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Not sure why he is getting downvoted, but I agree. I did the same, without having a degree. Telling companies why you fit and why they should hire you has a huge effect, especially if you compete with people who come from a university with a degree in their pocket.

Explaining a company why you are a great fit and directly write the responsible person in HR shows, that you:

1. Did not blindly sent out hundreds of applications
2. Gathered information about what the company does and evaluate your fit in consideration of your skillset
3. Contact the right person

The 2. point is the most important one. Now, where I am in the position of hiring people, I would gladly take someone who tells me, thoughtful reasons of why we should hire him. But also don't underestimate the 3. point. Don't message the head of HR or similar persons. Instead write the people who will potentially be your lead.

But it also depends where you apply. A big corporation? A startup? Government? Something else?

The parent comment is correct regardless: Target-focus
Yes exactly, you can easily opt out from the church tax (of course, ideal it should have been opt in).
I find this trope quite boring; you know who is good, people who can code, people with high IQs and people with the right experience. Being able to write is probably about the same as people who can design as well as code. Sure it’ll be useful but hiring experts in these areas should be your ultimate goal. No startup was killed ever by a bad prose style.

So after reading the article (ha imagine) it is are NOT about writing ability, they talk about the company prioritising documentation and communication. Documentation, sure, but communication is another truism I don’t have much time for; we’ve all worked with extremely productive clever programmers who don’t communicate well, if you’re a founder getting the best from each persons character might be better than just hiring only extroverts.
Not necessarily. English as a second language speakers who may have a accent or take longer to formulate their responses are at a disadvantage in person. I've met many who have expansive vocabularies and impeccable grammar, and I am one myself, but it's hard for us to get over the first impression of the accent and to formulate our responses with natural timing.

For us writing sets a level playing field.
GCP's built-in firewalling capabilities are quite basic and on par with AWS' Security Groups and NACLs. This new offering is Suricata backed which offers much more sophisticated packet inspection, and is probably built off their recently launched Gateway Load Balancer tech [1].

A key difference is that third-party appliances, and now with Suricata, hostname based (rather than IP addresses) filtering can be applied at the VPC level. This isn't possible in GCP's native offerings.

Disclaimer: I should add that I work for a third-party firewall appliance company myself so have been looking at these developments with a lot of interest.

Although a deep-dive analysis is pending on my side, on the face of it this would seem a security-lite offering as another hacker on this thread has put it. If one were to consider what protocols are supported for hostname based filtering, what depth of checks are run, how ECH/ESNI is handled, and at what level of granularity policies can be attached to individual applications, the offering is a bit underwhelming to say the least. Compare that to our product [2] (on AWS and GCP), and ours is more straightforward to deploy, incorporates the best protocol level decisions already, and has a closer association with individual applications. (You basically stick in the protocol and hostname (even for SSH) in the description field of each Security Group or Firewall Rule.)

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-gateway-loa...
[2] https://chasersystems.com/
Homebrew on Apple Silicon
> The only thing that has changed is that while in their early years, their political effects were concentrated in the developing world in faraway lands, in recent years they have started affecting western politics as wel

This is somewhat disingeneous. Twitters efforts in the developing world were only to make sure everyone had access, and nobodys voice was squashed. It didnt bow down to dictatorial takedown requests, and allowed dissenters voices to be heard, thus enabling the revolutions that followed.

The game they are playing now is arbitrating content, and putting labels on things to guide the narrative. Regardless if they are right or not, as they are in the case with Trump its a very, very different game.
Expensive Wine Is for Suckers
I did not had any earlier config so I started fresh but nothing stops you from using just the script for generating additional *.conf file for your current unbound(8) setup.
After enough years in a corporate setting I can guarantee that this has the opposite effect, because it makes it even less likely for your email to fit on a screen so it just gets skipped.
> However, I can point a link to Montgomery county election workers filling in the circles on absentee ballots [0].

Is that your smoking gun?

I mean, you're pointing to an article about an incident involving one person working on a single county election suspected of being involved in a single incident where he is suspected of violating a single vote?

If I'm not mistaken, in Montgomery county, Maryland, the election results show a difference in votes for both candidates that was over a couple of hundred thousand votes. Are we supposed to believe that guy had any impact in the outcome of the county or even state elections?

And is Maryland even a contested state?

https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2020/results/Genera...

I mean, is that enough in your eyes to throw out all election results from all states and just install an unelected ruler then perhaps democracy wasn't that important to you to begin with.

