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Brains are different. Are you a visual thinker?

I think in words, and so anything with words heavily blocks background thinking. You may have a type of brain that is particularly compatible with doing secondary phone activities.

(By contrast, I can think while tidying, cooking, etc. They're all non-verbal)
> So you would rather have only 2-3 giant internet companies that obey GDPR, than a web of smaller sites like internet used to be?

I prefer a web of smaller sites... What's preventing anyone from building their blog? I still read the same blogs on my RSS roll as I've always done. How does GDPR stop any of this?

> I find it a bit arrogant to think of users as so dumb that they cannot choose for themselves which site to use.

Have you been on the internet? People are fucking stupid.
Is there also a fear of three people doing the work of four for weeks/months since there's the possibility someone could be a bad hire?

Is there not also a fear that an overworked person will become toxic?
> Basically, they assume the patent should be granted and then have to kick to the courts to decide if it is valid or not.

That's pretty much how the statute works (unfortunately, IMO): The default mode is that you're entitled to a patent unless the USPTO's patent examiner can show that you're not eligible. See 35 USC 102(a): "(a) NOVELTY; PRIOR ART.—A person shall be entitled to a patent unless— [list of various disqualifications]" (Emphasis mine.) [0]

I've groused here before that this is akin to requiring a dissertation committee to grant a Ph.D. degree unless the advisor can show that the research had already been done before, instead of requiring the candidate to conduct and document a thorough literature survey. Of course, the consequences of an improvidently-granted patent can be far more serious than for an improvidently-granted Ph.D. degree.

[0] https://www.bitlaw.com/source/35usc/102.html
yup. lets rob an engineers or biotech specialists ability to work. that will make this country great for certain.
Is Edward VII in 1904, Reason France and England Allies in WW1?
That's a good point. Since I don't have that feature, I'll be happy to remove data manually if it ever comes up.
If they're literally incompetent or toxic (i.e. "bad"), it's obviously better to find that out during the interview process and not hire them in the first place. The 10 "potential candidates" don't include anyone that the interview process detected as bad.

Interviews are imperfect, and damaging candidates will slip through the cracks. Are you seriously suggesting that a business should decide not to fire someone based on their immigration status, rather than their performance and integration with the team?
In the past, when a government sent an Internet company a National Security Letter (or equivalent), it was a lot of work for them to dig up every trace of content that user has ever produced or had recorded about them -- think, for example, of a Google account, which might have GMail archives, chat logs, search history, YouTube videos, Google+ posts, Google Voice records, Chrome backups....

It used to be really hard to gather all that information and package it up in a nice little bundle. It used to be hard for a company to get their software engineers to quietly implement such functionality across all products without getting internal angst and bad press leaks.

But now, companies can just tell their software engineers that they're writing user-friendly data-portability features. Across all product lines, they'll happily code away, completely oblivious to the fact that their code is also going to be used for this other purpose.
The only person who wants to be at a company is the owner/creator/founder (in whatever role that is). Everyone else is picking up a paycheck to work on what they are skilled at and could just as easily work somewhere else ( from CEO to mailroom person.)
I remember a muscular guy at the gym who had shaved off his eyebrows, and re-painted them. He always had a happy expression.
Remove your browser, and keep a todo list of things to google later at a computer.
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I take it they feel they have to have a presence on Twitter, and the public airing of grievances is just the price they have to pay.
Darn, I was about to suggest that you get the iPhone SE but I think you made a better choice sticking with the iPod Touch.
One reason I prefer to use DDG is also to promote them. I started using DDG when I saw other people using it. The other reason is I also try to limit the number of services that I have to maintain.
>They're paying all this money for experts in the field, and they still want to disregard their opinions.

Nope - they've gotten burned by being talked down to like the cliche mechanic telling a girl her SUV's hammenframas needs to be replaced, and it's $1600.

If you as a software developer cannot speak coherent English sentences (with a small handful of management jargon) to management without devolving into technical shorthand, you are a failure.

Not management.

You.

You have to explain what is going on in a manner your audience can understand.

You should not expect managers to be technical (they might be (and good for you if they are)) - they're accomplishing a different task from you and need solid, understandable, actionable data to take to their management and customers.
There are us guys who are involved in toddler care also (like me, since my wife is working instead). Anecdotally, my wife failed in all her in person interviews until she got one with a substantial take home assignment. She got an offer for that job easily, above what she was looking for.

For her at least, this worked out better for her. She does design, which is even more difficult to evaluate in 30 minute time slots.

