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The only interview questions I've ever found at all reliable--in the sense of providing good answers to your questions about comparison & assessment--are coding problems. As in, here's a toy problem, you have 45 minutes/3 hours to write some code to solve it, on this actual computer with actual Google etc.

That actually tests a set of skills, which puts it well ahead of various interview questions which test nothing of relevance. But it's also a limited set of skills, some of which a recent graduate might reasonably lack but might be reasonably be expected to obtain quickly (if the right kind of smart, committed, a quick study etc).

The problem is I don't know really know how to test for anything but current ability to write reasonable code for a not-too-large problem. The more experience I get interviewing, the more decisions feel arbitrary to me. And I'm pretty skeptical when other people claim to have it figured out.
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Seems ball in Twitters court now.

Nice update from GoDaddy linked there: http://uk.godaddy.com/news/article/godaddy-statement-re-n-is...

Much respect to GoDaddy, certianly handerling it well and being honest and upfront.
those classes are all about being young white and smart if you donnot fit the bill you had better do a startup they accept 99.9 % whites
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I don't know how you get the same music and beer from that, but preferring the same technology stacks may have a value in the team. Less time spent arguing religion = more time spent doing actual work.

>>> the real argument is that it doesn't work.

It's not an argument, it's a statement. It would become argument if it would be supported with something that is not of equal weight with the contrary claim "no, it actually works quite well". Everybody has their anecdotes, do you have more than that?
Have you ever tasted truffles?

I don't know if you are right or not with regards to truffles, but rarity and quality does sometimes correlate, such as with saffron and sturgeon caviar.
"I can't pick one but here's couple of recent cases that may be interesting for you" is a perfectly valid answer, IMHO.
Yes, I first implemented HOM in Objective-C, back in 1997 or so...

However, collect + 5 doesn't first sum and then add 5 to the sum, it distributes the +5 to every element, and any other message you care to send.
Game companies are all the way in for bait-and-sell IAP model. In other words push some pain intermittently and then try to sell the painkillers. Which seems to work for them at least for now. I wish we would have a more healthy model to cover the production+marketing costs, but it's not gonna change anytime soon...

For apps with more utility, still there is a chance to go for upfront payments, but then again significantly slowing down user traction especially when there are free alternatives (even if they are not any good)

And there is the ad-supported model, which boils down to how much traffic your app generates, from which countries and how engaging your app is. A reaaalllly long shot for all the apps except for a lucky few
No one expects Microsoft to retrench from touch, nor does anyone misunderstand what they were trying to do: They wanted to leverage their desktop dominance into some mobile/tablet marketshare. Many words can be spilled justifying this (unifying being one), but the stark reality is that it degraded the experience on the mouse and keyboard desktop, where the design simply followed the desire to get into what Apple was having success at.
Design != good looking. If you look at something and it seems beautiful but not functional, it's maybe good art but it's likely to be shitty design.
Why would you expect anything rigorous in such a nebulous business as predicting someone's performance in the environment he's never been doing things that he's probably never done before (even if he's done similar things)? I don't think you can have any rigor here. Do you have a proposed rigorous solution?
"Are you having difficulty understanding Scott's message or intent?"

Absolutely not.
I had this problem.

Pixelmator and Acorn for Mac are not perfect replacements but after awhile you figure out what they do well and you start to not miss Adobe products.

also iDraw... all of them together are trivial in cost compared to anything Adobe.
Well, how about Joe's thoughts? - http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
It's just a redirect man.

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Liberal arts magnet school that only took the top students in a metro area of 250k people. You had to test in to be admitted and failing any one class meant you went back to one of the area's non-magnet high schools.

