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Two week release cycles mean you never have to stand behind your work.

/salty

I will shut up and go back to building this Android app I am working on -- what a horror-show of a platform.
Fair enough. I’ll have to read their privacy policy in detail. I’d love the trust I have in google for security updates, but am wary of the potential data collection.
This is the concept of ergodicity. The fun fact is that even if casinos offered a game with 50% odds players without unlimited bankrolls would still always bust eventually[1].

It's similar to why betting $1 to make $1 million at million to one odds is a smart bet, but betting $1 million to make $1 at the equivalent odds isn't, unless you have an unlimited bankroll.

[1] If they use the Kelly criterion they won't bust hard, but they'll still lose most of their bankroll.
The one size fits all interview at a big corp is game-able at least, with plenty of practice material available online. It isn’t a huge hurdle if you have a month or two to practice, but that makes the whole process even more questionable.
Anyone that says "Stateful" and "Production Ready" and "Kubernetes" in the same sentence is likely to disappoint you.
Day length (sidereal) and axial tilt for 8 largest planets in our solar system
You can't ask for permission for some of them anymore. MAC address queries just return a hardcoded 02:00:00:00:00:00, even if you have the appropriate premissions.
Introduction to deep learning [video]
Broadband in the US varies wildly - I'm paying $85 (~ £67) for an 800/800 fiber connection, but I am in a market where Comcast and Centurylink are slugging it out, so we have much better offerings than many parts of the country.
Seems a bit scary to install it like that
It's a temporary thing.

Once the number of LNG liquefaction plants in North America more than doubles, NG will be worth collecting for export to markets that pay more than domestic buyers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LNG_terminals#North_Am...

The oil market is much more globalized than NG.
>"Part of the problem is that Kubernetes itself is still changing rapidly and already has design-by-committee cracks in the API."

Could you elaborate a bit on what those "cracks" are?
In terms of flying, maybe (and then, given the price of budget airline flights, I don't completely agree with this, although flights are obviously only a part of the cost of a holiday).

A counter-point might be that the airport and surrounding industry provides you opportunity for work.
NYC cops will fly a drone over the New Year’s Eve celebration at Times Square
I've looked and these look like stills. On the 15 minute film, they are animated. So I think if you read the slide show, you are probably not getting the full story.

I think it's great that you posted it. I'm not trying to be negative. Sorry if it sounds that way.
Seriously. At least add in an MD5 hash, jeez.
I understand the class of rebuttal you're invoking here, but reversing a string is extremely easy - with or without a library. This is not an academic problem designed to see if a person can study prior to an interview. This is a first pass question designed to see if a person is even acquainted with basic programming. Any such question you could devise would be similarly patronizing or orthogonal to the exact work done on the job.

And yet, despite how easy the question is people still fail it. It's frankly absurd to me that a senior software engineer can fail this question. It's practically a freebie slam dunk for anyone with basic competency. Briefly drop that you can use your language's core function or method to do it. Then declare a new array and iterate through the string backwards, appending each character to the new array. When you're done, collapse the array to a string.

In other words, it's testing if you can write a for loop. How many times in your job do you expect to implement a for loop? I use for loops quite often.
Is this a serious project?

> Linux only support

>

> Tell your employer to stop using Macintosh

... because that doesn’t seem like a sign of a serious project to me...
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/30/18161633/new-years-eve-n...
I live alone and use 50-100 gb/day on days I’m home all day, so 25gb/day isn’t that much.

I cut cable TV years ago and exclusively stream. I like having the TV on for background noise when home, even though I’m usually not actively watching it the whole time, and you’d be surprised how fast one can chew through data usage. I usually use around 1.5TB a month when you factor in offsite backups.
>> as a regular purchase, not an investment.

That won't matter. This sort of situation actually happens all the time. When a corporation goes into bankruptcy, customers are the last on the list to be paid.

A more common scenario: A ski resort goes bust. What happens to people who have purchased season tickets (ski as much as you want all year) when the ski season at the resort is cancelled? There is no practical way to provide the purchased service. The entity that sold the ticket is bankrupt. By the definition of bankruptcy, there isn't enough money for everyone. The government (taxes), secured creditors and banks are paid out first. Then employees (pension funds etc) come next. There just isn't ever anything left for customers.
Too bad videos aren't available.
Perhaps the missing point is that the TCM approach to illness or health is dramatically different from Western medicine.

Surgery or modern medicine (injection, pills) focuses on one particular manifestation of illness and targets a particular illness.

On the other hand, TCM is not targeting a particular illness, but rather, it sees illness as the symptom of something deeper going off track in the body. Hence it tries to regulate and balance the body so that it can correct itself, without too much intervention.

