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> Or maybe some people just don't do well in an interview setting that is inherently completely unlike a real day at any office?

I once had an interview where I sent in a solution to a small program they asked me to write (had to do with golfing).

During the interview they sat me down in front of a computer and asked me to re-implement a part of it, which I did so gladly.

I realized later that my re-implementation wasn't the same as my original implementation, but they both worked. It was more 6 of one, half dozen of the other, sort of thing.

But the thing is, during the rest of the interview I seriously got the impression they thought I was lying to them. I've often wondered if that difference in implementation was why.

But I'm of the opinion that technical people shouldn't really be too involved in the yes/no decision of the interview process. I've seen too many instances of people coming to conclusions that just didn't make sense. I once had feedback that they felt I would be anti-social because when asked about an open floor plan I told them as long as I had headphones it wouldn't be too much of an issue.

I remember one guy was convinced I was devops because I described a system I built and implemented that got deployed across datacenters around the world, and I explained how we did it. When it was done, he started asking me about unit tests, and I remember going to the whiteboard, pointing at a few of the circles and telling him "we had unit tests around this, and this, and this".

At the end I reiterated that I had a degree in CS & Math and had worked as a software developer for coming on 20 years. I did this because he kept making comments about devops. And yet, when it was done, the feedback is that they weren't looking for devops.

The worst part to me is that what I described was the system architecture and how we were able to do this successfully. I'm not even sure I spoke about deployment much at all.

I've had several wtf moments like this in my career, and it's caused me to be a lot more bullish on interviewers. Everyone who interviews seems to think they have some secret sauce that allows them some mythical insight into a person over an hour interview. And they're all wrong.

Business people are actually easier to deal with in my experience because they're willing to accept when there's a misunderstanding and you attempt to explain yourself more fully. Most technical people seem to judge you for it and ignore any attempt to follow up.

Anyway, this is long winded, but my point is that I agree with you 100%. I don't think most people who interview quite realize just how bad they are at it, nor how overly judgemental they are. I'm glad it worked out for the author of this article, but the indications he claimed to see (the lack of a linked in profile, for example) are not actually indications of anything. They got lucky, but they're going to take their sample of 1 and be overly judgemental with everyone in the future.
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i don't have a twitter either but i follow important people there. (it works on the web version at least).

john carmack for example often updates on his twitter. a couple of programmers & artists i like too. also the trends column is the most accurate "mood indicator" ever.
Does it make sense to move all the work to chat?
I've both read trials of 3rd parties and run campaigns where ads are a significant boost to the site already ranking #1 in organic results.

The price of AdWords has certainly gone up, but the value hasn't declined.
Luddites didn't rail against the immorality of technology, they were concerned with capitalists rapidly replacing skilled workers with unskilled workers and reducing wages across the board.

They were not anti-technology and they were typically highly trained workers capable of operating complex pieces of machinery.

It had nothing to do with a sense of 'technology morality' and everything to do with class warfare and standing up for the worker.
Those are completely orthogonal. If I want to know what my chances of survival are having had some horrific treatment I ask my doctor. If I want an opinion on whether the pain of the treatment justifies the upside then I'd be better asking someone experiencing it.

Going back to the original point, I said my opinion as a white-cis-straigh-male carry less weight than someone who is part of those groups. I certainly haven't studied the statistics and I haven't lived the experience. I'm not sure why so many people feel I should have more blind faith in my own opinion; I said nothing about the weight of their opinion.
I'm leaning that way myself.
Large and high quality is a strong word for Disney+. If you're not a parent or a fan of the Mandalorian it's pretty subpar compared to the variety of Netflix or Hulu.
Would you maintain that position if Netflix released a documentary vilifying vaccines and legitimizing the anti-vaxxer movement?

Countries are already seeing deaths related to the anti-vax movement[0], this kind of disinformation poses a legitimate threat to public health without calling for violence.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/28/samoa-measles-...
How will you measure your life - https://youtu.be/tvos4nORf_Y
> Same with cooking incredibly thick steaks in sous-vide - at some point you just start just eating rare meat.

You mean the opposite. If you were to grill at high heat, you would be mostly eating raw meat. With sous-vide, the temperature is the same throughout the entire piece of meat.
The point is that it's an extremely safe method of power generation, and what is cited as a key downside is in fact empirically a huge upside to nuclear. No one is demanding retrofit rooftop solar, wind, or gas turbines be shut down on safety grounds, even though they are considerably less safe.
Breeders and seawater would likely last even longer than that, as U in seawater is in a pseudo-equilibrium, constantly leaching from bedrock.
I feel like historically speaking as far as Ierland goes if they're not being abused we don't really hear about them... so really any event is bad.
>But if technology makes this concept obsolete, then we must adapt.

