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That doesn't make it correct, though. We're mostly Europeans who learned English as a second language.

You'll find many specific half-English terms in the demoscene, in fact. One of my favourites is the role of "Graphician", which would be called "Graphics artist" in any other place. The term is inspired by "Musician", I suppose, though I like to think it's actually a play on "Magician".
Very good work! :)
Would that work on a massive scale? What's the reason it isn't done now?
No, your data is never deleted, only your account is "de-activated".
I'm thinking this is a one-stop-shop for public datasets?
Maybe for when you're reading an article on something like 'gun violence in urban areas', but want to see stats from multiple studies on the topic. That's my best guess and I can see that solving the problem of trying to reference data from studies in a unified way.
Spending money and seeing the results of spending the money are two different things entirely.
Just for everyone to know.

byoogle is the mastermind behind Disconnect. :)
> really bothers me about these postings is the advice that you should 'prep'

Advice to prep bothers you? Wow! I thought it went without saying that any endeavor of import benefits from prep.
Have you stopped to consider that given the pressure situation of an interview at a well respected company, and without the common resources a programmer generally works with (an IDE and reference documentation), that a person might have trouble with this despite understanding how it works?

It seems like you should be asking 'Write me something to do X, using Y from the standard library' and evaluating that code, if you're looking to evaluate how well someone knows a library function.
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God idea for courses! Thanks
> If I'm manipulated into buying something that I genuinely want, then I'd be happier for it.

But do you genuinely want it? or were you _influinced_ into wanting it? It's the same principle that makes fast food advertisements so profitable for the food industry. The ads are already targeted (most people like to eat tasty food).

Furthermore, if you're truly indifferent with being influenced like this, to what extent will the "influencing" remain acceptable to you? where would you draw the line?
How does a smart card help? So every device would need to be able to read a smart card? And third parties would need to be able to accept, store and present whatever is on the card?
Large host files really slow down browsing in Windows. Is their a solution for this besides clearing the DNS cache every hour?
Nifty. Since you're here, can I suggest that you work out a way to differentiate between "0 stars" and "unreviewed"?
> butthurt

I'd be lying if I claimed you did not spark my interest with your episode at my workplace. However, I am in no way upset about it, any more than I'd be upset by one of those YouTube fail videos. I was actually one of the ones who tried to help you. So, let's stick to discussion of my actual points. If I made untrue claims, it's enough to point them out, right?

Reiterating my primary point, in case it has been lost in the back-and-forth: if your approach leads to satisfaction, success, wealth, fame, or any other thing an ordinary person wants, I'd love to see some evidence of it. Does any exist? Failing evidence, I advise a novice to consider your words with a strong degree of skepticism, and to take into account your personal track record. This is healthy, no?

> so watching idiots ... [fail where] I could have done better at 17

You are like a walking, talking paragon of the Dunning-Kreuger effect. If you could do better, do it. I'd be surprised, but surprise is an emotion rationalists welcome. If I see some evidence of your extraordinary claims [1], I'll update.

And, no, backseat CEO-ing does not count as experience. Come on, that much must be obvious.

> not atypical

Hard to say if you're falling to selection bias or me. You are highly atypical among the people I know or have heard of, and your comments certainly stand out as unusual on this site.

> Technology is our territory

It is the territory of people who make things, or who lead makers, as it has always been. People who do neither of those are mere onlookers.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Extraordinary_claims_require_ex...
"Dog fooding makes you lazy, and makes you less likely to understand your customer."

I don't understand how dog fooding makes you lazy. Using your own products doesn't stop you from talking to your customers. If the company leadership cares about what the customers think, then someone will find the time to talk with them.

And using your own products has many advantages, such as forcing you to confront bugs and annoying user interfaces and performance problems and poor documentation. It's definitely something that you should do, assuming your products can serve some useful function in your company.

"you never have to find the documentation, or learn how to use your API."

Documentation is an issue you'll face even with your own products. Unless your company is very tiny, there will be employees, even developers, who aren't intimately familiar with how to use all the advanced features of your products to solve real-world problems.
Why not make it an either or type of thing. "Would you rather solve an algorithm based question, or discuss some work you've done in the past that demonstrates that aptitude?"
They do allow you to 'delete' your account and data, and they say it becomes unrecoverable at that point, but no one can really be sure that they are actually deleting your data.
This sort of stuff makes me sad. But also strangely curious, since the suggestion is that these conditions are not survivable and yet people do survive. Are millions of people dying in Mumbai's slums and we're not hearing about it?
Creating a daily average of concurrent visits isn't relevant. Servers don't take an average of all the possible future hours of complete inactivity when they are serving up requests.

