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I consider them the same coins, simply sold twice, to two communities that disagree on where the coins have been sent. Since my cost basis is $0 (mined pre-2013 as a student living with my parents, and didn't bother to report the pittance of an income that would have been), I don't think the IRS will mind.
I conduct this style of interviews. It's easy to complain, but much hard to propose better options. Most alternative hiring proposals do not meet the fundamental criteria of Big 4 hiring: they must reject approximately 99% of applicants while consuming an average of two hours of engineer-time per candidate.
I think it will hit them as well, just not to the same extent as Facebook & Google.

Microsoft owns LinkedIn, which is an advertising company. I also seem to recall that they make a reasonable chunk of change from search advertising and other online properties.

According to this link they took in a little over 6 billion in advertising revenue last year:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corpora...

According to this link, amazon took in somewhere in the region of 1.7 billion in revenue from mainly advertising last quarter alone:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corpora...
Most people hate them when they get rejected, consider them fair when they pass. Like anything, they are mostly subjective and very gameable (compare it to getting accepted at a college)

It's not remotely scientifically-objective, but most things in life aren't. I'd liken it more to dating. Both parties are evaluating each other on innumerable criteria through their own subjective lenses, and trying to reduce it a scientifically-quantifiable measure is dubious.
In the UK, Australia and Canada, courts award costs. This usually goes against the loser, but might not if the judge believes the winner held a correct but frivolous position. It seems to be a pretty good mechanism. In particular, it does not lead to the situation where the little guy wins the case but is destroyed by the cost of the fight. I am surprised it is not more widespread.
> requires a lot of resources

That doesn't like a problem that is hard to solve. Any website that will have the growth of facebook can invent solutions along the way.

> polishing up the UX to what the masses have come to expect

I rarely visit facebook but i don't think it's particularly good UX. Tiny Links all over the place, you can barely follow a conversation without getting distracted.
It’s similar to stocks, when you buy the same stock at different times. Most people simply go “First In, First Out”, although you can use average cost basis or simply select the lot you wish to have sold.
I agree. But I think there is a skillset to taking tests that can become highly developed in a college environment (where 3/4 finals exams are taken quarterly). You're more likely to get a fully grounded education, such as database and operating systems semantics (compared to the self-taught web developer who began and exists at a much higher abstraction level). It's my understanding sometimes these questions are sometimes thrown in and could be crucial to a candidates success.

Of course this applies more to fresh grads.
If accurate (links?) that's a function of supply and demand rather than tax.
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With the data Apple collects including via Apple Pay and Health I’m not sure there is that much difference in all honesty.

What the data is used for is another issue.
Darch isn't "go get"-able. Things need to be vendored and you'll need a certain version of containerd and runc (which isn't "go get"-able either).

Are you having a problem with the Void package script? The go build template for Void is very naive, I wouldn't use it. It uses symlinks which doesnt place nice with vendoring tools. Things will be a lot smoother when vgo is done and their template is updated accordingly.
Making a wrapper function that locked/serialized access to printf. There was a crash that would happen occasionally in a server which always happened in printf and outputting logs and debug data. While you'd think it was a software bug in calling printf, the underlying issue was that the app wasn't linked with the multithreaded stdlib on Windows, so therefore the printf we were calling was not reentrant.
I have friends who are almost religious about the "virtues of blockchain", but have little to no understanding of how it actually works. There seems to be this idea that adding blockchain to any existing technology will magically make it better.

I'm all for blockchain technology, but it's not the solution to everything. It's great when you want relatively immutable, decentralized record keeping.
For me the trinity is facebook, twitter, and slack, so I've started figuring out how to replace them all at once.

So far riot/matrix seems like it pretty much strictly dominates slack and discord, at least for my purposes.

I know some facebook friends who have started using slack as a way to keep in touch with strong-tie friends, as a way to rely less on facebook and facebook messenger. So riot/matrix could reduce my reliance on facebook in some ways, too.

I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems mastodon is the most likely twitter replacement. Twitter has sucked for me starting about six months ago when things got algorithmic, it totally screwed up my curation.

