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"Red flags often surface at this point. I’ve had candidates with PhDs in computer science, for instance, who did not know that on a 64 bit architecture, pointers are 64 bits wide."

Because learning 64-bit architecture is impossible for somebody that have proven that they can learn a field, perform research, and successfully write and defend a dissertation? '32 < 64' is beyond them?
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I laughed out loud at this.

In no other developed country (in the sense of a competitive GDP, somewhat large and somewhat well educated population) have I seen the same disdain and mistrust for government. Why is it amoral for a government to take taxes if you are - born in a hospital funded by taxes, given vaccines and medication partly funded by taxes, drive to/from home on roads built by taxes, so on and so forth. The people who thing it's unfair they have to pay taxes - what would you prefer? Living in an "AT&T country" where every single service is "privately" owned and you'd be charged fees for it? Sounds like a dream.

Comparatively, in countries such as Sweden and Norway, everyone pays taxes (much moreso than in the good old US of A), and yet the tax agency is rated the most trusted government entity in the government. Strangely enough, this "amorality" also leads to some of the best standards of living and social mobility in the world?
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It is funny then that the original Xerox GUI would default to tiling, but allow the user to move the windows around as floating ones afterwards. Even Windows 1.0 was tiling. Floating only came with 2.0.
Once bitten twice shy.
i think sangnoir wrote it in a morally outraged tone, and listed evidence to support littletimmy's post.
Regarding the air quality issue, there was the 17 year old who won the International Science Fair for his air circulation invention: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/05/16/bc-student-win...
So the 'votes' here have nothing to do with the spirit of the Magna Carta so I'm not certain why the BBC linked them.

The Magna Carta was a concession made by the king of England (he had to make them, or he would have been killed) to limit his power and to accept that the person holding the throne was not above the law.

This vote had more to do with regulation of the internet by state mandate and enforcement. Pretty divergent.

It's disappointing to hear that the report is on more youth voting for safety over freedom online. The original mythical promise of the internet was a sort of freedom that of course never came to pass - where free speech could not be censored, where information was traded without cost and where propaganda would not and could not lurk.

The past three decades, especially the most recent one, have proven this wrong.

A managed, regulated and enforced internet is an interesting idea - on that protect people from dangerous ideas and information - but it's also a scary and an alien one; it's an idea that Western governments have consistently criticized other countries for doing.

I myself think that law enforcement is here to protect civil liberties, and that civil liberties are only to be given up in times of great struggle and only upon the highest of imperatives.

I know that the West is being significantly challenged to keep its place in the world, but I don't know that this shift in the winds is one of those great imperatives.
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You have to focus on that one thing, and are not able to be bothered by distractions such as other windows/programs.

The issue with this philosophy is that the one thing you need to do might not exist as a monolithic application. This is where the unix philosophy shines: lots of small, simple tools interacting over streams of text.
I say bring it! I moved all my development into a linux VM, so i'm shielded from them totally mucking things up further. Will be just another upgrade for me, instead of a nightmare.

Apple wants more entrenchment; to make it even harder to switch to something else. I'm already stuck on OSX because of itunes purchases and iphone sync, but that's really all it does for me at this point.

I definitely gave up features when switching to linux, And I'd do it again in a heartbeat. The less I rely on OSX, the better off I am. I've just been bitten too many times by attempts at innovation that only hinder me, and running old OSX because the newer version has problems or issues is not really a great solution either.
Perhaps there is a lesson here.
I can do that, but it's not reasonable to expect my users to do so. As it is, indie developers have to choose between paying rent to Apple and having most users unable to open their apps.
Was this taken from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9661349 or is it just a coincidence?
Sorry, should've searched for previous thread located at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9682312
Let's be clear here: you're saying that forcing someone to pay you money they don't owe you (e.g. mafia protection racket) is amoral and just the same as forcing someone to pay money they do owe you (e.g. taxes)?

Are you sure about this?
Objc just got dynamics :)
The hard power is - more so than at any other time in history - in the hands of central governments.

Governments used to have to go begging to private wealth to finance themselves, during panics, at times of war, etc. Today Bill Gates is hilariously undersized compared to the US Government (as are all corporations); 120 years ago, Rockefeller by himself towered over the US Government. During the 19th century governments of Europe had to beg for private financing for wars and bailouts.

