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My one and only Google interview went this way years ago. Each round they'd send me more books to study, which frankly I couldn't be bothered to read given the circumstances.

My experience ended when an interviewer in round 3 or 4 asked me an obviously scripted question. I answered sarcastically, he got peeved, and I never heard from them again.

I'm not claiming I'm Google caliber, whatever that means. Obviously I'm not because I don't have the patience for their interview questions.

To be clear, the entire question was:
What's not in a Linux inode?

My answer was:
Lots of things...dinosaurs, the moon...

The interviewer told me very matter of factly that it was in fact, the filename.

I honestly lost all respect for the process, sorry Googlers.
Might be worth noting that the Stonehenge complex is much larger than the henge itself, and isn’t particularly well researched yet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durrington_Walls?wprov=sfti1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge,_Avebury_and_Associ...

These also sit in a grander context of a European wide network of structures which we are only starting to grasp an understanding of.
That customer service is also paid for by the credit card fees they charge merchants in the United States.
> Insurance, points, cashback, chargebacks

The first 3 don't really seem to exist in relation to CCs in NZ, and wanting/needing to do a chargeback seems unlikely.

There are probably mild benefits to me having a CC over a debit card in NZ, but it doesn't seem to be anything like the US.
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IMO, because the different .NET Core versions the commenter talks about aren’t that different and one can easily learn another version if they are already well-versed in one if them.

Learnability is totally ignored.
Im 29, never used myspace, really had access to the internet in 2011 & Im still suspect of how much utter crap web dev is deteriorating into.

> completely disregarding the fact that UI and state management frameworks like React have made developing the sort of advanced applications we demand exceptionally easy.

Till this day, no one has given me a straight answer on why they choose react beyond the dubious claims of performance++. Or even why build a web app to begin with. Nor have the users been asked if they want native-like apps on the browser.

I complain but I use react everyday on a web app Im sure no one cares if it loads 400ms faster than a server rendered jinja template.

Now we have massive overhead, npm libraries for everything and only god knows whats going on in the node modules folder, keeping up with the joneses by using Typescript - why use typescript when Java or C# do static typing so well? I can't ask silly plebian questions like that. we are modern is translated to yarn install everything and use VScode and dont forget the babel plugins. Can you imagine being looked down on for preferring plain javascript, the thing that Typescript compiles to, as being archaic?

I'm no old timer but that's some crazy shit.
Omnifocus basically solves almost all complaints people have with Todo apps. You have to spend time on it, and that's because "Todo lists" are project management, but people don't see it as such.

Some people have "weird requirements" and even those can be gotten right thanks to very good configurable searches and views. The competition is miles behind Omnifocus (I think the fact it started as a local app and not a web app helps, cuz you're not worrying about "heavy queries" or whatnot)
I mean, I did a bunch of remastering back in the day — generally old stuff being re-released on new media. It was always from the finished original mixes (or copies if using the originals was impractical).

There's a vast quantity of stuff out there getting remastered constantly through the ages. For vinyl, for cassette, for CD, for streaming, for whatever. Or multiple times for the same medium, because the old masters wore out, were damaged or lost... And sure, sometimes remastering is done for aesthetic reasons, but it's not common.

I guess if you're going to limit your definition of "remastered" to "the stuff that gets marketed as 'remastered'" then there are going to be more releases in there where remixing was done.

But remixing (unless the goal is DJ-style remixing) is difficult, because reproducing the original mix environment is a huge challenge. In theory it's become more feasible in recent years if the mixing is done totally inside a DAW, but it's still hard to guarantee that the system can be rebooted (so people save "stems"). Long-term archival is a hard problem, even if your goal is just to preserve linear PCM sound files!
Government is a corporation at extreme.
Google is infamous for jerking people around in the interview process. I had a very similar experience, as did several people I know.

They do it because they know they can get away with it, but I do wonder if they have a backup plan if the lustre of working for Google ever fades, because it's an open secret that their interview process is a fucking nightmare for no reason.
> If they don't know how to gather information from a resume, then they shouldn't be reading resumes alone.

You would be shocked how many people blatantly lie or overstate their roles on resumes. Senior, junior, it happens all over.

A good practice is to ask candidates to go in depth about recent resume items and explain the technicals, business needs, etc.

> If someone is new to the interviewing process, then they shouldn't be doing interviews alone.

Most don't. But are you really calibrated after five interviews? Ten? And what about all the other folks that need to shadow / train?
There's various protocols involving digital signatures or more rarely, zero knowledge proofs where the verifier not only does not know the password but the prover also does not have to reveal it so evesdroppers can't steal it.

