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> At the time I didn't say anything, and just continued the interview as if nothing happened, but in retrospect, I think I should have politely terminated the interview myself, as I don't want to work with rude, unprofessional snobs, but I'm wondering what people here would have done, and how you've faced rudeness during interviews yourself?

Finish the interview politely. You don't want to leave the other interviewers in the lurch.

Then immediately after the interview, contact your rep and say "with respect, due to the extremely inappropriate behavior of person X, I will not be moving forwards. Here was my experience:"
Mortgages are leverage, but unlike traditional financial leverage not subject to margin calls. Normally high leverage is risky in trading, because small perturbations in price can force liquidations.

However with a traditional mortgage, as long as you keep making payments you cannot be forced to sell. (In fact it's even better, you can always re-finance when rates improve, whereas the bank cannot raise rates on you when they worsen.) Therefore all you care about is the return to the asset over the long-run. And absent maybe a once-in-a-century depression, there's no way a single family home will decline in price over 20+ years.
Arch Linux Installation Guide for Developers
I would just leave out the world altogether. There's no need to address them. They know who you are talking to.
Oops! The second sentence should read: "You could make the same argument about USD: ..."
Anyone claiming to have a dedicated workspace can easily include a picture of it. Those 99.9% that don't do that can easily be discounted as liars. And if they are lying about having a workspace, well they can just as easily be lying about everything else too - such as:

The place is very quiet (except for dogs, nusiance neighbours and constant building work).
Is walking distance to the beach (if you consider a 5 mile treck nothing but a stroll).
Has nice views of the park (if you stand on the 5th rung of a step ladder).
Has fast internet (provided the local bar has not changed the password recently).
Etc, etc
I am not really comparing whose situation is better but since you brought it up: Doctors in general earn more but work much much harder. They also have much much better job security, it is unheard of for a doctor to be considered obsolete at his 50s.
I wouldn't want the life of a doctor personally but financially it is the better field imo, on average.
It looks like several territories that were once ruled by Austria tend to vote more to the right, if I'm reading the maps correctly. Is that a coincidence, or is there anything specific about the history of the Austrian Empire that (seemingly) caused generation-spanning right-wing resentment in its populace?
Well it of course doesn't corellate S&P 500 1:1, so it provides some diversification (same as everything else).

Gold has been down over the past week as well, it is normal for all instruments to move together at times of uncertainty (and when many folks are getting margin called).
Seems like a nonsensical system. I could then say “considering how saturated the system is, I see a working system” about an immigration system that has exactly one immigration agent working exactly once every 3 decades. That system would also be “working”. Which makes what you’re saying rather comedic.
I'm not sure, I've not done the full research into CF Workers since I'm on AWS Lambda right now and don't have the capacity to evaluate alternatives. I just like a lot of the CF products and their general ethos/vibe so I'm interested in it. Who knows, it might have a whole new set of issues (most likely) but I don't know if those issues are worse or better than what I'm dealing with now.
I miss my Zune
They don't have my keys, but they are holding the asset as a custodian. From a practical perspective, I'm not certain they are actually holding my BTC in a dedicated wallet or a central wallet with an off blockchain ledger.
At least, mockery is my interpretation.
The "citizens", the people who could vote, did pretty well. Not surprisingly, laws were not so good for slaves and other non-citizens, laws were not good for the people who could not vote.

Look how favourable our current laws are to politicians!!
In the 1960s, more parents opposed different race marriage, and different religion marriage, than different politics marriage.

The difference now is that the "other species" now has a voice in 2-party politics, after previously being silenced.

It wasn't better in the past when Democrats and Republicans worked together to oppress non-WASPs.
Yeah that stuff is awful. Plus you have to judge if the people you are talking to are technical or just waiting for you to hit keywords. I've actually been to an interview where I just rattled off keywords as answers and was offered the job but turned it down lol. Not cause of that but it was a gov job and the pay was awful, that was before I understood "Pay Ranges" meant bottom at gov jobs.
aw thats cute. less than 50% of republicans think gay people can get married
If that were true, companies would be going out of business, but instead they're thriving. Why are Europeans so underpaid? Are their tech companies not thriving?
I think importantmsg is saying that he didn't use Twitter to break the law. I don't understand importantmsg's argument, but you also don't make sense.

He wasn't convicted of the two things you're point to, so they're just accusations.

If people should get banned for doing something illegal outside Twitter (or just being accused of doing so) then millions of people should get banned from Twitter.
Yes, because they aren't running in prod.
I saw this phenomenon in practice in the Czech Republic... You see, Czechs and Slovaks are almost the same people with almost the same language. The historical difference? The Czech Republic was part of the Holy Roman Empire while Slovakia was part of Hungary for most of the same period.
is this jinja? the {% %} makes it look like jinja to me?
Small nitpick, but that's still consistent as in ACID. I think what you mean is it wouldn't be consistent in the CAP sense (it wouldn't be linearizable).