What corporation, anywhere on earth, has any meaningful hard power? Tanks, jets, machine guns, aircraft carriers, cruise missiles, nukes, legal surveillance capabilities, thousands of soldiers, transports, military bases, the legal right to knock down your door and arrest you, the ability to put you in prison for 15 years with minimum sentencing laws, the legal ability to steal your property at gun point through civil asset forfeiture with no compensation, the right to arrest you for smoking pot, and on it goes.

Name a few corporations with anything even resembling those powers.

All real control over currencies today rests with central governments and their proxies (eg the Fed). That was not the case prior to the global establishment of the modern central banks in the last century. A little over a century ago, JP Morgan ruled the financial markets, and was vastly more powerful than the US Government in financial matters. Today, one month of QE is bigger than the entire fortune of the world's wealthiest man.

At what other point in world history, other than the last century, have governments been singularly all-powerful when it comes to military might? No domestic entity even remotely dares threaten the big governments of today. See: China, Russia, US.
What people leave behind is the things that don't matter anymore. I've walked out of offices with all my recent/relevant possessions, leaving behind nothing but books about fancy new technology like DHTML and ASP.NET v1.1. Most likely the professor took all the more recent stuff with him, and left behind all the decades-outdated research and technology because he didn't want the hassle of moving all of it just so he could dispose of it.

That said, maybe he was phoning it in for years. That would be sad, because it's a waste of time and life.
Sorry, it's been a while. I tried googling but no luck. Seems like it was someone fairly well known.
Well, I guess someone found a use for the Apple Watch.
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My current title is front end engineer. My boss wants to give me a title change/more responsibility. I'm pretty much allowed to frame my title any way I want. So I would like to see what would be the best title change for my resume and allow me the greatest flexibility in the future:

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Or some other permutation? Thanks in advance for any input.
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Step one: Define what is moral.

Step Two: No one has ever gotten this far so we don't know what it is.
I can't function that way. I'm currently typing this on a 2560x1440 monitor, in a maximized Firefox window. Occasionally I put two windows half-maximized side by side

Sounds like you'd get a lot of benefit out of a tiling window manager. I've been a full-time Xmonad user for 4 years now and I don't know how I'd ever go back to arbitrary-sized, overlapping window managers such as OS X's.
Often yes. You need someone with experience and insight to go through them and point out what the terms really mean.
I'm really excited about code coverage, and the built-in user interface testing support. That's amazing. We currently write our acceptance tests with KIF, but this sounds so much better. Looking forward to playing with the automated test recording.
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Git's CLI is just awful in a bunch of ways. There's a bunch of commands that do two or more different things depending on how you use them, and whole piles of cryptic and incomprehensible error messages.

Heck, the just the contrast between `git add <file>` and `git reset HEAD <file>` is terrible.
God you must have so much blinding white space. And so many websites that give you long lines of text stretching all the way across to lose your place in the middle of.

(OSX, 1920x1200 monitor, Safari taking up the full screen height but only about half the width. Just my desktop beneath though it's not uncommon for me to have a couple other finder or IM windows sticking around.)

I mean whatever works for you but I'd go crazy doing that, just as you'd hate trying to use things the way I do. People are different.
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Personally, although I have decent development capabilities in a fair amount of languages, despite wanting to, I've never contributed to an open source project. The task of finding one suitable is somewhat daunting.

I imagine it's like going to the gym for the first time, daunting for the first week or so before you get into the swing of things and realise everybody wants you to succeed.

So, what are some good projects for diving into?
A very major difference that I noticed is that tptacek's process doesn't turn down a candidate if they don't have the requisite domain-specific knowledge; rather, they send them a bunch of learning resources and let the candidate resume the process at any future time. The OP's process would just reject the candidate, forget about them, and move on.

tptacek's process is also going to work a lot better for candidates who aren't comfortable in high-stress whiteboard coding situations. The OP's process is designed around the assumption that the candidate can be made comfortable; tptacek's process is designed around the assumption that some candidates can't be made comfortable, but you shouldn't reject them (and in fact you may desperately want to hire them if you could find out how good they are), so you need to find another way.

Although the OP's article states that he is prepared to offer a computer for anyone who prefers it, how many candidates are confident enough to tell an interviewer that they don't want to do whiteboard coding? My experience is that candidates tend to be incredibly submissive during interviews so they're not going to speak up about something like that.

Based on the OP's article, I didn't get the sense that they have a rigorous rubric or that they meticulously record objective data points for every candidate to establish a reliable dataset over time.

