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I never had any technical interview prep when I started. I could code just fine. I demonstrated that at my other jobs and in school well enough. Then I started interviewing for SF positions that did these interviews.

I froze up. I couldn't talk and think at the same time. I didn't have the skillset for doing this in a very intense scenario. In my case, I was homeless and needed a job ASAP. Every interview felt like life or death to me.

First one I was asked to reverse a string in C. I hadn't done C in a few months. I froze up on syntax. I looked like an idiot who couldn't do it.

I could imagine many people who have never experienced this format (or haven't experienced it much) would easily freak out and look stupid as bricks like I did.

I've since done over 200 technical interviews (as the interviewee) and I usually sweep. Still fail at FAANG but I always get the solutions. (Even the leetcode hard ones) Just not sure why I fail but cest la vie.
What's wrong with forgetting passwords? After a period of trying to use diffent passwords on different sites, I recently gave up and just type in some gibberish pattern I can reproduce three times (maybe via the clipboard), and then use password reset next time I need to log in.

Is this desperately insecure?

It doesn't work for everything I guess - online banking, email, work MS password. But if it's only three nonshared passwords it's tolerable.
It didn't appear to fail in interesting ways though. If it failed in all the obvious, predictable ways that's not a valuable experiment
This is exactly what I was going to point out. Sending something that the buyer didn't ask for is fraud, and should be treated as such. That doesn't mean that all (or even most) such transactions are fraud.
I think there will be more demand once people realize there are other options. I saw a post on HN a few days about someone starting a small ISP in NYC. I suppose NYC market is saturated as it can get.

One interesting I ran across is how mountainous villages in Nepal has their Internet connections. I was in Annapurna trail last month, and in Manang village (which has about 20 guest houses), there is one big satellite connection and everyone shares from it. The owner charges the consumers a flat fee. From what I hear, and it could be exaggerated, they pay about $500 per year. I think a remote location, one uplink satellite, and a few wired subscribers can be a viable business!
Hi,

I feel you. I am from the South of India and we had greens everyday. Quick and easy.

1. have you considered partnering with farms? Especially indoor farms that focus on lettuce but can also grow Asian/Indian greens.

2. How do you think you will scale?

3. How did you arrive at that pricing?

If you would like to chat, my email is = handle at gmail.
The fizzbuzz test is not entirely about whether someone can do it. It's also about figuring out the style of the programmer. There's a surprising amount of flexibility to fizzbuzz; how is user input handled? Do they use a linter? How are variables managed/named? There's a lot going on, and it can be gamed just like anything else on both ends.

That said, the last time I had a fizzbuzz take-home test, it was infuriating -- my code is online.. what does fizzbuzz prove except to help make a company soc2 compliant?
I wonder if there’s a feature request to completely pause all Chrome/Chromium processes, when the browser windows are all in the background and low-power mode is on. I like to have lots of browser tabs and windows opened all the time, and in my experience with Chrome on Mac, the processes from these tabs eat most of the battery, if there’s any JS running in them...

For now, I just manually pause all processes with Chrome in their name, and then un-pause them once I need a browser...
There seem to be two versions of the paywall for this article - one you can click an x on and one you can't. Which version you get seems to depend on if you have Adblocking enabled when you visit the site.
> Man pages never have sat right with me; I would love to have a shell that can show me (intellisense?) the most common flags and options commands are run with.

Apple's A/UX (their Unix port for the Mac, before OS X) had a cool thing called Commando that did something like this. If you entered "..." in place of an argument to a command in the shell, it would invoke Commando to get the command arguments, and then replace the "..." with them.

Commando would bring up a dialog for the command that would list the various options and flags. There's a screenshot of the Commando dialog for ls here [1].

More complicated commands, like the C compiler, had tabbed dialogs with different tabs for things like language settings, optimization settings, debug settings, and so on.

[1] http://toastytech.com/guis/aux3.html
it’s probably not wise to build your own backhaul if you’re not in that business. don’t know the particulars of course but most likely DIY is not the way to go.

startyourownisp is not really about that.

now if you can do a microwave or other backhaul that’s great but it still sounds like something you should be able to get someone to provide for you.
Shoutcast and/or other online radio services.
> nested for-loop problem

Ah, dynamic programming.
but that's solved, not by avoiding the automated, short term, machine aided certificate generation by Acme Bot and related tools, but by spreading them to other CAs.

And every time someone says, can't everyone just use LetsEncrypt, they mean, why haven't they automated it?
Yeah, and a heel surface area of 32.3 +/- 4.4 cm^2. There are shoes with heel surface area of sub 1cm^2.

