because we couldn't remember or study for 100% of everything that exists throughout all of computer science and technology and our domain specialty, etc.

Even my S.O., who's in proposal writing, only has to make sure she has her existing portfolio of past work updated and printed, but otherwise does very little to prepare for interviews. She doesn't try to study every possible question in that could possibly be asked about technical writing, marketing, graphic design, RFPs, sales, and whatever else her field touches. She generally only gets background and personality questions, that's about it. Yet she's directly responsible for her companies winning millions of dollars in business in her job, per proposal.

The default of distrust in programmer abilities amongst companies is so bad I've been very tempted to leave the field at times, because I'm sick to death of going through the endless hoops and basically having to refresh my entire degree when I want to start looking for a new job (which I'm overdue to start doing again and I've been dragging my feet partly because I don't have the time right now to refresh the skills that haven't been needed at my job the past few years).
Perhaps this is an apt metaphor for the human mind as well.
I don't see any vilification in that question.
I bought a food thermometer in a grocery store; it was obviously off by at least 20 degrees. I just set it aside and cooked as I normally do... I survived the experience.

For purposes of this discussion: a food thermometer doesn't work directly on the human body and it is not a medical device regulated by the FDA.

(If you are using a food thermometer on a human body, that's still probably not the FDA's jurisdiction--more like local police or the FBI.)
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I've heard this frequently in right-wing circles; see e.g. the complaints about people on welfare having (shock!) smartphones.
Don't forget number of steps per day, resting heartbeat rate...
I think you're right about treating language this way can further entrench those stereotypes. But I think if we want to change that, we do have to recognize that people respond differently to different language, and adjust our messaging accordingly. Then maybe some of the damage can be undone.
> This makes it difficult to understand why frugality is impossible for an American making triple the average salary of an average Czech or Croatian.

No, it doesn't. It's rent and healthcare.
I think that I agree. It would be good to hear a lot and not talk all the time, to understand the current situation.

But some more specific questions are good to start a conversation that can then follow it's own path. I like the questions in the other comment as starter questions.

I also like the Joel Test https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s... , but if they have a low score it could be judgmental and make them angry before your first day. Perhaps you can use it as a template to make a few assorted questions, without keeping an official score and not make all the questions if it's clear that they are scoring too low.
After reading this, it sounds like applying to CircleCi would be a waste of one's time.
I don't think I actively think about it as rehearsing lines, but I tend to pick up "catch phrases" from friends very quickly and easily which influences the behaviour people see from me.

My "mask" is more me playing a character who doesn't have these issues, who understands social cues better and is able to respond in a more socially acceptable way. It's a logical step change in my mind, but ultimately a draining one. After too long, I just need to be left alone for a few hours to recharge.
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Thanks! I was not aware of it. It was just curiosity to find reason to correct myself rather than running for scores.
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> overly masculine or aggressive language

You mean:

- leading

- competitive

- objectives

- driven

- independently

And this is what is considered "masculine". Not only that sounds incredibly sexist and stereotypical, it is demeaning for women who would consider themselves possessing one or more of the above traits.
How do you find if a particular distro is blessed by Google? Is there a list I'm not aware of?
Yeah, the blue tribe has realized the red tribe has learned how to do big data too, so now using big data for electoral purposes is a huge scandal, and the solution for it - as is solution for literally everything - is more government regulation. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Given how much of EU's economic law is managed centrally, is this drastically more significant than say... the 50 different states' regulations that US companies have to follow and contend with?
I think a more reasonable takeaway is despite your upstream odds, being more open to things increases the number of trials you expose yourself to which increases the chance you realize your underlying odds in the first place.

So there’s a balance, and at extremes, a well-off person can sabotage themselves by not trying, while an entirely disenfranchised person will be screwed no matter how hard he tries.
I've seen management push for outsourcing simply on the basis of having worked with a particular company/group before when there was no need/sense. It's about knowing the trade offs and making the right decision for the company as a whole not due to personal preference.

And many companies used to make outsourcing decisions based off of simple head count cost and didn't factor in the extra time/hours/delays due to integration/poor work/other factors.
I use the "notes" field on 1Password for just this sort of thing. Plus, I make them up, so if they ask me for my mother's maiden name, I would use something like "plexitrough", or my first pet is "Fortran". And I use different ones for different accounts.

