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Addiction[0] comes in many forms, and I agree that addictions to things like caffeine and nicotine do not present serious social issues with withdrawal. We all know people that go on and off coffee/tea and we all know people that quit cigarettes. The vast majority of these types of addicts don't have anywhere near the withdrawal issues that methamphetamine and opiate addicts suffer through.

That said, it's still an addiction. I'd advise against any form of addiction [1], and I'd further advise against compounding addictions upon each other. Especially when it comes to nicotine, it's a HARD habit to quit.

Unsurprisingly, the science of nicotine is murky[2], especially the science around non-cigarette based nicotine. That's likely to change as vaping becomes more popular. I would not be surprised if vaping turns out to be slightly less bad than cigarettes, these companies like PM aren't known for their ethics. Vaping on it's own, sure maybe it's not any less bad than living next to the 405. But corporate sold stuff? COme on.

That said, nicotine is a drug just like all drugs. There are good things about it and bad things. With nicotine, the bad mostly outweighs the good. The bad is easy enough to google and isn't something to dismiss at all. The 'good' is vasoconstriction, alertness boosting, and short-lived memory retention; that's about it. These things are really useful if you have a reasonable suspicion that grievous bodily injury may occur to you in the next few hours. So, if you aren't in an active warzone, I'd stay away. Office politics can be vicious, but not that bad ;)

[0] https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/addiction/what-...

[1] There is a coffee mug not 2 feet from me at the moment.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
Interesting. I connected to my wife (who is originally from mainland China) and her family and I do not think they saw any warnings when chatting with me.
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Here's some people who do know what they're talking about who think these tests are bullshit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21687013
We've banned this cohort of sockpuppet commenters/voters.
My family has slipped on that exact slope.

Before (IIRC) Reagan, the point at which different marginal tax rates apply wasn't adjusted for inflation for decades, perhaps ever. The result was exactly that middle class families (including mine) paid tax rates that were originally intended only for the rich.
How does that apply? AOC's proposal to raise taxes on the rich would not increase the debt.
Story of my life, watching everyone else quickly come up with the wrong answers. :P

In school would usually (ok, often) get highest score, but took the longest to finish.
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I thought they were found in water?
The reasoning given is: if you're aware it's a bad idea, great! Don't do it. If you don't yet know it's a bad idea, and do it, you'll see how many places it has already been leaked, and hopefully start using different passwords, and a password manager ...
Can I give TSA workers cash, gift cards or food?
Does it support subtitles ? I've been looking for a video player that supports uploading subtitles, or loading then from a url
I am a scientist/engineer/mathematician who studied the hell out of abstract mathematics at an extremely rigorous undergrad program. In the 20 years since, not once has that knowledge been useful in my academic or industrial work, not even remotely. I am all for studying theory for its own sake, for the career theoretician and the interested hobbyist, but as an investment I regret those four years of my life as a colossal waste of time.
>It's possible that there's a cumulative effect on people from even tiny amounts of these and other pharmaceuticals in drinking water, but this hasn't been proven. And perhaps vulnerable populations (pregnant women, people with disabilities) are affected, although that's also unproven.

So as far as we know it does nothing.
> Plants require far more effort for the same amount of energy.

I'm curious about this one - what about things like corn and soybean? Those would seem pretty readily accessible in terms of pure caloric content.
That was one of the references for 17% I was talking about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Forbes#Campaigns_for_pre...
"I interviewed at six top companies" doesn't necessarily mean "these are the six top companies". It means "these six are among the top".
Or openly gay 15 years ago and have them scrape old data and find out.

Do you have any sources on this? This kind of retroactive censorship seems to be the latest fashion in the English-speaking world [1][2][3], and it's reasonable to expect such fashion to spread in Russia, but I haven't heard of any examples.

[1] https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zmdwk3/here-are-the-homo...

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/01/10/everton-defe...

[3] http://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/23138/conor-dalys-nascar...
Almost like something from an old cyberpunk novel. Somebody call the Turing cops!
She initially proposed it as a way to pay for a particular program.
==children are forced to sell the land after parents die due to tax obligations==

Do you have a source for this? If true, wouldn't they just sell a portion of the land to cover the tax, as it only kicks in over $5.5 million?
Not all content is the same an it is annoying to keep resizing windows (which is why I use the ratpoison window manager). I wish it was easier for the user to indicate with preferences, but I'm not sure if there is a good way to do that right now.

