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From the article:

> All companies (regardless of size and paycheck) make competent developers go through grueling 4–7 rounds of interviews.

It's possible to get hired with zero interviews, you need to put yourself into a position where this is the norm.

Every single contract / freelance job I've ever taken happened without a formal interview. I never had to do a whiteboard test or explain an algorithm to someone. I never had to write 1 line of code or even talk about lower level programming things specifically for the sake of getting a job for a specific company.

All I did was talk to them over email or Zoom while we discussed what they wanted me to do for the job. Then it went straight to a statement of work / contract and that's it.

Most of these happened where the person hiring reached out to me directly. I don't use any freelance platforms or marketplaces.

Now, the debatable part here is "competent developer". I won't make any claims that I'm competent but I have done a ton of assorted gigs over the years and lots of them lasted for multiple years (and still do). For context I sent out 47 invoices in 2020.

If you hate the idea of parading around interviews and working in an office please understand you have options. Besides part time high school jobs I never worked in a non-remote position in my life.
USB-IF is, once again, trying to logo its way out of USB-C confusion
Can't we just be honest about it and say that NFTs are highly priced for exactly the same reason "tokens" were a few years ago? Or indeed dot com before that.

Mundane things become valuable when you link them to something new and hyped like crypto or the internet. It's as simple as that.

Hopefully there will emerge some meaningful use cases on the other side, in the meantime a lot of people will end up holding the bag.
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There was an interesting article in Quanta a while back on this topic.

> Researchers have since determined that rogue waves probably claimed 22 supercarriers and more than 500 lives in the second half of the 20th century alone.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-grand-unified-theory-of-r...
They are likely treating 'volksverpetzer' as a "site:" modifier. E.g. it's common for users to search for "topic site" (like "alligator drone bbc").
Conversations too. It works well, ticks all the boxes except voip, and is available on f-droid.
>Seems that EU women are not victims but can stand their own ground.

So you're saying that US woman are victims and can't stand their ground, and if any of them are present it's their responsibility to make witty replies, instead of the men present calling out the person who made the sexist remark regardless of whether or not there are any women present.

The great thing about these discussions is that the sexist pigs come out of the shadows and chose this hill to die on, so now we all know who they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=calvinmorrison

>i write for shock value, if you are shocked, thank you!
Show HN: Crabz – Like Pigz but Rust
Don't forget XMPP, and Jami as the hope.
Isn't the argument that non removable batteries enable water resistance? Or am I missing something?
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Complex multiplication can be thought of as just a different function than real multiplication, defined *: C x C -> C or something like that, right?

> rich datetime type would also have "behavior rules" such as adding 1 day to Saturday makes it wrap around back to Sunday because of modular arithmetic.

Conceptually, it's a overloaded method, that's a function, again, with syntactic sugar. Functions are defined from one set to other. The fact that we use same names or symbols doesn't change that types, for all simple purposes, correspond to sets in math.
Ah, not sure how I missed that. I will say that the powder is my preferred choice however. I believe the squeezy bottle which he uses has vinegar, so is not comparable to the normal recipe.
Using rules to speed up labelling by 2x
Sense of humour on HN? Sacrilege!
He's right in this case. The regular glass jars do not have vinegar; the squeeze bottles do.
Etch – web based functional visual programming is now open source
Protected characteristic in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/discrimination-your-rights

EU has the concept but doesn't name them in that way, countries implementing them may do in their respective language (someone else has already commented as such for German): https://ec.europa.eu/info/aid-development-cooperation-fundam...
We have lost 10 years catching up to Flash.

2 generations of game developers were able to get a degree during that time.

No wonder everyone is now yet again going for streaming with server side rendering using the 2021 hardware capabilities via Vulkan and DirectX 12 Ultimate.
I quit last year because I was financially independent (actually way past the point of financial independence). There was no financial motive to keep working and the work itself felt like drudgery, no matter how much I was paid. I'll bet a lot of people quit for similar reasons.
Merck’s antiviral pill reduces hospitalization of Covid patients
I actually had the expectation that Eye of the hurricane is pretty calm. Doesn't look like. And then I wonder what happens on the edge of the hurricane...
A lot of trolls use the strategy of painting themselves as victims for being unable to harass minorities.
Sorry that was irony. My point was precisely that American vengeance knew no bounds. There is zero chance that a nuclear strike on an American asset will not be met in kind.
So what? They disagree with your worldview ... and?
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Businesses are focusing on "developer experience" and burying people in tech tools and abstractions instead of addressing leadership, product, or pay issues.
Just tried googling it the other way around (if you meant that?) and it’s the same story. Both of the terms could be understood as „site:“ modifier, as the respective websites are term + .de
I had good success using a DAWG for pruning, and letter-wise (rather than word-wise) branching, picking the letter with fewest options. If you want to get fancy, you can use back-jumping instead of backtracking.
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I think widespread institutional adoption of crypto is pretty important in this regard.Operating a photonic miner being hard provides more incentive to be a part of those 'mining' it, as you might expect. So, if it's beyond average user scope but within say .1-1% of a companies budget and could create massive dividends, why shouldn't they invest in this?