TFA does say that read-replicas will be present at every edge location, which makes sense for a product like Workers. But it doesn't mention writes at all.
Well, instead of shouting you down, I'll just say this is contested, both by myself and many others.

The community at large has awful factions, but a portion of this tech will be normalized sooner than we hope.
Doesn't the country cap also apply for family sponsored greencards?
Name collision with:

https://github.com/haghish/markdoc
Can you give me a bit more info or tell what to google? Like taxes, accounting and stuff? I am trying to do something like that for a while.
Emma Lazarus posted a poem in 1903 and now the US has to bend over backwards to make everyone a citizen. The amount of people I hear living or working in the US that explain away bureaucracy as racist/xenophobic/etc while hailing from countries that literally won't allow you to become a citizen unless your genetic parents are from there is insane. It's obviously not a monolith of people but it does become tiresome hearing about how the US is a byzantine of immigration as if there is some obligation for US citizens to adopt every nation while the other side of the mouth explains how racist the US is and all the while the nations large swaths of immigrants are coming from won't let US citizens hold their passport unless they are multimillionaire investors.
48 completely different tech stacks sounds reasonable for a large enterprise :)
They do this. It’s called Airbnb Plus [0].

[0]: https://www.airbnb.com/plus
In general, if an interviewer even laughed at a candidate for saying Visual Basic, I'd rip them off the interviewing team permanently, and reconsider whether they needed to work for me

What the enterprise world does for languages isn't relevant. This level of disrespect, while representing my company, is deeply unacceptable.

The fact that this person felt this was acceptable shows this company's management does not keep a proper workplace.
Nothing new. People in general prefer giving up their privacy for 'safety'.
The issue isn’t that modern banks all do this. It’s that crypto was supposed to be different, a response to the financial crisis where people were affected that didn’t even gamble on housing, a way to truly own and prove your money is your money.

> Modern money markets are based on fractional reserve banking

Bitcoin was developed to solve this.

> That's how most money gets created these days

Bitcoin is a deflationary asset. It’s not supposed to be “made” because a bank/Coinbase says so, but only via mathematical proof of work.

> I'm no fan of the prevailing economic system but…

Satoshi wasn’t either. That’s why he made Bitcoin. If the argument for Bitcoin becomes “it sucks but we need banks to lie to us for the economy” then there is no core argument for Bitcoin.
Yes indeed.

The Poland of after WWII has a similar area with the Poland of before WWII, but it has moved a lot towards West.

So the winners have been the Russians and the losers have been the Germans.

Poland was lucky because its large territorial losses to the Russian invaders have been somewhat compensated with territories taken from Germany.

The other Western neighbors of Russia have been much less lucky. The larger neighbors (Finland, Czechoslovakia, Romania) have lost large territories stolen by Russia without any compensation, while the smaller neighbors (the 3 lesser Baltic countries) have been incorporated completely in the Soviet Union.

I have written "the 3 lesser Baltic countries" because prior to WWII Finland was counted as the 4th Baltic country, since all 4 countries occupy the Eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, and they all form an enclave between Germanic-speaking people to the West and Slavic-speaking people to the East (the main languages in Finland and Estonia are Uralic, while the main languages in Lithuania and Latvia belong to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European languages).

For example, in the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact from 1939, the Russians have written explicitly their intentions to occupy all the 4 Baltic countries (Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia) and also Romania, and the Germans agreed with this, while the Russians agreed that the countries of Western Europe should belong to Germany.
Yeah, it's THOSE people that are stupid - not US! Right?!

looks around nervously
They have to, or they couldn’t recruit talent. The bar has been set - companies can pay eng high salaries and still be incredibly profitable.
So Coinbase is gonna be bankrupt pretty soon i guess
If Vanguard went bankrupt, would customers lose all their stocks?
There were a substantial number of people of Spanish-Imperial descent (of a variety of conditions) who didn't just move south when the border moved. Even now you see old families who identify as Mexican with the submotto "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us". Keep in mind that much of that area was under Spanish and/or Mexican control for almost twice as long as it has been in the US (~1550-1846 vs 1846-present).
My theory: green cards only go to christian nations
That's totally correct. But it's also how it works the best, the world is brutal, move on. I'd rather face that than the bank run I just went through, and I was practically unscathed compared to the many horror stories out there.
Let me politely disagree with you. I conduct interviews regularly and often the candidate's perception about of own performance doesn't match reality.

