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> “what is a heretical view you have?”

This is a better question to ask oneself with an open mind that to pose to a job candidate.

No heretic is an island. The heretical idea stands in opposition to some convention or norm. Unless the interviewer is intimately familiar with the norm (and self-aware enough to know the difference between convention and heresy), s/he won't be capable of judging whether the response is indeed heretical.

When asked to oneself, the question forces exploration of the idea itself and the norms you believe you stand in opposition to. You might even need to ask around to gauge how heretical your view really is. Maybe you'll give a talk or write an essay - or just post a response in a discussion thread in HN.

However you explore the question, the answer might be surprising. At least I've been sometimes very surprised by ideas I thought were very odd not getting the reaction I thought they would.
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Pretending homeless people are transient and from elsewhere is a persistent myth used to dehumanize them. In a 2018 study, only 6% of homeless people reported being from out-of-state: https://theevergrey.com/seahomeless-coming-to-seattle-for-se...
Are you saying that a prototype that you'd estimate to take 3-4 days, your colleague would estimate it to take a year?
The new site from The Designer’s Republic is really cool:

https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/

Love the colors and use of simple animation - really stands out from the bland tech/startup sites we usually see.

Check out the Wipeout icons and typography :-)
When you don't or can’t own land you end up with favela-like developments. It’s okay as a sort of transition from homelessness to home ownership but you don’t want that to be the end stage for a city.
I think that question survives because most interviewers are too lazy to come up with original insightful questions. Leading a good interview is hard and most employees treat it as a chore instead of a skill.

I heard that question for the first time during an interview recently and the entire conversation felt hostile. It felt like the interviewer was doing everything possible to find fault with me, and had very little interest in discovering my strengths (there was a lot more to it than just that one question). It was enough to make me think I should work somewhere else, despite loving everything else about the company.
Hi there, I did the exact same thing as you (at Google Sydney), before eventually deciding that I must strike out into the wilderness.

In the few years since I left; I worked as a solutions architect managing a team, a team lead, a remote dev, and now in a startup. Front-end, back-end, flip-side, all the ends. So I've been deliberately trying different angles of my career to see what suits.

I'd describe this process as grueling, ("challenging" is too friendly). I honestly think I would have been happier staying at Google, farting around, and being social. I agree with a lot of the comments here. However it's a catch-22, because the me that exists now wouldn't choose to go back and overall I think this has been good for me – and not just because of the, er, _character building_ aspect of it.

If you stay at Google, make the most of it by progressing deliberately in your social life. If I'd've stayed, I could have comfortably raised some kids with my wife by now - but that's still on the todo list.

If you leave, just jump right in. I didn't study anything, I just picked it up as I went along. If you were able to follow Steve Yegge's advice and Get That Job At Google, then I'm sure you're a smart cookie and can fake it til you make it.

Basically I'm saying you can be happy either way. If you leave, know what you're getting yourself into. If you stay, don't waste this time but use it on yourself.
I picked this up for Switch out of nostalgia. Plays well on that platform. Well, the game does, I'm still terrible at it.
Imagine in the Stone Age where people discovered and used this
>every end user and mid-level admin handles
>security decisions they're frankly not
>qualified for.

It's better for the society to let them make their share of mistakes. In the longer term, everyone will be safer and, incidentially, more intelligent.
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Land is not an unlimited resource and therefore a public good. This is the same principle the FCC applies to the airwaves (obligated to say here - fuck Ajit Pai).

One obviously should be able to LEASE the land from the people if they intend to do something useful with it, but otherwise, you are just going to have the land accumulate in the hands of ultra-wealthy who just sit on it. It will appreciate in value since there will be fewer and fewer patches to buy, and then you have a bunch of kids from Succession acting like they own the world, since they happened to inherit it by purely winning the birth lottery.
digging into the clojure core implementation, it looks like this asymmetry originates with 'every?' versus 'some', which test predicates against collections, the former being boolean, and the later returning the first non-falsy element. again, this feels a little non-committal; it's true that the not-strictly-boolean behavior of the disjunctive forms is handier than the conjunctive ones, but the latter can still come in handy.
Sigh... you really don't understand how much preliminary knowledge and prerequisites it takes to "simply" issue that command. With this answer you demonstrate exactly the mindset why so much information is behind some obscure knowledge and pointlessly so. "I know it's there means others know it's there" sigh...

