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> Buy Buy Baby

Always hated the name of that store. It sounds like a euphemism for Planned Parenthood.

> The UX is still great for me to track down products I might like or need and then go shop for them in person.

What a hilarious inversion of the way things used to be.
Anyone familiar with the new CA privacy act know if it has similar provisions or includes similar user privacy protections as this seems to seek?
This is probably the book I recommend the most of any book, ever.
I find Reddit to be on the level of 4chan now. Not in the rude/vulgar/disgusting way, but in how low quality its content and users are. It's totally unbearable unless like I said you are in select niche curated hobby subreddits. The highly public subreddits are disasters of political correctness and 60's-like red scare propaganda blaming Russia on everything. Today I peeked at the hurricane forums and saw people blaming Hurricane Florence on Russian-made propaganda. WTF? People don't communicate in a natural way on Reddit anymore. It's certainly changed enormously since I got there 6-8 years ago.

Hacker News is infinitely higher quality than Reddit at this point, and I'm glad I came here. It changed a lot about how I see others on the internet and how I debate, all in a beneficial and positive way.
The part of that paragraph where it falls apart for me is the assumption that a well capitalized rent seeker is going to decided to become productive instead of finding other opportunities to do rent seeking.

That doesn't seem to fit real life very well.

If that happens, the only effect is that you create a class of ultra-wealthy under-taxed rent seekers who still produce nothing.
There are now 141 bio and healthcare companies funded by YC
where did you find examples to practice - im horrible at these types of questions but would like to get better.
My experience with my current company could be considered the opposite of this. People are willing to pay us large amounts of money (surprisingly so) because they need a solution for this particular problem and nothing exists, but they hate what we have built and constantly complain / write angry emails offering feedback of all varieties. What they don't do is leave, despite not being locked in. Strange.
T-Mobile still has an unlimited plan, right?
Oh yeh I looked at the X on the current tab and didn't agree. The close X on background tabs hover is basically indistinguishable.
Parent did not say they would be purchasing in a state where recreational dispensaries exist or where weed is legal at a state level. Those are unstated assumptions.
I had a similar experience. I've shared it before but I'll copy it here:

I've stopped leaving Amazon reviews. Recently I was bored and went through a few bits of network equipment and PC hardware I purchased and reviewed a few of them. 3/6 of the reviews were rejected for being against community guidelines with no reason provided. Even after reading the guidelines it's not clear why they were rejected. I put in effort to describe why something got its rating from me. For example, I discussed the strengths/weaknesses the network equipment. From now on I might leave a star rating, but I'm not wasting time to get a review accepted. I'll leave that to the shills.
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Thanks; I'll have a look.
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Yes, in the long term having less of a dependence on the global supply chain is better for the local economy, climate, and people. But during that transition, a lot of people are going to be negatively affected.

Today, it's my opinion that our culture has an unhealthy fascination and addiction towards products and goods that have a cost that is not reflective of the real value to sustainable supply the demand. Too many things these days are subsidized to create consumer demand and those dependencies are unhealthy and unsustainable.

"Like the links in a chain, one by one they will start to give until the chain collapses."

Ideally, consumers will have to pay the real value for those products and goods or go without until they can afford it.

It's entirely possible that in your example, both prices are reflective of the real cost to grow, maintain, and distribute bananas.

As a consumer, the price of $0.4/lb is cheaper and will keep more money in my pocket (or does it?) when compared to the $6/lb price.

However, as a consumer I should take into account the other factors of that cost, for example, how much did it cost to ship those bananas to my local store?
How much does it cost for the farmers to support their families?
Should I even be eating bananas right now?
Can I take a break from bananas and save up to afford the bananas that are closer to me?
Is it better to support the local farmers in my region, or the farmers across the world? Maybe both?

We need to be asking more questions about the big picture.
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Sure glad that facebook and other tech giants are working on similar society rating systems /s
I think it depends where you are. I’ve just looked, you can get 100GB for £20 a month in the UK (sim-only), cost of data is not a big issue here.

I agree top speed isn’t too much of an problem in itself, but if with contention that speed can drop a hundred fold and still provide a good connection, the leeway is worth having. And presumably there are range and robustness of connection benefits as well.
I agree, I personally think Amazon's site layout is hideous. I never spend time on the front page, I go straight to the search bar and then straight to the pics and reviews section of the product page. The product pages are often cluttered and ugly as well.

