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There are some components to the interview you can directly affect, and some you can't.

By grinding leetcode, you raise the odds that you'll get a problem you've seen before, or at least similar enough that you recognize the way to solve it without having to waste time by starting from absolute scratch. I guess that's still luck, but this is one area you can increase the odds in your favor.

You can't change whether you get a hostile interviewer, etc. of course.
Which is why you get a lot of over-confident engineers who are good at memorizing data structure/algo questions and talking BS but are terrible at real day-to-day SE work. The modern tech interview passes over so many great potential engineers.
Kids especially frequently get fever after vaccines. It's very common.
In a business, you are either don't hire them in the beginning or fire them in the end. Not everyone should be a software engineer (where would the users come from?). A large labor market organizes people into better jobs when they are passed over for or fired from a position.
In all honesty they're typically just banking on people not noticing it and are trying to make it as little of a fuss as possible and get it up before it gets to twitter. The problem is when it's not just a small blip and they haven't addressed it and it goes mainstream and is still down, it just leads to concerns about transparency.

Building infra I have to work around all sorts of 3rd party services going out or having blips throughout the day, docker registries, caches, bgp, etc., it's totally an expected part of infra design but not every team has the time or need to build in the resiliency. I see tons of outages that never get reported or IMO aren't reported adequately enough.

With that said, I'm no angel, I get all my service down notifications through slack, so when slacks down..
>Bad interviews make for bad hires. Bad hires can cost a company more than not hiring at all.

But is that really true? There are plenty of companies who take a Fire Better approach (Amazon, Netflix to name a few) who seem to be doing just fine.
Did the assailant come with a chainsaw? How did the saw get there? It's highly unlikely that a condo dweller would have a chainsaw sitting around.
People who are unemployed through no fault of their own in Germany are not in danger of starvation and homelessness. That's a key difference.
"unrecycable nuclear waste France was producing in 2016"

Yeah so nuclear waste is recycled in large part. See Mox. But I agree, I wish we'd use FNRs too. Too bad the Green party shut down the first reactor (SuperPhenix) in the 90s.

"waste we can not store safely."

Did you do your homework? See CIGEO.
no, most of the noise is from people who aren't as well-known or intellectually rigorous as chomsky and rushdie (whether you agree with them or not). these well-known rhetoriticians expect and likely welcome the pushback (obviously the counterarguments, not the threats on their lives). theirs is the exceptional context, not the exception that invalidates the general condition.
My two favourites lakes in the Yukon - SNAFU and TARFU (Things are Really Fued Up).

Named, of course, by the Army when they built the Alaska Highway.
I'm in a similar position - a tech lead role at a Big N - and have recently been doing some interviews for senior roles at FAANG. The most frustrating thing is knowing I can't really leverage anything I've learned over the past 7 years of my career in the interview, at least at the early stages. I've been "studying" Leetcode after work for a month or so but always seem to make stupid mistakes under the time pressure of the interview. I don't want to spend my entire career at one company, but it's clear I'll need to be very lucky and/or practice much harder on my own time if I want anything like a similar position/salary elsewhere.
Our 3.0 release, coming out in a few days, has some major design improvements. Visual design continues to be a major focus area for us.

-Zulip lead developer
The key thing that makes aviation safe is not treating low-level incidents as OK just because they haven't turned into major incidents. One of the major, repeated root causes of catastropic failures in nominally robust, redundant and safe systems, across multiple industries, is the normalization of deviance - the acceptance of safety failings because they haven't lead to a critical disaster yet. The more I hear from nuclear advocates, the more convinced I've become that pro-nuclear advocacy is fundamentally incompatible with the existence of safe nuclear power plants, if that is even possible.
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> When nuclear is shut down, it gets replaced with something worse. Often coal!

The implication that this is what happened in Germany is misinformation. None of the energy production of retired nuclear plants in Germany was replaced by coal. Renewable energy replaced the vast majority of it over the last 10 years, and coal use is down by 50% in that period.
The company I work for moved to Gitlab because we were pessimistic on GitHub in the past few years. I don’t really have a strong opinion on which is better though, I still keep my private repositories on GitHub. However, I feel that Microsoft will start feeling the pain soon as more people in the development community get sour on GitHub.
I thought discord shared your IP with chat room admins. I don’t remember very well.
IIRC they had an explicit question last time I installed it, but it’s been a few years now.
If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, by Daniel Elsberg.