I agree plain text can be fine, but page width has also been an issue with plain text for a long time :/. Although 38 character width works well most of the time IMO.
And I think abnry is right that you need some motivating problem / project. In my case it was to prove the Riemann hypothesis. Obviously I have not succeeded but I've learned a lot in the process and it has indirectly led me to some good research questions. I think choosing an outrageously ambitious pie-in-the-sky problem is ok if you are patient and don't try to approach it too directly.
So when its dangerous for the ruling class - no free market cheeriot race?
Programmer distillation. Companies need to admit that only trying to hire a single type of person is not going to work. It's just like with petroleum: there's nothing wrong with the other products you get from the mix. You just have to appreciate what there is and make the most of it.

I bet you're quite good at something (perhaps multiple things), but they don't value it. Their loss. I'm glad you found something that works for you.
No language games.

It's clear that the chickens will be killed and eaten.

There is nothing wrong with killing and eating chickens as long as its done in a responsible manner.
Good effort. Personally after 20 years i simply have no motivatiob for this kind of game anymore. Gah.
I only studied 3 hours a weekend for 3 weekends. Even for more normal interviews I did a few hours of prepwork so it wasn't anything too crazy but everyone is different. I just assumed you hear about the people who study a ton more.
see JTAG
Did you mean debt? The deficit is nowhere close to GDP.

Japan has a much higher debt to GDP ratio than the US, and inflation of <1%.
Imagine you have to select a programming language in 2019
Isn’t rust-crypto abandoned? I didn’t think it was the best practice here.

EDIT: yep, not touched since 2016.

I'm not a crypto expert, but I asked someone who is and he pointed me to https://docs.rs/miscreant/0.4.2/miscreant/aead/trait.Aead.ht...
Microsoft is now helping Walgreens fend off Amazon’s health care push
I have the same CNC including the laser and decided to upgrade it with a 3D printer head. I attached an Arduino to the wire normally connected to the spindle motor and translated the signal into a PWM signal for the extruder. Temperature was controlled using the same Arduino.
Yes, it worked and yes, it took the better part of a month of work. But definitely fun and educational.
I started an 'exercise' on my fitbit right before my last onsight started. Fitbit claimed that I burned ~6K calories that day. My 3 week running average is somewhere around 4K.
Quirks or strict mode?
As I see it the issues arise less from some arbitrary level of screen time and more a lack of mobility and real live social time. With those at least you can set minimum quotas. That said, I try to work in screenlessness among sedentary activities like reading.

It's so all-encompassing, as you suggest, that I think I spend the majority of my time in front of a screen. What bothers me about it, and my work, is lethargy and isolation. So I take up some gym time. Sports would be a winner. Among friends there's always the low-fi boardgame craze. I'm not sure if it's enough.

Even with creative endeavors (say, writing, art, music) this day and age you'll find yourself (usually) reliant on technology for some part of the process.

I see a lot of concern about kids here. We were kids, growing up with screens: ultimately they're just bored and want stimulation.
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There was also some super slow external RAM off to the side that was used as a cache for static assets.

Other things Band did:

1. Real true type fonts.

2. East Asia Language support

3. Real Unicode (see 1 & 2)

4. Antialiased fonts

5. Real transparency/alpha blending

6. Particle effects engine

30 FPS on a 96Mhz CPU and a dumb framebuffer.

Writing a custom OS lets you do amazing things with minimal resources!
It's a survey from more than a couple dozen drug experts. If citing one expert is a source, then citing a survey of multiple experts is also a legitimate source.
Try curling it.

It's actually sending a PNG file, but with a 404 response.
A lot of companies post jobs that they aren't really looking to fill. Either they're trying to portray a picture externally that doesn't reflect the reality of their financial situation or in order to play shitty visa games.

Also everyone knows recruiting is broken. This works in both directions too. The FAANGs can afford to make hiring mistakes and carry dead weight for a year. A lot of smaller companies cannot.

I used to maybe get a 10% response from companies with a 90-100% success rate on in-person interviews. Now several years into my career it's maybe 40% & 60% (I've started ending interviews for dealbreakers). Things change depending on the role and where you are in your career.
yea, speed is very overrated in a lot of cases. Too bad big companies don’t understand this or refuse to admit it.
Ex FB since many years ago checking in. Welcome to 0.01% club. Believe me, we are a tiny minority. Majority of people are happy with FB and continue being heavy users.
I think his point wasn't that Facebook isn't doing neat stuff, just that at the end of the day, the result of everything they do is objectively horrifying. It boils down to:

"Give people just the right amount of dopamine and fiddle with their psyche in all the right ways in order to maximize the amount of time they spend staring at their phones."
Mainly because there's no good way to do it... attempts have been made, but they're pretty dire devices that can barely achieve a surface level scan.

If you don't mind watching a YouTube video, this guy does a good job summing up the problems some have had:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHjmlQdzpW4
its an open forum. you can get away with whatever shit you come up with.
> Microsoft (and by that I mean both Arbogast and Myerson) was just plain stupid to break app compatibility multiple times between Windows Mobile 6.x and Windows Phone 10. What exactly did they think was going to happen to their app count after pissing off their developer base?