To answer your final question, using the true answers to the question is in fact insecure, and has been known to be so for nearly 10 years.
I think it would be fairly simple to avoid anything that would cause a lawsuit and if this is indeed the reason...what a sad state of affairs we are in.

That top answer there leaves a lot to be desired. Suggesting that a candidate offers "no value" to a company if they are not hired is very short sighted.
They released inward-facing video of the safety driver shortly after the incident.

The driver was staring at her phone in her lap with only occasional glances at the road every 5 seconds or so. I would call that pretty negligent.
You can't inherently be luckier than another person, but you can certainly have a luckier outcome.
This reminds me of an article I read a while back: https://hackernoon.com/server-side-rendering-shootout-with-m...

Not sure if the benchmarks still hold now that React 16 is out, but there's definitely overhead in the general approach.

> HTTP can only send strings/bytes, so it makes sense to start there and skip the overhead of building up a virtual DOM representation first. There’s a reason string based templating languages are so much faster than our modern frameworks using a virtual DOM implementation.
No, it sounds like they were hiring for 3 positions, so they only chose 3.
The same could be said about many junior positions. Should they pay for privilege to work for this respectable company?
Well, I have had a policy of hiding and denying it for awhile because I fear professional reprisal or being treated differently. There are very few people in my circle of friends (and even relatives) that know I'm autistic, again because it's a deeply personal thing and because I don't want to be treated differently from others.

I've written about this on the web in the past, but then would go back later and edit or delete a post because I didn't want people to trace it back to me personally. I think I'm done with that.

I think people need to see that having moderate Autism isn't a social death sentence with the right treatment and hard work. That's why I attached my name to this post. If people want to stop talking to me because of it, then that is on them.
Android is an operating system that is open source.

The Google Play Store is a proprietary software package that is released on some devices which use a proprietary licensed version of Android.

Using the open source operating system known as Android does not entitle you magically to Google's other proprietary software. Google only gives the Play Store to some certified hardware handsets, that meet requirements they arbitrarily decide on.

There was an issue with vendors, who were using open source Android (legally), sideloading the proprietary Google play store without permission (illegal) and then selling that to Consumers.

Again, you can sideload your own different store that isn't Google Play. Your account isn't being banned or restricted - you can sign in on Google Play on a valid device that's allowed to have it - but this is Google's only recourse against manufacturers sideloading the Play store when they aren't allowed to.
Why are end-credits usually so boring?

I want end-credits with inset-windows showing bloopers, for instance. Or fragments of the "making of". Or how about showing the faces of important people working behind-the-scenes at the very least? How cool would it be if a CGI programmer could have the opportunity to say something during the end-credits?
In this post you propose that Circle CI has unfair prejudices towards men.

How did you come up upon this conclusion?
Or you use scala:

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Gives you a free hashCode, equals and copy as well.
> Out of any group of 1000 applicants [...] Fewer than 3 will pass the on-site interview and receive offers.

> Our ultimate goal is to have the best people here, doing their best work.

I feel like everyone is so afraid of hiring a 0x or -1x programmer that they don’t want to take a chance on a mere 1x programmer.

If I ran a company (I don’t!) on the scale of hundreds or thousands of developers I’d be very choosy about who I let into senior/leadership type roles, but be rather accepting of individual contributors, the hope being that many of them would grow and develop their skills.

Am I just vastly underestimating the overal strength of a random sample of 1000 candidates? Are there really only 3 worthwhile developers?
How many positions were you actually hiring for though?
Considering code is read more frequently than it is written [0] [1], seems like a trade-off that could be helpful... I wonder if autocomplete to a language like this would help a lot. There was nothing like that for HyperCard.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070406-00/?p=...
[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/when-understanding-means-rewri...
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> Not in big cities.

Name five big cities where a average-wage worker can get by without a car and car insurance.
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> Frugality stops once you can pay all your bills from your paycheck and still have some left. After that, it's called stinginess or miserliness.

how do you expect to get to a place that enables you to farm with your comrades if you're all too busy getting a paycheck?

imo, you MUST take care of yourself and your financial needs before worrying about how stingy or miserly you are.
SaaS does not imply a recurring billing model. Stripe, Twilio, Square, Facebook, Google - all SaaS, none have a recurring billing model.
What is "Hercules the graphic cards" (I only found GPU's when trying Google)
Mass produced goods including furniture is cheaper nowadays but everything else is more expensive. This includes essential things like housing and healthcare.