It's not something that you can quantitatively study easily and get concrete results, as it is more long-term and therapeutic rather than short-term result driven.
They have increasingly revised or clamped down on the various unique IDs and are pushing everyone to the (user-resetable) advertising ID. Things like the MAC have already been hardcoded to a single fixed value for a couple of years now.

You're just spreading unsupported fud. Actions speak louder than words and Google's actions for Android apps and APIs do not agree with your comments.
im not going to create an email to anonymously notify the same site who will review a flagged comment anyway. So, to the process as described, no. I think the comment was timely and relevant, others just disagree about the utility.
I'd highly recommend learning some improvisational theatre. It requires a lot of the same skills that being charismatic does. Taking an improv class in college was a revelatory experience to me because it showed me exactly how I had been sabotaging my own social interactions. If you can't take a class or a workshop, try to read "Improv Wisdom".
That's only reasonable if the _target audience_ is likely to make use of F-Droid.

If your target audience will only use Play, then the only reasonable target store _is_ Play.

I'm in the F-Droid target audience, so you could target me.

However, as they appear to be publishing transport/mapping tools for Spain... It's unlikely they can reach their target audience any more.
This is LeetCode #10, this is a common question.
Blackberry owns the patent to the Dual EC DRBG backdoor and ships it
Did you read the article? It's not about most people. The article is about jobs in the Silicon Valley software/tech industry not just jobs in general. Everybody at startups and software companies gets options, and a small but not insignificant percentage of them get rich. The article is about the attitude that if you didn't get rich you must not be any good at your job.
But you can still buy it and penetrate the severs and ISPs
Thanks for the quick breakdown. Reading now...college is a subject I’m endlessly fascinated by.
Lying to a candidate immediately sets a pretty bad image of the company. While someone might try to put things in the best light as possible, maybe with some small exaggeration. That is a huge difference between "I am lying to you"
I believe they are evgas. I have not seen throttling.
One of the criteria for belonging in the standard library is “needs a lot of unsafe to implement”, so the standard library has more unsafe code than your average codebase.

Beyond that, to some degree, it is the point of Rust: limit unsafe things so that you can reason about them more easily. The CPU is inherently not safe, so it has to exist on some level. rust gives you tools to manage this.
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I fully enjoyed both Doom and Descent. Doom had more heart-stopping boss moments for sure and was great for co-op run through the levels. Descent was more freeing and getting lost and found. Trying to remember your way out after hitting the reactor core was the peak of the thrill.

Of the two though, I miss Descent more. We have many 3D fps land fighting games and far fewer 6dof ones. Still waiting for the reboot Descent Underground[0] to get released. Avoiding all the early release stuff to savour the surprise.

[0] https://descendentstudios.com/
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Truth, LinageOS is Android that the way it’s meant to be!
Then edit your original comment, FFS.
Hard to make money selling common sense.
Do you often wish that you had spent your time in another way? For example you want to start working out or spend more time with your friends but instead you just end up in front of the computer.

Does the rest of your life suffer by you sitting in front of the computer a lot? Your job, your relationships, your house/apartment, your plans for your future?
Sorry, free energy doesn't count as valid science but Apple did hire jugglers, musicians and other non-engineers in the past.
Does it say anywhere what the text book actually is? Mainly out of curiosity, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere.
Haha,too familiar. I remember having a similar experience except the dog poop was a result of their chiuaua dog having marked the are behind the tv as it's territory(favorite pooping spot)
Odd wording to describe a replanted forest as "desolate waste". If anything one may suspect you are not being fully honest to leave out the "then they spent millions to try and return to the forest to its original state."
I don't remember exactly what it was, but I do remember you needed about 200-300MB page file to avoid it.

Of course, due to Windows no-overcommit policy, it's better to have a large page file almost always. That ensures your RAM is going to be used efficiently and not as a simple backing store that's never actually referenced.
Investors and entrepreneurs need to address the mental health crisis in startups
It seems to me that it should mostly be software engineers designing the software engineering interview process.
one crab escapes the barrel.
I think the OP might've just meant playing the devils advocate which is often a good way of encouraging discussion.
Artwork is not a good comparison here because those are tangible investments which appreciates in value. There is a market for art. If you bought one for a million you are going to likely sell for more than that.
When I looked at the syllabus it included links to videos of the lectures, hosted on Youtube. Look at the right side of the "Lecture Topic" column.
I don't own a car. I also think climate change is similar to fighting obesity: "you must change your behavior today or something will kill you in x years"
Usually people have a wake up call(cardiac event, can't run up stairs without being winded, etc), before they get really serious about weight loss. What would be a similar wake up call for the planet? People don't attribute floods and stuff to climate change, so therefore it's not a wake up call.
but I've been using C for decades

Chances are you haven't been using C much for hardware/low-level stuff, because the ^ operator is seldom seen outside of that context.