Agreed. In my own case, when I'm interviewing people I frequently ask at least one or two questions that I really don't expect anybody to know the answer to. It's more of a "here's your chance to really extra impress me", but not knowing the answer is in no way an indication that you aren't qualified. One of my favorites of this type is "Can you explain the difference between deadlock and livelock?" Anyway, when asking stuff like that I make it a point to always try to remember and emphasize to the candidate "there are no auto-fail questions here, and not knowing the answer to this does not mean we won't want you", etc. I've interviewed (as a candidate) enough times to understand how nerve wracking it can be, and I try my best to help the candidates not feel intimidated or whatever.

And yet, I think sometimes people stumble on a single question, and suddenly get more nervous thinking that they've "failed the interview". Interviewing is not an easy process, for either side of the table.
> It is illegal for an employer to publish a job advertisement that shows a preference for or discourages someone from applying for a job because of his or her race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

> For example, a help-wanted ad that seeks "females" or "recent college graduates" may discourage men and people over 40 from applying and may violate the law.

https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices
From the papers they released, I don't think they are. But this is an institution that works with SDR [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights]; so they are not going to "understand" Bitcoin. In a sense, they have their own Bitcoin.

And I put understand in quotes because the IMF does get Bitcoin, Crypto and finance better than most countries. They understand that crypto is mostly bad news for weak countries because they are already having trouble with capital outflow as is.
Looks like JSP to me. Or maybe ASP? Or ERB? Not sure which one came first, but many templating languages use those tokens.

Given Stripe's ruby predilection, my guess is ERB.
Stealing checks worth millions and pwning a bank
It should also be emphasized that genetic programming is just one approach to program synthesis, i.e. automatically deriving computer programs from data.

You don't have to use genetic/evolutionary algorithms to search the space of programs, it's just the most popular method.

You can even try pure random search if you're feeling particularly lucky:

https://github.com/pySRURGS/pySRURGS
I think, especially in an age of heroku/lambda/etc, we can assume requests are logged by infrastructure. It is a trivially easy mistake to make - most devs forget that requests tend to be logged by infrastructure. This happens enough to get it's own CWE - https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/532.html

Copy and paste won't help you here. This usually happens on focus changes and frequently is done not as part of form submission but to see if people bounce from the page and for stats - meaning it goes to a less secured database and usually has widely available access to it.

The fix here, in my opinion, is a mixture of technical (browsers aggressively disabling this sort of thing) and legal (penalizing accidental disclosures heavily). As a user, you can't do much.
> Due to the nature of my employment and some benefits, it doesn't make sense to leave right now.

Do the monetary value of these cover for the missing 4x on your base?
> Behind that function call, behind that nested expression and that "p = malloc(sizeof(*p))", etc. there might be extra complexity for the sake of developer's readability and comfortability.

There is no way to avoid most of things you listed. It's not comfort; it's a necessity.

> software written in C is generally such a shitshow

Whatever language you use to code, all your calls will sooner or later pass through a function call, a nested expression or a malloc()/free() call, somewhere in the huge stack of C code your language needs, depends and relies on. There is no escape. Basically, today your preferred language exists and might be able to something just because C code exists.
…or form a union with only those capable of generating 10M/year and dictate that market together. Easier than starting a company.
How is this any different than taking multiple pictures at different focal lengths? The fancy optics split near and far objects towards different areas of the sensor. Why bother? Why not just use two or more lens paths each aimed at different parts of the sensor? Or use multiple sensors?
Most of the people who are interested in moving to the US, as expat workers, are mostly from India. Let's break this down piece by piece:

1. Canadians have TN visas, so they prefer to use that since there is no lottery for that and it's a simple process of taking your offer letter and have CBP stamp a 3-year TN visa. Even though it is not dual intent, people can and do apply for green cards on TN status since for Canadians the wait times are current and they can get a green card before they need to renew their TN visa.

2. Australians have E-3, so that is what they will use.

3. The Chinese use H1B's but the numbers have dropped as more Chinese prefer to stay in China or return there after their foreign education since a lot of big Chinese tech companies have sprung up.

4. Europeans either do not want to move to the US, they sometimes don't try to have a prospective employer sponsor for H1b visas since a lot of them seem to believe that Indians have a monopoly on those visas.

You're left with mostly Indians, most of who study STEM subjects in college, overwhelmingly come to the US for studies and then hop on to work visas post-graduation. Most of the highest paying tech employers in India are American companies even then many Indians still want to move to the US since there are still a lot of socio-political and quality of life issues in India.

