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My experience confirms this as well. I’ve interviewed at most FAANGs and many others, and made multiple attempts at some. Brute-force practice (e.g. leetcode problems) and memorization is the only thing that ultimately worked.

It would be nice if interviews really were a “collaborative” experience to see “how you think” where finding the optimal answer “doesn’t matter”. But it 100% does.
Recently got a new Samsung phone from AT&T. I'm not sure which one installed more crapware.

My favorite is I have 6 new contacts for AT&T, like "Pay My Bill".
nearly anyone of average intelligence or better and a
sincere drive to become great can become an excellent
programmer.

Seems to me it's awfully difficult to tell three things apart:

1. Having the interest to, on average, enjoy putting in the hours needed to achieve the goal.

2. Having the grit/dedication to push through the non-enjoyable hours and downsides.

3. Getting the results that make a rational person with an accurate view of their progress believe their goal can realistically be achieved.
> With the caveat of: in the work culture here in the US

That's the point, though. The work culture in the US is actively hostile towards employees. Sick days usually seem to count towards your vacation days and expecting mothers and young parents barely get any additional time off.

As a counter-example, some businesses outside the US have "part-time" CEOs, sometimes with two people sharing the position if a full-time position is unavoidable.

This is why I said that "egalitarian" policies make the world a nicer place: a lot of policies necessary to make work culture more egalitarian also improve work culture for everyone else too, like reducing the number of working hours and increasing social welfare (i.e. paid time off for parents, actual paid medical leave instead of "sick days", etc).
I gave up after 2 mins
He chose to because of his belief that the war poets were more accurately reporting the horrors of the front than the journalists of the day.
That's great. A design doc is even a step beyond just writing down the idea. Bezos is famous for making people write one pagers to pass out prior to talking about any idea. I see one pagers as way to quickly weed through a bunch of ideas, and a design doc as the next step to determine feasibility.
i had a theory a few years back that human-chosen passwords would get simpler due to mobile keyboards. Not sure if anyone has compared leaked password dumps from before and after the great mobile-migration to see if that's happened or not.
I see where you are coming from but sometimes you have to enforce some things. If you don't have 2FA, you can't login into this site is a completely rational consequence if for example this site is handling financial assets of yours.

But it's possible that in the future we will put the bar higher. Then these arguments might be considered as silly as "with HTTPS I can no longer telnet into a web site and issue HTTP commands by hand!" (and don't tell me people didn't do that, I did it myself).
It doesn't work at all for me. Just a bunch of errors related to an IPFS gateway.
The Procedure/Function Block Convention in Ruby (2011)
It's sad when site owners don't respect reports of security bugs. Maybe they don't care, or their trust was lost by being hacked previously...

Either way the user's suffer...
I got perminently shadow banned for a post supporting the same notion a few months ago... Very true, but I would not say, "women want." They're very subject to propaganda. Women being women is literally shunned in the last 50+ years of film and media, for the most part. With the exception of conservative and traditionalist movements that are constantly slandered, when you look into it. Women are less happy today than they've ever been - and so those of us who really love women and want to see them happy need to start standing up for the truth.
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One of the reply tweets linked an allegorical article about the pitfalls of whiteboard interviewing that I enjoyed quite a bit:
http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2011/12/can-you-solve-this-p...
>Nobody needs a reddit app

Here it's true if you talk about official app, which you seem to be doing, but there's a couple of other options - apps made by community, which can be way better than official anything. I guess that Reddit doesn't want to fall behind and that's it.
Tried that on desktop. Didn't get contet within 2 minutes, but I've got a lot of websocket connections transferring binary data in background.

Recorded a video:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/03gur67c8i8gxth/2018-11-...
So, this is the industry that:

- puts flashing colored boxes in front of our faces at any possible opportunity

- requires us to click through multiple popups to access almost any for-profit website

- has normalized the act of wasting human life at a mass scale by injecting multi-minute time-wasting sessions in activities

"How hustle culture took over"? It's a hustle by default. I'd call it a swindle.
Exactly. The thing is, they keep doing it because... it works.

The vast majority of the time, for the vast majority of people, it never results in any issue at all. And solve plenty of their problems.
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> you are disregarding what he has to say as branding him as an ideologue

I did no such thing how dare you
Just some random thoughts here...this strikes me as a consequence of the contemporary idea of work having to be the end-all to one’s identity, purpose and meaning in life.