Not that I’m arguing this is the way to go, I was just wondering if interviewers could give some hints on what they would cover I the interview, so we could prep like studying for a test.
The book is versioned like a software product (I have versions 4.0 and 3 point something), so I’d be surprised if it was a binding error or the author didn’t have control.

I think you’re right that it’s about it being the correct ratio and is intended to be broken in. The copy I had as a design student certainly was.
there is a spelling error on the site: ...Dim any nuber of screens...
Small business owner was the original middle class, "bourgeoisie". Ben Franklin was a member of the middle class,and he believed that middle class -- where anyone could take a vacation to run for government office -- was essentially to democt

Im modern world, the working class started being called middle class so they woul stop complaining about their poor lot in life.
How would you see this in ThousandEyes? I see he has a screenshot of it in the post, and doesn't appear to be logged in.

Was troubleshooting this for the two hours, until I started reading reports of the BGP leak. Not in networking, so don't fully understand how it works.

I'd just like to know how to troubleshoot this in the future, and check for leaks, if any. Are there any other online tools I could use? Obviously don't have an edge router or anything like that.
Maybe companies only hire the "top 10" of their applicants and assume that this means they only hire the top 10 of engineers.

In reality, the applicant pool is heavily biased towards very bad engineers.
> The slides show real time access to video, voice, VOIP, etc.

For the specific users whose data was requested in the Section 702 request.

> 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."

Funny how Snowden didn't have any evidence of this. All his documents match the description I gave you. The FBI's DITU is right there in the system diagram slide. This is just a misunderstanding of the documents by a low-level sysadmin who never actually saw the programs and a credulous reporter who didn't even try to check his facts.
It inspired me to do this post. Something that useful could not be hidden in the “dark”.
The Mercury isn't doing a good job either. See this example from today:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/24/martins-beach-supreme...

This story does not make it at all clear that the suit isn't so much about a road, but also a parking lot and access to a sandy beach above the high tide mark.
Allowing like-minded people to find each other is not necessarily virtuous. A group of people who congeal purely for like-mindedness get lost in groupthink and the herd mentality.
I don't require any accessibility accommodations and still found the site very very hard to read. Small text with low contrast is not a win.
How does this work with modern SSH access management? If you were talking to an organization about maybe adopting this, and they told you they were planning in the medium term to move to a system where developers 2FA-authed to an auth server and got issued time-limited SSH certificates, where would your thing fit in?
Agreed, those things alone are worth it.

However, once I already had an Echo I started thinking of things that could be done with it beyond the trivial stuff.

For example I have been working on a tiny ESP8266 device that will sit behind or above the toaster oven in my moms kitchen. If the temperature is high for more than an hour or two, Alexa will say "I'm reminding you, the toaster oven is still on".

Total cost will end up being about $10-15, and requires no contact with or alteration of the oven, so it is a progressive enhancement rather than potentially making things worse or interfering with the basic function of the oven.

I could put a "smart switch" on the power supply and cut it automatically, but when things like toaster ovens are plugged in those switches are a potential hazard themselves.

It seems like automatic shutoff is something toaster ovens should all have, but clearly not all of them do. The same is true for ovens, stove tops, coffee pots, clothes irons, heating pads, tea kettles, electric woks, curling irons, etc.

Also seems like a better idea to follow the example of smoke alarms and use external monitoring rather than trust every single appliance to work properly.

I've considered putting something like an AMG8833[1] in a smoke alarm housing on the ceiling, so it can detect any appliance left on too long, but I'm not sure if it would work well in practice. Things like that are getting cheaper though, eventually it'll be possible.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3538
> Do you have 10 positions and 10 potential candidates? Hire all 10 folks, and fire the one bad person; your company will be better off for the decision. Much better off than it would be if you instead overwork your existing team because you haven't found your unicorn hires yet.

Even if you hire two do-nothings and a negative-performing person (consumes half an FTE's day in questions), you still end up with 6.5 productive people. And frankly, a 65% productive workforce is pretty damn good. I've seen lots of companies where <65% of people are productive.

Plus, some of the do-nothing people can be alright with some direction. Sometimes people don't get anything done because they just don't know what to do. I've been on so many teams where the manager said, "we need a person to do X" and they end up with some random person that doesn't really know how to do X. The solution that I've found is to find something they can do and have them work on that. Most projects have no shortage of work that's more time-consuming than difficult.

For negative performing people, I usually give them something kind of busy-work that doesn't involve the rest of the team. They might not be getting anything done, but they also (mostly) aren't weighing down the team by asking them questions all the time.
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It's quite telling of HN that this perfectly reasonable comment is the most downvoted.

