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The bad practices are mostly on the part of our client company. They understand they painted themselves into a corner, they are afraid to touch it anymore and are glad someone took it over from them. They loosened our deadlines because we're working with a giant hairball. I still think they have a problem with practices, but they're getting there.
Is there a standard in systematically walking problem space? or should doing it in my way?
That's a benefit of the coding interview, actually. We don't ask you about that particular feature of some library from 10 years ago, which is basically a luck question: you either happen to know or you don't.

We ask you to code a simple task that you should be able to do in your favorite programming language.

Not entirely sure how the discussion of coding interviews veered towards obscure knowledge interviews - the former was expressly designed to supersede and eliminate the latter as one of its core goals!
Do you want/need to build an SPA? Take something like React and pair it with an API built in Node/Go/Elixir or something that offers great performance out of the box.

Don't need an SPA? Rails is one of the most productive options out there.
It exaggerates the cycles for sure. If the Fed let interest rates be set by the market after the next bubble collapse, the recovery would be slower, less bubbly and growth would be based on the value of things, rather than how easily a sector is stoked by interest rates. And it would be more likely to be sustainable and stable.
I don't have a position, I'm agnostic on the issue.
"I wrote "a lot of its capabilities are much more relevant for large servers"
Which is true."

That is a myth. It's simply not the case. What you could argue is that if you solve a problem for servers, it is also solved for consumer grade hardware, but writing a volume manager / filesystem for servers is empathically not what Bill Moore and Jeff Bonwick set out to do. Jeff wanted to solve the problem of data integrity in a filesystem (his own words), not explicitly design a solution relevant for servers. ZFS is perfect for laptops and desktops. See also https://wiki.illumos.org/download/attachments/1146951/zfs_la...

...if you still have difficulty with the concept of ZFS being perfect for shitty consumer grade drives in desktops and laptops, do this mental exercise: which features of ZFS would make it not be a good fit for a cheap consumer drive?
No, I'm not ascribing bad faith, I don't know if you're a racist-apologist, or (as I tend to assume) just message-board-fashionably ignorant or something else. And you are right, access to the web or a library will show you that no serious historians of the African slave trade sit around comparing it to the Soviet Gulags or claim it does not stand out as a phenomenon against the many other examples of slavery throughout history. Nobody does that because it's obviously silly, even in the most punctiliously charitable interpretation.
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how can one get a ride in a waymo car, right now, with an app that is installed on millions of phones?

I just see the inertia uber has with their install base will carry some considerable weight.

but seriously, how can i get a ride in a waymo so i can experience it?
On the same lines, if you take little from each worker and give it to the CEO, its worth a lot to one individual.
Came here to say the same thing, and add that with Django, you have access to the amazingly vast landscape of Python libraries. Just being able to spawn Celery jobs is a huge plus.
oh pan on the stovetop first is a good call
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Nice to see it codified. Sometimes you don’t realise you need or decide you want to abstract until you’ve hit 5 or more.
OK, fair enough. It's just that we've seen a lot of stuff here lately about China and Russia which is arguably propaganda.
Optimizing for happiness is very good advice for beginners. The failure mode for beginners is to get overwhelmed, discouraged, and then give up. So it makes sense to pay more attention to how happy a particular programming environment makes you, and worry less about how marketable it is.
It’s what I love the most about Lisp...
AMD spun off GloFo and isn't tied to them.

It is bad news for us all because less competition equals higher prices. The less competition will be shown in all products related to 7 nm.
For this particular implementation, what are the advantages of using it for supervised or unsupervised learning? (in general?)

And if it's just being used for the MNIST dataset, is there a particular reason for using it in one or the other fashion?
Ruby is not uncommon in DevOps environments, but it's, for the most part, a language predominantly used for web development. I said before that Rails was mostly a blessing for Ruby, but also a bit of a curse.
Go to Phoenix, AZ and apply here: https://waymo.com/apply/

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-31/inside-th...
"Imagine being able to respond to push notifications, intercept resource requests, and schedule background syncronization, all without the need for a user to actively have your website open in front of them."

".. by authoring special-purpose JavaScript which you register with the browser."

Why does this seem like something useful for malware and generally annoying me.
> My experience is that most startups just put you in front of people and tell you to figure it out.

Some do, sure. And that's the difference between a startup and a regular company right there: that "figure it out" bit.

You'll mess up and fumble and come up with crazy ideas, 95% of which are worse than what the established companies are doing.

But you'll learn a ton along the way.

It's messy and inefficient but that's how startups are.

I personally learned a ton from hacking interviews at startups and all that "figuring it out".

