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> a sad indictment of the current state of tech hiring

I've only ever worked as a programmer, so I'm genuinely curious - how does interviewing work for every other job that's out there?
Well, this is quite a tangent. I think this somewhat due to different understandings of the semantics of the word. I guess this communication issue does suggest using more specific terms would be helpful, but I want to point out that the interpretation of the word "nature" is not the only possible use.

> avoids lending itself to implicit confusions like that between "natural" and "desirable"

See, this "implicit confusion" doesn't seem compulsive to me. I see that there's a romanticized view of nature, sure. But there's that famous adage from Hobbes' Leviathan about man in a state of nature having a nasty, brutish and short life. And really, nature does a lot of undesirable things.

> How much modification equals not "nature" any more, though? It's like trying to define how many grains of sand make a heap. The difference is that nobody imagines a heap of sand is anything but a heap of sand.

Well, heapiness itself is a continuum. That's why we tack on qualifies such as "small heap", just like we tack "pristine" onto nature to mean something at a more extreme end of the spectrum. "tamed nature" indicates something more to the other end.

Anyway, back to the original discussion. What I was trying to say is that humans cannot generally cohabitate with nature. We can't have billions of people live in a forest or on the steppes. At a global scale we can share the planet and have leave some areas largely untouched, but that's not living together. It's living apart and occasionally visiting.
I don’t think you can get much more reliable or simpler then whereby.com
There are general purpose buttons like back or home.
This sounds like it’s related to permaculture.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
They don't have any monetization channels, so I can accept that for a free service
How does it differ from Hasura?
IIRC, Mazda are also pushing back against the touchscreen fad
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> Considering our energy needs it's not possible for large amounts of people to cohabitate with nature without altering nature.

And when you realize you can say the same thing about ants and termites, you will know what the person you're talking to is talking about.

Making the distinction "Human vs Nature" implies Humans are special, set apart from any other species; even if you say that Humans are bad, being especially bad is still being special, and set apart.
I guess you work for garmin.

Garmin have ZERO experience with avionics. They just sell large screen GPS that everyone want because GPS is an output device. The fact that you can zoom/etc with touch is just because garmin have ZERO experience with avionics, and even then, there are some few hardware buttons there already. My guess is that the second or third version will have many more.

Another consequence is that the large GPS screen have to replace many components on the dashboard of a 2 seater plane, because they originally didn't have space for a large screen (most private planes flown today were made in the 70s!). by consequence, everyone gives up their radio etc with decent buttons because they really, really want a GPS with a huge screen, and garmin knowing this have to include a crappy radio etc in their unit. But given the option, everyone would want a bigger/modern dashboard instead and dedicated devices.

Just because something is selling it is not because it is good. See the "doctor killer" planes.
I am not sure about that, I want my doctor to be a licensed m.d. in all contexts.

Same with the firefighters, I don't want a firefighter to be considered as such only on some "contexts".
Where did Zoom come from all of a sudden? I had never heard of it before the pandemic but now all my lecturers at two different universities are using it. They must be doing something right at least.

(edit: not to be apologetic for the issue at hand, of course)
I remember one time I was hiring for a JavaScript developer. The most important technical competency was a brief working knowledge of the DOM. The actual position required modifications to pages for A/B tests and jQuery was either too slow or broke in production when other developers used it for their test code.

Of everybody that passed through HR to me I sent out a notice that there would be a minor code assessment and they could not use jQuery. 6 or 7 people instantly dropped out. There were 22 people left that I actually talked to which only three could pass the code assessment.

The assessment was never designed to be challenging. Candidates were using their home computers had access to any reference material. There was no hurry. They could look things up. I also told them if they got stuck just ask me and I would point them in the right direction without any penalty, but only 2 candidates tried that.

The assessment was an hour long phone call. At the start of the call I would send out a static HTML page for the candidates to open in their browser and for them to write an answer in whatever tool they wanted but it had to execute in the console of a browser on that page. Tasks were things like take this item out of the page and reinsert at some other location or change the color of a particular paragraph to red. Stupid simple stuff that you would expect any UI developer to do easily. After all these were beginner skills and this was a senior level position.

I did ask to see the code they wrote only to make sure they completed the tasks. I would drop their code in my browser console and run. I never looked at code style or sloppiness. It’s a job interview where people are rushed and nervous. Their code is allowed to be sloppy.

Only 3 candidates were able to pass this code filter. The people that did pass either did well enough to pass or extremely excellent. The people that failed, maybe 19 of 22 people, all failed epically.