Further the needs have also grown: without a car it’s impossible for most people to have a job
This is awesome! I have to try this.
Same with the browser, but what do you used to replace maps?
I guess I should say that everything said in public has the potential to be political. Something that's political, in my mind, is anything that has significance for running the government or the larger social machine. "Don't touch the hot stove" could be political in a world where malfunctioning stoves are burning people. I think that "don't spend too much money" is political in a world that couldn't continue to function without the existence of people who will never have enough money no matter how frugal they are.
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To be fair I shouldn't have been subscribed in the first place. I never asked to receive marketing emails and shouldn't have to unsubscribe.

I have gotten lazy about looking for unsubscribe links and more aggressive about hitting"report spam" on Gmail
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"Facebook thinks we're idiots"

To be honest, about this issue of privacy and security, most of the world really doesn't care. The people who do care are not a majority and not even a significant statistic. Providing an apology is enough for most people, since they don't understand the depth and scope of the problem at hand.

Shareholders know this. Mark will receive a slap on the wrist, and business will continue as usual as this fades out over the next 1-2 months.
What's wrong with having more applications from less qualified candidates? The point of the interview process is to filter them out. The goal of having inclusive language is to encourage qualified candidates, who otherwise wouldn't have, to apply.
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This is all about the continued rise of the housing market. It's the opposite of bleak.
> Your tone suggests that you think this is impossible, but it happens all the time

That's fair. To be clear, I don't think it's impossible, and especially given what I've heard from friends who've worked in freelance web development there's a huge long tail of scummy opportunities out there.

I more meant to suggest that it was unlikely this was CircleCI's motivation.

Also an important distinction between these two situations is that in the example you point out, someone is being assigned a specific task to produce some new IP which the company can then simply steal, whereas in the CircleCI case I am assuming the "problem/projects" they have you pair on are something in the neighborhood of e.g. "let's go analyze some page load performance data together and see if we can fix some low hanging fruit" or "let's figure out how to set up an alert in our Slack channel for this signal we have in some logs".

Yes it's still true that a candidate could come up with some brilliant insight that saves CircleCI real money in this scenario, but it just seems unlikely and not something they could profitably build a development strategy around.
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> Not sure about 'surprise'

That this was possible and happening was well known in Silicon Valley. What has changed is (a) Cambridge Analytica and the 2016 election made the issue relatable and (b) Zuckerberg et al are dissembling and attempting what appears to be an incompetently-executed public cover-up.
Unfortunately, there are only two more chances to take this exam: next month or April of 2019.
> Sure, but are people like the ones in this article or MMM seriously advocating that their philosophy will solve poverty?

It sure looks like that to me:

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This link to the article via Reddit wasn't behind a WSJ paywall for me.

Go to Reddit link => Click on link via Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/86bdeg/san_fr...
I wrote comments on a few Medium articles months ago. Since then the email address tied to that account has been targetted by some really aggressive disinformation "news" garbage coming from Medium. I don't know what they're doing, but it is clearly being misused.
In general I agree with you, but that seems orthogonal to the subject at hand.
I guess I've already been taking advantage of some of the resources. I've read a couple of books by Temple Grandin and read a lot of things people on the spectrum have written online about how they deal with social situations. I started doing that long before I entered therapy on the theory that maybe I'm autistic, maybe not, but either way I should be able to learn something from people who are solving the same problem I am.
Alphabet Inc. break their revenue down into:

EMEA, APAC, Other Americas, US

Out of this, in 2017, EMEA was 32.5% of total revenue, based on numbers from page 33 of https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/20171231_alphabet_10K.pdf.

My bullshit-guess is that out of those 32.5 percent units, EU/EES was responsible for about 31 units or so, and the rest 1.5 was from the middle east and africa. (Reasoning: the ME certainly has money, but no population to speak of. Africa has lots of people but besides relatively tiny South Africa very little revenue for Google.)