Advertising, perhaps the ‘original’ fundamentally meaningless career field to spawn from consumer capitalism, used to be mostly about just communicating your product/service. Eventually it morphed into lifestyle marketing and at this point has reached its ultimate conclusion: advertising workers themselves have drunk the Koolaid that used to only be peddled to consumers.

I wonder if we’ll ever see a return to simple “hey, we make this thing, you might find it useful.”
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I think that a lot of the problems that are inherent to passwords might be mitigated by not allowing the user to choose a password. A strong, randomly generated password being given to the user and changed periodically would almost force the user to use some sort of password manager.

If this were adopted industry-wide (a big ask, I know) then users would be able to use the familiar "enter username and password" system while being protected from common mistakes/misjudgments.
There's also CopperheadOS. If only we could get more hardware support :)
That is funny, my only instruction is to dispose of me in such a way that those who cared about me can be close to the grave.

To me a headstone or other grave marking is a way to help those who grieve the loss.

Can you explain why you don't want one?
I fail in operating my Samsung phone's fingerprint scanner roughly once in 20 attemts, but sometimes those failed attempts are in a row and I end up having to type in the password. Since biometrics still require you to know the password as backup, they're not going to replace it.
Do you know of a performance benchmark that shows the current status? I can't find many that describe node not at those levels of performance, Especially against Ruby.
Why doctors hate their computers
> They will type them into any website that asks.
maybe off-topic but on many linux distro the prompt to unlock your keyring does not mention what application is asking.
Sure outcomes are easy to measure. So what feminists have to say about the lack of males in nursing? The lack of males in social services? The lack of males in elementary schools? The excess of male suicides vs females? Are they actually complaining about the lack of equality of outcome in such fields, or are they just cherry picking what fits their agenda ?

A rhetorical question.
Except that people won't be able to remember them, so expect massive churn when it's time for them to enter the password the very first time.
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Reverse proxies also often provide optional benefits like...

Load balancing, not having to run the webserver as root to bind to 80/443, caching responses, buffering, rate limiting, injecting headers, serving static assets, etc.
Another aspect to this is that it’s single channel: no problem if your phone is out of data or at 1% battery, you need USB-A but have USB-C, etc. Nobody needs to regularly read a code to someone over the phone but the people who have are probably going to remember that when getting pitched on any new system.

This is terrible from the perspective of phishing but we really need to avoid that causing us to ignore the usability hassles to everything else.

I’m happy to see that conversation get more nuanced, too, rather than just being game-theoretical about perfect security: acknowledging the usability and security costs of password complexity requirements or expiration, having intermediate checks for more sensitive operations so you’re not training users to hammer their password out hundreds of times a day, etc.
The post touches on one of the most important aspects of Apple Maps; it is not a service, no matter what Apple tells its investors. It is a feature for Apple Devices. There in lies the issue. It is not competing with Mapbox, OpenStreetMaps, etc. because those are commercial service providers. It is competing with Google Maps, because that is the default Maps 'feature' for most phones sold in the world. However, Google Maps is in fact a service. Its purpose is to generate local Ads-based revenue for Alphabet. There is no way Apple will be able to catch up to Google, no matter how many Mechanical Turks it throws at them.

Apple management can not make the case spending resources on a mere bullet-point for the sale sheet of the Mac.
Not that I support this idea, but you can think of this as equal opportunity vs equal equity. Some people might be better off naturally, and others might have created something better for themselves, but equal equity means that those who have succeeded should share the benefit.
It seems that the two have a tendency to go hand-in-hand, though.

You can absolutely do a good responsive design in pure HTML+CSS. What seems to happen in practice, though, is pages that appear as flat white if I don't fiddle with my NoScript settings, and that grind on my (admittedly not top-of-the-line) computer if I do.
I don't see why MS would want to do that but it's perfectly possible to "extinguish" GPL projects, especially something as massive as an OS.

You buy Ubuntu, put a lot of money into it, slowly force more and more of your MS software on people, make more and more third party software depend on it and eventually the effort needed to fork away and maintain "clean" version is simply too huge to be worth it.

But of course in this case there are many other Linux distributions out there already so it shouldn't be a huge cause for concern.
MS vs IBM once again :)
Bleating about how wonderful Microsoft are while they work on locking everyone in to Azure in the background.
Elsevier has revenues of $2.5 billion and profits of around $1 billion. Double that to include other for-profit journals and you're still looking at only $2 billion.

