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> They probably want to make some profit where it's possible.

Deutsche Bahn is infamous for extracting as much profit as possible, especially when they had no competition (long-distance buses were mostly outlawed until 2012 because of a Nazi-era law). A particularly well-known instance were the local express trains ("S-Bahn") in Berlin where they outright closed many depots and ignored mandated maintenance schedules until:

> On May 1, 2009 an S-Bahn train of the class 481 in Kaulsdorf derailed due to a broken wheel. According to S-Bahners, the scheduled general inspection of that train had been postponed for two years. This accident led to the S-Bahn chaos of 2009, since the Federal Railway office mandated shortened test intervals and therefore at times only 165 out of 552 required quarter trains were available. Eventually, all axes had to be replaced because they were generally considered to be inadequate.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_S-Bahn (lightly edited because the original article reads like it came out of Google Translate)
You're just reiterating the original point that started this fork. While i agree with you that any responsible parent would do as you described, some of these shock videos aren't obviously shock videos until after the shock event has already happened. This in fact happened to a good friend of mine who is a very responsible parent however right at the end of a cartoon there was a loud scream with a guy wearing a zombie mask. I'm sure it was done as a laugh but it took my friends kid a couple of years to get over it. Before that event happened neither he nor I had ever heard of these kinds of pranks on YouTube before. Just as most other parents wouldn't have.

Sure you could blame the parents complacency or whatever but where do you draw the line? What happens if someone causes a scene that scares my kid when we are at a restaurant? Or walking him to school? You can't predicte the actions of every arsehole in communal spaces so blaming this stuff on the parents is more than a little unfair then society owes a little responsibility for its own actions as well.

But as I also said before, if these shock videos were just bad knock offs etc that a quick watch when the kids aren't around highlights their content, then I suspect YouTube would have found it easier to train their AI. The problem is some of those videos even get past parent moderation as well (such as the one I described above) and thus don't become apparent as a shock video until the damage has already been done.
> When you subscribe to streaming services you aren’t paying for ownership, you are paying for access.

I personally prefer to avoid DRMed services and buy DRM-free. It's reasonably good with music and games for example, but with films you barely can find anything that way.

The reason for renting digital goods is usually presented as an option to get it for lower prices, even though there is no scarcity like with physical goods. That's fine, people might want to rent something and pay less. But why does it mean there should be no option to buy (for higher price)? That is already not right, i.e. forcing renting only approach. That's why I quite dislike DRM attached to renting services as well.
Whatever your therapy bill is plus $100 for a good bottle of scotch.
Fine, lets say Google does that.

Then they're blamed for allowing a media oligopoly form, whilst ignoring small content producers. We're seeing this play out with the demonitazation of popular vid creators.

Long story short, with the public, damned if you, and damned if you don't.
It's an AG (a stock company), not a GmbH (a limited company). But yeah, all the stocks are still owned by the federal government, and therefore all profits get credited into the federal budget.
Learning history is fun, for example:

The British East India Company was the largest drug cartel of the 19th century. They forced the Chinese to buy opium, and decades later that opium made it to the Americas. Each time you turn on the TV and hear about of some random dude overdosing with illegal opioids, you can blame the British for that.

Lawrence of Arabia, the Sykes-Picot agreement, among other British interventions, helped create a state of permanent war in the Middle east. Each time you hear of war or violence in the Middle East, or some kid being blown up by a drone or burned alive with white phosphorus, you can blame the British for that.

However, they're not seen as the villains of history, we speak their language and some idiots wear t-shirts with their flag. Go figure.
> I just want to know who the heck takes recommendations of 'influencers' seriously?

Their fans?

> Gullible teens with no money?

Probably. But gullible teens with no money have parents who have money and gullible teens with no money grow up to become adults with money. Hence why advertisers want to get to them when they are young. It's well known that earlier you can influence people, the more influence you can have.

"Influencers" is a new word for an old concept - people/institutions with a following.

Lebron James is an influencer. The Atlantic ( and its journalists ) are influencers. Tom Hanks is an influencer. Why do you think advertisers spend so much money on them?
I agree, having another question your assumptions and explanations forces you to learn it deeper.
I don't see why Youtube doesn't just start charging per-upload to fund the human review process.

