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My own experience does not match yours. Both in being hired for roles in Microsoft-focused shops and in hiring and growing a team at a Microsoft partner.

My own lack of certs has never been an issue. When I have been hiring, I've actually built up a bias against certs, as the people who have talked the most about certs have ended up the worst employees. And those who have sought certs rather than experience have ended up worse off than their opposites. I recognize both my relatively small sample size and various cognitive biases that creep into this. Thus, I strive to completely ignore certs.

I had several employees who were required to complete Microsoft certs for us to keep our Gold Partner status with Microsoft. Those who completed them mostly considered them a waste of time. Sometimes there were learning opportunities simply that a feature exists. No one ever became better at their job or designed better solutions based on certs.

My conclusion ultimately is that, at least so far as Microsoft is concerned, the certs are for trivia. They're not useless, they are just literally trivial.

Note, here trivial does not mean easy.
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Jack Dorsey's move to Africa raises questions for investors
Coronavirus is now more searched than Facebook
Well, at some point in American business culture it does seem like a number of people did lose sight and become convinced that the only way to deliver shareholder value is to lay off continuously.
Just like for schools, healthcare, roadwork and every other _public_ systems/infrastructures in most European countries.

Everyone is better off that way, I pay for roads and public transport I very seldom use, but other people paid for my education and my medications. At least I won't die because I can't afford insulin or go bankrupt if I have any semi serious disease/accident.

At the end of the day that's exactly how any insurance work, everyone give in all the time and a very small portion of the population gain from it at any point in time.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Any metric or goal statement is a heuristic/simplification/compression of the solution. As such, they're never perfect. They are, on the other hand, easier. Just like bike shedding, this can distract the mind and shift focus from 100% on value generation to something less. The engineers on a project need to look at and know every detail so something that tries to eliminate the details of a project can distract them from that. Please respect that this can be hard for engineers to struggle against, particularly if they are deep in a complex space of consideration. That is the frame in which you want them. Please note that I am not saying that frame is better or more right. Keeping perspective and context is also deeply important and making sure that the investment of time, attention, and energy is directed efficiently keeps the doors open and the business afloat. Most engineers deeply understand and respect this. At the same time many of us have seen tools like metrics and top level goals used like cudgels to accomplish the opposite. In a more subtle pattern, the mental frame engineers need to accomplish their task is banished by continuous pushing of the business managerial frame to a reduced productivity in the task and increased difficulty in accomplishing it. Intrinsically motivated engineers hope for better and the grandparent was expressing as much.
Jack Welch – A Rising Tide
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Indeed. I actually think a few small modification are all that is required to significantly improve the performance of this code. I disagree with gather scatter as currently those implementations are not faster unless in the same cache line.
I've been using DDG on non-mobile device for years. One thing that always surprises me is when another DDG user doesn't know about bangs.
I never witnessed the search of the 90s but Google's experience has certainly degraded for me since then.
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Position details

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* Recent lab successes have been in neural circuit computation and plant architecture optimization, but suggestions for new areas of interest (e.g. cancer) are also welcome.

* Ample opportunities to publish in high tier journals (PI has recent publications in Science and PNAS).

Required Qualifications

* PhD (or graduating soon) in computer science or related computational/bioinformatics field.

* Strong algorithmic and programming skills.

* First author publications in computational biology conferences or journals.

Preferred Qualifications

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My take is this was happening to phones in warranty. If it was only happening to phones out of warranty, they could have advised users to purchase new batteries.
Understanding the ECMAScript spec, part 2
Largest gift in Berkeley’s history will create a ‘hub for advancing data science
Text rendering seems off. Some are clear but some are very blurry: https://i.imgur.com/G2lyFEY.png

Is this intentional or just a bug?
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Working in current-gen VR for me would be absolutely terrible.

- Low resolution. The best we have for consumers right now is the valve index, 1440x3200 resolution ~100 degree vertical FOV. A 24 inch display at a comfortable distance in such a headset would be at around 720x480 (480p), and a little blurry because of the projection.

- Fixed focus lens. You basically can't read anything close on today's headsets. Lens are focused so that they are sharp at infinity, which also mean they are blurry up close. Coding on virtual gigantic screens at a distance may be a good experience though.