It can be a little gross to consider, because no ones like idea of 'the rich getting richer', but that isn't really different from what happens today, anyways. What matters most is that the system has a lot of nodes to work with, and that can still happen here if there's enough adoption in this scenario.

Not to mention that it should be hard to abuse your control in a public blockchain system. Governments could require companies to have an use photonic miner operating license and revoke it if they did something like this, for example. I think its a decent middle ground between centralized and decentralized. And (should?) produce less electric waste overall. I'm not sure, I don't really know much about photonics.
Fragrances in products are a source of ozone-forming pollution
Was this unit capable of demodulating the waveform? Or was is a one-way transmitter?
Apparently this was completely by mistake and is fixed now.
Thanks for choosing this hill to die on. Now we know what kind of person you are.

In case English isn't your first language:

https://grammarist.com/idiom/the-hill-you-want-to-die-on
Daily reminder what obsessions with radical green agenda is linked to mental disorders and birth defects.

> ... an interview with Greta Thunberg and her family, where Greta reveals that the climate activists are
> mostly autistic kids suffering from depression, and her father, Svante, reveals that Greta’s mother was
> a pro-refugees activist who invited migrants to live with them in their home.
>
> Both Greta and her only sibling have developmental problems, so there’s a possibility they may have been
> abused by some of those “refugees” Svante and his wife housed.

(to complete the picture: Svante himself works for non-transparent supranational "cabron tax" authority)
Given that Edge is Chromium based, what exactly makes you pick Chrome over Edge?
> Cost of entering oPoW hardware manufacturing will be much lower due to Silicon Photonics using old CMOS nodes (~90 or 220 nm vs. ~7 nm for transistors).

If silicon photonics using old process nodes is so competitive, cheap to manufacture and power-efficient, why aren't they planning to use it for general purpose workloads? Matrix-vector multiplication is a key operation for most GPU compute, including for machine learning. They say "...On the other hand, to be competitive in the field of machine learning, one needs to compute billions of multiply-accumulate operations per second" but that kind of scale out applies just as much to crypto mining, and is the part that's supposedly addressed by reusing old process nodes.
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People underestimate the value of familiarity. I use Google rather than Bing not because I know it's better or such like but I'm used to it and can't be bothered to learn the quirks of some other system. So if I had to search on a computer with Bing as default I'd probably type Google and use that. Bit like I use English rather than French not because it's a better language but because I don't want to spend ages learning a new one. In the discussion the other day on why people use Chrome rather than Firefox was Firefox changes the user interface and disabled the extensions they use. On the other hand as far as I can tell Chrome works basically the same it always did.
Reading further, seems that the CTO of the project wasn't aware of this. [0]

But I cannot see anything done further here, and not sure if this means all members of the session project are nazis.

[0] https://nitter.42l.fr/JefferysKee/status/1281585770252230658...
French Bank submits a proposal to MakerDAO to use bon as collateral
I am fairly conservative libertarian leaning guy made in Russia and even I find this kind of joke absolutely unacceptable in professional setting.
Multi-format, multi-threaded compression and decompression cli tool. This uses zlib-ng and libdeflate by default for a large performance boost over pigz, which just uses zlib by default. Notably this also supports snappy.
My first wireless headphones are 5 years old and not showing any noticeable battery degradation. If they die, they’ll be sent in for recycling. Assuming the battery gets recycled, I don’t see a significant difference other than the lack of copper wiring.
This doesn't magically happen, a new developer can sit in their room all year and won't get a single lead unless they do something to get them.

You haven't said how, but given you've got an extensive blog and several courses, is that how you're getting your leads? And publically demonstrating your competence?

And you shouldn't forget that writing blogs and teaching courses is a whole different set of skills to programming, that have to be learnt and worked on.
Upvoting you, as you are totally right. The AOP is a standby feature, not while powered off. And why would it, the BluetoothLE chips available for years already have this wake-up functionality drawing very little power.

