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Ask HN: Where to find companies that don't ask leetcode questions in interviews?
I'm a SWE 2 in the Bay Area. As many of you know, interviews here are mostly based on leetcode/algorithms problems. I'm tired of the grind and refuse to partake in that process anymore. I'd rather spend my free time learning things relevant to my job or working on projects. I plan to stay in California (don't know exactly where yet), but am looking for a fully remote gig. I'm okay with talking about my experience and technologies I've used in the interview. I'm okay with working on a take home project. I'm not okay with getting hazed for 5 hours on inverting binary trees and trapping rain water and finding the maximum subarray of k sorted lists in O(1) time while doing a DFS on a graph and patting my head with one hand and rubbing with stomach with the other hand. Fuck that. Where can I find companies with sane interview practices?
I see your point about stability analysis.

I will take a look into CZT, I recall the HN post at the time but didn't look into it much.
i meant in relative terms, some frameworks are more complex than others. for example if i compare angular with aurelia.
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The first two really didn't happen, and though the Crisis of the Third Century hampered Rome, it wouldn't wipe out knowledge. Plus, who wanted to wipe out progress? The West lost their connection to Greek, and the knowledge was largely Greek.
Pointcast, boy that brings back some memories.
They say they use a PID controller, but don’t write about the next step: how to choose the parameters for the controller?
That is moving in the opposite direction of the recent trend...

People are getting sick of silos and algorithmic timelines. Lot's my friends are moving back to RSS and feed aggregators, heck I'm building a RSS add-on.
The problem you proposed strikes me as primarily being that one company controls the Internet. That's the problem that needs to be addressed. It might have implications for the speech issue you're suggesting, but I can safely punt on that. Break up the single monopoly in order to reduce the degree to which any one private actor acts as a pseudo-state.

A counter-example for you is the following: suppose that a million companies control the internet, and all of them independently decide they don't want to publish white supremacist content. Then the problem is clearly not concentration or monopoly or collusion, but rather companies (via the people who make publishing decisions for the companies) exercising their own free speech. I think the challenge is that in this counter-example, the free speech absolutist -- not saying you are one -- needs to admit that they want to restrain one sort of speech (not wanting to publish white supremacist content) to enable another sort of speech (people publishing white supremacist content). It's an essential tension. Someone has to lose in that exchange. We need only clarify who.

It may be the case that the internet is far closer to your example than mine, though I doubt it. Even if market share of social media suggests concentration, it seems to me easier than ever to publish your content. I published my first website in 1995 and surely I have an easier time doing it today than then. Now, I might not have an easier time getting an audience, but I am also not entitled to an audience. If people don't look for me or tune me out, that's not a violation of my rights. That the public has chosen to waste less time seeking out dissenting views is maybe something we should be worried about, but probably not something we solve by legislatively privileging access of dissenting views, no matter how nuts, to platforms.

I just wanted to add one final thing. Matthew Lyon was a congressman. When John Adams passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, Lyon attempted to publish a piece calling Adams a dictator and a tyrant for doing so. The local newspaper, the Rutland Herald, would not publish it. So Lyon started his own newspaper. Lyon was subsequently convicted and jailed. In this example, we see three things: (1) the government jailing Lyon is a restraint on free speech and unconstitutional. (2) The Herald not publishing his letter is not a restraint on free speech. (3) Lyon did what we would expect people to do: work to amplify their own voice when others will not.

Today it is easier than ever to "start your own newspaper". You might find that no one reads it -- but you are not entitled to their readership, just as Lyon was not.
I have a lot of different interests. One is to examine the type of people a topic gathers online or the type they become. (hard to tell the difference) Academics usually have platforms and channels that are highly on topic which is an efficient approach but at the same time it rules out all other discussions with the people they know and hang out with online, every day, for decades and (despite ability) keeps their thoughts undeveloped. Our greatest minds have extracted themselves like that from the topics where we badly need them. (like politics)
If you have an AWS account and want a lightweight, cheap and privacy-friendly alternative, you can have a look at https://github.com/ownstats/ownstats as well.
I feel like we're talking about two wildly different things.

On the one hand, we have a Tucker Carlson character doing, well, Tucker Carlson things. People got upset, started listing off all the advertising relationships on his show, and raised a ruckus. This isn't some ancient history scenario, it's happening now, in real life.

On the other, we have slaver statues being dumped into harbors in England. This is way more in line with your comment.

