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> As an employer I don't care how great your skills are, if you can't walk me through your thought process for 45 minutes you're not going to be overly successful.

As an investor, I don't care how great your skills are, if you can't come up with your new business idea on the spot and walk me through your thought process as you're doing it, you probably suck.. right?

Nah.

Unless you already have the answer, the first step is to come up with the solution. This could involve time spent alone just thinking, or brainstorming with coworkers, or researching the problem on the net, etcetra. What the right steps are depend on the problem, available resources, your background, even your preferred way of working.

The second step is to present and dissect the solution. I dare say this is the point at which the majority of engineers have no problem whatsoever talking about their thought process.

Do you work in an industry where engineers genuinely have to walk somebody through their thought process while they're trying to think up a solution?

If a problem comes up at a meeting and you don't have a solution on the spot, you take note and discuss it later or add it on the agenda for the next meeting. I think that's how people work.

I don't care about where, when, and how you came up with the idea. I care that you can present and discuss it once it's ready for that.

I think this is why many prefer the take-home test. They can focus on the solution. Then, at the interview, they can focus on the talk about the solution. It's also a great equalizer as e.g. people coming to work in a domain they have less experience with can take more time to research the solution space.

The complaints about homework taking up too much time may be valid, but I'd be most happy to trade 2 hours of interviews for about 75 minutes of homework and 45 minutes of interview.
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There is a movement to use the same tech on desktop as you would on the web, but is anything moving in the opposite direction? Will there be a web version of QT or something? That would be great.
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> That's a fair point I hear quite a lot. Not sure what the reasoning is there (assuming it is the case).

That it's incredible inconvenient? I don't want to do discussion there, but just read what other people tried and did.

The result is that I just make throwaway accounts for such websites to get to the content and I appreciate if I don't have to do that.
There is a massive amount of inefficiencies in our power usage.

Resistor based water heaters and space heaters, heat pump / compressor based air conditioners and water and space heaters, fridge and freezer cooling compressors, work air compressors etc all could be used to increase grid stability instead of now decreasing it. Or, if you have your own generation or are off grid, to reduce the electricity trading or storage needs
Nice strawman. If sometime in the future you want to talk about Monal, let me know.
Hey, so you are using all these expensive AND inadequate techs, could we at least use something sane for this non critical stuff? I mean you don't have to worry about this thing and you save a lot and you are using a much better stack overall. What say you?

No.
Signals, done correctly, are hard. I agree with your NSHO for the most part. Neat code!
I feel bad for the Chinese Internet loving nerds and non-nerds alike. Their government is a repressive and misguided authoritarian regime that needs to be removed.
And a US citizen who chooses to break EU law has very little to worry about unless they travel to an EU country, where that country's law will be applied.
Perhaps one of the problems is that the music I listen isn't well defined in terms of genre - songs on the same album can vary significantly. However, I guess mostly post hardcore and progressive rock - there are bands/artists in these genres I like, but others I have absolutely no interest in. However, I also have lots of "rock", punk rock and some pop rock stuff in my library. I mostly get a lot of metal and hardcore recommendations which I'm simply not interested in. It's also not unusual for me to see rap and R&B recommendations, which I'm unlikely to be interested in (although some songs I like may be defined as such).
Don't be evil is a pompous statement that suggests more power than they have. Any civilized society with functioning rule of law makes this kind of corporate statement meaningless and delusional.

Unless you are a corporatocracy and the inability of civil society to rein in the surveillance state betrays a fundamental breakdown.

The irony is if this was a Chinese company cooperating with the military on their drone program that is in active service and is killing people in far off lands as we speak there would be a global hue and cry and a frenzy of sanctions and global demonization, often by the same people defending Google now. This kind of brazen hypocrisy is what's wrong with the world today.
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Let accept that there is Ether, and Ether is like water. In such case, Casimir effect may depend on the flow of Ether, so if plates are in free space and exposed to unbound Ether, then Casimir effect may happen when plates are oriented perpendicular to flow (as usual), and may NOT happen when plates are parallel to flow (my prediction).
Why should we trust the EU?

The EU’s digital commissioner said in 2015 that the EU should use regulation to "replace today’s Web search engines, operating systems and social networks" with EU companies.[1]

And they've passed or proposed ridiculous laws like cookie warnings and link taxes. We have reason to be suspicious of their intentions.

