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> Exceeding expectations for your current position is how you get promoted.

That was exactly his point though. He hoped that he would get promoted by doing an awesome job, by going beyond what was merely expected as "done".

I know where he's coming from. I've had one job in my career that was exactly like that (and I miss it dearly). I never really worked on promotions while on that job. I was very passionate about the stuff we were doing and made sure we were always building the right product for our customers, made sure our code was excellent, made sure we fixed bugs quickly, etc. And I didn't do those things by going around politicking. I just came in every day, sat at my desk, wrote code, had technical discussions with other folks, did code reviews, etc.

I got two promotions while on that job. They always came as a surprise and came with a brief talk with management about how much they appreciated my contributions and my technical skills.

These days I just dread all the career stuff. Thankfully I'm in a position at my current company where I can just "park" for the rest of my time there if I want to. The last thing I want to do when going to work is politicking and forking alliances and whatnot. I want my technical work to speak for itself. If that's not enough, I don't care. I make more than enough to make a good living.
Of emoji, Hanzi and alchemy (2015)
Google Maps can initiate driving [but only driving] directions while offline.

In any case, it seems reasonable to want a 'navigation' map without a specific path, just as you can get a 'discovery' map without a specific search.
I actually have yet to meet a person that plays Candy crush windows, and not for lack of hanging around non technical people.
the original post is totally BS.
These days, Google's interview system is more like getting better/cheaper replaceable labor/commodity. particularly with huge supply of new fresh graduates.
Bitcoin Cash is doing another controversial hard fork on November 15th: https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/maste...
You’re not “disparaging my chosen home” (again strongly implying to me you have a pretty narrow experience with living in different places, once you’ve lived in varied enough places you embrace the fact nowhere is perfect)

If anything you’re whining that the US isn’t a white SV techie monoculture, and it’s music to my ears...

I don’t want NC to put for or put up with SV yuppies, I want NC to grow it’s own culture that is different than its current culture, but also different from what a coddled liberal wants apparently.

There’s a difference.

This thread wasn’t “where in the South can SV run it’s Xerox machine and make San Francisco 2”.

It’s where the would an average tech worker, who FYI is not a stereotypical FAANG employee, want to settle down.

There’s plenty appealing about NC, and plenty of other places that don’t fit your narrow minded, and frankly conceited view of how the world works.
That isn’t true at all. Just a quick google search reveals a plethora of indigent care along with Medicaid as well as faith-based organizations. We should be more outraged at the VA system.
Thanks for your comment! Yeah, I completely agree with you regarding the cultural gap. Although my team had only 2 locals, all the rest were from Turkey, Argentina, China, East Europe etc....
I managed to find a job quite quickly, and now am happily employed at a small company that doesn't have any of the problems mentioned. Let's get connected at https://www.linkedin.com/in/agoldis/
> One of life’s great treats, for a lover of books (especially fantasy books), is to open a cover to find a map secreted inside and filled with the details of a land about to be discovered

Quite honestly the reason I read fantasy at all.
I think this might be a cultural issue. It's anecdotal but I think I can offer some perspective.

I've been living in the US for several years now, but I'm originally from Brazil. I started my career there.

In Brazil, my experience was always that people initially trust newcomers, and only lose their trust if they fuck up. I always felt trusted when joining a new team, and thankfully I never fucked up. But I saw people fuck up, and other people lost their trust on them very quickly.

In the US (and I think Canada, both countries seem to have similar work cultures), it seems to be the opposite. When you join a new team, you have to prove yourself worth of their respect. You have to do some initial labor to show that you deserve your place in the team. That's been the case in every team I've joined so far.

I don't know what it's like in Israel, but I wonder if the author of the post had a similar experience to mine.
> That's entirely incorrect. We track all of these layers in fact.

No....it is entirely correct. The unemployment rate that was quoted was exactly as I described. I didn't say the other statistics weren't tracked, I said the statistic quoted above, and the thing commonly referred to as "the unemployment rate" does not count it.
I just unplugged the microphone, and camera from my macbook pro retina's motherboard. I don't use the camera often and I use the microphone on my earpiece so I don't miss it.
Reminds me of that thing that comedian said. I forget who. He was saying something like:

A shark attack is when a shark with a baseball bat walks in to your living room while your watching a movie and says “shark attack!”.

When you get bitten by one while your swimming or surfing, that’s a well deserved ass whipping.
In my experience years on the job are what determine the level someone gets hired at, not skill in a specific language.

