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That's fine for your code repository.

However git has more:
- Bug tickets
- PR
- Wiki
- many projects use their githubpages as primary homepage
- newly GitHub actions

And then: Often collaborators are only known and identified by their GitHub handle. Running an own server requires some mechanism to identify them again and creating a way to handle their access credentials (ssh key etc.)

Moving a mildly successful project isn't easy. Good if more people plan for that eventuality, even if they stay on GH for the time being.
So the study seeks to investigate the role of an in person judge on the whiteboard interview. The study found that a private whiteboard interview, where the candidate gets the same problem but solves it without a judge in the room, was better at evaluating software engineering skill than the same question with a judge in the room. To your point, we can keep all the benefits of algorithm questions with less of the disadvantages by modifying the typical whiteboard interview to just remove the judge in the room.
Stereotyping is when you say that "people of a group all (do|are) X". The concept of "white privilege" is describing how society treats people; it's not describing how those people are. It's saying "people of a group all encounter X". That's a very different thing.
We've had a cultural revolution that was directly an uproar against the things you say there never was an uproar against.
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to express unpopular, wrong and even vile ideas. I support the freedom of people that I disagree with to express their thoughts and ideas.
Yea, I had one take home problem where the instructions stated "Please don't take more than 1 hour to solve." So, just once, I decided to hold myself to one hour, and barely managed to get to a solution that worked.

During the code review in the follow-up interview, I was raked over the coals for not writing tests, failing to cover edge cases, etc. ,etc. Basically, they expected production-ready code. Didn't get the job.
It's not usually _this_ slow though
Mandatory insurance is mandatory insurance, not tax. To claim otherwise is manipulative.

I already included the Soli in my calculations and church tax is strictly optional.
'20-Percent Time' Is Just One Way to Make Room for Side Projects
What about when they find out when researching social media? You know, as the US does? (For other reasons)
Communicating Science in the Time of a Pandemic
As stated in the article, the 40 year lifespan is a lie from 'les verts'.
The facility was built for 40 year with minimal maintenance.
This is not the lifespan if the facility was well maintained.
Yikes. Use Outlook Web Access (OWA)!!
For one thing, USB itself is moving entirely to Type-C as of v4.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23637920
I surveyed 50 engineers a little while ago on how they take notes. This is what I learned.

Most people's notes have two phases [0]:

1) Jot-down

2) Organize

In the jot-down phase, you write down thoughts and gather any raw resources that are useful to you (code snippets, links, etc.). These notes are messy.

In the organize phase, you pull notes from your jot-down that are worth keeping and refine/categorize them. These become your reference notes.

Usually people use two different tools - one for jot-down and one for organize. This leads to lots of copy-paste and things being more difficult to find later. Working on a tool [1] for fast jot-down and organize in one place,

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[0] over 90% of people surveyed used Apple Notes, Google Keep, or raw text files for their notes.

[1] https://bytebase.io
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> It's a question you've seen and practiced but your brain freezes and you can't remember how you solved it. Or something you've seen and earmarked to practice, but couldn't get to it before the interview day. This has happened to me.

Same. I had an interview the day before I was scheduled to review binary trees. What was it on? Binary trees.
Today, for the first time, I went back to the office. It was horrible. I had to get up earlier. I had to shower before my first meeting. Get entirely dressed. Walk to the subway. Walk, walk, walk. Just to sit at a desk in an office with my laptop carried from home. What a waste of time and energy!

PS: yes, it was nice to see some colleagues but I don’t wanna do it more than once a week. Max!
The bulk of French renewable is hydro, which is not going to grow, and has been there for ages. It's actually a very good complement to nuclear plants.

It's disingenuous to point at 28% renewables as if it's a sudden victory of good wind and solar against bad old nuclear.

Particularly when we know that gas power plants will be built to partially replace Fessenheim.
I agree that using the word "perspective" is useful as a 101-level concept because perspectives can change radically based on a number of socioeconomic and cultural conditions out of their control. I think privilege is a 201-level concept that should only be deployed after someone internalizes the former statement, you gotta walk before you can run.
Everything you mentioned, and how long it takes to pinpoint how a particular thing (route/controller) works when something breaks. Also any monolith is usually "big" enough for me.
Does anyone know why they moved away from vector in the first place? It made sense with the protocol being named matrix. Was it seo?
While we're talking about it what's everybody's favorite Matrix chat rooms to hang out in? Are there any unofficial HN discussion rooms? I run a room here for anyone interested in regional / community run Internet Service projects: #startyourownisp:matrix.org and sometimes hang around in the Riot (now Element) and Matrix chatrooms just to see what's happening there.
For me, it's almost impossible to think in any kind of group situation. I do ok sometimes on interviews. It really depends. If given time alone, even during an interview, with my own tools and without distractions or having to tell the idiot interviewer what I'm thinking (as if anyone can think and talk about two different things, the problem and what the interviewer wants to hear at the same time), I do amazingly well. With another person watching, in-person or remote, I can't even think of how to start. I get caught in loops of anxiety and I can't relax enough to think things through. I also am afraid of trying wrong things so sometimes get paralyzed a bit. Mainly, I try to avoid such interviews and go for ones that will let me solve the problems on my own, with my own tools, without some idiot watching over me.
> Isn't the main point that they can think critically?

