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The problem with this approach is that interview nerves don't just stop you from writing complicated algorithms, they often cause people to forget or stutter over trivial/simplistic stuff like syntax or popular APIs.

For example, recently I did a simple algorithmic coding test in JavaScript. The overall logic I wrote was completely correct, but there were two issues: (1) I accidentally missed a function call (which I caught later on after re-reading the code), and (2) I completely forgot about the API `Array#slice(start, end)` so had to recreate it using a loop.

When I'm doing this kind of test, often I get very dizzy and can't think straight. Once I wrote the correct code, but couldn't read the output that was printed. The interviewer remarked that the code was correct, and that's how I knew I'd not made a mistake. That is ridiculous: I was capable of writing the logic, but lost the ability to read.
The only other thing which makes me feel this way, is public speaking.

I have a decade of experience, and can generally solve the problem. It's demoralising that despite years of experience, I forget the most trivial APIs/syntax. I've literally done this every day for years of my life. I have no idea how I'm meant to prepare for this, because I've clearly practiced enough, and I am losing fundamental cognitive abilities.

In general, I am much better if: nobody is watching me while I do the test, and I have enough time for my most intense nerves to pass. Or if it is a take-home coding test.

I know sometimes people wish to argue that "you should be able to code under pressure', but I was able to meet crazy deadlines at startups by working fast. There's something different about having only 30 minutes, and somebody watching you screen, judging your every move.
In Bulgaria, the several big TV networks average 20 or even 25 minutes of ads an hour, and that has been going on for a decade at least.

It's an insanity. They don't even attempt to make their programs more appealing in order to ensure bigger advertisement exposure. They just stuff everything with ads and apparently the advertisers are desperate -- or stupid -- enough to eat the deal every time.

There is real value in some the ads. Useful household items or cleaning agents or personal hygiene products are changing periodically and it is good to be somewhat informed.

But they take it too far. Furthermore, most grocery store clerks will be very happy to recommend you good products because they don't make money through affiliation; the have fixed wages. So you can not watch TV like I do and still mostly never miss out on anything.

This became too long but I guess my overall point was that the TV networks seem to try and milk one last cow before dying as opposed to investing their current profits in better products outside TV. They are accelerating their own end, they know it but attempt to squeeze as much money as possible regardless. It's ugly.
Yep. It is Pascal though. That's why I mentioned it
Maybe I'm just missing the point of his article then. The way I read this though is "hey there are lots of devs out there who never post on social media or write blog posts. That's because they don't care about technology or being on the cutting edge, they just do their jobs and go home." If we disagree on that point, fair enough, I might be projecting some of my own angst here.
> Pretty mind-blowing that today it can do that in < 1 second.

Today they probably use common pairs of words as well for their lists, so they have only 3-4 intersections of smaller lists in this case.
Control of territory. Al Queda and/or their associates were effectively a government, while /pol/ can only wish for that sort of power.

(Related to that is the matter of geographic distribution. One of these guys could be your next door neighbor, and the US Military is not allowed to drop bombs in American neighborhoods. That's in the Constitution.)
How to Reduce Shootings (2017)
Globally you only get ~100 strikes per second, which means any location is going to be much lower than that.
As much as Sinn Fein protest against Brexit isn’t the reality that it provides the best opportunity for reunification in the near future?
Does the language support macros? If not, it’s totally worthless. Python is a pretty bad language for even casual FP, and a S-exp syntax layer isn’t going to help.
Which CRS report are you referring to? I’m assuming not the one which recognizes that as a modern development:

“Before the Supreme Court’s 2008 opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, the right generally had been understood by federal courts to be intertwined with military or militia use.”

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44618.pdf
You’re trying to argue that just because the music happens to be there that it has no relevance to the fact he makes money or not. I get that.

Fair use applies for cases like holiday videos shared between family & friends (not the case here), and incidentals.

You’re trying to argue that this is incidental. And I see what you’re trying to get at. But unfortunately the definitions of what constitutes news and/or educational programming are usually pretty clear cut. And this does not fall into either of those criteria. And they are the only things protected under incidental usage. There’s a comment somewhere in the thread that details a specific definition of educational content. The author of that comment agrees it would not fall under that category.

Once you remove fair use, it becomes completely black and white.

He made money from the video. The video contains music. Rights holders must be paid.

That’s it. That’s the copyright law viewpoint once you eliminate fair use.

> I don't know why you've argued this. Of course he could have removed the audio, but what does that have to do with fair use?

We wouldn’t be having this discussion about his specific video if he’d taken action to remedy the problem before it became a problem.

If I were a lawyer for a rightsholder, I would make the argument that there were many options for him to avoid using my clients copyrighted material and he did none of them. He could have avoid this situation but chose not to.