Not to mention that ~95% of the Earth's population doesn't speak English as the first language, how stuff is named in English is not obvious. Bad search engines, like what `man -k` has, are nearly unusable if you don't know the exact term. You'd laugh when people would recommend to you to look up words using a paper dictionary or write papers using paper encyclopedias but `man -k` is pretty much that.
Authenticated Dictionaries with Skip Lists and Commutative Hashing
Google of today sounds a lot like the IBM of the early 90s. There were many clock watchers who came in, read the newspapers and left for the day - with a long lunch break in-between. A big chunk of these people were kicked out by the crisis that hit IBM in 1994.
+1 for the acknowledgements.

The author has done quite a bit of work on computing with slime mold and other biological substrates.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Adamatzky%20A%5BAu...
which scott adams books? loserthink?
I find one's point of view on the matter is largely colored by one's experience.

For example, I personally love static types. In your example I would prefer modelling people as a list of structs, each one with a required "name" (string), an optional "nickname" (string option), and required boolean flags for mod and admin.

Why would I prefer it to be that way? Because a huge number of typos I might introduce in my project are caught before I even try to run something.

I've been bitten once too many times by a typo somewhere (like looking up the "nick" property instead of "nickname") and having the program raise an error after it's already ran for a while. I can't stand that.
Assume good faith, and try to get the point.

"That is a question that a junior developer would ask" is not on the same level as "that is idiotic".

If you're asking after "hot new tech" it's probably because you haven't been around long enough to see how tragically wasteful the "hot new tech" treadmill is. The "30 year" comment manages to communicate that very directly.
I've heard about this procedure, makes me chuckle every time (in case of volcanic ash encounter).

"Damage to the windshield may necessitate an autoland or landing with a sliding window open."
> Half the country and probably most of their social circle.

I doubt the latter part ("most of their social circle"). I believe many people have some very idiosyncratic (also political) opinions that are so far-off from mainstream that one only voiced them once in their social circle and got really strange reactions.

This (and this is the essence of the first part of your claim) does not imply that there don't exist many people in the country that do/might share this opinion - just (rather) not in your social circle.
Bu-cees is a Texas phenomenon - gas stations the size of a Costco, reasonable prices inside and out.
If you're going to do that, why not tax consumption instead? And do note, you can have a progressive consumption tax. It doesn't have to be a burden on the worst off.
I first played Another World (Out of this World) on the SNES. Even on SNES the game stood apart from the competition. Since then I’ve played it on many other platforms including PC and PS Vita. It never gets old.
> Therapy is the answer here. You have to un-brainwash yourself from the notion that your job is your life and figure out what really matters to you. Then focus on that, and use your job to fill the boring hours in between.

You’re going to spend more time at work than doing almost anything else during those years of your life where you work. Why not do something meaningful with those hours if you can? And if OP can get a job at Google they almost certainly can.
Land value tax isn't property tax. Despite my use of the word "expropriation", what George specifically suggested was that people would be able to own land, they just wouldn't benefit any from improvements in land value because of the land value tax. So you would have to improve property and do something with it to benefit from it.
I don't see the problem. There's still privacy benefits to be had by cutting Google out of your life 90% of the time, or even 75% or 50% of the time.

I've largely cut out Google, but still occassionally use YouTube, Maps (usually through a 3rd party), and very rarely search.

For me, StreetView and the huge library on YouTube are just too useful to completely give up, and, unfortunately, I don't know of any alternatives making headway in those areas.
For GR or any other online review site, my experience is that they are useful if you read the negative reviews. A one-star (or two-star or three-star) review which complains about things which I, on the other hand, like, is reliable.

The actual star rating is not reliable, on GR or anywhere else on the internet in my experience.
I second this as well. If you're really the type who's talented and motivated, then don't waste that talent and motivation on making someone else richer. Start your own thing. If you don't know how, then learn how. And if you're too afraid to do it, then spend your spare time on a hobby. Become a proficient pianist, learn to cook, run a marathon, anything other than making someone else richer.
The OP is mistaken (in my view) about Sabbath mode and its function. The common scenarios are a fridge or oven light that turns on when you open the door. In those cases, opening the door would be no different than flipping the switch to complete a circuit that turns on a light. So, sabbath mode disables that feature and allows you to open the door without turning on a light. Unscrewing the lightbulb or using tape to hold down the switch on the doorframe is the other way to do this.
Setting a timer during sabbath, for another time on sabbath would be the same thing as just turning it on directly.

