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> In fact, it means "I wish the plane crashes and only Sinan dies". Of course, "düş" as a noun is "dream" but "düşsün" is derived from the verb "düşmek" which means "to fall" but when it is coupled with a plane means "crash"

The reality, however, is that "to fall" actually does explain what it is happening to the plane, it does not mean something completely different. The word "dus" still conveys the meaning.

> I am not even going to get into regional differences.

That's called an accent, it exists almost in every language. I have a friend from work who pronounces "latency" with LAT (as in latitude) instead of LATE-ncy. He is from midwest.

Turkish pronunciation is _easier_ than English. I don't remember having a spelling competition, but it's common with american schools (and it made its way to hollywood movies).
Nitpicking examples on circumflex is not fair - how many words does Turkish even have of that kind?
Yes. This was a high-profile case with lots of public visibility. Asking for a huge sentence supported the political and career ambitions of prosecutors involved with the case.

The prosecutors did not ask for what they thought was a fair sentence for the alleged crimes. Instead they asked for the biggest sentence they thought they could attain.
You are unlikely to get asked any of these things during the interview, and if you are it will be obvious that you just crammed for them (much like if just brush your teeth the day before your dental appointment and then arrive at the dentist with bleeding gums).

If JavaScript is your language then you are likely looking at front end development, in which case it will be much more useful to know about frameworks and testing strategies than CS theory.
No, but it helps to highlight the pointlessness of these methods in hiring people for a real world project.

I keep hearing, how startups use multiple online judge algorithm screening sessions, to filter and hire the best. But the candidates just can't do any real world work, because they are busy practicing interview questions for the next job they seek while they are in their current jobs.

In other words you are optimizing to hire people who are good at clearing interviews, not doing their day job- Because they have to be bad enough at day jobs, as they have to be practicing these algo questions all day to clear your interviews.
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Personally, I went down the path of “pragmatist contractor”, working short, 3-6 month gigs and taking most of the year off to do that other stuff that gives my life meaning.

The cool thing about being a developer is that we can live a long time on a quarter of our salary. And the cool thing about contracting is that they pay you twice as much to do it in short bursts than they would to do it full time.
Bitcoin is surprisingly resilient; getting to the last bubble would imply running out of dumb retail investor money. Plus the darknets and ransomware seem still to be in business with cryptocurrency.

I'd expect repeating smaller bubbles every few months.
Foreign words still tend to follow rules and get 'Turkified' along the way. The rants are mostly related to synonyms. They are not unique to Turkish. Regional differences and slang exist in every language. I don't see a compelling reason how it makes Turkish harder to grasp compared to other languages.

> Turkish pronunciation is easy compared to English.

Yes, it is, and by a high margin! There are some exceptions. Unlike English, where almost everything is an exception.

As a bilingual person Turkish feels way more logical and structured to me. I also get frustrated when I try to map expressions from English to Turkish, which doesn't always work, but that's not the fault of the Turkish language per se.

> Turkish and machines don't mix.

That's a huge claim. I don't think enough effort has been put into it yet to make it. There's a lot of good work being done and the state of NLP in Turkish might get better soon. It's no small feat, and I'm optimistic about it.
Coderust has been an invaluable resource to me. Yes, it won't give you what a CS degree gives you, but it's enough to make you feel confident in a week or less.

https://www.educative.io/collection/5642554087309312/5679846...
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> With software the pertinent metric is the number of quality-adjusted life years (QALY) lost.

Except that QALY is a bullshit metric based on economic doctrine that is unsupported empirically (and, arguably, in their specific application in QALY, outright disproven.)
>Bakkt plans to offer a full package combining a major CFTC-regulated exchange with CFTC-regulated clearing and custody, pending the approval from the commission and other regulators.

I think that they're about the 4th "major player" to announce they're going to introduce a regulated exchange. And every other time it's been "pending regulator approval". And every other time the regulators told them to pound sand. Besides the fact they run the NYSE, what's changed? The US has absolutely no incentive to hand over controls of their monetary policy, and I see no reason why they'd be anymore eager to approve this.
The problem is that they are trying to create a federally regulated market, which goes against the original idea of Bitcoin.
>For me the line is clear - illegal content must be removed, legal content must be left undisturbed, and if Facebook considers law of some country to run counter to their conscience, do not operate in that market.

