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What the author doesn't mention is that apps have become increasingly easier to write as time has gone on. Not only do we have better native languages that you can write apps with (Swift and Kotlin) but we have incredible cross-platform tools as well in the forms of Xamarin and React-Native.

I've personally been working with React-Native over the past year and it's just as easy as writing React code for the web (if you're using expo), once people understand this it'll only be a matter of time before web-dev teams adopt it. Historically the problems with app development is that it was a lot harder than web development and often required you to learn a new language and framework in order to get anything functional, this is no longer the case.

I'd actually argue that there will be more apps going into the future as the technology needed to build them simplifies.
My mother had a great social life. It involved inviting people over, serving dinner, having the ability to allow people to stay overnight as guests.

Replicating the nice dining table and means to allow for overnight guests failed to magically cause guests to appear. I never figured out what piece of the puzzle I was missing. My mother put a lot of emphasis on being able to serve her guests and make them comfortable and she was always surrounded by adoring friends and relatives. I tried to do the same. Somehow, that didn't get me a lively social life.
Hi there – I'm Ashley, one of the two Cofounders at Millow. Thanks for pointing this out! The font should be Helvetica Neue and we're wondering which browser you might be using? It'll help us identify the problem so we can fix the issue immediately :) Thanks!
> I worked in a part of Google where domain specific knowledge was key, and it was next to impossible to hire people because nobody on our team could interview them "officially".

When a company policy is so obviously broken in this way and there is no way to route around it then something is very broken.

Here's how it should work. You explain the issue above to someone above you and they either have the authority to get round it or they pass it on to someone who does.

If a policy is failing in such a profound way and nobody can change it this implies a level of organisational dysfunction that must be affecting multiple aspects of the company.
There are many many categories in Haskell. All you need for a category is to identify _something_ as the objects, _something_ as the arrows, and make sure your identifications result in something that matches the category laws.

As a simple example, every monoid is a category with a single object (hence the mono- prefix). Hence every monoid in Haskell is a category.

Now it is true that all `Functor`s in the sense of the Haskell typeclass are endofunctors in category theory, because a higher-kinded type can be thought of as a mapping between types in Haskell (e.g. `Maybe` maps `Int` to the new type `Maybe Int`) and `fmap` can be thought of as a mapping of functions between types to their remapped types (we take `a -> b` and replace it with `Maybe a -> Maybe b`), which results in a functor from Hask to Hask.

However, it is not true that the only functors (in the category theory sense) are instances of the `Functor` typeclass.
[citation needed for any of your view]

The problem is that it isn't inconsistent and arbitrary, so that would simply be wrong to admit.

There is a tremendous amount of data/studies/etc to back this up, done repeatedly over time.
Both independent of Google and not.
Certainly much more than any other interview system i've seen suggested or used here.

As for the second, general "Googliness" is not used to turn people down - horrible communication skills/being an asshole/etc are.

Despite your claim, one interviewer noting an issue there will not get you not hired. Two or three noting it would.
One noting it and then followup fit calls/interviews confirming it would.

So it's not an effective mechanism for single interviewer to enforce biases anyway.
The parent was talking about the website, spotify.com, not the desktop application.
My words exactly.
"sure its secure and well written?" There's no money in that, so why bother. Unfortunately.
> From the comfort of your own home after a light lunch

I don't think this sort of ad hominem attack is productive; it instantly puts people on guard and stifles debate.

I may be mistaken, but as far as I'm aware, you know nothing about me or my background.

That out of the way; I think the idea that people work in advertising because otherwise they'd be homeless and starve is a falsehood. It might be true in some cases, but there are literally millions of counterexamples.
Not only were they built into the OS, pre-dating any third-party app capabilities, but the native apps literally were designed by Apple engineers. Like, Apple created the entire blueprint for what the end user experience on mobile was supposed to be, and was happy for Google to supply the backend service and collect all the analytics and advertising revenue.
> There is really not much that is unique to Google's interviews

Having just gone through 10 days of on-site interviews (including two at Google), there are some things that are peculiar Google's process:

- No talk about software engineering,

- No talk about software design,

- No talk about project management, working on a team, culture of any kind, caring about customers etc etc...,

- No debugging,

- No using unfamiliar APIs, no reading documentation,

- No actually running any code.

In particular, Google was the only place I didn't actually test and run my code. It was the only place where I was given the option of doing all of my work on the whiteboard, too.

At least one time I had convinced my interviewer I had a working solution and then realised it didn't work and had to convince them of that...
My spouse's employer just decided to kill its Dell contract for laptops and go with ThinkPads because Dell's warranty service is so limited/shoddy, and the reason cited is actually a common story. There are more Lenovo enterprise contracts than you think, and those that still use Dell aren't measuring all the costs or are getting very, very special deals.
Webauthn is a web standard; not a proprietary product by a company I've never heard of.