Also, guess what? All these sacred "FAANG interviews" that seem to have come down from the sky, etched on tablets? They were developed by Microsoft back when it was a startup, then evolved by various SV companies at their startup stage, too.

The next great idea in interviewing also won't come from the thousands of engineers obediently marching to the tune of the same principles everyone is using, but from some startup trying something crazy and ambitious and miraculously getting it to work.
this is so often the case with comments about Google here on HN; someone vilifies them, then another commenter explains what really went down. The people at Google are not evil or malicious, lol
The source seems to be the fictional professor from the Simpsons (John Frink):

http://wiki.c2.com/?FrinkLanguage
It makes more sense for the EFF, though, since both “EFF” and “Electronic Frontier Foundation” are valid names for the organization. The LoC’s version creates the impression that the brand name is just “Library”.
Would that be a good way to sanitise user input? Like removing script tags etc...
- The wealthy had to fork out high sums but peasants paid one kopek - the lowest coin of the realm.

wow, not only a beard tax, but a progressive beard tax! :D
You may be interested in looking up the etymology for "slave".
I'm sure that's true, but I think this decision was ultimately made based on GloFo losing AMD as a big customer. GloFlo has relied for too many years on AMD's business.
Galileo works pretty well for me, pathfinding and all.

https://galileo-app.com/
Your second paragraph sums everything up perfectly. I am a tenure-track lecturer, and love my job for all the reasons you mention, despite the relatively poor pay. I essentially have the freedom to work on whatever the hell I want; and that to me is priceless.

I would also mention teaching: some academic staff hate it because it takes time away from research. This is true but my experience is that if you put time into being a good teacher then you get to take your pick of the brightest students to help you with your research, which can lead to interesting Masters projects which lead on to PhDs.
When I was consulting we would usually run into VB.NET in businesses that were either small or didn't have career developers. One exception to that is a lot of financial services firms (even banks) seemed to use it a lot.

The types of problems I saw VB.net used to solve were usually data entry apps, call centers etc. A lot of the times these developers are what I called "tools based", because almost without exception the only way they knew how to get a database connect or a form component on the screen was to use Visual Studio to drag and drop it. I did run into a few VB.NET projects that were super professionally done and impressive but that was the exception. I don't fault the language overall, but I would never want to maintain it long term.

Funny part, one of the consultancies I started and ran for years focused on project rescues and our bread and butter was the Microsoft stack for a time. By percentage we were called for VB.NET projects in financial services firms above almost all other situations. To be fair, VB.NET wasn't the failure generally, poor project management, bad requirements and staffing almost always was the failure. Architecture and language choices were usually made by non-developers or at least non-career developers.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery :

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. However the social, economic, and legal positions of slaves were vastly different in different systems of slavery in different times and places.

Slavery can be traced back to the earliest records, such as the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1860 BC), which refers to it as an established institution, and it was common among ancient people...

Although slavery is no longer legal anywhere in the world (with the exception of penal labour), human trafficking remains an international problem and an estimated 25-40 million people are enslaved today, the majority in Asia.

Slavery is absolutely ubiquitous across both time and cultures.
As others said, it depends. Here in my city (Lübeck) in Germany, OSM runs circles around GM and then leisurely sprints towards the goal. When I was in South Africa (Pretoria) OSM was so out of date that it was unusable, and that's without information there that's always been wrong.
My husband is a German who did a Mech E PhD, and indeed was 31 when he finished, despite going through the pipeline completely on schedule. Back then, German students finished high school (Gymnasium) at 19, then did a Diplom (think combination bachelors/masters) which took 5 years.

In his particular institute, the better you were, the LONGER it often took because the professors found stuff they wanted you to help with unless you were really good at boundaries. My husband took 7 years; a very kind, very bright friend of his needed 8.5.
I think C++ has some pretty solid libraries. I particularly like gRPC and Thrift.
More importantly the Chinese leadership doesn’t need to worry about an election cycle. They can easily think in 20-40 year timeframes, while American leaders can go 4 years ahead at most.
Oh boy did I step on a taboo. I'm not going to pretend I haven't said that. I suppose it can fall under "flamebait" or "political/ideological". So much for diversity and freedom of speech. (Yup I understand HN guidelines are not US constitution).

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Since my comment is flagged anyway, I may as well explain my point of view.

