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I have a diploma in CS, but not a bachelors degree, but 10+ years of practical engineering experience. I'd love to work towards a masters in CS, but most online schools don't accept my diploma and work experience as equivalent. I attempted to apply for a GT online masters and was soundly rejected without consideration.

There are always ways around, and candidates that should be considered based on potential. But some kind of a qualifier, even a certificate, that would allow candidates like myself that would love to be engaged through some kind of qualifier or conditional acceptance would allow more people to get engaged and show their ability and commitment to being successful.
I think in a sense such standardization is always the price you have to pay for the popularization/mass adoption of anything. People have to find some sort of "established standards", some common grounds, as a compromise, as it becomes practically impossible/very hard to adopt a unique, custom-made solution to each applicant while still giving all of them the same fair chance and ensuring the quality of the results. The risks simply become great.

It's similar to what happened to higher education: 400 years ago higher-ed diplomas were extremely rare and it were mostly people who really held on to something to study, something to look into, that did those stuffs, and the institution could adapt to their needs individually. However, now that a huge percentage of the population get higher-ed diplomas, there has to be a standardized procedure to stuffs like university admission, issuance of doctoral degrees, etc.

What would you do if you were on the employer's side? Eventually people have to find a compromise and this is the solution that they came up with. Guess if I were on their side it would be hard for me to come up with something better and "safer". Also, it does suck to have to sit for exams which aren't necessarily directly related to the actual skills, but on the other hand I would say that that what I learned via SAT did indeed help my future studies, both in the university and by myself. I guess coding interviews can be perceived as something similar. There's no use complaining about the situation. One just has to face up to it and ace it, especially given how everybody else just has to go through the same. It's not something entirely ludicrous/Kafkasque after all.

Also, to be able to thoroughly study for and prepare for something on one's own, this on itself probably illustrates a lot about this person's qualities already. Of course it would be theoretically nice to spend all this time and energy on something that is unique to every person, but that is not totally realistic and would be hard to evaluate. One can still do that with their side projects though.
Maxthon is based on IE.
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I'm an anarchist; I think it's too important that humans have the ability to live their lives with dignity, and I'm fully aware of how infrequently that happens when anti-government is limited.

Practical anarchist, though. Gratuitous rebellion for its own sake is counterproductive.

It is necessary that humans come together in cooperation to accomplish goals otherwise impossible without cartels, to break the Nash equilibriums. But it is also necessary to dismantle and diffuse concentrations of power when they become destructive to their original aims. The more permanent an institution, the more inefficient and corruptible it can become as time passes. Corporations need to sometimes fail and be replaced by scrappy startups. Governments need to sometimes hand over power to a different political bloc. Religions need to sometimes have ideological schisms. Statues and monuments sometimes need to be taken down and warehoused. Perfectly good uniforms sometimes need to be replaced with different designs. Sometimes, the fortunes of the rich need to be squandered, stolen, or sunk.

The impulse to rebel must be satisfied, and one would hope that it is possible without violent rebellion, but that is sometimes unavoidable, if the entrenched power structure in question proves unwilling to diminish itself peacefully.

As it is now, my primary concerns are the increasing concentrations of wealth to fewer people, and consolidating ownership of communications media, broadcast and network channels, and intellectual property. These are self-reinforcing, and can lead to a runaway, much like increasing atmospheric CO2 can trigger a runaway greenhouse effect. The healthcare/health-insurance industry is a potential future threat, but it isn't yet too late for them to sort themselves out through rational analysis and discussion.
It's 36 millions.
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As of version 3, Maxthon supports two web browser engines: WebKit and Trident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxthon
I don't think Maxthon ever pretended to not be a wrapper around trident and webkit.
Maxthon used to use IE's rendering engine, and later WebKit/Blink.
The reasonable comparison would be with xlib. The xserver code is all about the hardware drivers.
For what it is worth - this tech. already exists for what you describe for military purposes - as vinyl:

https://www.ahh.biz/vinyl/vinyl_military_tent_with_ir_blocki...

It is used to create small tents that anti-tank etc. teams can hide within to evade EO sensors on aircraft/vehicles.
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So it seems that just keeping position on back should do the trick. Sleeping on back sounds so abstract and not fitting to me... that I need to give it a try! Thanks for sharing your experience!
If one already accepts that the object should be dynamically allocated because otherwise it's too easy to accidentally copy (which seems specious, but that was the suggestion), then all of those arguments apply to that recommendation, too. And if it's "vital" that the object not be copied, then the API could enforce that with an opaque type.

