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> I'm not going to tell my employer I'm not implementing the design, when I can solve the problem, though in an ugly way.

Sometimes graphic designers don't understand all the implications of their design choices in a dynamic medium. It is my job, as an experienced professional, to steer them away from the problems and do the best to capture their intention.

Almost every time designers (who many times were my employers) understood the issue when pointed out and agreed with my solution. Their designs normally only consider the "ideal" cases (e.g. every title / item description fits nicely) because they have to make it look good for the client, but they know reality requires compromise.
They appear to function well to people who havent got a clue what they're talking about.

By and large they are either worthless or actively harmful.
I didn't dismiss the idea of learning from online resources. I constantly work through online courses/lectures and books. I only noted that the experience is inferior to going to college where you can completely focus on learning with a group of peers, and where you are held accountable.

I'd love to have the "college experience" again now, but this time with a focus on learning instead of a focus on getting good grades. Focusing on good grades (over learning) is the rational choice as a young student and I don't regret doing so, but now my goals are different.
i definitely 150% have

there are a lot of them
It seems very funny to me as a programmer, that what university calls "cheating" and threatens consequences, the industry calls "consulting with your colleagues" and encourages.
This might be a dumb question, but what does this even look like in industry? I'm honestly not sure how I could "cheat" my way through my job. I have to design features, argue why they're good/worthwhile tradeoffs, and then implement them. Sure, I can steal features from competitors but I can't lie about their impact or fake implementing them because people will surely notice when the feature ships and simply doesn't work. Like, you can't cheat at design verification of a chip. If the chip ships and doesn't work, your ass is getting canned so fast.
Well, seL4 has verifications of it's mixed-criticality hard-real-time guarantees (sufficiently tight bounds on scheduling latency (and such) to be useful) and data diode functionalities, and it's isolation properties have been verified not just at a fine-grained specification level but at a high-level human-readable level of invariant description. It doesn't cover timing and maybe some kinds of similar, other, side channels, but it's still extremely useful.

Formal verification shines in two situations: complicated optimized algorithms with a naive reference implementation you want to confirm equivalent, and high-level behavioral invariants of complex systems (like seL4's capability system, or a cluster database's consistency during literally all possible failover scenarios).
If someone suggested that I ought to be able to solve a problem like that in an interview, rather than solving it over the course of several years with a team of developers (like Grafana did) then I'd stop the interview and remove myself from the hiring process.

No doubt there are situations where hugely optimized code is necessary. An interview isn't one of them unless you're hiring someone to write exactly that code. Most companies aren't.
Distribution and diversity of Central African hunter-gatherers
Ukraine's intelligence chief 'fully confirms' Vladimir Putin has cancer
A 90th percentile athlete today is likely anything but all natural today.

By the same measure, pain killers, kinesio tapes, surgeries, ice baths: they are routine stuff for common athletes over-exerting themselves.

I've never seen anyone naturally grow a kinesio tape, yet I think 90% of people in pro sports wear them. :)

It always was and remains a question of where we draw the line?

I think that the rule should be the same for the entire population — if we are aware of the adverse effects, prescription required.
full title: Population interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years explains distribution and diversity of Central African hunter-gatherers
It's is also easy to bullshit a coding interview. The problems solved at interviews are just too small to verify code organization skills.
If you're using that as an argument for why cheating should be allowed, you're missing the key part of what what education is supposed to be about: understanding the fundamentals well enough that you can think of of the box and find solutions without relying on someone to always be there.

Would you really want to work with a software developer who doesn't understand how functions, loops, etc work?
No, the real problem is dishonesty and unfairness to your classmates and teacher.
The BBC has a commercial arm, they sell content overseas so are more like a combination of a national broadcaster and a very large commercial studio. The population of the UK is also 2.5x the size of AU.

I am sure ABC also sells shows overseas, but a lot of Australian content, eg Harrow, is produced by American production companies and filmed in Australia.
Why is it because it's a government? Why do you think that simply moving the organization from the government to a private organization would somehow make it less political?

Do you think that politics can somehow only exist in government? I disagree, politics play significant part in any human endeavors, see for example office politics, corporate politics, etc.
>Rideshare expanded the reach of taxi-like services to more regions, people, and use cases.

You don't need rideshare for delivering service to large areas.

In my country we have a taxi app which can be used by any taxi driver. If you request a drive, your call can be seen by all drivers which are at a certain distance from you. That distance can be se by each driver.

One or more drivers will reply to your request and you get to pick the driver.

And you can either pay directly to the driver using cash or card or you can be charged through the app.

The fee for the drivers is very small so almost all drivers use it.