1. The sexes are different.
2. Physical differences between men and women exist, and they're obvious.
3. Mental differences between men and women are much harder to see and pinpoint, but given #2, it's plausible they can exist.
4. Women have inferior physical strength.
6. Current scientific knowledge says women didn't hunt much, letting them to spent a lot more time in their villages(nests).
7. Because of #4, alternative defensive mechanisms (against men) would be desirable
8. Because of #7, alternative defensive mechanisms would be possible. More opportunities to practice social skills (more time spent in company).

The rest is anecdotal evidence and not yet proven or refuted.
Man these are good ! I was very impressed with the professional look and downright usability!
> How many people you know who don’t have PhD and have freedom to explore at work full time what truely interests them? Author has rather twisted view of the selection bias.

I don't have a degree and I have that. Also I know a lot of people with a PhD who do not have anything remotely resembling freedom.

The author might be biased but it's good to hear it from that side once in awhile, rather than be deluged with "you can't do science without a PhD" and similar sentiments (I work parallel to academia and get plenty of shit from their ivory towerism, hence my comment).
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agreed !
This used to be the situation in Europe but it got out of hand, as a result all new PhDs in Europe must be advertised as three year programs, and completed in four at a maximum.
Well, Global Foundries was AMD up until the divestiture.
Pretty sure they are saying pandoc is unnecessary.
As for right now, speed and features. Apple is already pretty invested in ARM and have the in-house experts. Managing and developing two processor architectures in parallel is a massive duplication of effort, just to avoid paying ARM a licens, a licens that Apple can easily afford.

In the long run, no there's no reason why Apple couldn't use RISC V in place of ARM, but not without a large upfront cost.
Ah yes! Homebrew, for example.
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> There was more talk about culture and some people being too sensitive. The head of Legal spoke up again, saying that it wasn’t that hearing guys say the stupid stuff they did all day made her sad or upset, it just made her want to punch them in the throat because she was sick of having to hear it all the time. I really liked that part.

^ Isn't it hypocritical to crusade against certain types of insensitive speech and yet enjoy casual references to violence against males?
Wow, what a quick jump to pathologize someone's behavior based on some pattern you spotted that bares some resemblance to a mental disorder. Psychiatry is not an exact science, and this labelling does more harm than good when used out of context. A person can be classified with a mental disorder _only_ when that behavior starts having negative effects to their lives, and not merely by satisfying some of the symptoms. Someone can act hypomanic or depressed and that can fluctuate through their life but until that starts having severe negative effects that they can't escape from on their own, it is simply the expression of their character and their uniqueness as a human being, rich and complex. Otherwise you can classify with a mental disorder pretty much everyone.
OK, so "world’s largest democracy" was obviously India. But damn, learning that they're an Indian firm from their website was nontrivial. And perhaps I'm just tired.

Still, SocialCops is a disturbing name. Or is it just me? Does India really need social cops?
No one is using VB.NET to build the next Facebook or something. VB.NET is used heavily in the most boring of all domains - business side apps. Like, for example a small invoicing app for a mom and pop store made usually by students or some extra cash or by small scale consulting companies.

In India a whole lot of such apps, even for big grocery chains and banks are made in VB.NET. I made many of them when I was an undergraduate for some quick spending money.

> I've never seen a single article or mention on Hacker News or any of the other forums I read.

You wouldn't. This is not a client side or flashy business where you can claim big innovation or some grand mission like changing the world. No one on a forum has the time to talk about the boring stuff.
There is no need to build a sarcophagus around a sunken nuclear reactor. Water is a great radiation stopper, to the extend that you can actually build and operate an "open" reactor where you can look directly down to the core and see the blue glow from the Cherenkov radiation. It would probably be wise to fence it off somehow.
> If you’re well off (from family or something like that) then sure you can of course do it in your own.

I grew up in a below-average income family in a below-average city in America, and I carved this out for myself despite zero undergraduate degree. This meme that you have to be well off or that everyone who does it had benefactors is kinda silly.

I realize I am a sample size of one, but I really don't care for being wholly discounted in these arguments as if such a path is impossible. Was it exceptionally hard? Yes. Would it have been easier if I just finished my BS and an accepted-to MS? Also yes.

But I didn't for various reasons, and it still worked out because most of the factors that make a successful entrepreneur, scientist, and employee are exogenous to formal education anyway.

