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I’ve been interviewing at a lot of places lately. I _never_ white board interviewed before this round of interviews I’ve done And at first I have to say that I hated it so much.

In a weird way though, I’ve at least grown to understand why it’s so popular, and I don’t think it’s just because FAANGS do it (though I think that’s how it came to prominence). It boils down to showing as an engineer your capable of being flexible and malleable your change and understanding. Some places definitely do this better than others, and I think it says a lot about company culture if they are Adversarial about it or not. In my experience rather unfortunately even good places to work can be adversarial about it.

The massive downside is and always will be it puts so much onerous on the candidate because you don’t really know what they are going to ask and freezing up or getting stumped is very frowned upon in these style interviews from what I experienced.

My tip to anyone though is just to practice, but I’ve yet to encounter places that don’t employ some technique to test algorithmic thinking and understanding of complex systems in some way.
Many of the environments in question are naturally prone to wildfires from lightening strikes, and the ecosystem is dependent on it. For example, some pines develop fire hardy seeds, that require high temperatures to germinate. The Native American practice of burning was at a relatively sustainable level.
You can use pass to share passwords between multiple people in an organization. Pass supports multiple GPG keys per entry, and you can assign sets of keys to directories. You could have a directory per team, for instance.
What if you're using your nose to exhale?
Dunno elsewhere but in France pretty solid fist results on both Google and DDG referring to element hardware from matrix audio (founded 2009). Look like once a legal team enjoyed the fun of legal dispute they always ask for more...

https://www.matrix-digi.com
Under the terms of the deal, Boeing will build a new version of its F-15, an older fighter jet developed in the 1960s, with new automated flight controls and electronic warfare capabilities. The newer model, known as the F-15EX, will be designed to carry heavier weaponry than smaller, stealthier jets like the F-35.

The Air Force is looking for a bomb/missile truck. They already have extensive experience with the F-15, and retraining(pilots/maintainers) and retooling to use the smaller f-18 would most likely cost as much or more as this deal. Also given military structure you would have to spin up a whole new command and maintenance Wing for the new type. Where the f-15 will just get added to an existing f-15e wings.
I think I should have said "full-time" or "professional" landlord. I had thought that the word had a connotation of it being a full-time gig, but I was wrong.
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None, other than for sheer performance. (THROW will perform worse than GO and RETURN since the list of catch tag will need to be traversed on each throw.)

As you mentioned, one can implement both GO and RETURN via THROW plus gensyms - see https://web.archive.org/web/20191008050814/http://home.pipel... for an implementation.
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Sure would be.
Possibly. On the other hand, it does makes sense to feed animals a diet to which they are evolutionarily adapted. Visit a zoo sometime and ask what each animal eats. They are all feed something intended to be nutritionally similar to their natural diet. Because that’s what works.
So, long story short: encouraging first phase, with a whole lot of caveats, it will need to wait on phase 2 and phase 3 even if everything goes well, there are some negative reactions (but in this small group nothing too serious), and it would take at least two doses and the effect starts to fade after a couple months (which doesn't mean it would go away entirely). Plus we really only know that there was _some_ response, not that it would protect you in the way we normally expect a vaccine to.

In other words, long story short, probably not this year.
Taking relatively healthy aged population group and feeding them placebo could achieve similar outcome?
One of the few here it seems who is actually an Airbnb host (a Superhost actually).

For three years, I've managed my grandma's home in Wisconsin as a way to generate income for her and allow the house to stay in the family. It has been our vacation home for four generations and we certainly would have sold it by now if not for Airbnb income during the months of June, August, September each year.

I am trying to earn enough to buy the home and then will continue Airbnb'ing (keeping July for family time) to pay much of the mortgage.

Just an anecdote admittedly, but hopefully one demonstrating that not all hosts are evil landlords, and I would not be surprised if some of our (repeat) annual guests were interested in sending us a card/support because of the relationships we've worked to build and maintain with them.
The concept of a cyclic workflow sounds interesting to me! I also intend mine to be acyclic, but I guess a possible infinite loop is not bad in itself. Maybe I should reconsider my underlying data structure.

Why would a workflow need to be static? I would say that a specific instance of a workflow should be static. The main reason one would want to switch to such a system is because they want their jobs to do (almost) the same thing, but at different points in time. If your task is also changing while it runs, maybe this logic should be within the task, not the workflow. But if your workflow changes over time, that is a very valid point. One which I'm also trying to incorporate with incremental versioning.