It's terrifying but highly informative.
i agree but regarding your example about failing companies that you’ve previously had offers from: ive seen this as well. but it was a case of hubris where the person didn’t put in the work to prepare as hard the second time because of their previous results.

the shitty thing about interviewing is you have to prepare hard every time you approach it
This is essentially the "effective altruism" argument, and I don't disagree with it. I was simply explaining my gut reaction, which I think is also worth discussion alongside a conversation about the true value of nuclear energy.

People's perception of nuclear energy is just as important for policy as the science of nuclear energy.
It's been known, but there are a lot of naysayers as shown by people who still conduct this type of interview.

Science serves as definitive evidence which side is right or wrong.
It is an upcoming book, as the title describes. It will be available later in the year.
Exactly. This difference between "we're only going to update the status page if a customer comes screaming to us that the service has been unavailable for the past 24 hours and they've received no updates" and "we have automated systems in place to updated the status page if the p95 response time exceeds XXX (among other things)".
Have a chat with the owner and failing that see if you can setup a clamping company and do a deal with one to clamp anybody that encroaches on your property. May as well make some money from it.
why? Why would you do so? Did you gain any significant improvement in your final results compared to the original software? Why would rewrite a software that already works fine, other than not having the will to learn a bit of a new language? Why???
The best triage policies I've ever gotten to work with had severity and priority separated.

Severity went something like this (sometimes the numbers flip which always confuses at least 20% of the team about whether things are almost normal or people are hunting each other for sport).

1: data loss

2: some workflows blocked

3: some workflows unavailable w/ workarounds (ie other routes)

4: Everything else except

5: Irritations

Having a UI break but the underlying functionality is still working is not good but people can still do their jobs, if more slowly. It's important to classify these separate from S2 and S4. There is urgency but don't panic. Go eat lunch or have your planning meeting, then go fix it. If data is getting lost ain't nobody doing nothin' until we figure it out, and then some people can go back to work but don't interrupt the people still working on it.

I think the problem is that so many metrically dysfunctional people, to the point of cliché, have rationalized that an S2 means that only 20% of our customers can't do their jobs so we are degraded but still working normally, when really a yellow status should be at S3, while S2 should be at least orange although those affected will be upset that it's not red.

Over time that 20% will shift around to most of your customers. Eventually several times, and then you'll wonder why everyone is talking trash about you on HN. It's not like that many people were affected!
The Principle of Charity is "designed" under an assumption of a closed or semi-closed community with the abilities to 1. kick people out of the community, and 2. absorb new people into the community slowly-enough that the new people will enculturate to the community's norms, rather than the influx of people shifting the community's norms towards its own.

The classical "community" being referred to here is academia. The Principle of Charity works within academia. It also works within trade-guilds, member's clubs, etc. Any group with both friction to get in, and the ability to exclude people for bad behavior, filters for there being almost-entirely "well-behaved towards fellow group-members" people inside the group at any given time.

The Principle of Charity can work in open-membership communities, like HN, but only for as long as the community remains a niche community with linear growth.

The Principle of Charity probably fails within society as a whole, or in open-membership forums with exponential growth, e.g. Reddit or Usenet.

And it especially fails when you have people from cultures with conflicting beliefs in the same place. Which is why "diplomacy" was invented: to create a shared "diplomatic pseudo-culture" that diplomats can be members of, such that they share norms with one-another and can communicate in a way their non-diplomat citizens cannot.
It's low carbon generation getting built that otherwise would've been gas or coal. India only has about 7GW of nuclear generation capacity (with ~5GW in development), but has a target of 100GW of solar by 2022 (which between cheap labor and cheap hardware, is entirely feasible). Ground mount utility scale solar is very cheap per MWh, and very fast to deploy (years, not decades).
Why would that be the case? Khashogi was clearly speaking up and was wanted killed, even he knew it
I think we need to come up with effective alternative to whiteboard interviews. Who’d be interested in forming a working group to come up with something?
The other fields have various ways to filter out people.

* Accounting has CPA exams/certifications

* Law has the bar exams/law school

* Medicine has the USMLE/medical school

Tech prides itself on the fact that "anyone" can be a great tech worker regardless of how you get there - read some books, attend a bootcamp, go to college, or even just start banging out code on the keyboard until you gain experience

Unfortunately, that means that the companies have to have some filter
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This is essentially the point of a lot of hiring and performance evaluation theory.

E.g. it's acceptable (but not ideal) not to promote talented commanders. It's catastrophic to promote someone to General who isn't ready or is unsuited.
Google should face a lawsuit for intentionally breaking the audio challenge in captcha when someone is using a proxy or has the fingerprinting protection enabled (same for cloudflare with their hcaptcha actually which does not even have an audio challenge). Also for making captcha more difficult when using firefox.
Just to confirm, this only seems to relate to popcon/popularity-contest, and not the other data collection features.