I advise people regularly to continue on with formal education; it is not like I think this is a very good track to take. But it is one that is available to those who self-study their ass off and don't mind working menial jobs to put food on the table for themselves and their families with great sacrifices.
But at what cost? If they want Taiwan for the institutional knowledge of TSMC, will that remain after an invasion?
Uhm, you don't, because water is absolutely fantastic at blocking radiation - just several meters of it would block literally all radiation from a reactor gone critical. Not to mention that nuclear reactors are not bombs, not any more than coal fired power plant boilers are bombs.
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hmmmm, after we haven't mastered the technology on land. Now putting it out on the ocean will solve the issue for sure.
On the official reddit community people hope a late 2019 / early 2020 release
It affects some people much more than others, it's not a uniform random occurrence, so a person with one blackout is more likely than most to have more than one. Some people are very anxious during interviews, and their frontal lobe basically shuts down, others love interviews. So it's very likely that many of the people you've interviewed who you thought "couldn't code" actually just couldn't code while you were watching them.
I've turned down a handful of offers to teach classes at university and I'm about 34 semester credits short of a Bachelor's Degree.

So I guess the land you need to be in is the United States of America, at least in my case anyway. Might be true elsewhere but I haven't tested my luck.
Just telling people "don't do that" rarely works. I'm not going to go back to wiping my arse with paper like some kind of barbarian, and I'm not leaving shitty wipes in a bin for any period of time. Multiply that by millions (billions?).

We need to develop/commercialise sanitary materials that don't cause these sewage treatment and environmental problems, but they probably cost slightly more == less sales in the store == LESS PROFIT.
Number of experiments and number of „killed“ ideas (especially already grown up ideas) help you to indicate whether you are on the right track or not
Thank you for your reply Frank. I am lucky to never have had that degree of dependency on alcohol though there have been times in the past where I've felt myself getting a bit too fond of it. It's always been easy enough for me to cut back though. The only proper dependency I have experience of is to tobacco. It took me a lot of attempts over several years to finally kick that habit. What helped me finally was taking up running. Feeling my lungs improve and my increasing fitness (and probably self-esteem) was a huge incentive to stay off. I think alcohol is probably a far harder proposition though. Also it being put in front of your face everywhere can't help. I wish you well and I hope you find a way.
This hits close to home for me. My 3 year old daughter was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer (with a rather poor prognosis).

We brought her to a pediatritian in two states, both thought it was nothing but "growing pains". Her limp got worse, she was in incredible pain for days. She would develop fevers with no other symptoms.

She would mysteriously get better, then a month later it would happen again. Each time it got worse and her pain increased, the limping was more pronounced.

They misdiagnosed her and wanted us to see a specialist for it. We refused to wait a couple months to get an appointment with one and demanded to see someone, anyone else.

We eventually got to see a doctor (not a pediatritian) that at least done their done and ordered proper tests. Unfortunately they found bone lesions. Upon closer inspection they found a primary tumor in her abdomen, the cancer has already spread to her bone marrow (hence the bone pain/lesions and limping).

She's doing pretty good now-- still along ways to go for treatment though.

All in all-- as a parent you need to follow your gut and don't trust everything doctors say or feel. We lost a few months due to poor pediatricians that couldn't do their job (these were pediatricians at well known places).
PLA cyber, missile, air and maritime forces are deployed against TW in order to neutralize its ability to defend itself.

What does that actually mean tho’? A buildup of forces doesn’t neutralise anything. And why would Taiwan sit back and not respond to cyberattacks?
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Yes, I gave up 1/4 of the way in because the author was waffling.
I really hope this new version is more polished than Babel 6 was at the time of its release.

At my former company, the migration to Babel 6 was such a disaster we jokingly renamed it to «Babel Vista».
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Thanks! I really appreciate your insightful comments.
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Yes, the same reason why all Wirth languages use uppercase for keywords.

And not a big deal on the age of automatic code formatters.
Zones are much more developed than jails, but not quite as flexible as lxc.
Depending on how cheap that may not be such a bad thing. You are effectively having a "real job" from 25 (if a slightly worse paid one than in industry), and most importantly you get the PhD without accumulating any more debt. This is an important factor in equality and recruitment meaning not only those that can afford grad school will do it.
Maybe the "cubes" system will be used in the "hacking" mode? They did not show that in the demo because the character lacked the skills
Sorry to hear that. I've had a very similar set of experiences. It's very frustrating.
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I thought at first you were going to talk about how EDA software sucks. Now /that's/ garbage
Exactly. GF is making lots of chips on 130 and 180 nm process. There’s a lot out there that isn’t bleeding edge CPUs. We’ve got power chips, port controllers, high speed linear re-drivers. Not every ASIC needs tiny transistors, in fact many use comparatively huge ones and it makes no sense to use an expensive process.

I don’t see GF going away any time soon. They’re a huge player with a lot of customers.
Apple could buy Intel for the tech, AMD just to close it. Then stop selling CPUs or licences altogether. Just ramp up selling Mac's. Then PC dies. :)