And the money are not subject to tax evasion, they stay in the local economy. Taxi drivers have wages, social insurance, health insurance and pension funds. They also have a valid license to transport people and are regularly checked to be able to hold that license.

No Uber needed.
> How many people if asked to do this on a job rather than an interview a year later would then go and implement it from memory without double checking they didn't forget some edge case on stackoverflow?

An excellent question.

If the interviewer is to ask such algorithms questions looked up on leetcode, etc, then they must be prepared for when the candidate asks if they also use it themselves on the job. If the interviewer admits they don't use it, then they also admitted that they don't know what they are looking for and really are wasting the candidate's time.

If it were me, I would look at open-source contributions (no hello-world or demo projects) where that is enough proof for me to evaluate an entry-level candidate and cut through the algorithms nonsense and ask questions to the candidate based on that which will save everyone time.
>I knew that my students wanted a second chance, I wasn’t sure how many of them would take it. Part of completing the academic integrity assignment was a tacit admission of cheating, and some students seemed set on not admitting to anything. So, I was thrilled when I received the first completed academic integrity assignment.

>What did the student have to say? There were many full sentences and as I read them I got that feeling again. So, I copied and pasted some sentences into Google, and yup, the student was plagiarizing the academic integrity assignment. Whole swaths of text verbatim copied.

How broken of a person do you have to be to reflexively cheat on a simple assignment intended to give you a second chance after you’ve been caught cheating already? How can that be the first thing you go for? This is really sad. I seriously don’t understand the thinking here.
I thought myself of the "maybe they mean to move somewhere else and it's easier after rain" theory, but the follow up question was: where?

How does an earthworm decide where to go? Do they just pick a random direction, because statistically that is advantageous for the species?
It rules out local hidden variables, non local hidden variables (eg Bohmian mechanics) is still allowed
eh, for digital circuits/RTL it's largely been my experience that they will simply not look at you unless you have an EE/CompE degree It's bizarre but not exactly a novel problem
Ask HN: What do you think of the ideals of the crypto/Web3 space?
Cheating could grade the honest student below you lower on a curve and deny them employment in a competitive job market. Then there'd be a dishonest person earning more economic influence on the world than an honest one.
Is your manager a better developer than you?
Tax Flight Is a Myth: Higher State Taxes Bring More Revenue, Not More Migration:

https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/tax-fligh...
You're making a good point. We have to remember that rules about cheating are effectively social agreements within a group of people. If the majority of the people within that group don't (anymore) agree with the rule, for all intents and purposes it's no longer a rule -- even if it might nominally be stated somewhere as one.

Culture and social arrangements evolve implicitly at first, and are only later encoded. Of course, the modern homo bureaucraticus might do well to be reminded of this.
The point of the tech industry's relatively high valuation is that headcount isn't supposed to linearly scale with sales! If you need to add one employee for every 100 customers, then you're not Microsoft, you're McDonalds.

If Uber has to staff up a hundred person office in every country they operate in, this is bad, and guarantees they won't ever be profitable!
In 1981, the former Canal Zone decided to permit correction of birth certificates to reflect the individual's actual gender. Even though the Canal Zone was no longer in existence, the successor agency to the Canal Zone government had jurisdiction over the birth certificates of individuals who, like John McCain, were born there. McCain did not apply to change his birth certificate.
A wake up call is coming to theses startups because the money has stopped flowing. I suspect a lot of these startups replicating Google in both interview style and architecture are going together fail fast.

Read up on HN post on Fast. Someone was commenting one how they failed the interview because the HM wanted someone that wasn't a cowboy. They wanted someone that build microservices like Google. Being a cowboy is what you need to find PM fit. Focusing on microservices when you don't even have enough customers is a huge waste of money and detrimental to your company because of operational complexity. Any changes that should take 5 mins, now takes 3 hours. Fast had so little customers that an engineer suggested that they run the system under a single AWS monolith and was quickly shot down.
In theory the purpose of the university is to help you develop skills independently, so that you can bring something to the table when you do consult with colleagues in the workplace.
Curve grading is such a messed up thing. It leads to professors assuming you should get all A's in all of your classes basically, cuz of this nonsense from US unis.

I did an exchange year, and sent my grades over to a professor. Guy was like "What's up with all the non As" and I had to talk about how we do things differently here (giving points for right answers, and then adding them all up).

Of course there's always an overall curving happening on a high level because teachers choose how hard to make assignments or not, and ultimately grades are not really fundamentally important, but when people just have those to judge you on and choose to, it really fucks things up.
Sure, but at some point you have to actually learn skills yourself and stop relying on others. And that point is high school.

