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People don’t have to live in squalor in expensive Bay Area. They can move. But there is a red carpet in Ca for homeless from other states to live because they are the poverty porn displayed to milk more taxes. Oldest trick in the politicians handbook to impose more taxes. It’s always ‘compassion’ isn’t it? The reason to extract more taxes and usually championed by those who don’t have to contribute anything.

So if accumulated property tax will remain unpaid, how does any of it help keep people ‘off the streets and no in squalor’?

What is the Big Plan?

If people are going to be taxed after their death, is it like a death tax? Forced charity?

Theft by proxy? This is literally thuggery. The current youth population and the government are working hand in hand as fellow thugs. And engaging in elder financial abuse.

However, there is a solution. One can impose hefty inheritance taxes. One can impose higher tax bracket for foreign owned properties. I would like to see that rather than citizens turning against citizens of their own country.

Further..has any of the YIMBYs sat in city council meetings and looked at city and county budgets. Or the state budget? There is a LOT of money. There are a lot of infrastructure improvements to be made that will make life better for everyone. And yet Sacramento does nothing.

None of the young non home owning YIMBY professionals ever question that. Perhaps because they have been indoctrinated in public school and taught fake economics. They have literally been hand fed to believe that nanny state is the best and higher taxes will solve everything. Perhaps it is this lack of financial literacy and responsibility that is causing them to be the handmaidens of the govt bureaucracy to act as thugs against middle class senior citizens.

Over crowded schools, inefficient DMVs, pot holes on roads, congested freeways, tolls on every stretch of freeways leading to Silicon Valley..Bart is a joke. Homeless on streets after billions spent. And more density on top of this inefficiency?
Amazon doesn't have a reputation for shutting down projects, and no one has any reason to doubt Amazon's long term ability to execute on a cloud platform.
Pretty low considering the growing market size. We are just at the beginning of cloud movement and it’s already generating significant revenue
It doesn’t have to do with public or private. It’s based on the number of employees affected as well as some other factors. Check out the WARN Act.
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The HR folks do not care, it's not their metric to bother about.
More than that, "expensive" new housing is typically half the price of the single family homes next to it. It's just marketed as "luxury" because everything is. Typically the people protesting "luxury" housing already live in housing that's more expensive than what is getting built.

The role of new construction in affordability is more direct. The people who live in the shiny new places will just bid up the price of the next best thing if it isn't available, and this ripples down until the people at the bottom are priced out. So by building it, you're preventing other things from being bid up.
That's throughput, not latency.
> I picked C89 instead of C99

Stopped reading right there.
I use a Pixel 4 and still use my Nexus 6 as a backup alarm clock. Every time I pick up the Nexus 6 I'm amazed I used to carry that around. It's immense in comparison.
Given Google’s penchant for cancelling projects and their inability to do anything profitably outside of advertising?
...there are people who thought it was?
There's also Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/
Google generated $8.9 billion in cloud sales last year, up 52.7% from $5.8 billion in 2018 and $4.1 billion the year prior.

Doesn't sound like Google's cloud business is in trouble.
Revenue != profit.

And isn’t that the pitch of every startup? We are worth $billions because the size of the market is $billions x 10 if we only capture $a_small_percentage.
I disagree. There is such a thing as law of the commons and welfare of the commons. Air quality, watershed and conservation of habitat are all part of the commons and its welfare. The erasure is CEQA is a step towards zoning changes and in the destruction of the commons.
Right, but a 3D printer is :)! Bet that cost a lot more than $200.
Hi, Saoud from Fakespot here. My co-founders and I all got scammed and duped by fake reviews and Fakespot was built to bring back trust and transparency to the e-commerce experience (and others).

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Mercury in dental work works too!

Its not even funny how ignorant people are but let me rub it in: that one doesnt want to know there are biological effects has no more than placebo level effect. It is still an effect tho.

The "I'm not aware of any such research" should rule out any conclusion. Unawareness is only evidence of it self.

Personally im more worried about having my attentionspan cut into small chunks by endless notifications and having my sleep interupted.

I actually own the fancy rf measurment toys. Odly the most comfortable spot to sleep in the house also has the lowest measurments. Its sohh anecdotal, i know, i know..
Yet, the people who pass the grueling gauntlet will still be dumped on a fringe feature team with a first- or second-time engineering manager within 2 years of your age, and a PM that's fresh out of college (or worse, just finished MBA) who is spending 100% of their time learning how to use Jira instead of how to build product.
You can’t increase density without decreasing the quality of life by apportioning more of fixed or shrinking resources.
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Well, if you pass that interview, you then get to help Giant Search and Advertising Company make the world an even more dystopian place...
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I do, but more so the era in which I heavily used it. I started a local IRC channel for my high school. Word spread and eventually we had 100-200 people on it every single night, which was a non trivial % population of the entire school. Not just nerds... everyone from all groups was on it. People are school were asking the more tech friendly folks: "How do I get mIRC on my computer??"

