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> They presented three design challenge options to pick from, with a weeks notice and advised that we should spend no more that 3–5 hours on the task (wink, wink)

I guess as a programmer I'm too logical. You tell me X hours, that's all I'm going to spend. For one of my past interviews I was given a task to make a multiplayer battleship game using whatever I wanted, and was told to spend 2 hours total and they didn't expect me to finish.

I got some rudimentary client/server communication going and that was it. No game logic at all.

Didn't get the job: "However, we would have liked to have seen you get further on the project in the same amount of time."
If you ever need to tweak or inspect an existing binary, https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf is great.
Since as we all know, 100% of the iceberg is above the water surface.
I always saw it labeled as "Lady with Ermine", but since they are the same thing both are fine.

Although Wikipedia says the term Ermine is used more when talking about an all-white stoat.

Usually you see the white fur-lined cloaks referred to as Ermine. And in heraldry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermine_(heraldry)

With the fur, for some reason it was fashionable to keep a black-tipped tail, so you see in contemporary paintings and in heraldic devices the periodic black spots in a field of white.
Amen brother. Networking is absolutely the way to go. As employees or grunts and not a part of the ownership/capitalist class, our network is our biggest asset beyond our skills.
Some suggestions:
1) Try to socialize with fellow engineers at work. Coffee, lunch, grab a beer. Host or attend a dinner party occasionally. Put yourself out there.

2) Don't work at any single employer for more than 3 years unless you have very compelling reasons. Stock options or you have excellent opportunities staying put. Changing employers allows you to grow your network and your skill and experience.

3) Attend meetups and networking events.
Well, that certainly selects for engineers willing to do unreasonable amounts of work without questioning it.
Excitingly, we soon may be able to have both (if you can compile your C code with a C++ compiler). Coroutines are in the working draft for the C++20 spec, so they may soon be provided by the runtime (and thus integrate into all of the other language features and syntax) instead of requiring hacking it up with string macros: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/coroutines
I explicitly stated I'm talking about the spirit of free speech.
Harmful to the side doing the picking or harmful to the justice process in general?
Never in my life have I seen this. Not once. Where are you from?
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> "Is there a rule I don't know about"

> Goes on to not violate the rule that seems to exist

Anyways, it was ThousandEyes
It is a quadcopter/plane hybrid...
Maybe in the countryside. Go to any West EU capital and you'll see planty of niqabs and burqas.
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I can see the value in this. It is one of many factors, not the factor.

The score will give admissions officers an objective, standardized view of applicants' environmental circumstances.

A 3.9 GPA and 1490 SAT score is one thing if the applicant is from Lake Forest or Greenwich, and quite another if they are from the South Side of Chicago or rural WV.
Hey this is really cool! I’m a big fan of the envelope system.

Is there support for having a separation between my personal finances and my shared as a couple finances? If not, are there plans for that? For example, we have a joint account and our own personal accounts.
Don't found your startup based on the first idea you fall in love with. Don't found your startup based on the first idea you fall in love with. Don't found your startup based on the first idea you fall in love with.

Make a list of attractive markets to play in, talk to a lot of insiders in those markets, choose three ideas out of at least 30 that you generated, put some serious work into validating their business models, then let yourself fall in love with one and spend 10 years sweating to make it a reality.
Are you kidding? Social media companies literally have people on their payroll whose entire job is to increase engagement. They turn the sites into addictive Skinner boxes because the are incentivised to do so.

Of course it's hard to quit. It's designed to be hard to quit.
"I figured out if I treat my slaves better than the plantation down the road, I would get more results!" -CEOs

Slavery is the problem, not the treatment. Making 200x more than the people who actually know how to do the job that makes your company run is ridiculous and the core issue.
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Here's a direct link to Google's update: https://blog.google/products/google-nest/updates-works-with-...
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Standardisation does nothing for this. The software could've always just used an X-Sunset header or just another field in their dto.

My point was that there will never be a client that will blindly read that value and understand what to do with it. Which is why the only difference to "X-Sunset" is that there's an RFC with suggestions on how it could potentially be meant there, along with a syntax restriction.

ActivityPub is the epitome of this because they supply a lot of vocabulary and syntax variation to express them (including very complex ways to normalise that syntax, JSON-LD is not fun to parse) but doesn't actually made the implementation commit to anything. It's setting up a bunch of arbitrary rules for nothing. Every single AP implementation still orients itself on compatibility with Mastodon.
You're right about ObjC/Swift. Even though that's my line of work, I use C++ to answer questions in interviews. There's no way I'm going to remember method names for those.