That experience really shocked me. I did everything I could think of to make this relaxing and take the edge off because there is always pressure during a job interview. No matter how much of a lifeline I threw out almost nobody would bite. They would sit there silent on the call or they would attempt to stall like that would somehow make code magically appear. Sometimes I would remind candidates they could ask me questions because I cannot evaluate a blank answer. Other times I would try nudge them to get started or guide them into progress, which only seemed to hurt more than help.

Very bizarre experience.
Oh nice, I've been waiting for someone like you to reply. Thanks for replying, I need a perspective from you as well.

Why do you think it happens this way? I have some other anecdatas that I gathered from the forums but I am not gonna spew it here because it could be offensive/racist or whatever.

But what I think the more reasonable answer is, because interviewers are humans, and a lot of it are based on luck. Maybe the interviewer has a bad day? Maybe the interviewer has a favorite question that is super tricky and he/she really want to test this to the candidates.

I also think that due to your seniority, it seems that the FAANG companies already know that you know your stuffs. Since L5/E5 definitely not an easy task. Therefore you don't get a really hard question, because they don't need to determine whether you are a risk or not. They already know that you will perform great in the company.

Btw if you are doing your interview like this, I commend you. Thank you for not making life hard on people. I myself has gone through hundreds of Leetcode but still failed, due to the harsh questions that I've seen these days. Yet due to Leetcode I postpone learning other things that can serve me better in my career. It is stupid, but it is what it is. I know a lot of people can relate with me.

Anyway, please continue to do a great work of interviewing people! Maybe one day I will get my chance.
To be more specific, whereby seems to be free for up to 4 people, but then they claim to be able to support 50. Never tested it with 50
Isn't QtCreator kind of too focused on Qt?

I have used it and love it, but I was writing QML, not Python or JS for a web project. Have you been able to use QtCreator for more than C/C++ and Qt?
Dark sky is not a public good, it's a for-profit business that puts a shiny interface on the same information available to everyone. It also added user reporting and analytics, so added material value. The app cost money. Why don't you lobby your congressman to have NOAA develop a better app instead? You can't make a privately-developed program a "public good"; citizens can't just "demand" that dark sky remains independent and expands because they didn't pay for it. Either lobby the government for a better app, wait for the private sector to develop a better app, or lobby the government to attach a license to the data prohibiting commercial use (though this would kill the other apps, too).
> Personally, I think information display can and should use touch interface, but actions should be tied to physical switches or buttons.

Underrated comment!

Information - the user is already looking at the screen, so they can touch virtual buttons. And that is probably the best approach, as they are manipulating information that is being displayed and they can see.

For actions, you won't necessarily have your attention on the screen. The information may not even be displayed in the screen yet, so now you have to divert attention and manipulate the system to get it to a state you can then change(eg, moving to the climate control screen).
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Voice control sucks IMO, even though a lot of people now grow up with Alexa and similar and adapt to the technology. Why does it suck, just like some "smart" buttons? Because it's not obvious what it can do. You have to learn the vocabulary it understands and its other limitations (tone etc.). For example, I tried to get my Tesla to text one of my contacts recently and failed. I didn't know whether it just didn't understand me or was unable to. Good UI are obvious and don't require you to memorize secret capabilities.
"The human" is an "average human" from the "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" paper.

For example, for Montezuma's Revenge:

- "average human" score is 4753.30

- Agent57 score is 9352.01

- human record is 1219200.0
Just how many controls are you manipulating that are not duplicated to your steering wheel on your drive? Modern cars feature nearly automatic everything, set and forget.

Just a note about laws against texting. So my state recently, finally last year, put in place a law which said you must use hands free.

Guess what happened, now half the dolts have their phone mounted to their windshield in their field of view or on their dash. So yeah, its hands free but even more distracting. Apparently this loop hole exists in many states!
The human brian is encoded via surprisingly limited amounts of information in DNA. It’s therefore more elegant than many modern AI systems.

The often quoted 6×10^9 base pairs overstates the complexity as a lot of non coding DNA exists, and much of what’s left is redundant or does not relate to the brain.

PS: We actually know quite about about how the brain learns and computes information. The are really interesting information about how the optic nerve encodes information for example.
And a simple shell script to test it would be easy.
Interesting! Since a customer for a satellite launch is more like a passenger than a pilot, I see where the differences come from.

The Falcon users guide is far more detailed than the one for Starship currently is by the way. I shared the latter because it is brand-new and seems to indicate that SpaceX is already certain enough of their design for Starship to provide specifications for launch services.

Here is the Falcon users guide for comparison:

https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/falcon_users_guide...
Ok walk a couple more years down the cost curve they are following, especially since battery tech is being heavily invested in for EVs and grid storage.

