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> HR person checking the general personality

I would say that's the worst person to do the personality check. Instead, engineers the hire would actually work with should probably do the personality check.

Often HR is either a bureaucrat with a non-technical degree, or an inexperienced young "internal recruiter" with a non-technical degree and a pleasant appearance meant to attract responses on LinkedIn. Neither of those are uniquely well suited to judging personalities. (Unless this is another case of, #wontfix, we want to screen out engineers who have personality characteristics that random 24 year old sociology students don't like.)
Off topic: is it just me or is the font of that webpage barely readable on screen?
iPhone is a known quantity. There are a few models, updated every year.

Which of the hundreds of models of "modern Android devices" should one get?
> Have you tried to buy a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X? Good luck, they’re still hard to get. No one can produce enough chips. The same goes for automobiles. Automakers have had to choose between producing cars with fewer features or not making them at all.

> Apple hasn’t had this problem. You can walk into an Apple store right now and pick up an iPhone 12 or an M1-based Mac.

I feel like this is only true right now because Apple already had this problem last year. I recall trying every store around me to get an iPad Pro, they were always out of stock with no indicator when they will get them. It was only possible to get one a month before the new one came out.
I do research assistant work in biology. The best way to get one of these rare jobs is to email the professor directly. They then have a "chat" with you (don't be fooled, this is the formal interview!) and then several weeks later they get around to bypassing the Uni's hiring process and you get a job.

I really am not looking forward to going through a formal interview process, because it will be so jarring compared to what I am used to!
The utility is hard to measure, but brushing it off being valueless is subjective. It should be clear to you at this stage that not everyone agrees with you.
I have the same problem and I found recently that I like using a physical notepad, with quite small pages (A5 in europe), so I write down things, which helps to remember them, then I can easily purge them from my memory and think about something else, and I can always go back to the notepad when I'm free to think again about something. The main thing with small pages is that you don't have too many things written on each, so it doesn't overwhelm to look at one, and it feels nice to turn a few pages and see all the things I did strike and are done (or deprecated)
Sori jos kuulosti hyökkäävältä, kiinnosti vain kuulla lisää miten suomen oppimisen vaikeus koetaan :)

I'd say that it's fluent level then. I've met people that have lived in Finland for 20 years but can't still form sentences in Finnish.

The "Finnish is hard" trope is probably a mental block, Finnish probably seems hard on surface but it's very logical if you dive deep into it.
LOL probably NSO supplying both sides.
In my office, everyone seems to avoid python like fire. The big reason seems to be that lack of static type checking makes their work harder in the long run.
To me, rounds imply a decision point (and delay) in between.

If I talk to HR on Monday, take a phone screen with an engineer on Wednesday, and come on-site (or Zoom now) with 4 engineers next Monday, that’s 2 rounds and 5 interviews (or 3 and 6 if you count HR)
The output looks cool, but I don't see the point of mixing markdown and latex this way. Why not go for a proper subset of LaTeX? There's really not much of a difference between

\section{title}

and

# title

If this is the only "advantage" of Markdown with respect to LaTeX it seems quite feeble...
Is there anything else of substance that the Markdown+LaTeX mix allows?
No, I was being sarcastic. Look it up in your dictionary. (No need to post what you find.)
Are you saying that because this interviewer needs to run code to find logic errors, she's somehow not a competent engineer? Because I usually need to run code to find logic errors. Sometimes I use formal verification instead but that's pretty rare. Am I also not a competent engineer?
I don't think it's that at all. It's very easy to fire people in US. I think they are trying to hire cultists. The harder it is to get in the more people think they're special once they do and the less likely they are to leave.
if you don't mind can you give examples on how you started making a living out of it and what other programming related jobs you mean?
Writing "X (Y)" means that Y is the same as X. They were clearly under the impression that 300 MW is the same as 450 MWh. Like 30C (86F) or £1 ($1.39).

It should have been "300 MW, 450 MWh" or "300 MW / 450 MWh" or something like that.
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>_generally_ benevolent

...

>PRC (national) interests

Governance priorities and development generally going right under Xi. Crack egg to make omelette etc. Incidentally, political executions also way down after his reforms, customary executions now "death with reprieve" sentences, where death is suspended. Way things are going, Xi's hagliography is going to be 10% bad and 90% good, especially if he can avoid war with US. Otherwise, hard to argue he isn't resolving or trying to resolves some of modern PRC's most entrenched problems across many domains.
Let's not forget the sad degradation of the physical quality of Apple computers, and the deletion of usefulness at the hands of Jony Ive... a pompous hack and a mimic who had no ideas to ADVANCE user interfaces. All he had to offer was his asinine mania to make products "thinner," and introducing grave defects to them as part of that pursuit.

