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A few years ago I was interviewed by Microsoft in Salt Lake City, now closed. The job was a creative type job, a game designer. A fellow there said he was a tough interviewer. He ONLY asked me brain teaser type questions. His first question concerned a radio design 20 years from now. I drew what I thought it might look like and he seemed unimpressed with my answer.

He then asked me this: "You and your family of 9 are on one side of the river, there's a flash flood coming. There is a boat but it only holds 3 people. What do you do?"

I said: "I get in the bow, row to the other side, and wave 'good luck' to my family. See, I don't get along with my family very well."

He got a little agitated, and told me that in this case I love my family and want to save them. He asked me to try again.

I said: "I flip the boat over to make it more buoyant, put the kids on top and the adults hang on the sides."

He became angry: "There are piranhas in the river so you can't tough the water. Try again."

I said: "I lay the oars of the boat so that more people can ride in the boat..." He interrupted me by saying: "Just answer the question."

I said: "I have given you 3 creative and interesting answers. Since you are NOT trained in psychology you don't have any way of understanding my answers you feel frustrated."

He said: "This interview is over"

I said: "OK, but you know nothing about me".

I have refused to answer these types of questions since then.
I don't agree with the browser-on-demand solution, and while I'm glad I can turn that option off, I don't think it goes far enough. What I want is for background tabs to be loaded after the current tab, and done in such a way that doesn't disrupt my current browsing activity. Maybe load them one at a time after the current one is done rendering.
I'm not sure it's fair to pin that on Apple. There are a number of navigation apps in the App Store, free and paid, that anyone can download (I use Navigon and it's paid for itself a hundred times over).

It's not as if Apple doesn't permit them, they just choose not to include it for free.

Would you say Google is obligated to add free text messages to Android just because Apple has it (iMessage) and it saves money for people?
Exactly. Google mapped the major urban centres of South Africa, my country, before the 2010 Football World Cup, but since then they've been regularly refreshing the data and adding map and Street View data for even small towns in out of the way places. The coverage they have is phenomenal, especially considering the fact that S. Africa is hardly a major country.
Another suggestion: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/cssgradientbackgr...

IE's gradient builder, I find it nicer than the colorzilla one.
Sadly enough, professional negotiators regularly leverage social pressure on people who don't negotiate professionally.

It's effective precisely because you don't expect it to be used as a weapon against you.
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If they go ahead and treat him and their policy is only to treat patients who've signed it that's likely to be acceptance by action.
Mapquest 4 Mobile and Maps+ are both in the app store...so I would doubt that this would be the case. I believe that clause of "duplication" is not enforced anymore.
There was a push a couple years back to collect that data. Mozilla Test Pilot. They kept track of how long people kept browsers open, how many tabs they had and how they were used, opened, closed... All of this was anonymized and collected in all sorts of pretty graphs.

The site seems down, now, but that data was taken and helped shape the changes we're seeing now.

Old link:
https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/testcases/tab-open-close/a...
> further more i'd like to create playlists in the browser and not just in the macstore app.

... you can in next.soundcloud.com, but only when you get access. and we call em sets.
You may not realize it but you make one and possibly two assumptions with this statement, first that Apple isn't currently collecting equivalent street view data (Microsoft has done the same with their mapping product), and possibly two that the collection of the data for Apple would take as much time as it did for Google.

Sure there is the physical drive around stuff. But if you look at the C3 stuff (the company Apple bought that turns satellite images into 3D views) you can see where they might go with it. Also they do have a ton of cash and it would be seriously less than half a billion dollars to take a picture of the world. You might even get Toyota to make the 'steet view' edition version of the Prius in quantity.

The key thought for me here is that if this report is true, then Apple has decided mapping is strategic and taken it in house. And like Google (who did this in part so they could offer turn by turn directions [1]) they could exploit data they own for a wide variety of purposes.

[1] The original sources of Google's map information did not include a license to use it for turn by turn as that was exclusively given to another company by the vendor. Google had to acquire their own data without those restrictions in order to do navigation.
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Major changes are occurring, especially regarding memory usage (and security bugs, so I seriously suggest you upgrade). Your main gripe is there isn't very many of them at each release, since they have changed development style. This kind of development style is what I'd call rolling release, "ship changes when they are ready", instead of the usual "ship changes in the next version". The classic version numbering fails with this kind of development style, since the differences between major/minor start to fall apart. Look at something like the linux kernel, which follows a rather similar system. Every new version adds major features, just not very many, but they build up over time. In fact, the major-minor meaning was so useless Linus could just change the version from 2.6 to 3 without any significant changes.