Are you lumping them both together into cancel culture? They seem pretty different in many respects to me, though they do share some characteristics as well. I'm trying to understand and would appreciate your thoughts.
Because it's a lot more than just a movie. Millions of people witnessed aspects of the program in person over a 10-year period. The workers, their families, and the public. You'd have to spend enough money to fool all of them.
That a law is passed is not evidence that the law is constitutional or just. Sometimes large industries will even successfully lobby for laws that promote their own interests at the expense of the interests of the entire nation.
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Our older users have been much more tech-savvy than we anticipated when we first started working on this. Roughly 10k people turn 65 each day, and many of them are in the generation that is used to relying on an iPad every day. That said, we've tried to incorporate tiny UX considerations wherever we can, such as adapting with the phone's text size settings and increasing the size of touch targets.

We've also found that folks are generally overconfident but misinformed about nutrition (probably due to the overwhelming amount of information online and in the media) but anxious and risk-averse when it comes to trying new forms of exercise.
I understand it today with the knowledge of current events fresh in my mind, but it won't age well.
> like it or not it is not a natural human sentiment to stop and go "well one hundred years ago my great grandfather benefited unfairly...".

It's not a hundred years ago, it's this year, right now.

And I think if you're going to bend to "natural human sentiment", then you might as well give up on trying to get people to change at all. Why try to get people to exercise or learn if "natural human sentiment" is to sit on the couch and watch TV?
A shotgun blast to the head is guaranteed fatal, so that would be 1 million micromorts (guaranteed death).
I give it a year before the project gets canned. Google is great at tools and utilities (e.g. Maps, Gmail) but whenever they try their hand at something that involves the human soul, they fail at attracting regular people. For all of Pinterest's faults, at least their branding is such that most people don't see it as a generic giant corporation.
I agree (and I hope most people could agree) that this downside exists. I think the harder question is how to weigh this downside against the upsides of better representation. For example, of course it's also bad for kids to learn that "xxxxx people can't be doctors." Affirmative action comes in lots of different forms, and I think there's room to optimize for more than one problem at the same time.
The other problem is that moderating content doesn’t make them the publisher. That is literally the point of section 230, giving platforms the ability to moderate without becoming responsible for the content.
> Better with some vehicles parked on the street. Most everyone would drive at a safe speed here.

[author shows picture of a street so crowded with parked cars, even a single car cannot safely drive through without swerving]

The author has bad taste
More evidence of systemic bias in hiring practices:

"This paper suggests that African-Americans face differential treatment when searching for jobs and this may still be a factor in why they do poorly in the labor market. Job applicants with African-American names get far fewer callbacks for each resume they send out. Equally importantly, applicants with African-American
names find it hard to overcome this hurdle in callbacks by improving their observable skills or credentials."

https://cos.gatech.edu/facultyres/Diversity_Studies/Bertrand...
When you have a stronghold, it makes more sense to build an ever larger moat.
Seems better than sprinkling it with misleading false-quantification through scientism based charts and figures.
This was featured in a lovely QI bit from years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brsn5Z_uVKk (Featuring trevor noah before he became internationally famous!)
"invisible" syntax is precisely want I don't want. That's practically the definition of a bug!

I know I set myself up for the last line. I can only say I've really made a good faith effort to try to understand the explanations for braces, and none make any sense to me. I've had nearly ten years writing more or less python alongside braced languages (I agree it's not a massive pain), and outside of the REPL - I have literally never seen an IndentationError (err.. that's the same as "doesn't run" to me), or "hard to diagnose bugs". Almost never a TypeError, either. Maybe a dozen or so?

I need to understand, from source code, how the instructions flow. For that, I and essentially all other humans need indentation. I never want the machine to interpret the instruction flow differently to me. I genuinely cannot understand how someone can fail to produce python code to that standard. I trivially can in any language which includes syntax specifically for giving a machine a separate understanding of program flow to humans.
Their app store is on their devices. They forbid any other similar service.

So they creted a platforn and enforce service. Thats creating playground, rules and playing the game.

Remember microsoft was subjected to antitrust regulations for providing web browser with the os. This was considered unfair practice. Forcing people to give up 30 of revenue goes much much further.

By giving customers no choice, it's limiting hardware capabilities of your device.
Unless they changed something the last couple of years, WordPad is just a wrapper around the Windows rich edit common control[1], which as its name implies, is based around RTF[2].

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/rich...

