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> That’s how I feel when I try to interview for an software engineering role.

You meant to say when you interview for the wrong companies?

Google’s (and other leetcode nurseries) been steadily regressing. Not sure you want to be a part of it. Only idiots build sorting algos in 2022 let alone ask highschool questions about them. Keep hunting and grab some popcorn - it will be fun to watch.
If the government "asks" private companies to shut you up - it's better than being jailed or shot by the same government, but the former is an attack on freedom of expression nevertheless.
Pulumi was a one trick pony that never figured out a way to differentiate themselves before HashiCorp caved and delivered a Terraform CDK (Terraform for the longest time was extremely hard to use programmatically, you basically had to wrap the binary, you couldn't import a lot of the underlying Go code directly) (aside: HashiCorp still does this with Consul and friends, very annoying and has clear intentions on why).

I would master Terraform modules with HCL before reaching for a CDK (or Pulumi). You may find you don't need anything more, or you'll figure out why you need those things instead. Plan your automation journey with the end user in mind but not an immediate goal, service your own needs first and eventually build out tooling _designed for them_.
> high-end branding for USB while being fully compatible for lower end devices

But TB4 will not support USB3.2 2x2?
> This is illegal, CFAA of 1996.

I'm not sure it is. The system you are accessing is not the user's, it's the company's. The company let you in with your own email address.

Discord was horrible about this. They kept sending automated emails about someone else's account, because the user signed up with my email address. I told them it wasn't mine and they should make the user fix their email address. Instead, they asked me to confirm I wanted to delete the account. I refused, telling them it wasn't mine. This all happened in Spanish, because the user spoke Spanish, even though my inquiry was originally in English.

So clearly, not all companies care all that much who you are and will freely let you take over other people's accounts.
What’s the ideal interview? HR screen, tech interview, and team lead interview? I don’t know that you can reasonably compress things down to less than three interviews without relying on individuals to be better at interviewing than they might actually be.
“Ocariner”

This is awesome, good job to the folks involved. I’ll stick to the n64 version myself, though, as long as it continues to work!
Back in 1999-20000, I worked at a casino as a cashier in the midwest. I was shocked at how many people who worked in the casino and saw first hand how the house always wins would still regularly spend their days off going to the casino down the road and gambling or spend a break on the phone to a bookie.
There's some regional variation in sliding door types.

> In New Jersey.. only one door slid open, the other door was anchored in place. These doors could be locked with a broom stick or dowel cut to length and dropped in the track.. In south Florida most sliding patio doors bypass each other. In others words, both doors move. Dropping a stick in the track will only lock one sliding door. The best way to lock these doors is to lock one door against the other. The “Dixie” lock did this more simply and effective than anything on the market, and it still does.
So basically every software engineer interview... ever.
I have a 2009 Nissan Altima with 282k miles on it. Pretty sure it's on borrowed time. I bought it used 4ish years ago with 240k miles on it for $1200.
Link to the anti-trans content and let's get it sorted then.
The issue with alcohol in particular is a biochemical one. Ethanol is chronically slightly poisonous, but methanol is acutely very poisonous.

If you drink ethanol all your life you may get cirrhosis of the liver and have elevated risks for other diseases, but if you drink even a small amount of pure methanol you’ll go blind or die.

So alcohol prohibition decreases chronic disease due to less ethanol consumption, but increases acute disease due to more accidental methanol consumption. At least in populations that don’t already have strong cultural norms against alcohol consumption.

Many other vices have this duality of harm, but alcohol’s is particularly one-sided.
Your workplace is not a good fit for GitOps (right now?). Anything *Ops needs political willpower to make them happen, you as a lowly IC have no leverage to implement something like this successfully. Sorry to be a downer.
A good number of native apps are unusable without an internet connection.

We just accept that our fragmented software landscape spans several backend technology stacks, web browsers and two dominant mobile platforms that are in constant flux. ES6, Typescript, Swift and Kotlin didn't even exist a decade ago and their constantly shifting ecosystems are nearly impossible for a single developer to keep up with. Higher barriers to entry work well for the large companies that dominate our industry so they continue to churn out complexity as best practice.

