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OP's comment is intended to tell us that This Shit Is Broken for him, and clearly for other users as well. OP is not requesting tech support. As nice as sweis is for offering support, he fails to acknowledge that solutions such as this one are simply not ready for most users from a UX perspective.

Reinforcing this point to sweis is not a negative comment. It is a comment you do not like. There is a difference.
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Just wait until your children's children see what we call parks: huge structures surrounding a park with a super-fine mesh filament that traps even the bacteria and insects in the enclosed park.

Outside those areas, you'll likely see scrubgrass and other drought resistant and pollution resistant superweeds.. Because that's all that will grow.

I've had these portents in dreams. Maybe they're real: maybe I was actually there in my dream. Or maybe it's just a fantasy born in my head. All I know is if it's real, it's bleak.
Some of those are reasonable questions, like the acceptable loss rate and packaging details. Some are things you should be able to look up yourself, like the fact that spheres aren't as simple to pack as cubes. (Sphere packing is a solved problem and you can look up the efficiency pretty easily.)

My question is, if you need me to hold your hand from start to finish, then why would I pay you money just so I can do all of your work? No, I don't expect the candidate to solve a non-trivial geometry problem in a high-pressure situation. I do expect the candidate to solve a trivial Google problem in a high-pressure situation.

And, what adversarial tone? The original question was reasonable. bobbytherobot's follow-up question was completely unreasonable. Once the candidate has decided to be adversarial, my decision to continue that no longer really says anything about the work environment.

Can you not see the difference between "smallest misstep" and taking a pretty reasonable question and instantly turning it into a whine? Do you not see how it's ridiculous to ask, "or am I a researcher?" in response to that question? What position would you be interviewing for where you are not going to research some things?
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Offtopic: Speaking about Microsoft, I just noticed a "Windows 10" advertisement in my Windows 7 taskbar next to the clock. Windows update silently installs and launches new applications (two executable) and one of them comes with enabled Telemetry. 23MB big ad-program is located in C:\Windows\System32\GWX\. Check your Windows 7/8 taskbar.

Source:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/31/microsoft-starts-prompting...

https://support.microsoft.com/de-at/kb/3035583/en-us

@downvoters: even if it's offtopic, see at least the source
I bought a thinkpad keyboard with a trackpoint for just that reason.

I prefer not using the mouse at all, and rarely do when I'm using emacs, but for any other apps and most websites it's unavoidable. The trackpoint is right there under my index finger and the mouse buttons convenient for thumbs. Far better than reaching for a mouse or even moving your hand down to a touchpad.
Oh, I thought this was going to be about how fast "vim" runs. "vim" has performance good enough for looking at large text files such as logs in the 100MB range. Some editors will choke on that. Gedit on Linux blows up on excessively long lines, which is embarrassing for 2015.
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It's not the over-theming (although that is part of what creates that easily-recognizable Ext-ness), it's the strictness with which they expect you to use their components. If you want a dropdown that functions exactly the way Ext made a dropdown it is the easiest thing in the world, but if you want a slightly different behavior then it's a whole rigamarole of events and overrides and stuff. It's not just how it looks but actual functionality that is hard to improve. You'd be frightened if you saw our "ExtOverride.js" file. :)

I should have also caveat-ed that we are on ExtJS 3, so ymmv with 4.

The way you've concisely written the Ext code and long-form written out the React code does show some form of bias, as what you're really doing with React is pretty much the same as how you've written the Ext code, but if you write out the full path of any kind of UI update it will seem more complex. I mean, adding "the store is notified that something changed and redraws itself to show the loading mask/spinner" is what, 2 lines of code? But a long-form explanation makes it seem like a bigger deal.

Your Ext code is missing all the logic to actually set up the Ajax stuff, all the event handling that you call out in React, error handling, etc... If you came into a React system with all the same things set up that you're assuming in your Ext system (data bindings, event handling, visual components) then the code to accomplish the same thing looks almost identical.

As I said, Ext is great if you want to do what Ext wants you to do. It magics away a lot of stuff that you have to call out explicitly with React+Flux. But the second something goes wrong or you want to try something else that magic bites you in the ass.

All I can say is that my experience switching from Ext to React has been one of massive amounts of time wasted figuring out the quirk of event flows and component layout hierarchies to front-end code that just makes sense and does what you'd expect and is ridiculously simple to debug.
Correct. Confusion can arise from naming all of them Mozilla :)
I would argue that the HFT that gets all the negative press are those systems taking advantage of Reg NMS. I think the regulations that caused it should be removed. If you're looking for a black & white definition to satisfy the age old quest to define high frequency trading, you could pick worse.

