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The thing that appears to me, most overpoweringly, is the bitterness.

I understand, I've felt bitter about interviews before, I'm sure some interviews were unfair. But I also recognize this bitterness is a weakness of mine, unproductive, unattractive.

The way the author indulges in this resentment would make me very cautious about recommending him regardless of technical capability. An employee who has low tolerance for the massive randomness/unfairness in the world probably would get sick of most companies pretty quickly.
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I have a CC that let's me generate a temporary number with a spending limit, a specified expiration date, and whether or not to allow recurring payments. That's the only one I use to sign up for "free" trials, because I don't even have to remember to cancel. The company will remind me to cancel when the can't collect payment!
I'm going to make a similar library called Verizon.
Oh, I'm not disputing that the world tends to converge on a brands, but I'm trying to say that that doesn't have to be the case; both Coke and Pepsi can coexist, as can Lysol and Clorox. When I eat at McDonalds, I never have the mentality of "by eating here, I'm stopping Burger King".

At this point I've found DDG to be comparable to Google, but occasionally I have to do the !g to find what I'm looking for.
Is there any mechanism in Westminster politics, or any democratic political system for that matter, for invalidating election results if it is determined that an external state interfered with the process?

If it was found that Russia interfered in some capacity, would/could anything be done?
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At this point, they should just do a new referendum to ask if people really still want to leave. I'm rather sure that the stay would win
There’s an article from 2005 with most of the same information

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/going-with-dr-flow/arti...
unwanted change for the sake of change
Yup, came to the conclusion it has to be severed ties. And I really look for the best in people too

What helped me was when my best friend growing up committed suicide a few months ago, when I was home I kept thinking how amazing a person he was, how nice, how pure and caring....

Then I thought about this person I was spending all my time with, the opposite kind of person. It made me sad to lose someone so good, I decided I would cut that other person out because they were so bad. IF that makes sense...
Yep, exactly this. HR can be evil at times, but here their evilness is actually a good thing, because it's cold, hard rational logic: "nickel-and-diming on petty shit" is bad for the company's bottom line.
Is it so dark if you shine a bright light on it at the start? We collect credit card info as part of the free trial signup, and clearly state the recurring terms -- start date, amount and interval -- in a prominent box right over the submit button.

If the transaction succeeds they immediately get a thank you email with the recurring terms prominently repeated again. There's also a link to the cancellation button, which is available immediately.

I've accepted this sort of deal as a user and think it's only nefarious if it's not clear or if cancellation is difficult.
The 2016 referendum was flawed in its formulation and execution, and was itself already the 2nd referendum on the topic.
> But where is the opposition saying that the referendum was nothing more than a protest vote against immigration, 52-48% is a narrow split, we can't possibly have our cake and eat it too. Why hasn't the opposition been more vocal about this?

I think it might be something like an idea that if your reaction to a protest vote by people who feel like they aren't being listened to, is to turn around and say "we're not going to take your vote at face value, and we're going to do something else anyway", then they (quite justifiably imo) might not take it very well.

It's tricky, because I agree with you that a good proportion of the leave vote doesn't care specifically about leaving the EU, but associates it with other issues (although I think a fair chunk of the leavers actually did vote leave knowing what they were getting). And I also think that Corbyn vould have done more than he has.

I don't really know what I'd like to see.
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And if the candidate will be writing a new DOM traversal API, this is a valid exercise.

As it stands, any of the libraries that do DOM manipulation for me also traverse the tree for me ... so, again, why do I need to implement a toy BFS in an interview?
> Tree data structures are really common in front-end.. like the DOM....

99.999% of front end developers do not solve those kind of problems.
I would really love an answer whether this is ACTUALLY the case - it appears to be everyone’s assumption, but is it actually true?
I highly recommend pairing an esp8266 with a ATECC508A crypto chip for serious tls stuff. It all works nicely with MongooseOS.

Edit: Looks like the MongooseOS team has even blogged about it (a few different times). Here is an example: https://mongoose-os.com/blog/mongoose-esp8266-atecc508-aws/
The trouble is employees are already paying 12.4%* of their salary into Social Security, so additional savings would be a significant burden that bottom 90%. If the SS money went into a managed retirement program like* * TSP it would accomplish what you're proposing.

The rationale was stated quite frankly by FDR:

"We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program."

He didn't anticipate an aging population, let alone index funds.

Social Security is a wealth transfer from one generation to another, so after a generation has paid out to their elders, they (not unreasonably) feel entitled to collect from it. Even if they were feeling generous, they've generally planned their finances around those benefits. That's why reforming the system has been politically intractable.