Don't get me wrong, please do investigate the case and push for all the legal consequences. That's what was done to the Trump supported in the viral video who admitted to have been caught committing voter fraud in 2016 in favour of Trump by trying to cast multiple votes. But in spite of the verified case of voter fraud, no one is disputing the 2016 elections and trying to install the losing candidate, right?
Android's Best Private Browser go through a simple test
Honestly, with Moz dropping out of browser development and throwing away what they developed in the last eight years (but it's Rust lol), like every other "browser vendor", and content being presented in proprietary, monopolistic silos (ie exactly what the web was supposed to prevent), I'm not sure there's much of a future for what once was the web. Thanks WHATWG and W3C for nothing.
Master the Skill of Debugging CSS
I wonder how would it work if they ripped out all the crufty apps and UI configuration tools and replaced them with simple (dumbed down) controls like Gnome or Apple do.

All the more advanced knobs made available via Powershell, also like Gnome or Apple. Indeed any professionally managed configuration isn’t maintained with point’n’click panels anyway...
> Apple still founded WebKit

> Blink was originally spun-out of WebKit too

Founded, spun out of, forked... What's in the name?

I think one cannot "found" something that's largely based on a fork of something else.
You'd handicap yourself much worse by hiring people that you can't effectively communicate with.
But why should I have to? Why should I look outside my network when attempting to connect to my devices?

It's the P2P AirPlay design which needs a justification, not me wanting to get it disabled.
ah, the old web vs java discussion. "why does the browser not come with all the components i want built-in, having the exact look n feel that my OS has?". "i have to actually write code to get a popup?". "markup language? style sheets?? bollocks!". "surely, java is more mature and will enable me to make better apps, in less time". "it's running on a JVM, didn't you know?". "so it's more performant".

ok. js css html won the web platform. and they have an increasing piece of native. oops! this is not a random trend, but for a good reason.

java for GUIs is not going to be popular again. it's already been tested and it failed the test.

the old timer java mindset still wants the web but it does not want to learn web.

working with the web is not a "hack", nor is the DOM only suitable for representing "documents". you left in 1995 and failed to catch up with modern standards. it's a flexible system, but does not come with all the batteries. but to counterweigh that it has a massive ecosystem, a package manager with plenty of off the shelf parts, if you want them. performancewise, the browser engines are getting faster and faster every day, optimised for rendering. v8 is hugely successful natively. the DOM is very suitable as a generic GUI model to work with. back in 1995 it was not.

wake up Java devs. your arguments are getting increasingly flaky..
I completely agree. Overwatch was a reactionary game, meaning they wanted to cash in on the success of games like it. Heroes of the storm is also just that; a reactionary game.

Usually it's a very bad sign when a company turns after the marked instead of being a leader. It's a sign of growing too big and getting conservative. It's a steady decline that is difficult to get out of.
> Then I remember there’s no analytics for my toilet paper.

Apparently there are, but they are self-hosted and on a real-time multitasking system.
Please write a collaborative doc instead of an email if you have that much detail. Having an effective discussion over email is actively painful and worse yet no one can refer back to your detailed documentation later.

Good on you for communicating. Personally I've found that details are great, but being able to distill that core message down to a quick code really helps. Call it an elevator pitch, sound bite or whatever but it is really transformative. So much communication seems to be just passing along a historically linear repeat of facts rather than helping reader by distilling down.
Pronouncing, a Python interface for the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
Really? Don't you just have to poke some holes in the deck? I mean, getting there is tricky, but you don't need apocalyptic weapons, just ability to dodge missile defense.
Yes, I didn't understand this. I've even been a part of workflows that halt all subsequent PRs until the CI tests pass, and I still don't understand the situation this is designed to prevent.

Why not simply disallow the PR to merge unless CI passes? Why stop all integrations? There must be something I'm missing.

Edit: I think I get it. Normally PRs to Github.com non-enterprise go through as normal. 45 minutes later, after that merge, the 2 expensive Enterprise CI tests complete and that's when the developer gets the 72 hour timer. The dev has the option of reverting their change and trying again.
Yeah, and without deterrence it will be a 100% chance of a variable hell of endless wars and tens of millions of casualties.

I'll bet on no one wanting their country obliterated by agitating another nuclear power.
How IoT is reshaping wine production, farming, and other traditional industries
Can you elaborate “never rely on countermeasures”. What are you referring to?
> It turns meetings into carefully orchestrated back and forth and makes any kind of spontaneous communication impossible.

This is my (and my team's) main problem right now. We like working from home but it broke down any kind of interactive process/exercise, every meeting for a workshop becomes this choreography of: how to ask for a spot to speak, how to leave space for others to take that spot, who will facilitate that. It kills any spontaneous take or realisation that you could bring up in a meeting room. It feels like everyone has to stay in a queue to have time to speak. A lot of times it's happened that people forgot what they wanted to say or the conversation went way past that point and people don't feel like backtracking the discussion.

