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> Nobody every gets fired for hiring Accenture/Deloitte/PwC. What usually happens in the non trivial niches is that these big shops sleeve the boutiques through them to get things done...

To provide a prospective as someone who works for a consulting firm like the ones you've mentioned... Hiring the "big" firms versus boutiques is a lot about a perception of risk, maintaining partnerships (procurement with new vendors is a nightmare everywhere), and leveraging experiences across other F500. For big implementations, think any ERP, our consulting teams can number 100+. Overkill? Probably, but there are few boutiques that have those kind of resources. And each of those 100 have more experience doing implementation work across a range of companies. It's a bit of a vicious cycle for boutiques where they will ultimately struggle to be competitive in these types of bids without seriously underpricing their services, which ends up meaning fewer resources or a less comprehensive scope.

As a side note, when projects go south, the company CIO isn't getting fired, but I've know many leaders (from the consulting side) getting let go for botching multi million dollar contracts.
The unit costs from Lyft’s S1 showed that bikes and cars were roughly equal revenue to Lyft on a per ride basis.
Well that tells me two things.

- if when you looked at the job req and it said we were looking for C#/Java/Python/JavaScript developers and you wrote it in Haskell, that’s one signal that you probably won’t produce solutions that meet the customer’s need.

- if we are hiring Haskell developers and I can’t understand the code that means you write unmaintainable, over architected code and that you would still be a net negative for the company.
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It's interesting because this is a real answer that will get you hired. It demonstrates knowledge of: the "correct" way to do it, basic asm awareness, programmer culture, and computer architecture. This probably checks off like 6 boxes for most technical interviewers in one answer.

Finally it implies it could have asked a better interview question ;)
My first reaction: this feels like it's adding a lot of noise and clutter to the interface, but also a lot of powerful collaboration tools. Personally, I've been using Dropbox to sync files between my devices, so this redesign is clearly not targeted toward me. But if it works, it might help Dropbox make inroads in the business/enterprise market that Box seems to be dominating so far.
Polar ice caps melting is hyperbole? Care to elaborate?
Does "no more permanent ice" means there is a period of the year where there is no ice at all at the poles? That seems hardly believable.

I was also under the impression that melting ice would push the level of the oceans by multiple meters. If 75-80% of ice has already melted, wouldn't we have seen significant elevation already?

Just some facts that I found surprising, coming from someone who doesn't know much on the topic. I'm well on board with global warming, but the facts presented here don't mesh with what I understood about it.
If you can't write fizzbuzz in a few minutes on a whiteboard, even in pseudocode, then you can't code.
I'm wholly in favor for the death penalty. I've heard all of the arguments. Some people just need to be dealt with with finality.

Having said this, I'm for the death penalty for the following crimes, if they are proven beyond a shadow of a doubt (video evidence, bodily fluid DNA match, plethora of independent witnesses):

- Forcible rape (either sex)
- Paedophilia
- Aggravated armed robbery (which is terrorism)
- Premeditated aggravated assault leading to injury (which is terrorism)
- Kidnapping at gun/knifepoint
- Intentional illicit drug sales to a minor child
- Sex slave trafficking (adults and minors)

* Please note that "terrorism" doesn't have to be political. Many states have laws against "terroristic threats" and "terrorism" (personal); sadly they are not often used.

I know almost everyone here will disagree, but let's be honest here. Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand and many other countries have these laws, and while I disagree with them on many points, they deal harshly and swiftly with the dregs of society.

My British uncle has personally witnessed several hangings in England before the death penalty was rescinded. As a senior police officer at the time, he made it a point to witness the hangings of those people whom he brought to justice who received the death penalty. Closure. Let's be honest: If I took months of my life to bring a child rapist/paedophile/killer to justice, I'd want to watch, too. People like that deserve it.

I disagree with lethal injection, firing squad, and gas chamber. They are too expensive and require too much oversight (chemists, European reluctance to sell drugs, doctors, etc.). Hanging is quick and cheap. The Singaporeans do it best.

The state has a right to execute heinous crimes. I think the Saudis have it right when the cut off hands for theft. Note, though, that theft of food, items to help one's family is not given that punishment. Car theft, bank theft, ID theft all warrant something like this in my mind. The West has, in my mind, grown soft. A serious crimes serial thief will continue to steal. A rapist will continue to rape. Paedophiles have the highest repeat rate. Why should I, a law-abiding tax payer have to pay for three hots and a cot for those who deserve the death penalty.

For those crimes warranting the death penalty, and for which there is ZERO doubt, the sentence should be carried out within 24 hours. No family visitation, no last words, nothing. If you are a terrorist, rapist, murderer, sex trafficker, drug dealer, or paedophile, you should receive zero consideration once convicted.

