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Man, thank you for writing this. I am totally in a similar boat - but at it for 3x as long. It looks like you are far more agreeable than me when it comes to these assignments.

Consider that for most jobs, there is naturally a 98-99% rejection rate. Only one position and 300 candidates. So assume that most coding exercises you do will go nowhere, will not be reviewed, and will leave you feeling disappointed.

You are a thought-worker, and an obviously talented one. The most important thing you can do is to stay nimble and don't get discouraged or bitter. Part of that means saying "no" to unreasonable requests. You don't have to full out say no - you can also just negotiate down the scope to something digestible.

Identify your limit and push back should anyone attempt to cross it. For me, if it's a good company and the test is reasonable, i'll throw in 2 hours. If it's a BS test, I'll push back or skip entirely.

These companies hiring with absurd processes do not know what they're doing - and will walk all over you/us if given the opportunity.
>while all others were indiscriminately blocked years ago

As far as I am concerned Telegram was blocked for 1) being used by terrorists and 2) the Telegram staff refusing to turn in data to aid the investigation. This has not happened to other messengers like WhatsApp and they are not blocked. Am I wrong?
1) That's because average developers' FOSS contributions tend to be sparse and low-impact.

I have witnessed a number of companies throwing whatever money was needed to have language/framework/library authors working with them. I see no reason why the same principle shouldn't be more general.

2) Not necessarily shallow. You can create 1-2 big PRs per project (plus a few small ones), which amounts to 1 week of work per project.

The point of going for a variety of projects is that you demonstrate:

- proven skill/interest in a whole ecosystem (e.g. Elm)

- ability to read/maintain code (going for just one codebase is comparatively easier)

- ability to adapt to different standards and people

Lastly, high-profile projects have harder barriers-to-entry (therefore you demonstrate better skills), and are more likely to be known by the employer.
I can send SMSs internationally, why not RCS? And you can send & receive SMSs on a computer.

The real problem, in my opinion, is cost; Hangouts is free, SMSs aren't. And it seems RCS is designed to be billed per-unit, following the model of the latter.
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You can migrate your Whatsapp account between different phone numbers. I've done this with SIMs from different countries.
Finding ocean is easy: water and gravity have formed the surface to have few local minima. It would be much more interesting finding peaks: there are many local maxima.

And the most important maxima are often surrounded by lots of local maxima. They may also have some steep slopes so gradient methods can easily overshoot. Sometimes the surface function is not even continuous (overhanging walls).
But it’s not memory. Currently you just show your neural net a million examples of a thing and it derives a function which, given an example input, minimizes the output error. That’s it. It’s not like “last time I caught a ball in a similar situation I moved like this, so let me start with that and correct based on visuals, audio, proprioception, and cognition”, all within 20 milliseconds, before you even fully understand you’re about to catch a ball. That’s not to mention that you also maintain the illusion of a continuous and static visual field, without even noticing, in stereo.
The people of North Korea are encouraged to be grateful to their dear leader. He is a man of many superior talents talents clearly - it’s in a North Korean newspaper and many posters too - and is responsible for improving the life of his citizens who have not created anything of value like Steve jobs or Henry Ford.

Of course western civilisation is not a dictatorship. For example we would never tolerate a leaders son or wife taking control of a countries executive powers.
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I have had the 'normal' 3 hour assignments, but recently I had one that was timed - they gave you 1 day to do it. I got at 10 at night, I thought I would have time but the kids had tired me out and I could not stay up 1-2 hours getting environment set up that I needed.

So then actually I could not do anything about it until 5 in the afternoon the next day, I had problems with environment setup (hadn't needed this particular stack on my new machine so I hadn't set up and things had changed) so it took 3 hours. then I had to do dinner with the family, get kids to sleep. I didn't have the time available in my weekend to do a 3-4 hour assignment that also required 3 hours to get ready to work.

I sent off an email to the recruiter and said what happened and I wasn't really interested in anything similar in the future.
>We don’t believe in taking the approach that Apple does.

I bet the person who wrote that is naive enough to believe it due to lack of historical knowledge. Probably 95% of the current Google employees were hired after XMPP support was dead.
The above is a typo. It should say laissez-faire is NOT an anarchic ideology.
They wouldn't. And so I have to have 20 apps to chat with all my friends. And that makes me a sad panda.
> I think she said "$300k".