As for the rest of facebook... I don't know. I was reading this thing about addiction, and how the bitch of addiction is that not only is it the thing you're addicted to, but it is also the thing that makes it harder to kick the addiction. (In the case of a substance, it hacks your brain to make it more difficult to resist impulse/urge.) Seems like something of a parallel, in how using facebook makes it harder to leave. The only path out in those cases is to take slow incremental steps that make it easier to resist over time. So, carving out the pieces of facebook that are important to you. For me that might be a public blog to share my thoughts, an email list, actually gathering email addresses and phone numbers for people on facebook I might want to stay in touch with, etc. Although I still want to check out Disapora and Scuttlebutt... and I don't know if ActivityPub is relevant here.
The article is about the creators of “static” art: writers, composers, and artists. Having a day job would affect actors, musicians, or dancers, much like it would affect athletes. The artistic fields that require “dynamic” performance need the hours spent on muscle memory.
Can you elaborate? My understanding is just having the initial version of your components server-sided rendered, not all of it. Then JS takes over when it's loaded. It shouldn't change much to your existing code.
Exact occurrences seem to vary over time, per user/account, the presence/absence of other features being used (e.g. time range or site: operator), and possibly other factors. It's periodically reported on the Google Search and Assistant Help Forum, and there's a 100+-post thread [1] about it. The behavior is like something in Google's stack is incorrectly matching a cached set of results that had the same set of terms without quotation marks.

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/6gH...
Been following Godot for a good while but never tried it myself. I support them on Patreon anyway though, just because I think it's important that we have a truly open source game engine like Godot :) Did you try Godot 3.0 yet?
To me C:S is another example of how every town you make has to be an american town: its all about how you place the roads.

The original game doesn't have any way to build something away from a road, even if its something like a park or a statue, and certainly you can't make an area with just pedestrian access. Good luck making a medieval city centre, or collage town.
Uber is doing very well in Latin America and Canada, so yes. Also, if you compare Uber to companies like Facebook and Google it has a large market position where both of those don't and its expansion strategy resulted in a large share of the biggest players in all other markets.

If this is how loosing looks like I want more losses like this.
Memory leaks occur in GC too.
On Windows, Win+1 launches the first app in the taskbar, Win+2 launches the second, etc.
Does he still believe the earth is flat?
There are real results based on how successful someone is on a job. Being dismissive that there is a problem because you think people only complain when they don't get a job is simplistic and incredibly naive.

If an interview process is completely detached from what it takes to succeed at a job, what good is it?
What's the point of avoiding the standard Java installer provided by Oracle then? I thought the only problem with it is that you are not allowed to put it in the distros or automate its downloading.
“biggest killer of small business in the US.”

Owners who think they’re being clever, when they’re just violating the law?
The best way to learn in my opinion is to find someone who knows more than you and have them be your mentor. You don't even have to ask them directly, though many people I think are glad to teach.

Identify someone at your work or school who you feel always has a nice perspective and who you trust; then seek out their opinion and advice when you have questions. You can learn a lot in a fairly short amount of time by applying this practice.

You can also find what I've heard called "silent teachers" - there's no formal or informal relationship between the two of you, but you're always watching what they say, observing the things they care about, etc.

If you're in a situation where you're not employed full-time in a technical position it becomes a little harder but you can still do it. Much of it depends on your local context.
Certainly but WhatsApp is rather privacy-friendly.
I would fail utterly at a real coding interview. I've been out of school too long for that crap. And also, my tolerance for it has dropped as well.

But, I'm now a dev manager so I get to sit on the other side. I've been doing interviews in the last week for a dev position and I don't subject candidates to coding. I talk with them about what they work on, one of my senior devs sits in and goes even deeper -- learning what they know without even really asking formal questions, for the most part. Past that I care more about them being smart enough and willing to learn new things, and easygoing enough to get along with the rest of the team. Hell, that's at least half of what I care about to be honest.
I try to ask a simple question that pretty much any half decent developer should be able to solve quickly. Then we have a conversation about it and discuss why they did it, possible problems, how they'd handle new requirements, etc. It's more important to me that they can speak intelligently and collaboratively than memorize a bunch of puzzles. It is tough to determine if a candidate will be a good fit in the hour they give us.
Bob Ross videos on Hulu or YouTube are the most pleasant and soothing things I've ever watched. They usually knock me out in just a few minutes. And if you still can't fall asleep, you got to watch someone paint a pretty landscape.
My kid who's in high school watched a few Godot tutorials on Youtube and then created a nice/simple game in about 24 hours.

We walked me through the whole process and it is amazing the whole system is free.
So your solution is to have people work a second for free with the hope that maybe they'll get a job after a while?
Absolutely. I've seen companies send an intern to do a technical interview for someone with over 10 years of experience. The intern's feedback was that the guy had a lot of experience, but made some syntactic error on a whiteboard exercise so it was a pass. I don't know who gets to dictate shit like that, but it's absolutely broken. For reference two days later I overheard the same intern saying that JavaScript was fully synchronous.

As a fun aside, I've seen people send out HackerRank evaluations for entry level positions and I think that's ludicrous.

