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>We are generally at the forefront of trends and big changes in tech as they roll out, which keeps it fun and challenging.

Still phasing out jQuery and using php and mysql. I'm sure their streaming tech and video player are cutting edge, but otherwise their stack sounds like a large, legacy webapp.
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White collar workers are not a monolithic class. The MBAs making those process decisions are different from minimum-wage contractors doing content moderation at Facebook, for instance.
I love how well organized and executed this is.

I love that the issues each share a common format and provide concise yet clear documentation. The concise bit here is key -- I've had trouble perusing similar, open product roadmaps from other products because of the verbosity / level of detail.

Kudos to GitHub's team for doing such an excellent job in communicating and managing the roadmap. Particularly given the size or the organization -- this is no small feat.
I guess the difficult part is not the technology, it's not like SO is doing anything too fancy on that front. But the community, growing and getting people to answer questions, that's something we'd have expected FSF to grow, but somehow that community couldn't.
I'm a game developer, but i would consider myself "cautiously pro-gigaleak."

IMO, after a game has finished its natural sales cycle, there should be a way to preserve all of the work that went into bringing it to life. So much gets left on the cutting room floor, and then becomes forgotten without residual physical or digital documentation of what was done.
>I don’t think anyone should be punished for stealing food, that’s a crime of hopeless poverty.

Oh please, spare us this nonsense. If they are so broke, they can get on food stamps. Allowing theft is not the answer.
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Great team with an excellent product that was able to re-position extremely well during the current COVID era. Hats off to all at Density.

Worked with this team ~8 years ago when in college at my first startup and they were a consultancy. Smart people who I learned lots from when starting out and always enjoy hearing their continued success.
Direct link to the repo: https://github.com/github/roadmap / https://github.com/github/roadmap/projects/1
> Almost all countries actually want US citizens to come there, for tourism purposes

Please do provide evidence of this. Most people I've seen being surveyed in Europe around tourists don't care where they come from, as long as they spend money and don't ruin stuff.

Americans, along with the British and the French, seems to be the groups that most people complained about when it comes to groups vacationing in Europe.

Edit: lot's of people replying, which is great. But none of providing evidence, which is explicitly requested in this comment. Would love to see some hard facts rather than people's anecdotes.
And thank fuck for that. EDIT: Fuzzing or downvoting? Was it the profanity? I do thank fuck for the temporary reduction in incoming vectors during a pandemic.
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> I think simply asking "what was a recent new thing you had to learn" opens up a good conversation.

Really appreciate the reply, that's a great question.

> the gold standard has to be facilitating some way where they can do some actual work with you.

We've actually done this, recently. It worked okay. We identified a few problems with that iteration for us though:

1. We chose real projects, but we felt limited by finding a project where the scope could be small enough for the developer to create it to a meaningful extent and not be bogged down in planning. Projects without meaningful planning however felt so simple that i didn't feel it would challenge anyone.
2. I really hated giving interviews "real" work. Which is to say, it was work we as a company needed - but that felt too easy to be seen as exploiting the applicant - for good reason.
3. I felt disconnected from the applicants mindset. I want to understand how they think on a problem - what things they're skipping for time, what pain points in the application need testing, what things they think need to be abstracted, etc.

I did like how it gave them time to solve the problem themselves. As someone who struggles with.. stage fright (for lack of a better term), interviews are hell for me. I want to hire people even if they're terrified and draw a blank.

My next set of interviews coming up i'm thinking i'll try a combination of a take-home project, but also something pair programmed. Perhaps a take-home, and then we review in a pair program after? I want them to be able to not be under pressure, but i also need some insight on their mind.

Unfortunately i have no idea offhand how to design a take-home that is both simple but not brain dead. I don't want it to take long, i don't want to riddle it with complex algorithm based requirements either. My initial gut is to mock up some requirements - after implementing them myself - that have real world value. How do they choose to abstract database access for unit testing? What do they choose to cache with? Did they consider cache invalidation? Something like this.. i guess.

My final concern is that we'll be hiring for specific languages, but i'd like to be able to hire someone wanting to learn and use those languages. Partially because it promotes growth, but also because it opens the job market. Namely, we're a Rust shop and i don't want to hire only people who know Rust - but i also don't want to hire evaluate someone based on a take-home in another language.

I'm debating offering a pair programming option for the take-home if they're not comfortable with Rust. I would expect their take-home to be far worse, as so many concepts would be new.. so i'm unsure if this would be valuable.