As difficult as it may seem to many people, the "hacks" are grounded in sound but nuanced reasoning...the cases that make no sense logically are typically mistaken application...the talmud is literally rabbis disproving these ideas based on logic all the time.
Yes, but if the term is 0 then the main beneficiaries will also be the publishers, only then the creators will get nothing. At least with a copyright of some form they have chance to make a recompense rather than losing _all_ the financial value of their creations to the Capitalists.
> Tiberian phylosophy

How to pass the Kobayashi Maru test!

> Wikipedia: The objective of the test is not for the cadet to outfight or outplan the opponent but rather to force the cadet into a no-win situation and simply observe how he or she reacts.
Security. Because you don’t plan to stay abroad forever and your house will still be there for you when you come back, whether permanently or on holiday.
to be fair, it's just a landing page - not a life changing experience. I don't know that I share OPs enthusiasm, but I've definitely never liked or loved a landing page.
Docker + Kubernetes. Cutting edge: https://kustomize.io/
I use vim, so I can't comment directly, but lately people have complained about stability of the VS Golang plugin
I did, but I presumed that I should still change the key once it was exposed. IIRC it was a nonrandom long passphrase (the first letter of every word in a 20-30 word sentence, I think. I've since moved to memorizing random passphrases). I was able to remember that password when I needed to recover the data later.
I am going down this road atm. I just signed up for fastmail, but I don't see it on this list, does anyone have any comparisons with the others listed? My main concern was being able to use my own domain.
In a Georgist system, they would throw up their hands and immediately sell. But the developer isn't selling it because the land is appreciating...
I am a EE PHD with 8 years of work experience, looking to transition in to data science / visualization / machine learning related roles.

Worked at a semiconductor startup for 6 years before with full ownership for R&D of a product line.

If you are a startup looking for a part-time data scientist or ML engineer, I would love to talk to you. You will get an experienced engineer working nearly for free, and I will get real-world ML experience. It is a win-win.

Location: San Francisco

Full-time/Part-Time: Part-Time

Remote: OK, but SF Bay Area is preferred for more face to face interaction.

Technologies: Python, R, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Deep Learning

Work Samples: Please see resume.

Email: skirank@gmail.com

Resume:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EIsON6O8hktnLpiZDR6wDbgBgk...

Visa Status: US Citizen
Love this site. Very cool flow chart-ish illustrations.
Does this work? It's hilarious, but I'm not sure the reverse psychology is working on me...
The irregular naming of "some" vs "some?" has been the source of several tricky bugs for me in the past, and I suspect many other Clojurians would report this as well.
Not really. Some debates are based on different ways to interpret modern activities with ancient frameworks...but it still has to follow rational and defensible reasoning or sources... you may find a rabbi who says its ok to push a button on an electical oven on sabbath but you wont find one wh says you cannot do that, but you can set a timer on sabbath as long as it doesn't show on the display...
I'm surprised to see that Fastmail is not listed as a Gmail alternative. I've tried it, Protonmail, and Zoho as replacements. IMO, Fastmail has the simplest interface and best suite of tools. I had trouble setting up an alias with Protonmail. Fastmail provides very clear instructions for this right on the app. Zoho was cool in that it lets you use a custom alias for free, but it just felt too cluttered.

I also remember reading somewhere on HN that the creators of Protonmail have some dubious ties (and work in the same office) to a shady European data collection agency. Can't find the link atm.
If a book is almost never abandoned, that might only indicate that it is short, or really easy, neither of which are hard to tell from a few seconds inspection. This tells you something you might not otherwise know from a few seconds' inspection.
Have you considered simply finding things to work on that you'd actually find interesting? They don't have to be projects that are officially sanctioned. I'm doing mostly backend coding on a legacy app, but certain parts of the app and our infrastructure make that harder. So when I identify something I don't like, I've started chipping away at making it better: logging, deployment, testing, builds, etc. Surely something at Google is suboptimal. You can seek it out and make it better.
It's one of the metrics, but having kids and thus less time for hobby projects, the more profitable a side project, the more time I can dedicate to it (and reduce my freelance work). And thus I can use it more long-term.

With non-breaking tech, I can focus more on features and monetization instead of updates and debugging.