I think the problem was not breaking compatibility between WM and WP, but breaking compatibility between WP7 and WP8. That and being too little too late (small number of apps when both Android and iOS stores were thriving).
Troy Hunt's haveibeenpwned has a password checking facility at https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

He describes the security measures behind the process here:

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...

Of course, it all still boils down to how much you trust the guy, the approach, etc etc.
I think you had a typo, ftr i said "overcooked"
Implied but not explicitly stated in the post is the idea that these interviews are mainly about solving puzzles given during interviews.

How depressing. A big part of software development is knowing how to get things done with people you don't agree with or like. A good chunk of the rest is about communication. You know, organizing thoughts into something coherent and actionable, speaking, writing, and most of all listening.

Is big tech hiring that broken that a person's past history of shipping quality software under severe business constraints matters so little?

Or is it perhaps that too few people at large tech companies are capable of evaluating candidates on any other basis than cooked-up on-the-spot brain teasers?
which company can you say does something totally ethically? Trump hotels or golf resorts?
2015: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/air-gapped-computers-ar...

2018: https://www.tektonikamag.com/index.php/2018/05/18/your-air-g...

2018: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-safe-is-your-air-gapped-pc...
This is really confusing. When the top 5 companies control 2/3 the market, how is that a monopoly? The biggest company is less than 25%.

Anyway, the fact that I can walk into a store (not just Costco, I do this elsewhere) and buy a fully prepared, seasoned, cooked, ready-to-eat, warm, entire chicken for 5 US dollars blows my mind. We don't understand how good we have it. Most of us here on HN can exchange the money we get for less than 10 minutes of work for the aforementioned culinary delight. We're not talking about a bowl of porridge here, this is protein-packed meat. I've been around the world. Everyone (who eats meat at all) loves chicken. We live in paradise.

I can understand ethical and environmental concerns, but we have to be doing something right here.
My argument is that $100K be than that much in a city if everyone who made more than $100K were heavily taxed - it's a lot different making $110K when everyone makes $150K than making $150K when everyone makes $350K.

But, I am happy to concede that not everyone expects this and I am being optimistic :)
Look up the definition of anarchocapitalism, please, and you'll see it doesn't match the definition of what we are dealing with. Distributed internet also evades the ability of most single nations to censor or regulate it. Does that also make the internet anarchocapitalism? Every technology is used illegally sometimes. That's not an argument in itself.
I feel like funding the poisoning of drinking water might also be bad for governmental stability.
I was a programmer for 10+ years and I couldn't pass the technical interviews for these companies either. I started down the path of trying to self-learn Computer Science but reading books wasn't enough for me so I wen't back to school for it. Around the end of my CS bachelors I pivoted to hardware and stuck around for a masters in ECE. Now I work at one of the companies mentioned. It is much harder to learn CS on your own than it is in a structured environment.

Your experience allowed you to move toward doing work that excites you. Even though you didn't meet your goal, you still had great success.
I have a wife, three boys (one who doesn't sleep through the night), and a full-time job as well. Usually I just practice after putting the kids to bed. It's possible you just need to carve out some time even if it's an hour or two a night.
And I thought he would give out numbers.
Can I self-learn by reading all books in Bachelor/Master degree syllabus?
Can I self-learn by reading all books in Bachelor/Master degree syllabus?
I have never used Flow beyond a basic hello world. The syntax is very similar. Some of the nomenclatures vary. All and all they will both accomplish 99% of the same thing - statically typing a dynamic language. Which gives you much more code confidence, `foobar is undefined` is very less likely. self-documenting code. (see: vs-code intellisense) And code maintenance scale abilities currently not possible with such a loose language like javascript.

So I would say if you're interested pick one and dive in.

Right now typescript has a lot of community momentum: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped

And an extremely fast, open sourced, plugin enabled editor, vs-code ftw! I am a convert after being a longtime diehard vim user. (vs-code has the best vim binding emulation I have ever used in a free open sourced editor)

Facebook is deprecating their flow atom editor plugin; nuclide - https://twitter.com/fbopensource/status/1072928679695548416?...

This is all why I would choose typescript over flow if it were up to me. maybe a flow user can chime in.
It does not prevent treatment, but if treated with antibiotics, that animals milk will never there after be organic. Thems the rules.
At our local costco, they have 3-4 types of lentils in typical costco size 8-10 lb bags.
I do. See my other post.
It's possible the candidate was overqualified and some of those 70% knew it wasn't worth their time if there was a 99% chance they were going to Google or similar.
I like how this article and research de-romanticizes dying words.