The best interview I have had was me Skyping with one of the devs and he gave me a link where we were able to share a browser session (for the life of me I can't remember the name of the site), but he described the problem and as I typed he could see what I typed. There was no emphasis on result that I can remember, just the process of writing code, talking it out loud and seeing code evolve and asking whether certain edge cases should be considered.

What's most broken, I think, is the fact that interviewing is an uneven, broken experience that's different everywhere you go because no one really knows how to interview. I haven't seen any company take metrics on whether their process is good or helpful or filters out too many people or not enough.
Interesting; I usually prefer to see documentation search results instead of "me too" Q&A posts where nobody's solved the problem in 8 years. Maybe a good mix of first-party and third-party sources would be ideal for the first results page; definitely not an entire page of just original documentation.
WTF? How come I worked around three years on RDP clients and stuff and did not know about this?
That was a very useful and interesting thread. I suggest everyone should read a few top comments there.
this is the frustrating thing to me. IRS shouldnt be allowed to stay ambiguous on basic accounting issues (listen to https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-53-ad...) if they also want to tax it. particularly if the tax year has already passed, how does it make sense for the IRS to retroactively define tax guidance.

if you dont bother to define the rules of the game then you're just pretty much barefacedly just abusing your legal power to tax whatever you want to tax for the sake of taxing.
That is a very interesting approach to indoor positioning. The idea of just installing a light bulb seems very cost-effective.

When you say, “used to” did you mean that the product was discontinued and/or isn’t available for purchase anymore? Or perhaps Philips sold the technology?

I’d like to learn more, will use the Contact Us form on the page you linked but if there’s someone you could recommend that would be much appreciated.
This is bad for everyone.

Holy crap do we need reform.
I'm confused about why you're dismissive of this person pointing out a very real and interesting situation...not a unique one, but intergenerational gaps in beliefs/lifestyle/socialization/etc is a pretty fundamental challenge throughout the modern world, and the gap caused by iphone/facebook/whatever is a particularly concerning and current one.
Despite the title of the article, it doesn't show that Facebook use makes people unhappy - merely that it is correlated with unhappiness.

> A moat is only useful if the project serves its purpose well.

It's not clear to me that the purpose of Facebook is to make people happy. Instead, I think it's purpose is to be an low friction way to keep connected to lots of people. It seems to fulfill that purpose quite well.

That people are uncomfortable with boredom is not an inditement of the balm with which they sooth themselves.
That’s misleading, Apple goes through pains to keep data on the device, or limit their exposure. They don’t store your transaction history for Apple Pay, and I believe the same is true for HealthKit. iCloud backups are a glaring privacy issue but you can also manage your own backups locally.
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Before they were acquired by FB, WhatsApp charged like 1$ per year for the service. Since they were mobile-first and most people had entered their credit card info to join the App Store/Play Store, the transaction was friction-less for users.

I thought that was genius.
It's really easy to say "interviewing is broken" and get a bunch of people excited and agreeing. It's almost like saying "politics is broken," everybody agrees but doesn't agree how to fix it.
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As a developer of the VSCodeVim plugin, Oni is a great inspiration and we are hoping they pave the way for the Neovim API (which is starting to mature). We have started using neovim for a few things, the command line for example. So while we have started getting our feet wet, hopefully something like Oni (or Oni) replaces us...soon :)
Still very active: https://github.com/ssbc/
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He did ask for that and they countered with a lawsuit the same day.
See scuttlebutt.nz the team and user count is still small, but it works well and development is very active.
My recollection is all you said was "The IRS needs to come up with some sane rules surrounding this issue." There was nothing wrong with saying it, never mind the spin of replies to it.

I am stating that because removing the comment combined with your follow up comment looks weird and suspicious in a way the first comment did not to me. I would hate to see you subjected to the Streisand Effect here in a way that could have tax and legal consequences.

Best.
I don't think this is high enough to see the curvature of the earth. So, experientially he probably has a confirmation-bias event which reinforces his core belief. Well.. the belief he espouses, to further his aims.
I wonder if he really believes the earth is flat, or if he's just pretending so the flat earth people will keep funding his rocket hobby.
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> it is amazing the whole system is free

Speaking of which, they have a Patreon. Anyone interested in the prospect of contributing financially to the development of Godot, check out https://www.patreon.com/godotengine
Interesting. Do you have a reference?
"No one on this site has an excuse for using GMail"... C'mon, now. I get your point, but ease it up a bit.