I did have a Google phone screen where they asked me to live code something in Objective-C, but they gave me an existing class whose code I had to fill in and they were lenient with remembering common method names.
Any industry where hiring candidates with bad fit is extremely expensive will have a long interviewing process. For the candidate there is not much difference between spending 2-4 hours at home at a time of their choosing and 2-4 hours in a first of the N rounds of on-site interviews. Except they will have to expense transport and work around their job schedule.
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Actually, I think that long haulers are going to be the ones that first suffer. When you need a human there anyway to sign/unload/etc, then having that human also be a driver isn't such a huge problem. With long-haul the only thing that the human really needs to do is drive, and then, if needed, you could have a staging area to get the truck into the city… in much the same way that road-trains are dealt with.
Yeah; I think the whole "coding tests" thing is very much a Silicon Valley thing (which has of course been adopted by some non-SV companies, but its not the norm). I feel bad for HN readers who live there and that's all they know.

The best advice I've ever heard about interviewing is that you need to mentally reframe it from "I need this job" to "they need me, convince me to work here". A big part of this is building a network and finding jobs through that (which is how everyone has always found careers, mind you); when you're introduced positively through a third party the team trusts, the conversation inevitably biases more toward the team hunting you, not the other way around.

And if you can't do any of that then you should probably be happy that companies do big project coding/design interviews that give you a deep chance to show off your skills. Over half of what teams are looking for in candidates isn't the hard skills; its social aptitude, teamwork, networking, the soft skills. If you don't have a network and had to land this interview via a lowest-common-denominator recruiting page or email, then at least you can dazzle them with a great project, but you're already starting out behind.
Looking at that route it looks like the sort of public road nobody would actually travel on unless they worked for DB Schenker at those facilities or were desperate to avoid the more direct and better marked roads across that industrial estate

A giant leap for regulators, perhaps, since it's technically a public road, but looks like the standard move around company facility use case proposed for autonomous vehicles rather than anything comparable with transit haul or a taxi service.
Calling slavery a mistake is very... mild. It should have its own category
To what, show who is really in control of the land? Sounds corrupt and a slippery slope to me.
It is a stretch to say most Americans do, though.

Also, your original post needs a qualifier on the scope of "European countries".
Sets up vagrant, python, pip, reads requirements.

Oops, 2 hours.
Actually in England they don't need reasonable grounds.

https://www.gov.uk/police-powers-to-stop-and-search-your-rig...

> You can only be stopped and searched without reasonable grounds if it has been approved by a senior police officer.

This can happen if it is suspected that:

serious violence could take place
you’re carrying a weapon or have used one
you’re in a specific location or area
Take note of the name: flea-fur. IIRC, the idea was that fleas, lice, and other parasites would jump onto the fur rather than you.

I doubt it worked, but people weren't any smarter back then, either.
It's been close to a decade since I did anything in PHP (PHP5), but since I know PHP5 had public (and private,and protected) accessors back then, but didn't have any real typing of parameters if I remember, I assume this is a design pattern to enforce typing on the object parameters. Also, a good amount of them have some other guard that throws an exception on specific problems. I think it's a valid design choice to decide that since some object variables may need special handling that is accomplished through accessor methods, just create them specifically for each item that needs public access, and while you're at it throw in a few sanity checks. That provides a consistent interface, where accessors are both named and act in the same manner (i.e. you don't have mixed method call and direct assignment).
I like this place although it's morphing from an outlet with super-cheap expired or leftover stock to a regular grocery store. Mine also carries a lot of organic and hippie food at reasonable prices.
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This is accurate.

For example, India doesn't have Alibaba or Tencent or whatever because they allowed in foreign companies with stronger currencies too soon.

USA set the rules after WW2. China played the game according to those rules. Countries that didn't were either smashed economically or by warfare.
Maybe there shouldn't be "bottom tier" vendors at all if their existence means pushing and exploiting an inequitable standard of living.
Because those things are being used a proxy for race.
> Why are we tolerating this loss of freedoms? The only answer I can arrive at is "because it doesn't inconvenience people enough to do something about it".

Throughout recorded history, people have usually been "ruled" by some form of king, warrior, aristocracy, etc. But it's not like one leader could really hurt or kill every single person in a large society, so the people as a collective shouldn't really need to follow his orders. So why do they?