There are other strategies that get a lot of bad press, of course, but they are not novel with respect to strategy, only speed. Deception is par for the course. And sometimes, products are just poorly designed. Leveraged ETFs, for example.
> That sounds like something different (or maybe the airline lets random people into TSA Pre-check?).

It is not something different, but I think some airlines do automatically sign some of their clients up for pre-check, particularly if those clients have status. E.g., United Airline's pre-check information page discusses people who have opted-in through their frequent-flier program:

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/airport/tsa-...
It's common because the likelihood of escaping /newest on the basis of "intellectually interesting" alone is miniscule. The traffic just doesn't work that way.

Solve that, and you have much more traction to complain about what people should or shouldn't be doing.
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The Warren Buffet next door is just an amusing title - obviously he is not literally an investor on Warren Buffet's level! He's done quite well in the market and made lots of our customers money. He has a 100% win ratio too.
The apps that Microsoft has been buying recently are just incredibly top notch. Sunrise, Accompli, and now Wunderlist?!? Crazy good best-in-class products.
We've been guilty of this over at http://www.staffsquared.com. It's far too easy, and sometimes fun, to build better/more features than the competition. It's equally difficult for the sales department (and me at times!) to say "no" to new feature requests from potential customers.

Conversely, the work to deep dive in to customer usage metrics that tell the story of how users use the app and reach their "Aha!" moment is comparatively dry and time consuming but nonetheless essential. We've set up a number of KPI reports which tell a detailed story of where our triallists and paying customers spend their time in the app and extract value.

We use a combination of Google Analytics and custom KPI reporting to watch customers use the app. We've tried 3rd party apps, like Intercom and Mixpanel but keep returning to google analytics.

So the good news is that we've identified key KPIs that tell us how likely a trial is to convert. For example, we know that a triallist that has logged in more than x times is > 90% likely to upgrade to paying. This is powerful, as we don't invest time attempting to sell to these. Likewise, we now automatically filter out customers that are not at all engaged with the app, and aim to sell to just those that sit between the two extremes. We've also taken the time to customise life cycle e-mails to triallists according to their levels of engagement. Again, very time consuming work but essential and very rewarding when the results are positive (more no/low touch upgrades = more £'s).

Obviously all traillists regardless of engagement level get top notch support. However I'm sure more sales intelligence could be shared with the support team as they're also key to the selling cycle, albeit in a more reactive manner. Support also need to feedback to the onboarding team, as support are front line for people who get stuck and frustrated as a result during a trial.

I could talk at length on this subject, conversion rate optimisation is something enjoy and definitely don't spend as much time as I would like actively working on...
Assuming they let you carry an empty bottle and distillation equipment, this should be pretty easy.
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Accordingly to the world's stock markets things couldn't be better, but it hasn't changed job prospects for today's youth.

Central bank easing has helped those with assets, which is predominantly the older. Obamacare helps also the older, in fact today's youth pay an outsized subsidy to the old even though they are the least able to afford it.

Today's youth are also the most indebted, college was remarkably cheaper for previous generations but now that advantage is gone.

Politics tells the same story, the congress and judicial instituions are packed by white haired babyboomers making policy predominantly in the interest of the old.

Regulations help the large established companies to the determent of the small and new.
I opted out for years and realized that I don't have to anymore.

After they direct you to the scanner, just say "I can't lift my arms above my head" and they'll put you through the metal detector and swab your hands. They don't "test" you because if it's true, they could hurt you.

I've been doing it since last fall (30 flights?) without issue now.

(These have all been US domestic flights.)
How much time has been wasted of people waiting in line, taking off their shoes, unpacking their laptop to go through security? how much money has been wasted by the government on the program?

People end up on the no fly list. Kids in wheelchairs and little old ladies get felt up for bombs and are put through a needless trauma.

Just, amazing. Purely security theater.

TSA: nothing for something
If you had a robot that could stow, pick, and pack any item in a warehouse, I have zero doubt you could negotiate $10B, simply for the fact that you could get Amazon, Staples, WalMart, Google, JD.com, Tesco, and AliBaba into a bidding war...and if none of them decided to pay you $10B, you could just offer your own FBA-like service for a fraction of what Amazon charges and make your own $10B.