I think the reason the design persists is because Amazon is basically the granddaddy of ecommerce and like Ebay, their old-school look is part of their brand identity. Sure, they'll introduce more and more ads as time goes on, but probably nothing truly dramatic as FB's news feed.
I might not want your shitty CRUD app to exist per se, but the building of it might not be half bad, and I might learn something useful on the way and maybe even make some new friends.

It's not unreasonable to look for a job where some of it is what you'd do for free, if you didn't need the money.
Then something is internally broken at that company, and -- again -- the people who act as the public face of that company run the risk of having the resulting ire directed at them. But it's not personal -- it's their job to act as a proxy for the company in the public sphere. If they're being endlessly attacked by people because the company is doing something wrong, they need to send that information up the flagpole to their higher-ups.
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“Are most of your day to day problems solved by rote memorization of esoterica?”
>to respond with "just google it" would mark them as a plodding, uninspired programmer

I do not believe that this logic works in all/most/many scenarios. I would not be asking a question in an interview that could "just" be googled. That generally would suggest that I am asking for trivia as opposed to asking for understanding.
Here's a simple hypothetical question: If you or I were to steal a pack of gum from a store and were caught we would have been charged with a misdemeanor. And it would remain in our background record for 10 years.

What does a banker have to do before he/she can be charged with at least a misdemeanor? You're right about the government having a hand in the crisis, but this is ridiculous that no banker was charged.
Sorry, but all this hate, how is this any different than your local grocery store charging brands for higher placement on the shelves?
I get where you're coming from, and it's something that's been debated at length. For everything-is-an-object languages like Smalltalk, the dynamic features seem to be enough to cover lots of problems that macros are used for (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14333824 ). I hear that Ruby uses monkey-patching more than other languages, which may also be an alternative (although I think macros are better than monkey-patching, since they're local transformations rather than "spooky action-at-a-distance").

Simula-style languages like C++ and Java don't offer the same sorts of dynamic features.

> Whereas (I feel that) macros are undebuggable by design.

I'd be interested to know what you mean by this. I've written macros in Emacs Lisp and Racket, and both were pretty easy to debug. In particular the tooling for each (Emacs and DrRacket) can "expand macros" to show what code a particular macro usage will turn into (at which point, we're back to debugging non-macro code; although potentially messier than we'd right by hand). In that sense they're more debuggable than functions, since we can't calculate the result of a function until run time (which is why functions need test suites, to provide a run time that's not the production application).
I know a guy who was an engineer at a very well known US based engineering startup that made real physical products. Lots of top engineering grads from top schools apply there. His observation of young interns from top schools was that when the fresh engineering grads (or soon to be grads) ran into a problem that they couldn't solve, many didn't know how to react or didn't take it well.

They all had been able to get that far in their academic career because they had been able to solve problems, and solve them well and quickly.

When they ran into hard problems in the real world that they couldn't solve, some couldn't handle it well.
Weird, your own explanation didn't stop you from discussing something that is not even tangentially relevant to the point.

My comment was meant to help and if it helped one person that's good enough for me. If you think calling me a grammar nazi (against your stated principles, might I add) helped anyone then by all means, trawl the web for opportunities to do it some more.
I'll recommend a youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLRLYPiaAoA

Very short but really good Sci-Fi story.
I don't remember to have said anything about us abandoning it. On the contrary, my point is that we should, in fact, try to understand it so we can do something about it instead of just pointing fingers at people in the very system that supports them.
that's expected, really.

code reviews are not substitute for a design review; there is a limited amount of mental power that a reviewer can expend. the purpose of code reviews, in my opinion, is to

a) catch any obvious problems

b) propagate a vague understanding of the change among the team members

anything more requires much more work on the part of your team mates and probably needs to be explicitly scheduled (design review, implementation review), possibly in a different format, for example 1:1 conversation or during a lunch.
I do the same thing. It's how the thought process works that's interesting, not the result. There is no problem or teaser whose answer is both short enough to be devised during an interview AND is representative of how a candidate would perform in real projects. Our field deals with complex systems in many dimensions.

Instead, looking for how a candidate approaches a problem, do they just go for the obvious solutions, how creative will they go, any experience they can draw on, how well they overcome unknowns, etc.
Actually, I have some experience as Amazon Seller/FBA. I believe on certain items, I would get an option to co-mingle it. It wasn't selected by default, so I didn't change it.

