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This is beyond disgusting. How did the people in the room not simply walk out?

ETA: Scripts are good for these things. It's difficult, in the shock and confusion of the moment, to decide what to do. So, here's one script. When you're in a presentation, and a speaker starts talking like this (or talking about "gang-bang interviews" or whatever else) you stand quietly, and you leave. You tweet what happened. If there isn't a clear apology (and we haven't heard one from Dell yet) you don't attend the conference the following year. This is how we, as a community, communicate to one another what kind of behavior is and is not acceptable.
When you only have a single non-transferable vote, it's wasted if you place it on a niche candidate that doesn't get enough votes.

This is a self fulfilling prophecy.

People should vote for third parties more often! The mainstream ones suck!

No way, and "waste" my vote? I'd rather hold my nose and pick someone who has a chance!

(6 months later, when the guy voted in is officially hated)

Man, people should vote for third parties more often, this guy is horrible..

And it's this conversation and line of thinking that ensures that (in the USA), it's the same old crap, day in and day out.

There's a saying about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results..
Will get onto that, cheers! I reward myself for publishing a blog post by allowing myself to play with my Tumblr theme and these kinds of aspects (I'm more comfortable with code than writing). Thanks for the nudge!
I'm not the person saying that I will give my firstborn child :P. I wouldn't feel as if it's out of reach should I desire to do it though. I'm not overly critical on prototypes!
I don't recall Hitch ever being "over the top" about religion -- he simply called spades spades.
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yikes. These are impressive (and terrifying). I particularly like the "see if you use my return value and dynamically change my behavior" trick, I bet debugging a library that used that would be fuuuun.
Maybe I can add some context. I was the OP that started this whole discussion about posing math problems / Brainteasers at interviews.

Out of the blue I got a call from a recruiter saying that bank X would like to interview me for a quant role they have. They wanted to fast-track the process so they booked me for 2.5-3 hours of back-to-back interviews. I was not looking for a new job but I thought it might be good to talk to them and explore leaving academia.

The first interview was with some quants who work for the hiring manager. They tell me that they plan to have a technical talk with me and then follow that with some math problems and brainteasers. At that point I respectfully declined saying "I wasn't aware that I was going to be asked those types of questions and I don't really believe they are a good hiring tool". The guy tells me too bad, that's the way they hire now. I say fine and we carry on with the first part of this session and have a technical talk.

We then come to the point that they want to ask me the math problems. I again say that it's silly. They disagree. Then I say "For example, who's to say you're not going to ask me problem A". They laugh. "followed by problem B, C, D". They stop laughing. "Finishing with the problem about the expected number of tosses of a coin to HH". They look at each other. "and who's to say that I don't know the answers by heart. It's luck of the draw, maybe I know your questions and maybe I don't and how would it reflect on me if I don't know". The guy who had problems ready for me turned white. They quickly ended the interview in a cordial way at that point and seemed to scramble to find the next two guys to come and interview me. Probably because the interview finished 30 mins earlier.

What they didn't realize is that I love these types of problems and that it is a small community. I know a lot of people and remembered what questions they had asked one of my friends. When they walked in the room, the guy had the solutions written out on a piece of paper and with only a brief glance I knew that I was going to get asked the same ones.

He had paper with the solutions face down during the whole interview but when he left I have never seen anyone pickup a piece of paper in a more awkward way. He did the whole fold in half as you lift thing.
I've had 50Mb/s for a few years now (UK). It doesn't protect your from network screw-ups, packet-loss or high latency, but it can still be really nice to have.

It opens up the possibility of 'What shall we watch tonight? Oh we don't have that yet? I'll just grab it now. Should be done in ten minutes.' Most digital distribution services seem able to handle uploading that fast these days.

So the main uses are downloading of videos and computer games. Not life-changing, probably not worth calling a human right at this point, but pretty convenient.
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Why is this better than having users enter their email twice and just confirming they match?

I realize entering email twice might be slightly sub-optimal from a user perspective but if you as a user want a service, it seems like entering one's email twice is not a lot to ask or a major source of friction. Or is it?

Not trolling. Genuine question. We do the type your email address twice on our site so wanted to understand if there any clear benefits of this approach.
I haven't been following C much in recent years, though I knew that Apple had switched.

Someone want to give (or link to) a brief rundown of the advantages/disadvantages?
Being willing to effectively fight in combat isn't equivalent to being a psychopath. It's something most men can be trained to do. Once you've in an actual combat situation it's either you or them--at that point it's just a rational manifestation of self-preservation. Even more to the point, people will kill in order to defend each other, which certainly favors empathy towards one's comrades over psychopathy.