These are people who will eventually go into the workforce, into jobs that have certain expectations of individual knowlege and ability. You can't just coast forever on the people around you.
Tax Flight Is a Myth: Higher State Taxes Bring More Revenue, Not More Migration
We don’t currently know what is special about certain situations that causes them to be “measurements”. That’s what the “Measurement problem” is
search terms:

"quantified self"

"n=1"

as a curiosity, "scientific illuminism"
> Have you been asked to vote for/against zoning changes, or for special approvals for variances for developments?

No, never. That's not the granularity of questions that bubble up to the ballot. Those planning and permit commissions do whatever they do mostly behind closed doors, they certainly never ask the electorate.
Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces? (2017)
You're also completely right. After re-reading the link, I can see where you were coming from!
Hi,

Can you explain more about it? I tried to find thing related to it and just found a blog post by Paul Graham about ViaWeb 1995. All ecommerce platforms and website builders offer templates and plugins as a feature of their services, we totally remove the needs of those, so it's the difference between selldone and others that I highlighted.
I pressed on the link that is the documentation to support more languages, but I got a 404.
Sure, that big grey area also includes paracetamol, alcohol, smoking, even caffeine... — all allowed for both students and athletes even though we know of harm they can produce.

Many sports are life-ruinous by nature (check out those NFL head injury studies), yet we incentivise people to take part in them (by paying a lot for the games).

I always cringe when I hear from pro sportspeople how engaging in sports is promoting a healthy lifestyle: I mean, sure, unless overdone like all pro sports do.
I've been experimenting with Hatch:

https://hatch.pypa.io/

The USP of Hatch is that it uses the latest generation of Python standards and tech under the covers, so you have a unified tool that's less quirky than previous ones. Poetry and pipenv predate some of the improvements in Python packaging, so had to develop some things in their own way.
Isn't that an intended standard design use of a 747?
Thanks for investing so much energy. I regret to be the source of emotional conflict. :)
I can imagine some people cheating not out of selfishness but just to get by. In the case of a curved class (which has its own set of ethical dilemmas), if nobody cheats then people will be OK on average. But because some people decide to cheat, it screws up the dynamic.

This isn't going to convince anyone in particular who wants to cheat, that wasn't really my intention
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Literally had the same thing. I've lead large scale software projects for a critical service at a FAANG, and the interviewer will just nit pick on some random detail. Very odd feeling failing an interview like that and then going into work on Monday and banging out software on a highly competitive team
This is a spam site.

Actual link: https://blog.lumen.com/windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl-threa...
At the very end of the day, none of the economic consequences really matter, but the honest student gets to feel good about themselves for having integrity, the remorseful dishonest student feels remorse, and the amoral dishonest student was lost from the start.
Expiring tokens has a section in that link:

> Many APIs store page tokens in a database internally. In this situation, APIs may expire page tokens a reasonable time after they have been sent, in order not to needlessly store large amounts of data that is unlikely to be used. It is not necessary to document this behavior.
You'd think there'd be a process that takes the source carbon from the atmosphere instead.
The threshold is mathematicians opting to use these tools themselves for their work. There are not many mathematicians using them so far.

A nice example is the recent formalisation in Lean of some ideas by Peter Scholze: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/half-a-year-of-...

That's great stuff, which shows what can in principle be done with this technology. But why is a team necessary to formalise Scholze's ideas? Note that Scholze himself doesn't touch Lean. In my opinion, the threshold is reached when Scholze himself sits down DURING the development of his ideas to interact with the proof assistant and develop+verify his ideas.
Yes and California where I am just announced a 90 billion dollar tax surplus and I see road and bridges getting fixed all the time. Maybe the rest of the country is falling apart. I don't really know.
Tell me this, you discovered that your employer stores the user password in plain text. You propose change, but they refused; who do you report? In my experience, pretty much nothing happen until shit hits the bed, there's pretty much zero professionalism in the industry outside of some semi-autistic and OCD people that can't stand this stuff and decides to do it correctly by spending the weekend making sure things are build with correctness in mind. Most people just write stuff until it "works" and leave it at that.
What I find interesting is that the plane wings are modular enough to actually do stuff like this. Pretty cool!
I think people should be acclimated to their living environment and not need air conditioning except in the most harsh situations where survival is at stake.

It's such an energy waste, the energy crisis first emphasized this to me.

In Texas I prefer to go without when by myself.

To me it's just for other people's comfort.