Backfills as a separate notion I also find weird.

Lastly I view the executor part as very important. Because imagine you want to run different processes across an organisation inside your scheduling engine. And some are written in a Python environment and others are compiled code. Sure you can schedule it all directly to k8s, but then you lose the advantage of bundling all your workflows into one system specified for that reason. You basically go back to your "cron" example, where you deploy directly on infrastructure. Meaning you never intended to use a workflow engine in the first place :P

Thanks for the input!
This is, yet again, a very bad nontechnical journalistic writeup of much more technical research.

"Whiteboard coding interviews" are not what was studied--the terms the actual study uses seem to be "public" versus "private" interviews, and the finding was that public interviews tested ability to handle anxiety (not stress, as some commenters are misidentifying) rather than coding ability. Critically, both forms of interview studied are whiteboard interviews.

The Register's writeup is inaccurate worthless crap, demonstrating either incompetence or dishonesty on the part of the authors. Let's try to link to original studies in the future.
> Every business should be requried to adversite, print, and clearly mark the amount of the tansaction is going to taxation

That's exactly what happens in Europe, the receipt tells you exactly how much you paid for each of tax and goods.
It goes to all of them.
You're completely ignoring the part about not being indoors with others unless necessary. You're practically talking about dressing up in a biohazard bunny suit like you're going into a COVID ward, but that's just flat-out not necessary if you aren't remotely putting yourself into those kinds of hotspot situations to begin with. I assure you, someone taking these kinds of sanitizing precautions is already not putting themselves into close contact with other people, and is thus already getting most of the gains even being considering masks at all. Then add on wearing a good mask when necessary and you reach the 99+%.
A quote from that World Happiness Report you just linked to:

"Happiness has fallen in America

The USA is a story of reduced happiness. In 2007 the USA ranked 3rd among the OECD countries; in 2016 it came 19th. The reasons are declining social support and increased corruption (chapter 7) and it is these same factors that explain why the Nordic countries do so much better."

> I'm not trying to optimise for anything, rather I'd prefer people are given the chance to optimise for themselves how they spend their time and money, and the less bureaucracy they have to deal with, the easier it is for them to do this.

You've bought into the propaganda propagated by the ultra rich via cable news and other outlets in order to justify their continued accrual of more and more of the world's wealth: That economic freedom is just freedom from taxes - it's not freedom from ever worrying about going bankrupt or becoming homeless if you get sick. That society works better when nobody cares about the well-being of their fellow citizens, that the freedom to care about nobody but yourself somehow makes us stronger as a society, not weaker. That publicly run institutions are always just 'bureacracies' and 'inefficient' - not the solid foundations upon which other parts of society and the market can rest, which many public institutions prove every day, by freeing citizens and companies that rely on them from having to pay for one or more layers of shareholder profits, freeing them to invest in other things instead. The talking points you are reiterating sound good on their surface, but in reality they are just that, talking points. The reality of what the world becomes when they are used as policy is being felt all around the world these days.
Wouldn't it be more important that the staff wear masks?

Does your article touch on that?

If staff WAS wearing masks and clients still got infected, that would contradict the original article, otherwise it is in line with the current narrative that masks don't offer very much protection unless worn by infected people.

Sure, clients could infect other clients.
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Yeah, I don’t see the problem here. Seems like the planet did just fine with less humans on it for quite a while. Even human history shines particularly well after broad population declines.
Like the amazon android store? That wasn't a complete failure at all.
Very interesting but an ELI5 of the implications would be welcome:

Okay it needs 2 injection.
Do they need to be spaced by 42 days?
If so that would induce nuisible inertia.

How many percents of the patients recovered from the covid thanks to to the injection?
I see 80% of response but I don't know how that translate into chance de of curing.
Also how fast did they recover?
The second injection has an adverse response, how bad is it? Too much for mainstream?

It's always fascinated me, this paradox of reporting:
The author has made a lot of researchs and a great write-up but fail to answer the most pressing questions that both mainstream people and shareholders wants!
You could have a very simple `match` with no nested patterns or guards, like Haskell's core language.

> Non-nullability requires generics for a result type which is a huge source of complexity.

Option could be another built-in generic like Map in Go. Or one could simply have to write a new Option type ever time. Sucks, but aren't go programmers used to this sort of thing?

> Generics impacts runtime efficiency.

False
Correct, but as stated in the parent I was asking specifically about the characteristics of the US system.