I understand that at the beginning it makes sense to make uploads free to gain market share, but now they've reached monopoly so that's no longer needed.

Charging something like $1 for uploads would allow to pay human reviewers, would cut down on mis-labeled content (since humans are reviewing) and inappropriate/advertiser-unfriendly content (since the creators would be reluctant to pay if they know it'll most likely get rejected, and if they try anyway the human would catch it). $1 is also affordable enough not to hinder legitimate usage. Seems like a win to me.
Thank you, I generally takes smaller breaks, I drink lots of coffee too. I am also taking proper sleep. But the thing is that I am not able to concentrate. If I see some motivational videos, it helps me to stay motivated but when I try to write codes I start yawning and my mind shift to some other works.
Another unpopular opinion: Parents should not let their children watch something that they have not themselves watched and approved.

Edit: This isn't smugness. Do you think it's also smug to not run untrusted binaries? To not copy-and-paste from Stack Overflow into production? To say "thank you," or "yes, I've got it," when taking a blade from somebody else? To not run with scissors is my opinion, not because of smugness, but because I care about safety.
You make a good point. The junior team members I'm thinking about felt they didn't have the authority and so didn't approach leadership with a plan. I'm not saying they should assume responsibilities without direction of leadership, but rather that they can follow step 1 in the article regardless of their level in the organization. Even a senior person must follow the direction of leadership, the difference is that the senior person knows that they can approach leadership with a plan.
If you take anyone's review to inform your decision you are being "influenced". I use a combination of amazon/ youtube/yelp/ tripadvisor etc reviews to figure out which brand to buy for anything / to how things work. These include anything from beard trimmer to cookware set to figure out which restaurant to eat at.
Given the prevalence of language package managers that struggle with both correctness and performance, I’m inclined to believe that brew actually does solve a challenging technical problem.
Just like with programming, I start with the end result that I have in my head and then teach myself everything backwards thats needed to produce the end result
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"Those who know how to do - do, those who don't - teach. Those who can't even teach - manage".

Ok this is not very accurate but still amusing...
People of ElsaGate tracking and report these videos:
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I agree! Starting from the beginning in history is boring because it has little relevance to other things you know. Going backwards would solve that. You'd be engaged at the beginning and then for the next part you'd remember what you learned, etc.

Also by teaching from the beginning you tend to learn the same things over and over. I probably learned about Paul Revere in 3-4 different US history classes growing up, but the Cuban Missile Crisis only once.
Due to this I am surrounded with lots of incomplete works. :(
My Dad is basically doing this in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/motorhomeman :)
No citation needed, there is no prohibition in Federal law, only State law, and you cherrypicked the most restrictive States in the nation as your exemplars. For example, something like 40+ States permit suppressors. High-explosives was (is? probably with more paperwork now) a retail business in many states; I stopped by one once just to check it out for myself, the only requirement was that I had a vehicle that met road safety requirements for transport e.g. carried on a surface that is not prone to sparking.

I had a couple friends many years ago who, mostly for fun I suspect because they never did anything with it, filled out the relatively simple Federal paperwork that gave them carte blanche to import/manufacture/buy just about any conventional weapon you can think of and they lived in a State with no restrictions. But almost no one does in practice because once you go beyond what is possible to fabricate in a sophisticated machine shop, it would become an extremely expensive hobby for no obvious purpose. Few people can afford to drop millions of dollars on guided missiles.
I commend what you did and where you're coming from but going through 200+ rejections is just soul wrenching, and it's probably not what the OP wants to hear. Something is very wrong in this industry if its hiring practices are so that someone competent needs to go through that many interviews (and rejections) before finding work.
> I am interested in how you've managed to apply to multiple roles at the same company? is this across 3 internship seasons?

A lot of companies will list the same roles across different teams. Applying to (or interviewing with) all the different teams helps your chances. I'm at Tesla right now and I applied for 15 different roles over the span of 3 years before they gave me an offer.
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No, I've used it only on my Linux machine.

I guess it should also work on MacOS, since it depends on `numpy` [1] and `portaudio19-dev` [2] Debian packages (which should be installable via Pip/Homebrew).