I've only worked with libuv in a few contexts, and maybe there are compelling reasons for exposing the struct. (I'd like to hear them! I would not have expected a uv_loop to be allocated in perf-critical code paths or code paths where failure isn't an option.) But I think critical analysis of C API design is an important topic. C gets a bad rap for being unsafe, which it obviously is in many ways, but as C developers, simple choices like this (that a novice might not even think much about) can make an API much safer -- or much less safe.
Seriously, exceptions are very different from returning an error. Confusing error return with checked exception tells it all. A checked exception is just an exception type specification.

When you read code with a call to a function returning an error, you see how the error is handled. With exception, unless there is a try/catch close surrounding the call, you don't know where and how an exception is handled.

To me, throwing exceptions is like littering the streets. That feels fine for the one who does it, because he assume someone else will take care of the mess. But the problem is taking care of it, who, how when ? With big projects, this strategy is unmanageable.

Correctly handled exceptions don't make middle-ware easier to write or more readable. On the contrary.

You know that programs are not only http handlers, right ?
There's also a similar stretchy ice cream in Turkey called dondurma. It uses both mastic and salep, a flour made from orchid tubers.
To clarify, the injuries were not always related to the coal itself. There were a lot of heavy machinery and unstable tunnels, i.e. amputations, crushing and disfigurement.

The area has a history of coal mining that goes back for almost a thousand years. However I'm pretty sure the goal for reconstructive surgery wasn't entirely altruistic: e.g. a disabled worker is a non-worker but with some prosthetics he might still be able to do light work.

That said, I'd strongly believe the culture created by a centuries long tradition of coal mining in a single region is very different from that of 20th/21st century mining in the US.
What a voice. Remember some video where she and a lot of other female vocal stars much younger were singing together; she topped them all just by her presence.
IIRC, it uses the Trident rendering engine, but all the browser UX and chrome is custom. Most browsers are wrapping webkit today, does that make Opera and Safari clones of Chrome? Not sure.
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WS2812 LED Strips on AliExpress/Alibaba/BangGood are sorta okay. I've got a few of them at home, some of them have LED's shortcircuited after they failed.

To some extend you get what you pay for but they're good enough for most purposes (and if they go too much kaputt you can replace them with another one for the same low price) and fairly bright too (about 0.25A of LED per meter and 30LED/m density)
If the way the Kernel is used in China acts as any indicator, it'll be a hard fork that gets discarded every few years for a new hard fork.
I had assumed that if they were going to the trouble of digging a multi-mile tunnel they would use it as a test bed for key hyperloop technologies. It's obviously not going to make any money, so it seems like it's more of a proof of concept to help pitch bigger projects to cities in the future. But as-is, this has lower passenger capacity per minute and more failure points than a fast lightrail system.
As an aside, on the subject of writing a browser from scratch, I once had a meeting with my technical director (many jobs past) in which the proposed solution to some oddities in the Qt web browser widget of the day (this would have been around early 2010s, using Qt 4.8.x, I think) was for us to write our own. Apparently this was a basic, simple task that was commonly set in introductory programming textbooks, and should take me a half-day or so to get something basic running.

I pointed out that when Netscape decided to rewrite their browser, with all the knowledge they had of how browsers work, they spent three years doing it, and that was a decade and a half previously when the web was orders of magnitude more simple.

I sometimes wonder how out of context he was. Or I was? What did he think a browser was? Were we speaking at massive cross-purposes? Did he mean we should grab some other web engine and find a way to use that? Even so, a half-day to get something going? And just what introductory programming textbooks was he reading?

Where was I going with this? Somewhere along the lines of how "write a browser" clearly can mean massively different things to different people, or maybe that there can be an enormous gulf of context and understanding there somewhere. To this day, I still don't know. Never will.
Sounds similar to the way the Lebanese government works.
This method appears to just measure the Tx and Rx paths on an off-the-shelf modem, so you'd have to physically check the router, or I'm sure this could be handled in firmware. They're measuring phase and amplitude differences from unmodified traffic on 2.4GHz so you can't detect it as an outsider.
> some people are at much higher risk

Why is that? Something in their genetic makeup? Wonder if its possible to identify these ppl preemptively.
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Not just a ton of work, but inevitably full of security holes that existing browsers have spent decades fixing
Taking parents and education into account erased most of the results. So the real test was, "Parent's who enroll their children into sociology tests tend to attend to their children more in other arenas too"?
> isn't it even more insulting to have your very existence declared problematic?

A few loons might hold this view, but overall it's an extreme straw man to argue that this represents a majority view in environmentalism.

