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Oh thank you very much :) but I can't really claim the esteemed mantle of true open source because: 1) the license I've chosen makes it impossible to incorporate in your product unless you also open source your product (or pay for an exemption), and 2) I've disabled issues because every time I see a demanding request i feel really sad... And I was scared to lose control of it as well as to face contract issues with contributors work when I'm licensing it to customers -- which I suppose I could mitigate with a CLA.

I sincerely hope though I can find a solution to all this which doesn't sacrifice the business but enables people to work on it and use it and incorporate it ... Without having to pay because I think they'll still be enough paying customers who want the pro version even if the community edition was completely free and open.

and I'm not sure how right now...but even though I'm not very good at thinking about this stuff right now... maybe one solution is to really separate the open source version and the paid pro version and make the open source version completely sort of free and open and sort of give it to the community to own it. but I really haven't thought that much about it and like I said I'm not that good at considering these type of things right now for whatever reason. I'm kind of reluctant to do that for now but I think this is something I need to consider, sorry.
You've been interviewed 150 times to get in? Or are in and have interviewed 150 candidates?
I can tell by the number of comments here that nobody is surprised. We have gotten used to these tech companies being the
How does -b mean “create” in checkout? I get that it means “branch” but why is “branch” what I use to create a new one? The problem here is obviously the choice made for checkout, not switch. But consistency is more important so it’s better to keep consistency than “correctness” here imo. This problem already happened in the past with -d (delete).
Yes, if you are identified as being in the class, you will also get an opt-out opportunity.
That confirms that we shouldn't bother if we value our time and energy.
How it all ended for princely families: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_lapse . Ones which lasted until 1971, were de-recognised in years prior to the emergency.

Surprisingly, Jaipur princes managed to largely regain their wealth after being stripped of it, if not actually becoming more wealthier.

This is while even the main family line of Nizam of Hyderabad barely got enough money to live properly, and some of their relatives died in abject poverty.

The last direct descendant of Mughal line famously died as a bum (Mughals had no succession rules as such, but English forced primogeniture on them in their final years.)

https://www.scoopwhoop.com/inothernews/indian-royal-families...
A lot of the issue with HackerRank is just how early it is in the process. I don't object to it. But there companies out there that just have every applicant do it indiscriminately.
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I had a similarly bad Google experience that I've talked about before[0] but will copy here:

I was asked to do a task that eventually boiled down to a topological sort, and I thought the question consisted of recognizing that the answer was a topological sort and moving on because it was over the phone.

However, that was not the case. The interviewer wanted me to code it all out over Google Docs, but I didn't remember the exact algorithm so I basically had to re-figure it out on the fly, which took most of the interview (I even similarly mention "in any real situation I would just look this up", but that didn't help). At the end, I had a bunch of pseudo-C++-code that should do it correctly.

I thought I was done, then the interviewer said she would go go copy my code and compile it after the interview to see if I was right, which blew my mind. It was never mentioned previously that the code would actually be compiled and run, and with no syntax highlighting or ability to compile and test the code myself there is zero chance it was ever going to work.

I never heard back, so I'm assuming my code failed and they left it at that. Anyway, I'm much happier now that I think I would have been at Google.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23848556
People getting histrionic about this try to portray it as though there are tanks rolling down the streets and weapons shoved in people’s faces.

In reality it’s a few uniformed personnel out with police saying “hey guys if you could just put a mask on that’d be great”. Sure if people refuse they get fined by the police, because, you know, rule of law matters.

The reality of this is not as outrageous as some people want to imagine. Various forms of lockdowns have happened all over the world, with varying degrees of success. Australia has so far kept total covid fatalities under 1000, avoided medical systems being overwhelmed, and kept the economy going quite well.

We can debate the relative merits of masks and lockdowns vs “letting it rip”. I continue to contemplate and research it and waver in my own position. I don’t know how anyone couldn’t, given that no position is without huge costs, whether to short-term liberties and economic wellbeing or to long-term health and survival.

But if you’re going to have restrictions, like so many other countries have done, Australia’s use of the military as a part of managing them has been very restrained and benign. Australians are accustomed to the military helping out during natural disasters - bushfires, floods, etc. They see this involvement no differently.

If you want to continue the discussion, it would be helpful for you to consider and signal whether you actually want to understand the way things are in Australia, vs just heaping scorn on it.
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Can't edit or delete post above, so...
Plenty of people do, it is as if the computing world started with UNIX and everyone was coding in Assembly until then, worse they assume the very first version of UNIX was already written in C.

