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The entire Hollywood mythology was built around being "discovered," and elevated to fame and stardom, and arguably it's main product wasn't movies, it was hope.

If I were Conde Nast, I would use reddit as a farm team for finding, creating, and monetizing internet celebrities through its "legit," properties the way that movie studios created vehicles to profit from actors.

Costs them hardly anything to talent scout redditors and try them out in other publications, then promote the story back of how success story X was "discovered," on reddit.

Keeps their monetization platforms hands clean, while bringing a steady stream of talent to market. The difference between hollywood and Conde Nast is that now, Conde Nast literally owns that talent source instead of relying on a bunch of agents.
Does using react/redux slow down  development?
We started using react/redux in our stack recently and the development seems quite slow. Is anyone else experiencing something similar ? My partner has 1 year of experience in reactjs.
You can follow http://www.pxlet.com if you don't want to get lost in all the different sources and it comes with bunch of other features. I check this one everyday now.
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Can you elaborate on that? Currently the social feature I have is that you can upvote the posts and your feed is compiled based on the upvotes it received across the Telescope community.
Yes, and even places that are anti-racism, anti-sexism, and hate trump are often filled with emotionalism and thoughtless group think shouting. Comments decrying anything bad in a caustic way are near useless.
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The hiring process is a response to the fact that employers cannot trust a single word candidates say about their experience. This isn't paranoia. Literally, most candidates we see cannot code, even when they supposed have a decade or more of industry experience.

If the industry wasn't so full of lying incompetents, it wouldn't be an issue.
plenty of garbage lawyers passing bar exams, and law firms don't just check that you've passed the bar and hire you.
If I was being given a code challenge/take-home, I'd be more inclined to do it if it came with payment. Even if it's trivial, like $200. That's a small price to pay in screening and it at least shows the company believes your time is valuable.
>Russiagate stuff too for some reason

Because its one of, if not, the biggest story in the world right now? I mean, of course its going to occasionally top /r/politics and /r/worldnews.

The president and the highest levels of the GOP are directly targeted in an investigation that has brought 20+ indictments with several guilty pleas with apparently more to come.

This is a bit like saying the news in 1974 was too focused on Watergate.
Have you tried just POSTing directly to the login page and saving the cookie for authentication?
I think the point is that you have one audit system, the IRS, instead of two, the IRS and welfare programs.
I used to hate it, but have now performed enough interviews of supposedly senior devs with decades of experience.

I've literally seen someone who did firmware for the space shuttle grind for 45 minutes on fizz buzz without making progress. Like, I'd they struggle for ten minutes or so, I take a step back and say "Ok, screw syntax, let's just vaguely talk about what needs to happen and mock up some pseudo code.". Even then, grinding for another half hour with no progress.
uh... how many?
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An informal network of trust (which in fact already exists, it's just that many companies and many engineers don't use it), i.e. personal references, referrals, open source contributions, a project portfolio.

Many participants in the game unfortunately insist on hiring and marketing by three-letter acronyms.
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> It makes no sense why BBC fee payers would want to be compelled to pay to have taxpayer-funded workers to make works which are so restrictively licensed.

Are you suggesting that I should instead be compelled to pay to allow a Neo-nazi to profit off my tax contributions?

I get it, you think noncommercial and moral use clauses are the worst thing ever. Your position is not as universal as you think it is.
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> If a 10 hour project-specific coding task reduces mis-hires by 50%+, isn't it better for both parties?

Does this fully replace the onsite? If I'm fully employed, interviewing with three or four places, and expected to take a day off and visit each of them, adding another full day of work on top of each is a big hurdle.

To keep going with the devil's advocate: If one of your competitors says "ok based on your initial chat with the director, we're gonna bring you straight to onsite" and you say "do this ten hour problem" guess which I'm going to favor? A hiring manager confident in his ability (probably learned through trial and error) to sniff out bullshit is a positive signal to me, the candidate. Intense homework tells me one of two things: they have way too many candidates for the role and there isn't enough data to screen by hand (this makes sense for seasonal stuff like entry-level, not so much elsewhere IMO), or they don't really have a solid picture of how to interview. And in the latter case, that probably means if someone else on the team or in the company suggests a bad but speciously-attractive technical design, they're also going to be unable to call that out.
/r/spacex this is a fantastic group. heavily moderated

/r/askhistorians

/r/apple

I am forgetting a few more.
It is unclear to me what you are saying here. It is well-known fact (amongst the intelligence community) that our software has been used to save tens of thousands of lifes, prevent hundreds (thousands?) of terrorist attacks, saved billions of dollar in fraud etc. In terms of most of the kind of projects governments do in an attempt to prevent {crime,fraud,terrorism,...}, on a scale for how much bang you get for your buck (where 'buck' might be how much data collection you have to do), I think you won't find many other alternatives that compare favourably. (But then, I might be biased, of course.) In fact, as I described in many agencies the situation actually drastically improves once they start using palantir software, since they already had all the data all along, but weren't properly using it as the law intends them to.