Now Apple computers are glued-together, flimsy sandwiches of a still-pathetic keyboard and soldered-in RAM and SSDs.

Then there's the ridiculous deletion of headphone jacks from devices on which Apple wants you to consume their media. Straight-up stupidity and an aggressive insult to customers.
This is an extremely stupid headline and article, in a long list of extremely stupid headlines when it comes to judicial reviews (JDs).

1. The the tunnel wasn't ruled unlawful, the decision making process was. Very big difference.
2. The decision making process was said to be 'unlawful' because the minister failed to properly consider the alternatives, which he/she is required to do under common law. JDs have successfully backed judges into reading ministers minds.
3. Note use of the word 'unlawful' and note bad-faith out-riders without liability who will say 'illegal'. Not the same thing. Unlawful means that the minister didn't fully fulfil he/his requirements under law (common law in this case), not that they contravened a specific law.
4. Grant Shapps is genuinely stupid and could have easily tried to 'consider' alternatives and come up against the limits of his own mind. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/03/eight-weirdest...
5. Nobody has an actual alternative. The A303 is utterly broken and causes knock-on problems all over that area of the UK. The tunnel is an expensive alternative to improving that road (which already runs within 150m of stonehenge).
6. UNESCO has nearly 100% employee capture at this stage. Saying UNESCO oppose it is saying that bug-burger-promoting elites living in Geneva think it's a bit bad.
7. Historic England, who managed the landmark, back the proposal for a tunnel
8. “Ideally, such a tunnel would begin and end outside the world heritage site. But now that we are facing a climate emergency, it is all the more important that this ruling should be a wake-up call for the government." Just what?
US card transaction processing fees are higher than in most peer nations. That creates a nice profit stream in the credit card industry in the US, which largely doesn't exist eg in Europe. It funds the points & benefits systems that cards offer here.

It's how Visa ($540 billion market cap) can be worth more than the world's most valuable banks (eg JPMorgan $453 billion), and has an almost unbelievable 64% operating income margin ($14.6b operating income on $22.6b sales). Visa has one of the greatest businesses ever conceived, it's almost nothing more than an intangible floating brand toll bridge (they do operate an enormous global processing network, their primary cost center).

And then there's Mastercard, worth $380 billion. And American Express, worth $135 billion.

It's how Capital One - a credit card issuing company in the US - can be worth more than Barclays and Deutsche Bank combined.

HSBC is a giant for example, the second largest bank by assets in Europe, and is worth $113 billion.

And although some might jump to the conclusion that Americans must be drowning in credit card debt, that's not the case. US household finances are in decent shape and have been for most of the past decade. The ratios of household debt and debt service payments vs disposable income remains at historic lows (lower than 50 years ago). US household debt as a total sum hasn't increased in the past 20 years inflation adjusted. It's the processing fees that keep the card industry thriving. The switch from cash to cards for everything here was a bonanza for the industry.
Years ago, while applying to some security engineer position at Google, they were testing low-level skills focusing on vulnerability research, C/C++ and x86. At that point having spent 10+ intense years on that arch: having written binary translators for it, reversing/exploiting software and writing a micro-kernel. After rejection, they recommended me to read a "x86 assembly 101" book which was truly infuriating at that point.

Granted, it was an automated email, but an automated "No" would have been more appropriate. Is it so hard to offer different standard responses? Why does the company consistently fail at human interaction, be it candidates or customers?

From my circles, most share the feeling that FAANG/MSFT are insulting for candidates (I can only speak for Google/Microsoft).
nobody disputes if it was (broadly) by design, it's whether the design is outdated and needs modernization.

by the way, i actually really disdain founding fathers veneration, but two-party deadlock was infamously _not_ intentional. neither was our increasingly corporatocratic government.
It's unfortunate that the ancient Britons built Stonehenge pretty much exactly where you'd want a motorway from Exter to London to run.

What's worse is the state of the railways in the south west.
Is hacker news banned in China?

I've always used it as a way of testing my internet connection there since HN loads quickly and has been ignored by basically every filter everywhere. I haven't been to China since borders were shut down, but HN worked there last January.

And to address everything else, I wouldn't say China is Norway-level, but they're definitely on a very clear upward path of development and accelerating. I think a lot of other countries have gotten comfortable with their place somewhere near the top and assume it's an intrinsic trait their country holds, and not something they need to work for.

e.g., As an American, loads of people I know say America is the absolute greatest place on earth (maybe it is in some aspects). But mention that it's falling behind in some ways (crumbling infrastructure, etc) and some people refuse to acknowledge it. Say some countries (especially any country in Asia and particularly China) do any single thing better than the US, and a large number of people get absolutely enraged. It's wild. Even people who a couple years ago would've proudly shouted about how much they hate nationalism and especially jingoism seem to be falling into that trap.