Pointing out that our existence tends to generate negative externalities that might be very harmful to us in the long run is not anti-human. It's pro-human in that the ultimate goal is to avoid those long term negative consequences. Too many humans might indeed be bad for humans in the long run because too many humans might produce too many negative externalities.

Is it anti-well-being to advocate living below one's means to save for the future? Saving implies spending less right now to realize a potential future gain. The environmental movement argues the same, but from the angle that we should spend less right now to avoid future losses.

I've often found it intellectually inconsistent for conservatives to oppose environmentalism, since it really reduces to a form of fiscal responsibility. If conservatives are worried about the national debt they should also be worried about the buildup of excess CO2 in the atmosphere and ocean. That's another kind of debt being passed on to future generations. I sometimes wonder if our high monetary debt load and our high environmental debt load might not be directly related. Keynes' famous quote "in the future we are all dead" could turn out to be accurate in a way he did not anticipate.
Actually, the repository I linked to does not do much more driver stuff than wlroots does. The xorg drivers are maintained in separate trees:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/

Most modern xorg drivers depend heavily on mesa to do the heavy lifting:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa

wlroots depends on mesa as well.

xorg-server does do more things than wlroots, but it's mostly legacy stuff. In terms of features anyone wants from a modern display server, they're pretty close. wlroots is repsonsible for spinning up an EGL context, talking to libinput, configuring DRM and KMS display resources, allocating GPU resources with GBM, negotiating pixel buffers with clients, etc, all things that xorg-server is doing for TinyWM.
>Japan has lost a minimum of 1/3 of its standard of living in 15-20 years. They're not overdosing on opioids like people in the US are. They've suffered far worse than people in the US have.

This seems patently false to me and strikes me as a way to bolster your "Americans are druggies" argument without any real evidence. FYI, GDP per capita in Japan is about the same as it has been for the past 20 years, despite a falling population.
> With an exception of the US Senate, which is a nod to the nominal sovereignty of US states, american representatives at all levels represent people, not territory.

The Senate could be seen as a nod to geographic minorities, allowing the few people in, say, Wyoming to have an equal footing with more populous states like New York. Most states have a Senate, it's not just a national thing - unless you think the state Senate is a nod to nominal sovereignty of the counties?
You can block users so you never see their posts/comments which might work.
Though I agree that complaining like this can be a problem for people with zero experience, I don't think it is a valid argument against what OP is pointing out. Most of the process seems to be rooted on automation, which encourages candidates to find a way to bypass the selection system instead of showing actual competence. This means a direct loss on the company's staff quality. If anything, IBM might be losing good people, possibly to other companies.
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Yes, but it's a pretty bad experience - it has no js, so you need to keep refreshing the page. But yeah, I've used it on occasion.
Looking at what it takes to actually implement the "belly of the beast" from scratch, I don't blame them.

(Also, after seeing the below 350-line function that's part of a 3113-line file, I now know that whenever I'm yelling at CSS layout behaving weirdly, there's someone with a much, much more frustrating job.)

https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/components/layout...

EDIT: for anyone who doesn't know, https://servo.org/ is Mozilla's ambitious project to rewrite their browser from scratch with concurrency thought in from the beginning, supported by Rust's unique approach to safe concurrency. Parts of it have already made it into Firefox: https://bholley.net/blog/2017/stylo.html
Who should have to jump through hoops, the person who cannot read text that is too small, or the person who's sensibilities are offended by text that is too large?
This is pretty great. For my larger LED projects (3000+ lights) I'm slowly moving over to something like TouchDesigner for animations and mapping, but for medium and smaller projects this is fantastic. Will be buying some!
I think looking at relative growth numbers is illustrative. Germany should have an easier time hitting high percentage growth than the US, starting from a lower total, but they don't. Though the rest of the continent is doing even worse.

But anyway, it makes arguments of "look how well Germany is doing" not very compelling to me.

I don't hate the idea of codetermination tbh, but I do have lots of questions about how it would work in practice.

At the very least you have to ask whether contractors get a vote, which gets you into a question if incentive and which workers are more or less aligned with a company.
There are certainly problems in that process, but it also sounds like the author doesn't understand the difference between IBM and a startup. Anyone who expected stock options from a company that is over 100 years old with hundreds of thousands of employees just doesn't understand with whom they were interviewing.
I don't think this is exactly the issue the interviews are trying to prevent... As mentioned by a commentator below, once somebody is hired it would be extremely hard to get them out, especially for big corps. "Project failure" is an extreme case but the loss can still be huge. Therefore the employer just wants to be rather safe than sorry with a set of standardized tests it seems.

