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> the interview questions are more about how you solved problems and never the memorization of some sorting alg

How you solved a problem is probably the only meaningful way to screen candidates. Sadly there are a lot of people who think that a whiteboard coding session is "how you solved a problem" when few -- if any -- meaningful problems get solved in an hour or two.

When I get really stumped on something the first thing I do is get my head out of the problem. Go for a walk, work with my hands in the shop, get lunch, anything but try and solve the problem directly anymore. This strategy used to make me really nervous in college with short deadlines but now that's less of a concern.

I have yet to step back from a problem and not figure out the solution (at least where one exists).
I dont think it would take very much to get the simple stuff like notification to work. Thats all Apple's API which is open to developers.
All Google may have to do is provide some kind of downloadable layer for support for more tightly coupled things(Google Now). I am assuming that Apple lets them.
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Its almost looks like a comically archaic pocketwatch version of a smartwatch

I'd call it a dumbphonepocketwatch.
Original title was: "A former Google employee claims she was reprimanded for speaking out about sexual harassment" but had to reword it meet 80 character title limit.
I blame Java much more than heroku. Corporate drone Java developers have a much greater tendency to only write code (too much code!) and not be interested in learning anything beyond the confines of their comfy auto-completing IDE. It seems to me Java developers will howl "not my job!" the loudest whenever anyone suggests that maybe they can mange their own environments.
I think I've read on the echonest board that the most common solution is to index multiple pitch variants of the same songs. Apparently that's what Shazam does.

Also the guys from Trax-air.com are doing something pretty similar to you guys but with pitch/bpm bending support.
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I know, I questioned the perception of records and movies since a long time. I was often disappointed when I finally get the disc I heard on the low grade radio in my mother's car, I actually liked the distorded sound better, somehow it made some harmonics pop better (at the expense of clarity).

Same for movies:

New movies : high resolution image, low resolution scenario/direction, low joy.

Old movies : crappy tired VHS image, probably better scenario/direction, high joy.

Maybe I'm jaded.
Well, they're supposedly inseperable aren't they. I think that's part of the problem of the digital age, we haven't learned how to cope with what seems like the abstraction of message from medium.

By way of explanation, here is the preferred, "natural" signal chain for the music closest to my heart, UK rave music:

1. Source materials taken from old vinyl and put into a cheap sampler, often with only 12 bit resolution.

2. Recorded through a budget Mackie mixing desk, and bounced to DAT.

3. Pressed to a one-off acetate record (the analog version of a CDR)

4. Played through a cheap DJ mixer at a pirate radio station, and pushed through a rack of cheap compressors/limiters for broadcast.

5. Encoded as a microwave laser and beamed several miles to the actual transmitter, to obscure the location of the studio from the police.

6. Encoded again into FM and transmitted.

7. Picked up on a consumer radio and recorded to consumer cassette tape.

8. (Optional step) Said tape left in a box for 15 years under your older brother's bed.

Apart from step 8, this was largely how people listened to the music at the time. I have since obtained step 2 copies of music I had previously only heard at step 8, and all the emotion was gone. You could tell it had been shorn of context. So, as you can hopefully see, I find ideas of "fidelity" rather difficult.

When I and other young producers try and make records in this style, its a constant question as to how far we should go to imitate the sounds of all those dead media and ghost rituals. To me it feels pretty self defeating, but I still do it to an extent, because I think it sounds better. Sometimes I wonder what the modern day, internet-age equivalent is, and how to make it. I'm probably too old.
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I'd love to use flexbox but haven't found a polyfill for IE. What are people using?
I am a big believer in DevOps to the point where I often consult to "implement DevOps" at organizations. The frustrating part if that organizations seem to want to create "DevOps Teams" to augment their other teams. An organization cannot have a "Development Team", an "Operations Team", and then a "DevOps Team". DevOps is a set of good principles which help to guide the process of making, releasing, and maintaining good software products. These are by no means the only set of principles and organization should live by, but Developers and Operations should work to implement these principles because it will make their process more efficient. It is certainly not a matter of simply tossing in yet another department full of people and hoping that more cost efficient work gets completed.

When I work with clients the inevitable question comes up: "What Principles should we implement then?" and the answers are usually more questions really. How long does it take developers to set up their working environments and get to coding? How is code tested and prepared for deployment? Are stakeholders feeling secure about deploying this new code to production users? Can we deploy effectively every time without deployment related issues? When something bad happens in production, what is the recovery procedure and how long does it take?