* You're taxed 6.2% and the employer is taxed 6.2%. When employers are budgeting for salaries they're going to consider the full 12.4%.

* * TSP is essentially the military's 401k with a group of very low cost funds, only here you would require the assets stay in the program until retirement.
Less than a year into the industry - we were a bunch of kids handling a not-so-easy project, and we were told to hire some experienced people. So we started interviewing. One of the candidates was very experienced and she got annoyed because we asked her "very simple, beginner, kid level" questions. And she cut the interview short and left.

We felt bad for her (we were never disrespectful, we just asked questions to the best of our ability. It didn't help that we were just fresh college grads with no real world experience). It is kinda funny if I think about it now.

Edit: Another one, not personal, but happened in a place I worked

The sysadmin team was hiring. The candidate walks in, lists the names of all the servers we had and a whole bunch of other details that only our sysadmins were supposed to know. The candidate had hacked into our network and had leisurely browsed around and made detailed notes. He was hired on the spot and his first task was to plug all the holes that he had used to get into our network.
The EU court has already stated that the UK can revoke A50 and continue as before.
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It's certainly true that the UK and USA policy is anti Russian. and the Russians do try to meddle. But.

It's also putting too much credit on a foreign state, and is used to abdicate responsibility. We all laughed when Saddam, Gadaffi and Mubarak claimed the west were manipulating their population and elections.

Why dont we laugh when our politicians say the same about the Russians? To me it feels like the new bogey man. Some evidence but the impacts are grossly overegged.

(Edits, worth saying that in its not our politicians in power that are claiming this though, which is different)
They are also doing that.
Azure is ~30% remote employees for example.
There is still a lot of room for improvement but there are way more remote employees than just 5 years ago.
Check your smartphone while you unplug the router (or you block 99% of its signal by 1) wrapping it in aluminum foil or 2) taping a metal box or mylar sheet over it).

If one of the wifi presences discovered by your phone disappears thereafter, then the router you blocked was live and very unlikely to be a decoy. (I can't believe most casual spies would install a live decoy router in the room.)

Since all of the spy devices in the room almost certainly operate via that wifi router, disabling or blocking it is probably the most effective single act you can do to disable all of the room's surveillance devices.
I’m not sure you understood. Regardless of whether they send out the helicopter, if they don’t take a report, the crime isn’t counted. You can’t say anything meaningful about whether crimes are getting more or less prevalent if your stats are bad.
I've been burned with Airbnb rentals a few times. Never again. I deleted my account, I'd rather pay a bit extra and get a real hotel without wasting half my vacation dealing with these clowns.
the referendum was non-binding so there would not need to be a formal process in this particular case - however it probably would cause a lot of upstir anyways.
it’s pretty obvious to me ( european) that russia tries to undermine Europe and USA to make them pay for the economical measures it has taken against it since the ukraine incident.

Yet to say that this is not the will of the people look like a bit of a stretch. Nigel farage isn’t a russian spy, trump didn’t invent the issues with taxes and immigration at the mexican border.

What russian sponsored media only need to do is to let local people whose opinion are generaly banned from the mainstream media speak freely and reach the general audience.

It forces mainstrem political party to stop being lazy, and talk about the real everyday issues, instead of relying on what’s morally right or wrong to think.

Call me an optimist but i truelty think that it could in fact save europe and democracy in the long run.
Oh? Let's pick an easy market to judge this against, then. I know! Let's talk about smartphones. Surely the largest company on the planet is a quasi-monopoly in this space... oh, but they're not. In fact, Apple's not even a majority leader in just the USA, and the numbers favor them even less globally. There is clearly a choice in the cell phone market between privacy, quality and cost, and people are making those choices.

Not to say that this isn't true right now in the search market. I grew up in a world where Google didn't exist, and the reason Google is so much more popular at search is because they're just that much better at delivering relevant results than everyone else. I used to search with Excite, Yahoo, Lycos, etc. and modernly I've TRIED to use Bing or DDG or whatever other choices have surfaced, but when the product seems free, people are going to make the choice that maximizes quality, and right now Google is just winning at it.

Still, if someone comes along who can actually deliver on the search quality then the market will change.
Let say my email appeared on Pwned list. And given most ( at least I think most ) people have zillions of web forums, services, sites, services using the email address.

What should you do now? I mean editing and changing password in everyone of them seems like a daunting task. And many of those services I no longer use anyway.

I am thinking of completely giving up the identity and start over, which seems easier. Or any other thoughts and comments?