All that said, I do feel that the OP's example question is pretty good (for that domain of expertise, at least) and better than what I typically see in these sorts of articles.
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Recently there was a good discussion about difference between firmware and software/drivers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9671025

Proprietary firmware is not a good thing, but it's not a very bad thing until we have open hardware, in my opinion.
Dell has a 5K monitor.

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that is strange, as other macbooks that only have an iGPU work fine on windows 8.
The open questions in my view: At the end of 2015 what sort of tool support will be available and how much library support will there be? Those are the things that will make or break Swift once it has to compete for adoption outside Apple's closed ecosystem.
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I sometimes feel Google really doesn't know how to market their stuff properly. I'd say their new Photos app is a computational wonder, but its jaw dropping features are not communicated well to common public.
FWIW, I think it's a lot easier to work in non-maximized windows on OS X than Windows just because of the navigation. Windows are somewhat thrown around, but it feels very comfortable to bounce through them with cmd-tab and cmd-`. It feels much more natural than full-screen applications. But whenever I'm on Windows, everything's full-screened or, at the least, snapped. The only maximized window on my machine right now (2x27" 2560x1440 plus the rMBP panel) is Parallels, with a maximized Visual Studio inside of it.
I'm confused. Objective-C has had dynamic typing, dynamic dispatch and dynamic pretty much everything for years. What does "just got dynamics" mean?
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Android is more ram hungry because it has a different policy on process lifecycle management.

If you hit home on iOS the app you are currently using is expected to pack up and be ready to get evicted from RAM.

If you do the same on Android the app will stay in RAM until there is a capacity crunch. Then the GC will go round waking up the oldest processes and ask them to free up pages. And if that is still not enough, start shutting them down.

This sadly result in slowdowns as the GC churns.
> If i dont specify a type for my variable i should be able to change my variable's value to whatever type i want.

You mean you want to assign a string to a variable and then re-assign it to something else entirely such as a number?

Just reassigning at all is dubious in my opinion, and seeing a reassignment with a completely different type would make me flip the table in review.

If you ever want a "catch all" variable you can then explicitly type it as a base type like "object", and assign what you want. But that should be very rare, so it's perfectly natural that type inference assigns a static type to the field.

The only time you get bad inference is if you have subtypes and the first assignment is too narrow, e.g

Apple GetApple() { ... }
var myFruit = GetApple(); // type is Apple
if (cond)
myFruit = GetOrange(); // can't assign orange

In this scenario you have to declare explicitly as Fruit. But again: this is rare, and all reassignment should be rare! Always have good reason before mutating anything.
Right-click in the window's toolbar (or title bar), choose "Customize Toolbar...", and drag the "Smaller"/"Bigger" pair of control into the toolbar.

I agree this is not very discoverable compared to the usual Zoom In / Zoom Out menu items. Mail suffers from its age in many ways.
I think Apple who did do servers at one time have found the consumer side of things more profitable. That said, they by not doing servers are seemed less hostile in server providing vender partnerships and this I believe would be more profitable for Apple than going into servers.

Now with the move of things into just the app bare bones style docker VM's in which the app is a service upon a server then maybe some form of runtime that enables some applications would be useful, maybe.

But if they went into the server market, then the trust of doing partnerships with server focused vendors would diminish. Though VMWare would probably be just as happy, if not more and that would be about it. IBM, for the arrangements they have now, work for both of them too well to upset I feel.
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Also, I now strongly recommend you go through the exercise I suggested. Then you'll realize that accurate tests do NOT somehow eliminate the need for models or accounting for base rates.

I'm reaching for the opposite point. Some sort of meaningful evaluation of actual outcomes is necessary to make utilitarian decisions. If the evaluation of the outcome is arbitrary, then so is the decision.
The danger of making such jokes, even when they are funny like yours, is that it clouds legitimate and reasonable discussion about the ways in which US companies support US national security efforts.

There is no need to ridicule this poster, as parallel questions about national security efforts and how, where and when US tech companies help are topical, factual and technical.
I'm planning to switch to Apple Music, specifically for the family plan.

My family of five would cost $30/month on Spotify as compared to $15/month on Apple Music.
Agree. Feels like a reasonable language to get things done and still readable. Much cleaner in design than Go, and let's not even discuss JS.
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ADP is awful. Period.

