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I don't know about individually disconnecting each cell, but there is a loop that emergency responders are supposed to manually cut to disconnect the battery. However there are still components that retain power and remain hazardous such as the converter and capacitors. Firefighters need to take great care to cut around them. Plus there's the possibility of the battery compartment being compromised in an accident as well. Tesla's training video covers all this.

Nobody's arguing that Teslas are unsafe, just that the "safest car" claim sidesteps the electrical safety issue. You can't really argue that everything's fine because nothing bad has happened yet, because there are so few Teslas on the road. And it should be noted, a lot of people were hurt along the path to making gasoline cars as safe as they are today. Look at Ralph Nader's work on automobile safety for example.

I actually believe progress demands that we work through electrical car safety. But what irks me is it's just a little premature to be trumpeting "SAFEST CAR EVAR" when you've got a novel set of serious safety issues that the test suite doesn't even try to target.
So the government should have had a year to catch him before he went AWOL to HK? Holy Cr*p! Please, please, please... when do they learn to shut up?
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"questions were all appropriate"

I was asking myself while reading the article, my god, what kind of job was he applying for, AP test author, programing language standard library author, puzzle book author, or what exactly?

I haven't gone into a cold interview in many years; its always previous relationship based now. Are cold interviews where no one already knows anyone, like that now, focused on weird algos and trivia questions and nothing to do with the actual job?

You're interviewing the workplace as much as they're interviewing you, and I'm smart but I have no idea how to evaluate a possible employer based on their selection of weird trivia questions. Something that at least vaguely relates to the actual job would be interesting.
Keep in mind that the OP is probably in a very different industry than you are; if you have enough expertise that your interests are things you can't work on independently (like quant or security?), you will likely be applying to a nonoverlapping set of jobs as the OP, which (I'd guess) are much more interested in experience than a github profile.

On the other hand, if you're a startup CRUD hacker, your potential employers are much more likely to expect some personal CRUD projects in your github, since 1) that's easier to do than personal quant/sec/whatever work and 2) there are likely a lot more applicants for such jobs, so they can afford to filter for "hustlers"
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Because then your interviewer does a hatchet-job on you in a feedback form and you get shitlisted from interviewing at Google forever.

That's the problem with large companies. There are companies where I would just walk out of an abusive interview, because the brokenness represents their whole company. Then you have massive, mega, ultra-sized companies like Google where even though this particular team is beating you with the interview bat, you may still want to work for other teams.

This is probably confirmation bias speaking, but by far I hear the most "primadonna interviewer" stories come out of Google. I'm not sure if that's just my impression or if there's really something going on there.
When hasn't it really been like that?
You will make more money if you have an active github account. For most people this means side projects/work.

More than what? The highest earning programmers I know have never heard of github and would never consider using it.

You will be a better developer if you code more. You will be exposed to more languages, tools, people, and ideas.

You will be a better developer if you deliver more. "More languages, tools, people, and ideas" can just as easily dilute your focus as improve your skill. To get better, you must focus on results, not activity.

If you don't code in your spare time, but you are happy where you are,

Why do you assume these 2 are mutually exclusive? I know lots of excellent programmers who deliver more before noon than most deliver all week. Nothing wrong with being excellent during working hours and doing something else in your spare time, like perhaps, enjoying your spare time.

If you want to be a better developer more than anything, then you should code. If something is stopping you from doing that, remove the blocker.

If you want to be a better developer more than anything, then you should deliver production quality software. Sometimes the "blocker" is a distraction. Distractions can be other things that masquerade as "side work".

Personally, I don't hire anyone if I can't see code samples. 95% of the people I hire have their code samples on Github (not in a .zip file). So make sure you have some code samples available, but it doesn't have to be a side project or open source work.

Personally, I never show code samples. I'll gladly go through the right company's process, including coding for them. But they don't get to see anything I've ever done before out of context and without proper permissions. And personally, I will never work for anyone with hard and fast rules about hiring. 3pt14159 is choosing to not consider many of the best programmers who refuse to show their underwear. His loss.
Asking someone out to a date the first time is perfectly legal. The moment you ask again when they say no is considered harassment and then you could get fired, but I doubt you would have any real issue the first time you ask.
> A more secure Internet is needed

By using the passive voice, who are you suggesting comes along to "Secure" the internet? Surely not the same government that brought us the NSA?
Do you have any reasoning behind that opinion, or is it just unfounded religious zeal?