As a gentoo user, I would expect you to be very familiar with the rolling release paradigm. Personally I think it works well for something like Firefox. I'm pretty sure I'm getting way more major features per unit of time now then before, since the waiting time between releases was so long. There are definitely some disadvantages to this approach though, but the advantages are worth it.
It seems like there is a huge amount of ignorance (on the parts of both developers and DBAs) about the fact that NoSQL doesn't necessarily mean "no schema." For whatever reason, the "cool kids" in the Web dev world completely ignore the ugly stepchildren of the NoSQL world, graph databases. Graph databases provide the protections of a schema, but the schema can be altered without massive pain on the parts of developers. Even better, the RDF style graph databases have a W3C standard query language called SPARQL.

Don't get me wrong, I love my RDBMS (MySQL and PostgreSQL) and I also use Mongo and love its extreme simplicity, but I wish more developers understood that schemas exist in places other than RDBMS.
This is one of the biggest problems with these trick questions - there really isn't a correct answer, just the answer that the interviewer wants to hear.
Here is something that I always wanted to do, but haven't had the nerve. At the end of the interview, when you are asked "Do you have any questions?", I'd like to say: "Yes. There are 5 sailors marooned on a desert island, and they collect all the coconuts (.....). So what is the number of coconuts?"
I wish the downmod brigade would actually read what I wrote. I'm not calling Stallman a liar. I'm saying he may have made a mistake in telling the story. It happens. I also said that it was more likely that the receptionist made up the number to scare him off.

If you read an article, the author is responsible for putting the words in it, whatever the original source is. The author can make mistakes, because authors are human. I'm just saying that it's a possibility he misquoted the number in his article, a possibility I stated to be less likely than other other source I suggested.

I understand the point of the article. I was responding to a couple of comments that were acting like this 3000-word thing was real, when it clearly isn't, and drawing conclusions about how crazy beaurocracy has become that documents get so long.
why does this have anything to do with hacknews?
I’m sure Apple would if the could. They obviously can’t, though. I can’t imagine that Google would allow them to implement those features. So Google is the holdup. Apple uses Google’s API and is completely dependent on them in what they can do. (Hey, that’s their right. No problem with that. You don’t have to allow your competitor everything.)

That is exactly the reason why Apple has to do it on their own. It might be worse than Google Maps (at least in the beginning or forever), but at least it will allow for progress.
Agreed. Our education system, K-12, is abysmal. We need to be teaching general law and legal issues to all people 16 and older! How many people understand the different law domains (natural, common, statutory, civil, criminal, etc..) and their orders of application?

Additionally if the organizations obtaining signatures knew the people signing them knew the law and what's binding, they might actually ensure that things are done correctly and mindfully since the odds of a signature (and contract) being challenged is greatly increased.
That right mockup view comes apparently from a screenshot of Nokia Maps 3D, even down to the old Nokia font and label Coloring:

http://maps.nokia.com/37.7976001,-122.3979938,17.42,195.29,7... (requires Plugin)

WebGL Version: http://maps.nokia.com/webgl/#|37.7976|-122.3979938|0|900|70|...
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next SoundCloud comments solve this for me quite well.
Opera's Speed Dial is nice, too.
Sales guys are great fabulists for the most part, so in the absence of "blue sky" stuff for reveries w/potential customers, they will just start riffing on their own independently.

This is where a huge amount of the rub between sales-marketing and dev comes in. But this "imagine all the possibilities" type of stuff is pure crack in the sales-customer relationship.

So I try to fill the void for the sales guys so they won't be making stuff up on their own. That is, I take a lot of care/explaining to them what are some of the near term possibilities of our app that we haven't built out yet, but make sense, that sort of thing, how much it would cost, risk factors, etc.

Fill up their fantastical story buffer in advance w/stuff that is acceptable to me. This seems to work well with little friction because sales guys tend to be a lot less intransigent than devs/designers about features - basically, they care less about the substance of the story rather than simply how well it sells.

In short, I try to make my fantasies their fantasies as well.
These demos rely on the OS to access sound & graphics, they could not reach the fidelity they do without the OS hiding away much of the file size. You could not do a 4K demo if you had to include the infrastructure to load a modern graphics driver & OpenGL/DX libraries. They are also only small in terms of package size. This demo for example uses about 550MB of RAM while running(Win7x64).
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I've lived in Minneapolis (most extreme), Santa Fe (most sunny), Mountain View (most pleasant), Brasilia (most normal), and London (most cloudy).