[1] http://www.numpy.org/

[2] https://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/
Not to mention it's one side of the story, could have come off wrong, been too pompous, or any other number of things.
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Nice idea :)

However, I'm not aware of any such protocol...
This reminds me of the hours I spend poring over the Allmusic Guide to Rock I had borrowed from the local library, tracing backwards from Van Halen, Nirvana, and Beastie Boys to discover their influences. I had taken piano lessons for several years and had learned Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Debussy — sometimes tracing back led me to what I had learned on piano.

I agree that working backwards can lead to wonderful discoveries. What can be difficult to grasp as you go back is what the music sounded like at the time—how an album sounded because it was the first time musicians had made that sound.
If you're not a software engineer, cloning, editing, staging, committing, pushing, creating a merge request is a lot to learn. I believe we can make this much easier, and that's the first problem we hope to solve with the Web IDE.

Ironically, once we introduced staging into the Web IDE, usability went down significantly (this is referenced in the blog post), as the core users were people that weren't comfortable with local editing. So we're addressing that next.
Child abuse doesn't have to be physical.

I can tell a child "Ill come take your family and cut them in tiny pieces", and that's clearly child abuse.

Or I can show peppa pig raping elsa, and then bashing her brains out... There's nobody that would think that's normal to show children. And again, child abuse.

Abuse can be physical _or_ emotional.
I've been using a similar client called thelounge for the past year and I really love it.

https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

It's a node based IRC client you can install on a server and then connect to with a web browser.

It essentially turns IRC into slack/irc cloud, it has inline images/video, URL prefetching, push notifications, themes and custom css, mobile support, and allows you to idle indefinitely persisting your connection to your favorite channels across numerous devices. You can even hook it into active directory if you wanted.
They also will not experience the best part of Battlegrounds, which was server-only battlegrounds. Before cross-server battlegrounds (which Classic will have) you could make a name for yourself on your server via PvP. Everyone on my server knew of this gnome mage named Dewdrop. She was so good she had like 4 healers always on her in AV. She was always in AV and you knew to stay clear or get a group to try and gank her.

Once cross-server battlegrounds came out, never saw her again. Or any of the other people on the server we normally played against. It really ruined the community built up on our server, and was about when I stopped playing PvP.
Not for science history. It's very hard to grasp what the hell the LHC is about. First tell me why how they figured out water wasn't an element but a combination of two.
Applying to multiple position makes perfect sense if the company is big enough with multiple teams. Google probably has like 10 distinct positions that's applicable to someone. Often times, candidates don't get shared across positions, so you're really at a disadvantage if you don't put yourself in front of as many sources / hiring managers as possible.
Does anybody know what the interviews at the FANGs are like for non-SWE roles? What are the interview questions for a front end developer? Do they still make you reverse binary trees?
Human curation / whitelist is the answer but Google being human averse is not going to pay for that and keep hoping for AI answer.

I remember there was a second party website of human curated youtube videos for kids some 4-5 years ago, Kideos .

It worked really well at the time (for my first kid) but site seems to be broken now.
This would not only be a great way to teach history, but also literature and probably other things like philosophy as well.

In literature, it is not uncommon to start with the past reading things like the Odyssey, moving forwards to Beowulf, then Canterbury Tales, then Shakespeare, then John Milton, then Dickens, and on and on.

The result is you start with the least accessible work and move forward to the most accessible. On the hand hand, by starting with a modern work like Catch 22 or whatever, you start with an accessible work that is more likely to be an enjoyable to the reader in its own right, not just as an important work. As you move backwards the reader is also gradually increasing their reading prowess, becoming more attuned to the finer points of literature, and thus more able to enjoy the older, less naturally accessible works.

Having middle and high school students wade through Shakespeare and Nathaniel Hawthorne always seemed like such dumb idea to me. For every one student that is interested by such texts, another 10 are turned off literature completely by the dense diction and distant context. Better to start with J.K. Rowling than Herman Melville if it lets more students discover the joy of reading.
Sounds like you discovered the Entity-Component System.
Now I see. Thanks for answer
We called it IDE from the first commit, as we intend for it to be a full replacement of a local IDE in the future.