Considering the seriousness of ending someone's life, these cases would need to be 100% airtight. Video evidence, plethora or independent witnesses, DNA evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt. If these things are in place, and they are verified by say three agencies: police, FBI, independent lab, then go ahead.
> transition from Fennec to Fenix won't happen until feature parity

Thank you for the reply. It's really good news to hear that full extension capabilities will continue to be supported!

I was worried by the very comment you linked, as "users will get the experience they expect" sounds carefully crafted to not say anything at all.
It depends on what we would get for doing so, honestly. I don't have a good answer. My thought offhand would be...

1. How many lives are we willing to end to save one life? 1:10? 1:100? 1:1,000,000?
1.1. Does it depend on the lives (if they are kept in jail and kill other inmates, is that better than if they get loose and kill non-inmates)?

2. What are the odds that one killer that is kept alive will kill more people?

3. Etc.

There's a lot of questions to be answers, and some of them are opinion not math. However, I don't believe the correct answer is that it is never ok to end the life of another person.
Anderson, the "Godfather of climate change science' advocates aerosol geo engineering experimentation https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pgaq57/harvard-calls-for-...
In most parts of the world you are entitled to privacy even if you are outside, and you can demand photos/videos taken of you without your consent to be deleted.

Plus, just because I have a website, that doesn't make it's content open domain, for some business to copy all it's contents and publish them without my knowledge.
HK is part of China. How do you send someone from China to China.
If you think you are too good to go through the interview process, that also sends a signal. That you are probably going to be a cowboy if we hired you and not follow processes.
This is basically the perfect answer to that question.
That is a danger, although I personally haven't experienced it yet. Actually, we tend to have the opposite problem, that too few people are willing to take on the responsibilities of a leadership role. We have more potentially good leaders declining to take the role out of lack of self-confidence than we have bad leaders trying to take it.
Fit to Fat and Back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7g7AqGqzo
They just execute the spies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
> Backblaze's system architecture is fairly failure tolerant, so they use a huge number of "consumer" grade drives that would cause enterprise people to run away screaming.

I think what would "cause enterprise people to run away screaming" is that your data is stored by them in only one data center, and they don't offer a S3 compatible API (although someone may have addressed the latter).

Backblaze however correctly notes that if you really want redundancy, you get that from using two or more vendors.

Tape is physically a lot more robust than hard drives, the single endurance advantage the latter have is better tolerance of environmental extremes, heat and humidity.
Just because login isn't required, dosen't mean its not recorded.
Which country is it? With 6 pages one needs to be a phd with 20 years of experience and plenty to show, otherwise 1-2 pages max.
> A static ecosystem didn't exist without us and it certainly doesn't exist with us.

It is possible that our species is creating a static ecosystem - one without biodiversity and blandly homogenous in its design to sustain our current way of life, with no room for "inefficiencies" (i.e. everything else on the planet that competes for resources).
It's not clear to me if you've forgotten to provide evidence for the “No, we don’t”, or if you are making the argument that the assertion that the characterization of the danger as so imminent makes people less likely to believe and therefore the characterization is false.
I have a few qualms with this app...
Haha! :) Actually, as long as one peer is connected 24/7, everyone will see everything. Which seems reasonable.
He'll prob be promoted for his hype game
Pretty sure that heart attacks are 'common' amongst pretty much everyone, except possibly a few non-western sub-poverty people who never get old enough to worry about heart attacks.
So you are only willing to employ desperate people that allow you to literally walk over them in the interview? Like there is no other suitable exercise to give them, just the absolutely worst one to make them depressed?

Next time you need a lawyer (I am sure you will), ask them which new laws were enacted in the UK in the year 1648 and if they couldn't answer, don't hire them!
On burnout, and getting past it
I believe you. It's just that assuming they made it through the whole process, showed up, and couldn't do the work, I think the thing to do is just sit down and say "this isn't working", part ways, and on to the next one.
The problem is they have both: lack of interest towards IPFS and $300 million weight to keep control over IPFS development. So doing all the necessary work to give up control and encourage quality independent implementations is out of the question.
This website has a major flaw. When I click the buy button it says not available in your country. I was thinking about getting this for my nephew who lives in the USA while I live in Australia.
I know I'm obviously a small percentage that is outside USA that could buy and get it delivered to a local address but it still seems crazy not to even allow that.