There were so many people on it that there was a legit problem identifying who was who (i.e. nicknames != real names). I eventually made a page linking IRC nicknames to profiles.

Looking back on it now, if I had had more vision, in a parallel universe, I would have replicated this experience to other areas schools in the region.. then state, then country then....?

Oh well :)
But the average HR rep doesn't determine the technical questions! The culpability falls squarely on the engineers who devise these tests.
That may be, but debugging "looks like work" in the eyes of mgmt.

The borrow checker, on the other hand, looks more like "I can't find any applicants in Little Rock who can do this stuff.".
Outside the vacuum of technology (can it be done?), it seems to me that the role that policy plays when it comes to the actual rollout of self-driving cars (should it be done and how?) is vastly underrated. This seems to be the real bottleneck in mass adoption - improvements in technology will have diminishing returns after a certain point.

For example, things like getting companies to agree to a unified standard at a government/industry level & determining frameworks for liability all seem to be as important (and perhaps difficult) as eking out another 0.00001% increase in safety.
Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20200214235741/https://hraf.yale...
Words with Friends managed an actual exit (8 figures, mostly cash): https://venturebeat.com/2011/07/05/zynga-paid-53-3m-to-buy-w...
People misjudge where their high compensation package comes from.
Interviews are so bad because there are too many capable programmers. If there really was a market shortage, companies would not interview like this.
To be fair, modern EDA software helps a lot with not making mistakes. If your schematic diagram and tolerance settings are correct, it is pretty hard to get the PCB wrong. Every time I had a problem with one, I had made a mistake in the schematic (and once the fab house mistakenly bridged pads because my tolerances were too tight).

I wholeheartedly recommend KiCAD if you aren't already using it.
This is honestly something I've been trying to discuss with peers recently, and it's interesting the push back you get when you simply bring up the concept of "well, it obviously isn't C suite or HR that is advocating for the algorithmic leetcode test, they couldn't begin to understand that shit, it's 100% just other engineers setting up gatekeeping scenarios."
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I am making no claim about what effects would be bigger (other than atmospheric drag, which is always the biggest effect in LEO). All I’m saying is that in general, all those nonlinear effects we tend to ignore, when integrated over long periods of time, tend to make orbits change their eccentricity and inclination, and that makes them more of a collision hazard because the relative velocity is higher than it would be if they were in more similar orbits to the thing they collide with.
My first thought was this book series that speculated on time-traveling humans interbreeding with aliens with a take on the mythology of elves and dwarves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_Pliocene_Exile
In my admittedly limited experience, there's one way to avoid such nonsensical interviews - run away from bureaucracy. Seek smaller organizations (startups in particular) and if you're lucky enough to have a minimally cross-disciplinary background, you can seek out niche organizations where you'll interview with technical specialists who'll ask reasonable questions that are actually related to your work and your interviewers won't be saddled with "standardized" managment pleasing bullshit. One of the biggest problems I see with modern tech (and large industry in general) is this ridiculous idea that MBAs can standardize all processes across all departments across all industries. This is a source of needless pain and waste - but I suppose it keeps execs happy when they can reduce every metric to a nice little [bullshit] number. Interviewing at FAANG is a case in point.

I've never in my life had to implement a recursive memory optimized underwater red black tree balancing algorithm, and it's insulting to be told I'm not a good enough programmer if I can't pass your totally contrived white board problem. Who the hell are these people even selecting for with these kinds of questions? Do they understand how much talent they're throwing away?

In any case, I have a strong suspicion that, aside from compensation, working for FAANG is hugely overrated. And that's not just sour grapes talk - mountains of red tape, processes upon processes, overwork and burnout, and best of all, you get to spend your best years infecting society with the cancer that is adtech.
There are some organisations that handle paperwork for many open source projects. You can donate to these and mark you donations for specific projects or towards "overhead".

The two I've donated to are

Software in the Public Interest ( https://www.spi-inc.org/ )

The Software Conservancy ( https://sfconservancy.org/ )
Male ligers are sterile, so it's more plausible to call the parents different species.

I've seen no evidence to support the proposition that the children of San and Pygmies with outside human populations are sterile.

Given that, the question is what would the motivation possibly be to call them a separate species from the rest of humanity?
I think this person was not rejected for their coding. They were passed over for an MS or PhD with similar skills.

It is necessary to do well on coding interviews, but not sufficient. optimizing for coding interviews is the wrong approach.
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter - since all tests test for something, and all these things are highly correlated, grueling job interviews are entirely justified.