While that's certainly a significant sum of money, it is but a small fraction of science expenditures: The US (federal) government alone spends around $150 billion p. a.

The fact that the latter has shrunk by about a third over the last decades (in terms of % of GDP) leads to my point: It seems that the issue of publishing is easily grasped and evokes some sort of deep-seated notions of fairness (or lack therefore). In turn, it gets a far larger share of our collective attention and outrage than warranted by the numbers alone.

The numbers regarding Elsevier's revenue vs profit also point to another often-neglected fact: being for-profit journals and having the luxury of not having to pay authors or reviewers does not mean that nothing of value is added by Elsevier. That misconception is why it often takes people by surprise to learn that Open Access journals need to collect hefty fees from authors.

Even Elsevier's profits may not entirely represent saving to be easily realised. Because nothing says that they manage to capture 100% of the value they are adding. In fact, it's very unlikely that they do, considering nobody has ever managed to pull of such a remarkable feat of capitalism. And the problems of switching to open access journals we have seen ever since the idea came up 10+ years ago illustrate this point rather well: We can collective groan whenever publications in Nature and Science are used as a proxy for research accomplishment. But the insistence of smart people to use them as such, when (trust me here) they have heard arguments against that practice myriad times, points at the fact that such proxies are needed, and that none better have yet emerged.

Any expectation of reducing costs by switching to open access should probably be discarded.

The benefit to be gained is something different, and the movement's name hints at it. In economic terms, it's the "deadweight loss" of the general public being priced out of this market (and the less-general public that happens to work at a research institute not able to afford every single journal subscription).

This is the age-old conundrum of copyright: We'd love to let you read this, and we understand that you can't afford its current price. But if we do, anybody would claim the new, lower, price. And the new price/volume equilibrium would not cover the costs of production.

Moving to open access is therefore not much different than suggestions for a "cultural flat-rate" or a tax-funded creative industry. It's going to be interesting how it turns out.
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This strategy seems at least orthogonal, if not contradictory, to their positioning themselves as a privacy-focused company that can be trusted because their business-model is based on hard products rather than on engagement.
On top of the new gmail being extremely slow the new google Ads or AdWords is so much worse. I have to run an ec2 instance at work in order to get just “ok” speeds. This is with fiber optic internet...
Every year on my birthday or on Christmas, my aunt would gift me one of those stupid DIY sets for girls. Basically boxes of cheap play makeup, or glitter and some other crap for making bracelets or barrettes, or tie-dye for dyeing your clothing.

I hated them. They were obnoxious, lacked creativity, and smelled weird. I was a very willful child and loud about it, so I obviously refused to use these gifts in any capacity, but I think my refusal to play with toys I didn't like holds true for most children. If your cousin's girl didn't like the Barbie, she probably wouldn't play with it.

The whole point of childhood is having an idea of "I" without having a strong idea of identity so that we have a solid reference point for learning about the world without experiencing the blind spots that ego identities often impose. Consequently, we demand what we want and refuse what we don't want without thought. We rarely make compromises and our needs and wants cannot really be reasoned away by others (because our needs and wants in childhood are more instinctual/subconscious/impulsive than they are logical and experience-based).

I think we are most free to choose in childhood. By adulthood we have developed functioning identities and feel obligated to stay consistent with our idea of self. Many people take portions of their identification from a society's expectation of them, which is when freedom of choice becomes heavily blurred.
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Stealing from myself from an old comment [1]: there is a difference between what Damore intended to say (assuming the best case) and what his memo actually said. He might have wanted to say "women tend like other things", but his memo ended up saying "women are incapable of doing this thing".

He may have had good intentions, but in writing the difference matters. A similar result is seen when authors argue that widely assumed interpretations of their literary characters are not what they intended. That, I believe, is what got him fired.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984758
I realize this isn't a life's work, but can you support the back button? Some of the questions are double-negative-ish, or maybe I'm just not a morning person, either way the back button to revise answers without having to go through the whole thing again would be useful.
Costs to Google are not magically different. You can make estimates without insider knowledge, but as in the window cleaner example, your estimates will be as bad as your assumptions.

You can also make estimates for compute, network, and storage costs based on the prices Google charged its Cloud customers for the same.
To be fair, you can modify datomic, there’s a mutable delete operation so that you can comply with legal requirements to delete data.
I always see this trotted out as proof of how bad Google’s interview process is, and I always wonder: what makes people think creating homebrew was particularly difficult or impressive? Package managers are a dime a dozen.