Sadly, I'm coming to the conclusion that this is at best completely orthogonal to anything most people care about, and at worst, it's a liability.
One also has to carefully observe, that while France very often exports to Germany, most of the time, the elektricity is passing through Germany towards the south and eastern neighbour states.
I've never done pairing, but this seems like a good suggestion. I've also been looking for an excuse to try https://tuple.app
Do I have to repeat this over and over again? If these non-profit open-source projects [0] are able to self-host a git solution like GitLab, Gitea, cgit or Phabricator instance somewhere, surely your team or open-source project can too.

Even a self-hosted GH Enterprise would suffice for some businesses but this would be overkill for others. I even see the Wireguard author using his own creation (cgit) to self-host on his own git solution for years. [1]

This is problematic since many JS/TS, Go and Rust packages are on GitHub, which many developers rely on. Thus, it would be risky to think about tieing open-source project to (GitHub Actions, Apps, etc).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23818020

[1] https://git.zx2c4.com
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These behaviours are precisely the reason why I enabled popularity-contest, and have telemetry completely disabled on most other software.

Ask beforehand or it'll be denied; mandate or lie and you'll never get a single byte, ever.
I think the anti-religious bias in a lot of technology and leftist spaces is a real problem, and I absolutely take your point on that.

> I've seen articles written to the effect of "if you are against rent control, you must hate the hard working people who benefit from it."

I have too. But I have hardly met anyone who will really be offended at me expressing that rent control can backfire (and I have, among extremely left-wing people). I think the people who are trying to make that a wedge issue are themselves extremists. They exist, but they don't represent a big enough group of people to matter most of the time.
I've been shopping online directly lately and the service and shipping times have been phenomenal. It's almost as though Amazon and small ecommerce shops have swapped places when it comes to quality assurance, service and shipping times.
No auditing capability at the moment, sorry. We focus on helping developers discover and choose packages.
Arguably the customer pays all of a companies taxes, after all that’s where the revenue comes from. The bottom line is those taxes all come from the activities of the company.
trust surveys over anecdotes anytime
This is an interesting anecdote. All too often, interviewers seem to be looking for any reason they can not to hire someone rather than looking for evidence that the person would be a good co-worker. I am guilty of this to some extent, but a lot of it comes down to the interview culture/framework of the company in question.
Because it's only problems within the first three months of ownership. Every car from a company can fall apart at the 90 day mark, but as long as they do ok in the first 90 days they get amazing marks. Toyotas and Hondas are known for hundreds of thousands of miles, but they get no points for that because the survey doesn't go far enough.
If you're on Office 365, the Outlook web client is great (https://outlook.office.com). In fact, I haven't used the full client since 2015, except for rare cases.

Or, you can enjoy the quiet while email is down :)
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (2016)
My understanding and experience is that one of the A's and the N stand apart from the other letters in having a less of a "one size fits all" approach.
FWIW, I didn't bother getting too deep into an analysis (I was an undergrad and not really savvy enough to deep dive, but maybe I could now if I went back :) )

Our model was a space weather model of the solar wind speed and density - it was very iterative, and I think that iterative nature is what contributed to quirks in the transition - think of the issues when summing say, 0.1 ten times in Python (or other languages) - ultimately, we didn't need to do any real work to show that our converged model was within a margin of error and still presented the same results in terms of predicting solar flares - but it was still a lingering curiosity that the numbers weren't exactly the same (as you say!) - most of the work was done in finding the right compiler parameters to not break existing code, while taking advantage of the larger memory space.
This survey is incredibly suspect ... as the author themself states, there's an inherent bias for non-american brands.

I find it surprising the FCA and GM cars are topping the list, while being notoriously unreliable in the car community.

Also worth noting that both Toyota and Ford have been ranked as worse than industry average.

I'm not saying that Tesla(s) don't have quality issues, but this survey seems pretty meaningless.
Woah, USB C dock included with the Convergence version looks really cool. Definitely would close the convergence gap further than just using all the same cable for my devices to actually being able to use docks and similar distros/software!
We're pretty familiar with users sharing IP addresses.