So Amazon has already built the system to keep inventory separate by sellers.
We do have evidence that the voter databases of at least 20 states were targeted and a few successfully accessed. At least publicly, it is uncertain as to whether data was changed in any way.
I end up using fakespot.com to analyze Amazon reviews. I have had good luck so far.

As for non-amazon products, I will usually ask a friend or co-worker.
The numerical tower is the other big thing that feels hard. Doesn't look like Biwa supports that either fully. I feel like the numerical tower (with complex numbers) is another thing people don't think of as Scheme (read: R5RS).
I love that. Exactly. Any more you can share about that story? I imagine customer loyalty or repeat projects after that proposal went up too? There's another post I'm kicking around about how a service vendor I did business with recently basically proposed what I intended. Charged up to my budget. And the project was a bust. And I'll never recommend them to anyone. Tracing back the steps though, if that vendor had said "Look. What you're trying to do might not work. Let's just try something smaller for much less than your budget." I would have gone for it. Then even with failure I would have kept trying with them, and recommending them to others. Too many of us agencies and freelancers try to optimize for the $ on the table now, and we put the long term relationship in jeopardy (the one often worth much more $$$)
Learn new thing make brain hurt though. Maybe same for crook.
Why are you concerned about Huawei being bigger?
I too am surprised by the irony! And low and behold, a lot of brick and mortar stores price match Amazon.
Yet, in the same breath, those same people condemn punitive labour camps in communist countries.

You can't really have it both ways. Forced labour in prison creates a colossal conflict of interest for the state, even in a world where the law is just, and is applied fairly. (We don't really live in that world.)
Then why does the article claim that aadhar is hacked. why not just call it as aadhar enrollment hacked (which is more appropriate title).
I think the book The Game by Neil Strauss actually hit the nail on the head in regards to this topic. He imparts how your external appearance is part of the whole process.
Yes standards are great and SQL is a fine example of this, but the standards don’t make anything - developers make stuff from tools and the software they write or build upon.
It is stupid to handicap a browser, to throw away an incredibly useful, already made, battle tested piece of software (SQLite) just for the sake if the almighty standard!
And to replace it with a feeble slow key value db.
So we now have the ridiculous situation of umpteen man hours being wasted reinventing the wheel, trying to build relational databases on top of IDB, it’s crazy.
I don't think your second sentence is a good conclusion to draw. If nothing else, it's very difficult to find companies which will offer the highest compensation packages (or better) without also asking these questions. You're going to come across these questions no matter which of FAANG you apply to; the same applies to hedge funds.

We're not talking about tens of thousands here, either. The top companies have packages which (including liquid RSUs) involve low hundreds of thousands more in compensation. Not everyone is optimizing their career for income maximization, but if you are it's hard to do so without being at one of these companies.

On another note I've found that, at least in my experience, there is basically no correlation between whether or not people ask brainteasers/trivia in interviews and how competent they are or nice to work with. There probably aren't any interesting conclusions you can draw about personality based on interview formats without being biased in one direction or the other.
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Higher than 10%? Only if you've been following the market for the last 7 or 8 years.

Average market returns will be closer to 6 or 7%.
The trouble is, it won't scale. If an announcement like that comes out several times a day, it's not news.
I'm pretty sure I got factory seconds buying some jeans on Amazon recently. I got a pair where the waist size on the inside tag was different than the one on the outside tag, and another pair of relaxed fit jeans with a regular fit tag on them. I think they were authentic, they were just factory seconds that somebody bought to sell on Amazon.
> An unstated problem of trying to gauge customer (or prospective customer experience) is orthogonal to this article: people are very reluctant to tell you to your face that your baby's ugly.

That's so true. IIRC this lesson is imparted early and often in "lean startup" resources: Testing a product/pricing hypothesis requires that customers "get out their wallet" — that they pony up actual money, or at least click a button where they believe they'll be required to do so.
Do people rate the Facebook prophet library for time series forecasting?
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Is pair-programming actually used in your company?

Just curious, as I do something similar but solely to see how the person writes code. Folks are free to pair-program or not once hired.