I laughed at the joke and upvoted you.

And I frowned at the downvotes for the other comments. Friends, why do we turn into insecure conservative bullies when it comes to femininity? Why accept the implicit normalizing and othering of last century's favorite pronouns?

Let's subvert the status quo!
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> 3. People star it

> 4. It has traction ie >10k downloads preferably >50k

Why ? Your home-made code probably don't check those boxes.
WhatsApp uses your phone number as your "ID" but your message history and contacts can be migrated to a new device or number. So there is a concept of an account beyond just your current phone number but it's not exposed to the user directly.
XMPP had extensions just for that crap. The trick was getting clients that all supported them.
It's like committing mail fraud but sending the mail via a PO box in another country, or wire fraud and routing the call abroad. There's no magic pixie dust about the internet in cases like this, it's just another telecoms and delivery service and we've had those for a long time with settled law governing them.
Government does not always do this, and not all parties that do this are governments.

A government is an institution which has monopolized the use of force in an area.
> Whatsapp, Telegram, FB, iMessages are NOT standards. They're closed systems controlled by a single company.

That's what the term "Defacto Standard" is for.
Facebook data collection raises questions for mobile operators
> I'm not sure what a good percentage is but I know the majority of the population is self-motivated.

This is simply totally incorrect.

If it was close to true we wouldn't need schools or universities. Everyone could self learn through books.

Even MOOCs can't yet work out the motivation issues with drop out rates of 90%
It compiles a plugin for each Jupyter cell code with "go build -buildmode=plugin" then loads it.

It's easy to see with Linux "lsof -p LGO_PID": it lists, among others, the loaded shared libraries - there is one per Jupyter cell code.
That's exactly my point. Thank you for making it for me.
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Staltz is working on a mobile app for Android. Other people can make other apps too.
In my experience they're also critically understaffed.
It's lazyness / entitlemant because we want competent hiring practices that are respectful of our time? Because when you have to work 40 hours in a week doing nothing but take home tests & quiz projects for companies you are interviewing for - for the 38th week in a row - and still not taking in any money for all this - it's more about affording food and paying rent.

The free work is the issue. Pay me for a day to do a project to validate my abilities and we're golden. I've done that at a few places, and it's a great way to go.
Ok, my apologies for not picking up on the fact you are in the EU. Is it the cost that is stopping you from making a subject access request today under existing laws?

Apologies also - I took Citizens' Advice in the narrow sense of the Citizens Advice Bureau (I used to work there so it's in my subconscious) who generally deal with benefits, employment and housing law queries. I took a look at the citizensinformation.ie and did a search for GDPR - I can't see much in the way of materials unfortunately. ACF makes materials available which can be read by anyone regardless of location. Sure, they might make advice available to local entities, but this would be a small benefit to EU orgs vs non-EU orgs.

However I still don't really follow your point how organisations will approach GDPR compliance in general and the idea that there is a massive gap between what is available to EU entities versus non EU entities.

For lots of organisations, GDPR will not be on their radar, and life will go on as normal post May 25th.

For organisations aware of GDPR, their route to compliance will be through reading the source materials and supporting materials available on the Art 29 Working Party website. That is the case regardless of whether the organisation is in or out the EU. They can consult materials from third parties like ACF but the core materials are as above.

I don't really think contacting your MP or actually contacting a regulator is something which many entities have actually done because actually the base regulation and the interpretation notes are sufficient to understand what an organisation has to do to comply (again available to anyone who cares to read). In terms of court access

In terms of access to legal advice, then I don't quite think it's as bad you paint out here! I've instructed local counsel in multiple countries direct and it's a straightforward process and those firms were not part of a top tier international law firm network. Often smaller local firms have firms of similar sizes in other countries that they can refer work to. If other peoples' implementations of GDPR are anything like my company's then the extent of legal advice sought will have been limited.

I think overall I take your point that resources on offer to non EU companies may be a more limited, but overall the core resources are the same. Lots of non-EU entities have been working very hard on looking to comply with GDPR using the above resources and taking local legal advice where relevant. I agree that for smaller organisations this is more problematic, but this is the case regardless of location to an extent.

I do take your point about the extra-judicial nature though. We will have to see how things work out. My instinct is that for lots of companies it will be business as usual and the local regulators will have bigger targets that they want to go after.
In my mind, strong encryption that can fend off the most serious attackers cannot apply to the analog part of the application.

