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IQ tests are gameable to a degree. They are accurate across large populations largely because most people don't practice, not because they are actually ungameable.

SATs are different in 2 respects.

1. There is a large incentive to practice.

2. It isn't an IQ test, it only correlates fairly strongly with scores on IQ tests.

SATs are highly knowledge based--most of the math questions can be answered by memorizing algorithms, and the verbal section depends heavily on vocabulary.

>This is like pointing out that I can make large gains in my 100m sprint time by practicing for half an hour a day for a month and predicting that I can make the Olympic team if I put in a thousand hours practice. Novice gains are real and significant but they peter out pretty quickly.

It's unlikely you could become an Olympic sprinter, but with enough practice you could probably move into the top 1% of everyone in your age group because the vast majority aren't going to spend that much time practicing.

The SAT equivalent (for the 2018 test) would be somewhere in the 1500-1550 range.
I have a health condition which causes me to be suddenly absent for a week at a time 1-4 times a year. I absolutely disclose this to any prospective employer because I don’t want them to grumble when it happens.
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I suspect that well meaning attempts to rig the system that way would just backfire. Big companies have the resources, lawyers and incentives to manipulate and exploit regulations like that to their advantage. I think the simplest approach, which is just regulating against discrimination, may not be perfect but trying to come up with a perfect system will just impose so much regulation and costs and exploitable loopholes that it wouldn’t end up any better and could well be both worse and more expensive.

Note I’m not taking a blanket all regulation is bad stance. I support regulation to protect pregnant employees and family life. I am recruiting right now for a contractor to cover for a pregnant employee in my team (in the UK). I just think in general the simplest approach is usually the beast, or anyway the least worst.
On one side companies want to do more to get women into tech then on the other side they are not supporting them when they need to do what families want, have babies. This is upto the government to protect women against layoffs and redundancies after pregnancy. Especially if that woman has had a reasonable tenure leading upto the pregnancy.
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There are multiple CPAN sites, which rsync from each other in a hierarchical way, so "network" is quite appropriate. And they retain all previous versions, so they're an archive. Also, the intention was for it to contain all published modules, and it has indeed grown to be, I think, the largest repository of modules for any language. Comprehensive does not mean complete.
On some systems more is synlinked to less; so less isn't more, but more is less!
> What I don't get is... forget the "illegal" part, how is that not dumb?

It's a kind of bourgeoisie management ideology. The bosses insist that you, your time, and all of your attention belongs to them (we only want 110% players, etc).

When a child enters the picture, they have concrete evidence that the thing they believe is not true, and that's a subconscious threat. They need to either admit that their shitty paper distribution company is not actually the be-all-and-end-all of existence, or just eliminate the threat.

Which is to say that this behavior _is_ dumb, but it does serve a function in preserving the ego of management.
People get hit by buses, but would you hire someone who you KNEW was going to get hit by a bus in six weeks?
And I am going to guess that knowing when to be strategically empathetic in a negotiation is going to get me even further.
Let's be honest here; bias towards blacks and hispanics is intended to address larger societal inequities, and assumes a rough justice is to aim for representation of those groups at their proportion of the population. Bias against Asian admissions is aiming for the same outcome - maintaining white proportion in the student body at a similar level as the wider population, though without the aim of addressing societal ills, but instead simply to preserve white majority.

That's where "diversity" arguments lead you. The real argument for bias toward disadvantaged groups is that discrimination in society leads to members of advantaged groups looking better on paper than they really are, and following the results of a biased system blindly would both predictably lead to a lower quality of student and recursively contribute to the original bias.

Separately: minorities face material discrimination at every income and wealth level. I understand that it's tough for some white people to support anything positive that they're left out of, but racial bias in college admissions is meant to be a counterbalance to other, negative things that white people were also left out of, at every income and wealth level.

But Asians were also suppressed by force of US law, and by angry, murderous mobs. If anything, they should be favored instead of pushed out, regardless of their level of achievement.
What was the crime? I understand if you don't want to reveal that on here.
Emacs is actually faster than most editors, but it lets you do anything so of course you can slow it down.
Just went through the whole thing, which was maybe 15-20 minutes of tinkering, and was way better than procrastinating on just reading other crap. Leveled up for sure, and it was well worth the 20 minutes!
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Hi,

I work as a contractor and I typically find work by searching job boards or speaking to recruiters. This has worked great for personal contracts, but I'd like to start taking on some larger projects and possibly bring in a team of devs.

Only problem is that I'm not sure where to find these types of projects. If I search for "web development agency" I see a number of local agencies working with some well known local and national clients, but how do they generally obtain these clients?