This contrasts to the more common method of storing a hashed password (e.g. with argon2 or bcrypt) where the server doesn't store the real password, but still stores something that might be bruteforcible and the users still have to provide the real password to log in.

In addition to webAuthn (aka fido keys), other common examples are ssh and mutual tls (aka client certificates). SRP is another protocol that does this sort of thing.

Some links: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_knowledge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_proto...
Seconded. Marvin is an incredible app which can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be, and it has a very calm / friendly feel to it. People I've recommended it to have been using it for years now.

They've built the app based on productivity / procrastination science and have a lot of "strategies"[0] to help you deal with different issues you might be facing like "analysis paralysis", "procrastination", "prioritization", "overwhelm", "time management", etc.

Their team is very helpful and responsive and help you figure out your best workflow. It is a breath of fresh air really. If this sounds like an ad, it's because it really is that good.

If the OP resonates with you, you really should give Marvin a shot.

[0] https://help.amazingmarvin.com/en/collections/1139197-strate...
Shouldn't it be renamed now that it's proven?

The Poincaré-Perelman theorem seems more accurate now.
This feels similar to the United States credit card market where there’s a 3% fee paid for by the merchant and thus a lot of opportunities to “reward” customers, and an incentive to keep things status quo.
It'd be nice if there was some sort of "DNS indexing but for quality of information". The content quality would change too quickly to be useful, of course.
Most of us don't have the privilege to negotiate, we are fresh grads. Who doesn't want to work for larger companies in the hope for a better career path? And don't forget about power asymmetry.
If you spend only a fraction of your budget on new stuff, how is it not a gain?
> Anything else is likely harming people and more drum beating than solid work.

I don’t necessarily disagree. But I think people are happier while being harmed by the measures than by the freeloaders.
Back when 1B acquisitions were considered incredible most of the world did not know what the internet was. If the size of the pie grows 30X the amount of money in it will as well.
You're comparing income to salary, which doesn't make sense, since most of income goes back out on expenses.

A more logical comparison is profits (net income) to salary, which is the money they keep (like salary). Zoom had net income of $672M in FY2021.

Which means if you earned $100k, that'd be a fine of $12,800.

That's a pretty big fine if you ask me. That's not a slap on the wrist -- that's going to be behavior-changing for most people.
Check out Amazing Marvin (https://amazingmarvin.com/)
Wow, why on earth would one dig a tunnel there?! Its open fields. If moving the highway a way from Stonehenge is valuable: then move the highway into other fields. Don't spend 1.5 Instagrams on a tunnel.
Are there any resources you looked at for this stuff?

This is like some kind of hidden gem I just found out about.

Is this ~1.2% total rate only for processing debit cards or credit cards as well?
> Then over time it gets repeated for literally any fine, no matter how large.

I mean, I think it's worthwhile to compare and see how you'd think about this, right? $3k fine seems high in the abstract to me. Then again, if it's viewed as a kind of tax for going from $25k/year in annual income to $100k/year – eh, doesn't sound like much. What do you think?

> Hundreds of people would be laid off for a screwup this big, whole business units shut down.

I am actually curious to see if that's the case – are there any reports of such shutdowns/layoffs?
> Do most web applications built nowadays need them? Almost 100% of the time for non-trivial applications, yes. You can do it without any JS, but with that same ideology you can also write your desktop applications in x86 assembly.

I would love to see a clear explanation of why this is viewed as true. I've seen this stated many times, but generally in a way that seems framed to an audience already inclined to accept it as true. I've never seen an explanation of this written and framed for people who wrote such applications before things like React or Vue existed, and genuinely don't understand (and want to) why the model they present is viewed as so much simpler.

I've genuinely looked for this, and I've found only either presentations of "here's how it works, doesn't this seem better?" (to which the answer always seems like "no"), or exhortations about how CSS and to some extent HTML are obsolete constructs except as tools to be manipulated by JavaScript.
But think of how smart he felt after telling you the answer! That confidence boost alone was probably worth their time to interview you, mission accomplished.
> I don't understand how you can be this cocksure

Please don't respond in a hostile manner.

Responding to a discussion of climate with weather measurements is a non sequitur.

Our understanding of climate systems is actually in its infancy. We don't have the observing systems, at fine grained enough resolution, the accurate models, to actually understand what is going on, because in many cases, observations do not match models, or have huge gaps around inputs.

> You should not repeat "talking points"

The ironic thing about that website you linked is how far it is from the truth of what scientists in the know actually are talking about. We internally talk about the woeful accuracy of our models. "We were only off by 1.8 this year". We talk about the importance of correct siting for in situ measurements, and coming up with better fixes to build a reference system. This is also why our observing systems have changed since the 90s, and why there is an effort to ensure incorrect systems like ASOS do not enter the record, and things like HCN are improved.