However, analog scrambling techniques should still be effective in many cases.
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SC2 has a lot of things that help the player over an AI, like imperfect information, a very large ruleset, and continuous movement and time.

The main advantage AI can exploit is "infinite micro" units. There are certain units in SC2 that are primarily limited by someone's ability to pay attention to them. Terran Reapers, for instance, in early patches could dance back and forth just within range Zerg Roaches, but out of range of being counterattacked (though the reapers would quickly die if player stopped paying attention). This required such fast movement that it was almost never employed except by professionals during the early game when not much was going on.

If an AI is not limited by the number of actions a person can take, these "infinite micro" units become extremely powerful. In particular, most of these types of units are within the Terran race and most powerful in the early game. The best AI in the near future will likely focus on early all-in attacks using these sorts of units (primarily reapers, widow mines, hellions, and medivacs). The human player would have to rely on defensive structures that would put them at a major disadvantage and then catch up in the mid-late game, relying on the fact that the AI gets worse as the game goes on and becomes less predictable.

Another thing to note is that Terran strategy relies quite heavily on killing the enemy workers in the early game, but the inbuilt controls for targeting workers are quite clunky and prioritise military targets. Players can target individual workers manually, but generally do so with their whole army at once, while an AI could select the perfect number of units required to 1-shot a worker, give them the command, then select another group, and so on.
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For information, it's not the only Go kernel for Jupyter.

There is also https://github.com/gopherdata/gophernotes which uses a different approach: contains a portable Go interpreter, instead of invoking the Go compiler for each Jupyter cell as lgo does (lgo is currently linux only)
BBM public server was certainly blocked as early as 5 years ago.

Blackphone servers at around 4 or 3 years ago as well, just few months after its market release (while signal is still available though)

All modded GSM phones were under blanket ban for even longer. Modded GSM phone vendors are routinely raided.

Then Line, KaoKao and gazillion of others.

There is no doubt that they were very deliberate in targeting anything with hard crypto.

FB, and Google are routinely complying with Russians, so no wonder about them still being there.
And what you are proposing for your friend, after all these years of struggle for a better tomorrow - is to make the same amount of money as he did as a welder?

There are 2 sides to this. And the positive side of having something to work towards is usually not mentioned.

I can give you an example from Europe, in a country which is homogeneous ethnically. We all went to the same public schools and we had the same opportunities. At 30 - some of us make more than 10 times than others. There is no system of oppression which caused this. It was simply the market which has imposed this difference. And the market is at an equilibrium - because the people who earn higher wages, pay a LOT of money for healthcare, the social pension system and other social security things. If the gov would increase this further in order to close the "gap" between high earners and the have-nots/less, the high earners would just leave the country (they already do this to a degree).

Why not let the market decide? This is not about privilege and oppression and I am surprised that over the pond people have not learned from Europe's history.

There is also the side that by having a system in place that rewards effort - people strive for more everyday and this leads to prosperity. This country has been under communism and during those times no one was struggling for anything, because they were paid just the same.
But it doesn't really seem to be a standard that everyone can use. Like others have pointed out, FB and Google both originally built their products on XMPP, and only later decided to lock out competing options.

With SMS I know that I can send a text to anyone. With RCS, I don't know what would be supported by each carrier.
I love guns and have no wish to see them further restricted but this is a terrible argument. The features that are used to define a civilian 'assault rifle' unquestionably make them more dangerous than a hunting rifle.

The military didn't decide to start having pistol grips on their rifles because it looks cool, vertical foregrips originated in the military and it wasn't because they look cool. I own a .308 rifle with a pistol grip, folding stock, foregrip, bayonet lug, threaded barrel and a 20 round magazine and none of these features are needed for hunting but they are damned convenient for killing people.

You can try to tell me that it's no more deadly than a hunting rifle but there are reasons that the seal team 6 don't go in with hunting rifles and full auto fire isn't the only reason.

I think it's important to recognize that these rifles are more than just hunting rifles and also that we should still be allowed to have them because the second amendment is NOT about hunting.
Framers and cabinet-makers are both carpenters, but they're very different jobs.
I've discovered recently the lectures of Prof. Jordan Peterson. You can infer a lot of links between human behavior and shortcomings of AI. In some lectures he even touches the actual problems although on a tangent (e.g. what is relevant in the infinite complexity of the world and on the infinite levels on which you can analyze the world).