Even you do do this mistake, UNIX was originally written in Assembly, there was a couple of utilities that eventually were ported to B, but full rewrite kept failing until they were about to release the fourth version of UNIX.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Check "More History", "The Problems of B" and then "Portability" and "Growth in Usage".
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If all interviews are scheduled at the same day, I am OK with it.
>Maybe we can, but that would be stupid.

What value to society do small per-user judgements bring?

They tend to be a negligible percentage of revenue, involve the company denying wrongdoing, and giving an amount valuing a gumball and a mcdonalds meal to people. Really what is the point?
I meant to write a lengthy answer here, but this one hits the nail on the head.

Companies take the full risk for starting projects and hiring people: especially those just very indirectly relevant to the bottom line. For that, they get the full reward of taking this kind of risk. That's the nature of business and entrepreneurship.

Smart employers recognize value created by employees — direct as well as indirect — and give these employees a share of success. Sometimes in salary, sometimes in stock.

And I said smart because in the long run, there's nothing cheaper than keeping insanely productive employees around by issuing some company stock, promoting them and keeping them happy and productive in any other way possible.

Trying to keep tally on a cent-by-cent base doesn't just create a massive bureaucracy (I've seen one full-time person just doing the compensation plans for the sales team), it also opens up a massive field of bickering around details that could have gone into the product.
To me it sounds like the devs in these disparate teams need to talk more and work closer together, rather than having a person whose job is to increase the distance between them.
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> Same with a deep tunnel. I don't think 150m down there would be substantive archeology. I don't think anyone is willing to countenance going below the remains is viable.

Usually it's the opposite: things well buried tend to last longer.
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> precious hierarchy of yours.

I didn't say hierarchy, I said structure. There are many different ways to structure an organisation, which will vary according to growth, size, needs, and many other factors. If you want your organisation to function well it's worth putting in the time on structure.
In my area there are lots of square manhole covers. I have it on my personal to-do list to photograph almost all the older manhole covers from my city and geo-locate them at some point, I think it could be a good indicator of how my city grew and evolved ~100 years ago.
As I was reading it I was thinking: wow this is an amazing pitch for a todo app that will sell one copy to a very happy customer
And then it turns out the client actually wanted a car, not a road.
If you're going around stealing covers, you're probably driving a truck and carrying them in the truck bed.
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you spent $7.5m just last month?! on a side project!
On Windows I always look at the commit charge. I think it's the most intuitive metric. While shared memory etc. do complicate things, I've found they're also not really relevant whenever I'm looking at the memory usage of a process.
It would be interesting when we develop the technology to grow and implant functional uteri (uteruses?) in anyone who wants them, independently of their gender/sex/chromosomes. So much of this discussion will become obsolete and we will definitely end up needing updated vocabulary.
But that is exactly what happens: Human civilization is a generational loop of genocide and treachery. All of these wonderful things we enjoy exist in spite of everything we are.
unfortunately, [1] has incorrect behavior on some inputs. The hard part of the algo - integration - is implemented incorrectly there :(

and for [2] it is still an "open question", as per their Readme.
The rejection of queer people initially came from rejection of a scientifically provable fact that humans do not always develop the mental picture of their gender matching their biological sex. Rejecting the reality in favor of the prevalent ideology and forcing norms based on it produced pointless suffering and broken lives.

The rejection of "pregnant women" came from rejection of a scientifically provable fact that humans do have a female sex, and the vast majority of pregnant people are of that sex and gender, colloquially called women. Rejecting the reality in favor of the prevalent ideology and forcing norms based on it right now fortunately just produces awkwardness, and no broken lives as of yet, but the trend is worrying enough.

The sad part of it is that the whole thing is happening not in a temple where divine prescriptions overrule any observed reality, and not on an anonymous imageboard where "bitards" develop silly rules and keep silly discourses for, let's assume it, fun. It's happening in a university, in a department of a natural-scientific discipline that normally operates observable facts and is assumed to honor the Descartes' maxim.
Why would anyone design an attack with a whole load of human readable batch filed when they could make the whole thing a single .exe file?

It smells to me like the architect of the design wasn't a strong programmer, so got teams to develop the components as seperate programs and then assembled them himself with batch scripts and self extracting rar files.

I would have done the same when I was 13 years old and new to programming.
To sell them at the scrap yard. Gotta be careful driving in some countries; drive over an open manhole and you might crack an axle.
> The feedback I got was "candidate does not know idiomatic use of modules & classes"

Many googlers probably haven't read this blog-post from some time ago [1]: "Python Is Not Java". I mentioned that at my first interview for a Python programmer job ~15 years ago, i got hired (truth be told the interview was for a small-ish startup, not for a behemoth like Google).