Aside from the obvious like having a website how do digital agencies typically find new projects?

If anyone has any experience obtaining clients I'd really appreciate knowing how you do it.

Thanks!
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> So kind of a caching layer ...

i'd name this sort of thing a filter, rather than a cache.
python is flexible enough to allow that

Is there a valid use case for changing the numeric values of True and False?
And good prep courses really do work. Tests, like coding interviews, are a game you can hack with enough time and effort.

Years ago I took the GMAT and scored very highly, 98th percentile, and GMAT-taking is definitely a learnable skill in and of itself. Then again, maybe the test is really a proxy for “willing to do prep work upfront”. Having said that obviously it filters for those who have the opportunity to do so, but I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt and say the latter is not it’s deliberate intent.
Xiaomi created a stigma for themselves, by shamelessly copying Apple in everything including presentation style. [1] So I can't really take them seriously (doesn't help that I don't like Apple either).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/business/global/in-china-...
That's not what this page is about; unless you can tell us an interesting reason why the ! character was chosen.
You steal them form where they are and sell them where they aren't.

See bike share schemes for an example of this happening already.
One day you might not have a choice because the desktop is so locked down.
So you want to not test people in English but in some vague universal language?! What would that be: "equality of outcome"? Propaganda?!
Related: BlackBerry gives Indian government ability to intercept messages (2013)

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/blackberry-india

Edit: Also

RIM to share some BlackBerry codes with Saudis: source (2010)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-blackberry-saudi/rim-to-s...

BlackBerry approved in Russia (2007) [required access during criminal investigation]

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/business/worldbusiness/27...
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I don't have direct advice, but I might suggest trying to sell the desktop and buy a laptop. You can probably use a library computer or, as a last resort, a phone, as a backup in between selling and buying.
If I understand correctly, although the GP may have been suggesting government subsidy as a possible solution, the point wasn't that this is somehow "best" from broad or moral reasons.

Rather, it addresses the specific issue of there being an economic incentive to discriminate, intrinsic to all businesses.

Addressing that issue is compatible with concurrent solutions that outlaw the discrimination on moral grounds, or do so more strictly, or provide more aggressive enforcement.
People that can become successful despite the school they go to are classic social climbers and obviously the school they go to would benefit from having those social climbers go there. But the relative benefit to the organization of one successful alum is miniscule compared to the benefit that the school has on every single matriculant.

A university's entire goal is to empower anyone to succeed. That's the whole reason they exist. If Harvard's reputation as a gateway to elite society is lost, society doesn't gain another one elsewhere. It's just lost. People that could succeed without college will still succeed. It's all those people that couldn't have succeeded without college, that went to college and gained the benefit of having an education there, that will lose that opportunity.

Imagine a world in which Harvard is only slightly better than Georgia State. That's what's at stake here.
No, I'm not looking for 20 years of mentoring at all.

I've just begun as a new-grad engineer at FAANG company, and have now realized that unless I get some guidance from someone experienced, that 20 years could go by really fast without you fulfilling any of the reasons that you became an engineer in the first place.

Maybe a different avenue will prove more fruitful.
Not sure what you're aiming at.

Messenger pigeons were superseded by better ways of delivering messages, covering all the use cases and then some. With SR-71 and the space program, we've lost capabilities we had before. In the latter space, it's slowly getting fixed thanks to Musk & co., but we're still behind the 1970s, capability-wise.
Getting man to the moon was more of a vanity project than at least half of all start-ups.
The point is that the boring run-of-the-mill stuff doesn’t get exported.

Western film audiences got to form a highly positive opinion of Japanese movies from the works of Ozu, Kurosawa, Oshima.

Similarly American gamers in the Amiga era got a handful of the most original French games and formed their opinion of “Frenchness in gaming” based on those.
"Taxes act like friction and DO reduce the activity that they are attached to."

This is why it's interesting to consider taxes that aren't tied to activities, or activities that are extremely resistant to change, e.g.

- taxing land doesn't impact the supply of land, as (aside from melting ice caps and land 'reclamation' projects) the amount of land on Earth is fixed.

- taxing human existence (e.g. an annual per capita flat tax) doesn't impact the number of humans
It does not make sense to quantize this based on national borders. We're all in the same atmosphere and biosphere.