Why should somebody who wants to use threading have to know how to write a preemptive scheduler? If you want a tutorial in addition to the library thats fine, but many good tutorials also release their code as libraries.
In open source world, releasing code as a library does not mean having to keep people from understanding the workings of that code. Why should people HAVE to learn how the code works to use it though?
I'm pasting in a comment I wrote directly on the Moz blog. Hope that's OK:

First: DON'T READ THIS ARTICLE AND START BUYING/ACCUMULATING CRAP Google +1 VOTES. That's not what Cyrus wants you to do. It's not what Moz wants you to do. And it'd be catastrophically stupid - you'll be providing direct evidence, directly to Google, that you're a spammer.

On second thought - go ahead. Fewer competitors that way...

The advice in the article about how to handle G+, and how to make sure you're taking advantage of the audience there, is spot-on. But the causation is definitely super-complex.

With G+'s healthy but still incomplete user base, Google wouldn't use G+ as a direct SEO factor. G+ does correlate, and strongly. But I think the reasons are:

Marketers know a lot about G+ and like to use it.

If your content is submitted to G+, chances are you have your SEO and social ducks in a row.

So the vast majority of content submitted to G+ already has a solid marketing strategy behind it.

And, Google does take G+ submission, overall submission velocity, user audience and the other typical social media metrics into account when determining how much a G+1 really matters.

The only reason I bring this up: So that folks reading this article don't go onto Fiverr and start buying G+ votes.

Like the Facebook kerfuffle 2 years ago, whether the causal link is direct or not doesn't really matter. A legitimate, popular G+ account, and lots of legit G+1's on content, are super-valuable for SEO, social media and overall visibility.

That's true even if your content has nothing to do with the marketing or other popular G+ niche industries, because there's a decent population of authoritative bloggers on G+. Getting in front of them is always good.
Sure, but no one else can use Lightning, even if they wanted to. That's bad, regardless of Apple being within their rights to do so.
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Or they would force even more backdoors into proprietary hardware than they do already. For all we know Intel and AMD could have microcode to sabotage RNG and they can already decrypt anything with ease using a skeleton key to predict the randomness.
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Is there anything preventing other manufacturers from using Lightening? Lightening is way better. I'd love to see other manufacturers adopt it.
Yes, credit card use is relatively low, but everybody has and uses a debit card.
Indeed, it's a little embarrassing. The tenuous conclusions reached based on correlation in the SEO industry are out of control. It should not be surprising that any metric of popularity (+1s, shares) will have some sort of correlation to another metric of popularity (links, brand searches?, editorial coverage, etc.) that Google might use in rankings.
It's not any better if you get hired.

Google recruiters will tell you whatever you want to hear, including things that are not necessarily true. I was assured that a minor issue in my background would not be an issue multiple times (I have email proving this), then Google hired me and let me work for more than two months. I got comfortable, I moved to Mountain View, began real honest work and set about making an impact.

One Monday, I had just finished a feature for an internal monitoring tool and was discussing it with a teammate. HR scheduled a meeting 30 minutes in the future on my calendar, then informed me that my employment had been terminated because of the issue in my background. You remember, the one I disclosed and discussed repeatedly during the hiring process, before I even signed the offer. Two people in upper management at Google who had never met me fired me because of something seven years in my background, two months after hiring me with the assurance that it wouldn't be a problem.

I bet my teammate wonders where I went. I didn't get a chance to explain because they threatened me if I told anybody on my team what happened while I was collecting my things. The same woman had a hearty laugh earlier in the firing meeting after joking, "I bet you didn't expect your afternoon to go like this, huh?" Felt like I was back in grade school.

Two weeks after firing me, a Google recruiting coordinator attempted to connect with me on LinkedIn. Read into a company's competence what you will based on that.

I can never, ever recommend that anybody subject themselves to working at Google based on my experience. And that's even before discovering the absolutely clueless direction that company is taking. You think G+ is annoying now? Just wait.

The real victim in this is my family. I've never subjected them to no insurance coverage in my career. Thanks, Google.
Well the thing about art, music, and writing is that, at least until you make it big (which most people never do) you're doing it only on your own time, since no one's paying you.

Software's in this weird spot where it has some qualities of art (creative, inspires "passion", we expect people to do it without getting paid) and some qualities of a craft (it pays)
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It's definitely a good first step. Iterative development!
> But wouldn't these circumstances ultimately mean that every service that holds information that could somehow be interesting to the NSA would have to shut down pretty much now to avoid exposing customers/users?