Allowing a single developer to deliver customer-facing applications without the context switch and coordination overhead of a team is a big deal. In the 80s and 90s, this was possible. Today, even deployment has become a specialised role. Not every engineer wants to be forced into a backend or frontend role in an agile team with product owners and ceremonies. There needs to be room for the craftsman in our industry. This is a step towards empowering the individual hacker again.

Liveview Native is not hugely compelling if you're only looking at it from the perspective of an established company or funded startup that can afford a team of more than 3-6 engineers and devops. As a solo dev or bootstrapped startup with limited resources, this is a killer feature for elixir and phoenix.
Does anyone know if there is a readily available hardware or software version of this (presumably using a laptop monitor or LED panel or similar instead of a rotating screen)?
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My last job search took a toll on my mental health. I felt like a worthless person for 3 months. I could feel (or imagine?) the disdain of the interviewers as I was failing their tests. The fake enthusiasm on their side as they rejected me ("that was great! But we're not going to move forward with you! Good luck!!!") and on my side while pretending I was excited when in fact I was worried about money and the gap on my resume.

I dread the next one.
But many companies don't set any expectations. You typically have no idea how many rounds of interviews there are, or how quickly you will hear back. And there is a pretty good chance that if you don't get the job, you will never hear back either way.
I'm a fan of CF managing state versus TF's way of doing things. I also thing AWS CDK libs have much higher quality compared to the ones I generally find for TF.
Something that intrudes upon this universe from another universe, perhaps.

Nothing that is a product of this universe, whether directly or indirectly, is unnatural. Everything is natural, from steel skyscrapers to beaver dams to beehives to planets and stars.
The most recent StackOverflow poll shows Elixir as having the highest percentage of people happy with working with it (over 70%), taking top spots among all tech languages and platforms … and is among the lowest for tech people wish they are using for work, but are not.

In other words, many of the developers who want to be working with Elixir are working with Elixir, and are quite happy doing so.
You missed the crucial point:

> So you need non-admin users to be able to use it too

The build daemon and the user are used for privilege separation. The separation goes both ways. Users can't write directly to /nix/store and Nix can't write outside of /nix/store during build.

If anything, it's there to make things less invasive. It's nothing like the Docker daemon, which is a proxy for root.

Additionally, the daemon doesn't do anything unless users request that a package be built.
That's great, is AWS truly the only IaaS/PaaS/SaaS you use? The benefit of Terraform at this point over everything else is the sheer amount of providers out there for it. You can have _everything in code_, even shit you'd never think about like Google Workspace accounts.
USB 3.1 is like 10Gbps, though?
> You repeatedly pass off very peculiar opinions as "obvious facts" with some quasi anecdata from Bangladesh.

Apart from my views on guns and legal originalism, I have quite conventional opinions for a desi raised on the east coast of the US in the 1990s.

> I understand the advantage of talking about Bangladesh as there are very few Bangladeshis here to contradict you - but you can use this trick only so many times.

I’m sure there are lots of Indians and Pakistanis on HN. I don’t think we’re so different that they wouldn’t be able to contradict me. But even progressive desis have aunts and uncles. And I don’t know about yours but mine aren’t exactly sitting around discussing Judith Butler.

> You are welcome to pretend being progressive is believing in "woo stuff" like civil rights, womens suffrage, gay marriage, race blind immigration etc.

By “woo stuff” I was referring to saging houses and healing crystals and Druid weddings. (My wife’s from Oregon.)

But as to the issues you mention, the vast majority of Americans support those things. Progressives are the small subset of those people who support those things for distinct ideological and millenarian reasons.

> The fact of the matter is that - you would not be in this country without the "woo stuff" you are ridiculing.

You can’t gaslight me, lol. I grew up in a 95% white Virginia town that voted for Bush, Dole, and then Bush again. The precinct where I live went for Trump over Clinton 58-34 (the same year we moved there). A good chunk of my wife’s family is rural white Trump voters.

There is a wellspring of acceptance for immigrants in this country that’s far broader and deeper than progressivism. Its rooted not in critical race theory, but Christianity, Constitutionalism, and the immigrant history of people who are already here.

Indeed, if minorities and immigrants were as reliant on progressives to be our champions as progressives think, we would be screwed. There’s not that many of them and they have no guns!

> The conservative culture you have adopted doesn't welcome race blind immigration.