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-digital-chief-urges-regulati...
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I couldn't agree more. Ever since switching from Slack to wee-slack I have never run out of memory on my laptop, which used to be a problem every once in a while when running so many instances of electron.

Also Telegram (at least the Linux desktop client) is not electron, it is QT. Maybe some problems that people link exclusively to electron are not limited to just that platform.
Eh. This is not a mystery. Banks have tremendous lock-in and inertia working for them. The only way to fix the industry is complete account portability. Anybody should be able to wander into any competitor to their existing bank and initiate a transfer of their account to that competitor. The transfer should freeze the account and take no more than 48 hours. Do this and let the free market work its magic. Just like American celluar providers used to suck until number portability kicked in, American bank providers will suck until account portability is a thing.

P.S. Banks should also be required by law to provide minimal services to every American citizen. It is absolutely beyond stupid that there are 10 million American households that don't have access to a bank account [1]. These households are then forced into dealing with the Check Cashing/Payday Loan businesses who are pure, unmitigated fucking evil. These firms charge outrageous fees that trap many people in poverty.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/
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Countries are made up of individuals and not all individuals have the same mental make-up. Yes, there are quite a few worrisome developments but there still (maybe not much longer) is an institutional memory of these things that is for the moment exerting a positive influence in this particular domain.
We already have the best upgrade that's actually possible given the design of IPv4 -- the fundamental problem is a combination of the pigeonhole principle (which means there's no way to allow unmodified v4-only hosts to talk to v6 hosts) and the fact that there's nobody in a position to force people to use the necessary modifications.

As a result, we end up with several generations of hardware that support everything necessary but where the people who wrote the config for them are too lazy to actually turn it on.
With the vacuum technique, I imagine you would have to think more carefully about the containers you use (e.g. lids would probably pop off tupperware-style containers).
They’re used because “that’s what company X uses”. People are cargo culting each other, and making up post hoc rationalizations for their behavior.

Unless you work for a major tech company where optimizing the false positive rate is your primary concern, using these problems is counterproductive.
Complying with the laws of 200 countries is negligible for a big business like Google, a significant burden for a small startup, and a prohibitive expense for a new open source project.
I remember feeling quite giddy a couple years ago when I got a personal response from Woz on a comment on a blog posting (about the 65816 and the IIgs I think). For some reason I never saved the URL or screenshot tho.

I never idolized Woz as a kid back in the 80s, but now I think he's a damn awesome guy.
So is this supposed to be a good or a bad thing? I've used whiteboards in a lot of interviews to great effect. I wouldn't confuse whiteboards with riddles. I also hate riddles and puzzles because they check for the riddle-solving skill, not the actual skill which will be used at work. Whiteboards are a completely orthogonal topic to riddles.
I meant lightweight visually
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Apple makes some software available for other platforms without charge, such as Safari for Windows.
It always seems like somewhat of a contradiction but the Amish have a big hand in the American RV industry. They are usually associated with a better quality product.

Newmar with Amish owners makes some of the most technologically packed motor homes with interiors that don't really remind me of the simple Amish life:

https://www.newmarcorp.com/why-newmar/company-history/missio...
I feel like there's room for an Electron variant that's just "less electron". As in, I don't need all of Chrome to do my thing; just the HTML rendering engine and JavaScript interpreter.

The thing that makes it 50gb is all the web sockets and ie4-comparable-iframe-shims that nobody ever uses on the desktop. Lop all that stuff and see how big the install is and how much memory it uses. My guess is it would be a lot less.
There is nothing that will magically transfer corporate data to the government.
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I think the point would be that Microsoft certainly makes products for a profit. And let's be honest: they're pretty useful products.

At best, in their case, it's their side projects that we have issues with.
Interesting. Sounds like tests were really needed in this case, but some people didn't want to write them. And the code coverage tools were just gamed. ie, an additional level of oversight would be needed there if you really wanted to ensure good test coverage.

I don't see how code coverage is making the situation worse though, it seems like it just wasn't enough in this case. I guess in that it resulted in useless tests by some people, it's a minor setback, but surely it encouraged others to write more proper tests.
Chapel and Julia have much better acceptance in HPC, than Erlang ever will.