Long story short, my claim is that the AI revolution will happen when the AI agent will be able to abstract on a task experience and transfer that to a different task AND abstract away that and transfer that to the set of tasks and so on.

Sort of like the Alpha Zero would next be able to fly helicopters or wash dishes or cook a meal or whatever. Not anytime soon.
You are assuming the network holds personalized data.
While this is true for facebook (because this is their business model) it is not necessarily true for a non commercial social network.
In France we get to keep our phone number when we switch operators.

Travel is an issue yes, but I think it's worth it to have a truly decentralized system.
As the article points out, satellite operators are free to choose which nation's regulatory regime they launch under, but they do have to pick one.

If India freely made an agreement with the US to only launch FCC approved US satellites by US operators, that's India's choice. As it happens India didn't actually grant them a license to launch either, they just lied about having a US license, so technically they're probably in violation of Indian law as well or at least in breach of contract.
Perhaps the problem is that they are _constantly_ changing their product managers.
I disagree that Starcraft doesn't seem harder. The strategic depth is arguably comparable, but the difference is you need the dexterity of a master pianist to execute.
> what happens when you travel and (temporarily) get a local SIM?

The real fix would be sensible roaming charges so you don't need to.
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Only tech heads will understand the importance of a decentralized social network. Casual people who make up the bulk of social media won't .
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Some of your examples aren't as convincing as others. Picasa was mostly renamed and migrated to Google Photos - which is a fairly good product. (The desktop app was a casualty in the process however)
> Anyway, I'm not going to name names because this is unwise to do that in a public forum.

Why not? create a throwaway if its a matter of coming back to you. Otherwise we really need to name and shame these companies if we have any hope of getting the practices to improve. Sunlight is a great disinfectant!
If I was to summarize the problem of Google is this: Google does not hire entrepreneurs.

They're great at hiring engineers. They're great at hiring MBAs from top business schools. But their hiring process does not leave room for unusual rouge entrepreneurial people.

I mentioned this to a person whose company was bought by FB and later became an investor. He agreed and he said, he was interviewed by google but they didn't hire him. So he started his company and a few years later sold it to FB. I know this in anecdotal. But I think Google just lacks the entrepreneurial blood. Someone to hustle a product with a cohesive strategy and vision and finding the way to build it up and turn it into a massive success.
Yes but nobody considers the cost/benefit of having that over a specialist with the same amount of experience.

What takes longer? A full-stack guy trying to figure out how to work around some obscure front-end quirk (like the restrictions on overflow-x/y resulting in unexpected computed values, or the fact you can't transition to or from computed heights?) or a front-end specialist learning some basic dev-ops, or how to change a few Django models?

"Building something" in a language/ecosystem should be easy for any competent dev. I've never touched Obj-C or Swift in my life, and if you asked me to go release an iPhone app on the app store in my spare time in 3 weeks I'd be 100% confident that I can do it; but if you asked me to go and take a job as a senior iOS dev straight after that, I wouldn't even be confident to put myself forward for it. I probably wouldn't even put iOS on my resume.

I think as a senior tech person involved in the hiring process, I should be doing a better job of identifying exactly what I need and finding the right person than just going on the hunt for 6 "good devs" and hoping everything falls into place.
I am from Kota - the city mentioned in this article as the epicenter of this crisis. India's annual suicide rate is 10.5 per 100,000 people, while the suicide rate for the world as a whole is 11.6 per 100,000 [1]. Kota has seen an extremely large influx of young students over the last decade. Roughly 200,000 [2] students come to live in this city to study for college entrance exam. Now, while the high-pressure exams are a problem and there are a complex set of contributing factors that make the exams "high pressure" - social norms, lottery-ticket-out-of-middle-class-mindset, lack of other options, population, demographics (large number of young people) etc. - but the article is trying to make a link between the high pressure exam and suicides, that seems a bit problematic to me. This exam has existed for more than 50 years, and has always been very hard and high pressure.

This article states that "from the start of 2014 to November 2017, 45 Kota students committed suicide". Please make up your mind about the facts, but it seems like lazy journalism and a stretch to make the connection between the exam and suicides without accounting for deviations from per capita rates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_India

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-many-students-are-in-Kota