The post was only up at the top for a couple of hours before the server performance got so bad such that everyone started flagging it. My post then dropped off the front page and quickly went to page 4 or 5 due to the flagging.

I agree with you that the more interesting number would be the the concurrent number of requests.
Can you give us a more useful understanding of how many pageviews your site actually had? You only have three webpages. If we assume that for each visit the user visited all three of them and then further reloaded your home page twenty times, that's still fewer than one pageview per second.

As you had a spike to 282 concurrent visitors (four times your average), even under that unrealistic amount of reloading, that's less than four requests per second. (Again, really: one way to look at that figure is "in a 45 minute window"; I provide the broken-out math below to make it clearer.)
From TFA:

> Around 1,000 children below the age of five die every day in India from diarrhea, hepatitis-causing pathogens, and other sanitation-related diseases, according to the report of United Nations Children’s Fund.
> If you don't feel it's necessary to ever practice for an interview, well, ok. This advice is not for you.

I don't think that was his point at all, with all due respect. I got the impression he was just criticizing the rather stereotypical technical interview, which Facebook seems to subscribe to very strongly based on the article.
Or, just don't use facebook. I'm not trying to be facetious, if you don't trust the company with your most personal information then you probably shouldn't be using their service. Because that is what they trade in.
I was hoping to get an answer as well.
There are many hypotheses about this; history only happens once, so it's hard to test them. Here are a couple of the more interesting ideas.

Jared Diamond: Eurasia runs east-west and has a large temperate zone. This supports enough biodiversity that the plants and animals you need to start farming can be found in one place. Other continents run north-south, lack biodiversity, and couldn't be farmed until Europeans introduced some critical species.

Lots of lawyers and economists, whose names I've forgotten: By default, someone bigger than you nicks whatever you make, until you get sick of making stuff. The exception is when you make weapons, and nick stuff from people bigger than you. Something strange and kind of miraculous happened in England a few centuries ago, and led to the only society that isn't like that.
install it and see the initial screen. it asks for donation to something.

i'm not the target audience as i do not do charity with money. ever.
Using Ghostery over AdBlock is good but I won't recommend using any of such tracker blocking extensions to anyone until I know they understand what it does.

At times these extensions do break websites as they block some vital scripts on the site. You have to manually unblock that to make sure the site runs fine on your browser.

I used Disconnect long time ago, but that time it literally broke all the tech blogs, as its blocking was very crude. The site now looks totally different and so do the screenshots, would give it a shot.

Oh and by the way I use Ghostery now.
What does the sophisticated Applebee's customer buy?
As I understand it a large amount of sewer overflow in the US comes from old combined sewers. Replacing them is already in action but it's a slow and expensive process as many of the sewers built before the 60s/70s were combined. My point is that I don't think it's fair to group the US in with Dubai and India as the US faces sewer problems of a different sort entirely. Our overflow comes from rainwater overwhelming the system and not from excessive human use.
First of all, there is. There's people making Linux demos. There's plenty cross-platform demos, too. Search http://www.pouet.net for Linux demos.

However, indeed it's pretty thin compared to Windows demos. There's a bunch of reasons, but I believe that there are three big ones:

1. Linux, until fairly recently, required a significant amount of tinkering and tweaking config files before you could even use it decently, let alone code graphics on it. This does not match the average demoscener's mindset; most demosceners want to get stuff on the screen, now. A side-effect of this attitude, by the way, is really shitty code, which in turn has contributed to the small amount of open source demos out there (people are ashamed of the pile of dirt that's under the hood).

2. For most of the nineties and early zeroes, Windows was obviously the strongest platform for 3D graphics. All the graphics hardware just worked, you could choose between OpenGL and DirectX and typically both had decent drivers. You could say that that's unfair because the hardware vendors supported Windows, and Linux drivers were often homecooked by the community, but that's beside the point: Stuff. On the screen. Now.

3. Audience. You could give a Windows demo to your gamer friend and he could see it. Of course, you couldn't give the Windows demo to that classmate who only ran Linux, but you'd prefer not to get into a discussion with him anyway because It'd always turn into a rant about licenses and freedom. Or, well, that's how the common perception of "the average Linux user" was among much of the demoscene.

Nowadays, many active demosceners are game programmers by day, and Windows still is the strongest game dev platform. These people are used to Windows gamedev tools and switching for the evening hobby just sounds too much of a hassle.
This is in regards to the highest end fab technologies, which doesn't even include IBM who apparently have a 22nm fab. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricati...