I also enjoy the ignorant response implying governments are responsible for worker protections, not the organized labour that pushed for those regulations in the first place. The same meager protections that the current anti-labour government would love to roll back.
The point of my story is not that I should have been hired. That isn't my call.

The claim is often made that anybody who can code should easily pass some particular test: P -> Q. I'm offering a story of P & ~Q, which means FizzBuzz isn't really doing what it's claimed to. There's a ton of subtlety I've sidestepped and a lot more I could say, but I don't really have the time.

(I didn't downvote you.)
That's an interesting conclusion and it makes pretty sense to me. I've heard that most projects fail due to organizational failures rather than development performance failures. It's probably better to invest in process/quality-aware developers than in rockstar programmers. But I've never read studies about that.
Thanks for sharing, this is great! I'll give it a try
Wouldn't https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4025 and https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4398 cover those cases?
You need NAT whenever you can't change your peers' routing table, for whatever reason.

It's used extensively in IPv4 world for LAN=>WAN connectivity because your only peer (your ISP) won't agree to send all traffic for 192.168.0.0/24 to your home.

Its most popular use case disappearing doesn't make it any less useful for the narrow set of circumstances when it's basically your only option.
I would like to add http://yacy.net to the list of self-hosting web searches.
Just because some people ended up in a relationship this way doesn't mean the behaviour should be encouraged.

Sure, some people won't mind being asked out repeatedly, or maybe even find it flattering, but some people will find it very uncomfortable, and forcing those people to deal with that just so some people get to enjoy a silly courtship ritual is not really fair.
As much as I hate it as an employee, "at will" employment means that cost simply does not exist for 48 of the 50 US states (including all states where FAANG have employees).

The cost is also not that high in non-at-will states, since there's typically a 3-6 month "evaluation" period where no paper trail is required.
A good hybrid approach would be to write as if there will be no links, but add them at the end.
Only if your phone is spending all its time parsing javascript, and maybe 1% (being generous) of its CPU time is spent doing that for a JS heavy page. So 1% of 1%. Really not much at all.
Which surgery? Something like a brow lift?

Have you looked into microblading?
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Even so, your ‘friend’ could have chosen worse places to start...
Look, it's a medical condition, I can't help it.
In which case, I don't think that's a place I'd like to work. Most often the solution an engineer comes up with is _not_ ideal and will be improved either because they come up with a better one later before they commit it or because they go through code review and someone else sees a better way. If you don't leave room for people to improve their solutions you'll just end up with the first, crappy one that comes to mind.
How big was the attack? You can't fool all the people all the time. But fooling all their targets for even 30 minutes is a significant achievement considering what info they could have obtained. What do we know about the victims? What reason do we have for believing it was a random victim attack? Besides the insane difficulty part..
I see no mention of timezones! Please don't claim you have the same api if you and say you delivered in in 2kB if you removed the hardest and most useful part.
"Track your overall job hunt metrics - how many jobs you applied for, what percent got to interviews, what percent got to second interviews and so on"

Oh please dont show me that. Im afraid
I don't completely understand why so many comments to this article are discussing "RBF" as an objectively real phenomenon. As I read it, the article seems to imply that completely neutral expressions are simply perceived as negative by people who have become conditioned to subconsciously react to neutral stimuli as being negative or hostile. I'd argue that plenty of people face logically unjustified prejudice based on their physical appearance for lots of reasons. Do we want to live in a society where people change their eyebrows because it cause others with subconscious prejudices to judge them negatively? How is this different from arguments about, say, skin color?
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Fun fact: according to unsubstantiated UNIX lore, "rm" is NOT short-hand for "remove" but rather, it stands for the initials of the developer that wrote the original implementation, Robert Morris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer)

I have no proof of this, but through oral tradition, such a tale has been relayed to me. Believe whatever you will.
If I knew how to find consulting/contract clients for non-third-world-peasantry rates, I would quit my FT job today. My employer bills me out at ~$150-200/hr, so I know it's possible, I just have no idea how to get started.
Something I've noticed when speaking in public and looking around at the audience (as one should to be a good public speaker) is that the majority of facial expressions will register as skeptical and unfriendly to my eyes.

I found this pretty alarming and discouraging at first, but I gradually realized that for the most part, I was just interpreting looks of concentration to be negative when they were actually neutral at worst.

Even knowing this, it can be hard to ignore. I was recently giving a talk, and a large guy in the front row seemed to be outright glaring at me the whole time. His look seemed to clearly communicate "WTF is this idiot talking about?" I tried to ignore him, but it definitely left me a bit flustered.