Being a senior engineer is not normally about raw coding skill -- it's about knowing how to design a complex system, knowing what can go wrong, being able to collaborate effectively with others, and so on. The specific language used is not normally going to make a big difference in those areas, although candidates who need to pick up a new language are going to take longer to ramp up.
That is an entirely unrelated issue to the bus tickets.
Is it really really necessary to have that captcha?? Lending brain power to the worlds biggest advertising and spy operation is a turn off. Besides it sucks to sit there and click endless images of traffic lights, cars, busses and store fronts...
Is there some way I can opt out of "average person" justifications for crappy experiences? If I'm paying a niche price for a niche product I should expect more than "average".
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Do you see Apple loading up third-party apps into macOS? No? I wonder why.

Well, they do load up Google as their default search provider to make an extra $3 billion per year off Apple users.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billio...
My biggest takeaway from reading this isn’t that Amazon is a bad place to work — but that it was the wrong place for the author to work.

To me the biggest red flag was the fact that the role/team wasn’t discussed until AFTER the interview was over. Maybe that’s common with hiring events — I work at Microsoft but I’ll be the first to admit I’m very OOTL when it comes to recruitment efforts outside of my team/org. In any event, I know for me, I would need to know what I was going to do and who my manager would be before accepting a job. In fact, I turned down a job that paid extremely well, in part because I had no concrete idea of what I would be doing - and this was after I’d met with the hiring manager and I had a title for the role. Still, the whole thing was really ambiguous and that made me uncomfortable, despite the strength of the offer. That might not be the same for everyone, but it is for me.

But the broader problem I think was that the author just didn’t gel with how things worked at that office. And that’s totally OK. It’s better to leave early than to stick around, especially if you know that early.

The only area I think the author was overly naive was on the promotion front. Obviously there will always be exceptions and edge cases, but it’s generally a bad idea to take a lower-level job with the hopes that you’ll be able to get quickly promoted. Even the most aggressive promotion schedule at a place like Amazon would take more than five months to go from SDE1 to SDE2.

I feel the same way about taking jobs as I do about buying new, unproven gadgets. It’s bettet to take the job based on what it is on paper when you accept it and not what it might evolve into over time. Now, if the job isn’t what was promised and you were actively misled about what you would be doing versus what you actually do (and I’ve had that happen and I’ve also seen that happen to others), that’s a sign you should leave that job as soon as possible. But I don’t think that was the scenario here. I think the author took whatever job he could get because he assumed he’d be able to quickly turn the job into what he wanted it to be. It usually doesn’t work that way.

But that’s ok! We’ve all made the wrong decision about a job or a relationship or whatever. I think it’s great the author was able to realize Amazon wasn’t the right place for him sooner rather than later.

But I don’t think that necessarily says anything about Amazon — just about the experience and fit with the author.
Ok, which specific advanced option, and where?
Are certain key combinations required? Is it only settable by putting options in a config file?

Please be specific, and/or link to any relevant documentation.

'cause I hit Advanced any time there was an option, and switched every privacy setting/tracking option off. Yet it still installs ads for Office, various other Bing shit, Installs Candy Crush, etc.
I went through (and failed one part out of 3) onsite interview at Booking and afterwards they provided me a nice feedback with topics that I should strengthen. I totally agreed with the feedback as I felt I’m failing questions on those topics during the interview. Oh, and the recruiter even suggested to reapply when I strengthen those weak skills.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "shifting [your] worldview further right"? When white supremacists are deplatformed, what specific conservative views are you consequently adopting or strengthening? Low taxes? Favoring corporations over labor unions? Strengthening criminal penalties for drug users? Favoring the role of organized religion playing a greater role in society and institutions?
What they will probably never port to Linux is the real thing that makes Windows valuable - Microsoft Office.That's exactly the thing, absence of which makes Linux "not ready for desktop" (sort of sarcasm, I use Linux on desktop happily and LibreOffice is usually enough for me but many people and companies don't just because of this). If only they would I would absolutely buy it and would be also able to replace Windows on just so many business computers with Linux.
I haven't been on the interviewing side, so I can't really comment on some of this.

But the impression I got as the interviewee was that every question ramped up in difficulty. The slope of the ramp-up depended on the question. So maybe in your case, you didn't get as far on the difficulty ladder as other people that were interviewed.

I was pretty shameless in asking for hints when I needed them, but it was typically of the form "I see this tradeoff here, and my gut says to do X, is that reasonable?" I'm sure some of that counted against me, but I was blunt about what I needed to make a decision and solve the problem, and I think overall that reflected well on my ability to problem solve on a team.

I would definitely not recommend doing every problem in CLRS. I would recommend doing just about every problem in Cracking the Code Interview (because they have nice answers), and then getting into a rhythm of doing LeetCode problems every day until the interview.
Well, you can start by donating that to Housing First in SF:

https://www.homefirstscc.org
You can start here: https://www.homefirstscc.org. There are multiple SF charities.
So there isn't going to be any noise or interference in this electric field?
I had a crisis similar to what you describe about a year and a half ago. I still wrestle with whether or not I want to stay in this industry.

