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Currently investing 2 hours of my time per job offer:

- investigating the role, the company, their stupid website, their made up culture

- doing the unpaid take home tests (currently investing 8 hours doing a technical test for yet another stupid startup)

- answering dumb questions ("why do you want to work for $neverheardofstartup?") on fancy js forms

- having to register to their stupid career backend, thanks for yet another chance of having my inbox filled with spam because you don't know how to encrypt data

- uploading hours and hours of video presentations (as if cover letters weren't dumb enough)

only to be canned with a copy-paste "due to the amount of curricula we received unfortunately we cannot provide feedback - good luck with your job search" nonsense.

And if I'm lucky enough not to be weeded out by a bored-to-death HR person with the attention span of a starving kitten, this was just interview step 1/5

Fuck you, from the bottom of my heart.
> While British did unify India in terms of governing it, the people always recognised themselves with the king's region. E.g., Mysore region, Hyderabad kingdom etc.,

This is only true for non-Presidency regions. This was not true for Calcutta and Bengal, Madras and Madras area, and Bombay and Bombay area.

Not coincidentally, these regions were, and still are more progressive areas of India.
Most (interactive) protocols have non-non-repudiation, because it's easier and faster to implement. If you wanted to tie messages to either the sender, or the receiver, you'd need to sign them, which is way more expensive than a MAC or authenticated encryption.
That might well be a good idea. I can imagine downsides to it, but it might work.

The long and short of it is though - one has to face the reality of the situation they are in. If you go interview at Google (or any FAANG I would guess), you have to understand what you are in for and do your best to get through. Or, just don't interview there.
Glad MacType is still being developed, it's been a software existing for over a decade. And it has been with me for 8 years so far.
What are some good books about what is needed in software engineering?
In a similar vein, I would like an update that doesn't slow down by 10s of percent. My original Samsung S2 tab and my Samsung S8 both used to work fine and quickly. A few updates later and no obvious new features and sometimes a click on an app button takes a number of seconds before anything happens to the UI.

I wouldn't mind if I was getting more bells and whistles but honestly, I would rather have a more basic Android that isn't so slow without the hassle of rooting and installing some 3rd-party Android that might or might not work properly with the App Store etc.

Oh, and if they could fix Bluetooth so it works without glitching all the time, I might be able to use my phone as an mp3 player when out jogging.
I tried it your way for years. It's common practice in the industry. I have written and seen plenty of rats' nests of #if and #ifdef snarls so bad one cannot figure out what is being compiled and what isn't without running a just-the-preprocessor pass. It will often #if on the wrong condition, like operating system when it's a CPU dependency.

Rewriting it the way I suggest tends to force a cleanup of all that. You'll like the results.

BTW, if you want to try transitioning to the next level, try getting rid of all the `if` statements, too!
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The "travel mentality" that has been circulating in the last ten years portraits travel as the ultimate goal for many tech workers. It sells the ultimate concept of freedom and zero responsibility. Social media extended this with the van life blogs, pictures and clips.
This of course a big fallacy. When you're traveling you have zero planning ahead. You don't need to think about major decisions in your life, you usually don't invest in hobbies (how could you go to your gym if you're not in the same place every month) and of course it usually correlates with no spouse or kids, that require major decisions of their own.
When you live on your backpack you avoid many major decisions and that's ok. but you can't compare the two situations.
There isn't much difference between windows and macos font rendering at large scales - you can try it in something like browserstack, so you can compare two oses on one screen simultaneously. I mean, it's not imperceptible side-by-side, but edges certainly aren't sharper or softer on either.
> For people who aren't aware of the difference, it's essentially that Windows uses heavy font hinting to try to align character strokes with pixel boundaries which produces sharper letterforms at the cost of distortion of the aesthetic personality of the font

Fully agree that it is a personal preference: a slightly distorted shape is something I stop to notice after a day of using the system (I adapt to whatever shape font has unless it is badly distorted like in FreeType with some settings). Blurry fonts on other hand are always look blurry for me.

Personal anecdata: I use MacOS daily and FreeBSD every few days, but when once in a while I boot Windows 7 I always pleasantly surprised how nice and sharp windows fonts look; it is especially noticeable if I compare small font sizes across the systems.
Just check the Android code, specially the early versions looked like "C dev (not even C++) tries to create a Java based framework".

And the NDK clearly is anything but modern C or C++.
Imagine ignoring the fact that the national security act is a tragedy of unsurmountable levels, from one of the most free semi independent states, to something nearly on the totalitarian level of China.
>> can you give us a reason why one should be pro-Israel in this instance?