Besides having a vision ourselves of that, we also want to encourage and motivate others to contribute.
I did this a few years ago on a work LCD monitor. It was much more difficult than on a U2410 at home, on which it was mostly pretty easy. But even that was more challenging than on a GDM-FW900, on which the colors and the gradient were crystal clear, with no need to do any swapping.
I think it's pretty safe to assume Google has plenty of dev work that isn't "uniquely complex and difficult technical problems"
The only advantage seems to be if you need to get lots of small payloads into very different orbits, for everything else the square-cube law and other economies of scale work against small rockets.
I've been on 4chan for over a decade now. It isn't 4chan trolling and there's no concerted campaign that I can find on any board. (Do you have a link or other evidence to contradict this? We'd love to see it!)

The investigations that have been carried out so far seem to point to individual small film studios who produce the content because it seems to be an acceptable business model for them, and of course YT's own recommendation algorithms for being unable to distinguish between kid-okay and not-kid-okay content.
The problem is, while possible that "white-board style questions eliminate a lot of bad candidates", it's a terrible and empirically unsubstantiated methodology of assessment given the purported goals most companies claim to have in hiring people.

In the event that it works at all, it does so by accident, not by design. Which is often evident in how hit-or-miss hiring someone is in most companies even after they've managed to make it through all these silly contrived crucibles.

To a certain extent it's a cargo culting problem. Insofar as companies like Google do it, and Google appears successful, and so other companies (failing to do any meaningful analysis or meta-analysis of their own) decide to model Google on the basis that surely their company will be successful just like Google. The problem, taking Google as the example, is that Google has AdWords. Which is for all intents and purposes a money printing machine. Google can be basically terrible at almost everything they do and still appear wildly successful so long as they don't disturb their money printer. As a result it's very difficult to just pattern-match to what Google does and evaluate either its benefit or its appropriateness in any context.

The other part of it is inertial. Often the wheel of hiring in a company started this way for lack of any better ideas, and then as the company grew it became proportionally more biased toward people who made it through a process like that, and then it becomes generationally perpetuated. The unfortunate side-effect of this is that biasing the employee population this way makes the job, for a new executive or manager, of changing these ineffective (and sometimes toxic) strategies extra difficult while trying to maintain team cohesion. Because it has a lasting cultural fingerprint.

Honestly, it's really a shame. I'm sorry you're having to go through it. My capacity to try to interact and change this weird marketplace phenomenon extends only about as far as the company for which I'm the Engineering hiring manager. My hope for you, and for others, is that you either find a place to work which doesn't do things this way, and/or you otherwise advance far enough in your career that nobody bothers to foist these silly ceremonies on you. Because your involvement in their pursuits is seen as a priori beneficial or existential.
Rust chose to adopt the vendors' naming schemes exactly as they were defined, instead of inventing their own. The idea was that these intrinsics are official, well-understood and people will build higher-level abstractions on top of them anyway.
> and that funds Google.

... and the atlantic and most newspapers, media companies and even this site. Welcome to the consumer economy where trying to "influence" consumers to consume is the name of the game.

Advertising is at the heart of everything in our society from technology to politics to news. We don't even realize it most of the time because it's all around us like air.
August 22nd: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/46334
> intercity trains in the UK run at 125mph, which I believe falls into the "high speed" category in the U.S.

That would definitely be high-speed according to German standards. Local trains top out at 120 km/h (75 mph) or very seldomly 160 km/h (100 mph).
The problem is that even paid books can be horrible.

I am a subscriber to Bookbub list which sends out e-mails to daily Amazon sales (0.00 to 1.99) on e-books of your chosen category.

Quality wise it does not seem to matter on the price.
Google's focus, however, is on hiring SWEs that can solve uniquely complex and difficult technical problems.

I think that's kinda just marketing TBH. How else do you explain things like their habit of overhauling the graphics while removing functionality on many of their popular offerings? The last update of Google News looked a lot nicer but removed all user customization of the news feed - you can't even filter out sources any more.

I mean, maybe there are a lot of super-clever SWEs at google who are bored and frustrated with everyday consumer-centric product development and so do a terrible job at it until they're rotated onto something more interesting. I can't think of any other reason to inflict such a product on the public.
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