And if (or I should say when) grid storage becomes cheaper than peak power generators, then you still can save money shutting down the extra power plants.
while vs is technically open source it's not free software. not only in the gnu sense but also the binaries are licensed different as the source code. You have to compile vs yourself to benefit from the licensing of the source code
That makes sense, finally. Thanks.
> Valid point and yes, will see people buffer more in general. However once that is settled, the sales/usage will level as people not consuming more.

Depending on how the sentence is read, people may put more inventory on their hands (i.e., they use a higher quantity because they never run low, which is when people tend to conserve).
80 to 90% of airlines worldwide use EFBs, based on iPad or Microsoft Surface.
>By the way: you get a million extra points for ghost editing your Matrix recommendation out of your post after being called out on the fact that it didn't even do E2E by default. It's still right there on Archive.org.

I issued a correction and I'm still the bad guy? You simply can't even pretend to engage me in good faith today, can you?
For a textbook approach, both nigel slack (Operations Management) and Jacobs/Chase (SCM) are worth a look.
Do we really have a shortage of supply? For what products? The only shortages I have seen are for toilet paper and a few random grocery store products that maniacs decide to stockpile next. (in my community, there is all the sudden a run on ice cream now that bread is back in stock).
Are there many places outside the US that use ‘fall’ over ‘autumn’?
FYI, it's currently impossible to support end to end encryption in WebRTC based video that is browser based (if using a SFU, ie a central server), given the protocols supported in the browser. Zoom isn't, obviously, but that's another red flag if you see such claims.
Cannot compare in a sense that ClickHouse is superior?
We had 500 people on a meeting yesterday. Not all broadcasting, but plenty still sending video. Works just as well as a 3 person call.
The last time I really looked for a job was maybe 4 or 5 years ago. I interviewed at ~5 or 6 companies and I got a variation of this 2 or 3 times. So let's say 1/3rd of the interviews.

They do happen yes, I don't know if it's common or if I'm just not very lucky :)
I won't dispute whether you think it's a terrible thing to say, but preferential treatment towards demographics categorized as "diverse" is something I've both witnessed and taken part in during my time so far in tech. At least in the San Francisco Bay Area, many tech companies are setting targets of >30% women in engineering roles despite the fact that they make up 20-25% of the tech workforce. Achieving these numbers necessitates discrimination.

Note that you're putting words in the other poster's mouth when you write that "the hiring bar has been lowered". Not all forms of discrimination involve lowering the hiring bar. From my experience, the bulk of discrimination occurs before hiring event starts - recruiters extend phone interviews to diverse candidates at higher rates. The hiring bar is the same for diverse and non-diverse, it's just that diverse candidates are more likely to get a chance to attempt to pass that hiring bar.
In the US there are no software engineer certifications. So everybody with that title is a fake engineer and companies should not hand out that title.
The Macbook touchbar holds a likely never-to-be-surpassed record for "The World's Most Useless Touchscreen". I literally cannot imagine how this UI abortion got to market. To me, the touchbar was the canary that Apple's innovation days were done. Sometimes, it's really NOT a good thing to "think different"(ly)...
I'm pretty happy with the newest Rams - large screen with touch controls, but things like volume and temp are physical buttons. Volume is the one thing that should NEVER be a touch control (IMO).
Hey, Thanks a lot for your feedback.
For your first question answer will be that we sign privacy agreements with architectural companies thus giving them surety of privacy for their drawings, and also all their drawings are saved in cloud with high security.

Coming on to MEP consultants requirement, so when we come in picture we assure that there is no need of any other MEP consultants as we work according to the local laws applying for the project and validate all drawings.

So, Right now we are using the software in-house only thus becoming only tech enabled consulting firm providing drawings at superior speed & quality, also we are working as a back office team for some consultants but the future vision is to convert it into SaaS.

Hope I answered all your questions, please let me know if there is anything else you want to know.
Thanks!
> Man vs Nature is an old dichotomy

I can't think of any lone man vs. the wilderness stories from before Ibn Tufail's Autodidactus (12c.), but I'm happy to be corrected.
Same. Shame on the founders.
This project started as a kickstarter, and this is an utter kick in the teeth to a community that wants to support these kinds of projects.
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Any clue how hard it would be to create an open-source alternative to the DarkSky API? My company needs one, too. Maybe we could band forces and organize an open-source alternative. I know it won't be as good, but I'm curious what other people in our position think...
What is an "engine disconnect pedal"? You rewire the ignition or something?
If I'm still on Sierra, which version should I upgrade to?
Since Apple is trying to grow service revenue, I wonder why they're not continuing to service API customers? It comes across as entirely anti-competitive.
Zoom was founded by Eric Yuan, a lead engineer from Cisco's WebEx business unit.
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A plane isn't a good analogy for a car.