The point of the Third Amendment is that people do lie. Do you trust the King's soldiers to report on the coming and goings around your house truthfully?
Decipherment of Ancient Egyptian Scripts
Worked fine BUT still seeing "X liked" or "Y retweeted". Any suggestions to get rid of those would be awesome.
I loved Moo2 as a child and I played a lot of hours with a friend of mine back in the DOS days - was one of the only hotseat playable games back in the day (and Worms of course).

Later when I became a programmer I was also fascinated by the fact that there were several "community patches" - patches that enhanced gameplay (larger galaxy sizes etc.), added new artwork and such without the availability of the source code - people reverse engineered the game and wrote binary patches that would contribute a lot to overall gameplay. To this day I can't fully understand how they did it - i get the theory, but not what tools they used, and how they got the motivation to do machine level changes to the game. Overall, good memories.
> Now that everyone and their dog appears to be offering their own streaming service, we are right back to the "app store" days of competing on the basis of "total number of apps". Quantity over quality.

As a not young anymore childless expat adult with an interest in non-popular topics, I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily. While I'm surprised at the really bad quality (production but also just plain lies/propaganda) of some of the Prime content, I am happy that there's at least one streaming service were such content can be found because if that crappy content makes it to Prime it is a lot more likely that the non-popular stuff I really want is also there (at least, as compared to more heavily curated streaming services).

Of course, if your demographics more align with what is "popular" (and there's nothing wrong with that!) that may not matter and the negatives of having less filtering may be more of an issue. I will add that besides the weird/unpopular and low quality content, Prime tends to have a surprisingly good collection of (older) content, from Star Trek series to HBO shows (Sopranos, Tru Blood, Six Feet Under, etc), overall it's a pretty good service for the money and with the included 2 "days" (because lately it's more like 3 although sometimes it's next day) delivery it's unbeatable.
Frequency of service correlates with Freedom to do useful things with the service.

Lack of frequent service or worse gaps in service mean that someone might have to drive or even worse suffer lost opportunity if they cannot drive/pay for a ride of some sort.

Though I would prefer if transit had dedicated underground routes to insulate the noise and make service independent of the weather.
who are you referencing here?
Uninformed nonsense, SDL gives you the graphics context and you directly use native calls. It even supports Vulkan these days.
hmm, you're right 3" is hard. I find a number of relatively expensive 3.4" ones on aliexpress, but nothing 3". All sorts of cheap 1-2" ones.
Pulling these kinds of attacks - especially undetected - requires a certain level of intellect and education that should also be unaffected by things like substance abuse that hamper systematic planning. People with that level of capability almost always manage to create sufficiently comfortable life situations for themselves that they they lack motivation to do so.

Problems happen when either (1) technology to do harm becomes commoditized and freely available so less capable people can acquire and use (eg. Easy conversion of semi automatic to automatics, commoditized hacks for script kiddies) or (2) capable people feel they're been sufficiently wronged that they don't care about the consequences of revenge (pretty much all the really big headline terrorist actions)

Most intelligence activity on prevention focuses on (2) since pulling off such actions generally requires the capable planners to coordinate with less capable "feet on the ground" who can give things away. However capable people acting alone which happens occasionally is pretty much impossible to stop (Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kazynski, Kaloyev)
China has a good story for building a pressurized water reactor such as the AP1000 and the CAP1400.

The PWR is safer than the boiling water reactor that blew up its building in Fukushima. The AP1000 is safer still because it has a large water heatsink that can get the reactor through several days of station blackout -- that enables simplification of the reactor in ways that help with the cost.

It is the best option today, but it will not compete with natural gas in the US, because the steam turbine is vastly larger and more expensive than a gas turbine.

Ghana might not mind since the cost of uranium is low and won't mess up their budget the way petroleum would.
Efficient Go APIs with the Mid-Stack Inliner
This is sad. I've read and continue to read more of the writings of the old classic 'Philosophers', the reason I find their writing is because I like to imagine, when they wrote their ideas and indeed philosophies, people of the time might have imagined them as new age and progressive.

They were in a way, but by no means intentionally, just laying out ideas that people should think about.

When it comes to people like Clayton Christensen, I really do regard him in the same class. I was fortunate to have been introduced to him by another idol of mine, and straight away, it was clear, this is a person who really uses all the imagination that is possible, questions what the norms are, and at the same time will reign everything in to practicality.

After that I went and read : 'How will you measure your ife?'

I was young enough at the time, in my 20's and thought I had the world figured out. This book quickly corrected that.

I have met only a handful of people who know who this modern philosopher is, but everyone will agree: He has made an impact.

