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> To tack on to this, why would investors want to own WeWork bonds vs equity in the company?

Because if the company goes bankrupt, bond-holders get paid before shareholders.

As such, bond-holders are always in a less-risky position. You'll always recoup some of your money during bankruptcy. (Don't estimate the value of the shelves and furniture!) While shareholders only get some $$ if the bonds are fully paid off.

> In the case where bond holders do well, wouldn't shareholders do better?

Not always. Bond holders will do well if the share-price stays steady or even negative. The company may stagnate over the next 7 years, at which point holding bonds would have been a better investment. The company is legally obligated to pay bondholders at its highest priority, until bankruptcy.

The Bonds aren't sold yet, but will likely be in the range of 4.5% to 5% (depending on market conditions during the sell-date). Over 7 years, the company needs to grow its share price by 36% for equity to beat a 4.5% bonds, or 40% to beat the 5% bond. Doable for sure, but its not too hard imagining a situation where they fail this benchmark and the bonds end up the superior choice.

For example: GNC's stock price doesn't help its shareholders, but the bond-holders would be doing fine.
I've given coding interviews for 20 years, and I'd estimate 9/10 candidates have been competent whiteboard coders. I don't have any explanation for the extreme discrepancy between my experience, and the "hardly anyone can fizzbuzz" folks. Of course this colors how I treat people. I'm much more inclined to interview seniors conversationally and judge competence by the way they talk about work they have done. I have a hard time imagining people investing the time to become conversationally fluent in a domain, as some kind of long con.
Life is political

Tim Cook knows all about “optics”

It’s rather ignorant and selfish for him to pretend laws shouldn’t change or should only favor him

It’s the social equivalent of building on a Google svc and having them shut down that service

QQ for Tim Cook but it’s well within the authority of the government in question

Poor billionaire snowflake

Maybe he can do like Thiel and invest in undermining public institutions cause you know a minority of uber rich should control everything don’t ya know
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You're making at least three reasoning leaps that are supported by nothing I wrote in order to come to a bizarre conclusion about my preferences.
Live Migration is such an awesome feature on Google Cloud. Instead of getting emails saying "your instance is running on degraded hardware, please reboot", your instance is just automagically being migrated to another physical machine with almost no impact on your workload.
I've done exactly this and it helps a lot.

I also tried the "gray screen" thing briefly but didn't keep it because it was a pain when using the nav stuff on Google Maps.
Pretty cool. I was seriously looking at the new 3310 but it doesn't have GPS. Ideally would like maps/navigation. A phone with SMS, maps, and email is all I would ever need.
> Take a look at the issues labeled as [big-bug], ...

I'm amazed at the disparity between the number of issues marked [big-bug] (23) and the number of those that are in the big-bug-backlog milestone (4).
It's such a weird hiring market. 1. There are a lot of imposters out there applying for programming jobs who can't program, and 2. There are a lot of very talented programmers out there who are being rejected by overly picky companies. Both can be true, and I'd argue that both are true. I don't know what the solution is. Current interviewing methods don't seem to be solving the problem.

I'd suggest a widely-accepted professional certification could help a lot, like doctors and lawyers have with the medical board exam or the bar exam. Easier said than done, but what we have today, where the candidate pool is overflowing with impostors with great resumes is not working.
I'm not going to speak to the homework type of problem (because honestly I think you should be paid for that sort of thing), but I always ask people programming questions in on-site interviews, not strictly because I want them to prove they can program (although that's one useful side-effect), but because I want to observe the candidate's problem-solving process. I can't deduce anything like that from your Github or a homework problem.
I switched to a $10/month prepaid plan. For data, it works out to $0.01/MB. Is reading some random web page really worth $0.10? I think not. It has been amazingly effective when I’m out and about.

Now, I just need to disable wifi...
Yes, that's correct. That's one major reason I'm not planning to move to Switzerland, Austria, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, or Israel. The choice of other countries (EU, Canada, Australia, NZ) is more flexible, and mostly emotional based on my experience of working holiday/summer jobs in those places.
In this instance I would argue that poor use ability is at fault.

Patreon is certainly evidence of this need.
Recently referred a friend for an opening at the company where I work. He didn't even get an interview because someone from HR has decided that all developers should have a four year degree (he only has an associates degree despite 15+ years experience). Maybe this would be fine for entry level positions, but it is straight up age discrimination for senior level ones (since there are still talented people in the workforce who went to school when CS programs were much less common).

