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>As an interviewer, I'm always happy to talk to the candidate about the question I ask. I'm perfectly happy to answer "What is a breadth-first search? Why does it solve this problem?". I'm perfectly happy to talk about algorithms with them, and ask leading questions if the candidate explains where they're having difficulty.

This is something I feel a lot of interviewees aren't aware of, you DON'T have to know EVERYTHING.

I didn't know what a BFS was (I am primarily a front end web developer), so in an interview, I'd simply ask "Could you explain what that is? I'm sure I can find some way to do it."

As an instance, I looked up "Breadth First Search" on google just now, and saw that its just a way to search a tree one generation/level at a time. Once I knew that, the naive approach is simple (I'm sure there is a better way). Start a queue with node(0,0), and loop until the end of the queue, if you don't find the correct value, add the node's children to the queue, and keep going.

I totally feel for the guy, I've been rejected more times than hired, that's for damn sure, and each time is a HUGE blow to the ego, but you have to pick yourself up. I feel he is a great contract developer (not a dig, I am also a contract developer), but not necessarily someone I would hire full time.
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Here's the obligatory link to Conways Game of Life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

>Scholars in various fields, such as computer science, physics, biology, biochemistry, economics, mathematics, philosophy, and generative sciences have made use of the way that complex patterns can emerge from the implementation of the game's simple rules
This reminds me of something that happened to me several years ago.

I was in living in a small town and a new cop moved in. He became very diligent about enforcing the law, and I was pulled over for a rolling stop along a lonely country road. He didn’t give me a ticket (I wasn’t even sure what I had done wrong), but he gave me a stern warning and let me go. I continued on my way (mildly fuming) and came to the next stop down the same road. So I “stopped” and began taking a left. I was still thinking about this when I looked to my left, then right and began to pull out. I realized I just did another rolling stop, so I hit my brakes and this time I actually stopped.

And to my surprise a fast moving car emerged out of my right side blind spot. He was right at the crossing, and had I continued he would have smacked into me.

I was in my pickup truck, and the blind spot was caused by an aftermarket plastic detail that was attached to both windows, so it made the ‘A’ frame 3 times as wide as it should have been, and the angle of the road and speed of the vehicle perfectly matched the location of this plastic piece, effectively hiding the oncoming vehicle so I didn’t catch it when I first looked right.

I met that same cop some weeks later at a social gathering and of course went out of my way to shake his hand in gratitude.
I have reader mode permanently enabled for medium.com for Safari on iOS, and on Chrome for MacOS I have Ublock Origin rules to heavily filter out elements on the page.
"and even mercurial to some extent, prevent users from tracking their changes"

False. Stop spreading misinformation about Mercurial.

"Git means never being scared to create a commit."

This is indeed one of the biggest benefits of DVCS tools, including git and mercurial.
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9532-kernel_tracing_with_ebpf seems to have PoC that you can do interception. Did I misunderstand that?
Generation Z may be most liberal demographic yet
Nursing mother smashes 268-mile Montane Spine Race record
Went through for me on Firefox.
The employee had also installed apps for accessing pornography

So...web browsers?
People looking at their smartphones while driving?
Didnt Hilton pay large sum of money to an ESPN reporter to settle a voyeur cam issue ? This is why I choose Hilton -- they know spying on me or enabling spying on me is going to be expensive for them.

For people using AirBnB -- the best you can hope for is your pictures don't end up on a fetish site.
> I find that I'm following a similar pattern

Situation is much different now. Most Internet users don't even know what's a search engine. They just type in the URL bar and the search is performed transparently. Google has majority share on two main platforms (Google Chrome on desktop and Android on mobile) ensuring that their search is the default for the majority of users and is something people would get used to.

If a user isn't aware that choice even exists, they have no choice.

I believe this was recognized by Google years ago and thus their move into Android and replacing Firefox. Looking back, those were really smart, well executed strategies.

Even if Google search were to drop quality, it's so entrenched that it would take enormous effort to replace it at #1 spot. You would have to build a mobile operating system, a browser and a search engine - and all three would have to better in some way for users to switch.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn't mean that everyone should have side projects. But if you do, why not judge some of it based on that? And if you don't have open-source code to show, then some kind of test seems appropriate.
You can start your searches with a space :)
If that's how you read, maybe. I'm not getting anything other than "psychedelics are not a shortcut"
Or not. Or advance the money for a year and, maybe baby, recover the funds one year later... you would be surprised.
Nothing stops you from having a free Google account with those features on an email account hosted by Fastmail.
I don’t know. We didn’t see her around very much and didn’t ask her about it when we did. Seemed impolite to pry.
Also there are font-end languages (XPath, CSS selectors, etc) specifically for these types of structures, so you don't have to traverse them.
All because they are at the healthiest time of their lives. Also that means cheaper healthcare plans
Chinese laws are generally written to be vague.
Heavy Rainfall Can Cause Huge Earthquakes (2011)
You need to stop doing your old job and start doing your new job. That sounds obvious, but I see a lot of people get promoted and keep doing their old job, the one that they were so good at it and came so naturally. Even if the new person in your old job is only 25% as good as you are at, let/make them do it.