So yeah, the EU has a pretty powerful hammer.
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We don't have adequate public transportation (so car + car insurance + car maintenance). And our cities were never really designed to be walk-able or bike-able.

While we have compulsory health insurance not dissimilar to the German system, most areas only have one or two providers (vs. 130 of Germany) whose prices have been going up like 30% every year. We still pay out of pocket for most medicine, dentistry, emergency (like ambulances), and psychological services.

Some utilities are ridiculously expensive. Like internet can be 80$ a month for basic 2 mbps.

A large number of people are employed as contractors these days (the gig economy), which adds a 15% tax (that the employer would pay for employees) for a social security service we will likely never see, so I'm not sure the tax burden is higher. Contractors also have to pay for all their own health insurance (and our cutoff for public assistance for health insurance is like 12k, not the 50k Euro like in Germany)

Which brings me to: we have to pay for our own retirement, even if not contractors most companies don't assist with that anymore, especially for entry level jobs.
> Is it possible that there is one big super consciousness

And here you see one of the motivations for these strange proposals of "simulation" that we see lately. It is a way to reintroduce in philosophy the idea of a powerful creator. As we advance the understanding of physics, it becomes clear that a creator is not probable, and not even necessary. So, a new generation starts to propose that everything we live is not true and only a simulation from a super powerful mind...
Do people really install new ROMs on Android every 19 days for five years? Must be awesome to have that kind of free time.
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I am pretty sure the CEO of FastMail still digs in pretty deep, given the content of blog posts he pens and a response to a support request I got once. He's also active on HN, so perhaps he will confirm/deny. :P

I am trying to think of anyone else I can think of who I could comfortably say is "a CEO" and who I'm confident still "writes code".
I feel like a unified regional government could help fix some of these commercial/residential disparities, but too many towns have too much to lose for that to happen. And I wouldn't want to wish the voters of Dublin or Livermore onto SF/Berkeley/Oakland residents.

Glad to live in a city (Chicago) with a much saner housing market.
I'm dealing with a similar lack of options. I live in SF and am planning on moving to NYC sometime soon.

I don't think my friend ever even had a date in the 7 years he lived in SF. He told me he pretty much had given up. He moves to NYC, in two weeks, before his apartment even has furniture, he gets a girlfriend. If a girl finds out you are single there, she will push you to go on dates with her single girlfriends.

At many bars here, there may be 5 guys to every girl, and only 3 or 4 girls might be single. Of course they get a constant stream of guys hitting on them so if you are an average guy, you will be shut down immediately.
I agree really CS is at its heart a maths degree you would not expect some on with a degree in music theory to be able to work as pro musician with just that qualification.

If some one had done an "engineering" degree an done a year working in industry you could expect some level of competency.
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And the create code is spilled over the codebase, just as well :-). It's not where actual work is done. This approach of encapsulating functionality in a class may work in some instances such as std::vector but more often than not it's just a lot of (typical OOP) boilerplate for things that you do only once in a codebase anyway. Giving one-off things a type and a name and decoupling them from normal control flow (ripping them out of context) makes things just harder to understand. Better just make them global data, maybe even define the initialization/cleanup routines for that global data in-line with the rest of the control flow.
Your experience isn't the norm. All the take-home exercises I have ever done are specific to the position, and take a few hours to finish.
Great point, if this is the case, huge attack on Amazon.
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Yeah, this is a great article covering that topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secr...

It resonated me with a lot.
Which was kinda my point....
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> And by the way, you mention it was unethically of the Prof to sell the data, but what about CA buying it? Do they get a pass?

I think CA's (or any company's) micro-targeting of advertising using detailed profiles of the person is unethical in general, but whether or not CA is in the wrong for buying the data depends on whether they knew it was given them without the consent of users (I haven't followed whether we know that). But CA has a lot of other unethical things they do, so they don't get a pass in general.

But I feel that the bulk of the blame for this should be on Facebook's shoulders as well as the Prof who sold the data -- they both provided outside parties data for people that had no reasonable ability to consent to that dissemination.
Housing markets like this are bad for people and bad for the economy. It is bleak. There is no actual value being created when home prices skyrocket; it means that supply is severely restricted, and it prevents efficient location of people near their jobs.
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