It's a life well spent. And I hope to find more like him.
R.I.P

"It's easier to hold your principles 100% of the time than 98% of the time"
Indeed! It's got to the point where I have to quote like 80% of the keywords in my query, just so that it doesn't throw them away. Because if I do not, I've had cases where it would throw away 2 out of 3 keywords for some results - and, as you say, it's usually the less generic ones that get thrown out.

Even worse, sometimes instead of striking them out, it substitutes them with "synonyms" that are anything but. For example, if you search for FreeBSD, you sometimes get results where "linux" is highlighted as a keyword. I'm pretty sure that this is some ML crap doing this, because the more obscure the term, the more likely it is to get it not just wrong, but hilariously wrong, even to the point of meaning the opposite.
I have some carbon fiber rope used by a space elevator startup I kickstarted, prototype devices in the development of the Kinect or 360 Camera (mounted in a Tupperware box with the camera poking through a carved out hole, no less), a Benham's Wheel and Euler's disk, and lots of Halo ephemera collected over the years (like an extremely rare Halo-3 branded gum handed out at PAX early in Bungie's life), a Dragon Illusion by James Dean, and Xbox 360 processor chip, a copy of and a lot of knick nacks with personal stories. :)

Then people started gifting me things like a cherished slide rules and the like. I love my wunderkammer!
You could, as per your example, use locking as part of a resolution/merge strategy to combine the results of two separate computations running on two separate threads. Or you could use some strategy that does not involve locking. Either way, it does not support the original claim I disputed that "Immutable structures still require locking".
Unless Laravel team trademarked the name and are ready to go to court to defend it, I don't see why.
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The most egregious example of this that I have seen was this tweet, just the other day https://twitter.com/BernieeSanderrs/status/12197474935308328...

I'm not following this account. Nobody I follow is, and nobody I followed interacted with this tweet in any way. Twitter's "reason" for showing it to me was "Bernie Sanders (Parody) received a reply", which is a bizarre justification for adding it to my feed.

For a moment I 100% thought this was a real tweet because I usually look at the user's handle rather than their display name. Anyway, this encounter has made me decide to take a break from Twitter this election season.
Open up and digital the oxford paper helped. Even though you might want to visit oxford as the article argued.
You know the answer to that question but it bears repeating:

Americans have a kneejerk aversion to any sort of taxes because they think they will never see the benefits. So these agencies are forced to fund themselves and/or look to the private sector for support.
Here's a link to the actual keynote if you want to watch it:

https://youtu.be/Yv4tI6939q0
A few weeks ago had a call from a saleswoman,after multiple failed attempts ( she called a few people in the company until finally someone transferred across) she managed to talk to me. I get a fair share of emails,calls and LinkedIn messages because of my title- everybody is trying to sell. So I thought 'screw this, let's see what she's got to say'. After her intro, and me asking a number of questions,I was still not sure what she was selling ( something in the cloud). Started with some storage solutions and ended with some security analytics. So it's not the CEOs of these companies, it's the sales reps as well. How can ever buy anything if I have no clue what it is.
The fantastic part about the collaboration game is that people who are into it are people who are around to get things done. You can all share that core tenant, and it can remind you of what is important along the road. I’ve found that drama really gets cut down or eliminated in these types of groups as well.
Bertrand Meyer talked a similar strategy. I believe he called them decisions and actions. There's a lot of requirements tied up in decisions.

With the exception of callbacks (and async solves that for single-issue scenarios), arguments don't need to be mocked. They're just arguments.
Also: high IQ people who are fanatical or interested only in propagandizing, not discourse.
Who the heck would want to be using a coronavirus as a biological weapon? Generally you want your bioweapons to have limited or zero human-to-human transmissibility - think anthrax or tularemia or y-pestis. And if you're evil and want to burn down the world you want something that's lethal to people who are conscription age, not just the young and old.

This[1] is what I'd expect a bioweapon accident to look like or maybe a multiply drug resistant outbreak of plague.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
Great news. But unfortunately, it is not the original data snapshot as the title says, it's Apache Parquet format. So this is useful for analytical tasks only.

For operational tasks, still, the only option (besides RDS cloning) for Postgres is pg_dump or pg_transport, losing physical layout.
I mean, that's sort of normal with neurological disorders though - a few have really clear symptoms that are blindly obvious to anyone from the outside. We, as humans, both can't see into other minds and can't let others see into our minds. If you analogy for ADHD is building a wall of awful[1] then normal people do place bricks in front of their actions, it just doesn't spiral in the same way as people with ADHD tend to do regularly - most of the bipolar people never act "inhuman" they just spend a lot of time at extreme emotional levels that most of us, thankfully, only visit occasionally... OCD (specifically, as a disorder) isn't liking things neat, it is harming yourself trying to keep things in a certain state - being late to a meeting because when you locked the car the click of the keys didn't sound like they should.