Related, if you can see a better way to do it, strongly consider keeping your mouth shut if that way is only 5% better. If you improve the project by a few percent and sap your report's motivation and confidence by 50%, you're probably not making things better for your company. Save your insights for times where you think your way is 50+% better.

In short, if you are overwhelmed, make sure you're doing your executive job. If you're not, consider still spending more time on reading and thinking rather than defaulting to pitching in on a project deliverable if it isn't written in English prose (feel free to work on a project high level summary, objectives, and key results document).
Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) – MIT [video]
The race is 268-mile race and travels over hilly terrain and covers 43,000ft of climbing.
She did it in 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds and slept only for three hours.
Makes you wonder what are the limits of the human body.
A point that often gets missed with "low-code" tools, is that it's not so much that they enable "non-coders" to build applications, but that they enable experienced developers to go so much faster.

I've been using a fullstack low code development tool for several years now, and when it comes to developing CRUD apps or data reporting apps (with charts, interactive, drill down reports, etc. etc.), it's astonishing how quickly you can stand-up a secure, fully responsive web-app, complete with authentication, authorization schemes, report subscriptions, etc., without writing any code at all.

And, when you bump up against the limits of the declarative/low-code aspect of the framework, you can toggle over to java script, your own CSS, SQL, etc., so it's not like you paint yourself into a corner.

So, I agree, if Amazon creates something like this, and it is as good as some of the existing low-code tools out there, it's going to have a big impact over the long term.

edit: typo
"Think of the pedestrians!" is the new "Think of the children!"
Well, in that case I would say "Not really then". Landlords generally don't run on a cost plus basis. They don't add up their costs add 10% and make that the rent come hell or high water. They charge as much as the can to achieve the desired rate of turn-over. If they are a person instead of a company, they may give tenets who have proven not to be a hassle and they have a personal relationship with a bit of a break on the rent.

In some markets, like the Bay area, rents are much less than the cost of owning the property, and in others, like Kent, Ohio, they are higher.

Plus: If there is a willing buyer for something you own at price X and then someone takes 6% of that when the seller pays, true the sell pays it all, but the buyer also pays it in getting less money.
>But if you exempt all of these "rare special cases," you've suddenly exempted 10% of the work.

I don't think that's the issue though.

The issue, as I see it, is not that you had to figure out how to implement BFS. I think many of us are confident we could do that under professional working conditions. If I had a day and some data structures to poke around with, I'd write a killer BFS supported by tests if I needed to (I've had to do similar things in the past).

The issue is that interviews expect us to recall this kind of specialized and rare problem solving like it's a day-to-day thing. We as candidates are being judged on how well we can come up with a novel solution on the spot to something that many of us will need to do once or twice in a career, and will be able to solve under completely different conditions.

In short, for most candidates, these kinds of questions don't test anything realistic, and a lot of people have issue with that. It's like judging whether you want to go to a chef's restaurant based on how well they did on Chopped! They might do well under pressure because they have practice with it because they're always in the weeds because their restaurant is poorly run. A terrible dining experience might translate to a win on a cooking competition show, because the show isn't testing the chef on the experience they provide you. Just as these kinds of interview questions don't test you on how you'll actually be interacting with code and solving problems day to day.
I always wondered how these places stay open. I judge them as fronts for cleaning up dirty money.
20+ year technology consultant here. I have done work for dozens of clients across just about every major industry out there. The number of (relatively well paid) people I've seen at clients in this neverland between Business and IT whose jobs revolve around pulling data from one system, munging it offline, and then loading it into another system, or similar tasks that should have been automated with a script a decade or more ago, is absolutely staggering.
This is definitely an interesting read.

I'd think that in general, we as a civilization are moving closer to instant, on-demand gratification. It's not a trend that's necessarily bad, but it does raise the standards in terms of speed, ease of access, and quality of service.

The most obvious case is email. It started as an inbox and has turned into an extremely fine-grained, organized method. What started as a way to communicate has largely become "too slow" and now there's all sorts of AI to aid this: take Google's smart reply (on https://gmail.com), for example, or Aiko mail's "quick actions" and one click email management (on https://helloaiko.com). We're moving towards an age where it is largely becoming "too slow" to communicate with each other; people just want to press a button and have themselves expressed.

Even texting, which is largely regarded as one of the fastest ways to communicate (_instant_ messaging), suffers from this--it started with autocomplete and Quick Reply, and now Facebook is changing it up with Messenger smart replies (on https://messenger.com).