I personally think it was deliberately put intended as a check/balance. Af the far end of spectrum, the most “efficient” form of government is a dictatorship. I’m not sure if what the US has is the correct balance, though.
You just don't seem to understand droplet transmission. It's not a new concept, it's the same way tons of illnesses get around. Prevent those droplets from getting in to your mouth, and prevent your droplets from getting in to other peoples mouths, and you've done the bulk of the work necessary to avoid spreading disease.

It's really that simple. It's not about being perfect or 100%. It's only about reducing the rate of transmission of the virus and masks are probably the easiest way to do that.

EDIT: And in terms of mass protests, NYC easily had among the largest protests over the course of a month and saw absolutely no increase in the transmission rate of the virus. Why? Probably because everyone wore masks. So don't blame protests, facts don't back that up.
If I set my layout to US then @ and " swap.

So " is Shift+' and @ is shift+2

In UK keyboard layout, @ is shift+', and " is shift+2 (which is what is shown on my keyboard keys).
The main problem with the F-22 is that restarting production will cost $10 billion all on its own. Then each jet would be $200 million. [1] The F-15 is still produced in various configurations for our allies so any change/upgrade is going to be much cheaper.

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/did-someone-say-f-22-...
μ is used a fair bit by anyone who uses the metric system, so it makes sense to include it. It's used as a prefix to denote a millionth for those that don't know, as in µm = micrometer = a millionth of a meter.

It's mapped to Alt-Gr+M on Swedish keyboards as well, but I've never seen a keyboard where it's actually written on out on the key.
I'm very nervous about the safety of any vaccine based on a complete spike protein, and worried that if one is rushed to market it will have such disastrous side effects that it will be an antivaxxer talking point for the next century.

The only vaccines I'm really excited about are the ones based on S1 Receptor Binding Domain (RBD), none of which are yet in stage 1.
They pay VAT on the value they add between what they buy and what they sell. Hence, Value-Added Tax.
Humans can produce all the glucose they need when in nutritional ketosis or starvation ketosis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
"all cities look the same"

Except, of course, for the one that has as a centrepiece a huge old fortress (still used by the local military) on the plug on an ancient volcano. ;-)
I'm sure you folks could spend your money on something better than more murder-machines.

But, 1 billion doesn't get you very far. Taking just 10% of the population of the US (328.2 million) and giving them an equal share of the 1 billion is just $30 per person, so doesn't get you very far.

You'd be better off dismantling your whole war machine instead, and reinvesting it in the humans inside your country, rather than focusing on killing people outside of it.
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Basically what we need is lowering taxes. You wouldn't have "tax havens" if you were taxing people fairly.
I'm increasingly convinced that Algorithms-and-Data-Structure interviews are essentially being used as a proxy for:

- General IQ. Can this person understand and apply complex ideas

- Grit. Is this person hard-working enough to learn things that take time and effort

It's the software equivalent of the NFL scouting combine. The goal is not to create a test that is similar to the day-to-day job. But rather, create a test that isolates and evaluates a specific set of skills, which you think are important to the organization.
Slightly off topic: I love this tag line under "Methodically tested"

> Half of the code base is there to make sure the other half is behaving.
I haven't explored Clojure. If it allows one to customize the means in which errors are signaled (read: force the language to not immediately throw a Java exception on an error, and instead execute some code), then one should be able to implement both signaling and a debugger.

It might not be easy to tell Clojure or the JVM to not be trigger happy with throwing exceptions and therefore destroying the stack. Perhaps one will find a way through!
The range starts at six percent (assuming full-time employment and minimum wage, it can drop lower if you are working part-time).

It’s at 15 percent for people earning the median wage (€3,300), meaning half of all Germans pay 15 percent or less of their salary in income tax. Your range if very far removed from reality. (It is true, though, that for very high incomes 35 percent aren’t the ceiling, that’s somewhere in the forties if you are making several hundred thousand per month.)
Also the neck seems off, as if the person is tipped way back in a chair but facing forward and smiling.
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Unfortunately, the above proof sketch does not work.
Mathematics becomes inconsistent if a proposition G is allowed such that G<=>¬⊦G.

For a simple proof that allowing such a G makes mathematics inconsistent, please see the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
> "This case was not about how much tax we pay, but where we are required to pay it," Apple said in a statement.