I'm sure some psychopaths get through, but for anything important the military tries to screen against them, and for good reason--the foundation of an effective military is teamwork, and military culture strongly honors heroism of the self-sacrificial sort, certainly not the stuff psychopaths are made of.
> Actually apologizing admits to wrongdoing, which opens one up to liability and other consequences.

I can't imagine that there are actual liability issues here; it's more than Dell (incorrectly, I suspect) thinks that using weasel words looks better than saying "oops, we're horribly thoughtless and incompetent".
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I agree 100%. Codecademy is great way to learn the syntax and some of the best practices. I agree their is a gap in understanding what your doing.

I went through Stanford's Programming Methodologies on iTunes U (free!), and they go over a lot more of the why, as well as decomposition and other stuff.

What if Codecademy had short video/audio lectures after each section that would show more of a recap of how/why it works?
I've got the files from 16 but it makes little to no sense on what to do, anyone willing to advice me?
Just because I can fit a wider-than-80-column terminal on my screen doesn't mean I want to. Maybe I want a bunch of terminals on my screen. We already have a software ecosystem that attempts to respect the 80-character limit -- why break that?
It's 1 Mb not 1 MB.
Actually prior to the dark ages most programming answers (for me at least) were to be found on the Deja USENET archives.
I know it must be the most difficult job on earth being Michael's mother, but I can't help thinking how it would feel to have a mother say in public that you will grow up to be a serial killer... How ever their relationship got to this point, and I agree a personality disorder on Michael's part seams likely, it's sure not an easy situation to turn around, even for a healthy kid. :/

I hope it works out...
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Great project, although it might have been a good idea for them to check out using the Microsoft Kinect and Point Cloud Library (It's like OpenCV for depth cameras! http://pointclouds.org/). With the 3D data you could account for the trajectory of the missiles, for example.
Perhaps more of a realization than a new era -- design and branding have always been important, it's core to the concept of identity and human perception of others' value (and power).

Comment edited to add that the power of a product, organization, or even political parties and states exists in its identity and reputation (the core ideas behind branding). These perceptions may or may not be well-founded. Recall the Danish folk tale of the "Emperor's New Clothes". Popular perception created around design and branding can become a cult following that is a distortion if not blindness to reality. In the article Apple is used as an example, but I would suggest history may show Apple to be a notorious example of this as many refer to Steve Job's 'reality distortion field' that extends to many loyal to the brand. (This coming from someone at this moment typing on a Macbook Pro).
Do goth cyberpunks piss you off as much as mee?
Do goth cyberpunks who have no clue about the history of hacking/phreaking/computers/ect piss you off as much as me?
This wasn't someone who was telling insulting jokes just to get laughs. This was someone whose repeatedly stated and well known opinion is that a historically repressed group don't have an equal or valid place in the workplace.

It's not a joke by itself, it's joking of a kind with those bully makes while tormenting their victim in other ways.
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...or listen to it - the audio book of Ender's Game is very good, and I believe Orson Scott Card may have said that he felt that this was the optimum form for the work.
Although Michael Dell is ultimately responsible, I think the blame here lies squarely with Dell's Danish office.

Dealing with cultural differences is a minefield for multinationals. To take an extreme example - imagine running a similar event in Kyrgyzstan, where the rural population has a charming tradition of kidnapping teenage girls and forcing them into marriage. Reckon a local MC there would be a pillar of progressive commentary?

One reason that Dell has regional offices is precisely to avoid offending the local population. If the Danish CEO said “To stay within code of conduct I don’t want to comment on what you just said. But you did a good job” then he should be harshly sanctioned and possibly fired. If he isn't called to account, well that is Michael Dell's responsibility.
Wow. I'm a numpy aficionado and connoisseur.. I'm sad to say I really don't understand most of whats going on in this code...
I'm sure it's convenient, but I wouldn't call this kind of operator overloading "pythonic".

Not to say being pythonic is always better, but some of these tricks don't even seem that practical. Why "& FG" instead of .fg()? Using division for joining paths is cute, but why not use '+', the conventional append operator?
If someone has physical access to a computer, this isn't securing anything.
I'm a bit confused by the "it compiles to JavaScript" part. I would've expected it to compile to C.
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Can you expand on why you feel double entry is a bad solution? I agree having to re-enter data isn't preferable, but it seems that a solution like this isn't perfect either; the user can still enter their address incorrectly quite easily without it being caught. It seems like double entry would catch more mistakes than this (not to dismiss this in any way as I really like it).
Yes, using the import Excel wizard we can do that.
If Dell are going to pull this kind of shit then don't buy things from Dell.
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What era did we come out of in order to enter the Era of Design?
I advise caution - successful funding does not yet mean successful product. The greatest threat to Kick-starter is the strong potential for projects to devolve into marketing drives for funding followed by people running off with the money, because they have no liability.