You're right that software defenses inevitably produce false positives, so have to be used carefully.
My pet theory is developers crave challenges. If their project is not challenging enough to stimulate their mind, they will introduce more and more complexities until the project is hard enough to keep them intellectually stimulated. Thus, software development will never converge into a single tech stack as smart developers that got bored as hell working on crud apps will invent new stuff to make their work more interesting and meaningful.

In 5 years react and kubernetes will be considered legacy tech and we will march on to other new shiny tech.
There is a lot of anecdotes in the comments about these interview processes.

The ones with the best data are the company themselves, especially those who interview thousands of candidates a year.
These companies (e.g., all FANG) have enough data to assess which interviewer, which interview questions and which interview process have positive correlation (and even causation) with future employee performance. And they can optimize the pipeline to interview most candidates with the interviewers that can actually assess future employee performance for instance.

Either these companies have already done these optimizations and analyze the trove of data they have, and the process is what it is for a reason. Or they haven't yet and there is still much room to optimize the process, and applicants have a chance to see those processes updated for the better (although here better means better for the company, not necessarily better for the applicant).
The same is true for design/ux jobs interviews. Well, at least for me. I got laid off a couple of months ago, and have been interviewing pretty steadily since then. I have yet to receive an offer.

I already know where my strengths and weaknesses are. I'm fine with 1 on 1s and all that, but when it comes to the technical part of the interview process like a take-home design project or a live design challenge, I usually fail.

I know I have the skills. My work has always been well-received, and I've always received good marks on reviews and feedback, but I haven't been able to translate it to the interview process.

I've tried to assess where I go wrong, and I think I panic and put too much effort into trying to figure out what they want to see or come up with something innovative rather than just doing the work and following my normal approach.

The stress of the time crunch (and sometimes not knowing anything about the product or problem) only add to my inability to improve in this space.

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When I've sat on the other side of the table, I know that most interview processes aren't that well-structured or set up to actually evaluate the candidate. Even when there's a good process, it's often too easy for one person to influence the results.

So sometimes I tell myself that it was a crappy interview process and it just wasn't set up for someone like me to succeed. But I still end up stewing over it and feeling depressed for a few days.
Facility backup generators activate within seconds of an outage, and are load-tested regularly for 30 minutes. In case of heat/smoke/motion detection, facilities managers are sent smartphone alerts. There are very clear SOPs for almost every possibility.

THAT SAID, you can plan for all kinds of issues - power outages, natural disasters, human error, technical error, etc. - but you will never be able to bring risk down to zero.

For this reason, we also offer multi-site storage, whereby we divide samples into multiple tanks across multiple locations. AFAIK, we are the only company in this space to do so.
The quotes in the article are more extreme than what you imply in this comment. You're drawing a false equivalence between every possible reason someone could be against women in the military, and writing an article about how even though women could serve, they shouldn't, because it would destroy "exclusively male intangibles" about men fighting to protect "feminine images".
Is there a way to run Debian on the PinePhone?

I don't mean a debian based OS that is maintained by someone else, but something that is maintained by and can be downloaded from Debian?

If it boots and gives me a shell, I would be happy. I don't need a GUI or phone specific software. If I can have a real linux computer in my pocket, that would be great.
Making a decision based on principle does not strike me as being irrational.
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Perhaps it should be redefined as build quality, but it is still a decent metric worth analyzing.
I think for senior level positions especially it is more important to see how a candidate approaches a problem beyond just memorizing algorithms or LC solutions. I wish there was way more emphasis on "case study" style approach where you could discuss at high level how to build X. Even pulling the candidate into a real technical discussion where you're trying to optimize something and see if the candidate has any input. Building up on experience is what we should be after.

To me, asking LC or the same algo and data structures questions (implement DFS .. wow genius) is just gatekeeping via a measure that most people can pass by just memorizing stuff for a month.
> * sigh * I miss the day when we could state our beliefs and defend them on principle rather than on perception

Yeah, this was never the case for large swaths of people.

Truly the good days in history, where Civil Rights activists noted that, ethically, segregation was problematic. Everyone agreed and racism was solved. They didn't need to worry about offending anyone, people just understood them. Legislation followed swiftly without much kerfuffle. There was no worry about offending the sensibilities of the "white moderate" (letter from a Birmingham Jail really showing up today!)

Missing the days when you didn't need to worry about how your views were perceived is itself a privilege.
Maybe they can figure out a less anxiety-inducing format for testing algorithmic knowledge instead of whiteboarding?
Meanwhile I couldn't be happier with my $16 earbuds that I got for free. Sound quality isn't great but for watching streaming video, podcasts or a quick workout they're fantastic. If I lose them or they break, no big deal.
Yes, nothing compares to USA. I’ve lived in USA and I would gladly live there again but I have a large family here that I am very fond of and it’s not a option for me.
Still for developers in central and Eastern Europe Western Europe doesn’t make sense financially. You make same amount of money and everything is cheaper.
> A shrinking, aging population would fix this problem. The demand for labor will go up, the supply will go down.