It's hard to improve your country when people think country development is an immutable trait, and not something you need to constantly work for.
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> Python's goal that "there should be one obvious way to do anything" is admirable, but doesn't seem like it's lived up to in any way.

I don't think that was ever a serious goal, it's just that initially Python competed with Perl, and Perl's slogan was "There's More Than One Way To Do It". Python didn't have as many different ways of doing the same thing in the language itself, and Python people liked that, so its slogan became the opposite.

Since Python 2 and 3 there are already far more different ways to do things in the language (like several ways of string formatting, etc) so it's more of a historical thing. And it was never the case for tooling.
I don't want to call out the company without their blessing, but they're a unicorn with $100M+ raised so that certainly helps them be competitive.
In that area it is very difficult to buy a firearm anyway.
Some additional "State of Python"-themed material:

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/python/

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/python-developers-survey-2020/ (in partnership with PSF)
I just went through this with a company. They sent me a generic packet with 3 projects to choose from. With a simple Google search I was able to find all of the answers to all 3 sample projects implemented in different languages.

This was after a 10 minute conversation with the company's recruiter. To top it off, nothing in the job listing said anything about software. Just Cloud and Devops management role.

I am absolutely ok with take home or some presentation of my skills. However, I expect to know that I am being taken seriously as a candidate by that point. I don't want to waste my time on something with no investment from the company.

As you can guess, I bowed out of the running explaining that I didn't think it was appropriate for me to give them so much of my time with no commitment from their end. I also told them I could tell their take home project took them less than 5 minutes to generate for me as it was everywhere on the internet. How can I trust a process where the answers to the interview are everywhere? How can they really know my skills as a candidate if I can just steal the answers off of GitHub? Worse, how can I know how I will stack up to someone who might be less scrupulous than I and steal those answers when I tried in earnest and actually burned an afternoon trying to solve their test?
Do they avoid all dynamic typed languages or only Python in particular?
Do people have some weird objection to phone cases? I've got a $5 case on my 12 Pro and I've dropped it many, many times in the past year without a single issue.
> Now Apple is just trying to mimick other companies: producing various sizes and version of iPhone and iPad.

Disagree: AirPods are a cultural phenomenon with many copy cats and the Apple Watch is the most popular and profitable watch (not just smart watch) in the world.
Two economists are walking down the street and pass by a pile of dog shit. One of them (a sadist) turns to the other and says "I'll pay you $1000 if you eat that dog shit".

The other performs an internal utility calculation and eats the dog shit.

Continuing their walk, the second economist sees another pile of dog shit and makes the same offer to the first. The first economist also agrees, and eats the dog shit. They walk on.

After a while the second economist says to the first "it feels like we're both worse off than we were before this walk".

The first economist replies "impossible! We've just engaged in 2000 dollars worth of trade!".
> 22-year-old motorbike courier Mr. Tang complains about the lack of medical insurance. “There’s nothing I can do about it if Meituan doesn’t pay for it,” he added. “The wealth gap between people in this society is too big”.

People should stop calling China a communist state, when isn't.
If they we are truly communist, not will be medical insurances or a "entrepreneur" driving it. It would have a public medical system that cover everything, and the business would be driven by the workers of it.

However, that they hit hard on private education, it's a good step. Private education never should allowed to exists. Only a quality public education system can give access to good education to everybody.
Thanks for a quick reply!

Yes, I understand what you are talking about - actually, when I was writing this question, I tried to think about things I enjoyed the most in the past couple of weeks, and they were actually things like looking into the inner workings of multiple dispatch in Julia, and understanding the architecture choices that the creators of the Phoenix framework for Elixir made, and comparing them to Hotwire by Basecamp.

I learn a lot through things like this, and I am sure I would've learned much more if it actually was my job.
That's why I said to some extent. Sorbet usage varies between teams and apps, it's not enforced across the org.
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Ok, Thank you for your patience :)
It's quite a common pattern these days: I often see candidates who choose a language because they think it's better suited for interviews, not because they know it well (we leave the choice of programming language to the candidate).

Sometimes this works well, sometimes it really backfires on them. Coding is one of key rubrics on which we assess software engineering candidates, and if the only signal I have is that they don't know know their chosen language very well, it's hard to justify scoring that rubric highly.
The governments of the world are one of the driving forces behind the pathologies. The reason asset prices are crazy is because the government has figured out that if they print money and give it to asset holders then they get stock market growth but are still able to call inflation low.

If they didn't have their thumb on the scale, interest rates would be higher and boring, stodgy savers would be in control of the money instead of the sort of people who think Bitcoin looks like a good idea.