What makes him so special? Why can’t he edit his video like every other media company?

Edit - this is why the incidental provision was created in the first place. News & educational content may not be able to edit out the audio without jeopardising the core of the content - e.g. a live news report where there’s cars driving by playing music in the background.
> We find significant evidence that mass killings involving firearms are incented by similar events in the immediate past.

This reminds me of the suicide study discussed in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point.

People seem to want to be famous, and recent events remind at-risk people that committing a mass killing is a quick way to be noticed. This is part of your #2, but I think it can be improved without abuse.

I think that if we can drastically reduce the reward for committing these acts, they'll decrease. I don't know the proper solution here, and I'm definitely not suggesting 1st amendment restrictions, but perhaps police can work with the media in a way that we can improve the reporting of these events to reduce copy cats without impacting the ability of police to investigate the crime.

That being said, we also need to determine whether any proposed cure is better than the disease. #1 and #2 enter a dangerous constitutional area, #3 has arguably caused more problems than it solved (helps organized crime), and #4 is a huge expense without proven results. The average person's risk of being involved in one of these events is vanishingly small, but you wouldn't think it from watching the news. Before jumping to solutions, we need to quantify the benefit and the cost in a way that the average person understands, and that is a very hard task.
That was actually point 4, if you were to read the post.
Maybe I've been looking at it wrong. Those books don't exist as you have to go through C# first unless you're just gifted maybe.

I've thought OCaml might be a good F# replacement as it has its own compiler and interpreter that doesn't need the CLR/JVM and F# was mostly based off of OCaml, but it's a little awkward to me on Windows and OCaml itself seems to be a little painful (more boilerplate than expected) for doing things like IO (which I do a lot of).
> but you will not see from these new eyes

No, what I am proposing is that if done carefully, gradually, strengthening the link over a timespan of several years, it would be possible to actually see from these new eyes. The mind would gradually expand into the other brain.
FlatBuffers are not self-describing.

FlatBuffers, Protobuf, Cap'n Proto, etc., all require an external schema configuration that you compile into a code chunk that you include into your program. Without this it is impossible to make sense of the data. In our case, the data is semi-structured and changes frequently. The prospect of maintaining a schema registry for all the data users and keeping everyone up to date and backwards compatible is enough of a burden that it was excluded.

Avro also uses schemas, but since the schema is embedded in the file it is self-describing so the reader does not need to do anything special to interpret the data. But Avro's C library is buggy and the python deserialization performance was terrible, so Avro was not selected.
Not sure about the US, especially today, but China does a lot[1] for fighting climate change and deforestation.

[1] https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/how-china-brought-it...
The exact problem is most people that have been in the industry for a while know these type of tests do not reflect the diversity of skills people have in the industry and the chances that the test questions are going to reflect stuff you do every day is marginal at best. In the end we know up front they are a waste of time.

Further they never, build these "test" platforms to reflect how we actually do development. I took one of these tests about a month ago just for shits and giggles and I hit the first questions and they where along the lines of what does this code do. My first reaction was, hmm I don't know where is my compiler and debugger that I can set breakpoints, because if I come upon code I have never seen that is literally the first thing I do, step thru it and break it down piece by piece so I can logically map it in my mind. Now granted they where small snippets of code, but the point is, that's not the way I analyze code, I never just look at code and map it out in my mind, I step thru it, add comments and build mentally digestible maps of code. Further just to make sure this test in no way reflects anything near reality the test is timed and counts down on you, no one has ever counted down on my while I am developing like a bomb is going to explode.

And that's the point none of these interview test comes close to reflecting how developers actually do development. probably the closest I came to one that did was for a contracting group who sent me a React project with a single bug, it was completely set up, you just fired it up, started stepping thru it and fixed the bug, you then checked it in, and resolved the ticket assigned to you. It took about 5 minutes, it was literally just a sniff test to see if you could run a project, find and fix a bug. It was the first one I have seen where I thought well that was a well designed test to just see if you pass the sniff test.
>, because it’s obvious when I just tapped ESC,

I learned vi (not vim) on old DEC and IBM AIX machines via Telnet (not local GUI). With those more primitive console emulators, the cursor change for different modes wasn't obvious.

>Or do all these people hitting ESC twice somehow have bad keyboards which don’t often transmit the ESC key signal?

The Esc-double-tap was a very common way to make sure you're not in text insert mode: https://www.google.com/search?q=vi+"press+esc+twice"+command

For whatever reason (e.g. possibly unawareness of timeoutlen delay causing Esc to behave in unexpected ways), many vi users end up redundantly pressing Esc twice.

>Hitting C once only clears the current result, but doesn’t clear the previous results.