I worked there about 20 years ago. Once they actually messed up, and needed to recall, all of our employee paychecks.
I am not sure--definitely don't have any real knowledge about this issue. I was just looking for any info about the facetime issue and that came up in the search results.
William Gibson is really great at doing this as well.
I couldn't find a way to export the word list from duolingo. I may have overlooked something, but the best I found was to manually type up the vocabulary. (Copy-paste from the vocab page isn't very useful because it doesn't capture conjugations or articles.)
Careful! In order to cut costs, airlines mix nitrogen into the air they pump into the plane, almost 50% sometimes!

(archived from vani hari, the "food babe":)

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Someone here needs to invent a mask that can filter out all that nitrogen
What have you seen/heard?
I use this one, which appears to have potential for further development & could probably use someone working on improving it. For example while it works well at the command line, it could use a GUI, and some functional additions that would be helpful to use it.

It's basically a bulk-namecoin domain processor using the RPC interface. The dev is friendly enough, maybe strike up a conversation if you find it interesting.

https://gitorious.org/libnmcrpc/libnmcrpc/source/8f4e83de7f1...
I know from hard experience that knowing everything is impossible. I had that ambition as a youth. I began to learn it wasn't going to work when I was accepted to Caltech.

HOWEVER

Einstein claimed that we use only ten percent of our brains. Many if not most folks who hear that get the idea that they should try harder to study the things they already know. Most of us are computer programmers; perhaps we should learn new languages or tools or some other aspect of programming - if you do gui maybe you should learn kernel programming.

My take is that we will use our brains more completely if we learn a bunch of completely unrelated things. My degree is in physics, I work as a coder and I compose for and play the piano. When I was in high school I sang and danced in the theater but not being such a great actor I took up set construction, eventually took it over completely.
IDEs become indispensable primarily in giant, overly-OO tarballs where (in the words of Adele Goldberg) "everything happens somewhere else". In more sane languages/codebases you don't need to "jump to symbol definition" constantly because the code is pretty easy to navigate.
I'm probably in the minority who believe we should not be actively trying to prevent suicides. I hope I have the freedom to take my own life some day when I feel done with it
Back when they did servers they did it for two things, render farms and studio networking.

Render farms have largely been supplanted by Linux, and studio networking can either be handled by a Mini on the shelf or a Windows server in the closet.
I am willing to tolerate custom firmware in hardware that lives behind an IOMMU and under an OS that uses it. That will at least make it unlikely that something scary lives in there and collects my data. Without an IOMMU in use, the entire RAM is fair game, and, with some creativity, the network card buffers to sneak the data out.
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"food babe" == "Landover Baptist" of food.
It would not be Poisson, because the arrivals are not statistically independent.

Let's take a simpler case, where I have one follower who has a high probability of clicking links from my tweets, and there is a webpage that only I know about. I visit that page, tweet it, and an hour later, with high probability, my follower visits it. The event

{ I visit page }

and the event

{ follower visits page }

are not independent, and neither is the arrival process associated with it.

In the extreme case, for large times, there are either zero visits to the link, or two, but never just one (obviously non-Poisson).

The Kutcher example is just this, magnified.

Independence is a very strong assumption, but it is often casually stated. Independence is what allows you to decompose a very complex process (all those arrivals) into their individual atomic events (a single arrival).

Without invoking independence, you have a very complex task in relating how each of the N possible sources of events might relate to each other. It could be arbitrarily complex (e.g., some followers might only click a link if two people they're following like it, unless Ashton likes it, in which case they will never visit it, but if Colbert likes it, that will override Ashton).
Why not buy up some other domains and setup forwarding to your Zenefits employees. This way ADP can't block you and your customers still get the benefit!
In my experience, in the wide world of programming languages Rust and Swift are really not very far apart. Swift's designers even cited Rust as an influence.
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Certainly, and I tend to agree with your point. Which is why I said "so this was either a happy coincidence or an excuse/interpretation made after the fact". Apple is good at their marketing; pooh-poohing ideas they don't currently support is part of their reality distortion field.

But my last point, which you're replying to, is that regardless of whether this was part of their reality distortion field or not, I still think the idea has value. After a long slog of work, I'll often fullscreen a video/movie to force myself to relax and focus. It's like going out and taking a walk. It forces you to stop juggling your clutter of thoughts and tasks, and just focus on the simplicity of a single effort (in this case, walking).