There is nothing romantic about it, just incoherence that can only sometimes be applied out of context to conform to a blissful end.
The linked paper on their Research page is pretty interesting: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.08092.pdf
Because Facebook makes one of the most useful pieces of software for everyday people. It's not a "destructive" product.
I was not writing Objective-C code for any of those on mobile platforms, which is the topic at hand.

EDIT: though in rereading your original comment, it's a fair question. Yes, I was around. No, I still don't think it applies. Even considering desktop, IMO Apple made great efforts to make such transitions at least somewhat seamless. In more than one instance, Microsoft's mobile message was: "that app won't run on the new OS without a lot of work."
What can freelance company upgrade to?
What can freelance company upgrade to?
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Just goes to show you that software interviewing exactly captures the entire experience of being a working software engineer and always tests you on the things that all of us reading this right now already know.

Right?
I'm so tired of all this automated cold email/calling bullshit. It's way out of hand and well beyond levels that led to the Do Not Call Registry. If your business relies on buying emails lists from shady 3rd-party data partners and blasting them, I do not want to do business with you. Ever.

If I did not give you my email address, I do not want your emails. If I did not give you my phone number, I do not want to talk to you. Stop wasting my incredibly valuable time.

Want my business? Do the work to earn it rather than sending templated crap from a CRM.
Not to mention that prohibition of a drug always makes the black market drug more concentrated and therefore more dangerous.
Huh? Many prominent economists support progressive income taxes. Heck even Adam Smith.
As someone who has interviewed with 3 of those 6 companies and gotten offers from all 3, I think the best way to approach these interviews is to not walk in with the mentality that it's a one sided "test" where you are put on a spot to defend yourself.

In reality it's more often than not a role-playing exercise where you are pretending to be coworkers trying to solve problems together. Sure you'd be the one leading the problem solving, but being capable to explain your thought process effectively, having the ability to exchange ideas with the interviewer, and just being able to come across as a good teammate is probably more important than getting that last 5% of optimization.

This is especially more true for senior level position interviews where there are more design/architecture problems with relatively open answers. Out of these companies Google felt most impersonal and "test like", which I guess is not a surprise considering they mostly don't hire for any specific teams/positions (and we can debate the pros/cons of that all we want), and they try to eliminate human factors by the way of having hiring committees (which leads to other pros/cons).

In the end even though most still comes down to the technical skills, walking in with the right mentality and attitude actually really helps one to emphasize one's strengths.

Oh one last thing, showing confidence is also super important. But too many people mistake arrogance for confidence. In my personal experience there is no better way to demonstrate confidence than being comfortable (not to be confused with complacency) with what you don't know, and showing intellectual curiosity/eagerness to learn.
It would be cool if there was something like this built into a password manager
There's nothing wrong with that though, those kinds of statements are implied to be contextual.

If it's an American publication, it's fair.

The OP comment is not unreasonable - American's are fairly nationally centric by default ... but they generally don't say 'the world' when they mean just America.
Narrator: "He didn't."
I have not yet seen AI doing fact checking, so AI cannot "fix" fake news.
I've managed WeWork leases in both SF and NYC and they were both month to month with a dedicated office. I think there is a 30 day out but it was pretty easy.

There is some variation between offices though, so entirely possible you had a different experience.
Pretty much because for most people who are not on HN facebook is a cool company.
Current Safari Mobile gets 98/100
What kind of things do you practice?
"Well, there's spam-egg-sausage-and-spam, that's not got much spam in it."
> Git [...] feels like the designer [...] said "F*ck this shit, make your own UI on top if you want to use this tool!"

Actually this is exactly what happened back then, which is why many people used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_(software) as a frontend to git in the early days. That said, I personally find current git UX absolutely fine and I can't imagine being effective without having all those commands like git reset --whatever -p and git rebase --interactive.
Anybody who knows what Costco is knows what these chickens are for - for eating. What else could they be for - recreating all Hollywood movies with all-chicken cast? I thing demanding that media would push anti-meat propaganda into every article mentioning animal-derived food is a bit too far. I mean, you have the right to your opinions and your consumer behavior, but nobody is obliged to share them and propagandize them for you.
Damn I was using the whole venmo red envelope swappero method to fund myself the last time I was there, only a couple months back. If I can't do that anymore when I go, it's honestly not worth going.
A case of "do as I say and not as I do". Besides Eric Schmidt is powerful and rich enough to stop people from talking. Not exactly a level playing field there.

Maybe Eric should not have a private Instagram account which follows young models. Maybe Eric should not ask Google to delete results about his political donations.
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Testing a negative is much more difficult. Testing the positive is “can this user access this private data using this procedure”. Testing the negative is “can any use access any private data using any procedure”. That’s almost impossible to verify.