Everyone knows the various forms of law enforcement perform some measure of (and have to, to do their job) surveillance. That ranges from e.g. ALPR cameras to patrolling the streets of some city. Most people agree that this is a perfectly acceptable thing. Do you think instead the police should be abolished? Or stripped of their investigative or enforcing power? I don't think most people would actually enjoy living in whatever society would result from this.

Of course the exact boundaries of what is acceptable and what is not should be fiercely debated.
Also, be very sure you understand what you can and cannot say, or ask, when talking with a candidate. HR (in theory) are trained to avoid the landmines.
> For candidates with many years of experience, obviously they can and have been writing software effectively

I wish that were true, it'd make hiring so much easier.
Why have a limit at all? You should be comparing against a hash anyhow, which is fixed length.

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They use dBi (dB gain related to an isotropic radiator) on commercial devices because it's more accurate by referring to a theoretical antenna having gain of exactly 0. Antennas can't amplify signals; to have some gain in one direction they have to lose it in others, so that the isotropic antenna has a radiation pattern of a perfect sphere and its gain is 0, a dipole which loses gain in directions parallel to its axis shows some gain perpendicularly, a patch antenna uses a reflector behind it so that they get more gain in one direction, and a Yagi one also uses directors to narrow that direction even more, thus getting more gain in that direction.

The downside to using dBi is that being a number related to a theoretical antenna it is higher and welcomed by advertisers: if you take out your router external antenna having a gain of say 2dBi to swap with a higher one that gains 9dBi, you don't get a gain of 9dB, but vendors still can write 9dBi on its box.

For home devices, usually smaller dipoles or longer collinears are used because they are the best choice in a scenario where the user needs to cover his/her house and not the neighbors (just keep the antennas pointed up or down, not sideways).
There are many other kinds such as slotted, grid, helical, sector, patch, Yagi, etc. each one with its best use case. Building them is also fun and cheap.
The introduction indicates that this is part of a series that NY Mag has been running called "The Internet Apologizes", where it appears they specifically seek out influential people willing to say bad things about online communities and properties.

This series can probably be reasonably interpreted as part of the traditional media smear campaign against democratized speech platforms -- they quite prefer speech controlled by their fancy executives and programming directors.

While it doesn't necessarily diminish anything the interviewee states, it's important to understand the context and framing of the discussion.
Condé Nast doesn't own reddit, the parent company to Condé Nast, Advance Publications, is the majority owner of reddit, but not the only shareholder.

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Very well said and well done grasping exactly my issue - that calling SO a toxic wasteland isn't correct nor helpful.
> Our industry's hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious.

Agreed. The solution is to not work at a tech company, but instead work in a tech capacity at a real company.

- No silly games (before or after hiring).

- Better benefits (I'd rather have proper health coverage and a pension than a room full of toys and vaporware stock options).

- Immensely more job security (Henry Ford didn't have an "exit strategy").

- People respect you more as a professional with a needed skillset, and not a throwaway cog in a machine who can be replaced or offshored on a whim.

- And in many real companies, proper internal HR groups focused on making you a better person and a better employee, and not some farmed-out commission-based headhunter group that makes money on employee churn.

> In an ideal world, you could trust someone's resume.

That's not an ideal world. That's the real world. Meaning not SV, and its wannabes.
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While that would be a nice movie it will not actually happen ever in reality.

I think this a trope people like to believe, vigilante justice. But let's be honest, its not happening by some crypto currency investors.
They did after realizing they would be facing lots of regulatory problems.

Organizationally, it should be very obvious to anyone who thinks that things like facilitating anonymous gun and alcohol sales, etc is probably not a good idea.
LastPass currently caps its generated passwords at 100 but it used to be more like 1000.
the article itself mentions a solution which isn't terrible, it's just the issue is a matter of trust
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Hmmm.. Agree they can't show it, but they can most def. talk about parts of it, their role and show contrived examples, discuss language skills, architectural elements, improvements they wished they could have made, how they worked with others on the larger team, presentations they made... the list goes on.