I know I could vpn it but I don't think that should be necessary.
> There death penalty isn't about deterrent

This ^. I don't want to end someone's life because they did something bad. I want to end it because it's too much of a cose to keep them alive. Most importantly, the risk they will do something horrible again. If a given person has shown themself (grammar?) to be a severe risk to society, then ending that person may be the right solution.
At least the interface is still the same colors, instead of the gross palette of the blog and their rebrand.
And timing! With humans only being 150,000 to 200,000 years old, and really only intelligently processing input from the stars for less than a century, we're basically talking about two people trying to wave at each other from airplanes that aren't even flying over the same country.
> Rural building are now much more Western (with huts having rooms are not possible, you sort of can have "graphs" though).

Are you referring to the fractal structures found in many traditional African building plans?

https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals

https://homepages.rpi.edu/~eglash/eglash.dir/afractal/afract...
> "People at this point haven't come to grips with the irreversibility of this sea-level rise problem," Anderson said, displaying a map that shows the site of Harvard's new $10 billion Allston campus inundated after 3 meters of sea-level rise.

The Harvard scientist wants to save his new research center from climate change.

Also, submission should say "Five", instead of "Four".
Do you not have to go through the same interviews for contract work, assuming you are programming?
That's fair, but just using the time-frames in the article, 6 months had passed before the VP got caught and still had 3 years left on the implementation. I think a director of technology who take 3.5+ years to do a CRM implementation at a 100-person company... isn't doing a very good job. :-)
I see these new integrations and all I can think about is the privacy implications.
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There is a lot of tutorials only to clean install macos and linux. I already have an existing ubuntu setup from a year ago. I prefer not to format my laptop if I don't need to. Is there any tutorial on install macos on an EXISTING linux system?

Are the steps simply:
1. Install clover
2. Partition
3. Install macos (usb boot)

Note: I have a XPS 9550 and Intel 9260 wifi
And you don't seem to have a clue how businesses work. I do not live in the Silicon Valley bubble, I don't even live in the US, but am self-employed.

Whatever I buy for my professional use, price only has to be justifiable from a business perspective over the period of the planned depreciation. I replace my Macbook Pro every 3 years and I pick the maxed out 13" model because for my use-case - that's the most convenient form-factor. 4k for that laptop is not an issue, but even if that would be considerably more, I doubt I'd think twice about it.

If the Mac Pro would be something that I could use in my line of work and improve my comfort and workflow, so there's no value for me there, but if there was, I would not hesitate at all. Certainly if there's also the commercial added business value of being able to work on and deliver 4k and 8k HDR footage and considering the negative impact of not being able to deliver that. 8k is probably debatable, 4k HDR these days would be an absolute must I imagine? Any rig able to handle that will require an investment, as long as that investment can pay itself off - it won't be a problem.

Now if you are in some profession and need these tools but can't afford them - then business-wise, you're not in a healthy situation.
The service is valuable since it reduces travel times for those using public transit and those going to place near their homes by replacing walking.

Hence, as long as vandalism is not too much of a problem and thus the service can be provided cheaply, it should be profitable.

There is also a natural moat since once you are subscribed to the service with the most bikes you have an incentive to stick with it.
You didn't get it, linguistic gymnastics here is unnecessary. I could do the same in a language of your choice. But testing me with FizzBuzz without looking at my CV at all is putting you into "garbage employer" category and I wouldn't want to waste time with you. Did you get 5th grader questions on your university exams as well?
> This reeks of suburban provincialism.

This reeks of intelligence signaling, and isn't an argument.

> an urban context

Yes, in an urban context, where one lives close enough to work and other conveniences, and one happens to have a shower in their office building. Most people don't live that close to work and they don't want to constantly show up to work sweaty. Bicycling certainly does work for same people, but it's not practical or sustainable for most people.

What do you think is going to happen in a scenario where most people are bicycling everywhere? They'd potentially spend just as much time on the road as they would in car traffic, have to constantly dodge other bikes and vehicles, and city officials would make them pay for parking.

People don't want to experience riding a bike day in and day out. Cars are a bestseller for a reason. If riding a bicycle was as obvious as you think it is, more people would be doing it.

> On a macro level cars are fundamentally incompatible with density because there is literally not enough space in a city for everyone to store and drive their cars.

And yet most cities are able to make it work with cars.
The article is from January 2018, so if Dr. Anderson is correct we now have four years.
Hey HN! I'm excited to share this website with you all. It's very important to me (obviously), and anything you could do to share it with friends/family/whoever would really mean a lot. (If it doesn't pick up steam then it goes from being a romantic gesture to just being sad.)