Whatever it was Nortel had, I highly doubt it was as usable or ubiquitous as what WebAuthn already is.
Click the button and PRAY this thing doesn't load any sketchy code
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So this is kind of more like perf, which includes sampling and triggering both?
> Power, like fire, can warm or burn. Thousands of years before we vowed "Never again," God commanded us: "Never, ever."

-- Arik Ascherman

I would rather say, a couple of decades later, the Nazis went to war. It's not like not "taking them up on it" would been peaceful. The Nazis would have murdered and razed to the ground either way. The defense against their war was necessary...

> "An end with terror is always better than terror without end."

-- Leaflet #2 of the White Rose

...but I would say their war was not necessary. So bottom line still is that war is good for nothing, if you know what I mean.

And don't forget that there were also fascists in the UK. Those were the people who learned the exact wrong things from WW1, and if only they had existed, the UK would have simply joined the Nazis.
In the truest sense of the process, an interview and hiring/not hiring decision IS discrimination. You are selecting for traits you (in theory) want, and (in theory) rejecting traits you don't want. Well, you are doing it if your interviewing process is not broken.

If you simply try to elide all bias, then you would never be able to make a decision.
You mean that lower class children often accidentally get a degree in a top university while their parents are not watching? Otherwise I don't see a contradiction here.
Maybe they are fundamentally misunderstanding what a transistor is? That number still seems low. Maybe electrons are the moving parts? (then that number would be very low.)
Sooo to be clear... Your theory is:

1. Large companies by insurance for data privacy violations

2. They then lobby to repeal H.R. 3086 (Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

3. They then lobby for another bill for taxation on internet use.

4. Then they lobby for what would be equivalent to a hand out in order to recoup losses.
We shouldn't push anyone into anything. Why is it ok for a man to be a garbage collector and not a woman? That sounds like gender inequality to me. You can't have it both ways.
That's pretty tautological, isn't it?

> If someone did a very similar thing here to what Swartz did with JSTOR, this situation would then be very similar to what Swartz did with JSTOR.
Non-competitive?:

Mapgames (Europa Universalis 4, Stellaris)

Rougelikes (e.x.: The original Rouge, Tales of Maj'Eyal, Nethack)

Zachtronics games as previously mentioned in the thread

Competitive?:

Dota 2

CounterStrike

Fighting Games (most)

Highly dependent on player count, but Starcraft Brood War and Age of Empires 2
The ability to build abstractions is actually one of the key points of what makes Nix work, conceptually. So yes, a 'programming language' (how are you defining that anyway?) is absolutely a feature here.
> 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".

No he didn't. Go ahead and search for "ability", "abilities", "capable" or any other synonyms in this whole document:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

The only place "abilities" appears is where Damore very explicitly said that while there are differences in preferences and abilities, there's so much overlap that you can't make any judgments about individuals. Every reason he cited as possibly influencing gender the disparity was all about preferences and psychological traits that are common to women that would make them dislike STEM-like work, rather than be incapable of performing it.

He also very explicitly suggested measures to improve female engagement based on the actual science available on this issue. There was a lot of misinformation spread about this document.
Yeah but they’ve mostly been basic tutorials. The idea of “Today”, if i remember correctly, is to go beyond that, both in terms of volume and audience.

Are you suggesting “today” is just a coat of paint over the existing stuff?
I see more non-ThinkPads than ThinkPads, in coffee shops, in small consultancies, in startups, and in corp teams, but I see more ThinkPads than any other single brand except Macs, and I only see that many Macs because of all the hipster fullstack devs around me on a day to day basis.
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> The point of science is to make a plausible conjecture and try to prove it false.

FWIW, and I'm not an expert, but I'd say that the Popperian view you summarise reflects philosophy of science circa 1960's, and things have moved on since then.
There's a prescription discount plan - takes that $2k/mo cost down to $5.00/mo on good insurance plans.
> I'm willing to bet that when a company wants to hire a two sigma candidate they don't go through all this nonsense

As a commenter mentioned in a different thread, two sigmas get acqui-hired. I remember reading about FB acquisition of Instagram/WhatsApp, there was a requirement that they had some understanding of cs concepts.
EDIT: Make sure you don't click the link but copy and paste it. It seems the author is intercepting all traffic from HN site to an interesting image.
Great questions! We need to do a better job of answering these questions in the product itself, and we will. For now, here are our answers to your specific concerns:

a) We are not going to send any emails or texts to anyone from your contacts. Apps like Gather / IRL spam people for growth, and we would rather earn your trust and grow slowly.