So not inflation, just that the student body was limited to kids that were going to make high grades anyway with very heavy AP course loads (which push GPAs over 4.0 since they're weighted).
This is simply not true. Price has an enormous impact on units sold.
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It's quite funny how the author calls the game industry destroyed by in-app-purchases, when most of the games industry isn't mobile gaming and doesn't have that. PC or console, there isn't a lot of IAP (no real mechanism for it). The irony is that people who identify themselves as gamers generally see the mobile gaming space as a cesspool of discardable lightweight games.
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I'm pleased to see that they're working on a better file manager.
How is it adobe's fault that the OP no longer has a optical drive? He purchased physical media in the first place, Adobe, nor any other vendor, is under no obligations to provide convenient access to him for years down the road. Sure, it'd be nice if they did, it is completely understandable that they don't. CS5 is four year old software.

Also, we're talking about an academic version of the software, which retails for about $200, not the full $799 for one App, or $2200+ for the full suite. They sell it to students so some day they'll buy the real thing when they do commercial work, which the academic license doesn't allow.
Same here, and not because or when it gets complicated. Pen and paper almost always works better than any one of the gazillions of TODO applications out there. And I've been always wondering why. (Apart from programming TODO items that live in the source code itself, of course).

When you want to say something to a colleague at work, you have a choice of emailing/IMing or just saying it out loud (if you can speak of course) as in, you know, normal human conversation. You don't use a text editor and a speech synthesizer to say something out loud, do you? Because the effort isn't worth it, obviously. Just like you choose an email app that helps you get things done with the least effort, you can as well chose between app vs. non-app.

The thing with the TODO list is that there seems to be this stereotype that you need to keep it in digital form. This has obvious advantages of being copyable, searchable and potentially accessible from anywhere if it's cloud-based. But in return, you compromise simplicity of use. Find the app - click - find the "add" button - click - think of the deadline - launch the calendar - click - click - click ... - type the text - click "OK" - close the app. Now compare that to: turn your head (or your chair) some 30-45 degrees - grab the pen - find the bottom of your list - think of the deadline - write. Fast, simple and sweet, isn't it?

So sweet in fact, that I can sacrifice searchability (easier to skim through the list on paper if it's not too long) and universal accessibility (rarely need outside of the office).

Or maybe I'm just being old-school?
I've never seen pay discussed in hitech at the same place as technical competency - and never before such competency is asserted. It is pretty stupid to bargain about something if you have not even a slightest idea how valuable it is. Of course, interviewing for some job where only headcount matters is different.
I have no doubt that patients are getting exposed to more radiation via imaging than they need to.

However, every decision in medicine is (or should be) a risk-vs-benefit analysis. Cancer is not the only thing you can die from. If you suffer a head injury and end up in the ER and get a CT scan, you may increase your long-term risk of cancer, but you are also drastically reducing the risk of dying from a brain hemorrhage that couldn't be identified by any other method.
No, I prefer open source browsers.
What exactly do you mean by "what we actually are"? I don't want to jump to conclusions and go off in the wrong direction.
That's not a job. Unless, of course, some is giving out money for just having experience with Javascript - in which case please tell me who so I can apply and get a nice income supplement while spending no time doing anything. Not holding my breath though.
Huge +: It works without Javascript!

Moderate -: It is not responsive, on a small screen the HUGE sidebar and top header leave no space for the message.

edit:

Actually threaded message threads do not work without JS. All messages are collapsed. With JS enabled I seem to have to click on each message to expand it which is terrible UI.
> Are you having difficulty understanding Scott's message or intent?

I assume Scott's either dumb or careless. If public communication isn't your thing, how hard is it to find someone to proofread your message when you're working at a corporation? In either case he's not the person Adobe should have handling a PR situation.

> I think a lot of time is wasted on perfecting spelling/grammar because of comments like the one above.

I'm very sympathetic to an engineer or scientist having issues like this, perhaps working in fields where people from all over the world will be working together. On the other hand, if you're working in customer care, written and verbal communication is your thing. If you're not good at it, that reflects on you and your company and the seriousness with which they take the customer care function.

Poor communication started the problems here with this customer so it is an especially touchy subject for Adobe. Hence the way people are reacting.

edit: wow, mhurron, why not interact with what people have actually written in its full and intended context instead of assuming the worst about people and knocking over a strawman?
>"wouldn't want to be stating "support said it was OK""

In this case - does he have an email or chat session proving that support said it was ok?
Luckily it wasn't racks of digital gear with fans.