I don't think the study invalidates parents claim, if anything it more it less supports it.
Elon “Nuke Mars” Tees
> But does more of the food in NZ ends up being imported ?

Depends on the product. Our manufacturing base has been gutted by laissez-faire capitalism (Mondelez and the Cadbury factory being a recent example https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103965900/popular-dunedin-a...), so most heavily processed foods are imported from Australia.

And 1 of the 2 supermarket chains (Progressive Enterprises) in our cosy duopoly will import other foods from Australia as suits them - but that's because they're an Australian firm and offload excess stock to the NZ market.

In terms of vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy products etc., they're only imported when there's a margin in doing so - for example, we used to have a lot of cheap pork from overseas countries that didn't have to adhere to the same animal welfare practises as local pork producers.
Does that include a flare gun?
Breakthrough prize criticized for rewarding 'failed ideas'
Yes, in fact, this is most common in video streaming formats. These types of streams are more commonly downloaded as opposed to uploaded where the server has to be careful not to exhaust too many resources parsing variable-length messages.
Transport costs drive up the price for non-producing buyers.

Also, producer reduce supply when they use their own product, which pushes prices up and reduces the difference in costs for the fuel (non-producers also drive up the price a when they buy, but that doesn’t help them).

I doubt either of those effects is particularly significant, but they aren’t nothing.
We must have gotten different versions. I’m on mobile and my paywall didn't have an X to close it. I have seen the thing you’re talking about on desktop though..
Ok, please explain why in the world businesses in Malaysia would buy garbage just to dump it? That doesn't make ecomonic sense.

In fact (prior to the ban at least) there was a huge industry in China recycling plastics. It's not pretty stuff, but let's not pretend people were buying plastics just to throw them out. Look up the story of We'nan County for example.

From what I've heard the buyers in China have just moved to other places like Malaysia to continue the same business. They are buying plastics to recycle them and make money off that. It's nasty stuff but it is economically motivated.
Most (all?) of the pension funds I described aren’t run by the national government in the US, they’re typically run at the state level - CalPERS, for example, in California. Teachers, police, firemen are employed at the local level. Given that Medicare for All is a proposed US policy, I think it’s reasonable to scope this discussion to US concerns.

Yes, the wealthy have some reasons to worry about it, but it’s silly to say that they’re the only ones with some reason to be concerned about it. Normal retirees on a fixed income and others trying to save for retirement, a house, whatever don’t want their savings completely debased either.

And citizens in general probably won’t like the effects if the USD loses its reserve currency status due to lax monetary policy.
Thanks for your thoughts. You're probably right about the pipe dream.

I agree that there isn't much commercial incentive, but I honestly don't see why major OS providers can't include some basic graphics primitives in the OS. I'm not talking about embedding the unreal engine or anything. It could be used for a lot more than primitive games btw.

I understand the desire to avoid more bloat. I can't believe Windows 10 requires the storage and RAM that it does.

The XML & JSON objects are pretty cool.

I'll check out Accord.NET framework too.
"Pretty good"? There is no hardware graphics acceleration. https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/plans-for-3d-acceleration/727... There is no Firefox or Chrome, no Wine, no Steam... And the total income of the project is less than one full-time software developer, so even getting one of these to work is unlikely to last.
I'm not sure of exactly why ordering the same dish with three different balances of nutrients is appealing. People usually eat different foods and get nutrients that way. I'm pretty sure forcing people to eat the same thing every day was ruled some form of cruelyy [0]. This seems very niche and very gimmicky. You're offering exactly one thing with very little variety; even those who say they could eat this every day will eventually get sick of it. I hope you add products; that is how you will grow.

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-peop...
Avast also tracks clickstream data and sells it to Jumpshot.
> Microsoft most major chromium impact is to move input handling off the main thread which has been empirically a massive success on Edge.

Is that why sometimes Edge queues up UI actions while pages are loading? Having stop and back and whatnot wait to be processed until whatever stuck thing gets unstuck isn't exactly what I had in mind.
>> The world’s governments might not coordinate to stop climate change.

> A bit frustrating to read coming from an American. Every government in the world is into it. Except America's.

Yeah, India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, they’re going to tell their citizens that they’re sorry but they’ll never have cars, meat on the table every day or an international vacation every two years. Their consumption must be held to 1950s US prosperity for climate change, where the middle class worried about the price of basic food stuffs.

There will be no political solutions to climate change, only technological ones. The clearest example is carbon taxes, they fail to pass or are repealed in Australia, Canada, Washington, France.