- Touch typing is a must. In fact it is touch everything, because you will be blind to the real world.

- VR headsets can be uncomfortable when worn for hours at a time. Because of technical limitations (FOV and resolution), you tend to move your head a lot in VR, and doing so while wearing a heavy headset can make it even more uncomfortable.

Portability, for me, is the least of the problems, especially those that have "inside out" tracking. These things can fit in a small backpack.
That's correct. "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."

Technically all elections are state/local elections. We don't directly vote for anything at the federal level. Each state has full control over who which presidential candidate it sends its electoral college votes to. That's why states like Virginia can decide to send all of theirs to the winner of the national popular vote.
Is Millenial Retail Trading?
This might be better described as the "hard news" version. Guardian's article pulls in a lot of additional context -- about the racial impact assessments in states with a long history of voter disenfranchisement going away, analysis of where these polling places closed (it was in places with large minority populations), etc. None of that really slants the article, but it does involve more analysis.
Covid19US – Real time coronavirus news feed
> Doing cat from left to right helps readability - it's important.

People may balk because it's unfamiliar, but this is syntactically legal:

< logs.txt sort | uniq > /dev/null

That is, the redirection customarily goes at the end, but it doesn't have to.

EDIT: Also, in this specific case, the "sort" command can take a file argument, so you can also do this:

sort logs.txt | uniq > /dev/null
Removing the worst performers is the issue, as you somewhat suggest.

You don't want to remove the worst performers. You want to remove those don't do their jobs or don't fit in the company. This is very different.
Your Inner H-Bomb
How mod-able is it?
> One pays for transport in both time and money.

Have you visited any big european cities ? I live in berlin and to reach anything in a 5km radius (and I very rarely need to go further than 2) the fastest way to travel is bicycle, the next is public transportation, the last is car. Ranking these by cost gives you the same order.
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Positions open right now.

Consulting company with some products as well. No-nonsense, geeky, all-dev, environment.

No remotes. Must speak Norwegian. Both req due to communication intensive work with some meetings and occasional on-site work.
I went down the Bloom Filter rabbit hole for a project a while back and then wondered if I could actually fit the entire set space in memory. The set was IDs up to 2^32, so basically a giant bit array. I believe the IPV4 universe of this article is actually the same size as in my project. I coded up my project using Java bit arrays and got things working decently well, using a big heap. Then I found out there are a bunch of compressed bit array libraries such as EWAH and Roaring Bitmap. When I substituted Roaring for the stock Java Bitset implementation, I saw space and computation improve by many orders of magnitude. Roaring uses a bunch of tricks to achieve this, but it mostly comes down to encoding large runs of 1s or 0s. Obviously, not as tiny as bloom filters, but still pretty small for most modern machines if you have a sparse set. https://www.roaringbitmap.org/
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I'm a programmer, most familiar with C on Linux (both userland and the kernel). I'll be happy to start a project from scratch, or to help support any old codebase. For a sample of my work please see [1], a naive filesystem implementation I'm working on.

My country is going through one of its regular economic meltdowns, so my rates are very cheap. For what it's worth, I have a background in math.

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In an epidemic, I'd put the cutoff much lower than that - I wouldn't feel entirely comfortable leaving an 8-year old home alone for the whole day in normal conditions, mostly because there's no really good reason for doing this, but during an epidemic that might be the safest option available; if you leave them appropriate lunch then 8 or 9 year old kid should be self-sufficient enough to not do stupid things and phone for assistance if needed;

Of course, that doesn't work for younger kids, but then the main focus should be not on schools closing but on preschools and other daycare options closing.

The actual practical solution would be the old non-nuclear family; i.e. send the kids (and food supplies) to grandparents and have them spend some time in isolation there, while the "middle generation" works.
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The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), part of Columbia University's Earth Institute, works with decision makers in developing countries to help them use climate science for the good of their populations, particularly in agriculture and public health (e.g. providing crop insurance, targeting pesticide application to control the spread of locusts). The IRI Data Library is a web application that's used for much of that work. We're looking for a a software developer to help build, maintain, and support the Data Library. There will be travel involved (15%) to install the software and train users in developing countries.

The application is a 25 year old crufty mix of Fortran, C, Perl, JavaScript/jQuery, and a custom dialect of Forth. We're rebuilding it on a new foundation of python/xarray/dask, while continuing to support all the vital work that depends on the existing system.