For decades I've preferred to use a small fraction of the energy that ordinary consumers consider acceptable, and this one thing can really help make the difference too.
But if they use the marketing budget to pay drivers or to subsidize rides, aren't they lying about the financial state of the company?
Yea, but by coming to the surface they greatly increase the likelihood of attack from birds.
Absolutely not :))

We have zero ads, and also, we never run any ads and no ads-plugins on selldone. Check it by Wappalyzer. It happened just because of miss arrangement of things for new visitors.
I'll fix it ASAP.
Systems that produce so much cheating, are bad system design.

You're at 'cheating = bad', which is the level of a 5 year old naive little boy.

Try upgrading that system instead of pointing fingers. You only have one life to live and all that.
And there are ways to engage students in learning. In fact, my experience humans basically come out of the womb with a burning desire to learn.

It's just that when you throw at them the 57th of the same exercise with some words swapped out, that desire is extinguished a little.

Humans do something amazing in response: they cooperate to reduce the damage done by the 58th such exercise.

Give them more interesting things to do and they will cooperate in more productive ways too!

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I also disagree that you have to learn everything for yourself and stop relying on others. Granted, I only have a decade or so of full-time work behind me so far, but in all of it, I have been as productive as I have been thanks to the ability to rely on others.

I don't know how to pave roads, yet I rely on roads paved by others to even get into work. Well there, I don't know how to build refrigerators, but I trust it to keep my lunch safe. Even in performing my actual job, I'm not the sharpest at economics, so I often cross-check my reasoning with other people before going on to spend time on things.

I would be stuck in a cave looking for berries if I didn't rely on other people for skills I don't have, every second of the day.

Humans are built to survive by offloading work on each other.
If that was the gilded age, who were the robber barons? Execs at AOL and CompuServe? And these writers were working long hours in dreadful conditions for their corporate overlords?

No. A gilded age is not the same as a golden age. And I think the author meant golden age.

As for the rest of it . . . corporate hipster (and wivey leaguer[1]), yikes! The newly democratized free expression of the 90s was in weblogs you controlled yourself, not in webzines that someone else owned.

[1] Granted, Vassar has been coed since the 60s. The point is that it's awfully elite schooling for a writer for webzines in the 90s.
I think something-on-chain is our future government. Ideals of crypto/web3 are not mature yet because current gen of programmers are somewhat in the old paradigm - build an MVC helloworld, then sell this startup, then build another one. This is not applicable to Blockchain world because one is requiring to do something with cryptography (or it is not something from the crypto world). But I am really, really sure this thing will rule the world even before my death.
It's on my cv but never a requirement in a job description.
Would love to hear/see more of your work nearly 20 years later (btw, big fan of the Reina Sofia Museum – to work with Bowie and exhibit at the Reina Sofia sounds like a dream)!
Occasionally when at war with a common enemy.
Actually only baseball has an exemption, it's a weird sports trivia thing but the precedent has a few SCOTUS cases worth looking at (Federal Baseball v National Leaguie, Toolson v Yankees, US v International Boxing, and Radovich v NFL)
I think this is one of those cases where if it had not be done at that time and in that way, then, it would have been done slightly later in a slightly different way.
> But in the spirit of the question and for curiosity’s sake, if you were faced with a decision that’s beneficial to renters but decreases your property value, which way do you go?

Details of the proposal matter of course, but in general I'd rather not support home values going up because that just means higher taxes for me in exchange of nothing since I continue to live in the same house which is unchanged.
There used to be very interesting development for the wince platform with porting of typical unix applications like emacs[1]. There used to be improvements to the wince launcher from ROM's on xda-developers, but the bit lockers storage have all expired. Doing development is probably not possible since Microsoft's links for the emulators and Visual Studio 2005 have expired. But it is still possible using Free Pascal[2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010904215400/http://www.rainer...

[2] https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_CE_Interface

The problem with using the camera and video hardware on these old devices is that they are just so slow to load up. Funny that the wifi connectivity and especially the IrDA port would outlast the 2G and 3G for support. I'll have to boot it up to very that the GPS works with CDMA (HTC TyTN II).

For using the keyboard and the general size being about a bar of soap it is easier to hold in the hand.

For getting more applications on the device there is yocto, but the hardware is the problem. Best to stick with wince.

[3] https://www.yoctoproject.org/
The ill-fated Boeing 747 flight AI182 (Kanishka) was carrying an extra engine just like this, when it was destroyed over Atlantic ocean by a terrorist bomb attack in June 1985. The presence of the extra engine was investigated as a possible cause of the disaster before conclusive evidence of a bomb explosion was found. (That and another explosion on the ground at Narita, Japan in a container destined for another Air India flight).

[1] https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19850623-...