Thanks for the reply, and if you have any more thoughts i'd love to hear them :)

Best of luck on the market!
Not sure why this is getting down-voted. The individual is stating a fact that speaks to the current boom that the firearms industry is experiencing right now as result of a a pandemic coupled with civil unrest.
From my reading it seems they did not have the prerogatives or rights to ask this, it was an illegal demands but the apology was enough.
I got that datarunner F91W video recommended by the Youtube algorithm. So they are not completely buried.
Most Americans don't even realize they're trapped in their own country now. You can't leave even if you want to.
They are certainly trying to move the company in other directions that will require a lot of funding and uncertain returns. Otherwise, investors wouldn't even look at it.
I was speaking specifically about the most stringent rules they can have for visitors, but you are exactly right that the rules apply to everyone and not exclusively visitors.
We got lucky that the nazis banned and expelled legitimate science and scientists on political grounds. This ensured that their science progress stagnated thus preventing them from acquiring nukes in time to change the course of the war.
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Yeah, I can't possibly think of a single method of dealing with coyotes that isn't an AR-15. Until that specific model of firearm was invented, people just sort of let coyotes eat their chickens, as there was nothing they could possibly do. They couldn't use humbler firearms with less capacity for committing mass shootings, they just let their chickens die.
The bats around where I live, in the Northeastern US, eat a lot of mosquitoes. I'd like them to stay around.
But this website also deemphasizes search results in favor of curated answers, just like Google.
>but the US passport is not one of the most prized passports in the world

Henley Passport Index ranks the US at #7, by a reasonable definition of "one of the most prized", I'd say #7 counts.

#1 Japan only has access to 6 more countries visa free than the US does.

Edit: The US was ranked #1 in 2006, went down to #7 by 2010, and then was back up to #1 in 2014. We're talking swinging between 185 countries with visa free access and 191 countries here, so the top 10 positions change frequently.
> The cloudflare posts that get upvoted are just actually interesting to the HN target audience, myself included.

And it would have been fine, if it was you who submitted them, not the CTO, who uses HN primarily for promotion, which is something guidelines explicitly forbid [1]. But mods obviously allow corporations to violate the guidelines and it's getting pretty annoying.

[1] Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to submit your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
A reasonable argument, but unfortunately using exaggerated words as a rhetorical tactic. It's unreasonable to simply say "you can't get in" or "you're effectively banned from traveling". What you and the grandparent mean is that a two week quarantine makes it impractical or effectively impossible for some people to travel between the states in question. (Assuming this is what the grandparent was referring to, which we still don't know).
> Almost everyone, deep into trad Republican groups, agree that the Floyd killing was a sickening murder, a symptom of a broken system, and Something Needs To Be Done.

I need you to know that this is not the case. A not insignificant portion of the right does not feel anything wrong was done in this case, and would prefer for police to "crack down." Some will openly discuss that they need to publicly concede that there is A Problem in order to suggest ineffectual solutions to it which will satisfy politicians and pacify mass movements.

The rest of your comment is very correct, but it should be mentioned that bad actors exist and not every American's ideal version of America is completely rid of police murders.
I get what you mean about trying to win on the level of people and even companies. Winning or being in the game to win is motivating and when you see an excellent payoff curve where each hour is delivering value, working longer does not feel so bad.

When you use this logic for larger entities though, it falls down. Very few countries are in that kind of rapid growth mode for long as an entire country. Indeed, you've grouped some wildly different countries together there.

South Korea and Japan had periods of extremely rapid and impressive growth where it really did make sense to say that the entire country had organised themselves and sacrificed in order to win. Their goal was to grow their children's standard of living and they succeeded. Is aging, inward looking Japan on 2020 still playing to win? Or have they won enough to enjoy the fruits of that victory?

China is a country that is still on the rise.

Is "the US" trying to win at a national level? I don't think so. I think that parts of the country are full of people who are trying to win but on a national level? I think the best we can hope for is that the humiliatingly inept set of responses over the last six months are a galvanising moment for Americans on the order of Meji era Japan.

I also think that you've given Uncle Bob quite a good job for someone who's not too bothered about winning. Oracle might have a reputation as not such a great place to work, but I rather suspect that making it to their director of QA takes quite a lot of winning along the way!

If you want a tech example of not fussed about winning, maybe someone doing SAP implementation or running internal business logic as a 9-5 is a better example.

Also it's a bit odd comparing Italy and Denmark since I'd be hard pressed to come up with two countries that are so different!