b) You can use Millow without ever inviting anyone else on. It can be used in a 100% single-player mode, where it will do exactly what you said. You can set reminders for your close friends, and Millow will send you a push notification once a week (Sunday afternoon in your device's time zone) to remind you about the friends that you're set to meet this week (it won't send a push reminder if there are none).

c) Monetization isn't something we're particularly concerned with in the immediate future (we are a team of two, and have sufficient savings from the acquisition of my previous startup Screenhero by Slack), and we are doing this mainly because we believe in the social impact of what we're doing. We do have plans for future monetization (e.g. if we help you make a plan to meet up with a friend at a local restaurant, the restaurant pays us similarly to OpenTable).

Happy to chat more, here or via email (support@millow.app). We're a two person team, and are eager for learning more and improving.
Hilariously awesome.

I'm curious whether the multiple warnings about running untrusted code in the browser are necessary. I feel like all websites are already untrusted code, and the browser is quite well sandboxed and protected from anything too bad happening. What is the worst case scenario here for the user within the JS ecosystem, under known avenues of attack, not counting an unknown zero day browser exploit?
It is not reasonably easy, I can't set it up completely with "git clone" and it does not stay inside the project (that's an issue when your developers use a huge variety of operating systems with varying installed and configured software). That means a lot of time lost during problem solving with the hundreds of developers I work with, most of them have never even heard about nginx, they're developers, not sysadmins.

There absolutely should not be any nasty surprises with switching a reverse proxy, and you can cover that with end to end tests. Such issue would be a bug in the reverse proxy.

Of course there are things like Docker, but that implies performance issues on Mac.
This.

Also, GCD has DispatchSemaphore that is a Semaphore. Mutexes is a particular case of semaphores.
Why should they? They have probably the most blindly loyal customer base of any company in the world. Just look at this thread of supposedly informed customers to see its ugly mug.
In my opinion, that supports the thesis even further. It's not necessary to believe something is true in order to use the information: one can provisionally accept it until more information comes in. Ideally, this is how the scientific method works.
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> he cites a consensus in personal belief in atheism and agnostics among philosophers... as a good reason for philosophy not accepting the existence of God...

It seems incredibly unlikely someone would cite the popularity of agnosticism to establish the certainty of atheism, so I am fairly confident that was not the move he was making.

Looking back at the prompt:

> "Your colleague David Chalmers has fretted that “there has not been large collective convergence to the truth..."

Pretty sure he was just giving a counterexample: a convergence which he happens to believe to be true, along with compatabilism for free will. He's not making some appeal to popularity to resolve the issue.

After reading it I'm not even sure whether he considers himself an atheist or agnostic.
Science journalism is generally just awful.

I seriously think that a major reason for the lack of public scientific literacy (I get an earful of anti-evolution, anti-climate change, anti-Big-Bang crap from my conservative family) is the lack of a competent institution for communicating these truths.

Outside of scientific journals, and the occasional pop-sci bestseller, the average person has to rely on university press releases, bloggers, and magazine writers - and they generally seem to be terrible at their jobs.
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Some flu strains also appear to work either better or just as well on the healthier people, including the 1918 flu, because they can trigger a nasty autoimmune cascade, and at that point, your healthy immune system becomes a nasty liability.
I've seen people who otherwise did well at the coding parts of the interview not get an offer because they came off as a jerk, and no one wants to work with a jerk.

There's way more to hiring decisions than raw engineering talent. Teamwork matters a lot too.
Which is irrelevant given that she was adopted and raised in Norway. Anyway she is just one example of Norwegian women punching above their weight. For a number of years Norwegian women were the best soccer players in the world. There are many other sports examples.
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I'd assume that by "moving parts" they mean transistors.
Ofcourse this is somewhat confusing to people who know how computers are composed of transistors and what transistors are.
But if you just want to convey to the lay person the complexity of the component, I'd say it's a reasonable way to do it.
In my experience, whenever I want to find useful, unbiased reviews of a product and a discussion around this category of products, reddit is much better than amazon reviews. If you can find the right subreddit, you can extract a lot information out of reddit comments and buy the best product.
Good point, you could swap them though: -%
> They shut down their router business while Ubiquiti (run by a former Apple engineer) has run wild in the networking world and looks primed to completely disrupt Cisco over time.

Out of everything you listed this is the one that I don't think Apple is really missing out on, as they were never positioned to be a major player outside the prosumer space which often has needs beyond what Apple was providing. The average consumer is an idiot when it comes to networking, most of them run ISP-provided equipment, and those that don't are often informed enough to get hardware to run DD-WRT/etc. or buy a proper prosumer solution like Ubiquiti's.