In the short term, absolutely. But after a generation, the old working population has retired and the smaller new working population cannot support them.
Down detector is based on twitter complaints and is pretty damn accurate.
Facing the Risk of Nuclear War in the 21st Century
> A data structures and algorithms test is fair and objective.

Anything but! For starters, in 2020 brute-force solutions are not acceptable anymore. Then, there are often several working approaches and substantial percentage of interviewers will fail you just because you use the approach they are unfamiliar with.

But even if you implemented the optimal approach, if the interviewer disliked you as a person then they find a way to fail you regardless. "Sloppy code", "bad communication" - no fairness and objectiveness in those assessments.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why his comments are deemed sexist. Isn't he saying that 13 year old girls aren't as interested in computers as much as 13 year old boys? What am I missing?
PostmarketOS is an incredible project worth supporting: http://postmarketos.org/

They're trying to do for smartphones what PC-compatibles did for home computers: deliver a standardized general-purpose operating system across different hardware.
‘Wow’: Tesla’s share price rise stuns Musk and his fans
This is getting ridiculous letting people's misperceptions of concepts like incognito mode and autopilot have legal ramifications for companies using them correctly.
At some rare companies people ask questions about real-world scaling which has been nice to leverage some actual knowledge but that's usually just a small part of the process and almost treated as a soft-skill which is kind of hilarious.

We just really want to hire a senior dev who can spit out highly optimized code that in the real-world would be handled by a stable open source library rather than people who have built stable systems.
Well, no. That's not how it works.

That stuff only remotely works with US companies because its tax regime wasn't a territorial one. As of a few years ago, the US finally transitioned to a quasi-territorial tax regime, which plugged some of the holes, but not all of them.

And you don't find German (or Japanese, Australian, &c.) multinationals doing this kind of thing because they have _proper_ territorial tax regimes. The US does not, and this kind of thing will continue to be a problem until the US finally does do what the rest of the world does regarding taxation.

And it would be nice if they did the same regarding personal taxation.
Can you show me which part of this graph [0] indicates that Germany is opening new coal? What about CO2 emissions [1]? Shouldn't they go up because Germany is so dependent on new coal?

Okay, lets investigate the claim about Germany buying a lot of power during winter. [2] shows that the seasonal variance in the renewable share is reasonably low. There is one big 9% dip in November but that is about it. That same site also has a nice export chart [3]. Germany did indeed import 1.2TWh from France in December but what about the other months?

Amount of electricity Germany imported from France in 2019

January 130GWh

February 543GWh

March 962 GWh

April 848 Gwh

May 1.8 TWh

June 2.1 TWh

Juli 1.6 TWh

August 2.2 TWh

September 1.7 TWh

October 1.1 TWh

November 673 GWh

December 1.2 TWh

Well, I'm actually surprised by this myself. Germany imported very little energy during Winter and a huge amount during every other season. Overall french electricity imports make up 2.8% of energy consumed in Germany. In terms of energy trade this is quite a significant number but in terms of energy self sufficiency that is almost nothing.

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

[2] https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share_de.htm?source=ren-sha...

[3] https://www.energy-charts.de/exchange_de.htm?source=de_pf&ye...
I suppose we can put "privilege" in the bucket next to "fake news", along with all the other words co-opted to mean the exact opposite of their original meaning..
The current consensus of nuclear winter is probably summed up as "if nuclear weapons turns cities into giant stratospheric soot pumps, we're screwed; if they don't, we've just reversed global warming for a few years."

Looking for recent research, there seems to only be one group modelling nuclear winter scenarios, and those papers seem to be using the 1980s-era numbers for soot generation without commentary on how valid those assumptions are (other than to say that it's contentious) [1]. I don't see any papers directly discussing soot generation in relation to nuclear winter, and I suspect our large-scale fire modelling is not yet capable of answering the question of what the resulting fire from a nuclear warhead strike on NYC would look like.

I'm personally on the side that thinks the stratospheric injection of large-scale metropolitan fires is wildly overestimated (the Kuwaiti oil fires failing to reach that level being evidence of that point), which means that the risks of nuclear winter

[1] And the paper itself has a section on implications for nuclear policy, which sets off motivated-to-reach-a-conclusion research alarm bells for me.
Towards a Geometry of Syntax (2019) [pdf]
Since the criteria isn't disclosed I will just have to assume tesla have the least reliable cup holders.
Why list of government spending destinations? I don't think it's unclear what tax money goes to.