We have come to accept that certain tax payers (ie. corporate or well lawyered individuals) can chose where their revenue should be taxed. It think it has become obvious that this freedom distorts the spirit of taxation in most (all?) countries. I think it is fair to prevent double taxation across countries but IMHO revenue should be taxed as close to the source (revenue-generating-event) as possible.

> "We're proud to be the largest taxpayer in the world, as we know the important role tax payments play in society."

The old PR line Apple (and others) have been repeating ad nauseum... No one questions your place in the ranking, people care about the proportion (rate) you end up paying. If you're among the largest companies in the world by revenue it's not surprising that you'd be among the largest tax payers.
“But one thing that you do notice as you look over the data was that day 43 was the best – there was a further evaluation at day 57, and all three groups had gone down a bit in just those two weeks.“

Interesting that it was slightly weaker at day 57.

If people don’t gain permanent immunity once they get covid, will this sort of drug still work?
> A shrinking, aging population would fix this problem. The demand for labor will go up, the supply will go down.

What leads you to believe demand for labor will rise with a shrinking population? Furthermore, why wouldn't most companies simply continue automating? While Japan certainly isn't comparable to most western nations, it's certainly a good example of the potential downsides of a shrinking, aging population. A growing one isn't possible forever, either; it will eventually level out. We've just been innovating so quickly our population hasn't had time to reach a new equilibrium.
Having now read many of the posts, I'd add that the best way to deploy indicators will depend on the application and the situation in which they're installed. My key point is that if the system isn't fully automatic—that's to say where humans are involved in the process—designers must always consider human ergonomics. Simply put: indicators should be so configured so as to optimise the 'coupling' between the equipment and human observers.

This not only goes for lit indicators, bulbs, LEDs etc, but also dials and gauges, etc. For example the color of the dial and the ballistics (damping/settling) in audio VU (level) meters is closely defined. Moreover, although the VU meter has been around for many decades, dispute still surrounds it in that many prefer the PPM (Peak Program Meter) as pioneered by the BBC. Even the color of the dial was changed to the traditional aircraft white on black. I point this out because engineering with human ergonomics at its center is often far from being either obvious or simple.

Another example is the analog multimeter versus a digital one. A digital readout meter will give you precision but an analog one with the correct ballistics (usually with critical damping) is much better for nulling or following a drift, trend or rate of change.
Of course; the best comparison you can make in security here is the amount of raw memory access.

People condemn languages for two security reasons: the average level of competence in products usually written in a language, and the amount of footguns a language provides.

PHP is very easy to learn, which is why a lot (really, a _lot_) of open source software is of very questionable quality. For many, it's the first programming language someone learns, which means the quality is often far from what a developer is capable of with a little more experience.

PHP also has a lot of weird functions and behaviourisms, all perfectly well documented (but nobody really reads up on the details of `isset`, it seems). APIs seem inconsistent and mysql_escape_string and its cousin mysql_real_escape_string tell a story of a problematic history. There's also the typing issue that plagues all loosely typed languages.

I personally consider Go to be more secure of a language than PHP or Python because the behaviour is a lot easier to understand.

Of course properly written, typed, well-tested PHP can be a lot better than many Go products, but the expectations for the different language are just different because of the different levels of experience programmers are when they start with each language.
I still feel weird when wearing a mask myself or when I see somebody with one. Before the Covid situation somebody with a mask would feel threatening. I think we should have a big public campaign promoting mask wearing and make sure public leaders set an example by wearing one.
The issue isn't the interpretation; it's the parsing. It doesn't matter to the parser in this case if x is a type or an int. You'll have the same AST either way. But if you have f<a,b>(x), it matters if this is a generic or a pair of comparisons because the AST would be totally different.
Windows makes sense. Windows to the world. Go has a sensible keyword: golang for searchability.

Atom is awful. Rust is awful (programs rust and fall apart over time). React is not bad, it reacts to data changes.
Processing is unknown to me.
I live and work in Munich and I have to pay half a million euros for a 25m^2 box. EU is cheaper than US is a fallacy.
Ted Nelson disagrees with you. No hyperlinks, no real connections, no networks. Too many limitations.
Lucky for you, that you managed to learn to touch type on the different layouts. It might help though, that Russian and English are entirely different layouts.
The problem with German and English layouts is, that they are mostly identical, and only about 10% of them differ. This makes it very difficult to master both layouts at the same time. I tried it for a while, when I had to use an English layout temporarily. My experience was, that it thoroughly made my typing worse on both layouts.