Edit: I will definitely pay Apple a monthly fee if there is some simple and easy way to have online identity using email along with FaceID or Touch ID as 2FA. Getting rid of password while increasing security is something that should have happened but has yet to happened.
Lego cardboard boxes are sealed in plastic film. Should be good when stored in a dark, dry place.
We are constantly told that the UK could have imposed temporary restrictions on immigration from newly joining countries (particularly Romania and Bulgaria), could have limited immigrants' access to benefits, could have limited immigration of those without jobs arranged, could have issued blue passports, all while remaining in the EU.

I think it's significant that we didn't. In the run up to the Scottish independence referendum the political establishment went for maximum compromise, promising that "devo max" would offer everything that independence advocates wanted whether they left the UK or not. By contrast those pushing the EU referendum had no interest compromise; the referendum was set up to deliver a minimally-nuanced result that would make a clear victory for one side over the other and allow those on the winning side to pursue whatever policies they wanted. Which backfired when the public refused to give them the result they had intended.
>The comment you're replying to doesn't suggest any of that.

Uh

>The analysis ignores 99.99% of LEGO that has been sold and is now worthless.

That blanket covers 99.99% of anything Lego, combine that with what this article is about... speculating on Lego sets... my comment is fine.

"worthless" though is not the case. Individual elements absolutely have value on the secondary markets. Bricklink has more than a million mmebers, 10,499 stores and 125,105 unique elements with millions and millions of pieces for sale.

Parting a 'worthless' set out can often yield you more, if not several times more. Sure it might take you years to sell every single element of a set, but by no means is 99.99% of Lego 'worthless'.

>really obvious counterexample is Star Wars-branded stuff associated with a current feature film.

Plenty of Star Wars sets have gone on varying levels of sale/clearance (some quite drastically) via both shop.lego/Lego stores and non-Lego retail outlets in the past several years. 42 of the 97 Star Wars sets are currently on sale on shop.lego for example and almost certainly won't rocket up in value, ever. The Clone Wars sets were probably the worst failure here.

Lego also has plenty of series that just never gain traction. Most recently I'd point at Nexo Knights. Kids just weren't interested, despite the cartoon, and most of us adult fans only bought it because we wanted space and/or castle/knights to come back and this was the closest offering. We basically got 2 rounds of releases the they scrapped it.

Legends of Chima is mostly a flop.

The Minecraft series had some of the steepest discounts I've seen directly from shop.lego/lego stores.

Architecture sets are more often miss than hit and you find unopened sets fairly regularly in thrift/budget store chains.

Bionicle flopped hard and only has a small die-hard fan base not unlike the Dreamcast.

Angry Birds had pretty steep discounts direct from Lego early on.

TMNT several years ago was a pretty big bust and hasn't retained value.

Etc.
No, but its a really easy algorithm, it really shouldn’t be too hard to implement given a description of it.

(not accounting for the people who are just bad at writing anything on the spot in a high pressure interview situation, of course)
Yes, there was proven Russian involvement which could have been decisive, given the close margin. This is not a conspiracy theory.

However, there seems to be some agreement, driven by May and her party, that a second referendum would be even more disastrous to democracy, since in any case the outcome would be close and keep the UK divided (as polls indicate) and at the same time a second referendum would cause people to question the legitimacy of the whole process.

Foreign involvement in elections or referenda is a tricky thing, as it happens everywhere in one form or another and the legality of it is often in a grey zone rather than it being clearly illegal.
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I wonder if it would make more sense to instead of having the UK leave the EU, have England and Wales leave the UK with the UK (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar) remaining in the EU.

That would certainly seem fairer to the Scots, who rejected their independence vote largely because they weren't sure that they would be able to remain in the EU if they left the UK.
As if having kids somehow qualifies someone to magically be able to comment on parenting
Cameras and mics are useful for videoconferencing calls. Attaching a mic and cam via USB can be done, but that's extra crap you have to haul around in your luggage; it's much more space-efficient to have it built into your laptop.

The answer is really simple, and I'm disappointed that I seem to be the only one who can think of this: why not just have a mechanical toggle switch that turns off these devices? (No, don't let it be a software switch, it needs to actually disconnect the devices from the computer; it can do this with transistor switches but the devices still need to be off the computer's internal USB bus, and there must be no way for software on the computer to reactivate them secretly.)
To be entirely fair - iirc the purple mattresses did have a powder inside them, and they were microbeads.

If Ford tells me my GM leaks gas, and they’re right, that’s fine with me.
The referendum wasn't binding in any form. It's also clear that there was a lot of misinformation during the original referendum, and that Brexit is going to be very different from what much of the public imagined it to be. Now that 16-17 year olds can vote, I'm sure e the referendum would have ended up much differently.