The conservative culture my entire family comes from believes in that way less than anywhere in South Georgia or Iowa that I’ve been.

> Just a corporation or university on restrictive terms and got approved by the US government, thanks to MLKs efforts.

I’ve never met a desi (who wasn’t put on TV by white people, anyway) who thinks MLK has anything to do with immigrants. It’s a completely different issue. Much of my family moved to Australia or Canada, which never had a US style civil rights movement. But those countries are also very welcoming of immigrants.
When I used Wells Fargo, they wanted me to go into the bank building to get quarters for laundry so they could run that fake account opening scam on me. Similarly when I tried depositing coins; they had a teller hand count them to take longer so the manager could try and sell me things.

I think this might support the article's point.
Someone did, https://www.ebay.com/itm/353764891956?hash=item525e07dd34:g:...
I'm all for mechanical keyboards, I use a Cherry MX Blue based board. I also enjoyed the IBM buckling spring models at the time, but reading your comment just sounds like the "journey" that everybody else within the "hobby" goes through. I've seen pretty much the same story dozens of times before. Not to invalidate what you think about it, I'm admittedly intrigued, just put off that it's a treadmill rather than a "this is objectively the pinnacle of typing in 2022, buy this if you can live with x compromise", and instead it's a lot like audiophile corksniffing.
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Discount maybe? I got one to my work address because I signed up for discounts through my employer.
"Collecting". Hoarding.
A relative recently got an email to a second round of interviews.

They were instructed to schedule 12 different meetings.

They declined assuming that they could probably get in interviews for several jobs in that amount of time / just didn’t want to deal with how much bureaucracy that seemed to indicate.
What do you mean? My daily code editor is notepad via a shared screen. It’s the best!
Grammar nit pick, "a" if the first letter of the following word starts with a consonant sound else "an". A ball. An echo.
> Only [well-paid] idiots

Working at Google may be going down with the ship, but at least in the end you get to sail away on your golden life boat.
Just because you are not there, doesn't mean other people are not.

> My conservative estimate of current Mastodon network totals, based on my own stats aggregation, is 3 million registered users and 250k monthly active users.

> - Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko (April 2022)
Addiction is certainly a universal challenge.

However, there's a peculiar thing with gambling where it exploits the difficult economic realities underlying the rest of America's infrastructure.
> where integer values are not acceptable

Er why not
Sounds easy to lose compared to the same amount in $100s.
Brilliant and sad
Ask HN: What is the best config file documentation you have seen?
I run a project called goreleaser, which is configurable via YAML.

Since it has a lot of options, it can get confusing. I do provide a JSONSchema and a documentation page, with all available options and some commented examples.

Still, I feel like it could be better - especially regarding informing in which version a given option was added, discoverability, etc.. I'm just not sure how to make it so.

That said, I wonder: what is the best software configuration documentation you have ever seen?
> but at least I don't have to go through yet another life draining and de-humanizing interviewing process.

Stop interviewing at code assembly lines? There are loads of sane places to work at with sane interviews and great tech and pay. FAANG and similar are undergoing a slow rot. You’ll do fine.
Likewise, I see a lot of people more interested in the tools in any industry are not infrequently lacking in basic skills using it, but can tell you a bunch of useless facts. I see similar with university graduates who are all theory and no applicable skill.
I don't disagree with this articles satire, as it lines up with my experience if you remove a bit of the hyperbole. I am however curious as to why companies continue to do this and seem to be increasing their interview requirements in the face of an inability to hire.

The most reasonable sounding answer I can come up with is that executives are balking at engineering pay and rationalizing it to themselves by demanding ever more from engineers even though the number of people who can pass all these hoops is not increasing. That's based on gut instinct however, so if anyone has some actual insight they could share it would be appreciated.
I thought “with monkeys” was a reference to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs myself.
Name the board for those curious!
Many of the Samsung devices can be rooted. Example: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/samsung-galaxy-s8-root-sn...
The forum itself is a good place to start looking.
The question though is whether you actually need bit identical or if you can just build a numerical model of your accuracy such that the result is +/- some bounded error.