Take all these points and that's how so many H1B's go to Indians.
CyberUK 2022: Global power conflicts creating ‘balkinization’ of cybersecurity
The four horsemen strike again. I think i 'll let this one pass. People should be inconvenienced enough to learn to use uncensorable platforms.
Check Vrbo for the same listing before booking on Airbnb. We have vacation rentals on both and we need to charge more on Airbnb to cover our their extra fees and charges.
> It’s funny to see people shocked (SHOCKED!) when crypto doesn’t have the protections of regular banking and investments.

The problem isn't crypto, it's these exchanges. Nearly everyone just leaves their coins in the exchanges. They're essentially banks but with none of the protections. They even offer cryptocurrency loans, savings accounts and everything.

Cryptocurrencies were supposed to replace banks but they ended up reinventing the whole thing badly. It was supposed to be a dollars -> electricity -> CPU -> bitcoins closed decentralized system, but now it's just dollars <-> bitcoin within centralized exchanges.
Most people think Amazon S3 is a bit pricey but you can't get anything more durable at any price. If you only need to get at the data occasionally and can wait a while to get at it,

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/

helps with the pricing (about $1 per TB×month The one problem you have is that you have to make sure the bill gets paid.

Another option is optical disks. A blu-ray drive is about $60. See

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3638116/why-aren-t-opti...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_media_preservation

I've recently read CDs I burned in the 1990s and DVDs in the early 2000s. I've seen discs other people burn (particularly Chinese) sometimes get "rot" (dark spots) within months but I haven't had it happen to discs I burn.

LTO tape has taken over

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open

the drives for the newest standard are always crazy expensive, but you can get drives for an old version of LTO for less on Ebay. Tapes are available and affordable in terms of $/TB so long as there isn't a patent war between tape manufacturers.
Well, what is there to discuss about it? (Genuine question).

You could extend the curve and plateau higher, but then, that money is probably going to cause problems elsewhere for the younger generations. Meanwhile, the younger generations are seeking income increases so they can get the basics out of the way and start working towards their goals. They are already at the point where, despite studying for a long time and taking longer to enter the market, they are starting lower and have to delay their goals way more than the generations before them.

I don't really see a solution here. You can make young people work earlier, but that'll flood the job market even more. Boosting young people will make the curve flatter, which exacerbates the problem. You could extend the curve otherwise, but that means your yearly growth at the start will be smaller (which hurts everyone along the curve). The only solution I see here is to take a larger portion of the profits, and stakeholders are fighting tooth and nail to prevent that.
No. He was banned on 8th of January and left office on the 20th.
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and we should be able to utilize the USPS for interlibrary loan. But lately that would seem like a terribly risky proposition. We'd be on the hook for any books that were lost, stolen etc. Maybe we could get the Japanese in to run the postal system for us under a yearly license and them do something like this???
There are literally dozens of incidents, on video, of Trump inciting violence, on a small and large scale.

From telling a crowd that they should beat up a heckler and he'd pay their legal bills (lol), to saying "maybe some of you second amendment types can do something about Hillary", and beyond.

There's no confusion.
I have a lawyer that I have a relationship with and regularly ask questions to. He costs me 375 usd an hour and is great at his job (which I know by having worked with him for a while).

When I was younger, I didn't use to have one and tried to cheapen out by reading contracts carefully without checking with a lawyer. One of those contracts was a rev share in exchange for free work I did (plus some work I paid other contractors to do), I didn't notice that there was an easy way to get out of the contract by the company. Once the company was successful thanks to the work I initially did, they used that to cut me out. If I had used a lawyer back then, I'd still be earning 150k a year from that contract...

So, yeah having a relationship with a lawyer in the same way you have a favorite dentist is worth it. Having the reflex of using a lawyer when possible potentially can save a lot of money down the road. And using a lawyer at first for less impactful work is sometimes a good way to find out if the lawyer is any good.

I'd actually suggest any consultant/contractor to have a lawyer, work with him to review every contract and budget a small percentage of your income on this every year.
I'm actually pretty excited about the three features you mention, mainly because it would make WASM useful to me.
There was a good thread on red flags during an interview last year
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26426602

Repeating what I wrote then:

>I once got stood up for a round of interviews — I showed up, waited, emailed them multiple times to let them know I was there, and then 30 minutes later they wrote to me to ask if I could come in another day (rather than meeting me at the front desk where I was sitting). At the time I was just annoyed that they had wasted my time, but in retrospect, the real red flag there was that no one took responsibility — “there was a scheduling conflict” was as much as I got.

As to how you handled this particular situation, OP -- I think you handled it fine and I wouldn't worry too much. I think most of us would have been flummoxed by this person's extremely unusual behavior.
Liquidity is an important factor.