With the most advanced fab technologies there's a much smaller number of companies that can both afford the initial capital investment (these plants are _insanely_ expensive) and the engineering expertise / tools to even design at these processes. Meanwhile, the $3 microcontroller I buy that runs as 12mhz fits every requirement I have while being manufactured at a cheaper, but much larger process. The high end processors and FPGAs however, benefit much more from smaller feature sizes (and those FPGAs cost accordingly).

As far as I know, when these 4 companies make advancements, the entire industry benefits. For example, Nikon comes out with a more advanced stepper for 14nm processes, Intel is the one paying the premium for them, and later the rest of the industry can benefit from a more reliable 65/45/32nm process after the cutting edge companies have moved on. I believe this is true for the EDA tool space as well.

The last paragraph is a bit of speculation on my part. I'm not in the semiconductor field but I know a bit about it, and logically it makes sense for tools / equipment. It does not include things like internal knowledge about manufacturing reliably on a certain process however.
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> If you don't feel it's necessary to ever practice for an interview, well, ok. This advice is not for you.

It is wrong to conclude that the person whose comment you replied to, feels that way. Excerpt: "Needing to "prep" and "practice" coding questions in the way encouraged seems rather odd to me." [emphasis added]
1. buy new note2 from att, register google account, skip samsung and att setup.
2. buy new s3 from amazon unlocked, register google account, skip samsung setup.
3. never even open G+ app on both phones
4. take a picture
5. wait an hour
6. you get a notification "pictures you took are ready for sharing" i.e. they are already uploaded against your will and out of your knowledge.
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This has very little to do with design. This is about fabrication. GF, TSMC are purely fabrication, and do little to no design work internally. The chance that any other company can emerge and compete with this group, at least with respect to silicon is zero. A new company would have to poach thousands of engineers, and raise billions. Most competitors have simply given up (TI, ST, etc).

The only possibility of more competition in the space is if an upstart is able to emerge when the next generation materials/processes emerge. Maybe carbon. Otherwise, expect the number of fabs to go one direction: down.
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The whole point of manipulation is to make you go against your own interests and buy things you don't need, at some point down the road. Otherwise it would just be making you aware that something exists (which I agree is fine, targeted or not), not manipulation.
Only one planet produces the water and food in which our entire existence is dependant, but we don't take that very seriously. Four chip makers seem almost excessive in comparison.
I think the only way something like this can be disrupted is by a party seeing an opportunity.

I think this opportunity can be biogas digestors (either through aerobic or anaerobic processes). I think this can incentivize modernization of waste management (to maximize efficiency and profit). After building my own with a friend in college with waste from our diners (and obtaining measurable amounts of naturalgas with a rudimentary rig), i'd say this could be better than trying to convince the massess to change their behaviors overnight.
How much does one of these plants cost? It's said that they're astronomically expensive, but I haven't seen a dollar amount for building one.
I totally agree with your article.
From the post: "Good coding problems are fractal in nature. They can be extended arbitrarily to gauge the depth of your knowledge. For example, you might be asked to solve a problem any way you want. Then you'll be asked to solve it again in constant space or sub-linear time."

You could prepare for months but if you don't understand the core CS concepts then it's difficult to hack these kinds of interview problems. Having a solution is one thing, but coming up with 3 different solutions to the same problem based on various constraints (preprocessing, space/time constraints) requires understanding.

If they "hacked" this, then thru likely understand the concepts well enough such that its sufficient for the job.

Also, interviewers should ask if they interviewee has seen the coding problem before and come prepared with a backup. Interviewers are also looking to see if the interviewee derives the answer too easily. Usually scraping the surface reveals whether the person really knows what they're talking about or not.
I made an example app to show how Google map URLs should look
in my case, most of the emails i get are in portuguese. so portugal, brazil and parts of africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwek7dZDFN0 is a pretty good talk about everything coming down the pipe. Generics, Strict typing, Collections, etc.

Too my knowledge (I'm not directly on the Hip-Hop team) it will be open sourced, additionally we also generally present a PHP patch as well to allow it in future versions of standard PHP.
Most interview questions are verbal, and a laptop is capable of compiling code. Your problems with it seems factitious.
From what I've seen as a designer, development is highly opinion oriented. There are dozens, likely hundreds of choices you can make regarding languages, server strategies, 3rd party services, modularity etc. There is a reason why a part of the development process is actually called "design".

Likewise, there are a lot of rules that apply to design. It's not simply about what something looks like — it's just as much about whether "it works" or not. If users can't find your "sign up" button, then no amount of engineering and optimizing the way it works will make click rates better.