One theory I have is that HR depts are pushing back against the upward trend of developer salaries; if they create an onerous process that tries to make candidates feel inadequate, it might make it more likely that they can land a low ball offer with whoever is desperate enough to stick it out. Also, if the HR department itself is incompetent and not capable of attracting talent, they can always point to their tests etc to "prove" that there are just no qualified candidates in the workforce.

Also, what is with all the coding tests etc? That stuff is obviously useless. Why don't hiring managers just ask candidates to read some code that is similar to what they will be working on, and observe how they approach stepping through it and how quick they can understand it? That is far more similar to what real work looks like most of the time.
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Interesting perspective, not sure what to make out of it. Maybe the author is having trouble due to location, or skillset, or maybe.... it's really just his age. Recruiters are constantly contacting me and ex coworkers regularly ask me for references so I just assume(d) the market is still red hot.

Last time out (3 yrs ago) I took about a month to land several offers and I didn't really do the whole CTCI preparation or anything. I even received an offer from a company whose take home code challenge I completely ignored because I didn't feel like being bothered. This time around I think I will do the full CTCI and leetcode regimen a I do agree it gets harder the more senior you are as the compensation and expectation raise.
And then you you have a stupid software bug and the redundant physical systems are not helping.

Azure Storage is a available in a ton of locations and all of them stopped working because Microsoft forgot to roll out their patch to renew the SSL certificate. So they knew about the issue but rolling out the patch was not done.

Another example was when they introduced HTTP2 for CDN endpoints and forgot to test the cipher list with popular browsers and broke compatibility with Firefox ESR.
Ha.

Well right now a) we most likely have no idea where an ip address is and b) even if we do, it's nearest-city accuracy.... which is exactly what everyone else does.

Denying browser location doesn't stop the app or website from using your ip address against some third party service to figure out where you are.
Brown itself is not so controversial as the decisions that came after and elaborated on it. They have been criticized from both sides of the political spectrum. The prohibition of forced desegregation has given way to actual forced integration, as you note. When vigorously enforced, it means that minorities who once controlled their schools, dominated the PTA, and could exercise control over their kids' education, are now doomed to forever be minorities in all institutions, and therefore can only hope to seek redress in court when their rights are violated, instead of exercising affirmative power.

I do agree with Brown, to be clear, but some of the excesses of subsequent decisions and their application are great examples of the dangers of judicial activism.
It's not mentioned in the article, but the bonds could be convertible, which would allow the bondholders to exchange them for stock in the future. Bondholders are almost guaranteed to be more secure than shareholders by law (getting their money back isn't guaranteed if WeWork went bankrupt but they'll 100% get paid before shareholders. Finally, WeWork owns real property so they have plenty of collateral.
One of the primary issue with these alternative social networks is the lack of good content, RSS integration should honestly be one of their main priorities.
Other good options to explore:

Date-FNs: https://date-fns.org/

Luxon (from the Moment team): https://moment.github.io/luxon/

Both have strong support for ES6 tree-shaking.
I don't think OP wanted to trace sudo.

But then I'm not sure what sudo was for... Does dtruss require root privileges?
True, and the open banking api may allow this to occur!

Again though, right now the UX is basically unusable for frequent transactions.
Passive radar is a thing, because I use it.

it works by using known radio sources (ie tv transmitters) which has the advantage of being powerful , continuous and reasonably unique signal pattern (for timing)

radio sniffing is where you listen for the aircraft directly, and there are a number of offerings on that front too. Phased array antenna with SDR front ends, are smashing bits of kit.

now frequency hopping spread spectrum means you need more DSP to find the signal, but its still there. In fact it provides nice timing signals because they hop frequency so much. There is more, but thats for another time

In theory the frequency hopping can be random, but that requires a shared random source, which is hard to sync.
I see so many recommendations to get rid of a smartphone. Here is a different view. I didn't have a smartphone till 2014, I used to think that it was a scam by phone service companies and manufacturers to make you spend more. And then I almost missed my kid's team event due to change of location and missed the messages from other parents. I would have messed months' long preparation by all these kids by my kid's absence. That was the first and last straw and got a smartphone. I also want a phone handy to take pictures. A phone is essential, I just would like android and ios to care more about distractions and develop features to limit these distractions. I am also looking forward to robust, foolproof apps like Space by Boundless etc.
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It's because a lot of those senior people only sit in meetings all day and now they're looking for a new role and they're used to delegating tasks to others and have forgotten (or never knew) a great deal of information. I feel for them in some ways because these jobs are mostly political, not technical in nature. It's not what they wanted, either.
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It's now illegal for companies to ask this in California.
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> it's there because we have no industry wide, respected entrance exam

So you think the person with 30 years experience might be, whats the word... oh right. Lying. You think they are lying.