And of course, any growth is bad in the current situation since the current level is so unsustainable - population should decrease, not increase.
I wish JS had Shape objects, which would not only ease performance optimization as they discuss, but also helps for validation, like an interface

shape Point { x: Number, y: Number, name: String };

const p = Point({x: 1, y: 2, name: 'foo'})

That object would have its properties immutable

I think https://github.com/michaelficarra/proposal-first-class-proto... could help, indirectly, for that
I think the difference here is that the person they're responding to doesn't seem to have read the article they were being cynical towards, otherwise they would have immediately realized their source of skepticism was directly addressed. I think you can forgive them for being harsh.
> No degree put me in a rough position. My resume claimed that I had graduated, but I had not. While I did get offers, whenever I shared that I failed out of fourth year, my offer was rescinded.

Do I get this right, you servery lied on your resume and really are surprised that you got rejected once it was revealed? What did you expect?
Aging and tennis (and sports in general) reflects real, physical deteriorations that aren't in play -- at least not in the same domain -- with mental processes.
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What does that have to do with editing text?
I did not mentioned it, because I don't expect anyone in 2018 to bother to try to install Oberon OS.

Thanks for point it out anyway.
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You can install a real os (linux or windows) on it, and they tend to be much cheaper than other laptops (the tradeoff is that they have little disc space and a slow processor).
I think I saw statistics somewhere that most people read their mail via the web interface of their email provider, not via a client, and I don't know whether web clients block remote content loading.
No, that's not the origin of the name. Someone thought that up later. Also, the regex is globally matched, after having been parsed just once, so the name would not even make sense.
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You make an interesting observation. I wonder if there are any doomsday stories of an AI that conquers humanity via psychopathic persuasion rather than conventional weapons.
I love kotlin lambdas with «it»:

list.filter{ it > 3 }.map{ it + 1 }

compare that to shitty Java or C++

.

Love js map construction by name:

fun="...";
map={fun};
map.fun == "..."

Nice lambdas and properties are the things I miss most in python, especially python3, where you have to call list(map(...)) all the time (generators are a good idea but why not add proper __str__?)
"Just go to mcdonalds" may not necessarily be a strong argument, but "look for any job, not just a cs/eng job" definitely is.
Jetbrains was using a package provided by Microsoft and blogged that they would soon have to disable debugging of CoreCLR

Read “The Bad News”
https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nu...

Also the licensing issue
https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505

Then a week later with the licensing issue still in place Jetbrains implemented their own debugger, on the comments it reads "This is our own debugger implementation."
https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/23/rider-eap-18-co...
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It was a bad idea in the first place, and one of the dangers was that this one failure point could end up controlled by a company like Microsoft.

You can say that it was a bad idea for people to store all of their things in a warehouse with no sprinklers or smoke detectors, but after it's been done, it's pretty silly to scold people for not continuing to store things in a warehouse that is currently on fire.
It is a valid point. But his skepticism is still warranted. Theranos was also masquerading as very scientific and was full of laurels. No difference!
The undercurrent is this: "do not dare to express doubts on this African-based invention, because otherwise you are a racist."

That's why I objected to the "harsh" tone. It is an application of PC thinking.
I am French, I know about "système D" but I never associated it with systemd.

"Système D" implies making use of what's available, it is hacking (the good kind). systemd is the opposite, it is nothing like a quick and dirty solution to a problem but a major architecture change that intends to replace these hacks with something cleaner.

If the french expression really was the origin of the "systemd" name, it has to be in a twisted kind of way, or some kind of private joke. It would be like calling an electric car "octane" or something like that.
Ah okay, I thought maybe he meant a clear line of sight with a long range gun or something.
There could be a case that it is not just for photographs but it is actually the marketing pitch for the value proposition of Harvard over, as the Tyler Cowen mentions, UC Irvine.

If you are trying to train and prepare a student to lead global teams, set global government policy, guide diverse groups toward a common solution, etc., you will need exposure to a diverse set of ideas and a diverse future network of fellow alumni to debate ideas with during your formative undergraduate years.

Otherwise, might as well save the $0.25 million in tuition and indeed go to UCI instead because otherwise it really is the same lectures, reading material and tests!
But yet Asians perform the best on standardized tests, not whites who comes from England?
Can you test everything before you commit? Like you would do if you did it locally.
Which level was Michael Cohen at? From a career perspective he was an ambulance chaser (involved with a number of fraudulent car crash claims) with shady, Saul Goodman "back of the nail salon" style offices. Then he purportedly helped a reality star pay off people.

My point, I suppose, is that normally the associates of the president would be upstanding individuals who had achieved heights. In this case, as with many of DJTs associates, it is anything but that.
Isn’t the existence of Github the reason Codeplex is no more? Github was so good alternative that it made no sense for Google and Microsoft maintain their own services geared towards open source projects.