I actually prefer having cold snowy winters and hot sweaty summers as it alleviates the monotony quite well. But Berlin-level snow is not enough. What's the average annual snowfall there? In Santa Fe in Christmas of 2006 we got four feet (120cm) in town in one 4-day storm, now that's an assload and a half.
It used to be you could only get those features by purchasing Apples $50/year add on which included turn by turn and device locator functionality (parents could track children or you could catch a thief after your phone was stolen). Not sure if those are still options or not.
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You're saying that he shouldn't have exposed his company's knee jerk bad behavior because there might be other companies out there who exhibit similar knee jerk poor judgement.

In a competitive market (which sort of exists in tech), those companies that exhibit bad judgement fail. You're really doing yourself a favor by not getting hired by them.

Frankly, I think any company that would behave as you describe would probably do this same shit all over again.

I'm not sure if this guy is a decent hire or not (possibly not), but my decision to hire him wouldn't be based upon this episode, it would be based upon whatever I could figure out about his abilities.
That rule was dropped a long time ago. AFAIK, the only remaining restriction is using Safari's rendering engine for browser apps.

Examples:

* Opera vs Safari.app
* Sparrow vs Mail.app
* Vimeo vs YouTube app
* Agenda vs Calendar.app
* Kik vs Messages.app
* Simplenote vs Notes.app

(I believe it came out that that "rule" was only used as an excuse for Apple to delay the Google Voice app. After they finally agreed to let Google Voice on the App Store a year later, I don't think I've ever seen anyone complain about it.)
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Re:

"There is no real confidentiality of medical records in the US, since the police can get them under very easy conditions."

Very true. And sometimes police can obtain information without even having to ask.

I work for a regional pharmacy outlet and it is the company policy to transmit Pseudoephedrine (PSE) Sales Log Records to the local police department every week.

After writing a memo stating customers/patients should be at least given an informed consent that the information they are required by law to provide in order to purchase PSE is then released to the local police department - an act not required by law. I was told that PSE sales information is not considered Protected Health Information under HIPAA and thus not a breach of Federal privacy law. Granted since PSE is an over-the-counter product its purchase does not technically qualify as a 'medical record'. However, because PSE is purchased 'behind-the-counter' at pharmacies in the U.S. I believe there is a reasonable expectation of privacy on the public's part in this regard.

The Board of Pharmacy in an e-mail clarification to this memo did not address HIPAA compliance but merely stated that the methamphetamine unit officers were 'approved' to receive such information and for all pharmacies to please kindly comply with their ongoing methamphetamine combating efforts.

I've taken a personal policy to comply with the company policy - having higher educational debt cheapens the price of selling one's self - but to openly share what is done with the records if asked. So far no one has ever asked me what is done with the records.
Whoops! Missed it. A little more detail in this story.
I'm a die-hard Firefox user; can't live without tab mix plus but Chrome is significantly faster rendering my web application than Firefox or IE. We recommend it to all our customers for that reason -- the difference is striking.

Our application is not JavaScript heavy but it does contain a lot of HTML.
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I sat through some classes on how title companies worked, and the closer (the person at the title company who manages the entire process) refers to you as a "reader." Somewhat unusual, but not that uncommon. (I was a reader when I bought my house years ago.) RESPA requires that all significant costs be listed on a sheet available 24 hours before closing, and you can press your rights on that, though it may delay your closing by one day. That gives you the time to read all the documents before everyone collects in person. And everyone does not need to be in the same room at the same time, of course. Closing documents may be FEDEXed around the world, if necessary, and some real estate investing dual closings (flips) very much depend on everyone NOT seeing all the documents.
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Having your lawyer read something is no excuse for not also reading it yourself.
I am reasonably certain that chucknelson is aware of the technical way a story makes it to the front page. His question then should be read as "how has a sufficient number of users found this noteworthy?"
This is a principal reason society need effective regulation: So that one does not need a fucking lawyer for every daily transaction.

Practices (meaning behaviors, not medical offices) like this should be shut down before they ever see the light of day, and confuse, inconvenience, and compromise the safety and integrity of thousands.
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Isn't this a solved problem? Stop following people who generate noise?
It's a great tool. My only complaint is -- Currently there's no way to search notes or comments inside a task.
I have seen exactly 0 programs that ever wrapped new calls in try/catch blocks to catch bad_alloc. If you can't allocate memory, you are likely going to need to exit anyway.