[1] https://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html
I don't know about the crappy dimmers, but I have been extremely impressed with my IKEA bulbs. The higher watt ones become hot and probably die early, but the 600lm ones flicker VERY little, have a good light spectrum (no cheating with colour spikes).

On the things I have been able to measure (flicker, colour spectrum) they cost about 1/3 of lights with similar quality.
> Yet, a very large virtual memory block

...of what size? is the problem
Interesting counterpoint to say the least:

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2021/07/west-isn-t-d...
> I'd be interested in pointers to prior art of things which started asinine, and wound up literally deadly.

I first heard 4chan mentioned in conversation around 2005 or so. It was a remarkably different cultural phenomenon then, as everyone has noted. I had been a regular reader of TOTSE's BBS long before 4chan emerged. TOTSE fits your description of a forum with humble beginnings in the 80s BBS counterculture, which ended up appealing exclusively to antisocial pursuits.
Please define “woman”.

This is not sarcasm. What you’ve generally been taught about the binariness of these terms is an oversimplification to say the least, and wrong. Read Galileo’s Middle Finger as an excellent primer.
Just do interviews with at least 5 companies at the same time. Pick the first which offers you the position, semi ghost others(keep them for backup), profit and no hurt feelings.
In this malware, they go to great lengths to wipe and encrypt all kinds of different types of data... (The mbr, the boot.ini, the event log, the scheduled tasks, the attackers batch file, the user's documents). When the simple approach would just be to send a low level command to the disk to write zeros across the whole thing.

Why not take that simple approach?
Draw is closely related to drag, and draft. Draft animals that draw are dragging, at last by the dictionary definitions, though it is a little archaic sounding. Draw is dragh. The written "gg" is sometimes reduced to "gh" in Middle English between two vowels of the same closeness. Similar to the "ch" sound of German. It sort of swallows it, or reduces it to a fricative. So draggan -> draghn -> drawn. But only in some dialects. A whole cluster of related words. Also in this series is drive, draft. For some reason, it's a tendency for f and gh next to a /t/ to swap out. They do sound pretty similar, I suppose. The British still spell draft as draught.

Old English has: dragan -- ic drage, he drægþ (dragth), ic drog/droh, he drog/droh. Dragende, gedragen.

Standard Modern English has: to drag -- I drag, he drags, I dragged, you dragged. Dragging, dragged.

Variant there's also: to drag -- I drag, he drags, I drug, he drugs. Dragging, drug/drawn/druggen.

gedragen -> draggen -> draghn -> drawn

gedragen -> draggen -> dragged

gedragen -> draggen

gedragen -> draggen -> draghen -> draghéd -> draught -> draft

All the same root, branching in different directions.
Are there any services that add a layer on top of google/apple/... services for encryption? Something like put a veracrypt/whatever container in google drive and use another open source web as entrance or bundle these services (google/apple/...) as encrypted ceph cluster which means every company only owns part of the encrypted data.

Another approach, host your data in full disk encryption (LUKS/...) in open source services (NextCloud/... you could find awesome self-hosted services on github) and put the password into a RAM USB with UPS. It could be sealed forever by turning off the power of RAM USB. The only problem here is that there is no commercial RAM USB.
A logical development of that would be growing an uterus, and a baby inside it, completely inside a machine. The biological parents would only provide the fertilized egg.

A lot of vocabulary would need to change then.
Interesting. After ten years in higher-ed, I'm have 24 vacation days, 12 sick days, and 14 paid holidays (all annually), for a total of 50 days of leave per year. One of the few benefits that are better than the private sector. (Yes, unlimited vacation is a thing, but then it's all dependent on the specific company culture whether it's normal to take 40+ days off a year.)
Thank you so much! I really like the look of it and a nearby store has one. Picking it up tomorrow!
Mine is Paper Time (https://papertime.app) - a way to browse the latest Computer Science papers on Arxiv, and also listen to their abstracts in audio form, like a custom podcast.

While the audio is supposed to be the main draw, I'm actually enjoying finding interesting new papers there on a daily basis! You can see my recent submission history to know what I mean.

Any feedback / suggestions welcome.
გამაჯობა! So pleasant to see that this is for Georgia the country. I have been living here in Tbilisi for about 6 months now and haven't gotten tired of it one bit.
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They failed to realize the root cause of all these after school tutoring.

There are just not enough proper schools for them to attend. They have to compete for the spot to get an education. And all these elite colleges/high schools are located in Beijign, Shanghai, etc. They usually take in local students first.