The answers to these questions and many others often show that there are a few issues. First, developers and operations aren't speaking to one another enough and aren't really working together. Second, there is very little trust in the current environment and that lack of trust is made up for by adding more human intervention. Third, there is very little automation and this causes the lack of trust but few people what to change their habits to fix it. And finally, there is such a great divid between engineering and operations that the pains felt by one group and not shared by the other.

DevOps has the principles needed to start to solve these problems. However, we don't need a department to implement those principles. We have enough departments.
Sorry, I deleted my post because I was worried (still am) that it's bullshit. But since you replied I've put it back.
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Cool, thanks for providing the option to change the board size. A good way to start is to play short games on a 9x9 board (19x19 is the official size, but games take a very long time to play out at that massive size). Just find a friend (or against yourself), and play out a bunch of games as quickly as you can, without overthinking every move. Doing this, you'll discover strategies much quicker on a small board than you could playing out games on large board.
I don't think that holds much water. Users obviously have some concern for security, but you can't expect them to care as much as the security people. Furthermore, that goodwill only gets you so far - they have their own jobs, which are unconnected to security.

He's obviously far beyond what's acceptable, but if he finds doing his job difficult because of poor IT, it's exactly what you'd expect.

If requirements are far too onerous, you expect people to work around them.
Very true. PCs ship with lowest-common-denominator powered speakers and noisy headphone outs. The average customer and even the gaming customer doesn't seem to care much. People who do get USB output devices or send SPDIF to their existing surround system. Maybe Macbooks are less bad at this?
Why do that when you can double-dip by taxing both?
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I would say that academia has some blame for rampant anti-intellectualism in that many of it's fashions have led to it.

The identity politics of the 1980's, for instance, was a gift to the Republicans. Go tell a poor white that he has "white privilege" and should be ashamed for being white, and you've turned him off to the left forever. (This is just one example of how the academic machine erases people's experience; prior to 1970 in New England it did not matter so much if you were white or black, but what kind of white or black was everything)
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>For some reason, harmonic distortion produced before the 80s is art, and harmonic distortion produced after the 80s is an affront.

You're comparing apples to quantum dots.

Tape recording/mixing didn't add distortion in the same way that a bad amp adds distortiion. There certainly is such a thing as cheap transistor sound, and it's both measurable and audible.

There's also such a thing as a high-end studio equipment sound. It's why a good proportion of professional recording and mixing engineers prefer expensive outboard over plugins - even though some of the plug-ins are older than they are now.

There's also such a thing as amplifier sound. Pretty much anyone can hear the difference between a selection of affordable amps on a straight A/B comparison.

There's also such a thing as hifi wankery and outright scamming, especially in the accessories market and at the very high end.

But most people build/buy systems that help them enjoy the music more. If you can't hear the musical differences between - say - music played on a crappy cassette player from the 1980s and music played on a Nakamichi player from the same period, that's fine.

A lot of people could - including all my friends, in various store demos when I was helping them buy music hardware. Quite a few of them had the same reaction I did. Which was 'Wow, I had no idea.'

>If you just want to build high performance electronic equipment, there are much more interesting areas to work in than simply applying gain to a pair of AC signals while preserving their phase relationship.

But audio is completely fascinating because such tiny, subtle changes have such a big effect on the result, and often no one is exactly sure why.

Digital dither is such a small signal it should be completely inaudible. If you play a dither signal on its own, there's nothing to hear.

But the effects are very, very obvious.

Audio is like that all over. Tiny, supposedly trivial distortions change the quality of sound perception in unpredictable ways.

Some make the music sound more enjoyable, some make it sound worse. That's partly why people take an interest.

Competitive consumption is also a thing, but that doesn't change the fact that a lot up-to-mid-price buyers want something they can afford and enjoy. They're not seriously interested in showing it off to their friends or writing about it in hifi magazines.
Shazam Mac osx app is quite powerful. It doesn't only listen to your mic so it will detect the song even when the sound is off.
Also it often detects a song playing in somebody's else headphones at our office.
Kinda creepy sometimes.
This reminds me of the aesthetic in Her [1], which was summarised nicely here [2] by the production designer:

"You could say that Her is, in fact, a counterpoint to that prevailing vision of the future–the anti-Minority Report. Imagining its world wasn’t about heaping new technology on society as we know it today. It was looking at those places where technology could fade into the background, integrate more seamlessly. It was about envisioning a future, perhaps, that looked more like the past. “In a way,” says Barrett, “my job was to undesign the design.”