Also, to be able to thoroughly study for and prepare for something on one's own, this on itself probably illustrates a lot about this person's qualities already. Of course it would be theoretically nice to spend all this time and energy on something that is unique to every person, but that is not totally realistic and would be hard to evaluate. One can still do that with their side projects though.
No no no, you don't get to throw out gab.ai as an example without expanding on what they wanted censored. For those who don't know what was censored I'll link it as I will not be reposting it: https://heavy.com/news/2018/08/microsoft-threatened-gab-shut...

You muddle the waters greatly when you pretend it was just some free speech issue (Newsflash: FREE SPEECH DOES NOT EXTEND TO NON-GOVERNMENT ENTITIES),
I can totally appreciate this. As an American though, I have gone around my doctor and ordered prescription medications online when they would not prescribe them (ivermectin, anti-parisital, non-controlled substances, almost zero risk to myself if my diagnosis was inaccurate).
I've lived in the mountains before; actually I've lived above 10,000 ft. I get your meaning on taking one's hands off the steering wheel, although I reckon lots of people would say that's always somewhat dangerous. On mountain roads, where there aren't dedicated passing lanes, generous shoulders, and long straight sections between switchbacks there are often occasional pull-offs for slower traffic. Cyclists use those, and often get off the road to let others pass even without those. Certainly that's the case everywhere I've seen in the mountains.

Although perhaps you're not really talking about mountains? Elsewhere in this thread you seem to be talking about narrow defiles through hills and curves in some impossibly remote location. If we are to take you at your word, the roads you're driving aren't actually suited to automobile travel, and certainly not to 60mph highway-attitude automobile travel.

Cars only coexist with themselves because most drivers have safe habits. Those same safe habits allow car drivers not to kill cyclists.
So what, Google Chrome is a Konqueror clone
It makes claims of medical efficacy, so the FDA gets involved.
People dont try suicide for days. They try once and are either rescued or not. Next suicide attempt does not happen next day, it happens months/years later. It also have less to do with commitment and more to do with choosen method. Men tend to use guns or something of the sort while women are more likely to attempt to overdose - so there is enough time to find you.

I remember reading that most people in usa try suicide once and rarely second time.
So explain the point? In several threads recently I've seen people say "The application's line count is higher if you also count the libraries as part of the application!" - I mean yeah, sure, that's a factually correct statement, but... so what?
I'm confused. Wasn't Mir supposed to be an alternative to Wayland?
Market value for new grads is not $160-200k
As someone who has suffered on an almost daily basis from the poor quality hardware drivers on the Surface platform anything Microsoft can do to improve driver quality is a win in my book (and would have saved MSFT thousands of dollars as the MSFT store replaced my surface and keyboard multiple times at no charge before I finally tracked the issue down to the Bluetooth stack crashing and taking down the physically connected keyboard, which was happenning to me almost daily)
Handling opiod addiction as a disease starts with decriminalizing the drug. (It should remain a controlled substance, of course).

The next step is to make appropriate doses available to addicts at a cost that eradicates the illegal trade. These doses are administered in clinics, under the supervision of pharmacists and other professionals. This enables addicts to live their lives. The doses are offered in liquid form, not tablets. When mild and pure doses are readily available, the incentive to steal fentanyl and cut it with baby formula goes away.

The next step is to encourage addicts to reduce their dosages and do other things to get their addictions under control.

Along with all this, provide strong continuing education to working medical professionals about pain medication and addiction. Make it a point of pride among them to avoid getting their patients addicted.

The present system in the US is dominated by 12-step thinking. https://www.projectknow.com/research/alcoholics-anonymous-12... While 12-step programs help a great many people, they have two problems.

1. The whole "nature of our wrongs" approach (moral failing).

2. The cold-turkey approach, which ignores the possibility of physiological help to get through physiological withdrawal, and makes relapses more likely.

Other paths to treating addiction besides 12-step-centric ones are worth trying.

Portugal is following this path with reasonable success.

In the US it's hard to make this change. More than a century of systematic demonization of addicts has made the "moral failing" approach the norm. And, successful decriminalization of opiods will throw a lot of law enforcement people out of work.

But it's still worth trying, especially considering how many other things aren't working.

It would be good to compel Purdue Labs and other opiod-peddling drug marketers to disgorge some profits to help finance experiments in this kind of thing.
Being fertile or not isn't "medical", though, it is biological.

Should a vocabulary memorization app require FDA approval? Memory is biological.
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Actually I like the "automated video interview" idea. Sure, the grading part shouldn't be automated (i.e. there's no reason why they wouldn't accept an answer where the interviewee made a small mistake then corrected it), but if it saves (human) time, it's probably a good idea!