Again, it's not necessarily a bad trend. It's just one that raises standards pretty high.
I've had more success finding TV shows on ddg. Google still a bit better for coding questions
> The trick is to write your resume so it gets past HR's filter

Any tips on how to do that?
Is there a official confirmation that he really mentored him?

All I saw once is a statement that he knows him
There's definitely stuff I don't throw out when that would be the easiest path because I feel bad about it going to the dump. A dead treadmill with a working industrial motor that I'm trying to find someone who can use the motor. The kids' old swing set with perfectly usable pressure treated pine. All manner of electronic detritus (anyone need a 25 foot VGA cable? How about a 35 foot HDMI cable that's not current spec? Old component cables? An old Dell minitower? Wall wart transformers? ...). Etc.
Surgeons are cowboys. They know it and take pride in it. It's a cultural thing that will take work. This macho culture thing is so common it makes me wonder.
Right ;)
Real estate prices being lower wage multiple means the agent has to charge bigger percentage commission to make same amount of money.
A great example of the fundamental schism here. We've already had a Scottish referendum, indicative of long-standing friction between Scotland and the rest of the UK (primarily England, arguably more specifically "the South" of England). Whilst passionate, that was at least executed with some level of respect and decorum.

Brexit has driven another, othogonal, wedge through the UK population. In fact it's quickly becoming several: remainers, "soft" brexiteers, "hard" brexiteers and various flavours of each. In comparison with the Scottish referendum, it has been marred by illegal campaigns, fanciful claims and a complete lack of accountability by the main protagonists.

It has also split the political spectrum in 4: the pre-existing left/right split, and now a horizontal brexit/remain split. Each of those quadrants is moving away from each other, creating a sanity void in the middle. That, in turn, is being amplified by media gorging on the extremist personalities (Reece-Mogg etc.).

I live in Scotland. I have never felt less represented by the Westminster Government or Parliament. My personal values are far more aligned with those of the wider Europe. So I am emotively attracted to solutions that see Scotland retaining affinity with Europe in preference to the neoliberalism that seems inherent in Brexit.

And yet, I also know that some kind of European Border between Scotland and England is as impractical and damaging - both economically and socially - as a hard border between the UK and Europe.

The entire situation is a mess that is destructive, damaging and divisive. Whatever the outcome, the social and political rifts will take years to heal.

Which is appalling in itself.

It is unconscionable in a wider context where the big questions of global warming and globalisation are the real challenges we should be confronting.

I have never felt so angry at, and unrepresented by, Westminster politics.
Can this Indiana city re-invent job training?
Clearly it wasn't that smart as it raises the chance of no deal, which would hurt the EU more than the UK. Barnier was certainly looking a bit frazzled today! Theresa May's mistake was to think she could negotiate with the EU in a civilised manner, when the only thing it understands is brutality.
I'll agree that things are better engineered than they were previously. But this often comes at the cost that modern devices, in particular, are very difficult to repair.

Growing up, when there was a failure in a refrigerator, television, radio, PC XT clone, etc - it was 95% of the time a simple matter of identifying the component or logic element that has black soot on it, soldering in a new one, and continuing on. You could follow the circuit logic and reason about how the system operates, and then shoehorn in CMOS TTL gates to modify operation logic to your heart's content.

With all logic moved to PLCs, MCUs, or black box SBCs, with components shrunk to 0402 SMD packaging - this is not longer a practical option afforded to consumers. We now throw the entire unit out and buy another.

The 1970s-1990s were a magical time when teenagers could disassemble, and fix or tweak their family's vacuum cleaner or phonograph, setting the stage for an early interest and foundation in engineering.

And now, that's gone.
If I were to examine two programs that operate identically, but one has 1/10 lines of code, I would assume it is more efficient, more fault tolerant, more general purpose/reusable, and would assume a more competent developer wrote it. edit Not making a case for intelligent design – absolutely not.
That's a tricky situation, because they want to report about some event in China and they logically quote a few comments to give the general mood. But you're saying the whole thing might be fake, so what should media do? Stop reporting about stuff happening in China? Investigate each comment and find out if it's true or fake? (Not going to happen)

I think what they're doing is all they can do - report on what's happening, objectively, use sources as reliable as possible, etc. And if it turns out the whole thing was made up for political reasons, expose the lies, which the BBC also do.
What you're describing is _training_; and the act of training employees has long since gone out of vogue in western markets.
Add '!psql' to your search. A full list of these is at https://duckduckgo.com/bang .
I suspect in some professions hubris is so important that people who tend to be humble simply don't make it in them. For example, Chuck Yeager complained about the arrogance of test pilots and I've heard a couple of times surgeons comparing themselves to fighter pilots. The difference, of course, is pilots kill themselves while surgeons kill their patients.