Denmark's labour productivity is the highest in the EU after Ireland and Luxembourg, both of which have distorted figures because of financial concentration of assets there by American tech companies. Italy's is not much more than half that of Denmark.
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I’ve used Devonthink over things like Zotero because it seems to be focused on Professional research. Like I don’t care about the writer of a pdf or site enough for it to be the 2nd default column.
They don’t care where the tourists come from but they still want a healthy number of tourists to keep the industry going. Americans form a sizeable block of that.

And yes, plenty of people complain about American tourists. Frankly with good reason. But it all comes down to money.
I've participated in countless protests when I was younger. Not one them involved a police station getting set on fire. There are peaceful protests and there are riots. We've seen both this year.
All they are able to do is take content down when it is reported. There isn’t really a solution that can be had other than that. Taking down the porn site would require a restructuring of the first amendment or proving that the site owners purposely did not remove said content.
This is yet another failing of the federal government. They have the funds to bail people out just like they did in the last recession. They just won't do it. I hope people remember that when they are on the streets. Their government could have helped in the worst crisis in almost a century, but it didn't. It chose to bail out big companies instead. It chose to reduce the extra unemployment to force people back to risking their lives. These would have been easy issues to fix (the unemployment even was temporarily) but our representatives chose not to. Two months the Senate has been sitting on the next corona bill and have done nothing while Americans suffer and now are completely fucked eviction and unemployment wise.

They also didn't do shit to fight the virus itself and instead actively sought to spread it as much as possible.
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Android version comes with a completely new design, and empty "What's new" section in Google Play gave no indication it's going be such a major change.

Even more importantly, it has overridden data collection preferences after the update. Check "Settings > Data collection". I had to disable "Marketing data" and "Experiments" toggles. Not cool!
You have not seen the difference in how bureaucratic problems are solved with US passport and any other.
and https://regexper.com is a different type of regex visualizer compared to the OP's
I see each group reaching the same or similar conclusions, but months apart. This suggest to me they are not collaborating with one another. It feels to me like there is a gap.

Think of it this way. If there were a giant asteroid heading towards earth and we have a limited time to solve this problem, would I want 500 teams all operating by themselves and using the incredibly slow process of sharing data via NIH / NIST and other research paper repositories, or would I want them all in a war room (virtual or physical) and someone coordinating the effort to risk rank all the solutions and quickly form action plans? My vote is the latter. It feels like the scientific community may have artificially painted themselves into a corner because of something like the banana ladder conundrum. [1] meaning, doing it that way because that is the way it has always been done.

[1] - https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33470/what-tech...
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How is any of those better than Google Flights?
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If we are talking about practicality, you could expand this to all suburbs (towns bordering cities) as well. The practical use case is marginal for them, same for wood fireplaces and horses.
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Obviously most business owners just want tourists to come and spend money, regardless of where they come from. I believe what the above commenter is saying is that American tourists tend to spend the most, either because America has the most people that can afford to travel, or because they spend the most per person. I don't find that unreasonable.
Same with Rite Aid. (Actually, Walgreens bought up a bunch of them recently.)
One would expect child labor shops to not have the same moral reservations that parents and teachers have.
I haven't heard of this being the case, but assuming for a moment that it is:

This seems like the inevitable consequence of the rhetoric that I've seen on both sides of "if you don't like <what I believe is the "true" way for America to be run> then why don't you just implement your <fascist/capitalist> policies in your own <city/rural area> and leave the rest of us alone".

If as a society we aren't going to negotiate to find policies at the national level that everyone can live with then the only way that people can live under policies that are tolerable for them is if states start acting like nations.
This might sound a tad grandiose but its worth stating for contrast.

fifty years ago if you were a US citizen in a foreign nation you were nigh untouchable. Even the countries of most ill repute wouldnt dare to upset you. Arresting, imprisoning, or torturing an american meant incurring the wrath of a nation that could bankrupt your entire country by the end of the day, lock your ships in their ports, and ground your airplanes indefinitely. Push your luck hard enough and they could use that same blue-water naval power to raze your parliament, bomb your powerplants, and wipe out your airfields all before the sitting head of US state finished his coffee. That same power could send medical ships to your disasters as well as determine your elections, so Americans were always "welcome" on some level.

now in 2020 its a different tune. with The last 3 ground wars either lost or ended in stalemate, and the credit defaults during the debt ceiling brinksmanship of the Obama presidency, the US doesnt command the same Kissinger grade soft power it used to. Its failing health system and derelect leadership has promulgated a nation not of its greatest achievements, but rather a patchwork of cities of pestice each clawing for whatever meager federal scraps they can procure from an increasingly callous and indifferent leadership.
> This is an exciting inflection point in our company’s history as we accelerate the realization of our mission

If your first line of a financing announcement is this, then I do wonder if SO has lost touch with who their target audience is.