As much as it pains to say me, HR is entirely justified in their approach of asking people to fill out a form, importing the list into excel, sorting on the GPA column, and calling the top N candidates on the list.
From the couple people I know who have done this, I think it's pretty choose-your-own-adventure... Get paid to look for your new job, with very few actual responsibilities.

It's worthwhile to compare this relative downtime to ramp-up time for new hires... who also generally spend a couple-few months being fairly useless (though working hard at it).

And googlers being googlers, there's a decent chance that the 'down' time turns into interesting learning or side project time.
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Just an FYI if you didn't know, be careful when sharing links to check that they don't disclose more information about you than you'd like.
You did a git clone and then a build without issue?

Because the repo on arch patches the issue with the statically linked openssl library:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/openssl-linking...

So if you just install signal from the aur, then you use the patched version.
A better link: https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/374/
And also: https://archive.org/details/dougengelbartarchives?sort=title...
because youtube videos are ephemeral.
That most people have a hard time viewing the world from different lenses.

The article presents a picture of a guy “studying up” for a career and his adventures in interviewing. As someone who’s interviewed hundreds of candidates I noticed red flags right away. For instance, if someone asks you to design a micro service - you don’t say “I can’t”. No FAANGco interviewer wants you to fail. In fact, they want to help you. The best worst answer would have been “I’m not really familiar with micro services but I’ll give it a shot. Could you explain a bit more about them?” This shows the candidate doesn’t falter at a challenge, is willing to dive deep, and is committed to the task.

The lens shift comes into play when 50% of the candidates can’t complete fizz buzz, another 25% simply lied in there resume about any relating experience, and the other 24% don’t have any real understanding about algorithms.

There are software developers and then there are great software developers. It’s generally initiative and algorithms that separate the two.
Everyone knows it's broken, but interview cycle still continues to bring in talent, even if there are false negatives. People still brave the grueling gauntlet. People still show up for interviews. Smart people still get hired. The system works, just in a terribly shitty way.

To HR, the engineer hiring process is voodoo magic and we best not touch it.
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As strange as it may sound, I think the crash will come if there's a change in the white house or congress. Most investors fear the unknown. At least with the current administration and congress, we know what we are getting. The market is already nervous so I suspect once we get to October we will start to see a lot of market volatility caused by the feeling of who is likely to be president on any given day.
If it costs $10bn a year to run that would mean it represents a $1.1bn loss, and it should be killed if Google can't turn it around. Revenue is a terrible metric to judge something on.
I think it was actually right around $200, but I'm not saying people should get a 3D printer instead of a 2D printer, I'm saying that making PCBs with what you have is better than making them with something you have to buy. If you already have a laser printer, that will probably be much better for you (unless you have a 3D printer too :p).

This post is basically saying "if you don't have a laser printer but have a 3D one, you can still make PCBs!" :)
If the problem was oversupply, we wouldn't be getting the cushy salaries and benefits we do. I think the issue is more that it's pretty easy for people with no programming ability to appear competent on a resume, especially to a clueless HR rep or headhunter. There are a lot of people out there whose backgrounds look good on paper who can't solve FizzBuzz...
Cloud computing is already extremely profitable, and well above their 10-figure line for a sustainable project.

AppEngine has been around for more than a decade. GCP might not catch up to AWS but it's not going away.
Is it possible to create a meaningful coding test that only takes 45 minutes? I would love some examples for front end tests if any one has any.
> Yes, but much more insignificantly 1950-2000 to 1900-1950 -- and slowing down ever since.

Here are a few more significant innovations since 1950:

0. Search Engines
1. Video Games
2. GPS
3. Medical 3D Imaging (CT/MRI)
4. Genetic Sequencing
5. 3D Printing
6. Autonomous Machines (ground robots, drones)

> None of which is particularly exciting

You aren't excited about having all of human knowledge in your pocket? Does something have to fundamentally change our understanding of physics for you to get excited?
Almost as good as:

> 83Fxx: Cosmology

> - 83F05: Cosmology

> - 83F99: None of the above, but in this section
I've come to see it more as the inverse of a division operator. Like a quaternion can be defined as the ratio of two vectors q = a/b. then qb = a and qc will rotate c the same amount as needed to take b into a. dual quaternions have a similar motivating derivation.
I've been doing initial phone screens (small companies) this week (two just today, actually), and with all of them when the recruiter (internal or external) gets to the "we'd like to send you a coding challenge" I interject with: "Let's do a code exchange. I'll point you at some of my GH projects, and you send me some of your code".

So far they've accepted ("I'll forward it to the hiring manager"), and it's far too soon to see if this works... but I'm hoping.