Because when it's done in the interest of preventing another holocaust, which is the entire reason for the existence of Israel, it's not the same as when the Chinese government does it to terrify and imprison minorities, or when Russia does it to destroy Putin's personal opponents.

I too question their choice of who they licensed this tech to, but hopefully they got plenty of useful intel on those governments along the way.
That's nerds for you - making sure any kind of personality is kept well away...
They don’t want you buying things from the store.

They have been pushing people to buy and pickup for the past few years.
To be honest, I think I'd agree with you if job adverts included all the information necessary. Doing a tech test for a job when you don't even know the salary range, or what the role consists of, or what the company really even does ... that's what annoys me. If companies wrote transparent, clear job adverts I'd be a lot happier with their interview processes.
A lot of stuff on this rack are here to allow the distribution of traffic across various services. So if you can fit everything on one box, you'd get rid of load balancers, routers, etc.

I think that by 2070, all the processing should fit comfortably on one chip, and all the data should fit in RAM next to it. And it's likely that by then, we'll also have Tb ethernet connections, that can withstand that kind of load.

So I would feel pretty confident that yes, in 50 years, this could fit in your pocket.
It's cruel and inhuman, but if you're Google, there's some cold rationality behind this.
I think the process goes for them like this:
There's 100 people applying for any given position, 10 of which might be good hires.
It's reasonable from their point of view to subject the interviewees to a process that culls 83 bad ones, and 7 good ones so that only 10 people need to be interviewed by expensive on-staff engineers, even though it looks like madness from the outside.
What I find funny is this:

"Our clients only use the software against terrorists and criminals, so it can't be used the wrong way"

"We made sure that it doesn't work against US phone numbers".

That is straight out of "A Few Good Men":

If Colonel Jessup ordered the soldier should not be touched, and soldiers follow orders, why was the victim scheduled for a plane ride off the base?
China prioritizes control over currency flows out of the country abroad (for which crypto has been mainly used). The leadership in china, does not give a damn about its people.
Crypto delivered in totalitarian environments on its freedom promise, unfortunately at a exorbitant price for the environment. Thus yes, it has to be replaced with a better version.
Are computer games also a huge negative for society?

With your reasoning, they provide no utility, waste an insane amount of energy, mostly involve violence, etc.

I don't want to live in a country that starts banning things for those reasons.

The utility of cryptocurrencies is not decided by governments, or companies, or you. The utility will be decided by reality. I like living in democracy and capitalism, but it seems you prefer a dictatorships.
So you'd support the construction of twenty new reactors in Iran to help them meet their energy needs without burning so much oil?
Actually, in Israel it is. Every Pegasus contract was cleared by the cabinet, and possibly Bibi himself.
The main issue isn't the rubbernecking. It's that a largely dual carriageway A303 is reduced to single carriageway at this point. Similar jams occur frequently at other points along the road where this happens.
It is akin to giving a spelling quiz to an author. There is a level of decorum required when dealing with professionals. A junior verbally pointing out a syntax mistake reveals a naiveté about the competency itself and "the mission" of the field.

In this interview, I would have liked to receive two code examples (that might contain errors) and discuss benefits according various objectives.

If the interviewer makes it clear that pointing out syntax mistake is not rude, I could mention them in passing. This demonstrates not only attention to details but also decorum.
>militant commitment to stupidity

Indeed, I would say that even now the extant textboard and irc users are still attempting to push the boundaries of sophisticated stupidity and they have become experts at it.
I agree. I am not FAANG but the second biggest tech company next to Apple:) I think pandemy affected this a lot. Companies looking for local people have less options now as immigration has become difficult.

But also remote options made highly paid devs more accessible.

I am currently in Norway and when I turn on "I am open" in LinkedIn, my phone just doesn't stop ringing.
Sort of like the joke among those building Finland's nuclear waste repository: they'd dig a mile under the bedrock to create a storage chamber for the waste, and what they'd find in the mining spoils would be... perfectly preserved, 500,000 year old copper canisters. Filled with formerly-radioactive waste.
Opinions on Israel-Palestine seem to depend on generation.

Boomer journalists are pro-Israel and millennial journalists seem to be pro-Palestinian.

In the recent conflict NYT and WaPost were pro-Palestinian unlike the conflict in 2014 when they were neutral. In 2008/2009 they were openly pro-Israel.
The source may be questionable, but very likely it is the TIP of the iceberg...
It's definitely questionable whether the process retains many good engineers. That said, I suppose it works as long as it culls more bad engineers than good engineers.
> hatech

I've never heard 'h' pronounced like that.
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It's not as trendy, but I use LyX regularly in zoom sessions for precisely this. It works really well.
The world is large, so I'm not convinced this is an interesting question unless we're already certain where they are. We don't bother to discuss Indian or Chinese law on these matters either (even though both of those countries are also large).
No, you need more urgency in your tone. And some scattershot votes from sockpuppets.