“We’re going to make you poorer, for the environment!”

is not a vote winner.
Drunk drivers are selfish scum, and Cray was taken from us by one such scum. I think he had another act in him, but he definitely didn't leave much of a video library of appearances. One of the great thrills I have is a picture of me standing in the center of a Cray 2 at LLNL. It was super fun to program that summer too. He was a hero.
What's the point of hypothesizing on things significantly less likely than someone winning the lottery (edit: while being hit by lightning, for good measure)? In fact "what would you do if you won the lottery" might actually give more interesting insight.
How do you manually pause a process on Mac?
> It is an entirely reasonable thing for a software engineer to ask from their users.

It's also a reasonable thing for a user of free software to modify the software and improve it by removing this kind of garbage.
I use The Great Suspender - it pauses your tabs after a defined timeout period.
Geoengineering can be practical and have positive return on investment. E.g. China restoring vast amounts of land in the Loess plateau has had positive economic benefits. The land is productive again, people got out of poverty, and it reduced silt pollution in the yellow river. Also, it captured enormous amounts of carbon, which was not even a primary goal for this project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess_Plateau

There are many examples of smaller and larger projects that capture carbon, restore land and deliver economic value one way or another. IMHO this is the way forward for geoengineering. Having a lot of oysters in the NY harbors sounds awesome. Clean water, natural defenses against storm, and you get nice oysters. And it probably doesn't take billions to do it. As soon as you are talking about investments and returns on investment, it's a lot easier to get buy in from citizens, companies, and governments.

Dumping sand on beaches is economically useless even if it does have the useful side effect of capturing a lot of CO2. That makes it more of a tax than an investment. That's always going to be a hard sell. Much easier if there's an economic upside.

I dismiss nuclear on economic grounds. It's already one of the most expensive forms of energy and in a market where energy cost is decreasing due to the dropping cost of renewable energy that's a problem. And there are other 'hidden' cost related to e.g. enforcing non proliferation treaties and securing facilities accordingly, or the pesky problem of transporting and storing nuclear waste. If somebody figures out an order of magnitude cost reduction it just might keep up with renewables for a while. But that's pretty much what is needed. Two orders to be on the safe side long term. This might happen but likely not in the near future.
Ask HN: Low code platform for building SaaS applications?
Is there any low code platform available to build SAAS applications. Low code players like outsystems, Mendix seems to concentrate on enterprise customers.
Being familiar with this, have you seen any info about how this would affect battery life?

The potential of using smartphones as massive sensor array for various purposes has always been a curiosity of mine, but most material I've read on the matter shows battery life to be a significant limiting factor.
How is it that ISPs are always such awful organisations? I understand that their user base isn’t particularly technical, but there’s no excuse for this sort of public stupidity.
Possibly from the makers of Tornado Guard? https://xkcd.com/937/
This is for profiles and not the chrome cache though, if I'm reading correctly.
JSON over HTTP can communicate its size with an HTTP header.
> a pregnant woman isn't suddenly going to die or get birth defects from standing next to someone was exposed to radiation

In real life the baby died four hours after birth from radiation-induced heart and liver defects: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Ignatenko

The man’s body absorbed radioactive materials that were slowly unleashed as he disintegrated.
You’re right, we should therefore make representation proportionate to each state’s population, fair trade.

(Obviously no consensus on a constitutional amendment but some states have passed laws that their electoral college votes must go towards the popular vote, which could get more widespread enough)
As a proof of concept trial it wasn't very expensive. Unrelated, but just for comparison it cost about a much as Uber lost every 2.5 hours in 2019Q2.

They built a Minimum Viable Product for a trial and found out that it wasn't actually viable and didn't provide the hoped for value. They probably also learned a lot with real world experience (that they wouldn't have been sure to have in a staged setup) and may come back with something different in the future.

Personally I'd be curious about the math on how much these panels pick up, whether some kind of contactless power transmission would be viable at highway speeds, and whether in 15-20 years we'll see interstates paved with these providing trickle power to fully automated electric trucks running as "road trains" across the country.
How would you knowingly transmit illegal activity if everything is encrypted?
At one time i was asked "why do frogs croak? I gave a series of answers like: to attract the opposite sex, gave some biological explanation of how they achieve that. But the stupid interviewer kept asking me why?