I thought the newer calculators with dedicated "C" (clear) and "CE" (clear entry) didn't require pressing "C" multiple times. (I just tested this on a Texas Instruments desk calculator with dedicated C & CE buttons and it only requires pressing C once to clear out everything. (But I still press C multiple times out of habit.))
It's not intended to save gates but time. Bits are (were) serially encoded on the wire, so you could start switching sooner, before even having received the whole header.
The New York Times is filled with JCE’s looking to attach themselves to the click-bait that is “wacky Japan!”. The articles are generally drivel.
I'm not quite sure I understand the use of the word "Détente" in the title. Is this a détente between Uber and Lyft regarding ride pricing strategies? Or becoming less competitive towards each other?
> To me they are very hard to understand. You start by joking that you are a jew-hating nazi and then after a while you become an actual jew-hating nazi. How does that work psychologically?

It works not through jokes, but through otherwise rarely mentioned facts. For example, of the 7 chairs of the Federal Reserve since 1970, 5 were Jewish. The two gentiles collectively held the chair for 2 of those 49 years (1978-1979, and from 2018 onward) [1]. 35% of the Forbes 400 are Jewish [2]. "all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish." [3] 25% of Harvard students are Jewish (and 22% non-Jewish white) [4,5].

Jewish people are 2% of the US population, so they are over-represented in the listed groups by a factor of 10 or more (while non-Jewish whites are under-represented). Yet how often does the media talk about "Jewish privilege" compared to "white privilege"?

I hope this helped you understand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Federal_Reserve

[2] https://racehist.blogspot.com/2013/04/2012-forbes-400-by-eth...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-oe-stein...

[4] https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/The-most-heavily-Jewish-US-co...

[5] https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
What's the vertical axis? What's BA?
Headlines are marketing. They get people to buy the magazine or view the online adverts.

If you want strict accuracy without the sales element you need to go to a journal.
Right.

So, indeed, compare USA's violence score with:
* those of the countries where the USA have put their own violent influence to steer benefits back to them (Central & South America).
* or those where another white supremacist ideology has been prevalent and is being actively fought against (South Africa).

But, surely, don't compare with countries that would be good reference to compare against (aka, friends with which you ought to have shared some common history, like, Europe).
See above comment. With 2, you don't. With 3, you do.

But if there's a human in the loop and a manual alternate control pathway, detecting a disagreement allows you to cue the manual operator and transfer control to them. Or fall back to a much simpler system of computer aid.

With 1, hardware failures are extremely hard to detect at all, as even your computational checks for internal consistency are subject to mutation.
_ If not, it’s totally worthless._

Kind of a harsh assessment don't you think? Maybe some people enjoy working in Lisp-like languages while also enjoying Python's huge ecosystem of libraries. I doubt it's worthless for those folks.
> why is it so difficult for me to contemplate foregoing the relative wealth afforded to me by my currency, education, medical health and passport

Because deep down you know that's silly. Fundamentally, the world is a leveled playing field: Each person is born with a set of internal and external qualities and they do the best they can with the hand there were dealt. You don't feel the need to forgo your (let's say) above average intelligence/good-looks/grit/sanity caused by more or less normal family, etc. Your nationality is just another bullet point on your personal list. If anything, you have moral responsibility to make use of your perceived privileges better yourself and the world around you.
DNS error for me as well.
Yep that's pretty much the point I was trying to make. Though I tend to imap jk :)
What is your plan for C extensions? They are heavily used in Ruby and tend to create a tricky barrier to optimisation. The fact the standard library is mostly written in C doesn’t help either.
I don't know why I always feel compelled to post in these keyboard threads, but...

I've been using a Kinesis Advantage at both home and work for years. I love it, it only takes a week or 2 to get your typing speed back, and it doesn't completely ruin you for other keyboards.

I use the linear feel (LF) variant, though I do miss the tactile click feeling now and then.

https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/
https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2-lfq/
> Because then people will cheat and have a friend do the test for you.

Isn't this problem shared by all exams? How often do people successfully cheat on their university/college entrance exams?

And hell, can't you potentially do this with a technical interview? Nobody who interviewed you is actually going to see you again and I don't recall an ID check at any of my interviews.

> Other than that, there is teaching to the test. You can easily argue that's what happens now, and most systems suffer for it.

Exactly, we already have "cracking the coding interview" and similar tools. I think this approach would be better because the questions can always be prepared for a particular year's interview from scratch, so there's no chance they've been seen before.
>The idea that those countries could get along is hilarious.

One has to be pretty blinded by ones own hubris to think this is hilarious, in my opinion.