What were you saying about talking points?
I remember the one time I worked at a design agency. 6 separate interviews in one day. The account managers were thrilled with me and absolutely did not want anybody else. The technical people were far less confident because nobody in their right mind could possibly hate jQuery. That meant some more interviews.

What’s maddening about that is that this was for a consulting position not a developer position. It didn’t matter though because the contract written one way, the management at the client refused to accept the terms of the signed contract, and the developers I was there to help thought I was their subordinate to dictate.
Beminder is not for everyone. Personally it has changed my life for the better. Before I didn't have discipline, now I'm impressed with my accomplishments in several areas of my life. From shaving, pushups to 3D design, writing and losing weight. At one point I was keeping track of 21 habits with beeminder, now only 12.

I prefer to pay and still having this amazing tool than losing what I described above.

You can do the same without beeminder. The point is that having a punishment if you don't do what you said you will do is a good motivator.
The world followed GitHub. Not Linux.
It's odd. I'm tending to think going through recruiters is the answer. The recruiter can be the bad guy and actually get a yes or no by putting pressure on otherwise I'm emailing multiple times and lucky to even get a response. If you weren't sure what the next steps were then why are you even hiring?
>"I don't think that's true. macos is clearly better."

It is easier for me to read fonts on Windows. And that is all that really matters to me. Fonts on Mac look fuzzy. This "clearly better" is just your perspective. It is not universally shared.

Yes I do use large 4K monitors but I keep text scale at 100%. Otherwise what's the point. The more text I see when programming the happier I am
> You're comparing income to salary, which doesn't make sense, since most of income goes back out on expenses.

Where do you think my salary goes? Things are pretty expensive.
Look no more - https://github.com/blgm/jfq
If it finalizes they are offering to send me $15 ?

That is not enough for the damage to my reputation and that of my business. I recommended them to others for privacy important things and showed the advertised 'e2e' that was advertised approved by us gov.

I also used it with several other security professionals to work in tandem on hacked servers. Passwords were not obfuscated do to our belief in the e2e.

Shouldn't we get an opt-out of the class action email?
There is one - https://github.com/blgm/jfq
That’s quite the range. It suggests a strategy: worry less about hiring false positives (with all the concomitant issues not hiring anyone brings) and worry more about reducing the cost of those false positives.
Don't they have a 3 month probation period where they can just say nah, it's not working?
Do you mind expanding on what you mean?
LOL. He was obviously way smarter than me. He probably told his colleagues about how some dummy was talking about dinosaurs in an inode.

I feel the smartass part of my brain eternally dooms me...
The lower end of that, and honestly, the higher end, is just about complete rounding error to any FAANGM+ caliber company.

I have seen a fairly small amount of employees hit the lower end on a singular dining bill when they had a company card and were meeting with business partners they were trying to "impress"

(obviously, the joke is free nice food and drink for all involved at the companies expense)

If you were fickle you could perhaps justify that as priced in to keeping good relations... but in the same light I'd call your figures priced into the talent acquisition process.
> The Stonehenge Alliance has campaigned from the start for a longer tunnel if a tunnel should be considered necessary.

The protests weren't against using a tunnel - they asked for a more nuanced and considered approach to a tunnel.
Because there’s no rest for the wicked?
Isn't that one of the things Netflix is famous for getting right? Generous severance but quick to exit you if you're not a good fit.
Really depends upon what you want from your blogs. If you are doing it as an independent journalist and want to use it as a profession as well as maybe get more eye, then Substack is a pretty good alternative. They already have the whole payment, email lists, SEO etc stuff handled and all you need to do is type and publish your content and don't have to worry about things like payments, email lists etc. Substack (similar to medium) has started to get pretty good number of eyes so your content will get eyes from their platform. So far, substack has also been pretty good with hosting opposing political view points.

However, if you don't care about monetizing your content, want full control over your content, then it's not that hard to start your own single publisher website - either developed from scratch or using some existing solution like Wordpress. You could also simply post your content on places like Reddit, HN, Lobsters etc. One more thing - you can try sending your blogs to local & national newspapers as Opinion pieces - this has less chances of being accepted but worth trying.

Personally, I absolutely hate medium simply because of how slow they are, how they push their popups everywhere as well as censorship. I am a paid subscriber to multiple substacks as I want ti support independent journalists - Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tracey, Aaron Mate. I also regularly read Abigail Shrier, Bari Weiss, Caitlin’s Newsletter, Karen Hunt etc.
Well but there's likely to be at least a small quality difference, and a considerable a quality per file size difference, because the video would need to be re-encoded.
Not at all. After using jq in the past and seeing both it's potential and flaws I was looking for something more powerful and easy to use, so I stumbled upon JSONata and became a fan.
> Zoom had invaded the privacy of millions of users by sharing personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn.