Amazon is acting like a Pawn Shop owner taking advantage of the guy with the original Picasso by telling him that it was a common forgery. Nobody in their right mind should sign up for these contests, and it pains me to see intelligent people duped into it for "the exposure".
Huh? `var` was not retrofitted. I distinctly remember it being there since I started learning JavaScript, like around '96. It is true that a lot of people were slack about using it, but that's just laziness, not that it wasn't there.
Erlang supported multicore well before then. It was enabled by default in R12B and later, which was released in 2008. The other considerations are valid though (well, Rabbit maybe not so much, though as a popular app it's easy to judge an esoteric language by a single app when it's so rare).
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Back when I was a grad student in physics we used similar thinking to prove the central limit theorem w/ the renormalization group.
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My thoughts when confronted with "we have a finite planet with finite resources" is more "why don't we expand beyond the earth?" rather than "We have to limit the number of children people can have". So, why don't we?
So cool! Finally a way to find less popular subreddits easily.
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I always wanted to see a Go/Nim interop project in a little different vein. Since Nim is a superset of Go (and Go is fairly simple), why not a Go implementation in Nim via cross-compilation? Then you can even build a Nim macro that does a "Go get" and Nim developers can use Golang libraries right in their code as imports. Not to mention we get a full, alternative Go impl.

It should be easy to bootstrap by first using Go's parser to dump some AST that Nim code can then translate, and then once that version is done, just reference the Go parser using this new impl. The only real struggle with the project from what I can see is deciding which standard library items to use the Go transpiled implementation (probably most of them) vs which need to have Nim backends (e.g. runtime package). Meh, just rambling thoughts in my head I was considering playing with given the time...
EDIT

Here is the picture I was looking for:
http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4666.html

Here you can see which exchanges use the SIP for their data feeds. Guess which dark pools the HFT guys hang out at:)

Check out:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/dark-pool-truth-about-what-rea...

and

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/dark-pool-truth-about-what-rea...

and this nanex diagram shows pretty much all you need to know about latency arbitrage.

http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4599/SIP,%20Direct%20Feeds,%20and...

Long story short. RegNMS said people have to get the best price for their order. Now in a distributed system, which the US fragmented markets are, you know you can't know for cetain what hte state of the world is.

warning simplification ahead

Each market and dark pool has to trade at the price currently listed by the SIP. Now the sip is old and slow. Exchanges offer 2 prices sources,

- the SIP as legally requried

- a direct feed, which serious traders use.

The direct feed is faster, so by the time an exchange (A) reports a trade to another exchange(B) via the sip, the HFT guys who own their own microwave radio lines have notified their computers at exchange B, and moved their orders.

Almost as if they can see forward in time:)
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Why would you say something really stupid like "FHRITP" to a reporter with a microphone? Or defend someone else saying that? Especially to a NEWS reporter?

For the same reason people yell or minimize the yelling of "baba booey baba booey howard stern's penis."

It injects vulgar childish nonsense into a framework that presents itself as straitlaced uptight and self-serious. The primary offense dealt is not sexist, it's narcissistic injury.
That isn't a fair complaint to levy on the PyPy developers.

We are one of those paying customers (on occasion), for instance, and there is no benefit for us for work on PyPy 3 and potential large benefit from some of the upcoming work on PyPy 2. If people see benefit from PyPy 3 they should donate to motivate work on it.
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I'm a big proponent of brainstorming while walking. If I hit a mental block while programming, writing, or doing some other sort of critical thinking/creative exercise, I'll just drop everything and go on a 30 minute stroll. I'll either end up solving my problem or getting some exercise, so either outcome is good.

On the other hand, I have a mathematician friend who's a big proponent of shower brainstorming. We still give him crap for the day when he was working on a proof and took a two hour shower.
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I agree the call to action was very specific ("dear HNers"), but I think we all assume that authors promote their own writings via many channels.
I'd be interest to know if "upvote begging" actually works beyond a small amount of users who see the "beg" and know the person "begging". I'm not so sure the majority of people bother going on to a site to upvote something just because they were asked. People are extremely lazy.
Practice

On my first real software interview, even though I got 90% of the answers correct, I didn't get an offer. I didn't ask specific enough questions, constrain the problem, or quantify my reasoning to satisfaction. And the funny thing is I knew I needed to do that. I had been preparing a while before the interview, and knew I had to do everything stated in this article, but it just went out the window. And I'm very good at doing this on the job. But at the whiteboard I didn't even realize I wasn't really explaining myself. I knew the answer (more or less) and just blurted it out, happy to be correct. But process is much more important. And it takes discipline to slow down and explain yourself. Now when I'm practicing, I talk to myself while writing on the whiteboard, and I have a little script I follow in the beginning of the problem that ensures I spell out my assumptions, the input/output, and the expected behavior of the algorithm. When I get myself in this mode of breaking down the problem, I find questions just roll off the top of my head.