This is especially possible given that a lot of work includes open source code, publicly available APIs, SDK services etc. In interviews I've conducted, when a candidate mentions these its an opportunity to dive into more detail on their expertise ..and again discuss contrived examples.

In addition, probationary periods are a way to guard against complete mismatches.
With my accountant/bookeeper we use hubdoc, receiptbank, and xero.

Hubdoc collects monthly invoices from a lot of services. (You have to login with them, but for less important services this is fine)

Receiptbank accepts invoices by email or scan. For other services which send by email I created autoforward rules. For others like amazon which have some personal and some business I filter into a folder and process periodically.

For paper invoices, you scan a photo and receipt bank extracts the relevant data. (It extracts this data with emailed documents too)

Xero puts it all together, and also autocalculates things like foreign exchange.

The best solution is probably a service like Bench though if it's available in your area: a cloud bookeeper.

Having one has greatly improved my life.
"They believe that if they have a billion unique visitors a month, that they have a property that is going to be worth a ton of money in some way eventually."

This is stupid; users are fickle and visitors mean nothing if you can't monetize them. And usually attempting to monetize visitors causes them to leave to the next platform trying to reach a billion unique visitors.

I can't believe intelligent people think this is a valid way to run an Internet business. It might work for small startups looking to be bought out by a larger company (who will then try and monetize it, driving away all the users) but for a company like reddit it's a bit ridiculous.

(Edit fixed typo)
Gilman was a huge part of my life and I played various roles in participating and helping to manage it over the year, though I don't want to take ANY credit for this, it's not my place and no person should. But, the experience I had there showed me what is possible when things are started with good intentions and managed that way going forward. There were and are rocky times at Gilman, but overall it's a model that should be studied.

Also, we made and shared a lot of great music with the world, which is the real upside of gilman. I miss that time in my life.
That is reflective of the nature of the crime, and history of the criminality of the accused, not their intrinsic characteristics, such as being small businesses or large businesses.

Depending on the nature of the violation, it may also reflect the scope of the violation, such as fraud. This is a scenario where, again, the size of the business, or the risk of the business going under, is not taken into account.

If we really want two separate punishments for the same crime- one for small businesses and one for large businesses, because we don't intend on putting anyone out of business- then that should be a codified part of the punishment.
> much of the coverage

"HERO PILOT saves the day by <professionally executing standard emergency procedures>" does seem to have become a news media trope.

"Military, and then decades of experience" has been mentioned for decades. But my fuzzy impression is it would be emphasized as it related to specific challenges of the event. That threshold seemed to drop over the years. The bizarre "hero" bit seems more recent, and perhaps increasingly common.

Spice for ambulance chasing. At least it raises the societal visibility of female military aviators. And of older women as professionally excellent.

I wonder if one might usefully engineer the addition of tropes to news media playbooks. Like "in an example of industry/profession/class groupthink/filterbubble, X said Y".
Or "trade agreement section X came from industry Y because Z" - the TPP now vs TPP under US leadership diff would seemingly make for accessible storytelling, but there's been little.

> the NYT, was much the same.

My lifetime paper, but... the NYT is ok with ambulance chasing. And regrettably ok with sloppy emphasis.

Faced with 9/11, setting the tone for the nation, given a menu of options like "stiff upper lip", "carry on", "spirit of Mumbai", and "back to work", we got... something else. Pulitzer-prize-winning ambulance-chasing death fetish? I've wondered, at the time and since, how might the nation have responded, if offered something very vaguely like <diverse 1/3-immigrant new yorkers>: "We are New York - f'em - we can build 'em up faster than the f'ers can knock 'em down"? Oh well - an alternate timeline.