This is exactly what Lavabit owner hinted at in his statement. I don't remember the exact quote right now but it was basically along the lines of 'don't trust your private data in any US-based company'. And yes, the NSA can go to any company in the US and request private data while simultaneously putting a gag-order on them. You can bet Google, Facebook, ect have been victims of this many times before any of this came out to the public.

The problem is these multi-billion dollar companies aren't going to give up everything they have because the government is requesting information and keeping it hidden from the public. They quietly share the data and hide behind the gag-order, which is why Lavabit owner has some serious guts and should be commended for taking on the US Gov.
> Though I tried it once, I gave up

Perhaps experience is the deciding factor. I thought the same thing about Common Lisp and Haskell until I took the [long] time to learn them. A steep learning curve doesn't mean the tool sucks.
As far as I'm aware nearly all social networks require you to join them before people can 'follow' you on them. So I don't see how what you said contradicts my point : if you don't make a G+ account you are going to lose out in organic search ranking.
The viral nature of twisted is not limited to twisted and shows up in lots of places. It's actually a consequence of the problem that "concurrency is Hard".

There is a tradeoff to be made between pre-emptive and cooperative multitasking. Every platform must choose one or the other or a mix of both, and then deal with the consequences. Threads, of course, have a well-known class of very dangerous bugs that make using them difficult. Processes make pre-emptive multitasking much safer by erecting certain barriers, but at the cost of being much more tedious.

These days, callbacks, events and other forms of cooperative multitasking are the new shiny. They avoid the big problems of threads and multiple processes, but have some problems of their own. First and simplest is that you can only use one CPU per process without mixing in threads or multiple processes. Second, if something doesn't cooperate, it blocks everything else. You have to be very careful about when and where you yield the CPU. Because of that, everything must be event-driven or use callbacks, or you risk trashing your throughput and/or latency.

Threads have a similar problem: if you use them, you're stuck using thread-safe libraries. It's not as bad as the cooperative case though. The thread-safety of a library can be independant of the code that uses it. In the cooperative case, you don't have that independence. You're not just stuck with cooperative-safe libraries. You are restricted to events or callbacks that are compatible with the cooperative framework used in your application. If your application uses events, then the library must use events instead of callbacks, and it must use the same types of events to plug into your event loop. If not, then you need a compatibility layer. Some cooperative languages reduce the problem by mandating how events and/or callbacks work for all libraries. Python doesn't have that, which where the viral nature of twisted comes from. That's why you're talking about twisted-compatible libraries and not just python libraries, and why this a non-issue with node.js database libraries.

edit: wording
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I love when people make minute opinions into "infinite" absurdisms.
Extract from the abstract - "People consistently report that sound is the most important source of information in evaluating performance in music. However, the findings demonstrate that people actually depend primarily on visual information when making judgments about music performance."

Not too surprising a result. It would've been interesting to propose a model of cognition that might account for this effect. The "embodied music cognition" school might, for example, propose something like this -- "the brain needs to process the inputs and reconstruct the body movements required to produce the sound so that the music can be experienced in the listener's body. This is less work when given the visual signal alone than when given the audio signal alone."

Also, I was curious about what instruments or vocal music the competitions were about, but the paper doesn't talk about that (in my quick scan through). I venture a prediction that for vocal music, the audio alone is likely to be a better predictor than the visual alone, but for piano and violin the visual may show this effect.

Another point that struck me was that the experiments featured the performances of only the top-three finalists in competitions. These are already performers who the judges in those competitions selected as good, suggesting that perhaps these performers are not very distinguishable by their sound alone anyway. It would've been better to also include non-top performers to see how the audio-alone and visual-alone inputs fare when they are also included. Then again, stating the result as (simplified) "among top performers, the visuals are important" reduces the surprise factor :)
I wasn't a CS student but I remember all the CS students at Bristol moaning about Haskell giving them a headache.
While I am sure you are correct, I can't help that this is how I actually feel.

The entire concept of "America", for me, has completely dissolved.

The sad part is I now even have difficulty with the term "legal". All meaning from these terms has been removed.

We live in an illusion. The actual reality we live in is a simple binary relationship: The haves. The have-nots.

Those who have power (money) do literally anything they want in any situation. Legality is a tool to oppress the have-nots.

So, take my upvote for calling me out on being emotional - but also know that I am actually having difficulty with the reality of the world we live in.
Absolutely, the problems are political. But there's a technological component as well.

A combined approach will, I think, have the best chance of success. We fight like hell to fix the political problem, while at the same time making sure that people have, and know how to use, the technological tools that can protect them.