I still give some space for experimentation (re: frontend I'm interested in learning more about Mithril.js and Svelte), but I don't go all in and risk long-term profitability.
Clean your damn room :) Recommend reading Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life
US government website hacked with pro-Iranian messages, image of bloodied Trump
Dynamic Brain Games
Motivation comes from three things, provided you're in a creative role and money's not an issue: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. You need to be able to decide how to get the job done, you need to be able to get better and better at your job, and you need to understand why your job matters in the scope of something larger than yourself. Figure out which is missing, decide if you can find it, and if not, go somewhere that can give it to you.
A good example of this that comes to mind on a very small scale is a marketing slack community (TTT) that essentially took a loose network that already existed and gave them a home.
I'm sure Infinite Jest has a certain type of people to like it though, it isn't "missing a point", it's personal preference.
Georgism is an interesting approach to what could be handled by externality taxes in capitalism, but it seems like it would have challenges attaining accurate price discovery of naturally derived resources.

Regardless, I think the obvious flaws in our current system make a very big difference and should be addressed, rather than holding out for a utopian pipe dream.
App helped Colombia destroy 70k mosquito breeding sites and fight Zika (2019)
Surprised you didn't mention having Cordova/Mobile baked in... that seems to be the biggest selling point that you can have one code-base for mobile, web, pwa, electron, spa, etc.
I've been using Fastmail for several years now and love it.

I can't directly answer your question about a comparison, though. I know I looked at several alternatives before signing up, but I don't remember exactly why I chose it over the others.
I wish more people would map their understanding of the reproducibility crisis to things like say, the sokal squared hoax. The current pressure to publish regularly in academia is very high, and it results in poor work and journals that don't do their due diligence, in every field.
Reminder that we officially live in a post Python 2.x world. I think at this point the correct answer to the awkwardness of threads is to use async.
That sounds like a good kind of corruption to me :)
I doubt that it's 3% of users, I have user.js and also disabled telemetry. I would suspect there is not small amount of people who have both user.js and telemetry disabled same as me...
That's good to know. Thanks
My experience with Rollup was cool before I tried to import an image and use React hot reloading...
Roomba smeared entire floor with dog poop
I'm glad for anyone who refuses to use products of these megacorps, as those are the people that keep alternatives alive and that's a check on power of comapnies like Google or Microsoft.
Forescout Discovers Multiple Vulnerabilities in DTEN Conferencing Systems
Only the look and feel. Meanwhile the cross platform compatibility of XC appeals to me. I never had much luck running Keepass 2 with mono whereas XC takes care of all the cross platform woes
Zero config doesn’t mean non-configurable. You still configure other tools that Parcel runs like Babel, TypeScript, etc. It’s not like create-React-app where if you want to customize anything you cannot (without ejecting). I like to say Parcel has config inference from your actual code, rather than making you declare every minute detail up front. But when you need to change something you can. I wouldn’t call that “opinionated”.
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For all of these it's important to remember that the federal government doesn't have to charge taxes to anyone. It can just print more money to pay its bills, inflating the currency somewhat. All taxes therefore are social policy, without exception.

So, as a social policy... when Joe Plumber is considering going out on his own, how much advantage do you want to give Mega-Plumber-Co against him? Right now Mega-Plumber-Co gets the advantages of cheaper health insurance, no corporate tax, and can easily amortize the cost of certification/licensing taxes.

With regards to #4 specifically, consumption taxes are the most economically efficient. This is a social policy that encourages thrift, which is bad for mega-corps but good for the individual. If the regressive nature of consumption taxes concerns you, you can just partner them with a dividend check paid to all citizens.
2020: Year of the Autonomous Bench Presses
She has the legal right to do union organizing at work, but she doesn't have the right to subvert the company's tools to do it. The idea that misbehavior becomes okay once you say "well I was organizing a union" seems incredibly toxic to me, and fundamentally incompatible with the kinds of freedoms software developers generally enjoy. If Spiers gets her way, and Google is legally barred from expecting line staff to use their powers responsibly, that just means Google will start requiring manager approval for everything potentially disruptive.
yeah, the original comment's comparison seems disingenuous as it just lists various generic positive things and completely ignores any negatives. television would also seemingly fit the bill.

there are obvious downsides to plastics, google and TV. that excising it completely is extremely difficult if not impossible in the modern world does not diminish the positive effects of reducing consumption.
What’s the community stance on Linux certifications? Taken as a granted for people to take you seriously or not so much? Does HR generally require it where you’ve worked? Etc.

Asking for myself really. I’ve been around tech and Linux/*nix since 2.4 was the new shiny, but don’t have the RHCSA/CE. Have A+/S+, BS math.
I already have a team working for me and I don't understand why these people should exchange more time than necessary to make me financially independent.