When the talk ended, that guy was the first one to come forward and tell me how much he had enjoyed it.
The same reason I use dark theme on HN as well.
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> I see cryptocurrency as a harbinger of AI, which is the real revolution. Blockchain is just a tool. People get really confused trying to understand and develop pricing models for the current state of the world but I see a lot of cryptocurrency value as reflecting the adoption of AI.

This seems like a strange thing to believe. Why do you believe it?
I don't know. I first read it in like '98/'99 ish? and by the time I was reading reviews for it people were calling it satire or at least definitely winking at the audience (as a sibling points out: hiro protagonist) I don't know what the conversation was contemporaneously with release.
> ...the assignments never asses things I'm actually good at.

I actually really like homework assignment approach when done correctly, both as an interviewer and as an interviewee (though seanmcdirmid's suggestion of prep material, rather than a homework assignment, is quite sound), but this is a separate issue, independent of how skills are assessed.

It's really about the company/team having a preconceived notion of what skills they are looking for vs. looking to see if a candidate has a distinctive skillset that could help round-out the team. How do you, as the candidate, market yourself and the things you are good at?

Obviously, the resume is a good place to do such marketing (and I'm sure you already are) so if teams are turning down applications based on the homework without looking at the other skills the candidate has to offer, then that might be an issue.
Lots of companies sell Android devices without explicitly calling it Android. The most notable example is Amazon (Android - without GApps - is the OS on pretty much everything in the Fire line, e.g. Fire Tab and Fire TV).

In other words, I think you've got it backwards: you're not allowed to use Google's branding/trademarks (including "Android") unless you have authorization from Google. Meanwhile, I'm not aware of any requirement to call the OS "Android" even with that authorization; the word "Android" doesn't show up at all in the official product page for Samsung's Galaxy S9 [0].

[0]: https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s9-...
both apply to me.
HR is filtering - in my experience - 100s or 1000s of people for a single role (or small handful of roles).

That you are seeing 30-40% HR interview rates shows you've got something on your resume (or your referrals) that's pushing your resume higher on the stack.
The SSH key stored in Krypton can be signed just like a local key-pair. The public key is stored in ~/.ssh/id_krypton.pub and SSH will look for the cert at ~/.ssh/id_krypton-cert.pub.
The original book and its ilk are akin to programmer code style guides: whether to indent four spaces or two, put the brace on the same line as the if-statement or below it, etc. Just as a non-programmer is likely to stare at you, lost, that you would care about whether to use two spaces or four, so we are likely to look at professional typesetters when they wax philosophic about their preferences. But just like all those code preferences, these typographic tidbits have a subtle effect, making a printed page look more professional, elegant, easy on the eyes, etc.

As some have pointed out, however, you have to be careful when translating rules from page to screen. For example, Jakob Nielsen was probably right when he said you just leave links alone, let them be blue and underlined. Typophiles especially hate to underline words. They will go through all sorts of acrobatics to decorate links any other way (bottom borders that don't touch the descender thingies on the letters g and y and so forth) or even background images of a line. Thankfully Chrome at least as started to support underlines that by default cross under those descenders.

Typophiles also don't care for colored text much and will likely try to color their links black if they could get away with it. Colored text reminds them of children with crayons or their mother making a flyer. Serious type is understated, like a little black dress.

I myself am a typophile and come from a background in studying fonts and all that before I got into web design. I have slowly come around to be more like Jakob Nielsen, and I prefer those low-brow unstyled sites by professors and old open-source projects over most "designed" sites these days. But I still prefer a nice serif over sans-serif, and a max-width of about 50em, thank you.
the light phone 1 did just sms and calls, the light phone 2 expands on that. i guess blloc is just a modernist phone?

blloc and lightphone both stand out from other phones because they have a greyscale ui, which lets them use eink for something like 10x battery life. that’s the selling point, i think.

edit: nevermind, this is lcd but still saves on battery life bc it’s greyscale
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> Is there also a fear of three people doing the work of four for weeks/months since there's the possibility someone could be a bad hire?

Apparently not at my employer. My team was 10 people 4 years ago, and we're down to 6 now, without much dip in workload. We had someone leave about a month ago, and we're still fighting to get a job rec to replace that person.
Focus on the foreheads. When you’re nervous, your brain is looking for threats.
The core issue is that p-values are cheaper to get than replicating the study, but replicating the study is the only reliable way to see if it's true or not. Sometimes the expensive/time-consuming way, is the only good way.
This is the difference between American and British usage of "[upper] middle class". Americans use it to mean "[upper] middle income", which unfortunately discards much of the understanding conveyed by the British usage.