So you see the problem. They will always be some form of private tutoring as long as there are immensive competition for basic education.
So the top range is 10% chance of getting an offer? And how many hours do you have to spend chasing 10%?
There are certainly plenty of small and vocal activist groups on both sides of the political spectrum that annoy me, including in academia, which is where I work. But the weird thing is that I have never really felt my colleagues or any task force volunteers being intolerant to my opinion, even if they (incorrectly) perceive my opinion as transphobic.

Sure, ridiculous situations like the one in the article happen, but usually, in my experience, it is pretty easy to have a conversation and figure out where civilized disagreement and/or miscommunication lies.

Hence, I am always perplexed when someone says that they feel it is becoming difficult to dissent.
I'm curious, how long ago was this? And, if you don't mind, which job ladder were you interviewing for?
I completely agree that this would be the logical development. I am also certain that enough people would want to get an uterus implanted and carry a baby to term anyway.
Can confirm everything you said is true and that at Google you'll likely never see your interviewers once you start working there but at Apple you'll be working with your interviewers on a daily basis.

It has upsides and downsides, like as you said you had to go through 3 different on-sites (one for each team), but you'll get a good sense of the team before getting an offer (and they'll get a good sense of you). I like the Apple method much better but I had an unusually bad Google interview process so it's possible other people had better experiences.
That type of economy (powered by extreme consumerism beyond the customers’ means) isn’t unique to Australia. It’s only sustainable so long as the target population continues to increase (kind of like social security). The forecasted global population drop that will hit home in the next 15-20 years is going to completely destroy economies propped-up by fake money.
I applied to a company recently whose first interview was a tech test. I turned them down before I even spoke to a human. I don't want to work for any company that puts so little value on people.
Working on Bruzu.com, Image generation API.

You can create images on the fly just by writing query string.

For example https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=Something

Clickable home page link https://bruzu.com
Would you say the same about a house? A car?

You might say that buying a house on credit isn't frivolous but a pair of shoes on credit is, but where do you draw the line in the middle?

(Disclaimer: I work at Square, but I am otherwise completely uninvolved with this acquisition or product area.)
A little off-topic, but appreciated regardless.

I'll fix the entry you mention - as you suspected a missing word there.
Did you choose Python or were you asked to use Python by the interviewer?
HackerRank isn't inherently bad. It's actually pretty good. It's that receiving a 1-2 hour automated algo contest to every job application is bad.

If I applied to 10 companies, and every single one of them asked me to come onsite for whiteboarding as the first step, that would also suck tremendously, but at least it would be limited in scope by the employer's time as well. As it stands, arbitrary companies can expect a large time investment without any of their staff ever having to speak to anyone.

I'll take a calculated stab at Amazon's once every 6 months I guess, because if I pass (which I haven't) I can potentially earn a hell of a lot more than any other place. I get it, whatever. If every company is doing it (they are)? I might just leave the industry if I can't find a way to be specifically good at remembering the implementation details of every data structure and algorithm. Sucks to be someone with pointless skills I guess.
So does this mean that the DRM is still at least partially implemented in software?

I also seem to remember that Netflix on Windows (don't know about mac) also requires hardware decoding support for HEVC1 (or whatever their codec is). I never got it to work with an intel GPU (8th gen udh630 — supposed to support it) but it worked with an AMD GPU.
I thought I recognized the name.

Roberts started with a recumbent bicycle with a little onboard computer and control panel he called Winnebiko. Then he switched to a thing with a trailer and solar panels called BEHEMOTH, "Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine ...Only Too Heavy" a 580 lb monstrosity that he could sometimes pedal at 3 mph, but he still put 17k miles on it. Later he got set up on a sailboat he called Microship, graduated to the Nomadness, then the non-sailboat Datawake.
Maybe these firms prepare for the apocalypse when all technology fails and has to be recreated from scratch, with only a few half-burned books around. Of course, if that were true there should be some blacksmithing and basic herbology questions in the interviews.
They don’t “claw back” your money.

They can “claw back” the percentage they give you by growing revenues. You lose nothing in absolute terms.

It simply means whoever triples revenues after you reduces your percentage by 3, so you didn’t contribute to the 3x and it’s a complete wash for you, the payments you get neither go up or down. As it should be.

As described this scheme seems unrealistic. But it has good ideas in it.
Restoring my faith in humanity ^^^
woah, you guys have any openings?
Recently hired for director level at big startup. 11 interviews.
Considering I've worked on a compiler as an intern and know plenty of people who have done the same, I politely disagree :D