The simplest answer is, there are a series of trade-offs made when following a leader (or government). You have less autonomy, but you may gain some benefits, such as security, order, direction, and the possibility that they might accomplish some of your wishes. Of course, if the leader controls an army, you could say fear is a big motivator to follow their wishes, but then why does the army follow the leader? Same thing: security, order, direction, accomplishment of wishes, etc.

We all make tradeoffs to live in a society. The loss of most freedoms isn't actually a huge impact to your ability to live your life; even in a highly repressive society, you can still eat, sleep, socialize, which is all most animals need. The idea that your society might be secretly abusing its citizens is troubling, but it's not as bad as, say, a food shortage, or waves of crime. So on the whole, mass surveillance is a minor inconvenience, and not something worth flooding to the polls (or storming the gates).
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By hiring women he's reducing the supply of women in the market which presumably raises their value, but I do agree the more progressive approach would be to hire women for the value he would be willing to pay men
I attended a well regarded Engineering school back in the mid '90s and people were getting developer and "IT" jobs really quickly and without much interview rigamarole. If you could build a computer and install Windows you'd probably get an IT job (not a great one, but the pay was decent). Able to configure an office NAT? You must be a networking genius. Pure software developer jobs were harder to get than IT jobs, but not that much harder. It was also easier for people with Engineering Degrees (e.g. Electrical Engineering) to get an actual decent paying engineering job as opposed to software becoming a landing place for all degrees engineering.

That being said, a lot of stuff that is trivial today was a complete mess. Ever spent days debugging why all the new computers are crashing and it turned out to be the driver for your network card conflicting with another card the IT department installed? Jobs in software and IT could be a total mess because of all the different things technical people were doing.

I worked for a small company with a CEO who had done well for themselves running a small non-tech company and they decided to invest their money in a .com/internet venture. It was almost a textbook example of a CEO who thought there was money just waiting on the internet and all you had to was build something. No strategy around how to make money, users, or much of anything. The company was circling the drain even before the product was released and I was too young and stupid to quit the day the paychecks started bouncing. I don't think that's very different than many startups today.

Another friend worked for a bigger hardware company that was living on all the .com money floating around. He loved it. When everything went bust that company went bust as well. Another friend was a CEO of a company that was "Surviving on signed contracts where we signed a contract with another company and they signed a contract with us." You can imagine what happened when the bust occurred - all that paper money vanished.

I actually think software jobs are a lot better now. There's a lot more definitions and better discipline about what a developer does. The tooling is certainly better. I think there's also more respect and awareness about software development from others. Plus, I can move my big monitor now and not end up with a back injury :)
Yes, I'm quite sure people who have spent their whole life obsessing over every single cent, and whose core motivation is "getting more money to keep score" are going to just decide to start paying their workers more one day. Keep wishing! I'm sure we'll see wages just start to rise everywhere because of the power of your wishing.
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So... what term put option would be best?
work is work, whether or not it gets used. arguably this is, though
Hackers can fake radio signals to 'hijack' aircraft landing systems
The car only needs to emergency stop if the "self-driving" has a sudden disengage feature which relies on transferring control to a human in miliseconds. If it's actually "self-driving" and can handle uncertainty in a more reasonable way it's not so much a problem.
p.s we're hiring -> costarastrology.com/jobs ;)
There's _a lot_ of details left out, was that intentional?

What types of food? Is it the same thing everyday? Do you have vegetarian options? How many meals do I get for this price? What if I'm away on holidays for a week, do I pay a discounted rate?

People already pay >$49 a month buying lunch, if you're trying to find out if people would pay that much monthly for lunch services - yes of course they would. Your offering has to be better than whatever they're currently eating however.
Another way to learn about all this stuff from the experts themselves is Racket School: https://school.racket-lang.org/
Most DG are out in more ruralish areas where there's simply less choice, and/or the cost of exercising that choice is more pronounced. Drive an extra 15-20 min to save 30c on milk? Probably not worth it to many folks (cost of gas is more, might make you late for work, etc).

Had a lot of discussions with the former manager of our local DG, and... while not 'eye-opening', it was interesting to hear the pressure she was under. $x/week budget to schedule all the staff, targets to be hit (dollar targets, merchandising display targets, etc). It's "retail", but the numbers she had to play with were pretty low given the volume, imo. FWICT, she wasn't on more than perhaps the equivalent of around $13/hr, although I do think there were small performance bonuses thrown in. But, I think she was 'salaried', so lots of 50-60 hour weeks for probably not much more than ~$35k?

This is a somewhat ruralish area, and this was also... 4 years ago? She's moved on since then, and we lost touch so I don't know if things have changed much with the newer managers or not.