The only problem is, since the internet is free and open, whether Facebook operates as a legal entity in a particular country or not, doesn't prevent internet users from that country to access the services. And Facebook doesn't have any obligations to ban IP ranges from that country. So, it's the country's responsibility to ban traffic to Facebook.
i am not advocating hiring purely on potential. and of course i view it from the employer's point of view as well.

you simply can't hire well if you ask what amounts to puzzle questions in interviews. it doesn't address what a person does know. so in my opinion, an interview should be about finding out what a person knows, and in the event that it doesn't overlap with what the employer true needs, then some extrapolation or further digging is needed.

however, even when a person's skills do overlap with the needs (whether the employer knows or it or not), it is my opinion that much of the overlap is often ignored (architecture, organization, perspective, personality, design skills, api philosophy) in favor of the more "hardcore" stuff (algorithms, data structures). we all know that even in the with the most efficient algorithms, software can be a mess if employees lack the former qualities. but software that is well designed can get away with less efficient algorithms except in extreme cases and niche contexts.

tbe problems faced in a software company are rarely of the form "tell me the big-O behavior of this algorithm". rather, it's much more about how to manage large amounts of complexity, reducing complexity, designing flexible architectures, well-defined APIs, etc.
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"Space tourism", for now, means "putting people into LEO for an orbit or two" or just "getting out of the atmosphere". That's significantly easier than putting someone on the moon and returning them home alive.

Would a moon cafe be easier than sending someone to Mars and back? I mean, that's pretty freakin' obvious, isn't it?!

Why isn't there such a thing? Because it's still hard, expensive, and dangerous. It's not clear to me why this isn't obvious.
Even after choosing a technology (like Hadoop), there's a lot of difference between the best and the worst algorithm to solve a problem.

For example, the reduce phase of MapReduce is pretty much "apply the algorithm you want on this List", and that's where knowing good list algorithms (for example) shine.
The question to ask is where will the money come from? The last bubble was all over TV, it was a constant part of the news cycle and everybody knows somebody who bought at least some crypto currency based on promises of wild riches. Most of those people have lost at least some (or even most) of the money they “invested”. When the layman has already been burned, where can money come from?

People often make the mistakes more than once so perhaps there’s room for “this time it’s different!” but I’m not convinced. I don’t see the crypto market ever exceeding the previous all time high.

There’s certainly room for individual cryptocurrency projects to succeed from their own merit as projects that happen to be crypto currencies so I don’t think all crypto currencies are dead forever but crypto as a growth market almost certainly is.
Sure. I don't feel any urge to pay several hundred per month for several years for a car, when I can have an equally functional (if less flashy) car that I bought outright for less than the up-front deposit on the BMW.

(To be exact, I drive a 15-yr-old Skoda, not a Yaris, but you get the idea.)
Not to mention the phone apps that keep users so addicted they can't look away to operate heavy machinery.
Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are very volatile.

Seeing a 5% movement in the market and giving it a title 'Sense of Panic' is not really great journalism in my opinion.
I wonder if the case would have played out differently if Silk Road hadn't coincided with the rise of synthetic drugs.
I got the same response from an old friend who has worked for Google for the better part of a decade.

FWIW my understanding is that the Hiring Committee tends to discard feedback from interviewers like your latter type here.
Time to buy.

Every time an article like this comes out, crypto shoots up shortly after. It's like a perfect negative signal.

And how could it be otherwise? The worst time to buy is when everyone else is buying.
Another day another Bitcoin obituary.

Surely these articles are click baits at this point.
Thanks. Can you recommend the Godot tutorials?
> I started lifting very heavy weights

I've been thinking about doing this and was wondering how people get started. Did you hire a trainer? I'm very worried about injury and, as I understand it, a big part of staying injury free comes down to good form. I think I would benefit a great deal from having a trainer to get started. Did you?
The Gervais Principle is brilliant, indeed. It manages to explain aspects of the show that lead to its success, whilst also providing an in-depth and raw description of the corporate world.
I am a SWE at Google, and yes, most Googlers are pretty good at solving whiteboard problems. It's not like we are born with those solutions in our heads, but we enjoy solving those questions especially with other people. It's a lot of fun to "explore" answers to these questions, and that's what I think interviews are all about.

I know HN hates whiteboard problems, but just like anything, you get good with it if you're having fun solving them.
I'm still waiting for the environmentalists to start going after the miners who seek out cheap energy and then gobble up tons of it just mine their crypto:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/09/bitcoin-m...

Today, a half-megawatt mine, Miehe says, “is nothing.” The commercial miners now pouring into the valley are building sites with tens of thousands of servers and electrical loads of as much as 30 megawatts, or enough to power a neighborhood of 13,000 homes. And in the arms race that cryptocurrency mining has become, even these operations will soon be considered small-scale.

That is INSANE.
Well said. All too often those inspirational prompts to chase your dreams feel slightly too unconditional.

