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> Have an honest look at why someone doesn't match your expectations. Did they not match implicit or explicit expectations? If they're implicit, are they really a part of your company culture? If they are, why are they not explicit?"

I recently got a 'culture fit' rejection. Towards the bottom of the e-mail they welcomed follow-up questions from me. I would love to respond and ask the questions above, but I also believe most rejections in life are a good thing and if someone comes up with some ridiculous excuse like 'culture fit' I'm better off not working for such a silly company.
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Minimalism is a strong feature of Twitter. The effect of lifting the character limit is unpredictable, and I'm not certain it would be positive. It could be, but my personal reaction would probably be to use it less if the fire hose increased in magnitude.
I've not jumped in Yosemite yet, and hope I get to soon. Headed to Norway tomorrow for the Heliboogie. We've probably met.

Great post.

Re: Hooting and hollering, there is a joke in a popular first jump course about a hoot and holler being met with a throat punch. That's where one super sketchy cliff got its name in Twin.
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True, however I would imagine that an attack on an airport would hurt more than an attack on a bus or train depot; I'd wager that flights might get grounded until everything is sorted out. Nobody's going to shut down New York's Penn Station if something happens in Chicago or San Francisco.
This is a classic paper, but careful examination in the years since reveals that once you examine chunks instead of individual digits, our working memory capacity is even lower, more like around 4 (with individual variation).

(Chunking example: if you live in a town with only three area codes, you don't have to "store" 3 digits for the area code, you can sort of "chunk" them together as a whole.)
After H2, carbon monoxide would be the next most common molecule in interstellar clouds. [1] However, I don't know about the universe as a whole.

[1] https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mmw/history.html
Usually it is an organizational issue rather than any technical or time problem handling or classifying exceptions or errors. People have to be convinced to not log something unless it is going to lead to some action being taken. Second, if management has given up on quality and is not devoting enough resources towards resolving issues then you can try to influence them or influence your team to improve things. In some cases an exception should in fact start a business process. Defining those business processes would be the first step to getting buy-in to make code improvements.
Of course there is. Software developers (in general) are smarter and have had better educations than "average" people.

Most smart, educated people I know can name the vice president of the United States, and I don't even live in the US. I think it's completely unreasonable for someone not to know who the vice president of the country they live in is.
This is like equating those who drive jeeps on two wheels to everyday drivers.

That incident is as relevant to everyday BASE jumping as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouicSLOc_K8 is to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfipAgNRDx0
The interface can just show a more link after a certain number of characters. Then again, I never really got twitter from the publishing side as it's only a read-only thing for me.
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(Infer dev here)
One strength of Infer is that it is inter-procedural, yet not whole-program: each procedure gets analyzed independently. So it's cheap enough to run on large codebases while still able to find deep inter-procedural bugs.
That would change the nature of Twitter a lot, though.

writers could write their content on Twitter and have it appear as standard blog posts on their own domains

That makes the posts sound very, very large. That's not what I want from Twitter - I want short, sharp posts that make one single point. 140 characters does feel like a meaningless limit, but IMO they'd still want to emphasise short content somehow.
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I strongly disagree, the only reason I am using Twitter and follow people I like is to quickly read their thoughts on current events if I wanted to read more of them I would have read their blogs instead
Meaningless numbers without any profit to show for it.
Thanks for the clarification. I should have addressed this in more nuanced fashion, given the reality of 50+ state educational systems and innumerable school districts witht heir own rules, rather than a single national standard. Instead, I critiqued the weakest instances of the current system as if they were the norm.
Yes, very sorry. "Some charlatan has stolen a Ziggy and passed it off as his own!"
No, its definitely not. However, I can think of a few instances where I might use it along with Deepstream.
I think this had something to do with the length of SMS messages and not splitting them. There are a plethora of 3rd party services that allow you to tweet 140+ characters.
Users don't want change unless it's really good change, then it's the best thing that can happen. Here's what Twitter used to look like: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/188430472 https://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/190576959

I remember those days too and the product is much better now. It could be much better still.
Usage of openssl has been deprecated since OS X 10.7 in favor of Secure Transport and Common Crypto. Furthermore, OpenSSL is not even supported on iOS. See: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Securi...
Although it's a passion point in tech circles, allowing alternative clients is near the bottom of the list of issues Twitter needs to address. Plus it would make any platform changes and their ad system very challenging to successfully implement.
I wonder how efficient this is in the worst case. In particular, something like [02468]+ (or something similar. A discontinuous range repeated a bunch of times.)

I wonder how this would compete with a full suffix tree or trie - or better yet, suffix DAG, which will generally take a whole lot more time to construct but may be (much) smaller.
Prions are the stuff of nightmares. Imagining these folding proteins running haywire in my brain scares the hell out of me. Time to go vegan?
Xbox 360 controller was the go-to reference controller for pretty much any PC-released games in last 5 or so years - mostly due to it's automatic integration with XInput protocol used by pretty much everyone. I guess the only limiting factor why it wasn't replaced by the One controller is the fact that the PC receiver hasn't been released yet.

Nintendo never made anything that would connect to PCs.
I don't know about 'best practices', but I know of a nice app that's less resource intensive than 'fail2ban':
https://github.com/sofar/tallow
Global Entry is for immigration/customs, not TSA security.

The trade-off is: they do a background check and take some biometrics, and in exchange you can skip the conversation with an immigration agent where they ask you where you're been, etc. - you just answer the usual customs-form questions at a kiosk.