One of the big budget endeavours will fail to come to fruition, and the entire internet will throw a gasket, and then we will see if the model is sustainable without having contractual obligations from the fundee.
Reading into the article is good for finding an important point often lost in discussions of issues like this: "While the chance of inheriting a predisposition to psychopathy is high, Lynam noted, it is no higher than the heritability for anxiety and depression, which also have large genetic risk factors, but which have still proved responsive to treatment. Waschbusch agreed. 'In my view, these kids need intensive intervention to get them back to normal — to the place where other strategies can even have an effect. But to take the attitude that psychopathy is untreatable because it’s genetic' — he shook his head — 'that’s not accurate. There’s a stigma that psychopaths are the hardest of the hardened criminals. My fear is that if we call these kids "prepsychopathic," people are going to draw that inference: that this is a quality that can’t be changed, that it’s immutable. I don’t believe that. Physiology isn’t destiny.'"

The key issue, of course, when a child's behavior is already as off-track at age nine as the child profiled in the article, is to figure out what to do about it. My own sense after reading the article is that grouping kids with these kinds of behavioral characteristics is a distinctly bad idea. But giving them very close adult supervision by prevention-minded adults like the psychologists profiled in the article is a first step to figuring out what can put the kids on the track to being empathetic and better able to control their own behavior for the good of others as well as for their own desires.

From further along in the article: "In the 1970s, the psychiatry researcher Lee Robins conducted a series of studies on children with behavioral problems, following them into adulthood. Those studies revealed two things. The first was that nearly every psychopathic adult was deeply antisocial as a child. The second was that almost 50 percent of children who scored high on measures of antisocial qualities did not go on to become psychopathic adults. Early test scores, in other words, were necessary but not sufficient in predicting who ultimately became a violent criminal."
Why use the A record, rather than MX?
My condition gets referred to that way. It doesn't make sense to me as a mental model. Unfortunately, I have had a really long day so probably cannot explain my views in an effective manner.
Without the (assumed) accompanying presentation these slides aren't all that illuminating
This is excellent. Having recently discovered Racket, it has become my language of choice for personal projects. It has been a revelation to me after a lengthy false start with Haskell ultimately led nowhere.

Racket really deserves a lot more recognition and visibility: the language builds on the traditional strengths of Scheme and adds multiple compatible and innovative language dialects, first-rate documentation, extensive libraries, a great IDE and other tools, along with an active and enthusiastic community.

I really hope Racket grows in popularity and we keep seeing more stories like this, as the developers deserve praise for what they have created. And of course, HN is built on it too!
Uhm, no, that’s not what apologies are about. When you apologize for something, you are also expressing regret for doing something. If you could decide again you would decide differently.

In this case, a honest apology would be one where Dell apologizes for hiring that moderator: if we could go back in time and hire a moderator again, we wouldn’t hire that person.

Maybe their apology for the offense is supposed to imply that (presumably, since they are apologizing, they want people to not be offended, one option for them to prevent that is to not hire people like that in the future), but why not say that directly?

(I think the view that offense doesn’t matter and can be safely ignored is extremely damaging. And besides, it’s not as though offense is the worst thing about this. Dell gave someone the stage who legitimizes very weird views that would be disastrous if they became – even more – widespread in society or even the basis for policy. That’s why people are offended. And that’s a very good reason to be offended. Yes, words do matter.)
Most people don't get the idea that Diaspora has lot's of available servers, and some of them can be filled up (thus you'll have to wait if you want to join those). But no one stops you from joining others which have spare capacity. That's the point of Diaspora - it's decentralized. See:
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supporte...
the guide fails to mention the uninstallation method, which consists of booting off of a USB pen drive and removing the line that was just added. passworded bios? insert the hard drive in another machine instead.

this also doubles as the method in which this "security" measure would be defeated.
I’m not sure where (legal) liability comes in play here. I don’t think there is a way to successfully sue Dell for this (nor do I think there should be).
The idea is like this:

If the user already have data on an Excel, we provide an import wizard so that they can import their Excel and create a database with it.