If everything you do is temporary, you'll never arrive anywhere.
If you know how to solve the network effect that would be great. Otherwise we might just end up trading one master for another.
I’m not talking about interactions but processes: things that other part of the organisation relies upon. Think things like bus-factor.
First of all, nobody will understand if you pronounce it "meːɐ̯t" (as in "mehr" in German + "t").

Mert is actually also a foreign word. Well, most (I'd guess 90%) of the words starting with "me" are of Arabic or Persian origin.

But the difference is there in Turkish words as well. Geri, gerzek (which is interestingly a shortcut for "geri zeka") and gevrek.

There are many "e"s in Turkish, difference among which is very sparsely documented.

Don't even get me started on the "ğ" (which is normally supposed to just make the previous vocal letter longer but took on many other roles).
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I agree especially with stuff like DVDs, and music media etc. It does make a lot of sense, until you get to bigger more important things.
> Perhaps we are becoming more communal and caring in positive ways

I think I this is a big one. There's a very degree of trust that public services and even private ones will be there whenever we need. Not just things like reliable hospitals and electrical grid, but also one-day shipping on whatever we need. There is no longer a need to keep things on hand.
Hey, same here. I live in a very low cost state, so the pay was fantastic (especially compared to what I get now), the job security was there, the benefits were amazing... Unlike some folks, I'm perfectly willing to work for the government (mostly for the benefits).

They really wanted me in that job, too. But then the state froze hiring and several months later the posting expired. It hasn't been re-listed since then and it's been nearly a year now.
It had been one of the cryptocurrency promoters' talking points for some time.

BTC and Ether were supposed to be a store of value, and some pointed to research that showed a lack of correlation between general market movements and valuations in the cryptocurrency space, arguing that this made it a good hedge.

The extreme volatility would seem to count against that idea though.
VB.net comes to mind
I think the only thing that changed is in fact that they are NYSE.
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The PNG code is based on UPNG.js, the SVG is based on SVGO.js, the JPG is based on MozJpeg (run through Emscripten), and the charts are done with Chart.js.

The rest is just some web workers, the UI code, and a small quantity of HTML and CSS.

The goal of the project was to realize the vision of the trade-off chart, and to build an essentially serverless image compression tool so that it could be totally free without burning server dollars.
> the country has been broke for decades now

Really?
I agree with you, it is true that from computer linguistics perspective Turkish is more complex in general, but it is indeed possible to tackle all of these issues it given enough time and energy.

Lately there are bigger advances in the area (e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.07946.pdf)
I've been watching the situation in Turkey with astonishment. To appearances, Erdogan believes that higher interest rates cause inflation. Thus he refuses to raise them.

This is the physical world equivalent of believing gravity makes things rise. Or that water pouring in makes a ship float, not sink.

It will be very, very difficult for Turkey unless someone can convince him he is wrong. And he has created a system where no one can tell him that.

Edit: I seem to be getting downvotes. But this actually is his repeatedly stated belief. You can find dozens of similar references.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-15/erdogan-s...
>the erosion of personal ownership and what that will mean for our loyalties to traditional American concepts of capitalism and private property.

I don't understand the author's premise. The author is largely lamenting that people are buying services over goods, but that doesn't show a dwindling loyalty towards capitalism in the slightest. I might think it strengthens loyalty to capitalism, as many of these services require an ongoing relationship with the market.

I'm also unsure about how "private property" is a traditional American concept and the author does a poor job explaining why changing loyality to it is a reason to be nervous...
> The US has absolutely no incentive to hand over controls of their monetary policy

The regulators who approve these proposals have nothing to do with monetary policy. Their concern is with the breathtaking volume of scams in the space.
Has a NUMA topology like this ever been used with Windows? They could be misinterpreting it. They have quite a reputation for partial buggy implementations of ACPI-related stuff that end up becoming de-facto standards.
Nope, it is an excellent idea. Just not all the time.
You still have the ability to put your BTC in a cold wallet and "transfer" it internationally without physically moving anything. I think there is value in that.
There is a differentiation here in important to the company vs. important to the individual.

As mentioned in other threads, as people mature they often begin to look for meaning in their work beyond pure compensation. As a software engineer, I can produce something that is of value to the company, be compensated fairly for that work but still derive no personal value from the primary results of the work because software, by nature is so ephemeral. The result is so malleable, that what was done yesterday can be scrapped today. There is little permanence. Couple this with an immature industry that actively disdains "old ideas" and it is pretty easy to get drug down into questioning what you are doing.

For those that care about what they do, this situation almost amounts to maintaining an exercise in double-think as a coping mechanism to make it through the day. But I've found that year after year it gets harder and harder to play that internal mental game.