Building a viable Github competitor would not have fitted to Microsoft strategy which was back then focused on Windows.
Just because it's unified at the presentation layer doesn't mean its design doesn't follow the Unix philosophy. The problem is that even if the web was composable (`gitlab.com | jenkins.com | tee cloud.google.com aws.amazon.com`), it probably wouldn't be accessible to most users.

Unix philosophy is great for system builders, but system users want the car, not the tools and parts.
I used to find quality offshore leads via eLance (now upWork) & Guru, and had 90% success rate (6 years ago). I used to personalize the cover letter, like asking questions from project requirements, suggestions (if any) and letting client know if there were any concerns. Word of mouth or recommendations from some colleagues helped me acquire some clients.
Also UK: Yep - the 2018 edition will be the last printed one, apparently - then online only.
Lots of companies do their development work on per-developer remote VMs, especially for resource-intensive applications that need nontrivial configuration-management setup for databases, message queues, etc. that they depend on.

Currently your choices are emacs/vim over SSH or sync from your local machine (where the code intelligence / debugging integration probably doesn't work as desired).

A web IDE allows an arbitrarily powerful cloud instance to do the heavy lifting of build/test/code intelligence while the developer still gets a full-featured GUI IDE. Especially since VS Code and Atom are Electron apps, it's a natural step to use them to edit remote files. Better than VNC, anyway.
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Harvard, along with most other private universities, use racism in their college admissions. It's very sad that we still have to deal with this, after history has showed favoritism towards certain races has never ended well.
Will they be able to flip it before the hype dies out?
Why do you want non-technical people to be able to edit the readme? That's for programmers to communicate to programmers. A little knowledge is dangerous. Keep non-technicals away from git.
Unlikely, they're targeting different markets. There is a place for both of them in Microsoft's portfolio.
The SAT is highly g loaded and it correlates with tests that are designed and marketed as IQ tests at levels sufficient that saying it isn’t one is quibbling. The lowest estimate I found for IQ SAT correlation was an r^2 of 0.76.

SATs are more knowledge based than a test designed to be culture fair, like Raven’s Progressive Matrices but they’re not meant to be culture fair either, they’re for testing educated English speaking Americans. The test population are in high school but there’s nothing on the test that you wouldn’t have known by the end of middle school.

As far as algorithms and vocabulary go, most people have limited ability to follow complex algorithms because that requires a lot of working memory, which correlates with... Intelligence!
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Which makes complete sense. He is the most powerful individual in a country of 300+ million people. If he needs a certain thing to keep him operating at peak efficiency and focus, he gets that thing. Period. Unless it violates national security.

Being elected president is not the time to learn a new technology suite. Hopefully most presidents have better things to do with their time than that.

At that level your people have people who have people to deal with that kind of minutiae.
Also in the UK.
The last Yellow Pages we received, about two months ago, had a large ‘Final Issue‘ highlight on the front. They’ve finally given up.
I tried to dredge up some nostalgic feelings for it’s demise, but flicking through the contents I really couldn’t. About 40% of the ad space throughout the book was for one advertiser, Gas Safe Register, and I can only assume that got sold at a song to fill the space.
I’d love to know the percentage of the population that are going to miss it. I can see why it’s no longer effective with search engines being what they are, but there must still be a decent number of (presumably older) people who don’t google when they need contact details.
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Why write and commit locally and then push to an online repository separately? Nice to have it all on the web especially if it's a big system and CI tests will run quicker in a cloud environment.
Actually, both. GitHub is a nice option if you want to use VSTS for CI.

Note that Windows itself is in a Git repo on VSTS (os repo in the Microsoft tenant)
Homelessness in SF has network effects which are entrenching it. The city does provide a lot of resources so it makes it ‘easier’ to be homeless. On top of that it’s quite centralized and so if you fall in because of mental health or economic issues you’re likely to run into people who are doing/selling drugs. With a less dense homeless population these probabilities are less. Then you have sufficiently warm weather year round (unlike NY). I don’t know of a humane way to solve this issue that doesn’t require billions and billions of dollars, but we may be doing more damage than good by not taking a harder stance like NY did.
My comment was not intended as criticism, but merely as an "oh, look how times have changed!". If anything, it was intended as an expression of affection. I have used BSD ever since as my only OS.

That being said, software development in general is in a desolate state these days with unnecessary layers of abstraction and bloat all over the place. The featurism of ancient BSD looks pretty harmless today.
Might be Faculty of Engineering Admissions Scheme (FEAS)?

Though I believe there are also bonus ATAR points for students from regional schools.

https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/study-with-us/feas
don't co2 certificates work this way? You can reduce your co2 output or buy certificates instead. If government wants to reduce co2 output they just increase the price of co2 certificates.