And everything is a spectrum, everything - nobody is immune to indecision fog, getting sidetracked, feeling helpless in front of a decision that feels bigger than it rationally is, etc... but those moments usually happen rarely, for some people it is a constant fight that actively lowers their quality of life.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo08uS904Rg
They cannot be "incompatible with each other," otherwise Nature would be "incompatible" with itself.
In my experience I’ve gotten the same effect just by showing up as female.
How is it that everyone involved in the trial isn’t held responsible for their actions in it?

If a prosecutor withholds evidence that can exonerate a defendant who is later convicted and executed, when that evidence comes to light the prosecutor must be charged with the murder of that defendant and put on trial.

Chain this all the way down to the beat cops and the technicians doing the lab experiments, and you suddenly have a system of incentives to keep the legal system squeaky-clean honest.

Yes, mistakes will happen, BUT THEY’RE ALREADY HAPPENING AND TAKING INNOCENT LIVES. Without “skin in the game”, the legal system is open for corruption, laziness and cut corners.
Not one of his criticisms is based on any experience of how they have affected his usage of SwiftUI in practice.
Yes. We are discussing googles advertising, and the strategic decisions it forces on companies operating within googles context. And in my post more generally, how that same game plays out in wider society, and with the general public

We are not discussing your personal advertising experience. Nor even the general technocratic audience of HN's advertising experience.
Anybody else confirm this is affecting RDS? I have an RDS PostgreSQL instance that has been stuck in the deleting state for over 60 minutes. I love (not) how the notice in the AWS control panel does not list RDS as an affected service.
There’s no revolver held to your temples forcing you to post on every front page item.
If you are scrolling more than 200 texts you need to break the list into two. Or examine who you are following. If you miss something is it that important?
Didn't realise until now how interested I am in hearing about other people's shelf.

Maybe this is a quaint, fun website idea.
It's been a few years since I've used Consumer Reports, but I found their reviews were too few for the given category (e.g. rating perhaps eight items [TVs, detergent, whatever] out of a generally available selection of two dozen) or stale (a just-published article was for devices one or two generations old). I'd often look for a recommended appliance and find that only one retailer sold that model, two years ago. Or I'd look at rankings and products I owned and considered excellent (and not niche) weren't included. I felt that their methods needed to be updated.

There were still some places they did a good job, e.g. their car reviews provide good information for the average consumer, and I will turn to them next time I'm in the market. I certainly applaud that their unbiased viewpoint.
"Impossible"

That word means a lot more than what he's pretending it does. Frankly, his clear misuse of the word makes me not trust his opinion altogether.

“The brakes on the Tesla are standard hydraulic brakes. The same as used in millions of vehicles worldwide. Regardless of any acceleration commanded, the brakes are capable of overpowering the powertrain – even on a P100D – at least two-fold. If you mash the brakes, the car is not going to be accelerating. It’s physically impossible. Anyone claiming, ‘I was pressing the brake the whole time, and the car still leaped forward!’ is flat out lying.”

Okay, now damage the brake lines or put the calipers on wrongly. Is that impossible?
I've managed domains witha registry lock. It may depend on the registry, but when my boss didn't answer the validation call, the domain didn't get unlocked and we had to wait for the next day's change window (and remind the boss to pick up the phone) to get our nameservers changed.

I'm sure it's still possible to social engineer (it's a human driven process), but there are a lot fewer people authorized to make the changes, and they're probably better trained.
its just... absolutely insane to me... that anyone would not feel completely useless "trimming keywords" and conducting research to optimize an ad buy. people who do this- have you ever considered what this is doing to your mental state?
I don't know how much patience you have for trialing drugs but some people have reported responding very well to Wellbutrin. In my own life, ritalin was terrible for me but switching over to concerta - a slower dispensing XR methylphenidate - did wonders.

There are a lot of options a neurologist can explore and everyone's brain is different.

That said... if non-pharmaceutical coping mechanisms work to your satisfaction that's great to hear.
IIRC, the Clinton server wasn't hacked. Meanwhile, the government email system was.
It will be very exciting to learn how life on Mars is different or similar to life on Earth. It would teach us what are might be fundamental blocks of life, and what is optional or can be "implemented" differently. It might bring us closer to understand beginnings of life.

Even if we find that life on Mars has common roots with life on Earth, it will be gives us new perspective on early life forms plus we will learn that lifeforms could survive interplanetary trips without special protections.
cb radio.
Now, why am I seeing this factual comment in grey?

See here for instance a popsci take on the problem: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-gravity-quantu...

Everybody expects a quantum theory of gravitation, but if we were drawing it from scratch no one would make it that weak. It is a difficult problem, people work in string theory because you can get Einstein's equations from strings and the alternatives look indeed worse. I don't think that means GR is a wrong take on gravitation, it's more like an amazing one to begin with.
There'also Clarke's Third Law.