Quit trying to dress it up. Coding tests are exactly you saying you don't believe the experience written on the resume.
Quote:

a large majority of candidates lie on their resumes

Is it really true? I do not think it has been my experience (some, but not the majority).
So, fix the question.

If the question is "why do I get a segfault?" and we find out he's trying to write C code to title-case a string in-place, and he's passed in a string literal, we can edit the question to "Why do I get a segfault trying to modify a string literal?" or similar.

If the objection is that answering the real question will confuse people, then make the question match the correct answer.
Thanks! I'm a bit of a n00b at this, so I really appreciate it.
> A person who has code fluency can create the algorithm in the language of your choice, pretty much on the spot.

I've professionally used each for a year or more C#, Python, Javascript, Objective-C, Java, PHP, Visual Basic, and ActionScript over the years. But if you asked me to write a function in anything but the first three languages, I will almost undoubtedly stumble a bit in producing them (hell, I still have to look up syntax for Python periodically).

That doesn't mean I couldn't pick them back up in a future job very quickly again (each job I worked for I was usually contributing to their code base in a few days, never longer than a week), it just means I don't have them fresh in my head and I can't store absolutely everything in my head forever.

But you'd still probably think I was incompetent. I've certainly given that impression before when I had an onsite scheduled by a recruiter and given less than 24 hours notice for an Objective-C job, a language I hadn't touched or thought about in over a year, and was handed a laptop by a Junior Programmer and was told "Code up an app for me." while another interviewer sat quietly across the table from me and stared at me the whole time while I refreshed on a years worth of XCode changes and forgotten syntax in real time.

After that wonderful performance they didn't give much weight to the two employees in their department that worked under me at a previous startup I was Lead Programmer for and vouched for my skills.
It doesn't say anything about upper case numbers. Just old style vs lining, and tabular vs proportional.
I watch a lot of YouTube, probably more than what is healthy, and I happily pay for YouTube Red (ad free youtube). I have no idea how my subscription supports the channels I actually watch. It would be nice if my subscription payment actually was divided among the channels I actually watch. This way I'd automatically be supporting the channels I enjoy simply by watching them, regardless of how ad-friendly they are.
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Cool project! I've been thinking about how one could build a crowdsourced geoIP database. Bootstrapping with Mechanical Turk is an interesting approach, especially if you can request workers in different cities and countries. One idea I had was a browser extension that volunteers could install to automatically submit their current location and IP address on browser startup.

It would be helpful if the home page demonstrated the passive geolocation results. The page asked for my browser location but didn't show the result.

btw the map zooming is very slow in my mobile browser for some reason.
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But I don't want to talk about FizzBuzz! It's boring! There's a "right" answer, and not a lot/any real choice or nuance.

Ask me about your current problems, problems the person filling the position would need to have opinions about. If nothing else, maybe I could crack a tough issue for you that would have material value.

I've given FizzBuzz, and I've done FizzBuzz. It's hard to do it/get it and not feel like there's some degree of insult involved.
We know :( Our next release (<2 weeks, with new onboarding flow) will only ask for one permission on first launch.

The app is currently free while in beta. We are in the process of building the UI for a Pay What You Can subscription model, which we feel aligns well with the movement away from an attention economy towards a user value economy, makes it more accessible, etc.
I basically said just that. There may eventually be a new standard that's RCS with E2EE and some new features but it's going to take a lot of time.
By incorrect covering of nipples, do you mean this example from his portfolio?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhHcR7eg7LZ/?taken-by=tonnynatha...
Governments tend to create places where there is a large amount of money available in a very non-egalitarian fashion. Look at the DC area--all the tax revenues from around the country is pumped there and supports an immense amount of people on 100k plus salaries. Another example is defense-industrial complex and military bases. Military bases contribute a LOT of money to local economies. That money doesn't ultimately come from the military base but from the population of the country as a whole. That's why senators make very strange, non-strategic decisions about base closures.
Yes, Canada's Express Entry is one of my top-two preferences. The problem is if I then leave for more than 2 years, I lose PR. So it's not really "Permanent". I'd have to stay for 4 years and become a citizen. But that's ok - I enjoyed my Working Holiday there, and I could see myself being there for 4 years. My girlfriend said she prefers NZ though (and NZ has tougher requirements) so I'm sticking with that for now. If anything happens to our relationship though, and we decide it's better to be apart, then I'll be on the next plane to Canada.
Websites are built to fit within the existing constraints of the web platform. It's important to look beyond what sites are doing today and instead look at what they cannot do. It's basically this story for web performance [1]. Here you're suggesting profiling and optimizing website designs that 'survive' and make it production but you're failing to observe designs and sites that don't make ship because of performance issues and you're just trying to optimize against cases where the designs survive.