I own a Bose BT Speaker and a FiiO BTR5 - both can be "off" (using their power-off buttons) but will still suddenly turn on when I explicitly connect to them through my laptop or phone. They are in this BT LE listening state 24/7. All Apple did, is basically enable this mode now on the existing chips which are BT-LE capable for several iPhone generations. Once woken up using BT-LE, the AOP takes over to reply to FindMy-like beacons (and enable other iPhones to trigger the wake-up beacons when locating other phones).
Of course. Google for sure. Though I have not seen any bias on Duckduckgo.
The problem is one of optics - if life-essentials were allowed to be price-gouged, the local gov't officials get blamed for not instituting price control during the period of shortage. Even if the shortage would've been worse had there been price control!
However, objective truth exists. The simple facts (particularly on their military and economy) undermine quite a lot of the Spartan myths.
Weirdly enough in Europe I would be not even remotely afraid when a cop stops me. The likelyhood they would do something weird or violent is pretty slim and most traffic police is quite friendly.

Then again police school is harder to get into, takes much, much longer than in the US etc.
There's a long list of services affected, in this thread: https://twitter.com/Scott_Helme/status/1443293844292919304
This has been really badly communicated because so many countries are operating reactively. It's been "we need to get the rollout going as fast as possible because deaths are over a thousand a day" rather than looking to the future.

The new status quo seems to be determining what "politically acceptable death levels" are.

> For many people, the pandemic only exists on TV and in the government

You're lucky. For many people, it exists in the form of a death of someone they knew. And for more it exists in the form of a chronic condition.
Once I hit 4M net worth, I really lost the desire to continue to work at the stressful enterprise analytics startup I was at.
100% with you on this. Where are all these new companies, who are investing in all these one-dev startups, how did all these devs suddenly discover product market fits, ...?
It's not illegal to be an asshole. At least scalpers reveal the true cost of the product.
It isn’t a question of what happens on specific flights, it’s a question of what happens generally. Global load factors are ~85% which is a long way from constantly overbooked.

Pre pandemic to get a normal picture: https://www.airlineratings.com/news/packed-planes-new-normal...

Low cost US carriers have a load factor of 90% that’s a trade off between fixed aircraft size and variable demand. However, US carriers only average a load factor of 86.5% meaning legacy carriers like American Airlines have a below 86.5% capacity factor and that difference between 90% and ~85% is exactly the optimization I am talking about.
Another example is 'Vadakkan Pattukkal' (lit. northern ballads), in Indian state of Kerala.
I was there and in most places people were way nicer than now.
Do you have any advantage in either the quality, price, or consistency of your water, salt, vinegar or seeds?

In 99.9% of cases the answer is "no" and procuring ready-mixed mustard is more convenient, cheaper, less messy and time-saving.
As in things like ~fireman~ -> fire*? How do you pronounce it?
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I know that resignations are up but is there the corresponding jump in startups or sole proprietorships that the author claims? In other words are people striking out on their own or are they just jumping to another company?
I know what each of those things are. The problem is that there isn’t a tidy image (at least I haven’t come up with one) that combines all of it.

Yes, visualizing a category is easy: directed graph. Visualizing a functor is also not much of a stretch. But combining these two? Not sure what image is appropriate.
USB-C cables and devices will soon show how fast they can charge
It demoes well at I/O.
Uff, what good is a logo to me that is printed on the cable's packaging that I throw out?!

> Per usual, since using these logos isn't mandatory, you can expect adoption of them to be hit-and-miss

This is frustrating to no end.
> I hate the expression "best practice", it's so, so often used by someone to justify applying cargo cult without actually understanding why.

> Most of the time it could be replaced by "tradition", "pattern", or "the way I've seen others do".

The most common valid / defensible case I've seen it used is when a person fully understands the "why" in depth, and have formed that understanding on the basis of experience (not blind following or "tradition"), but doesn't have time to deliver a long in-depth explanation every time they do a code-review.

That's not to say it isn't still "developer preferences": there are multiple "best-practice" approaches out there and some even contradict eachother. But I strongly believe that even many of the very subjective, hotly-debated approaches are valid and useful in certain contexts.

e.g. I personally lean toward a pseudo-FP style of programming and am growing less and less enamoured with OO patterns for various reasons. But OO is still a useful abstraction, and if you're doing OO, I've found something like SOLID to contain a great deal of wisdom. I never sat down and decided to do things "the SOLID way", and learned that. Rather I wrote a lot of bad OO, ran into problems, gained insight from experience, and later stumbled across SOLID and found the pitfalls it mitigates familiar.