Airplanes have keypads that control complex functions on a screen, going from that kind of keypad to a touchscreen is logical.

In the case of cars, a touchpad is overkill for controlling the cabin temperature, stereo volume, etc.
As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing inherently wrong with "touchscreen controls", it's the usage and user interface assumptions.

Make a touchscreen slider and who knows, perhaps it's even more durable and reliable than a moving part. It's the whole sets of modal interfaces, and jenky controls which make this stuff unsafe, and irritating.
It has a lot more features (and is more complicated).
That’s too bad. Imagine unresponsive touchscreen due to dry skin or wearing gloves, or hands are too sweaty.... or the controller goes out, etc.

Flight plans is one thing but controls are all together a different sort of thing.

Why ask for trouble?
I've definitely worked with engineers that are 10x slower or have extremely poor engineering practices: copy-pasting chunks of code, 8+ nested ifs, all code in one giant function, use of global variables throughout, clueless how memory management works/tons of cyclic retains, etc.

I've seen plenty of purported "senior" engineers with 7+ yoe that code worse than new grads.

Now that I'm in FAANG with a high hiring bar, these type of engineers are completely absent. I'm sure that's not a coincidence.
exactly. pretending to have not seen the question before is one of the "skills" that ppl practise on leetcode forums.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Should-you-tell-your-intervie...

only ppl GP is catching is ppl who havent' practiced that skill. Leetcode junkies are simply outsmarting him.
You do realize you make a disservice to those who studied and worked hard to obtain a proper engineering degree, right?
Climate control is something you will want to adjust while driving, so it should be as eyes-free as possible once the basics have been acquired.

I can’t think of a car I’ve driven where the climate control was not physical though, that seems pretty insane.
>"clueless academics"

Spoken like a true cult member, that's one of Taleb's personal favourite sayings. For everyone else, why you should ignore him

https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/antifragility...
A relatively common use case is multiple devices behind a NAT, where each port goes to a different device.
I would love to see you take this and short the SP500, really put your money where your mouth is. Value is relative, and relative to the rest of the world the US is going to fare quite well. So good luck to you!
The issue in my eyes is more that they are intentionally redefining what end-to-end encryption is, which is intentionally misleading.
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I wasn't familiar with this, but if it results in the iOS weather app having better forecasts, then great!
The sad but real reason a ton of this is happening is one very big word that is typically not present in things like car / airplane design: flexibility... flexibility to change the user controls, flexibility to fix problems, flexibility to let the SW team work up until the last minute to get stuff working, and the second part that goes with this is cost. Touchscreens mean increased flexibility for the design and better control over cost to deliver features. Unfortunately, if the display dies and you can't see anything, then the car or plane may crash... so sadly it will probably take a couple of those events happening for this to be changed to have some kind of redundant systems that the pilot can use when the display dies suddenly.
Good for them but at the same time it is a shame for non Apple Users.

We use their embed widget quite heavily. Anyone know of any equivalents? I had a quick Google but can't find anything that looks totally equal in feature set.
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They aren't really printing money. They are buying up debt, both private and government that will eventually be sold back to the market or will mature this returning that money back, with appreciation, to the fed. Which will then make it disappear just as easily as they created it.
Another Zoom article, and it's a dupe with one already on the front page! This is insane. I haven't seen HN so virulent over a topic since their blind faith defense on any criticism of Tesla.
They were already one of the leading enterprise web conference providers, alongside Cisco and Microsoft.
Probably the obvious reason: that anything you write that has even the most tangential relevance to Rust means that people will think you're talking about Rust…
Thanks for elaborating, I think I understand what you mean now! I was really confused when you said that beaver dams are just like fences, because to me they're not at all the same. It sounds like we actually have a very friendly disagreement. =)

I think "nature" is our best way to express these important but nebulous concepts, but you think it hides those exact same concepts. We're probably both right -- it will depend what community we're in, and their understanding and interpretation of the word "nature".
IANAL, but I think it comes down to the trespasser being informed in some way that the property is private and they're not welcome. If I'm kicked out of a store, for example, the owner or one of their agents has informed me that I'm no longer welcome on that property, so trespass happens if I try to come back. In the case of someone's property that has conspicuous no trespassing signs, the sign serves to inform me I'm not welcome.

At least that's what the cops told me one time when I was a kid and got busted exploring in the woods and missed the property owner's "POSTED" signs...
VSCode is open source. This is a misleading title