FWIW, she did keep that store ticking over. She was a bit bristly at times with other staff, but ... there was a pretty noticeable decline in staff behaviour, sheving, cleanliness and overall experience at the store within a couple weeks of her leaving, and it's never quite recovered. I'm guessing had they paid her an extra $100/week she'd have stayed and continued going above and beyond, but... .hey... profits...
Was there a reason why the runnable code example (plus a link to more examples "Rust by Example") that was front & center of the old homepage was removed?

I found it difficult to find any code examples on the new site.
It reads like the speed limit isn't due to the system but due to the permit they got from the government. Another article says the truck has a top speed of 85 km/h
> Telling an officer to "fuck off" or "piss off" is not a crime.

This is largely true but

> It's not an offense to be rude

is rightly or wrongly a very broad grey area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_5_Public_Order_Act_198...
Quicken at least claims to store the credentials locally and encrypted. How well it does this I don't know of course, but I consider it infinitely better than any online service, which is why I still use it despite the fact that it manages the impressive feat of being so slow that a web-based service would probably be faster in terms of UI performance.
Grocery Outlet will on occasion have significant deals on things like gluten-free ingredients, things that might not exist at Safeway, but do at Whole Foods (at significantly higher prices). This is an interesting wrinkle: a lot of budget stores just completely avoid products that might appeal to the "luxury" WF customer. But, I've seen trust start to develop with a broad demographic. People using social media to tell each other when GO has some of these expensive products.

I've not seen this broad of a demographic reach with other budget stores. GO seems to be purely about "buying cheap, sell at a margin", no matter what it is.
He was eventually caught after he coerced the NYTs into publishing his manifesto and his brother recognized the arguments contained within it.

Not quite stylometric analysis, but I think that's an interesting angle of the story.
They are natural monopolies. It’s no accident that each vertical has only a single viable option. Network effects result in Facebook remaining dominant in the “connect to the people in your life” market for the same reason that they result in eBay remaining dominant in the collectibles market.
>disgust and contempt and despise

Word of the day: "despisal", noun form of "despise".
You have the definition that shalmanese mentioned, which is one potential org structure that might be what the Chief Growth Officer is in charge of.

I've also seen it used as a a C-level title for head of sales (along with Chief Revenue Officer). In the cases where I've seen the role be a head of sales, it usually indicated that the sales org took a very active role in dictating the rest of the companies priorities.

It's sort of like data science teams - some data science teams are truly data science teams in the traditional sense of the word, doing advanced statistical and machine learning work. While other data science teams are just doing basic reporting but under a more politically valuable moniker.
Singapore is smart. Nobody can rely on a government on the other side of the planet with a history of war-mongering. For Singapore, their geographic proximity is more important than a fiat hegemony.
Instead of yelling at people who weren't involved with the decisions and are only providing context, maybe go write a calm series of bug tickets explaining your concern, or better offer to and follow up on helping with i8n support?
This was on BBC Click, which is on YouTube (for me, I'm in UK though). A good programme overall.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFyBpcbH9A

They give stats and details.

It may not be the same incident as the OP, but it sounds broadly similar and the programme fleshes out the general situation well.

Edit: Actually it is the same guy. The issue and provision of the fine, etc., it's on the show.
The underlying paper here: https://aanjhan.com/assets/ils_usenix2019.pdf
> The hayloft is of course a classic playground.

I can feel the itching already.
Also core to the main plot of "Sorry to Bother You".
I've done some research that introduced me to some of his more... acceptable writing.

http://homepages.rpi.edu/~bulloj/tjk/tjk1.html
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> Telling an officer to "fuck off" or "piss off" is not a crime. It's not an offense to be rude and you certainly shouldn't have to "Wind your neck in" in fear of a public servant.

Yes it is:
From the Public Order Act 1986 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64)

A person is guilty of an offence if, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, he—

(a)uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or

(b)displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting,

thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress.
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I just want to say thanks for bloaty. I've used it all the way from 100MB backend server programs, to deeply embedded, bare metal STM32F apps measured in KB.
Yeah, 2 hrs barely touch anything new in my current job, where we have a lot of boilerplater and in-house infrastructure built by the devprod team. Some companies either take those for granted or just deliberately make the bar extra high for arbitrary reasons.
Another report
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/16/moment-man-fined-90-hiding-fa...

It's a little bit like saying "If she doesn't want to be tossed into the water she must be a witch!"
You mean the mythical one Milton Friedman made up?
Or we set out onto a the goal to tame the moonworms by the year 2119
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