A sibling commenter has the following quote, which I agree with:

> SOLID is especially funny because majority of developers doesn't understand / can explain it, let alone have read papers

I think this is exactly why the term "best-practice" is so popular. I would not have understood SOLID in any depth if I had come to it fresh: I needed to learn SOLID informally by accident, internalise the challenges it's designed to overcome, and then recognise that intuitively from my experience when reading about SOLID later.

That's not a level of understanding you can typically impart easily in a conversation when suggesting someone do something differently. It's much easier to just say "best-practice".
One of my many misgivings about CoCs is their over-reliance on the unenforcable.

This is an excellent example - because the original said exactly what needed to be said, but it wasn't being interpreted correctly. Instead of improving the wording, and saying something like "participants should always assume good intentions. However, intention does not make a person's actions immune from criticism, and while assuming good intentions we will kindly encourage each other toward a higher standard of behaviour." ... they instead have chosen to weaken the specificity and balance of the CoC.

Throughout the discussion, and on the twitter thread, the overriding message is: Triggering the hurt of a protected party is always punishable.

And it's a sad viewpoint, because it becomes not "Matz is nice and so we are nice", it becomes "We are nice to avoid the ire of a protected party"
> Read history; and make up your own mind.

You actually have to be pretty careful with this, particularly for the ancient world stuff. The 'historians' of the ancient world were not really historians in the modern context; they were generally closer to gossip columnists. If you uncritically read the main sources on late Republic and early Imperial Rome, say, you'd get some very weird (and contradictory) ideas about it.
not alt right and irrelevant to the tech. nice try poisoning the well tho.
I feel like the term "mistake" must mean something different to you than it does to at least me. Like, we know this isn't some kind of "oops": from just the screenshots in the one linked tweet, we know he filed an appeal and of held up in appeal. I would buy "error", but errors are something that people should attempt to minimize and aren't necessarily excusable with a hand-waive.
Stop using Medium. I am getting a HTTP 500 and page reload every 10 seconds on both desktop and mobile Safari. It could be due to ad blocking, I am not the only one.
I did not downvote you, but unfortunately you trivialize Popper by invoking his paradox of intolerance in such context.

Popper lived in a world where democracy was threatened by very powerful totalitarian movements and its demise in Europe at least was a very credible scenario. His paradox of tolerance addresses those violent, brutal movements that left a trail of blood and destruction on the continent.

There is zero evidence that Popper intended to micropolice or censor uncouth / rude verbal or written interactions among people. He was mostly concerned about outright tyranny and genocide. And there is a long way from bad jokes to tyranny and genocide, even though the Anglo-Saxon world has evolved a rather thin skin in the last decades and seems to think otherwise.

Making sexist jokes on a mailing list should probably be rebuked or punished by moderators for being in bad taste, but not because of Popper's ideas. A person joking about some girls age almost certainly does not want to enslave/kill women and does not have to be forcibly prevented from doing so.
Which GPUs do you find blacklisted?

Usually with our users the biggest issue we find graphics performance wise is that they have manually disabled hardware acceleration. I don't think we've seen a single instance of being forced into software rendering for another reason in the wild.
No, I get what you mean, but I still think it's a different argument in nature. It's not two wrongs, it's one and the same.

For me typical fallacy would be something like

"You did A. A is bad."

"So what? You did B. B is bad."

This tries to dismiss A , while "Both did A." tells us something about A.
The one thing that gets lots in the card analogy is that 99% of cards will get destroyed and the ones that are left will mostly get damaged.

This increases scarcity in a way that just can't happen for NFT's, what would it mean for an NFT to get damaged corners?
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Are you saying that the Ruby community is trying to ban Black people? Where did you get that idea? What exactly is your point?

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/homeowners-...

>When homeowners associations were first created, they helped keep Black people out of the neighborhood. They're still doing it today.

>Homeowners associations exploded in popularity in the 1960s as suburb development was booming.

>Some HOAs used racist deeds and covenants to bar Black buyers from purchasing homes.

>Today, HOAs are majority white and Asian, and Black homeowners say they experience targeted discrimination and harassment by their HOAs.
But Session being linked to a cryptocurrency project is a non starter and inexcusable.
>Heat it. Squirt it. Serve

Hey, that highly technical process is valuable Intellectual Property owned by the McDonald's corporation, careful they don't come after you!
And big surveillance tech has allied with Team Blue to get away with surveillance capitalism and anti-competitive behavior, so anyone on Team Red must be unpersoned. One way to do this is by whipping the programmer minions of woke corporations into a stress session frenzy.
Looking at changes fortnite has introduced to their game browser, I think they're trying to eat roblox.
Bands want to present the appearance of a successful band, it helps their image. A filled stadium is part of that, so yes they can make more money today by raising prices but that’s making real trade offs.
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