You can write quite a lot of C++ without ever using exceptions since exceptions. There are people who write exception-happy code. I tend to prefer only using exceptions for exceptional events like where the the only other option would be for the program to exit. I throw an exception in the hope that someone upstream will catch it and be able to handle it.

Honestly, if you throwing exceptions constantly as part of your normal executing code path, you're going to drive yourself crazy.
I'm a student at the University of Pittsburgh. From that point of view, this seems like a perfectly fine action to take. The FBI agents may have disrupted service to a few hundred users, but these threats were affecting thousands of people.

I don't know if these anonymous email threats were unprecedented or not, but they certainly present a huge challenge to law enforcement. What would have happened if the people responsible didn't just stop?

Of course, you could subscribe to the view of the conspiracy theorists among us who feel that the FBI did actually catch the people responsible and are now employing them. :P
If anyone refused to answer questions like this in an interview I was running, I would ask them to leave and tell them they wouldn't be hearing from us. I don't care what your qualifications are, if you are an asshole who will not take directions, then I don't want you in my department.
This is very pendantic I know but in your demo video the line 'They all have tons of features that Emily don't need, all she needed the most is a CRM with attendance records' would be more correct English if it read:
'They all have tons of features that Emily doesn't need, all she needs is a CRM with attendance records'.

In any case, the concept sounds good and is otherwise well presented.
I'm missing something. If it's teleportation, why does glass or air currents interfere with transmission? It shouldn't matter what's in the way, right?
No hate intended. I wanted to express the disconnect between the stated goal of the project and the unstated positioning that the design and terminology conveys.
>I'm not sure exactly what more you'd expect them to do.

There's not a lot more that they can do. They've advertised themselves as a company that willingly screws their employees and goes back on their word.

Whatever the details of the case, anybody who is thinking of joining their team will now think "they might do something like this to me".
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If you are talking about intercepting one of the entangled particles during tranmission, then you are right, that's not much more secure than any other transmission. But once the entangled pairs are at their respective secured locations then I imagine it would be rather difficult to get to the transmitted data. But I'm not an expert on these matters.
Kaspar Hauser, the now-educated feral child, answers the professor's questions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9uqPeIYMik
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My father is an artist and ETSY is pretty useless for him. If you want any kind of visibility you have to pay pay pay for promotions on ETSY and even those don't work so well - maybe if you ran them week after week after week...

If ETSY actually handled the payments themselves that would be a value add but they don't. You still have to set up PayPal etc and jump through all those hoops so instead of maintaining the ETSY store - that only gets traffic if you advertise a bunch and that you have to keep paying to list you inventory on and that won't allow you to link to anywhere else where your art is available - it made more sense to set up a site on weebly (75 bucks for two years hosting with 10 domains) and just email that to real galleries. And if we could get any real traction online we would dump weebly and use Shopify because they actually let you track inventory in a semi-meaningful way.

edit: I see the OP is an engineer at ETSY. Consider this constructive criticism... I'm basically an artists IT guy by night.
How is the name pronounced? "Rage-ick" or "Rag-ick"?
Hey thanks! I really appreciate this, my English is not all that good.
Maybe not designed, but people really want it to: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&ta...
> "how many golf balls can you get in a double decker bus"
> My answer to the first was "I dont know and i'm not going to try and work it out because 1) i dont have enough information and 2) its not relevant to this position.

The genesis of these kind of questions is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem (checkout the classic "how many piano tuners"). Fermi approximation's purpose it to estimate without concrete data. In the end, if the numbers aren't right, you just need to replace the numbers, provided your method was correct.

I am not contending its relevance(largely irrelevant). I am just pointing out the origin.
> One interesting facet in this is that Google will own hundreds of domain names it arguably didn’t want to own but didn’t want someone else to own either. It will be interesting to see if they let these names drop or choose to renew them for thousands of dollars a year.

Oh c'mon. They likely own tens of thousands of these sorts of domains, and the "thousands of dollars a year" won't even be noticed in their legal budget.
I have been delayed by Google Maps mistakes several times, and I don't even use it often. The error rate is ridiculous. I would love for Apple to come up with a superior product.
I'm sort of surprised at that - the level of detail you'd need to care about 4:54 vs 5:00 would imply that you'd have stuff like "take a shower" in the schedule somewhere.

Unless Ryan's not the showering type, which is fine. Personally I find that it freshens me up and sets a nice "start of the day" feeling. If I miss a day for whatever reason I feel icky and unkempt.