I can say that people feel like they should only speak up and state *really important things™" but often the small unsaid things are really valuable.

It really sucks, I thrive in environments where I can pick up bits and pieces of information and glue them together into something meaningful to my team, I can't really do that remotely (not without pestering people or trying to have scheduled coffee breaks to just chat).
> starting with an NK thermonuclear weapon obliterating a major US city

That doesn't seem smart at all. I think that a nuclear explosion on the ocean, right in front of a major city (NY, LA) but at safe distance, would be a better start. It provides the same amount of threat with no victims and no pressing need for blind retaliation.
Would have been more realistic if the code went full FP before being refactored back.

But ya, none of those solutions seem great
I know that some people successfully running WoW with wine. You might want to try it.
Your comments echo what many who are currently employed say. When the shoe is on the other foot though, and unemployed, you can almost guarantee they will have applied to 100+ roles!
Yes I guess it's the cultural differences. But in reality, if the US government wants to find out where you live, they're going to find out :-)

Also, as another child comment said, filling out religion and gender is optional, and no form ever asks for race (at least in Germany and Switzerland I know that for sure).

On the other hand, having better data about citizens makes a lot of things more efficient and fair in government and politics. As I said, I think the US Census is a disaster and always leads to unfair outcomes for minorities and lower class people.

But I agree, it would be better if they woulnd't ask for religion at all.
This is severely hampered by the availability of Google. After a few false starts I ended up switching to DDG as my default search engine. My usage pattern is as follows: for things that are predictably easy to find (e.g. the queries "normal" people would issue), I use DDG. That's about 90-95% of all my queries. For obscure stuff, I add "!g" at the end of the query and go to Google. That's the remaining 5-10%, and I doubt anyone can do better than Google there. That way I get both the privacy and the long tail.
Unfortunately sometimes mathematics just uses tricks to do certain things. As you move along in your math learning you pick up a bag of tricks to deal with certain situations that you’ve seen before.
Related issue[0].

I moved over from Homebrew to Nix around 5 months ago, haven't since needed to use Homebrew except for casks.

[0] "Support for Apple Silicon (aarch64-darwin)" https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/95903
"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs
Yeah, and they take all the camera data from CCTV and all the mobile phone data, as well as the contact tracing data (with QR codes to a central system) and use that for contact tracing.

They are trading off liberty for security, and it seems to be working out well for them.

I can only imagine how crazy the US would have gone if the government had tried to do any of this.
Your assumption is that the organisation is a cooperative - the employees get a share of the output of the organisation.

Intel is not a cooperative.

Fungible employees (the majority?) are paid a market clearing price (salary) for their effort. The company can derive much more value from an employee and the employee earns very little of the excess (perhaps bonuses to align working incentives).
Discussion from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25101766
This! I know that it's often tempting to demonstrate your abilities in the software you create. But introducing abstractions and DRY code is only necessary, when you have a complex problem with nany repeating parts that would become unmaintainable otherwise. If that is not the case, keep it simple. This is similar to premature optimization.
I gave up on homebrew and switched to macports after having to change directory permissions one time too many.
The 2017 test had a yield in the low hundreds of kiloton, and is widely but not universally accepted as a thermonuclear test.
Did you see the link to the nurse being interviewed?

https://mobile.twitter.com/theblondern/status/13283789451720...
Well the kicker is that the North Korean foreign policy is predicated on them trying to appear as insane as possible to other people, without really being actually too insane. And maybe ironically, not really an act that any sane person want to play or be a part of.
Isaac Larian, billionaire CEO of MGA: “We owe it to children to protect them”
This is a necessary step to becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Countries that don't make similar announcements soon are not serious about that goal.
Macports doesn’t install for me with no error messages.
To hell with the DEA.
Make your CX and UX meaningful, not only frictionless
In reality, there are a lot of problems with the Census that in the end unproportionally effect minorities and lower income folks negatively.

It's the same in Germany and Switzerland (and I think in a lot of other European countries): You register with your local government when you move, not the federal government.
And I think it supports Dijkstra's argument [1]: "Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer."

https://twitter.com/CodeWisdom/status/1318597850411008006
Isn't Britain the geological definition (https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-betwee...) and should the title not be "UK to ban..."?
Wow, pretty cool! Thank you.
>people in the PC space were yamming on and on about how numbers don't show how much better x86 cpus are at 'desktop stuff' and that ARM cpus can't equal x86, even with the same thermal envelope and shouldn't ever be compared.