Client acquisition has been its own brutal process, although working remotely no doubt adds to the difficulty. I’m lucky enough to travel with my wife, who has a good job in a different industry, which has helped buffer the difficulty in landing consistent remote work.

I definitely don’t regret my decision because I’m happy to busy myself with hobby or non-tech work, but just make sure you’re aware of the risks. I wish you and anyone considering the same the best of luck!
You can buy power over fiber systems, but they are not cheap!

Last I checked it was something like $100/watt and was 10-25% efficient (plug-plug). The system I worked on used “standard” fiber as the hollow core stuff still had too many drawbacks.
Sharding the shards: managing datastore locality at scale with Akkio
Sure thing...

Tell that to toushands of employees of fortune 500, that don't care one bit about security, as it's not their responsabilty.

They will plug the USB mic and that would be it.

It even goes in the bag with the ports plugged in if it has space.
Can't buy it as an individual tho, afaik.
Okay, here's my excuse to vent a personal pet peeves. :-)

If you're going to publish a map of your imaginary land, map out the watersheds and make sure they make sense. You don't have to include those details in the final map, but they should inform the final map.

Real rivers go somewhere. They don't just stop in the middle of nowhere.
As an undergraduate who is about to graduate with a degree in "Data Science" this post encapsulates a lot of my worries as I move into the work world. Should I focus on being a "thinker" a "doer" or a "plumber"? For the first three years I was planning on being a CS major until I was denied from the department: now the data science major is my only hope to graduate. I feel as though my programming skills are solid: but not good enough to be on any sort of fast paced infrastructure/devops team. On the flipside: I feel as though I am so far behind on stats/math knowledge that it's pointless to try and become a data scientist/analyst. I've thought about data engineering (the 'doer') as a happy compromise between the two. However there are barely any intern or entry level data engineering positions that I can find. The ones I do find require knowledge of so many frameworks that I don't know where to start. Additionally, I'm not even sure if data engineering even is a happy compromise, especially after reading the post. Time is ticking, and sooner or later I'm going to have to figure out what route to take, and how I want to specialize. I go to a hyper competitive university in a hyper competitive region of the country and I'm starting to feel like I'm falling behind and getting lost.

If any of you older/more experienced engineers and scientist have advice or wisdom for me, I would very much appreciate it.
Many aren’t free, but a bigger problem is that many are mutually exclusive. Which one do you go for? It’s not as easy to say “the one I grew up with” as it was in Pascal’s era.
I'm not claiming that, or making any value proposition at all.

I'm saying IF your main or only goal is career advancement, THEN the value of a college education to you is the same as the value of that education to the market.

If you have other goals then by all means major in Theater, Filipino Literature, Marine Biology, or whatever major best suits your goals.

The GP's point, in the post you replied to above, is that you should not expect, having done that, to be able to easily repay a $100k loan.

Maybe your point is that we should, as a society, revise our scheme for funding people's educations, so that the pursuit of degrees in less lucrative fields is not such a burden. And if so, maybe you're right.

The fact is, though, a lot of college students have no clear goals. Maybe they want a job after they get out but don't know what. Or maybe their parents just expect them to get a degree but haven't given them much guidance in choosing a major. If such a student chooses "Communications" or English Lit just because it seems easier or somewhat more interesting than a more technical field, and they just have vague expectations of being better able to find employment having finished their degree, I don't think it qualifies as much of a social good for the student to get that education. I certainly don't want to pay for it in my tax dollars.
There's no mechanical lid switch.
This is absolutely true.

But one interesting side effect of the interview process is that everybody at a place like Google or Facebook or Amazon has a non-trivial understanding of efficiency.
World's tiniest golden violin. I am also against disproportionate taxes on the rich, but lets not start pitying them or assigning value to their well being above societies.

Liberty above everything else, and I dont want anyone to suffer any consequence under the veil of "trickle-down econ", which is not what people think it is.
The thing is that in many other cities I've been to, the dodgy homeless areas are confined to areas of the cities that are less on the tourist line, but in SF the homeless problem is right in the centre of the city. My coworker and I were on a trip to SF after visiting a conference in the area (we're from the UK) and we got off at Civic Centre and went straight north, directly through Tenderloin!! to get to our hotel room. Looking at a map this is clearly the best way to go but I was totally bricking it when we got there. Turns out that many people just has an innate knowledge of where to go and not to go when in SF, but it's totally difficult to tell. I mean Market street looks like a main road and has all the big shops on like Adidas etc. Why would I expect the 20 min walk down this main road from Adidas to Twitter HQ to be so dodgy??