It is naive to assume that just one aspect will do the job.
tthis is probably more illuminating
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% of people that have NEVER used the internet
I'm not going to argue pre-WWII Catholicism, it's about as relevant as eugenics and Aryanism (the west has changed a lot), but the violent Christians / Buddhists you are pointing out seem to be in response to violence from some members of Islam, so it's basically just tribal violence.

And Buddhists don't have such a book, so I'm not sure what you're actually arguing here other than that religious fundamentalism is bad. Most religious people in the west already believe that (unfortunately not all of them).
If a tree falls in the forest and Google is down, is there any sound?
They're much too busy to do that. In fact they've recently shrunk the amount of interviews per candidate to free up time. The issue you're describing sounds like a recruiter that doesn't understand the subject that they're recruiting for.
Not at all.

"Mailpile will download your e-mail from a mail server much like Thunderbird or Mail.app and process it locally."

PRISM and other efforts at tracking associations operate at the server and header level, this is not a useful countermeasure. It may reduce the amount of mail you leave on the server -- but so would a reasonable mail reader configuration.
School doesn't pay for itself (quite the opposite, really). Learning on your own time certainly doesn't pay for itself. You're right in that a larger proportion of programmers "make it big" but I don't believe there's a fundamental difference.
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This happened to me! I'm a software engineer. Someone at Google thought I'd make a good security engineer and called me in to interview for it. Why not, right? Sure, I'll give it a try.

When I got there, I was greeted by my first interviewer who started asking me questions about SONET. I stumbled for a moment then commented that I could try to guess a few answers, but I didn't have any experience with optics. The interviewer looked back and forth between me and his paperwork a few times, got flustered, then asked if I was interviewing to be a network architect.

No, I didn't expect to be.

Well, that's what they had me scheduled for. He asked me a few more questions about things I'd never heard of, then we sat back and chatted about valley life for the rest of the hour.

The trip to MTV was fun, but it would've been more interesting if I'd gotten to interview for a job I actually knew about.
Yes, the sound of Bing engineers rejoicing about probably the best day in Bing history :)
Yeah, unfortunately, the doors also are a downside for me - I have limited garage side access.. The lack of roof-top carrier (which was the unsung hero of our last coastal drive) would be a downer too.

Despite all this, I irrationally yearn for this vehicle.
My interviewer called me an hour after the scheduled time to ask if I would be able to call me back in a half hour because he was busy.

When he eventually called back and started the interview, he did not even seem to respond my answers to his questions - it honestly sounded like he was playing a computer game on the other end of the line...

It was blatant disrespect towards me and my time. I'm glad I found an opportunity elsewhere.
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The acknowledgement appears to be gone now, unless I'm missing something.
If you add ?share=1 to the end of the Quora URL, folks daring enough to follow the link won't get any sign-up call to action.
Erm, isn't that what Thunderbird and Enigmail were doing/already do?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/enigmail/

What am I missing that Mailpile will do, aside from possibly a better interface and lots of marketing?
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The irony of all this conversation is that the people I know at Google are some of the sharpest, most well adjusted people that I know. It's almost like they got in and thrived despite the recruiting process. None of them are the type to stand people up, gloss over interviewing, or be anything other than decent hard working individuals.
Not sure how it could be considered age discrimination though. You tend to forget 'knowledge' like this fairly quickly. I know for my part at least I generally have to brush up on this kind of learning about every six months (or even less perhaps), if I wanted to retain it.
Is your browser extension a generic solution to the "browser JS crypto" problem, or specific to your application?

Solving that problem would go a long way in making secure communication more accessible, but it's a hard problem.
I typically do PHX to CMH, but I've also tried CMH to SAN, PHX to SFO, and PXH to SJC. Maybe it's just the routes I fly, because I hear people talk about cheap flights on Southwest. I personally have not seen them in the past couple years.
Yes, but sadly one particular very large Korean manufacturer whose name begins with an S thinks that the "proper" orientation of a micro USB port places the narrow/tapered side "up" instead of "down". And they print all their cables opposite of everyone else. Sigh.

But even so, there's no tactile difference. So cabling a phone in the dark (pretty routine at bedtime) is a crap shoot either way. I personally solve this with a bedside dock, but it's a legitimate fault.
The short answer is, "no, but it depends." If sample size is large and the sample is representative of what it claims to show, .5 is very significant correlation.

The .3 correlation with a large sample size means something is happening. I agree with what Matt is saying: that content that gets +1s also gets links and mentions and everything else that Google might use to calculate rankings.
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...and sell it as part of a internet is a right campaign.

Yeah. http://www.payer.de/kommkulturen/kultur0413.wav