Needless to say after the interview ended i ran away from that deal.
Speaking of Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon" is a must read.
Good question, the Austrian 100 yr bond has doubled in price, mostly over the last month. I’ve never seen a bond trade for this high a price (200+). Unless Austria has low-key formalized their citizenship by investment program forcing rich passport traders to buy gov bonds then this just shows desperation for stability and the US can further capitalize on that with a new series.
That's the converse of my argument. I'm saying that things that don't fly at small scale, don't become good ideas at large scale. Constantly calling the credit card company and asking for a credit raise instead of paying the bill, printing more money to pay the bill, and encouraging not saving for a rainy day by keeping interest rates low are all things that are terrible ideas for the individual so why is it good for 100 individuals grouped together? Actually, the answer is obvious: statistics are easier to manipulate with groups.
> ... and if the spec is defined first both can be done in parallel.

You could simply write the complete interface down in Python/FastAPI without actual implementation and generate the OpenAPI spec from that interface. That way both teams could start soon.
What I find fascinating with MS's decision to use Chrome was their willingness to take the hit and learn a new code base from scratch (and not even their own moreover). Usually inertia wins at big companies but not in this case. Regardless of the final outcome I really am impressed by the engineering effort needed behind this decision.
I think OPs point is that if you have a disability and need more room than a standard seat gives, the airline will assist you and give you a different seat.

As a tall person (I'm only 6ft though) I have no idea what the seat is going to be like until I get onboard. Some aircraft (even on the same airline and route I've had differences) have plenty of room, others have my knees squished against hard plastic for three hours, forcing even my spine to not be straight. I try to get an emergency exit row or at least an isle seat, but that's not always possible. It also usually means I need to sit separate from my family (as kids can't go in emergency exit rows).

Plus airlines don't always know or advertise which seats have more leg room.

One of the European low cost airlines charges you extra for emergency exit row seats, but in one configuration I've been on only the outer seat has extra legroom.

A few years ago I was flying with some friends on a national airline, one of whom is taller and bigger than me. At the check in desk he was assigned emergency exit row 13. It turns out the aircraft didn't have a row 13, and the only spare seats were the smallest seats in the last row.

(Also I'm my experience busses/coaches are usually much worse than aircraft regarding leg room)
It seems that this law is a good idea executed with an unwarranted degree of severity. I've never in my life heard someone complain that shop signs are too big (it's the small ones that block the street that people hate). The advertising that should be banned is that which provides little value except to the advertisers, such as billboards.
Electronics manufacturing has been outsourced for a long time, but the prices still fall (and labor is not getting any cheaper in China). Both electronics and cars are designed in the US and many cars are made here. I'll give that clothing is mostly about outsourcing.

I can agree maybe broadly that there are social trends in the US that are contributing to people being unhappy, but I don't think lowering the minimum wage will put that particular cat back in that particular bag. And besides, is it really minimum wage workers, of all people, who are lazy and entitled? Most minimum wage jobs are not particularly pleasant and you just have to do the work and put up with it, and you aren't showered with free food, high salaries and other perks. Do other countries where entry-level workers have it better have more social problems?

I suppose maybe they are entitled compared to some third-world countries. What does that make a tech worker then? We complain about the free food not infrequently.

I think attempting to blanket punish people who are willing to work but don't have valuable skills in the global labor market, will only backfire politically, and probably deservedly so.
Wouldn't the solution just be to require signatures for deliveries, or pickup if the customer isn't home? That seems to be the go-to approach for high value packages, so I don't see why the carrier can't just pick up containers when dropping off product, or even just wait a minute while the customer empties the box.

The problem seems solvable and would tremendously help Amazon's image as a green company.
Regardless of meme-ish behavior over MS being incompetent on software, they're actually aces at it. If not the best entity in the world, they definitely know software. If anyone can pivot, manage a team to learn a codebase as large as Chromium at the drop of a hat, it's Microsoft. I only invest in index funds, but I'd place my bets on Microsoft over FANG, zero hesitation.
numerous degredation mechansims (it's not just one), from fogging of the transparent surface to cracking, glazing from dust and sand, hail impacts, broken circuits, etc.

Hasn't a lot of research been focused around ways to capture incident light and focus it down onto the actual cell surface? Iirc a lot of that has been things like surface coatings but is there really a requirement that's such a surface actually be in contact with the cell? Could there be something that was effectively a replaceable capture top surface possibly with an air gap above the actual photovoltaic cells?
I have a love/hate relationship with JSON schema. I hate the documentation, or significant lack thereof. But I do love how business rules about relationships between fields can be expressed in the schema - e.g., if typeId is 7, then the cost field must be populated.

With things like Avro or GPB you still need to validate that the relationship holds true separately.
Google Tests Infinite Scroll Search Results Interface Again
Who else thought it is about deep learning to operate on patients?
Most programming is not solving tricky puzzles, but grinding out code.