Back when wireless routers weren't provided by default with your internet service, a half-decent one wasn't cheap, and people just wanted a simple solution that "worked" then the Airport had value in ensuring Apple's other products had connectivity. There's no benefit to them doing this now, and Apple is not positioned to get into the prosumer/business SDN market that Ubiquiti is in.
That is not what your original comment was about. I do agree that asking students to manufacture hardships or points of views to fit narratives is not healthy. There could be better ways for the students to showcase their strengths and originality.
I think people actually prefer using decent mobile web apps over native apps and app vendors are actually actively fighting it by putting annoying 'get the app' link overlaying content on mobile web. they are trying to push people as much as as they can to force them to download the damn native app.
you don't see any app publisher putting a link to mobile web app over the content inside the native app prompting people to use mobile web app over native app.
For most of the content websites I use I don't feel the need for the app (twitter, reddit, LinkedIn, etc.) but they are making the mobile web experience horrible by putting that content overlaying link on every damn page.
> For a webapp the installation is "Add to homescreen" on a webpage. It then behaves like a native app, no address bar. Usability is tackled by modern browsers that allow webapps started like this to ...

Does this finally work? I remember first reading about this many years ago. I tried to make a simplest-possible webpage that I could "add to homescreen" and have it work like a native app. Unfortunately, there were too many critical features that were missing, broken, or unreliable.

Every couple years I've tried again, and every time I've failed. Does it finally work? Is there any example of a webpage which can successfully pretend it's a phone app?
Some types of discrimination (in the basest sense of the word) are illegal and others aren't, though.
Google:

faith
/feɪθ/Submit
noun
1.
complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
"this restores one's faith in politicians"

So you may reconsider whether you are using a different definition of "faith" to the one you were reading
It’s totally fair to slag on whiteboard interviews, I hate them too. But it’s worth pointing out that there aren’t any great options out there.

The traditional sit and have a chat interview is insanely biased towards people like the interviewer and doesn’t at all guarantee technical competence. The take home project feels like a big imposition to a lot of people, especially those that are currently employed, and raises concerns about cheating. The whiteboard interview except on a laptop has some advantages but has problems of comfort with the environment.

I think a whiteboard or laptop interview with a cleaned up realistic problem, not a thinly disguised implement Dijkstra’s, is the least bad option around.
A rather odd example with Result type systems:
Say you have a function that returns the results of three other functions together in a tuple and the first one errors. The other two can still run and their result can be returned in the tuple along with an Error for the first function.
It is worth noting that Nima Sanandaji, the author of that and many similar books, is a proponent of small state, free markets, low tax, self determination and responsibility.

In other words, he is a libertarian type, that doesn't support the welfare state, and by extension doesn't support requiring employers to offer maternity and paternity leave.

He has also argued that Scandinavia is doing well due to the free markets, in spite of its social policy, in his book Scandinavian Unexceptionalism.

PS - Just trying to give some context. "Nordic Gender Equality Paradox" isn't an apolitical academic study, it is a book trying to push a certain political agenda.
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There is a person saying they dramatically reduced their pain eating the carnivore diet at meatheals.com with this condition.

Again this is just one person.
A wise decision was once made to adopt a system for making decisions; to avoid complete non-cooperation, violent coercion, and other worse outcomes.
A modern consumer CPU has over 500m transistors, so that number is pretty low for a transistor count.
Definitely a joke. The "open research question" kicker makes that clear. There's a similar jokey footnote on page 33.
I can't speak to the worst case scenario as I'm not very knowledgeable about browser sandboxing or what JS can['t] do in a given context. But as a developer I do think there's a pretty significant difference between running code that someone wrote on their own website and loading arbitrary code from a third party then executing that without any human looking at the code.
Anecdotal:

1) Working 40 hours a week does not support my long-term goals (house fund, retirement, vacations, etc). Which is another way of saying my job doesn't pay enough.

2) Companies will gladly have someone perform the work of 3 people and replace them when they burn out. It is rarely in the budget to increase staff with additional work (hah).
Exporting the passwords is also possible, so it's not really much lock-in. Not to the kind of person who'd care, and want to switch browsers.
Semantics, and the answer is the same. The parent was asking if the SEC could step in, and the only way they could do that is if government regulation has granted them purview and authority to. There is no such regulation.
It looks like they're fairly minimal cores and the power consumption of the entire machine is (relatively) low.

http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/hardware/
I think most browsers can import most information from most other browsers at this point.
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