>Asia

Afghanistan, Iran, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia
The next sentence after the one you quoted: " Still, there had been ample debate in the lower federal courts and political discussion over whether the Second Amendment provides an individual right to keep and bear arms, versus a collective right belonging to the states to maintain militias."

It's also the meaning more clearly laid out in the 45+ states constitutions explicitly naming a personal right, since they modeled their Constitutions after the Federal one. The distinction between the two is a very modern dichotomy. And I listed the text of the CRS report above.

Wikipedia has a decent summary of US legal cases [1]. Note the Supremes ruled it was individual in 1939 according to this summary.

Here's a summary of state Constitutions [2]. Note how many explicitly give personal, mot militia, rights to bear arms. These are modeled after the meaning of the Federal Constitution as those states saw it when adopting their Constitutions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms_in...

[2] http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/beararms/statecon.htm
As a former rave dj, you are talking out of your ass. A record player, even a manual one, is plenty easy to use even while quite intoxicated. Marijuana specifically should not impair your record playing ability at all.
The code looks neat, and you clearly put a thought into the different limitations and edge cases.
Definitely something to learn from, Thank you for open sourcing!
Thank you so much!
Oh, is it? I actually over past couple of days, spent some time compressing them so that it loads faster. I might have to revert back. Or might add a video, if that helps?
I don't think this describes interactions of most people. Most people interactions are completely ignored.

Also, the story relies on somebody intentionally antagonizing people for reaction, but when antagonized people are hostile back the person doubles up because buddies on irc are more friendly. No shit, he is not purposefully antagonizing them. And hostilities or not, person spreads anti-semitic conspiracies making other people believe in anti-semitic conspiracies. But like, if Jews push back, it is their own fault, they should be more passive and let it be.

What you described by the begging is not someone clueless joking. It is literally someone cool with antagonizing Jews in the first place, but not antagonizing irc boys. So like, he gets to socialize with who he is not antagonizing.
Not comparable. That's a much longer flight.
We've got SWIFT, SEPA, CIPS, whatever Iran ends up using, whatever Russia may come up with (extended NSPK?), WorldRemit, ... It's not all great and unified yet.
You argue in bad faith because you pretend that "wishing" is not a subjective phenomenon. If you wish for ice cream, and your friend has a car accident on the way to the ice cream shop and kills someone, did you wish to kill someone?
Same. I'm just horribly bad at self-marketing and generally have zero interest in getting attention. I used to think that as long as I was doing good work people would notice, and sometimes if you're lucky that can happen, but there are lots of situations where you're doing yourself a major disservice if you're not selling yourself and your accomplishments. You just shouldn't depend on any one else to advocate for you.

That doesn't mean it's easy though. I still hate it and have to make a conscious effort to market myself.
It shows build status: build failing.
I would agree that it's political theater. A few of the shootings, the criminal didn't empty the magazine anyway. (I'm purposely not mentioning the shooters names or the incident.)
Others, the criminal simply carried extra "California legal" magazines or extra firearms.

Reloading time is negligible. There are many youtube videos showing this. It takes no time to switch to a different weapon.
That was the obvious meaning I took away. But the article didn't discuss that angle at all. So I'm not sure what the headline is trying to say.
Mentioned in the article how the French military has shown a fiscal backed interest for using this as an observation or assault platform.

Whilst platform is viable with gyro's or computer aided flying if you wish. How much kickback can it handle - could you actually fire a gun from this? But certainly does negate many of the aspect people have against armed drones as this is in effect a human drone.

But it is pretty neat, as many recall the facination with jetpacks and the dreams that we would all have them in the 60's/70's (along with flying cars), so this kinda ticks many box's of past dreams.

As for distance/flight time - kerosene is pretty dense energy wise, and I can't think of anything else that would be as flexible and offer greater energy density. But still, if you compare this to jetpacks - very impressive.

For me one use case for something like this may well be firefighting or certainly a way to escape a tall building that is on fire from your flat balcony.
Sartre wanted to remove the age of consent laws, so talk about dehumanisation and depravity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of...
In my humble, outsider (i.e.: non-US) opinion, when weapons get involved (on any side), things escalate. In other words, would something like the Kent University massacre have gone differently if protesters were armed (not considering the ideological weirdness of such a scenario)?

I see what's good in the argument that people should be able to respond to tyranny with force, but I'm wondering how often this could actually happen on such a big scale that it would matter instead of being crushed by the State in a matter of hours or days, at best.

And I furthermore wonder whether weapons being legal would matter much in such a situation.
If you think a big company is convoluted, try the government where the internal tools and services never seem to do what they were meant to do, or even worst, they are almost always down. Another example, support sends you an email to tell you that the email isn’t working. One wonders, how the heck government even does anything.