In general parse-time and compile-time is meaningful enough that large websites are spending a considerable amount of effort and energy playing 'code golf' to keep JS size down otherwise engagement will suffer.

[1] https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-...
I understand that.

But why are the fixed costs of moving any amount of mo way so high?

It would be great to a detailed walk through of all of the mechanics the varying systems of exchange use.
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In 2012, under George Osborne, it was changed so that it is permissible for an employee to be unfairly dismissed in your first two years of employment.
> It's worth emphasizing that for the first example, the answer was provided free of charge within an hour.

It shows -- the quality of the answer is quite poor.

> I don't think I agree with any assessment in which this is not an unqualified success.

This made me laugh. I guess the only assessment you considered is your own, which simplistically assumed time to answer is the most important factor.

And yet, not a single soul finding this question on Google cares if the answer took an hour or two days. Apart from you, I guess.
That's what I thought.

Web-apps are architected fundamentally different than classical software.
Congratulations on your what you have achieved so far and good luck in the future! Not a lot of people know the amount of research, effort, discipline, money, sacrifice and luck go into immigration.

Hopefully your points are not just over the threshold - if they are, beware of losing your "youth points" and going below the minimum accepted points when you turn 32 or 35 (or whatever the limit is for the countries you're targeting). The years go by so fast!
I wonder who actually rents from WeWork. I checked their prices for Berlin, Barcelona, London and found cheaper alternatives with the same or better features after just one google search.
> Was the clapper a good product?

No? I don't think I've ever met someone who owned a Clapper. In my mind, it's the epitome of gimmicky late-night TV/Skymall products.
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That's a fair point. I don't think the process is over, which is why that was qualified.

I was talking more about the dissolution of a major nation-state, but mixed that in with book discussion, so I wasn't being clear.
(You're right, I didn't take in the full subtlety of the Ireland EU situation. The specific EU rule seems much more defensible than my idea.)

But regarding that idea:

You make some interesting arguments in favor of states essentially forming a "cartel" in order to avoid driving taxes too low.

But then how do you decide what "too low" is? Who gets to decide what a reasonable tax rate is? If we're a bunch of people in lonely Isolated State and we vote to set our tax rates very low, does it seem reasonable that some central government strongly controlled by more populated states can say, "no, that's not fair"?

On an emotional level, I'm very sympathetic to the idea that the group of people deciding policy in a region should not be too far removed from that region.

(Of course, that it still might actually result in globally worse outcomes. But it might actually be worth it, just to avoid the unjust feeling of "policy dictated by people far away".)

Even then, I'm not convinced it actually results in worse outcomes. California has very high taxes, and is nevertheless a very popular destination. Some sort of centralized system that required all states to have CA levels of taxation seems like it would almost certainly be worse overall...

(I'm more thinking out loud than trying to make an argument.)
Volume. Huge volume.

Google has a completely broken interview process, to the point where they pretty much brag about how ridiculous their false negative rate is, but they make up for it on volume. When people will throw themselves at you two or three times in hope of getting that lucky set of algorithm wankery questions that they can answer, then you will keep interviewing like that.
I would avoid basing your knowledge on blogs.

The wiki page's synopsis are contradictory as usual, but the original images as well as Snowden's comments are not ambiguous. The slides show real time access to video, voice, VOIP, etc.

Snowden's synopsis was, "In general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc. analyst has access to query raw SIGINT [signals intelligence] databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want."

Quoting Greenwald who received the information and disclosure directly from Snowden: "...even low-level NSA analysts are allowed to search and listen to the communications of Americans and other people without court approval and supervision." Greenwald said low level Analysts can, via systems like PRISM, "listen to whatever emails they want, whatever telephone calls, browsing histories, Microsoft Word documents. And it's all done with no need to go to a court, with no need to even get supervisor approval on the part of the analyst."
I think what you described here is all too frequent and, frankly, infuriating. Obviously not the right way to hire people, but more profoundly, I think it reflects poorly on the collegiate nature of our profession.
I'm starting to notice this trend as well.

I felt it was much easier to land a job in tech 2.5 years ago when I was last looking.

Maybe we are reaching a point of too many engineers and not enough jobs?
Competitive programming is interesting, but it is very different from what you get to do at work.

"Cracking the coding interview" and similar books are really about competitive programming, which is what you get to do at contests like ICPC and such.