What personal data was shared? Was the sharing of data the problem, or the T&C's weren't clear on it? The article doesn't mention it.

What are the implications for other companies that share user data to advertising partners?
Also, it's worth noting that when using Browser Isolation with a screen reader, the product itself doesn't tell the user anything informative, e.g. through one of those off-screen messages that are sometimes added to websites specifically for screen reader users. Instead, the user gets a debug UI that isn't even visible on the screen, followed by an unlabeled graphic. So as far as anyone on the outside can tell (at least, before today's conversation), Cloudflare has done nothing about accessibility in this product.
A family member went through five interviews for blockchain.com at 4-5am (they were in England). For the last one they (blockchain) were asked to do 6-7pm their time but couldn't be assed to have a call after hours and suggested another 4:30am (to us) interview, yet they had no problem asking people who didn't work there to be up at ridiculous hours week after week. The cherry on top was being offered the job at half of what the position should have paid and at a $20k pay cut from what they were told my family member was already making.
I'll disclose it if I'm concerned I'll get lowballed. Ends the discussion pretty quickly.
Zeal Optics based in Colorado: https://www.zealoptics.com
There is a fix for apps that are blurry on the non-primary low-res display. Go to the app properties and on the Compatibility tab click the button 'Change high DPI setting' and check 'Override high DPI scaling behavior' option. Make sure 'Application' is selected in the 'Scaling performed by:' drop-down list.

The blurry apps will render a bit bigger on the non-primary low-res display but everything will be crisp.
That lustre has faded already.
The alternative was to put the bar down until they found a height that they didn't fail at which seems somewhat humiliating in itself.
For personal (non-work), I've been using a modified version of todo.txt (http://todotxt.org/) text-file format successfully for 2+ years, and found my setup doesn't have some of the problems the article raises (though other problems aren't problems for me).

My tweaks to todo.txt, and some helpful Emacs Lisp, is at: https://www.neilvandyke.org/todotxt/

For work project management, I'm recently using GitLab Issues and Board, with my own labels for urgency and Kanban state. (This isn't quite enough for large project planning, for which I usually use Gantt heavily. But hopefully the next time I need that, there'll be an easy way to link the work breakdown structure and dependencies to all the GitLab-based data capture and workflow the team is doing.)
> I appreciate the importance of accessibility but the tone of that article strikes me as strident and demanding, acknowledging only the situation feelings and difficulty of accessibility users, but not of the developers, nor of the other user groups.

Who cares about the “feelings and difficulty” of the developers? This isn’t a niche side project they’re building for free on nights and weekends. They’re being paid handsomely by a multi-billion dollar corporation selling the software for profit.

And let’s be clear about what’s happening. The trade off isn’t about security. I’m sure you’re right that it’s not trivial, but problem is entirely solvable — it just costs money. Cloudflare has decided that accommodating visually impaired users is less important than their profit margins on this thing.
I think this is a problem our whole society will have to learn. Reducing risk is probably good, but we have to reach the point where trying to eliminate is universally seen as a pathology. It's already kind of a meme in consumer products ("warning labels these days, right?"), but it crops up in hiring, movie production, etc.
My todo app is a checklist in a markdown file. Every morning, I go through the file, pick 3-5 priorities for the day and stick them at the top of the list. I used to do this on paper. I don't like reoccurring tasks because if I don't manually create my priorities every day, I won't do things. If I need to be reminded to do something on a particular day (schedule my annual checkup, etc) I add an all day calendar event.
6 interviews increase the chances of a bad hire (or at least decreases the chances of a great one). It restricts your hiring pool to those who are willing to be abused by the company. That's not the top-tier talent.
I was able to use one landscape, and one portrait 4k monitor just fine on my M1 mini. One is connected via HDMI and the other via USB-C. Have you tried it without the dock?
Yes, every bad hire is really bad. However, companies generally don't put in any effort into seriously evaluating your publicly available work. I have reams and reams of open source code companies can take a look at, and I've never seen any evidence that any company I've ever interviewed at has looked at that work. That's a result of companies being completely incompetent at evaluation and disrespecting their candidates time. Its wasteful and stupid. Its honestly flabbergasting how many companies don't put in the effort to make their hiring process passible, much less anything near "good".
So they can learn from experienced interviewers who just make you leetcode and answer dumb stock questions (my biggest weakness is…)? What we need is for people to interview with zero experience and figure out a better way on their own, not copy a bunch of bad processes out of insecurity