But don't worry, with practice you'll get better at it!
That is the hard part of the job. You need to be able to take yourself out of the equation. If you can't do that, you are simply the wrong person for the job.

Usually it is not hard to notice whether you'd like someone to succeed and then factor that in.
Yes, no miscarriages of justice have ever happened anywhere, and the judiciary is infallible.
Are you saying a company with the resources of Google, which expects all of its employees to answer trivia and whiteboard answers in interviews - all of that brainpower and money can't invent a better process?
That's harsh. I do think he is very wrong and ignorant, but there is no need to be upset about it.

The article is not without interest for someone who don't see the python ecosystem regularly.

I hope you didn't flag the article for that.
Dear god, that was beautiful but also depressing to read. I think this is it, exactly. I also think that it explains a large part of why so much software is bad. Specialization is a powerful thing, but without a unifying concept of the end goal, it's easy to become trapped by local maxima.
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How is that a reason? This stuff is always justified by claiming it ensures the safety of people. Another justification has never existed for any of these.
Implying that anonymous imageboards are all like 4chan is like implying that the reddit homepage is what you get out of reddit; even assuming that all of 4chan is bad is pretty inconsiderate, boards like /diy/ on 4chan are a gem for those who seek proper information.

There are some brilliant imageboards which moderate themselves, toxic users are weeded out by the community hivemind and only valuable information is kept. No ego-driven moderators to please, no "circle-handholding", no waste of time or energy; basically like good old pre-eternal September internet.
Yeah, but by doing that they can widen it to 3 lanes each way without putting the archaeology at risk. And if needed they can put up sound/vision blocking 'living fences' so views aren't damaged.
> I'm curious what position would this question make sense?

I was once asked a similar but better posed question: I was given some code and asked what I'd point out if asked to do a code review on it.

And the code had loads of things wrong with it, from bad variable names and incorrect comments, through unit tests that didn't have any assertions and loops that weren't actually loops, all the way to choosing a non-secure random number generator in an application that needed a secure one*

In other words, it was a test of my ability to code review, with some glaring issues to give me some easy marks and set me at ease, and some subtle issues where talented people could really set themselves apart. It was fair and relevant to the job because I was presenting myself as a senior programmer with lots of experience doing code reviews and coaching junior developers.

It's possible trinovantes's interviewer intended to give the same sort of test - but either didn't explain the question clearly enough, or trinovantes misheard or misremembered.

* A bug right out of puzzle 94 in 'Java Puzzlers'
> I'm not familiar with the source, but can you give us a reason why one should be pro-Israel in this instance?

No one is saying you should be pro-Israel in this instance. But an anti-anything stance should be reasonable and based on facts.

The fact that a country with a very large high tech sector is home to some questionable companies doesn't say much about the country as a whole.

>I can't come up with a single country with such a disproportionate amount of shady companies specialized in online tracking and surveillance compared to the small population size.

That's probably because you're unaware of the size of the Israeli high tech sector, which is completely disproportional to the country's size. From Wikipedia [0]:

> It [Israel] has the second-largest number of startup companies in the world after the United States, and the third-largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies after the U.S. and China. American companies such as Intel, Microsoft, and Apple built their first overseas research and development facilities in Israel, and other high-tech multi-national corporations, such as IBM, Google, HP, Cisco Systems, Facebook and Motorola have opened R&D centres in the country

Also relevant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Wadi, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital_in_Israel

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Israel
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That’s a fair point.

I think that in the specific case of Stripe, they specifically mostly use Ruby (from answers I found online). I may be wrong, but I assume that not mentioning Ruby is a way to attract Python/Go/C/etc. developers that might otherwise think that since they don’t code in Ruby, they shouldn’t apply.

Your main point (re: Java) remains of course.
Because they have a money printing machine called AdWords which affords them the opportunity to be terrible at anything and everything else without any impetus to recognize it or need to care.
What a ridiculous article. Nothing but fawning over aristocracy.

Borderline misogynistic too with quotes like "Indira could not stomach a woman more good-looking than herself and insulted her in Parliament".
This set of projects have been life long inspirations to me.
How does selling spyware to authoritarian governments so that they can monitor activists and journalists “prevent another Holocaust”?
That's not about selecting the most qualified, the extra "lunch", "coffee", "working habits", "cultural fit" ..., it's a way found by companies to involve the maximum number of people in the hiring process to make people in the team feel confortable with the new hire. It's a very expensive team bounding exercice.
From collections of independent, mindless robots to superstructures
There's a few things you'd need to patch up because a few important utilities are picky about the permissions of their config files (as a protection against misconfiguration).
If I claim fluency in a non-native language because that’s a relevant qualification for the job, testing me on it is fair game IMO.