I wonder if one could get a "carry on" trope going. Instead of "this passenger is taking it in stride - drat - turn off the camera and seek dramatic emotions elsewhere", perhaps a "person demonstrating a stiff upper lip" could become one additional troped story component. Once one exists, it would be easier for it's relative emphasis to increase with time.
word of warning to anyone who wants to integrate with facebook. although their blog posts say they are only removing select endpoints, as the comments in the link above indicate, they have basically shut off access to core endpoints well beyond what they listed. instead of errors, the endpoint returns empty data.

this is extremely disappointing. our app was reviewed by FB (including source code), we have thousands of impacted users, and FB gave no indication that they would start doing this (and the issue was silent).

is a walled garden better than an API that lets users share their data? should we shut down the entire graph because of a few bad actors? is this how FB treats developers?
Apple open-sources FoundationDB
You can tailor AppleNews to just follow topics or sources u want....
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Yeah, that is an interesting idea. Might be harder to come up with, though.
It depends on your state. Non-competes aren't valid in CA for the most part, but they are for most of the rest of the country.
This is INCREDIBLE news! FoundationDB is the greatest piece of software I’ve ever worked on or used, and an amazing primitive for anybody who’s building distributed systems.

The short version is that FDB is a massively scalable and fast transactional distributed database with some of the best testing and fault-tolerance on earth[1]. It’s in widespread production use at Apple and several other major companies.

But the really interesting part is that it provides an extremely efficient and low-level interface for any other system that needs to scalably store consistent state. At FoundationDB (the company) our initial push was to use this to write multiple different database frontends with different data models and query languages (a SQL database, a document database, etc.) which all stored their data in the same underlying system. A customer could then pick whichever one they wanted, or even pick a bunch of them and only have to worry about operating one distributed stateful thing.

But if anything, that’s too modest a vision! It’s trivial to implement the Zookeeper API on top of FoundationDB, so there’s another thing you don’t have to run. How about metadata storage for a distributed filesystem? Perfect use case. How about distributed task queues? Bring it on. How about replacing your Lucene/ElasticSearch index with something that actually scales and works? Great idea!

And this is why this move is actually genius for Apple too. There are a hundred such layers that could be written, SHOULD be written. But Apple is a focused company, and there’s no reason they should write them all themselves. Each one that the community produces, however, will help Apple to further leverage their investment in FoundationDB. It’s really smart.

I could talk about this system for ages, and am happy to answer questions in this thread. But for now, HUGE congratulations to the FDB team at Apple and HUGE thanks to the executives and other stakeholders who made this happen.

Now I’m going to go think about what layers I want to build…

[1] Yes, yes, we ran Jepsen on it ourselves and found no problems. In fact, our everyday testing was way more brutal than Jepsen, I gave a talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
> No site ever rejects it

Have you ever tried it on Yahoo? They wouldn't let me set my email address to yahoo@mydomain a few years ago, claiming that the "email owner" had blocked this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t213wkajdz5753k/yahoolies.png?dl=0
He's basically saying that freedom of speech is too risky on the internet for any platform.

That is scary to me.
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Ironically, the more US airlines outsource maintenance overseas, the better the US airline safety record has been.
Writing a 2600 game was a little like a contact sport, you got beaten up a lot by the hardware ("What's wrong with this stupid register?"), got beaten up by marketing ("Can't you cram that thing into 2K of ROM? What's wrong with you? Oh, and we need it next week. What's wrong with you???"), got beaten up by management ("We gave your hot title to Joe Thumbfingers because there's nothing wrong with him") and ultimately beaten up by the market ("This game suxx, what's wrong with you?"). The payoff was good, at least for a few people.

Eventually the 2600 and its team ran out of gas. I remember being called into some game brainstorming meetings, and the 2600 programmers were just utterly burned out by the platform. Someone would raise an idea and it'd get shot down by the experienced platform wizards. Not the way you want to run a brainstorming session, but everyone thought that the platform was done.

In comparison, Atari 400/800 development was a doddle. You had oodles of RAM, tons of ROM (the cartridge I wrote was the first 16K ROM that Atari shipped, and I don't recall there being a huge flap about it), and the tools were pretty decent (for writing assembly language, anyway). Getting something on the screen was maybe half an hour of work, and you didn't have to count cycles or crunch code until you wanted to do optimization. The downside was that we weren't paid as much, and towards the end management started to fix that, too.
Downplaying in the sense that it's god given and not sweat equity.
A subreddit solely dedicated to auditing the quality of moderation on various subs would go a long way to give reddit the tools to remove problematic moderators. Ultimately the quality of the mod makes the quality of sub.
Agreed. And if you write down in your diary/notebook what have you when you recognize you're happy and having fun. Then write down as much of what you can capture about why. That will give you a tool to use to figure out where to go next to maximize your engagement level with your next task.
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Why can't people just say "Thank You" to this person for taking the time to put a list together instead of spamming their own websites (some of which are already on this list....).