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/em-s...
You can't survive a shotgun blast to the head. Most of your head will be mist.
So glad to hear your mom has been finding it valuable! Will pass that along to the team.
Google has not a similar model as Apple, alternative stores are possible.

These rotten apple gangsters need to be stopped (by legislation). A huge fine (50 billions) is in order!

It's not only about the 30 % extortion fee but also e.g. Phone Story. A member of a platform duopoly should be disallowed to uniquely control the single access point.
Ending the WOD will move us from having organized crime producing drugs to sleazy outfits trying to get rich quick. I don't want to understate what a massive improvement it will be because you'll be buying from someone afraid of going to jail, but it's not like Bayer is going to start selling heroin again. You'll still often be buying drugs from people who are maliciously stupid.
They might also try to kill you themselves. Honestly I think most murderers (or would-be-murderers, or people who [try to] hire murders) are probably not thinking about their situation rationally. Phrased another way: most murders are not rationally motivated. Therefore I don't think the 'rational analysis' approach to predicting who might try to have you dead is likely to work well.

There are exceptions to everything but I think in general the more erratically somebody behaves, the more you should be concerned.
I'm very much in the camp of "the site owner sets the policy on their site".

But with the Network Effect naturally concentrating communication to a few sites, I'm starting to feel conflicted about that.
But this is economics, not music theory. And while a history paper titled 'Hitler did not start world war 2' may not have any data to back up its claim, if it didn't then it wouldn't be a very good one.
> Basecamp / Hey is providing value to Apple's products by enriching their ecosystem

Apple is providing value to Basecamp/Hey by providing a smartphone and an operating system that can run Hey app. "Hey" can simply remove the app from App store and provide a web based version if they don't want to pay for convenience of iOS and iPhone.
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I'm not contending that dumb ads are the same as ads on the web. I'm saying that the killing off of RSS feeds is not due to lack of ability to advertise.

If it were simply about only showing "smart ads", Reuters could just continue to publish headlines and links without content in their RSS feeds, but they're not.
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This is verbatim what I told my wife and mother when my son slept 3 times its normal sleep length for the first time.

It took him 3 years to have a complete night.

Now a teenager, it takes me 20 minutes to drag him out ofbhis bed at 10 in the morning.
I don't know why you're worried about sears because either they are unregistered and illegal or registered and covered under the firearm sale ban. Adjustable stocks are arguably a concern because they make building rifles shorter than 26 inches easier. I'm not going to comment on anything else and I'm not pushing any specific agenda with this post, but those were my initial thoughts about those items.
> Email is being replaced by Slack

I don't know about this one. For example, I'm not going to invite every one of our clients to our Slack as a single-channel guest, nor am I going to be joining their Slack workspaces (if any of them even have one - most of them are in the Microsoft ecosystem). I'm also not going to do that with every vendor I'm in contact with, and so on — email is much more convenient. That being said, most of our internal communication within the company is on Slack, but that's a small slice of what emails are used for.
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That sounds like a monopoly problem, not a free speech problem.

There's way better explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576919
I'm the founder of a new service in this space: https://www.kontxt.io. Check it out, and let me know what you think.

Enterprise - It’s Slack, but on top of digital content.

Education - LMS with interactive layer for notes and assignments.

Website - It’s Disqus, but inline with your content.

Personal - It’s Pocket, Genius, and Reddit combined.
It's less a summary of "what happened" (which is already quite familiar to most of the shorts and FinTwit types who follow DonutShorts), and more of an accounting of who dropped the ball and who was on the right side of the Wirecard fraud.
There was an episode of Sliders where you can withdraw however much money you want from an ATM, but each dollar is a ticket in a euthanasia raffle to keep overpopulation down. A little different from micromorts though.
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And Apple also has to host your app and your assets, provide storage through things like CloudKit, provide services through GameCenter, customer support and refunds, centralized notification system etc.
And Maemo was not based on Linux, was based on Debian!!!111
>>What person from an underrepresented group wants to be chosen just because of their group status? Isn't that highly patronizing for someone who likely had worked hard to get to where they got? Do you want to be "pretty great for a xxxxx person!" or just "one of the best".

For comparison, consider the case of people who get their jobs via nepotism. The people who are hired for nepotism are seldom concerned with the fact that they were chosen because of who their parents were. In many cases these people are reasonably qualified and do just fine in spite of the fact that they were given the job because of their family's status.