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
[2] http://www.wired.com/2014/01/will-influential-ui-design-mino...
As an outsider i feel that the whole devops thing has come from a few web people spinning up some slapdash service using AWS etc and call it a day. Then something breaks and it is firefighting from that day onwards.

I wonder if one can draw parallels to the BYOD thing.

In both senses it seems to boil down to someone bypassing the IT admins because their manager wants to see results ASAP, and IT is going "sorry, budget and/or regulations says we can't at this time".
It depends. I see him as a freedom fighter on the front lines. I will always remember his sacrifices. I guess it depends on your world view.
Fully agree with your second point.
>>That is not what the term "risk" means. "Risk" also includes all the investments which did not pay off.

That's certainly true, but I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'd appreciate it if you could clarify.

Diversifying your investments to hedge against those that don't pay off is the foundation of modern portfolio theory. You can see it in action at virtually every level of society: individual firms have employees that don't generate returns, but they hope that the collective productivity of the entire company can generate a positive return, angel investors and VCs invest across a broad spectrum of companies hoping that a few big wins will offset those investments that don't pay off, and governments invest in a variety of projects, research, and (sometimes) companies that they hope will generate positive returns for the economy as a whole.
The site is "dubbed Marble Canyon, after a local trail". They also mention "Burgess Shale, a famous fossil trove 40 kilometres north of Marble Canyon." That could help.
Nope. She has all sorts of fictionalised anecdotes going on in her article. Can I know for sure? No. But I trust my BS meter more than this troublemaker.

She describes herself as a "troublemaker" on her Twitter profile, which may or may not mean she makes things up to get attention.
The reason for it being far from perfect is likely a combination of both. If the correct song is indexed there is a high probabiliy for us to find the right match. However if its not, with a bit of bad luck a false positive can happen easily with the default solution (and ours too).
Also when analysing a youtube video it can happen that in a 30sec snippet only 10 secs are a matching song and 20 are unrealated or 15 are one matching song the other 15 match a different one in which case 2 tracks or multiple versions of 2 different tracks will have relatively OK scores. Deciding what to consider a match (or whether to try different queries for the same or slightly altered timespan prior to deciding) is not trivial in these cases and our changes are mostly concerning when a match will be considered a match by altering thresholds and how matching truescores will be looked at in relation to other fingerprints true scores. Due to issues like these, specifying a timeframe for analysis will often produce better results.

http://static.echonest.com/echoprint_ismir.pdf
Fun example.

A couple of pointers for anyone planning to do that trip. 1) The Grand Canyon has two sides. If you visit the north rim instead of the south then you can shorten the trip by 120 miles. (Though if you want to see the full extent of the canyon, you need to go to the south rim.) 2) Its route through Yellowstone uses roads that close for winter.
I live in the suburbs of Dallas, and I wouldn't be able to stand living anywhere else.

Cities are expensive, cramped, filthy, and noisy. The Silicon Valley startup scene deeply creeps me out. I couldn't really care less about "culture"; just give me a good local bar to hang out at and a bunch of good restaurants, and I'll be happy. One thing about Dallas is that the suburbs are really ethnically diverse, and that translates into lots and lots of really damn good ethnic restaurants (I've even heard reports that we have more restaurants per captia than NYC, but that's probably a myth -- it's a believable one, though). Oh, and I pay $1200/month rent for a 1500 sq. ft. townhouse in a nice part of town. There's no way NYC or SF can beat that.

By the way, I'm a trans woman, and I went full-time before I started passing. The only time I've ever faced street harassment was the the two years I worked downtown (and I was harassed both before and after transition). Since I'm working in the suburbs again (hallelujah!), I haven't been harassed. Sorry, but I'd rather not have hobos and perverts shouting at me and following me around. Even the most liberal cities are still cities and still have unsavory types crowding the streets. You don't see that in the suburbs, even conservative ones. I never encountered even a single instance of transphobia in the suburbs (again, I went full-time before I was passable) -- and I'd like to repeat that I live in Texas.
Empathy is the actual mechanism for how those other things (quality, etc) are achieved. Diversity helps empathy (represent the user and relate to them better).
He wasn't fighting for the freedom of those people he put hits out on.
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Echonest can work with voice but is optimized for music so you might encounter a lot of false positive with it.
Check out the echonest board on google. It's a recurring topic.
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We've been pushed the low fat high carb diet for so long now that people are confused. Especially in the US. They are starting to come around to the idea that maybe fat isn't so bad.