Minimum qualifications: B.S. and 4 years' experience, web development skills, familiarity with Earth Science datasets.

IRI is located on Columbia's Lamont campus, in a bucolic setting 15 miles up the Hudson River from the city. There's a free shuttle between Lamont and the main campus in Morningside Heights.

As I write this, the opening hasn't been officially posted yet. I'll give an update as soon as it's official. In the meantime, contact me for info.
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Could you setup a subscription service and have some human elements behind the scenes performing part of the work initially then slowly replace it part by part with a true SaaS.
I dont know if it counts as a breakout but Canada has 19 confirmed cases so far.
Looks great! How do I try it out?
Ugly UI will absolutely reduce the amount of users and even more so potential sales.
I’ve always thought the coverage of this issue got things completely backwards.

Apple had an issue with old phones unexpectedly shutting down. They determined this happened because aged batteries were not capable of delivering peak current anymore and the CPU was “browning out” under heavy load.

They added a software feature in an iOS update that throttled the CPU in this condition to prevent a crash, at the expense of lower peak CPU performance.

From my perspective, this demonstrated real dedication to customer care and old device support from Apple. A phone that is moderately slower is still more valuable than one that randomly crashes. Intuitively, I’d expect that this would decrease sales of replacement iPhones, not increase them.

People latched onto the fact that Apple did this “secretly” - but Apple has never exposed this sort of implementation detail, and they’ve never wanted battery replacement to be part of the normal user experience for their devices. If Apple had shipped an iOS update that started telling people “Your battery is degraded, pay us to replace it to stop the crashes!” they obviously would’ve been raked over the coals also. There is no magic solution here.

So I never saw any indication that this was malicious on Apple’s part.
Better compromise is sticky shift for when you just need to capitalize one letter. Then it's just press press.
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I'd be fairly confident your work doesn't want people making random VPN tunnels from their work laptops.
Ideally, things should be opinionated but configurable. I think of that as having good, sane defaults, with a straightforward initial setup that doesn't revolve around tweaking those defaults.

With a security product, however, I can understand the allure of offering few to no options. Laypeople get security wrong at an alarming rate, even with good defaults, so I often don't mind a security product just offering one configuration that the (presumable) security experts who built it have decided is the right way to use it.

Of course, if they turn out to be wrong about something, and a mitigation would be "disable feature X", then this requires a patch and new release, when it might have otherwise just required a configuration change.
Many can, but republican states don't actually believe in the constitution, so deliberately make it as hard as possible for non-conservatives to vote.

There's a lot of support for voters in older whiter neighbourhoods, and deliberately as few as possible in every. other location. They also make it as hard as possible to vote even if you can get to a polling facility there's no time off at all for voting (forget paid time off), and voting lines are frequently hours long. The various forms of "voter id" are also intentionally made difficult to get for as many people as possible.

Again, republican's hate anything that makes it easy for people to vote, because. they know that in free and fair elections they are increasingly likely to lose.
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> The drive is not currently merely like an airplane, where it is obviously possible to fly (at least as well as birds), we just didn't know how to bang the rocks together correctly to do it.

> People like to cite a lot of cases of various supposed boundaries being broken over time as evidence that maybe this one will be broken too, but there's a qualitative difference between some "elderly distinguished scientist" opining something is impossible, and the mathematics of physics saying something is impossible.

I appreciate your distinction in the use of the word 'impossible'. I didn't actually see what you meant by it before. From what I remember from learning about the development of airplanes, it was considered physically impossible until proven otherwise. It wasn't an elderly scientist saying planes can't fly, it was the best science of the day declaring that something heavier than air was meant to stay on the ground (IIRC).

I'm simply skeptical of claims of impossibility, across the board. I do appreciate and understand the science of the reasoning behind the claim; but to a layman who knows a bit of the history of science, 21st century scientists declaring things scientifically impossible (because science has progressed so far since 100 years prior) sound eerily similiar to 19th and 18th century scientists saying the same thing, for the same reason.
Wanted to add as I can't edit.

Thanks for sharing Interledger! My post may have come off aggressive but that was not my intention. It was to ensure people don't conflate blockchain with Interledger.

Matt