Another shock to me was that the homeless are very different between SF and where I'm from (Birmingham UK). Here, they are generally just pitied people down on their luck. They don't really cause harm but can be belligerent when drunk. In SF, many of the homeless people were _terrifying_, clearly having severe untreated mental health issues.

I think that the homeless problem in SF isn't that bad when you are a longer term resident because you get used to it, but it's definitely a big shocker for many tourists.
Islamists Raid Christian Minority Areas After Asia Bibi Is Given Her Freedom
Wrong. Philosophy and Mathematics are the real pillars of knowledge. Everything else can be derived from this including physics.
What aggravated me most is that sometimes clicking on a button has no effect. First I swapped to the HTML only version of gmail but found it too limited. I have now been using Thunderbird for a week or two. It is not perfect, but it actually works quite well. Plus you can have a little calendar view for the day's events on the side.
Misunderstandings About the Need for RELRO/ASLR in Statically-Linked Executables
None of those devices have TPMs like these.
it's not free. people work for YouTube full time.
But Chrome can't access it until you've unlocked the keychain either, which means this "exploit" doesn't do anything...

Also I don't know about you but I've never needed to enter a password to start Chrome, so...
I think it's a year later, now, for return interview?
I feel like this hits the nail on the head. They aren't looking for smart, motivated people who will work well on the team. They think they are, and that's what they say they are doing, but large companies have a hard time really doing that. There are so many other motivating factors and interests in the interviewers, the committees, the corporate structure, etc. If you are running your own company and building the product and you know you are going to work with a person you are interviewing, you can select, consciously and unconsciously, for all kinds of things that are important to you as an individual and you are free to pick the person you think has the "smarts you want", which might be technical, personal, emotional, etc. And which might compliment your own skills. But there are all sorts of strengths, and you can be biased enough to select for the ones that work with/for you. in a massive company, you get a watered down set of some sort of skills selected for by a competing line of somewhat disinterested (which can be a bad thing) people trying to meet some "objective" one-size-fits-all criteria.
I for one did use it professionally for years.
Sure, because search is actually a feature people want. I don’t want one drive or candy crush or telemetry data and all those are harder to turn off then changing search to DuckDuckGo on MacOS or iOS.
>>I don’t think it would create any executive order jurisprudence.

You mean to say you don’t think an executive order would be enough to repeal the 14th amendment?
> Well, they do load up Google as their default search provider

While that's true, a browser pretty much needs a default search engine, and Google is widely regarded as the best. I'm not sure that Apple could make a more customer-centric choice.
Perhaps off topic, but are there any podcasts out there for learning to cope with or adjust to the sorts of things this guy talks about in his blog post?
So... basically... the same thing you could already do with sqlite?

ETA: And really, more websites need to bind cookies to an IP address (or at least a /24). Although if the attacker's got code execution that won't really help. (Nothing will.)
So rather than addressing my points you start the cycle again by suggesting implementations of PoS coins? What’s wrong with Ripple and Stellar is that they are PoS coins. PoS doesn’t address any existing issues but adds layers of complexity. And both are centralized pre-mine scams anyway.
One of the following:

RStudio > write.table(x, “clipboard”, ...) > paste to excel > email data to BA who makes slide

Python/Anaconda + jupyterlab nbs + sklearn

Excel + Solver + PowerPoint

Obviously track everything on Git etc.

Many more things you can do here:

Use R notebooks, Jupyter notebooks, even have a build server and make each one of your projects an R package
On a related note, I have recently been wondering if the large scale swings in society from being outgoing to being insular and back, might be evolutionarily beneficial due to the speed of genetic drift varying for different sizes of breeding populations.

Small populations get the fast drift for adaptation, but mixing those with other adaptations from other small populations gets strength in depth, so you have two opposing evolutionary strategies, one which prefers isolation of groups and one that prefers mixing.

Over evolutionary timescales, oscillating between these two behaviours could presumably get baked into the genes, so leading our politics to swing between isolation and gregariousness as part of a natural evolutionary cycle.
What's crls?
That is a solution to my problem. Thanks for the tip.
Beyond Plastic Bans: Creating Products to Replace It
equal != identical.

It's just as easy to confuse the two concepts in the human society as it is in weakly typed programming languages.

If all genders were truly identical, there would be no point distinguishing between them in the first place.
I get my gaming news from the community via Reddit, Twitch, and direct from the developers on Twitter et al. now. I know these too can be manipulated but in general I'm talked down to far less by these sources than by the gaming press at large.

That said, Niche Gamer is alright if you don't mind seeing a lot of anime in their articles. I don't care for anime games as a rule but it doesn't offend me either.