The language is not designed for number crunching.
It probably goes without saying but if you're pulling a vacuum in the fridge you have to consider how often you'll open it. If it's for long term storage and you open it a couple of times every month at most it probably makes a lot of sense but if it's your main fridge you open potentially dozens of times every day it might not make sense to make a full vacuum every time.

That being said since the system doesn't use batteries to store energy it might make sense to use any leftover energy to pump the air out of the fridge even if you don't reach a full vacuum.
> Vuido aims to be what Qt used to be, before it became almost as bloated as Electron,

Really?!?

I had to laugh at this one.
Yes, see http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/04/23/beta-qt-webassembly-techno...
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I'd welcome optimizations, but do we really care if an app is 50MB, in 2018?

I see a lot of bashing against Electron because of the size and memory consumption of Electron apps, but at least on Linux Electron is a blessing. Many times it's either an Electron app or no app at all, as many companies wouldn't bother supporting Linux if Electron didn't make it so cheap and easy.

With that in mind, with many laptops coming with 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM nowadays, it it really that big a concern?

Even less for developers: my laptop has 1TB HDD + 256GB SSD, and 24GB of RAM. I can definitely spare 50MB of disk space and 200MB of RAM.
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They're right, too.

... if the people you're trying to make a point to are also all assholes, because the assholes are in charge, and have exclusively promoted assholes to leadership roles.
That's a very interesting perspective.
No analogy is perfect. In this case, there are questions that legitimately have no definitive answer (like what is "large scale"), so it is more like the cheese maker genuinely doesn't know whether their milk would be audited as raw-milk or not, and even if they consult with a lawyer they still don't have confidence that they would know.
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I've been using Simple for close to 5 years now and have been incredibly happy with my experience. The customer service is hands down the best I've ever come across and all updates to the app made the experience much better. Simple being a partner bank instead of a stand-alone bank has definitely held them back. I'd wager they lost quite a few customers when switching from Bancorp to BBVA. Even I considered leaving due to lengthy switch process and generally thinking that such a hard change is not acceptable, but I stuck around and the entire process was exceptionally smooth. I'm still somewhat surprised they haven't made strides to become an actual bank entity, but having experienced regulations working at a banking SAAS company myself I can imagine the monstrous effort required here. Either way, it's sad to see the original founders leave. I really hope this doesn't change the vision and direction.
Do you, really? When do you ever search for just "string"? You're going to add some context, like "split string C++".

Now maybe you'll say Google should know you're programming in C++ all the time, so having learned that, Google should be able to infer that when you type in "split string", the results should all be for C++.

Except then somehow Javascript comes into your requirements and now you need to retrain your Google to give weight to that.

I'd much rather be able to use the Google, not my Google, so that I get more predictable results. It's already annoying that I can't tell people to google something and be sure whatever I'm talking about is in the top ten results of their Google.

> That sentence was stupid right from the beginning.

Nothing about that sentence was stupid and it's frightening that you don't seem to understand the ideal of being "unbiased" (as in "unbiased reporting"). We're going to be heading in the direction where's there's "liberal" and "conservative" search engines, causing even more polarization of our collective world views.
The platform is only open to Africa for now, we are working on getting it ready for the US.
Sorry, you misunderstand me. I meant I'm not sure what Courtland's reasoning for walling off the interviews/articles is.
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> Maybe build systems are the dead-centre of a "sour spot" (opposite of sweet spot) in computer science, with no truly nice solutions out there?

I think it's the opposite. It is a very, very sweet spot for which many essentially perfect solutions exist. Then, it attracts all kinds of extreme bikeshedding and produces the monsters we see here and there.
I for one think software freedom is very important.
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"Why it's so hard to fix <X>?"

Very easy question. There are people who profit from how <X> fails. The reason it bothers you is because you are not one of the people who are profiting. You might not be profiting from <X> but you are likely profiting from some <Y>. And when it comes to <Y> you are probably not recognizing how it fails on the cost of others and are not really bothered by it. So good luck convincing the people who profit from <X> to change it.
> Jobs had many traits that would lead a psychiatrist to classify him as sociopathic - not mass murderer type, but the psychological type. For example, his complete lack of empathy towards his daughter, who he refused to acknowledge for a long while.