If they don't want people putting money into insanely risky ventures they should stop punishing people who invest in low risk ventures.
> I suspect Perelman would have followed Satoshi's lead

Or perhaps they are the same person?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nez1n1/sato...
It does when you don't have a Classic Mac anymore and love the platform. A Pi 3 does an excellent rendition.
Sure, email in profile, happy to chat.
All of them, but Python is the only one (apart from Javascript) that's approved for internal use.
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100%. Most people I know don’t really understand how a directory structure works from an end user point of view. I’ll say to some something like “ok, where did you put that file?” - no idea if it’s the folder called x on the F drive or the other one called x on the Y drive. Renaming files, opening zips, knowing that you can’t use a TIF file on a website, this is all magic to most users. Stuff like simple automation or find-replaces, absolutely no chance.

On the one hand I’m full of sympathy: UI’s and OS’s are rarely thought about really well. On the other, your “non nerd” users has a tendency to hide behind the tech. The number of people who say “I don’t do tech, I leave that up to my [son/daughter/cousin/friend/colleage]” and then don’t Google it is pretty high…
Cloudflare detects the DDOS and will block it, notifying you by email. We almost never use the Under Attack Mode unless it's actually affecting us.

The biggest thing we do to help ourselves when we're under attack is making sure that the pages being ddosed (homepage, etc) is being cached by them. There will always be some requests that CF doesnt block, so the cache ensures they get served by them.
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It's literally asking someone to write perfect code in a time limited situation, under pressure, how can someone with any kind of coding experience ask someone else to do in an interview?
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It's also incredibly telling that the interviewer couldn't figure out whether your code was correct or not without compiling and running it.
I'd be curious if you already saw / read about a working Linux installation on NTFS. IIRC, even WSL works with an EXT4 layer.
Isn't this the crux of the issue? We used to have a clear definition of "woman", people with XX chromosomes who have the genetic code to produce ovum and bear young.

But now, there is no accepted definition of woman - because of trans-people, or intersex, or people say that women who are sterile are still women. And they are all correct.

So there is no definition of "woman" so anyone can declare their womanhood - which means there will eventually be no womens clubs, womens shelters, womens sports or womens scholarships - because without a definition of what a woman is, anyone who claims womanhood can have those too.

Is that a problem? Who knows, and only time will tell.
I suppose the point is everything markdown plus LaTeX for anything fancy (+maths) that markdown does not support.

Markdown is easier to use. Markdown extentions like Rmarkdown (Inc. R Notebooks) are a pleasure to use.
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... fell for it like a dude trying to get his try at opening a stuck jar lid.
Ask HN: What new features would you like to see in Android 13 / iOS 16?
In NZ there are some solid benefits to paying with a CC - I generally toss a direct-debit authority to pay it off automatically monthly.

I've got reasonable travel insurance protections when I pay with the CC, I get airpoints, and some chargeback options, as well as fraud detection. Additionally, it's been easier and more reliable to set up online payments with a credit card.
I make a clear distinction between white lies and unethical conduct. It is easiest to go along with white lies so long as they do not cause material disadvantage to anybody. When you become a registered engineer or member of any other profession body you are required to agree to abide by a Code of Ethics as a condition of maintaining your accreditation.

Thus as a professional you should refuse to engage in illegal, unethical conduct. If management remains unmoved, then resigning is really the best long-term option. The stress of any wrong-doing is bad for your health and in some cases, you could be liable to prosecution for your actions.
Does this reasoning not also apply to the applicant, though?
Never use any closed-source software if privacy is important. With closed-source software, always assume that there is zero privacy, all your data will be shared with third parties, and your system is compromised.
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Mayby they should work on a new language with a new name instead of stuffing features in existing languages? And let users decide what they like better?

And this is a post about creating lots of new languages. This doesn't have the goal of having languages that run in production, it has the goal of exploring the solution space.
Not sure what you mean by (b), but PDFs have always been linked here.
Two years ago a lot of people would have thought your comment was spot on. Now it's just demonstrably false.
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What an insane interview question. If someone asked me that question I'd quickly end the interview.

A team looking for people with knowledge instead of looking for people to know how to reason is a team that is already dead.
One problem with using the virtual memory system this way is that it will not be portable to platforms without virtual memory (like WASM). Admittedly, probably not a problem for most people, but it should be at least a consideration for library authors (ideally libraries should delegate all their memory management to the library user anyway though).
Ya, seems like decent advice.
I mean, sure. Nobody said interviewing should be easy. Be attentive and focused as an interviewer too!
Ironically, Australians have access to a special kind of visa that allows them to migrate very easily to the US, with work rights for your spouse and everything!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-3_visa