Feedback and questions are more than welcome. <3
The body does indeed produce various psycedelics, albeait in very small quantity. The presence of thc and opoid receptors is no happy accident.
Sometimes I do have time constraints fixing a bug. In fact most of the time that constraint is imposed by me, because I have pride in my work. But at the same time I hope my manager understands that staring over my shoulder for 45 minutes doesn't help. Hopefully in my next interview I can get these ideas across respectfully.
“My unit is bleeding money for lack of a CRM solution so cheap I can finance it on my personal credit card. Help?!”

“Cool, we will get back to you two years after you’re out of a jo- I mean, we will have a solution ready in three years.”

Yes. Someone should be tendering their resignation.
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Linux does some things better.

If you want to use a non-mainstream programming language, chances are it won’t support windows.

Package managers are nice.

Using it on the desktop will help you become more familiar with the the server variants (applicable to both windows and Linux).
I don’t have to code under interview conditions on a daily basis, but I often have to architect under interview conditions. I’m an IC in a small company but I’m often in meetings where they give me high level business requirements and I’m expected to white board ideas about how to design a system that will meet those needs.

It doesn’t have to be perfect, I don’t have to be completely right, and after going and doing a proof of concept, I might be completely off base or realize there is something so didn’t think about. But I am expected to “pseudo-architect” on the fly.
You don't have to enable integrations.
Ok, good point. I've changed the word 'obsolescence' to 'lifespan'. I think I was trying to convey something similar what you're saying: that these protocols are old and don't seem to hold as much promise as they used to.
> It's really a textbook example of content marketing

It's a textbook example of excellent content marketing. Not many services can do it like Backblaze, because not many services have something this interesting to write about.
You can change the country at the top right corner. At least this worked for me to get a price tag and the option to order.
There's a great 80-minute documentary about Theremin – I heartily recommend it. The highlight is a very trippy interview with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys -- the interview really has to be seen to be believed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_0WmqnC6eA

Looks like the documentary is no longer on Netflix, but it is on Amazon Prime streaming. Rotten Tomatoes for the movie:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/theremin_an_electronic_odys...
Bittorrent has succeeded in that it's now widely used by publisher to distribute their content.

As a piracy/anti-censorship tools it overwhelmingly relies on the generosity of a handful of power seeders... which could theoretically be taken down though with some effort.

Also to thank is the laxism of the Russian government (and maybe others) in fighting these seeding hubs.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but the desktop app is basically an electron app by using QTWebengine (Chromium embedded).
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Cubicles
The blog looks like one giant acid trip.
Starshade would take formation flying to extremes
Heads up, downloads 20MB and might take a long time to load (for some reason it took over a minute on my laptop)
American Samoa is part of the USA, yet they are not citizens. So there are always more details than just "part of" or not.
They haven't released 1.0 yet though which is probably why it hasn't been advertised more openly. Hope it happens soon so we don't have to install pre-releases to run new versions of Altair anymore (edit: Altair + Jupyter Lab is an excellent combination though so it's worth the extra steps).
If this (finishing a program missing only a few lines of code) were all most coding interviews were, I don't think there'd be anywhere near as many complaints about them. That's very similar to what you'd actually be doing on the job.

It's coming up with what you took in your data structures/algorithms class a decade ago on the spot and write full functions about them, especially on a whiteboard, that gets really annoying, and makes programmers feel like they have to refresh their knowledge of an entire class (plus a bunch of other trivia from across CS) every time they want to find a new job.
Me and my wife ended both ended our Dropbox Plus subscriptions last weekend (after being paying users for five years or so). As a side-effect, my mom also cancelled her subscription (since she was using it to share photos with us).

The primary reasons:

- Constant nagging in the user interface to upgrade to Dropbox Pro or Dropbox Business. Don't want it, don't need it.

- Accumulation of a lot of UI clutter over the years. When you used to log in, you just your files. Now you get suggestions, unread comments, or whatever.

- Dropping support for file systems outside ext4. One of my machines uses Linux on ZFS, now I need to LD_PRELOAD shims to make Dropbox work. No, I am not switching back to ext4 for you, Dropbox.

- The camel that broke the straw's back: raising the prices from 10 to 12 Euro per month. It is not like we can't afford it. But storage and bandwidth gets cheaper, but Dropbox gets more expensive. We do not need the new features: why would I need 2TB if I am only using 200-300GB of space? And no, I don't want Smart Sync, which puts itself in ring-0 through a kernel module.

If Dropbox had just stuck to its nice, clean, and simple interface, focusing on syncing across machines with various OSes or file systems, we would still be happy, paying users. They wouldn't have to add anything (though the File Requests feature was nice). Just don't bother me with nonsense and let me do my work and share with family + friends.