On the other hand, the precedence of & and | (and likewise, && and ||) should be general knowledge: the former has the higher precedence, in analogy with multiplication vs addition.
How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree
Pretty sure the bugs in question were closed.

You'll excuse me but no time to go through the history and dig up the tickets for reference.
Checkout DNS Crypt. It came as an option when I flashed my router to DDWRT but it can also be installed on your laptop/desktop.

https://dnscrypt.info/
Do we live in the same america?
Shocking that

a. There was no error monitoring.

b. That a SPoF existed.

c. That it wasn't found sooner.

The FCC, with their Verizon lackey Ajit Pai, should fine them $100 million bucks to get their attention, but they won't because corporate welfare.
>"I can't possibly hope to change your mind but stability issues with union filesystem driver in docker(part of it was not even docker's problem)"

Can you outline what those stability issues are/were? Was the non-Docker part of the problem kernel related? Genuinely curious.
This is completely incorrect. Many Texas and Louisiana refineries can process West Texas crude. And billions are being invested in expanding that capacity even further. Texas refineries, aside from light crude are primarily equipped to process Canadian and Gulf Coast petroleum, which is the majority of their production, far from “blood oil.”

Here’s some background: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Ref...

Ubtil 2016, it was illegal to export American crude. So the idea that West Texas Intermediate Crude is being exported because refineries can’t handle it is false, unless we are talking about the past two years: in 2014, where did all of that crude go? It was being refined.

As the US is a net petroleum exporter, the idea that “blood oil” is a significant part of the American fuel supply is false. Canada exports dramatically more oil to the US than Saudi Arabia. The main reason that West Texas Intermediate trades at a discount wasn’t because of refining capacity, but because of the lack of pipelines to move the stuff.
Inequality Is Not the Problem
On the other hand, one nice thing about C compilers is that they are _fast_. I always inwardly shudder when I see a C++ file including Boost, because I know the compiler is going to have to chew on it for several seconds every time there's a change.
Generally, you are unlikely to be poisoned by chloramine because most cleaning solutions are dilute, and the amount needed to be actively harmful is far above that which is required to make the scent obvious and give you a warning to move away.
Should be this: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
> ...the vast majority of people moved to their noise-affected houses knowing the airport was there already... Do these people deserve our sympathy?

I totally understand where you’re coming from, but as the article discusses, the flight paths are currently being actively changed:

> But the shift has angered residents, who live in neighborhoods that are below the new flight paths.

Unfortunately it sounds like many of these people may have lived in their homes for many years in peace and quiet.

There doesn’t seem to be an easy way out of this one other than maybe routing the new flight paths towards the least populated areas or something along those lines.

I do wonder why these types of changes aren’t brought to public discussion before they’re put into place.
We already have been. The OP is simply wrong.
Yep. Languages I used in school included Pascal, Modula-2, Scheme, and of course C. Fond memories. Everything seemed simple then.
Sure he did. He didn't follow the modern Bacon/Popper empirical method with testable hypotheses, but he still performed experiments and drew conclusions based on what he saw.

All beside the point: his observations are not invalid, his conclusions are
> In order to run as a candidate you need to have a certain amount of capital.

Most political races don't have many more voters than the average class president election. And a lot of those positions have a lot of power.
Yup... and I don't know, for someone who has "300 people" worth of interview experience, you sure don't seem to be demonstrating in this thread the sort of level headed temperance and soft skills I would expect.

I'm joking. (sorta)

I'm glad to hear that you tailor to the resume, that's actually better than most and my favorite approach.

But if I had a dollar for every time someone walked out of an interview with a braggadocious claim like "they couldn't even do X, they must be lying" but then answer "no" to "did you ask them anything else?". I'd be rich.

Reversing a string is a bad example, it is dead easy. But it seems a lot of people have random substitutions for it of varying obscurity and difficulty.
Do you see a responsibility of the federal government in lending money to students who have no ability to reasonably pay back their loans because their degrees don't have a high rate of return?

Do you see a problem with universities increasing the quality of student housing, sports programs like football, and college administration, and that this desire to spend more to get more students to pay more tuition dollars is an undesirable feedback loop that perpetually increases tuition costs over time?
I'd wager that most people's wake up call would be weather that's more extreme than climate change will likely produce. I imagine climate change to be worrying when plants don't grow around me and that probably will never happen, some just plants will recede into colder ranges and plants from warmer ranges will come in.
Why We Need to Audit Algorithms
I had a junior/intermediate level engineer start asking me minutiae about HTTP and HTTPS...

After about 5 minutes of this I literally said:

"Dude, have you seem my resume? I literally built a petabyte scale full text search engine and wrote 1.5M lines of code to do so and a HTTP framework that parses fetches more than 2PB of HTML per month. If there's some edge case that I might miss I can Google it in 30 seconds".