I can imagine someone thinking they had underestimated the quantity of cement needed as it drained into this room.
I'm not assuming that.

I've seen no data on "lots of people". Even if it happens, I've seen no evidence that it's a significant concern of people writing iPhone games. And if it were a significant concern, I'd still be skeptical that there's a real financial impact, as opposed to the erhmagerd school of "they are stealing my precious things" freak-out. And if there were a measurable financial impact, which I don't think there is, then I'd expect it to be an order of magnitude smaller than the concerns raised in the article.
Why don't you name and shame the company?
Another good alternative is Start8: http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
I would bet the higher that price the less likely the sale and also the more likely the piracy. Charging even $5 for a game will likely drive your actual installs and sales through the floor. If you make a good product but most people can't justify paying for it, they'll just find an alternative means of playing it. Also the pump and dump industry in the app stores especially in gaming is another thing you have to worry about. You make a good game at a $10 price tag within a couple weeks you'll find your exact game with slightly altered graphics and a similar name that will be under cutting your price point. This used to be much worse, but unless you're a big studio like EA, Rovio, or King it's still a problem for you as a little guy.
The main article had: I was connected with a sales rep. His manor was very professional, and I could tell he was smart.

I was hoping for a successful resolution to the story at that point, given he was apparently meeting the sales guy at his palatial home.
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I grew up in NZ, Swanson is one of the rougher and poorer areas in Auckland, and the school no doubt has all the issues that come with areas like that. I'd be careful that gains aren't skewed as its not a 'average' school or socio-economic environment.
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The higher concentration in class (if real) is quite easily explainable by kids getting all their crazies out during recess, and generally being able to do what they want for a while.
If you need searchability on your to-do list, it's too damn long.
The slides are horrible outdated. Using Linux user namespaces you can have a secure Linux container with a root within.
And everyone who thinks that KVM is totally secure need to go back to school.
Jonathan sometimes comments on Hacker News as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jblow

His comments on game industry, I find, are usually very on point. One of his last ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6803844
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The difference is that such software goes through multi-year evolution and usage (be it bash or OpenOffice or kernel) so it makes sense for a company to invest on feature X that's missing for them, and get everything else for free.

On the other hand, in the game market, most games are a one-off experience with a very short lifetime (excluding MMO games). So there is no way they could be constructed through subsequent donations and evolutions.

Add to this the fact that open source communities are only made of programmers (because they are the ones benefiting most from the network effect and from incremental integration of software components), while games require other kind of professionals. Eg: volunteer designers in OSS world are mostly non existent; most of them are on the payroll of some sponsor.
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Problem is, the open source community apparently decided Gimp and Inkscape were probably good enough, and few people who've ever used Adobe software would likely agree.

Never mind that employers probably won't have them installed, and probably won't allow them to be used in house, they won't care if Gimp and Inkscape are on your resume if they're looking specifically to hire for photoshop/illustrator experience, and these alternatives would also have to deal with proprietary image formats, which might make the end result unacceptable to free software purists.
Flounder around on the brink of bankruptcy until finding runaway success in a totally unrelated market?
Inequality is not just about poor people feeling bad because the rich have bigger TVs!

In modern countries, markets are the standard way of distributing finite or growth-limited resources (e.g. apartments in San Francisco). In these games the ONLY thing that matters is relative wealth.