The other two main ones are Apport for crash reporting, and ubuntu-report, which sends system info if opted-in at install.
Really? I didn’t study at all for the interview for my current job (although I did put up with some very broken HR software for a few weeks while getting hired.)
Right, no doubt about that. However, the perception of nuclear energy is just as important for policy as the science of nuclear energy. Therefore, I think gut reactions are important to discuss alongside the science.
Not that the stack behind the scenes should directly affect the overall quality of the product but I find it interesting that both GitHub and GitLab are build on Ruby/Rails -- is this a coincidence or is there something about Rails that makes this kind of project easier to write?
Wearing sunglasses is often viewed as impolite too. I am not arguing against masks I am just saying that there are some cultural obstacles that make people uncomfortable wearing them. It would take some leadership to get around those.
Canada desperately needs more public washrooms
For the same reason that the CEO of the fortune-500 I work at ran around with a broken phone screen for the better part of a year: things cost time and energy, not just money. Children even moreso. Being cash-rich doesn't make you rich in time and energy.
> There really is no reason to switch between actual physical keyboards to use a different keyboard layout, even if you need to look at the keys(and it would still require you to switch layouts in software). Surely googling a layout cheat sheet is easier than switching keyboards.

In my case, more than switching, it's that my laptop has a spanish set (work provided), and I went through the trouble of buying an external one with an English layout. It's not like I'm switching between them every few minutes, the Spanish one is left unused. I don't even bother switching layouts, since I can perfectly write Spanish with the English layout (the only missing keys are accents, which I omit in informal texts, and the ñ key that I can get long pressing the n).

I could use the Spanish one and look at a cheat sheet from time to time, but it's inconvenient enough that the 40 extra bucks feel like a good inversion.
Yea! You can run copilot svc package which spits out the CloudFormation for the service.
If I use the S&P 500 instead (easier calculation given available data for me), the the FANG is a huge portion. (Yes, 5 companies out of 500 are by definition 1/100.) No argument about headcount, though.

Take a look at the second chart (bottom of "Page 1", the third actual page considering the title page and contents page). [0]

Revenue may be small, but profits are huge, and market capitalization (aka "wealth") is absolutely massive. And that market cap is what feeds retirement plans & pensions. So while Europe is taxing people, the US is growing profits and wealth.

The World Economic Forum had this to say about Europe's tech giants in 2017: "In total more than a third of European tech founders are based in the UK." [1] That doesn't bode well for the future, when your economy is stuck in old industries, and the leader is leaving the party.

BTW, hats off to the Finns - not sure what they are doing with gaming, but they punch well above their weight.

When it comes to creating wealth, taxation doesn't do anything but redistribute it. In order to actually generate wealth, you need capital, and people who use that capital more efficiently & effectively will become richer. It is a virtuous spiral. And what's important is that every one of those high paying tech jobs is one less low-paying job. Most of the low paying jobs have existed for decades in various industries (esp retail), but most of those tech jobs didn't exist 20 years ago. I can only imagine how many high paying tech jobs there will be in the US in 20 more years, even though I expect low-paying jobs to still outnumber them.

[0] - https://www.yardeni.com/pub/yardenifangoverview.pdf

[1] - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/meet-europe-top-tech-...
Gayle Laakman specifically has a business empire dedicated to help people get through the process. Regardless of the actual merits of the process her opinion is going to be biased.
That's an interesting suggestion, but wholly impractical. I can "start" a business this afternoon, but that doesn't mean it's going to make me money or be able to support me.
> There's basically no advantage to Ubuntu now except community.

Ding Ding Ding. This is why I still recommend Ubuntu, there's a community and a wealth of knowledge out there for working with Ubuntu.

Though if you are more experienced and deal with nuanced issues you will find often the community is outdated and this is a double edged sword -- a lot of material out there is for older Ubuntu distros and is no longer relevant.
Omitted in the article: the reason why a gas plant (and not coal as written in the article) is picking up the load is because the french nuclear industry is years behind schedule for putting online the Flamanville EPR.

The original political deal was putting online the EPR then closing Fessenheim, partly to avoid going over the legal limit for nuclear power capacity set by "PPE" law in France.

According to wikipedia [1] Flamanville EPR construction started in 2007 with budget of 3.3 billions EUR and completion date of 2012.

Current estimates are 19.1 billions EUR and end of 2022 for completion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
"It has horrible string support", this is untrue. Learn Fortran 2003, 2008, 2018.
> Intuitively it'd seem that the greater dissemination of information with social media and messaging apps would make people smarter and promote critical thinking

I naively believed this too. It's wrong. The Internet and the various apps, sites, and social media things running on it aren't an information dissemination system, they are a data dissemination system. They take bytes and get them in front of many humans. The system itself cares not one whit as to whether the data it transmits has any connection to reality.