Or you can just use infinite precision libraries at the cost of CPU.
While validators can’t censor, they can play both sides: Nothing at stake is still not solved on ETH.
That's a medallion signature guarantee; it's like a notary public but done by a banker. You also have to get them for things like IRA transfers.

It doesn't actually have to be your own bank or anything; I've gotten one from a Chase branch because I had one of their credit cards. All that matters is it comes from a banker.
What surprises me the most is how few of them must seriously use them given how many common important keys are missing for use of CAD, DAWs et al.
As someone who just went through the interview epic-quest-with-many-sidequests-and-bonus-missions at a few companies, this hit close to home. I’m happy where I ended up though and it wound up being one of the more reasonable interview processes of the bunch.
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I’ve seen so many of these jokes and complaints about modern SV interviews that I was blown away when I recently interviewed at a FAANG… I was assigned a recruiter who communicated clearly and often with me, told exactly how many interviews I was doing (3), what each was about, and all 3 were scheduled on the same day, and were handled by extremely smart and supportive people. Offer came through by the end of the week.

Not at all what I was expecting!
This is great.

At a fundamental level, it's entropy and energy.

You need to expend some energy (1000/2000/5000/6 billion years of energy!) to organize your knowledge well enough to get that bit of entropy that tells you that you can shape the leaves this way to make a fan, or you can put copper and iron together to make a battery.

In a similar vein: we could have come up with StableDiffusion with just parchment, if ten of us had just written down the weights one at a time, 5 kilobytes per day, for several decades. Of course, what do we write down? That takes energy.
A wise sage once said: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Consider the feeling mutual.
You say that like the aim of the update was just to slow down those older phones (mainly iPhone 6). The problem was that the battery design of the iPhone 6 had a problem when it got old and could no longer provide enough power to run the SOC at full speed without sudden shutdowns. The patch slowed the SOC down enough that the battery could still provide a steady supply of power.
I've never even interviewed at a FAANG. I've interviewed at like a dozen companies throughout my career, across all sorts of different businesses. All of the interview processes I've been through were awful.
That's not really what I meant; the device you linked is an example of the second kind of thing, a "floppy disk emulator."

A floppy version of a "cassette adapter" would be a floppy disk on one end, and a USB cable on the other. You'd feed the adapter disk into a floppy drive; the cable would dangle out of the front of the drive; and then you'd plug the cable into a USB mass-storage device.

As with an audio cassette adapter, this would be a way to feed data into a device through the magnetic read head — making the drive believe for analogue RF reasons that there's a flux-recorded medium in there; one that reads off as whatever data you're playing down the line.
It's already a done thing.

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/working-in-australia/r...
Interviewing is a skill. Practice it. Learn the stupid code challenges. Learn the corpo talk.
Nothing wrong in playing the game. But believe me there’s better pay out there.
Hairdressers prefer cash or Venmo in my experience.
Our startup's building a browser based AI Tutor that estimates a learner's knowledge level and uses it to explain concepts in context. It's like step-by-step navigation for learning. We're still in the very early stages, so it'd be years before we get to enterprise customers.

Our website isn't active yet, but you can follow our LinkedIn if you're interested in updates. We have an MVP release planned for this month.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/conceptionary/
Something like this was why I loved Jules Verne's Mysterious Island as a kid. In retrospect it was kind of unrealistic how the Smith (the Engineer) happened to know all the tech they needed to survive, but it certainly set my path!

(also, featuring Epic Crossover!)
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As a pen-loving outsider looking in, I have little desire to ever leave "lurker" status. Wow.
Lying to investors is different from giving optimistic estimates on correct data shared with investors.
That sounds pretty dismal? E.g. >90% of "registered users" don't actually use the platform.
> Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
Are you asking why there’s floating point in general? Or why Tex needed floating point to represent layout?

For the latter likely because you have to do layout. You could try defining a fundamental page unit but some layout decisions will likely still put you into fractional space where you need to preserve the fractions to get a correct result.
You might be comforted to know that I was once in a similar situation, but I eventually found a great job and things worked out.

The lesson I learned is that you shouldn't draw too many conclusions from just a few bad interviews.
... and you never get the right laws, and if you get some, they are hardly ever applied, and at best in an efficient and time limited way. And you get those politicians with phantom jobs with stellar wages in proxies of companies they were supposed to protect us from.