That’s true whether I’m an author writing in German, a newscaster reporting in Italian, or a programmer coding in C++.
To be fair, core audio is indeed better default system but any trivial music production involves audio interface, I've never seen a person using direct input to macOS. On daily work, it's pretty much same.

Windows used to be horrid when it comed to music production but that was like almost two decades ago. Been using W10 for quite some time and any basics I need is pretty much there.

On the other hand, hardware taxing when gearing up the equipment is insane on apple hardware, that's why I migrated from their ecosystem. It's a huge drawback for many I believe.
It's probably just because I'm used to Android, but whenever I use my company issued iPhone it just feels slugish and unintuitive to me. My android makes me feel like I'm operating a handheld computer with specialized software, an iPhone makes me feel like I picked up some weird foreign device at a farmers market.
Looks like the movie theaters are not yet open in Tamil Nadu!
Well python is old and doesn't have a lot of funding, Go is young and is backed by google.

I do expect that the state of dependancy management is going to change in the next few years because:

- MS has entered the game

- PEP are being worked on a lot on packaging lately

- shiv, briefcase and nuitka are getting traction

- poetry and dephell are very qualitative tools

- __pypackages__ is on the way (try it with pdm)

- pyflow show a very interesting approach to installing python

- python 2 is dead for good

- wheels are now ubiquitous
Even though you can develop in Flutter, you still need xcode tools to build the apps, even if you can mostly skip the IDE.
Reading all the replies its still quite a surprise that more engineers don't go and build their own products.

Building companies is hella risky and hard, but if you're a senior engineer you could quite easily do it on the side
But this was the third or fourth round. By then you might expect a meaty discussion about file systems rather than a trivia quiz.
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I once had a weird interview at an investment bank for a backroom sysadmin position. I went to the interview in a smart cotton tennis shirt, black trousers, and was interviewed by a bunch of techie people wearing pretty much the same kind of clothes. The interview covered many technical issues and seemed to go really well.

When I got out and was on my way home, the recruitment consultant phoned me up and quite literally screamed at me for about 5 minutes down the phone about why I hadn't worn a suit. He didn't mention this interview requirement beforehand.

So yeah, weird things happen at investment banks :-) I didn't get the job obviously.
Great response. This is why I ended up not becoming a teacher, despite everyone and their brother telling me that that's my calling (I still hear this at work constantly from people I train). I could have absolutely dedicated my life to something with low pay. What I would not do is accept an environment where I was not treated as a professional. As far as I can tell, the modern American education system treats its educators like crap and hamstrings them every step of the way. No thanks.
Curious about the Scheme Implementation Deed. What are the benefits of this arrangement?
It not literally asking to write any code, just to read it.
It's bizarre that someone can live to adulthood as a human and actually think this is true.

A friend of mine loves dancing and practices it weekly. What aversive experience is she avoiding?
"... and actually drives everyone to compete in how much they can contribute" - because this is what we all need, competing everyday for making someone else more money.
Also, this model seems to work reallly well for you: none of the top navigation buttons on your site work for me (using Chrome beta)
It's also odd that there's another comment critiquing the article, but it is marked as dead?!
I run a company. When I need to hire someone it’s because I need someone to do something, and either do it now or really soon.
I have never had the time (or inclination) to do any more than two interviews
There are screenshots in issue [0] shared by users. My MacType profile repo [1] also has screenshots for comparison. You might see differences between screenshots because MacType works with a profile containing customizable configurations which can tweak font rendering behaviors as per demands (and I think this is why the README does not include screenshots).

[0] https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/557

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The software industry interview process is such a disaster. The worst part of every job I've ever had (including FAANG) is hitting the LeetCode grind when I want to leave. It's so fucking worthless. Just a giant waste of time. This entire fucking industry has its head up its ass.

I can't think of a single other high-paying profession that pulls this shit.
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Sure do, I've got those on my NZ CC. Worth it for the travel insurance if you are travelling overseas etc. The points are hand too, usually cash them in for vouchers each christmas.
“Google, for example, recently examined its past interview data and determined that four interviews was enough to make a hiring decision with 86% confidence, …”

Does this mean that 14% of Google hires are incompetent for their role at Google?
And yet, magically and by the power of the market, the fee will still be paid for by customers. It isn't like the merchant has a non-customer source of income. The money has to be coming from them.

If you don't want to pay the surcharge, shop somewhere that doesn't offer Afterpay. Or somewhere that doesn't honour the TOS, I once got an extra egg in my soup for paying cash.