IIRC, Walter Isaacson talked about Steve Jobs' childhood -- he struggled with the emotion that he was an adopted child for years. He felt like a total liability for him to have been put up for adoption, that he wasn't wanted. He felt that was an incredibly cruel thing to do to a child.

As a form of "revenge" for being put up for adoption, he denied paternity of his daughter around the same age his parents put him up for adoption, so that he could "experience" what it felt like when the direction of cruelty was reversed (from victim to oppressor).
I completely agree, I've been using the same bank for about 15 years now and I'm sure if I looked around I could find better deals but I simply can't be bothered to go through with it. It's not an American issue though, as far as I can tell the situation is nearly identical in Europe.
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What exactly prevents people from cashing checks at the issuing bank, or walking into a bank or credit union with their paycheck and opening an account? Or cashing it at a Wal-mart or a 7-11, which have low fees? These people may trapped in poverty, but ultimately not by the check cashing/payday loan business.
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"carefully selected random out of context quotes" is exactly what the "smackdown" makes: its avoid mentioning the truth:

- the clearly written sentence

- clearly written statement by Galileo

- the fact that the rotation of the Earth around the Sun was obvious to anybody who actually "did the math" and compared with the observations, even at that time

- the fact of how long both Galileo's and Copernicus' books remained banned by the Church afterwards

and instead claims that "missing parallax observation" made right for the Church to claim "heresy." No it doesn't and that particular detail was never relevant. Even now we don't know what's beyond the limit of our observations, but because of that we don't punish the scientists who make the best models for what we actually observe.

So yes, the Church was very wrong, and there are very clear written documents. Including that both Galileo's and Copernicus books remained on the Church's list of banned books for the next centuries!

The guy writing "smackdown" seems to be in a search for anything to prove actions of the Church "acceptable" by intentionally avoiding the major facts: yes the Church considered exactly even teaching or writing about the heliocentric world a real heresy. And it acted according to that not only in one point of time but through the centuries, obviously not because "Galileo had a bad personal problem with the Pope of that moment" or anything else that the "smackdown" guy wants to pass as a "good reason". The "smackdown" guy should be smackdowned and recognized as effectively a liar.

I know a lot of people "want to believe him" and that link to his page is resent around, but it doesn't make it true.
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One thing a lot of people seem to miss is that being nice is a choice [0] -- nicety to others is a learnable skill.

[0] https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/05/30/2010-baccalaureate...
is-odd? IS-ODD? This is having 500000 downloads?! Omg, some people should never be allowed to code.
I'm interested in human-like storage layers and wondering if anything has been done here. Content-associative memory is one idea but doesn't go far enough. Neural nets are a lot closer but at the moment they seem limited to pattern matching rather than storage and exploration, although I guess you could say supervised training is equivalent to storage.

I'm thinking of a DSL on top of a pure associative memory, which will remember Things with weighted connections to other Things. Matching consists of not only showing the idea but also related ones more distant. Is there anything like this?
> As with laws, rules are made up by people and followed by some.

That still seems way better than the alternative.
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I'd hesitate before taking any moral lessons from the Amish in regards to technology, other than that it's possible and worth it to choose your relationship with it rather than let it control you. But you don't need the Amish to work that out. I wouldn't say they're necessarily better off for what they're doing, and to say otherwise is just idealistic.

They have the same sorts of problems we have, and don't have the ability to tap into the global Internet for insights and solutions. Meanwhile global society continues to evolve as ideas spread ever faster.

There's beauty in that way of life, but much sadness too.
Back to pie menues: I come across them frequently as Obreey's Pocketbook uses them. That's an ebook reader for Android and iOS. Screenshot here:

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> I don't believe Microsoft offers support for their free products to people who haven't bought an O365 licence

Over a year ago I had a couple of polite email exchanges with MS support about a family member's free OneDrive account, using the email address they put front and center.

(They were courteous but did not budge on MS unilaterally curtailing the 15 GB offer used to sell phones to consumers a few months prior.)
Many banks have a tiny number of branches so good luck finding one to cash a check. Low fees are rarely low when you're talking a minimum wage income. Walmart's 3$ fee for anything under 1000$ works out to 1/2 an hour of work. Picture spending 1/2 an hour of your salary every 2 weeks simply to get paid. Now make that worse by having 3 jobs...
Yes I did. In 2011!
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