At the very least there should be a second referendum, but even better, the referendum should be discarded completely--there's a reason things like constitutional amendments require 2/3rds majority in the U.S.
Agree. I have just finished reading it.

It has left me wondering, are all administrations this shambolic - we are all humans after all - and this book is just a rare glimpse into what goes on behind the scenes, or is this just an exceptional circumstance? Maybe a bit of both. It would be interesting to read about what goes on behind a really well run government - should one exist..
This article is very prescient. This is happening now and the pace is speeding up considerably. I work in healthcare and we hit a tipping point about a year ago where HIE's and hospitals are now comfortable with their vendors going to AWS instead of insisting on on-premises infrastructure. In the last year, my company is basically turned on a dime and we no longer use virtually any of our on-premises hardware. If you are in IT (non-developer), you should be concerned.
Where is Bezos hiding with his money ? Even after his divorce 500 mil would still be less that 1% of his net worth . . .
Could we please ask you to put more effort into commenting civilly and substantively?

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Until they start embedding computers into chairs
I don't think there is a mechanism for invalidating general election results. The parliament can vote to hold new general elections.

For the Brexit referendum, there is no need to invalidate it, as it was an advisory opinion poll rather than a binding public vote for the government. The UK government could ignore the results or call for a new referendum if they wished to.
> unattractive.

You're hiring a software developer, not an actor portraying a generic love interest.
OP: Hi again all; I obviously can't reply to every single comment, but I just wanted to say thanks for all the feedback (both on technical matters and broader burnout concerns). It's been very helpful as I try to decide what I want to do.
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Thanks for exemplifying all the naivety of leavers

Before the referendum Norway "was out" and it was all good for them, recently any form of CU agreement is "in" (like May's deal). Funny how leavers forget that, seems like comprehension of anything besides "in" or "out" is too much for them.

"result clearly rules" hilarious, just hilarious. Even Farage said a close result would end up in more discussions. But of course they like to "forget" that.

We agree on Corbyn being a waste of space though.
The google interview really isn’t that bad. In fact it’s kind of unfair in the sense that someone who just did leetcode for a month can pass it while also being a terrible coder.

It’s true the interviews don’t test your real coding abilities. It’s probsbly very low signal you aren’t going to go in and write spaghetti algorithms (but they will at least be fast).
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This seems like a reasonable process. However, for me personally, I have a big portfolio of side projects with open-source code. And it irks me if a company asks me to prove my programming skills by wasting my time doing some silly tests, where if they just read my code we would be able to skip it. From all the places I've worked, the companies with the better programmers were the ones where they actually looked at your past code and had hardly any exercise or test.

I think the 6-week "probation" period is an excellent idea. Since most of the time you can recognize if they are a good fit or not.
Given that the Brexit referendum was legally non-binding (unlike an election), the only mechanism needed is political will to ignore the result
The Electoral Commission can void elections in the event of fraud: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_fil...

One of their most high profile cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlam_%26_Ors_v_Rahman_%26_Ano...

I don't think either of these apply for nebulous "external interference", but certain actions such as running unlawful electoral advertising should count.

Vote leave have been fined and referred to the police: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/ele...

BUT: these apply to elected positions. Referendums don't really have a strong constitutional place in the UK, and the Brexit referendum was "non-binding": the result did not legally oblige anything specific to happen.

Brexit is a choice of the government. No-Deal Brexit is also a choice of the government, made two years ago when sending the A50 notification without a viable plan.
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Algorithm questions may be more “general” than doing something like the actual work being performed, but frankly most programmers aren’t writing optimized low level algorithms on a day to day basis. All you get is people who’ve memorized the algorithm tricks.
I just go with ikea who happens to sell mattresses without it being their main revenue source. If you want really cheap, DIY foam pads are cheap, but so are water beds.
With fast food or soft drink brands, the differences are minor taste based things and quite frankly one or the other doesn't matter much. It's easy to compare at different times and decide on your own tastes and efficiency factors. The problem is with search engines, quality of results makes a big difference in how your time is spent and it's trivial to check what the competition has on offer - almost every time I would run a query on DDG I would find myself going "huh, I wonder if Google would have done better".

You don't go "wow, that burger sucked, I'll go get the competitors now", you're already satiated enough with your crappy burger. Because it's easy and cheap to run a query, you're almost forced to check.

Given how much better Google often does, running my queries on DDG in the first place is generally a waste of my time.
There is far more evidence that the same happened for the US election, and yet you won't see a change of President because of that.