It's hard for people to understand dietary fat != body fat because they've been basically "fed" bullshit their entire lives by advertisers and our own government guidelines. So many people think "low fat" is healthy but all it usually means is "we took the fat out and gave you more sugar".

I'm a bug fan of keto but I wouldn't recommend every one do it. I would recommend everyone cut their carb intake in at least half, unless you are some kind of endurance athlete but then you probably know enough about your body to know what to eat. We eat way too many processed foods which means way too many carbs and not enough of them are fiber. Many people probably don't even realize how many carbs they eat in a day.
Working on team-based projects as part of coursework does not mean they've ever written a line of code in their life.

Going through a CS degree without learning to code is easy. Depending on your CS course you may hardly have touched any code beyond extremely entry level courses where you're being hand-held the entire way, if you pick the "right" subject.

CS is not software engineering.

Similar with internships.

For both those situations, I can understand that you want to verify ability to actually write code.
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Then both our brains emit the same kind of bullshit.
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It's not mindless to make sure a candidate can actually produce some code. You'd be surprised how often people are hopelessly fucking incompetent at actual coding.

I'm used to getting these alpha dog; VP-of-whatever from big investment banks (I work in finance), with a laundry list of stuff they have done. Sure ok, good for you, now write up a skeleton class for a linked list in any language of your choice... what's that, you're stuck? You can't remember the keywords for defining a new class in the language you've labeled yourself as an EXPERT in? really?
This also seems to be a child of a wider process by which losses tend to be socialized and profits tend to be privatized. Apparently, the system "works" because nearly all the wealth of the planet is in the hands of something like 1% of the population, while the debt, well...

Another aspect is the speed at which profit is made. At one end there is education, for example, which is an exceedingly bad investment in financial terms because it is very slow and very uncertain. At the other end there is pure trading and seed/startup investment, with profit goals of, what, 25% per year.

Who would finance education? Certainly not a financial investor in his right mind.
I am not a lawyer, but I read the filing and none of this seems related to his guilt or innocence. Rather, it seems to argue that law enforcement violated his rights and that prosecution evidence should not have been admitted.
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You are correct.

Before operations lived off tickets which just said what I did not how long it really took or if my estimates were off.
I'm surprised there's not much mention of the different app architecture for Pebble vs Apple Watch.

For Apple Watch, all application code lives on the phone and every interaction on the watch requires a round trip to the phone and back. This contributes to the shoddy battery life, sure but I'm mostly concerned about latency. When writing your app, you really only use a designer in Xcode.

For the Pebble, code for watch-specific behavior lives and executes on the watch itself, along with two options for logic on the phone: 1) a native companion app which the watch talks to (more like the way Apple Watch apps work, but with code split across devices) and 2) arbitrary javascript which runs in a execution sandbox that all the Pebble watch apps share.

Anyone think that the Apple Watch approach is a better idea? Tempted to get one to compare.
OK, I'm not if this occurred to anyone else: how about a Shazam like app that can search "the Internet" by listening a few seconds on your mic?
> What you won't hear Minnesotans talking about, though, it the ugly fact that Minnesota has the highest discrepancy in educational outcomes of any city in the country.

That's just simply incorrect (and, also, Minnesota is a state, not a city, you're probably referring to Minneapolis?). That's in the major local paper (Star Trib) weekly, if not more frequently. It is a topic of significant conversation and another proposed effort is being debated in the MN House currently, as well as efforts to decrease the number of suspensions disproportionately received by minority students, and a push to offer "free" preschool for lower class families, which will likely be approved soon.

Also, simply chalking up the cause of these issues to "racism" is lazy thinking. There's far more at play, including a significant immigrant population (large populations of Somali and Hmong, for instance), an inability for the MPLS school district to recruit good leadership, and more.
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Correction, keto is not protein heavy. It's fat heavy, moderate protein, and low carb. It say "moderate" but I usually eat about the same amount of calories from fat that I do from protein. I don't think that is high protein though. I probably consume <1g per pound of bodyweight. High protien diets are usually more like 2-3 per pound.

Less protein is converted to glucose than carbs but you can still eat too much protein and kick yourself out of ketosis. Fat converts to glucose at the lowest amount of the 3 macros.
So in essence, devops treat every projects as if it was a startup? That is, to hell with departments, managers and lines of communications, one project, one team, one office?