When there is a preponderance of talent and success is hard to quantify precisely, choosing the best means choosing between a number of comparably good alternatives (to within the large uncertainty of the measurement). In certain cases there are very meritocratic scenarios where I think your statement holds, but when there is a surplus of talent for a role and quantifying success is very imprecise, I'm not sure if meritocracy makes sense.
Given that many hedge funds are basically glorified ETFs that average to the market, I'm not if there is much difference between reasonably qualified candidates for these jobs.
There are ways. Lots of podcasts etc are RSS and behind paywalls. Agree we should make it easier and companies are starting to pop up that empower and enable the distributed internet rather than destroying it, even as spotify is making major moves in the other direction.
Have you considered talking with a mental health therapist? Sometimes that can help.
>Microsoft are leveraging their monopoly in the office world to force teams onto the world

I'm by no means a MS fanboy but I find your comment odd...

How are they doing this exactly? I'm genuinely curious where you're coming from...

Teams is bundled into O365 but you can use Slack, Mattermost or whatever other product you want.
You've brought exactly as many sources to bear in this conversation as the parent you've replied to, which is to say, none. When admonishing others for their lack of sources and making a counterclaim, you may want to consider providing the source yourself.

As for sources of evidence suggesting disproportionate use of force against black persons, here's one to consider:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/

Victims of fatal shootings by police were majority white, but disproportionately black. Additionally, black individuals were unarmed when fatally shot more frequently than white persons.
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I would actually blame the corrective action for it. Companies are not personal, they are purely about managing business and risks. When you hire a person, you care for 2 things:

1. How likely will they perform their duties in a way that is profitable to the company?

2. How much will it cost to the company to fire them, if they turn out to generate loss.

Some people may have a stereotype that people of certain backgrounds would perform worse than people of other backgrounds, so that would affect heir judgement at point 1. However, if we make special rules that make it harder to fire underperformers from certain backgrounds, it greatly increases the costs at point 2, making them actually much less favorable candidates.

So in the current political climate, companies at the same time are forced to:

1. Claim that they will prefer diverse candidates and have diversity policies.

2. Actually avoid diverse candidates, because in case they underperform, laying them off would be considerably more expensive due to PR issues.

The study very much confirms this behavior, and I bet that making more special rules will only make it worse.
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One of my friends lived in Healy, Alaska, the nearest town to the bus.

He said that a lot of people came to the area trying to relive McCandless' journey. Locals called them "pukers" because they would go into the woods and within a few days of attempting to forage for food, would inevitably eat or drink something contaminated or one of the various mildly poisonous plants in the area, begin vomiting, and give up and return to town (hopefully).

I always thought of McCandless' story as a cautionary tale. I don't think it means we should compromise on our ideals, but I do think it means we need to build skills and awareness. There are causes worth dying for, but most of the time dying can and should be avoided.
> Why does your value to other companies increase faster than your value to your own company?

I think there's a lot that goes into this, which also shows how complex the topic is.

- There's your actual value and your perceived value

- When you're there and filling a niche, there may not really be a lack for a specific skill set which (might exist if you left) which there might be at the other company.

- Companies aren't always good and managing their desire to pay the least amount possible to retain an employee (natural, to keep costs down) with the employees willingness to leave, if they even have any inkling of the latter.

- An employees willingness to leave can have many inputs, some of them nothing to do with work, so it's hard to judge (e.g. lack of ability to work from home some days can go from a small annoyance to a reason to look for alternate employment depending on what else is going on in their life).

etc.

As to whether your skill should always be increased to the company you're at, I think that's generally true, but may not be in the specific instance. People get complacent, and sometimes the work environment can cause a excellent employee to perform in a mediocre manner, and vice versa.
Ok, I'm going to downweight this thread for now. We can revisit the story if it turns out to be true.

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> Remember microsoft was subjected to antitrust regulations for providing web browser with the os. This was considered unfair practice. Forcing people to give up 30 of revenue goes much much further.

This only became an issue when their market share was far greater than the competition, which is simply not the case.

This is just developer sour grapes. You want more money. Just say it.
If you'd asked me a half hour ago I would definitely have said RSS' lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk, but then this Reuters thing happened and I can categorically assure any one who would like to know that RSS is not dead, it's just pining for the fjords.
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I used to love Apple products when I was a kid.

This is Apple's 1984 commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

They aren't the same company anymore. They started making fun of people that used other products. They started to say you can only use use Apple products this way. They started to say, "you're holding it wrong". They started to just pretend to be user-friendly and stopped actually being user-friendly.