As a result of this, poor people become measurably poorer as a result of other people getting richer.
If account ownership verification is your concern, then the digits of a credit card offer relatively little assurance. Fun story: I used to work for a company that utilized the last four of a CC on file for verification. They also let anyone pay an outstanding balance without needing to otherwise verify, and kept the last four of the card on file. So...
I actually see native speakers make the "should of" mistake far more often than I see non-native speakers make it, probably because it's a mistake based on pronunciation. Native speakers often incorrectly spell based on pronunciation, while non-native speakers often incorrectly pronounce based on spelling. In fact, the (presumably native-speaking) author of the linked blog post makes such a mistake - he uses the word "manor" where he should have used "manner." Frequent signs of non-native English are improper verb conjugation and article placement, rather than something like "should of."
I'd agree with the parent...there are jobs where passion is key, like a tech evangelist for instance, or a product leader, a salesman, or a founder. But for an engineer, while of course creativity and trying to get better at the trade are important, so are not getting burned out, going through periods of shitty tasks keeping a professional attitude, make pragmatic choices when needed, without getting blinded by coolness or just curiosity.

These skills can come with experience, but can also be personal traits. An employee that doesn't code the week-end but focuses on his job while on site and takes pride in being professional and reliable is a solid asset for any company. In the long term he might be a corner stone of your team, balancing the ones that are half dead because they didn't sleep at night to work on the projects they really invest themselves into.
These days you can watch torrents while downloading too.
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>A single CT scan exposes a patient to the amount of radiation that epidemiologic evidence shows can be cancer-causing

That does not look right to me. A single CT scan is 2-7 millisieverts, and exposures under 13 can not be linked to health effects - look for UNSCEAR in http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert

If you do the math by ICRP formulae, you end up with increase chance of cancer of 1 in 2600 over the next 20 years from a single 7ms CT scan today. This compares favorably with "natural" risk that is 1 in 10 without any extra exposure above background radiation.

Now if you do a scan every year for the next 20 years your chances go up to 1 in 130. So there is something to worry about, but article overstates the cause.
really useless?

http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html -> "The Pipe operator"

I really get several arguments against such "syntax sugar". I would not call it useless, though.

So how to handle/structure/avoid code with function call chains in absence of such operators?
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This goes beyond the medical field. ProPublica did a story about how X-rays are becoming more common in law-enforcement and border security as well.

http://www.propublica.org/article/drive-by-scanning-official...
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> I assume Scott's either dumb or careless.

Because everyone's first and best language is English. I guess someone needs to welcome the US as a member of the rest of the world.

> Hence the way people are reacting.

No, people are going grammar nazi on the message because it makes them feel more important. It's the same reason you're nitpicking here.
>It was easier to use the screen efficiently than with traditional desktop windows

Did you never take advantage of Aero Snap in Windows 7? It's far more useful and versatile than the limit multitasking of Metro in Windows 8.
There's also the accelerometers, compass, perhaps more. X-Plane is basing the primary controls on those and I find it works amazingly well (I've been playing the Android version).
A cat5 cable really isn't that expensive.

I don't understand the distaste people have regarding wired networking. In my office, I have several people who complain about the wifi having congestion. In the heart of the CBD, with tons of other networks visible. "That network cable on your desk, which I put there for you to use, plug it in and this problem goes away". They plug it in, comment on how quick and clean their network is now... then complain the next day about wifi congestion.
Do you have the source code to the BIOS now?

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The funny thing is that moving and copying files got EVEN WORSE in Vista. And when they made things worse than XP, it stayed that way even with Metro, but now it's a more elaborately decorated form of even-worse-than-before.

In Vista, suddenly, even just to move a 1KB plain text file from the Desktop to the Documents folder, you might suffer a wait time of 15 to 30 seconds. God knows why.

Perhaps you just saved a 30KB JPEG file to your downloads folder, but now you'd like to drag and drop it into your My Pictures folder. Guess what? You just earned yourself 12 seconds of indeterminate progress bar. And no one can tell you why.

With Vista, came the belief that it is necessary to present the user with an indeterminate progress bar for no less than 5 seconds, if they ask to go to the bathroom. Is it User Account Control? Is it because of disk I/O wait time, when writing to the event log? Is it because checking system policies? Is it because of graphics rendering overhead? Is it because we have to wait for a programming bug to trigger an infinite loop exception?

No one knows.

But, even in Windows 7 and Windows 8, animated, flashing progress bars everywhere, probably because User Interface Design.