We can still use products built by companies. The OP has stated he's okay with "paying" using his data for the ease of use and benefits of a commercial service. It's cool you built your own! But there's a reason why GMail exists and is popular.
To be fair to OP, I think there's ways to structure throwaway projects in such a way that it contains flaws and they're useless to a real company but complex enough to gauge experience/familiarity, etc. I don't think GitHub would be optimal since then people could clone these throwaway projects and create brain dumps.
You could have invented monads (And maybe you already have.)
I enjoy the coding interviews. I would interview just to do them.
> I suppose most of the use is because they don't use the DE itself that much, it's mostly just a launcher for the stuff they use.

Why not use a pure WM of a kind or XFCE then?

> full-screen IDE on one monitor, browser and terminal on the other.

What do they do with the activities stuff then as they use to have 2 physical monitors?
> First, much of the alleged crimes took place physically in the United States. The infringements, the payments, etc. took place, at least in large part, in Virginia even if the people orchestrating it were scattered all over the world.

This logic is twisted and does not follow at all, except if you have a purely old world way of thinking (i.e. pre-internet), or are morally flexible when it suits your narrative.

The lesson is clear though, stay away from American servers.
It says it's powered by React and (presumable) Electron - does it have the same kind of issues that Atom does? Can it open big files, how responsive is it, etc.

How do plugins work? Do neovim plugins work out of the box with Oni, do you have to write a wrapper, or are they completely incompatible? This is really the make or break part of it.
What about the data that Apple collects in macOS 10.13 users? Anonymous data collection is not really anonymous. IP addresses and other logs leak lots of identifiable information even with all of the collection settings toggled off in various preference panes. It is kind of hypocritical for Tim to criticize a practice that Apple currently engages in (you can't claim otherwise once you jump down that rabbit hole).
I especially love being asked questions from university CS courses that I completely forgot in the 20 years since I graduated - because they were completely irrelevant in the real world. It's like reliving the exam nightmare throughout your entire life.
>"The problem with the idea of going back to a distributed internet is that it directly contradicts the primary thing people in the #DeleteFacebook rant about: Privacy."

Can you elaborate on how exactly maintaining your own site/blog/domain/presence etc is at odds with privacy advocation?

Content control, copyright and DRM are orthogonal to the issue of privacy.

Also I don't really understand the use of the phrase "the distributed internet" to distinguish from "silos" and "walled gardens." The internet is by design distributed. FB while being a walled-garden is still very much "on" the internet.
I'm more onboard with this then selling sugar pills as "alternative medicine".
The problem, if one want to trade crypto currencies, is that you have to record every transaction. Then one has to figure out if the coins you have traded have been held for over a year and thus treated at the long term capital gains tax rate as opposed to the short term rate. Then, I believe with the new tax bill, one has to, going forward, sell the oldest coins first (if they are going to be treated like stocks). This makes complying very hard; impossible if you did not start at the beginning being very careful with your records. Basically trading a lot, especially algorithmic trading, is not something illegal, just impossible to do legally, in practice. Same with stocks. Professionals (of course) have some kind of special rules where they only have to keep track of net gains (or losses) and not every trade.

A good analogy would be if, when gambling at a casino, one had to keep track of every bet and report it and the outcome. Then, if one kept chips for over a year, you would also have to keep track of how old the chips you were betting were. Cashing out chips you held for longer than a year would have a lower tax rate. New rules now would say you have to bet with your oldest chips first. Now report all this activity to the IRS with your taxes each year. Vegas and other casinos would not exist with such rules and so much pressure would be against laws treating Vegas style gambling the same way.
In a sense maybe this is how it should be. The interview should reflect the company's culture. The candidate is trying to make a decision just as much as the company is.
I don't disagree with you, but this one in particular seems very far from the definition even if you ignore all the hypermedia stuff.
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What reforms do you propose?

It seems perfectly reasonable to me that income is income regardless of whether it is dollars or magic beans and that gains on investments are taxed largely without regard for the form of the investment.
I've always found that nearly all of the time spent when requesting a page of SSR'd content (whether that be a full page or a rendered component returned to an AJAX request) was spent in the processing before the render happens. Given that, the added complexity of CSR has never been worth it for me.

This is situational, I think. My work mostly involves applications that do significant back-end processing for most requests, and my SSR is always done using a framework that has pre-compiled code doing the rendering rather than an interpreted language. (Perl and C#.) This combination adds a lot of pre-render computing and optimized rendering, which adds up to SSR being a good choice.

I'm not sure what that says about when CSR would be a good choice. If your requests don't do much back-end processing, but still have a long (500ms?) response time, that seems like you're doing something wrong rather than an opportunity to use CSR. Maybe you've chosen a poorly-performing rendering framework. Maybe you're trying to render too-large a page (which would be even more of a problem client-side.)