The next step I'll be trying is "I'd like you to pay me for my time. If you're not comfortable with that yet, let's talk about what's involved in getting there."
This is the obvious point which needs to be repeated till it sinks in. We are not seeing the evidence we would expect to see if this was a tight labor market.

As a point of contrast, consider American industry in 1942, as the nation mobilized for war. It doesn’t matter what profession you look at, the attitude everywhere was “Just show up and we can train you.” That applied to welders and bolt tighteners and also the engineers who designed tanks and aircraft. Every company was hiring and every company was willing to hire inexperienced workers and then train them.
Who could trust the FEC to fairly adjudicate? Whoever is in power, or whoever placed the officials, the other side will happily claim foul play.
I think police cars should measure it.
Well yeah, no kidding. I was raised American but still never got the appeal of the "spit-swapping" variety; It always struck me as disgusting, though I don't mind normal "on-the-lips" type. For some reason, people expect that everyone likes that sort of thing and think I'm weird for not wanting to.
The Snowden endorsement sure helped.
If only I had discovered that list back when I was still an undergraduate. The hardest part about finding a good research area seems to be knowing it exists in the first place.
The excuse is that Society doesn't care that much about moving our meat sacks around 5x faster, when it can move minds around the planet instantly.

Instead of building flying cars, we digitized ourselves.
there are 36 people in #hackernews on freenode right now
To me the main misstep with a lot of modern interview testing is the time-constraint factor. Having 20 minutes to solve a complex problem sans-Google in a not-really-a-text-editor field on a web page just isn’t a real-world scenario. And, what you do in that setting doesn’t really say anything useful.

If you’re going to test people, either whiteboard it and make it absolutely clear you just want to see how they break it down; or, give them hours to do it right without a lot of restrictions.
Etching the small PCBs I created took a minimal amount of chemicals in the cut bottom of a water bottle. It's not nothing, but it wasn't a big problem.
That's what I think every time I see one of these articles but tech companies still have a permanent door into every congressional office to plead the exact opposite while seeking to import more labor into the market.
>the global ethnographic evidence suggests that [kissing] is common in only 46% (77) of the cultures sampled

Now this is interesting. I live in the US where kissing is a big part of the culture, but I've never personally liked it. I like women and romance, I enjoy sex obviously, but I never "got" kissing. Ever since my first kiss at ~15 years old, I always assumed something was wrong with me.
I think the cushy salaries come from the fact that programming done right is extremely profitable. So the capitalists toss a chunk of money to the engineers.
> Leave your phone in a metal, security cubby and your battery will die quickly

Which is the best selfish reason to remember to switch on flight mode on an aeroplane. (Also when you’re trekking in areas where you know cell coverage is nonexistent.)
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So...it's kind of like being Big Head working at Hooli? Hanging out on the roof, or building potato guns and piezoelectric sensors?
"afro"naut? seriously? they don't hide their racism anymore
> "The horrifically dystopian world of software engineering interviews"

If you actually read the linked article, there aren't really any interviews.

The OP is just getting let down by recruiters.
As someone who interviews, you'd be shocked how many "senior engineers" can't write a function with two for-loops.
Lafayette, the town in the article, is nearly an hour away from SF by train. Should we really be building more housing relatively far away from the jobs? The trains and roads are packed. What about focusing on high density housing that's closer to the jobs in Oakland and SF? Isn't it better for people to be able to walk to work or ride a bike?

I'm not asking rhetorically.
> Dallas and Houston are not in the same category as Bay Area. Texas is not California.

You're right, they're both much larger cities. The Dallas metro area is the 4th largest in the US, the Bay Area is 12th. So Dallas is bigger.

> In Sunnyvale, CA you have a 1 in 611 chance of becoming a victim of violent crime. Violent crimes include murder, rape, robbery and assault. With regards to property crime, you have a 1 in 62 chance of becoming a victim. Property crimes include burglary, theft and vehicle theft.[..]

According to https://www.areavibes.com/sunnyvale-ca/crime/ you have a 255/100000 (my number is higher than yours BTW) likelihood of being a victim of a violent crime. Nationally, it's 381/100000 or 1 in 263. Thus, sunnyvale is safer. It is known to be safer even since before 2014 when California crime statistics were screwed up. The historical data is available online.

You are a troll.
No matter how many APIs and tutorials you do it comes down to being calm under pressure and knowing who you are talking to. You have to practice your communication skills and be cool. Often times you will be interviewed by HR people and managers - rarely will you get to be interviewed by a TDD Clean code geek that you follow on twitter. Eitherway there is nothing out there that you deserve more than other people. If you are young shut up and build stuff. (I wrote this as satire a couple moons ago; http://owensoft.net/v4/item/2162/ )