It has also never been conclusively explained what “invert a binary tree” means (see the tweet a sibling comment linked to — that’s what the Homebrew guy claimed he wasn’t hired for not being able to do).
You probably just need to hook into dbus. Do you know if it produces a media key? You can just add this script: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/spotify#D-Bus
Also there is a lot you can do with pronounceable passwords or easy to memorize ones. Hard to remember password and high entropy password can be very different.
I wonder if they have done the experiment where after some basic screening, a relevant work history and decent personality that if you just randomly admit them if they do just as well as anyone else. You could still do the algorithm problem solving style interviews but just don't make a rejection decision based on them. The idea here would be to randomly approve people who would normally be rejected and see if they do just as well.
Because the term has been coined by Jim Cramer to denote the best performing tech stocks at that point in time. It does not take into account anything other than stock growth.
There are a few journals out there doing open peer review. Perhaps one of the most notable in the context of this article is Wellcome Open Research. https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/
Tampering with the seal is just one way to do it. When I worked in transportation, we saw an operation that could take trailer doors off a truck, simultaneously, with out breaking the seal. And put them back on when they are done. We've also seen people cut holes in the side panels and patch them when they are finished.

It's an interesting idea. Maybe it creates a "harder door to kick in" and criminals will target containers with non crypto seals.
This made me remember the awesome MoodBar [1] plugin. I suppose the current flat design trend doesn't allow for such a busy-looking feature.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodbar
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Chrome 70 on OSX just threw up a malware warning when clicking the header links on the live app...
For one 2FA is (often) an addition to password and almost always it is required only at registration time (e.g. email confirmation)
I agree that it's a more salient point IMO. Smartphone based authenticator are not exactly difficult to understand, at least from a user's perspective. You enter your username, you get a prompt on your password, you're done.

Yubikeys are not difficult either. You enter your username, you focus the password field and you press the button. There, you're done. If anything it's easier and more convenient than a password.

Passwords are just the lowest common denominator. Everybody can memorize a character string, not everybody has a smartphone or yubikey with them at all times.
I think not a lot.
There’s also room for nuance even with financial sites: e.g. do MFA for everything which causes money to change hands but don’t require it every time someone checks their balance or confirms that their rent check went through, especially from a frequently-used client.

Similarly, if you’re not a financial site question whether you’re doing anything of value. The Netflix example is great: a huge password really doesn’t matter unless the site allows you to see stored credit card information since the worst thing someone can do is load your viewing history up with high ratings for Iron Fist. Continuing to cargo cult DoD policies from the 1970s has caused more problems than it’s stopped.
Poetry was used by all sides during the war and the efforts to get the right poetry were a secret government propaganda effort that wasn't known of at the time.

There was a big fear that the Germans were trying to undermine the morale of people in the UK so poetry was the 'big guns' for seeing off that threat.

The WW1 poets were not having to start from a blank page, a handy anthology of poetry was provided as a starting point, this has plenty of gems from way before the war to remind people what they were fighting for:

https://archive.org/details/spiritofmanantho00bridiala/page/...

There was another battle going on back on the home front, for women's rights. Poetry played a part in this struggle too.
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FB was at one time a web app, today it is a monstrous objective-c nightmare (someone a couple year ago measured 18,000 classes in the codebase). They never could get the web app to work. Building iOS apps is what I do for a living, its really not that hard.
Microsoft need to make Windows more free, not try to enclose GNU/Linux.

This is trivial to understand if you're looking at user freedom rather than just typing "yay open source! MS loves us nao!!!!" as you are nudged ever more meaningfully into the funnel for their cloud.
Literally the only reason they are interested in OSS/Linux is because it's gaining market share. We need to get rid of MS products in schools and in the work place, they are productivity killers.
Bitcoin mines are measured in MW (megawatt) these days, it's incredibly depressing to realise we are wasting our resources on finding useless numbers. I hope the cryptocurrency craze dies quickly.
I perform interviews from time to time for the company I work for and my conclusion is as follows: interviews are hit-or-miss for the most part and the only way to improve on that is to spend a prohibitive amount of time on them.

Also the Dunning-Kruger effect is strong among interviewers. Especially given that as a person in this role you're given this tiny bit of power that is necessary to enable it.
Ah but why would those differences become greater after the introduction of the equality systems? That's the paradox.