I've found almost everyone needs help on some simple part of the task, and how they respond to the help is pretty useful information.
That's ultimately the misuse 9f the technology though right. Unless it's a freak, business changing, spike in usage due to exposure or whatever that lambda are not critical path suitable and don't seem to have been implemented with that intent.

For example if your sign up process is lambda you did you got your cost benefit analysis wrong on anything other than a prototype or mvp, but if your 'change your profile photo', something that maybe happens a handful of times across a month on average per user at best, and you implemented that as your lambda to reduce load and delay scaling needs on your core infrastructure then that feels like you did it right.
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"The sound is a form of feedback. On modern laptop keyboards there is so little feedback that every bit counts. The sound is like a reassurance. It’s your computer telling you, yes, you did indeed hit that key."

Oh, feedback like say...

* a character appearing on the screen?

-or-

* the action you were attempting to effect happening

I have a few twee coworkers who insist on using these obnoxious things. Worse even than the physical keyboards, and their arguably beneficial tactile feedback, this is exclusively the worst attribute of these. Why would anyone who isn't basically cos-playing on a computer want this trash?
Look at the think tank documents. The invasions _were_ useful to America and America's friends. They had been planned for years as part of ongoing campaigns that go back tens if not hundreds of years if you consider the historical lineage of the American empire going all the way back to the Crusades.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-goi...
I have IPv6 deployed at home for a few years now and it works great! I wish more places adopted it.
we never had any other event comparable to the twin towers attack because of the extreme security measures we took after that?

We never had a comparable event before 9/11/01. OK City, one ham-fisted attack on WTC in the 90s, British burned down the White House in the 1800s, but nothing of that scale prior. And 18 years ago, all you did was walk through a metal detector (whose sensitivity wasn't set all that high), and on the plane you go.
I think the math is somewhat wrong. The original source link for that "4.81 metric tons per acre" number is broken, but it appears to be talking about tons of carbon, not CO2 (which is roughly 27% carbon by mass). The article underestimates the amount of CO2 released by forest fires by roughly a factor of 4, and therefore overestimates the required land area by the same factor.

It's still a pretty staggeringly huge amount of land, though.
Is there a list of these somewhere?
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> I have a pet theory that when people interview they bring this buried frustration into the room with them and use the interviewing process to play the part of the people they feel humiliated them.

I think it's possible--but there was an experiment someone ran a few years ago with a guy applying to jobs in both software development and management (while qualified for both and resumes optimized for each). One of the key differences that was found is that software developers essentially started out at zero and every wrong answer / misstep essentially reduced their score. For the management interviews, it was tougher to answer something wrong, but each good answer earned points.

It naturally results in software developers feeling like they blew it, but managers just wondering if they wowed them more than the other candidates. To me that suggests it's something more inherent to software developer interviewing than a frustration bias. If I had to guess, it's just that aspects of software development are more measurable than in other roles, and there's more genuine fear of hiring someone who can't fizzbuzz.
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Now I see why you might have had that doubt. My reply was flagged for no apparent reason.
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We're discussing now, not the sociopolitical environment of the 1970s. Please stay on topic.
Some APLs do require non ASCII key usage, but you can use a regular keyboard with Shift, Alt, etc. J uses all regular ASCII characters however ; as does K and Q.
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People that don't get the offer tend to complain about such things. They are asking questions to measure how you think, to measure your potential, to see how you handle stress. If you are stressing over an interview, what will you do when you lose $1 million in 10 seconds?
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omg yes! I think about dining out. Every time I've had a terrible meal or experience:

Host: How is everything?
Me: Great

I just want them to go away and just not return or tell anyone to come here.

It's true. It's really hard to pull out negative feedback. Hence you're absolutely right, being your own customer definitely raises your chance for building the right thing here.
I do feel like "Firebase Cloud Functions" (GCF) is generally more polished than AWS Lambda. Lambda seems a little like it was slapped together and the UI often seems a little incoherent, which probably reflects their first mover advantages and disadvantages. It is not always straighforward to use the CLI tools for Lambda as well (but you can just wrap them in a bash script and forget about it generally). But, there are subtle gotchas with working in JavaScript (Promises!) especially within the context of a lambda/function. If you return the wrong thing inside your function or misunderstand the way promises work, you can get something that looks like it works and passes lint, but fails in production, and the logging pipelines for both AWS and GCF leave a lot to be desired.