If you are one of the unlucky few who work in an organization that actively works against personal growth and development, then the lasting second order effects of your work, especially in leadership positions (e.g. the growth and development of those around you) may not last either.

I contrast this to the mechanical / electrical engineers who are around the same age who can point to an airplane and say "I designed that part / system 20 years ago; each time I step on the aircraft, I am reminded of the value of my work."
I should have said "n log n heuristic approximate solution" (my defense: I'm actually a biologist pretending to be a computer scientist).

Many problem solutions at Google are effectively heuristic approximate solutions to NP-hard problems (or less hard but interesting problems).

There's no trick, they just want to know you can figure out how to compute things quickly so they can run online in a server or a batch job. And the things that need to be computed are often problems with high time or space complexity and the exact answer doesn't need to be known.
Hey, I mean this in no way disrespectfully, but if you want to land a job you need to show that you're following the rules. I've hired a lot of people at different places over the years so I'm going to try to help you with some unsolicited feedback.

Every comment like this on HN is an opportunity for someone desperate for talent to reach out to you. When you're job hunting make sure you use proper capitalization. Include your email in your profile. Make sure you show that yes, you're struggling, but that you also have some hope. Avoid certainty when ascribing mental state to others.

Here is how I would write your comment:

~Begins

I'm someone currently job hunting in Boston, with five years of .NET and multi-platform C++, I wonder if you have an overly optimistic view. I've found that, at least here in Boston, the job market is extremely conservative. It seems that if you have a background that's a little different you need to be prepared for the long haul. I'm finding this extremely stressful. When interviewing I find that there is little interest about where I've worked or what I've done.

Interviewers seem to care about a small, specific subset of things that they surface during the interview, and they don't seem to evaluate whether or not I can learn what they need me to learn, or how to understand what I already know. I feel like they treat my resume as some base GPA-like requirement and forget about it once the interview starts. I find myself asked shallow questions to gauge aptitude, rather than engaged in a well-tailored conversation about software and its challenges.

I know I'm venting right now because I'm having an especially hard time, but at time the difficulty I'm having makes me want to leave software. I find it hard to break through what seems to be a cliquish culture and I wish I could find a software firm that celebrated diversity.

~Ends

I hope this helps. Best of luck with your job search. I know how difficult and desperate it can feel. If you want me to review your CV or cover letter reach out. My email is in my profile.
I feel like you are mixing multiple things together, and giving examples from google translate doesn't really support your argument - it just shows google translate sucks for turkish language.
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Interpreted charitably, they may have been referencing the idea that growth would gradually move China in the direction of democracy. Instead, they're going in the reverse direction on the scale.
Until I saw the link you posted, I thought you were talking about Hammersmith Flyover, which had to be closed for several weeks to strengthen it after they found an alarming number of cracks.

They still don't have a long-term plan to replace it afaik, despite the strengthening works only being a temporary measure.
We only pay people we've confirmed are in the videos.

Your comment doesn't just apply to porn tubes but all tubes. Youtube has tons of pirated content, they take it down when reported, just like us.
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I expect the money will come from Wall Street once adequate custodial / regulatory framework is in place.
> Erdogan believes that higher interest rates cause inflation

Is there evidence he actually believes this?
These problems and not specific to Turkish. All languages pose different challenges, with focused research almost all are solvable.
By the same logic people should not live inside buildings other than cabins: if the building itself collapses the inhabitants don't survive.
You might be thinking of the border. Within the US, the constitution applies generally to foreigners, IIRC
Around two years ago. I applied for a data scientist role with the city of SF and never got a response.
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My favorite was this question, quoted verbatim from a test in my biophysics grad program:

What is the time resolved flourescence of a fluorophore in 4 dimensions?

The solution, explained to me by my friend who was a very smart physicist, was the first time I heard the word "tensor" (this was a long time ago, long before machine learning used that word) and I was obsessed with the idea that there was all this cool math you could use to solve hard problems.
Definitely. A key example is phones whose batteries cannot be replaced by the end-user (and end-user repairability in general). Forcing users to update their phone's OS to newer versions which require more power from the newer models is another example. Printer ink cartridges often contain chips whose only purpose is to disable the cartridge - even if it's still got plenty of ink - after a certain amount of time passes. Also consider video games which require an internet connection to play, but do all of the logic on the client - when the servers disappear, well, time to buy this year's game instead.

Legislation against this practice isn't unheard of, there are fines and jail time for it in France.
They have achieved their early goals and found out that they were fakes implanted by the society. Now they are left in a vacuum surrounded by a bunch of responsibilities.
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