I also struggle to see where the value actually comes from, if tomorrow all of the top 1% of posters stopped then their leverage to promote other lineups is dead.

It's a shame to say it but its another case of VC overvaluation
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>How difficult is it for a Sri Lankan citizen to get a temporary passport to come to a developed nation (e.g. for vacation or a business trip)?

It's called a visa, not a temporary passport. I have friends with weak passports who were Canadian Permanent Residents apply for a visitor visa for the US. They applied 3 months before their intended date of visit (for a conference). The visa was approved 1.5 years after the conference had ended. Another friend in a similar situation had his visa application in process for ~2 years, at which point Trump enacted his travel ban for certain nationalities, including his, so his application was denied after 2 years.

In some countries, even booking an interview appointment with the consulate to apply for a visa can take months and maybe more than a year. Most people don't bother with international travel, because it is far too arduous and expensive to get a visa.
Communications and change management is hard with all of the stakeholders. People organize their lives around school schedules.
Interesting perspective here.

For further reading, I highly recommend Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius. They show the thoughts and practical advice of someone who took very seriously the responsibility of being a Roman Emperor.
As an American living (and trapped) abroad - I get looks of sympathy and shakes or the head when I mention I’m from the states.

One thing I have noticed is that countries want tourism but are now super careful about who they let in.

Recently I wanted to travel elsewhere, but was unable to enter most of the world with my American passport. So I got another extension instead for 2 more months.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that some countries now actually are beginning to realize that their economies are down, but can survive without the hordes of dirty foreigners coming to their country. So there is just no rush to reopen especially with the medium sized and fast growing countries.

Nationalism to some small degree is definitely in play in a lot of governments these days.

And with the resurgence of the virus, lockdowns are being expended and reestablished in many places.

The reopenings planned for August 1 are definitely not going to happen.

No passport is any good right now - except in its own region.
A lot of Americans don’t leave the country anyway, only 42% have passports.

I actually don’t think that’s as damning as many make it out to be: foreign vacations are expensive and the US provides an incredible variety of vacation spots at a much more affordable price. It’s just a shame there isn’t as much exposure to different cultures on those trips.
I've noticed the same thing. If it's a public library I am trying to figure out, I search the GitHub issues before StackOverflow now.

As a PHP developer, even when I have a general language question, I find myself looking at the Laravel GitHub issues or Laracasts before SO now. I can generally find the answer quicker there. And that's assuming I don't find the answer in the PHP docs, which are generally pretty good.
I agree! I also love how the article says it's "racist" which stores they went into first. Rite-Aid said "Which stores have the most theft?"
Quarantining outside a big city has opened my eyes to how much urban life is purely consumptive activity. Living in a low density area, just having space and a vehicle to transport supplies I was able to grow vegetables, restore an old motorcycle, build a computer from components, cook and cure meat etc. In my small city apartment all of this activity would've either been impossible or required spending lots of money- turning what was either a fun hobby or a value generating activity into just consumption.
> Please do provide evidence of this. Most people I've seen being surveyed in Europe around tourists don't care where they come from, as long as they spend money and don't ruin stuff.

There are a lot of Americans, they have a lot of money to spend and they like to spend money on travel. Isn't this sort of a self-refuting point?

I suspect people complain about the most common tourists, since they'll be the most visible.
This line of thinking can all be traced back down to American exceptionalism. We're raised to depend only on ourselves. We friendly to our neighbors, at least the ones we can see from the edge of our property line. But everyone else? Fuck 'em. This failure in community building is prevalent throughout American society, and we now have our current hyper-plutocracy as a result.

It's how the country was built. You went off with your wife and 2 kids in a wagon to go claim a piece of land the federal government gave you. It was massive, and there might not always be neighbors (or even a community) to help you out. The entities that grew and acquired power weren't the weak state governments, but nascent corporations. Not saying it's good or bad, it's just how America was.
Isn’t Bear a paid app too?
Most Americans don't travel abroad. Those that are accustomed to frequent travel for business or leisure are acutely aware of the current situation because it's already blown up their year.
Sometimes they come back: exfiltration through MySQL and CVE-2020-11579