The result is that the Internet functions as a mostly indiscriminate amplifier of its inputs. Sadly, it is much easier to input lies than truth. First of all, creating lies takes much less effort since no measurement or fact checking is required. I could tell you a hundred lies about what the neighbor next door is doing in the time it took you to go over there and ring the doorbell. Worse, my lies can be crafted to take full advantage of all of the human biases and flaws in the social media systems. I can make lies that are emotionally loaded, play into stereotypical narratives, or have evocative photos. Meanwhile, you foolish truth-teller are restricted to only the narratives that actually happened and the imagery that you actually took of the event.

When you think of London in the Industrial Revolution, do you picture all of the bright shiny products of industrialization? The newly affordable textiles? Or is it more an image of a city covered filthy coal soot? It feels like we're in the latter state right now: buried under the pollution of disinformation.

We need to think of "information pollution" and need an "information environmentalism" movement if we're going to survive the Information Age.
What's up with the real estate byline?
> surely it's feasible to build a dedicated video calling device on Android that is multi platform at this price point.

Yes, but will it still be easy to use? I'd wished there would be a standard way to encode voice, so that various applications, devices and service providers were compatible. You know, like phone service used to be ...
Hence why I said "news coverage", not "the linked article". In Lagos we've been following this story for over half a day now - here's the article that broke the story https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-headless-t...
The statistics i've seen do include resource extraction (which is pretty safe for nuclear power, because you need so little fuel).

I have not seen them refuted on HN. I would be interested to see a refutation - and if a refutation is posted every time, it should be easy for you to find.
> in the US were most employees get rich

Really? I thought most startup get a successful exit, result into their employees being modestly compensated, probably on par with the counterparts in mega corps.
> My takeaway, I guess—parents, make your kids do debate!

He's encouraging parents to make their kids learn this skillset. He is absolutely advocating for it.
> Wow, talk about a word-salad to defend privelege.

"I'm on the right side of history, and for other people like me, here is how to navigate this trying persecution".

It's also clear that you can replace the term "orthodox privledge" with "perspective" and the good parts of the article would make complete sense while excluding the rather uncritical parts, since their substance largely hinges on the rhetorical value of this weaponized spin on the term privilege.

What's funny is he has no idea this entire elaboration can be perfectly applied to himself since, again, the whole thing lives-or-dies on the implicit perspective that he, or whatever persecuted idea(s), is on the "right side of history. Like, which perspective is defining orthodox?
"Round up the Uighurs".
Words are tools of communication. They have meanings. Those meanings shift over time, and according to context.

In the context of a programming discussion, "Just hash the string and see if you get a match" is a reasonable and meaningful thing to say. In the context of cooking breakfast, it's meaningless drivel.

Reasonable people try to use words that their current audience will understand in the current context. If they make a mistake, they learn from it.

Unreasonable people insist that they are being victim-blamed.
I made the mistake of answering Google recruiter without a CS degree and "only" an EE/CompE and 10 years Software experience. Junior interviewer would not proceed past some algorithm question regarding boxes of pennies by weight, as he wanted a specific algorithm to be used in my solution, which I clearly didn't know. Recruiter then ghosted me, so F off Google for wasting my limited time like this.
> we're not even seeing the benefits

Apple employs 6000 people in Cork.
I'm a sucker for anything that takes the "let's learn it by building it" approach, so will definitely pick this up. Looking forward to it!
By comparison, in a recent FAANG interview for general dev, I was asked to reconstruct a BST from preorder and postorder traversals (Leetcode 889), and also to design a thread pool that is aware of dependencies among tasks. It sounds like the experience really varies!
Not specifically in France, but at least in Pretoria, South Africa an Uber driver's car was set on fire with him inside and he died. That's the only one where someone was burned to death in a car that I remember hearing about but there may have been other similar incidents.
He was followed by a man he did not invite to his apartment, doesn’t look like he knew his killer
Yup! I just updated Windows and got a crash. Relaunched it and it was ok

Faulting application name: OUTLOOK.EXE, version:
16.0.13001.20266, time stamp: 0x5ef2a169
Faulting module name: mso98win32client.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5ef2771f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000000beef2
Faulting process id: 0x3be0
Faulting application start time: 0x01d65ad25f628bf7
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\root\Office16\OUTLOOK.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office16\mso98win32client.dll

It's also very nice how easy it is to roll back one program on Windows!

officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.12827.20470