Developers and designers both have to think about usability, and there are numerous overlapping technical and aesthetic considerations for both to arrive at the final product.
It may depend on the funds, but for both the fidelity and vanguard index funds, there are no transaction fees to buy (at least in an IRA in their respective accounts). If I were to make the same periodic investments via ETF, then I'd be paying a commission on each purchase.
fully agree. dogfooding makes especially a lot of sense if your company has more than one product. my team, which is working on a commercial app, just started using the rDMS built by our second team - and it's great as we act as beta tester before our customers get it into their hands.

this is not about classic QA, this is about "design bugs", that one extra annoying step in a workflow or missing safety dialog that doesn't warn you of a irreversible change.

of course this works particularly well as that product fits into our workflow. dogfooding becomes a bit unrealistic once it is about a product only your customers will really use.
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But there was more. Much more. As soon as the Op-Ed article appeared, unhappy Wikipedia editors pounced on my Wikipedia page and started making alterations to it, erasing as much as they possibly could without (I assume) technically breaking the rules. They removed the links to outside sources, like interviews of me and reviews of my novels. Not surprisingly, they also removed the link to the Op-Ed article. At the same time, they put up a banner at the top of my page saying the page needed “additional citations for verifications.” Too bad they’d just taken out the useful sources.

Childish behavior like this is much more damaging to Wikipedia's reputation than any critical article in the media. And as long as the editors of Wikipedia act this way, Wikipedia will never get a single cent from me, no matter how many banner ads they slap over the top of the page pleading for donations.
A perfect ad is one I asked for, when I asked for it, like in Google or Amazon search results.

I go to Facebook to check on friends. I don't want a fried-chicken billboard to appear beside the photo of my friend's new baby. It's the wrong context (even if I'm craving fried chicken).
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Yes, opening the boot process while providing no drivers, or binary-only drivers for a specific kernel, or blob-based firmware, are common tactics to deflate the expectation that control is a necessary feature of ownership. I can understand that sometimes the NDAs weave all the way down to the silicon manufacturers though, so it can be like pulling teeth to get anywhere at times.

Notably, Google and Apple are both in good positions to promote control-in-ownership, if not FOSS, but only Google has taken that stance.

Even without drivers, if hardware manufacturers were serious about delivering control with the hardware, they would prioritize providing as much of the same documentation they would have needed for internal development as possible, along with the device, to speed up community efforts to support hardware they may not be able to support themselves.

I can understand it if their hands are tied (they could say if so, for example), but I consider the the HTC and Samsung (and Archos) bootloaders half-hearted. They are selling Android devices, and the early Android community was very excited about the prospect of a Linux phone (like they are about an Ubuntu phone or a Firefox phone, and were about the Neo Freerunner). They are understandably disappointed and vocal (and persistent, hacking them every which way)... It feels like the bootloader efforts from most manufacturers is more an attempt to deal with the negative PR than to deliver meaningful control, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
ha! i can up you. last year got invites to some chinese gov stuff intended to a consul of some country with my same first/last name as me. they had a bunch of emails @gmail and @yahoo and a couple @country.gov, and apparently mixed a few.

Should have taken that free trip to shengze or something :)
> Servers don't take an average of all the possible future hours of complete inactivity when they are serving up requests.

I did that math to demonstrate that you are misunderstanding the relevancy of the Chartbeat number: that yes, if you look at the values "over 45 minutes" that is slightly weird, but entirely accurate, as it is not in any way unlikely that you had a spike four times your average during the day (that's why I had to calculate the average: to see if your maximum value was unexpected; I did the calculation of the average using the way of interpreting the chart which you believe is flawed, and it turns out that it is entirely consistent).

> The post was only up at the top for a couple of hours before the server performance got so bad such that everyone started flagging it.

Sure: your site was slow (I'm not questioning that your site was slow: tons of websites hit HN and then fall apart, it seems to be a daily occurrence), but I still don't know how you accomplished it with this small a number of users.
"It's probably because Windows software has always been more expensive in comparasion to applications for Mac.
Lack of central app store might be another reason"

The Mac app store is not particularly old, so this is a bizarre suggestion.
>>don't care enough is because they have so much on their plate.

No, its not because of that.

Its because people think unless they are directly effected by a problem they shouldn't care. Be it anything- Corruption, waste or blocked sewage pipes.

If your home has a blocked sewage pipe, which is likely to effect others soon. Try talking to your neighbors about writing/talking to the local municipal office about it. I bet not one will come forward. Now try after a few days when they are effected and see how they react.
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