If the user does not have existing data from Excel, they can first define the data fields on Ragic using the design mode. They can actually create cells as fields just like they would on a spreadsheet, but a lot of users find it hard to catch on so we added the drag and drop model just recently. So both ways should work okay.

And actually we do support OpenID log in, and the ability to click on an URL in e-mail to grant access to some DB entries. I guess we have to work on making these features more obvious to users.

Thanks for the feedback!
These question marks are almost as annoying as the "self-interview" question marks made popular by former Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld.

What is a self-interview? Well, it's when you ask yourself a question then immediately answer it. Are they occurring more now than before? Listening to people on TV news shows and NPR seems to show that more are doing it now.

Why would people do this? Because it makes it sound as if they're answering a question that has been asked -- even if the answer they're giving wasn't actually in response to the actual interviewer.

Can we stop this now? I sure hope so.
these are just labels man!
are you putting yourself on a pedestal?
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Random thought: what if you gave users a unique code that they had to email back to the server to identify themselves.
Possibly the Era of Ad Infested Junk.
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I was skeptical at first, but I've been writing so much Go lately that the struct syntax, typing and pointers would be lovely to be able to utilize in a web app without having to go so extreme as to use Dart.
I'm really hoping they push the state of the art in TV interfaces and menus. All I've used are slow, unorganized, and often barely different from something they could have made in 1995.

While a higher resolution would be nice, I seriously doubt Apple would make anything above 1080p. Broadcast and cable area a mix of 720p and 1080i, possibly 1080p on some special channels. Blu-rays only go up to 1080p.

That leaves Apple to provide the content. At this point it's possible to stream 1080 on a decent connections, although it's compressed more than a Blu-ray. Short of FIOS or Google Gigabit, I don't think anyone could reasonably stream 2k/4k. Downloading such files would take a very long time too.

More importantly, 2k and 4k are what's currently used in theaters. Given the entertainment industry's constant anti-pirate fervor, I don't think there is any way they would cooperate with letting the public easily get such high quality streams. "The piracy risk would kill us".

I remember reading about some company that sold equipment to receive recent (or possibly still running) movies in your home. It was tens of thousands, and each movie was like a rental (at hundreds of dollars, if not more). It was aimed at the super rich who build their own mini-theaters in their mansions.

What are the chances they'd discount that a $6 rental from iTunes?
That would reduce sign ups not increase them.

I see what you're saying about the customer wanting the service but a lot of time it's not so simple. We spend a ton of time tweaking our copy and graphics to convince the customer, if only just barely, that they should sign up. When they finally decide to sign up, the fewer the forms the better. There have been studies that show a marked reduction in performance for each new field you request from the customer. This has lead to people asking for a password only once, instead of the traditional twice, or to go further and not even ask for a password (it's automatically created and emailed to them).

Additionally, as developers, we should be making things easier for customers. Correcting obvious typos is a better system than asking all customers to type it twice. Consider the extra work you're creating for all the customers who didnt have a typo.
What visa did they use? That's the hardest part.
Interesting enough but it misses perhaps the hardest and most onerous portion of this move for most people and companies: the visas/immigration process.

The three people on the "Who We Are" page seem qualified enough to get O-1 (Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement) visas, perhaps.. but that's the interesting part of the story that's missing. Or is it in another post?

Converting to Sterling, you’ll probably pay about 20% more than what you’d expect for similar quality engineers in London.

I'm sure many in London would be intrigued where all the typical full-time software engineer salaries of £62k-£78k are to be had ;-) Maybe I talk to the wrong people or we're just more secretive in the UK but it's not often I hear salaries like that being thrown about.
It'd probably be quite a barrier to signup, although I guess a 'mailto:register@example.com?subject=signup-for-$uniqid' link might solve some of the hassle.

The major issue I can see with it is that many people might like to use a email alias to signup (I prefer to use shabble+servicename@ for services which aren't too broken to accept a +) which isn't the same as their configured sender.
I think you missed the point. Look at Apple's MacBook line, for example. While it's true Apple makes great products, there are plenty of laptops out there with higher resolution displays, better processors, more RAM, and better video cards.

Like someone else said - Apple makes the BMW of products, not the Bugatti Veyron.
While the fear may mean better survival skills its important to be cognizant of this significant difference between men's and women's life experiences if we're to grok their lives better. This is especially important for big guys (>6') to remember: that their daily experience is nothing like women.
One can see that the companies share some design language in Loewe's current product line:

http://www.loewe.tv/int/produkte.html