I no longer keep small tactical issues in my head. It's pointless. Now I try to understand the system as a whole.
You profit. You pay far lower gas prices than in Europe for example. You also pay less for products. You benefit from cheap, plentiful oil, regardless of who “profits.”
At the risk of being downvoted again (for which I don't much care, but it does say much about the mindset...), is it so very much unreasonable to ask of programmers using a language, and more importantly a language they will be using very frequently, to just learn the language!?!?

The amount of dumbing-down that I've seen happen to programming is already beyond ridiculous. You should definitely look at APL, Lisp, or some of the other more expressive languages out there if you think anything beyond the equivalent of glorified Asm (one statement per line, one operation per statement, one use per variable...) is "dense and unecessary[sic] shortcut".

I think this a relevant article to start understanding the opposite point of view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743
>"In that case they still use spilo though, so basically the same system for backups and automatic failover as on Kubernetes."

What is "spilo"? I am not familiar with this term. Thanks.
Building Immutable Data Structures in Go
Is it still illegal?
Dispelling the Myth of Crypto “Currencies” (Olaf Carlson-Wee)
I’ve been wondering how to do that for years! Thanks!
> the absolute LAST thing I will be wanting is some muscled-headed ex-jock shouting insults at me.

With guys like that, it's not their attitude, it's about what they actually know. A lot of athletes are spectacular because they have phenomenal coaches. Unfortunately, ability to teach and coach is not transitive meaning this sort of person might not be an ideal trainer. For examples of this take a look at some the coaches from Soviet Union who produced some of the legendary Olympians. Ancient, frail coach who could barely stand on their feet wasn't exactly a rare sight. This surely wouldn't work in the US where image counts for a lot. It's not a jab at either country, just my observation.
Electronics learning kits from the 60's-90's had this, maybe they still do. Crystal earpiece, adjustable ferrite coil or variable capacitor, piece of wire as an antenna and ground to metal drainpipe. No batteries needed as the power was taken from the station's broadcast.
It could be _because_ they read your resume that they asked those questions, to see if they believe it. People heavily embellish their degree of involvement in projects all the time.

Or they could just be asking gotcha trivia. It’s hard to tell.
You'd be hard pushed to find any activity that doesn't interfere with your life occasionally.
> Why not just do a “Describe a time...” behavioral question ?

I find “describe a time when” answers mostly useless. Interviewing, at a senior level, is a proxy for time on the job. Senior people must constantly deal with information flow. Being able to pick up on when to add to or correct that flow is key.

Note that this doesn’t have to be done in a pretentious way. My favourite way to do it is to discuss the company’s R&D. I will almost always know less than the interviewee. Their ability to accurately communicate in that context is vital.

Again, this only applies at senior positions. Lower down, one expects managers to know their subject matter with more detail. You can’t do the “go solve this approximate problem” thing one can with senior management.
A Search for the Man Who Saved My Parents' Lives
That’s the caption of the photo from Getty Images which is an accurate depiction of what’s in the photograph, it does not depict the award ceremony itself.

“Internet Pioneers Attend Media Conference
OVIEDO, SPAIN - OCTOBER 24: (L-R) Internet pioneers Vinton Cerf, Lawrence Roberts, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee attend a media conference the day before they receive the Prince of Asturias award for Science and Technology investigation October 24, 2002 in Oviedo, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)”

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/internet-pione...
I guess people who allowed hacks like adding -1 fridge to get a free tv in earlier online stores could also claim "but they have build online stores that moved thousands of sales every minute"

;)
I'm usually not into these long narrative article, but this was an interesting perspective and a good read.
Surprised to have never heard of him. That was really funny!
Wow this essay is fantastic. The idea that the amount of people who "need" financial aid has stayed constant while tuition prices have increased 170% (way outpacing wage growth) is unreal.

Conrad if you wrote a book about this I would buy it. Super fascinating stuff. Colleges are clearly massive financial instruments that need to be analyzed further.
> the Charity-status ( 501(c)(3) ) of Colleges in America depends on more-than-half of their students being unable to afford the education

This would still be true even if college cost 10x less than it does now. Very few 18-22 year old full time students can afford any level of tuition.
I took this class in 2010. Easily one of my favorite classes during my time at Cal. Every class project featured an extra credit tournament pitting your algorithms against every other student's.
When AI can code, design, publish to automated infrastructure and get feedback from users, the demand (and salaries) for developers and designers can/may drop precipitously.
You are being too hard on yourself. Your personal history is an extremely recent phenomenon in civilization where there is no guide on what to do simply because virtually no humans have ever been in that scenario. Even today, most people are unfortunately terribly financially illiterate - especially with equity.
Education and healthcare are of high quality in the US, generally speaking. They are just super expensive.