It needs 30W at 4 cores 3.2Ghz. Ryzen needs around 5W per core but it's on a worse process. The entire system does use less power than a x86 system but that has nothing to do with the processor. It's more about how the SoC is arranged and that RAM is (almost) on the same package. It means they can get away with higher bandwidth and lower power consumption for the entire system.

The idea that it's all about the processor is completely wrong. Yet all we have heard is how fanboys cry it's going to be 3x faster than desktop CPUs because of misleading TDP numbers.
There’s things like finding an agreement over https://uspto.report/TM/87796973 and setting up everything in https://servo.org/governance/. And on the technical side, although it’s not a blocker for announcing: https://github.com/servo/project/issues/25
Netlify plugins to ensure a great Web Experience
"Ramanujan said that, throughout his life, he repeatedly dreamed of a Hindu goddess known as Namagiri. She presented him with complex mathematical formulas over and over, which he could then test and verify upon waking. Once such example was the infinite series for Pi:

Describing one of his many insightful math dreams, Ramanujan said:

"While asleep I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of results in elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing...""
> When you're writing into a text file and then save it, you don't have to manually select what lines or pages you're saving - you're saving all of it.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make; this is just as true of the command I gave.
It sucks for me when I search anything outside technical/science and daily life.

It also sucks at retrieving very new information.

And I say this as someone who set DDG as default.

I mean, you do seem to be DDG’s ideal user. You searched for mostly technical issues, and a hot political issue.
It is the latency, yeah. And it doesn't have to be seconds, even 200ms is enough to turn a fluid call into a very awkward "wait now talk". "wait, now talk" dance. Similar energy as driving and going from stop light, to stop light. Phone calls are way better at this.
Yes, even if Intel moves to 7nm, it's at ~202Mtr/mm2. Current TSMC 5nm is between Intel's 10 and 7nm density wise.
Dr. Mina seems to have better and more practical strategies than some bravados we heard until now. And he has the ability to take a look around, not just blindly follows his expertise.

Only critique is that he wants usual corporate suspects as an information collector. I wouldn't upload my health state to Amazon, that would not be happening and would again deter many people.

I think a solution implemented as state infrastructure would be easily achievable and would be useful beyond the current pandemic. The data collection problem isn't the hard part in my opinion and a solution for reporting could be implemented within a few weeks without too much investment.

> Masking and social distancing aren’t widely adopted, so why would people comply with this program?

Quite simple, because it would be a boon to know your infection state and the ability to react to it on your terms.
> some people forget that all computers that are stand-alone for a person to use are "Personal Computers"

If you call a Mac a PC, you'll only confuse your interlocutor. No-one ever refers to Macs as "PC", except to point out that "Macs are 'Personal Computers'".
Pfizer Trial: An Interim Bayesian Analysis
Weird how incognito is suppose to be private right?
Right, but my point is that “Living with parents” is a wildly different experience if you have enough space. Not a rebuttal, a different anecdote.
With certificate age limits, the list is not ever-growing.
I love the concept and would buy it in a heartbeat, even at Apple level premiums, but that spec sheet.... 2/3 GB RAM is not enough in the Android world of 2020/2021. And eMMC storage instead of UFS? Oooof.

Shame, I really want to support the own your phone initiative(user replaceable battery, no more walled gardens, no more telemetry out the wazoo) and willing to pay the premium but I also want my device not to be a huge downgrade on my daily driver and go back to 2012 Andorid hardware.
The truth is that NK would never ever move a finger against the US, it wouldn't make the slightest sense.

On the other hand, it does feel threatened, and having a dangerous weapon and acting reckless keeps possible attackers at bay.

But if an all-out war between NK and the US started, it would be started by the only ones who can possibly think of winning it, that is the US.
>He was on both the US and EU anti-terrorism list

No, only the US designated him as a terrorist and IIRC on a really flimsy grounds (as in CIA operatives could be designated terrorists using similar criteria). EU only personally sanctioned him.

>there was a Security Council resolution banning him from traveling outside Iran

These restrictions were lifted in 2015 as part of the Iran nuclear deal framework. US unilateral withdrawal didn't change the fact that UN sanctions have been lifted.

>Their call was non binding since the agreement was with the Iraqi government

The call was aimed at the government, which due to the US pressure ignored will of the Iraqi people represented by the democratically elected parliament.

>since ISIS still exists

ISIS got chance to exist mostly due to the US chaotic meddling in the region. Not only it weakened Iraq by direct invasion, but it also fueled the Syrian civil war. Syria is perfectly able to not let ISIS reappearance with the Russian help and negotiated relationship with the Kurds, but I don't see the US leaving Syria any time soon.