I'm so sorry about your dad.
good, universities are fucked up flush with foreign cash, rents are skyrocketing, from the competitiion,.
we do not want people, until we get our shit in order. we have been plenty fucking generous and all we get out of it is ppl who show up the first day cry racism, and get in line for govt services. except the rich fucking city property owners and politicians who love this scam because it makes their values go up and if they fuck up this country they can take their millions to the virgin fucking islands.
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Totally agreed!

This dude most play League of legends
A heavily-recycled story that's been making the rounds since at least 2017. No matter, have to keep the outrage machine going to drive traffic!
It's absolutely dangerous to others to walk into the road without paying attention because it can force oncoming vehicles to behave erratically (fast breaking, swerving, etc).
OK, that's clearer and I can see what the buy reps get out of it (less commission for less work). But frankly as a consumer wanting to shave percentage points off I'd rather look at a lot of properties without a buy agent than one property with a buy agent
I use Ublock Origin + Umatrix + Privacy Badger
So who is a hard border unacceptable to?
It also seems ripe for abuse. I can already see people going around declaring people "unfit" and getting a cut of their UBI from the committing institution.
I wouldn't appreciate them pretending to be "just an honest guy with concerns" though
Curious, why does it take 1-2 years to fix such a bug?
PGP exists and works. But hardly anybody uses it. That's not enough to "take off".
Cost, I think.
eww, that being said, their API appears to use exclusively POST requests for everything (even things where you're getting something) and puts auth in the body. I guess it's no big deal, but I'm not sure how I feel about that. It's harder with my HTTP library because I can't abstract away the post parameters as easily as I can headers (without doing unnecessary decoding then re-encoding them), but that's arguably a problem with my HTTP library, not Paddle. Still, feels different to everything else, which is odd.
Battery-Electric Buses Yield Mixed Results for Cities
Great balanced long-read. The full text of 2015 paper "Massive Migration From the Steppe Was a Source for Indo-European Languages in Europe" referenced in the article is available online as is the full text of the 2016 paper "Genomic Insights Into the Peopling of the Southwest Pacific" [0][1]. Reich's lab also links to a number of other papers of interest [2]

[0] http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reichlab/Reich_Lab/Datasets_...

[1] http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reichlab/Reich_Lab/Welcome_f...

[2] http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reichlab/Reich_Lab/Welcome.h...
Here's my favorite quote:

> Kenny Kline and Dan Scalco swore that Casper wouldn’t touch the site. Casper’s Philip Krim told me the same: “We exert no influence and have no influence over the site, other than that we lent them money.”

I smiled at that part, and then read on to the next paragraph:

> The new owners of Sleepopolis did disclose on the site: “Until the loan is satisfied, Casper has the contractual right to repossess the assets and forgive the remaining value of the loan…yes, that was written by our lawyers ;).” Repossess the assets: in other words, take over Sleepopolis, if it came to that. But Krim said this was just “lawyer language protecting our loan, so we get paid back.”

Wowzers!

There's all this stuff advertised in podcasts (mattresses, clothes, underwear, meal prep, snacks) which seems to be aimed at young professionals who hate the idea of having to go into a physical store and talk to a physical person. When the podcast man reads a script saying "Casper mattresses are WAY cheaper than what you'd get in a store!", I guess you're not supposed to comparison-shop and see that the Casper is $950 for a queen... which is pretty much exactly what we paid for a perfectly nice Serta memory foam mattress at a store 1 mile from our house, which included delivery and installation.
Yes. One needs to get rid of the idea in everyones head that one needs a buyer and sellers agent. This is a pure network effect that is keeping this over-priced service intact. Similar to the AMA's restriction on medical school licensing.
Netherlands: Let's add lightning strips at the end of crossroads to appear in people's peripheral vision.

China: Just fine them.
Nobody talks about the irish border because the one who starts to do so is the one who is going to be blamed.

I have zero doubts that there is going to be a hard border within a year after a hard brexit. There is already a massive duty fraud problem with the UK https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-warns-uk-again-to-recoup-... which would only escalate.

I have the impression that most EU goverments are just fed up with this british farce and want it to be over and the UK gone.
I initially read that as “bad president”
>And some stuff is made locally not because of 'better' manufacturing ability but for speed. The fashion industry has to react quickly, quicker than overseas shipping can manage.

Almost everything in the fashion industry is made in Asia.

And few consumer goods (if anything) are "too expensive to ship".

>I just ordered a small electronics assembly from a Canadian manufacturer not because they are the most skilled or precise but because they can chat with me on the phone and ship a small-run (5) faster than any Asian manufacturer

Yes, but for anything at scale, they wont be the most competitive option.
I hesitate to say it on HN as everyone seems to hate Oracle (and for good reason), but the tool is Oracle Application Express. (https://apex.oracle.com/en/)

In my earlier consulting role, and now as a CDO, it's my go-to tool for CRUD and data presentation apps.

(I don't work for Oracle.)