It's actually a pretty reasonable trade-off, and speeds the process of going through Customs - which, unlike some of the TSA stuff, is in no way unique to the US (having gone through immigration/customs in 20+ countries, I can say with some experience that the US is far from the worst...)
Mandatory promoted tweets for 3rd party clients maybe? I use a 3rd party android twitter client due to its superior UX compared to the official app, but I wouldn't mind getting served promoted tweets in that client at all.
Thanks for writing this.

I still rank getting getting buzzed by some dude jumping the Captain while climbing the last few pitches of the East Buttress as one of the more exciting things that's ever happened to me. Maybe it was you, probably not though :)
I scrolled. I admit it. :)
I find that introduction is intended for people packaging software that other people have written, where upstream creates a tarball.

What FPM nails is the use-case where a developer wants to package their own software. Obviously I could take on the role of upstream, publish .tar.gz files, and then take on the role of packager and consume those, but I think you can understand at that point why FPM looks so attractive!

You obviously know this area well: a link to software you have written and packaged would be greatly appreciated.
> Who is supposed to teach people what code is?

'But no one told me I needed to know this' stops being an excuse as of adulthood, if not earlier. Anyone who cares what coding is only needs curiosity and an internet connection, the web is full of introductory material for almost every level from almost every angle. If a professional in the current world doesn't know 'what coding is', they just don't care.
Mobile is exactly where you don't want to rely on this kind of fingerprinting. Especially on iOS, it's a platform with only one rendering engine and no plugins.

Here's what it managed to get from my iPhone 6[1]. This would be the same 'fingerprint' as virtually every iPhone 6 user in the UK.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/IkccCei.jpg
I see similar things happen around here (oddly enough often also in small rural schools?). As a pessimist, I wonder:

- are teachers able to choose, remix, adapt, or make new "computational" instructional materials like they are able to do with conventional instructional materials? (Stencilling and xeroxing for the win :-)

- are computers only used as supporting tools (i.e., typewriter, encyclopedia, drawing board, ...) or is computational thinking integral part of the curriculum?

- is there software like programming tools, CAS (such as maxima, or matlab, or mathematica), CAD, and other configurable and programmable professional tools available? (and will they be used beyond a module of two weeks here or there?)

- has the (core) curriculum changed at al or are we still teaching topics like it is 1982? Computer technology makes it possible for students to tackle complex authentic problems instead of "school problems" (Death to linearity! Away with nice round numbers!)
Sounds like I should sit down with a copy and finally get past the first chapter.
Was hoping to gain some insight to improve interview cycles here but instead just have agita.

Jobs come and go, great work is always great work, but friends are what I remember most.
Why do you believe this should be their highest priority?
But how do you type in that position? Or were you not planning to type anything?
Employees often have less business acumen then an old lady selling on the open market.

I find it amusing that people who can code think they can do anything and everything. Despite what you like to to believe, those MBAs do have value. Lots of it.
I'd always figured (based on offhand comments by Ev and his investors at the time) that it was because Ev had difficulty taking a hard-line on people for performance issues. The quote I'm thinking of was something like "Evan always wanted his friends to share in his success", and it was in the context of hiring friends or promoting internal employees into larger roles rather than looking outside the company. My read on that is that he placed a very high premium on loyalty, rewarding people who had helped out Twitter when it was very young, while the board wanted to capitalize on its hotness to bring in big external talent that was available then.

This would also be consistent with the employees feeling a significant amount of loyalty toward Ev, and several wanting to quit when he was ousted.
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From an update to the article:

[Update: On the conference call, Costolo said he initiated internal conversations about leaving at the end of last year, and that following discussions in Feburary and his decision to step down, Twitter decided to begin the CEO search. Costolo said he chose to leave now because he thought staying on through the CEO search would cause scrutiny to intensify. During the Q&A, Twitter execs said that since Costolo voluntarily stepped down, there will be no severance package.]

The line about 'no severance package' seems highly unusual and would lead me to assume that this was a forceful 'push' to step down.
The origins of the 140 character limit are interesting; it was originally put in place because Twitter was SMS-based, and SMS limits the number of characters to 160. 140 allowed some wiggle room.

But retaining the character limit changes the platform entirely. "Lifting the twitter limit" does not a publishing platform make; it changes everything that Twitter is.

I think Jack explained the psychological reasons very well [1]: Imagine you're standing in front of a blank wall, and instructed to paint the entire thing. You hold yourself in a very specific way. You spend a lot of time and effort thinking about how you should do it. You compose your actions in such a way to fill the entire wall.

Now compare that to being given a post-it note. Not only is it less intimidating and more disposable, but it doesn't take as much mental effort to get to a point where your work becomes valuable.

That's why I tweet incessantly, but I rarely blog. To blog I feel like I have to have some continuation of several thoughts that are strung together in a logical way, and all flow to some larger conclusion. Tweeting is a single thought or impression that is off the cuff. It almost flows naturally out of me.

I even find that when I want to write a blog post, it flows the best when I just start out tweeting. Before I know it it becomes a tweet storm, but breaking the work up into very small, bite-sized chunks makes the entire process manageable.

That being said, it makes sense for there to be some way to easily consume a tweet storm other than someone tweeting 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/. But I don't think that solution is saying, "Alright, go nuts, tweets can be as long as you want them to." My hunch is Twitter would lose an order of magnitude more value than it would gain by doing so.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLK8lmsjq4
and thanks again for Ramda .. I use it daily for real work, back and front end.
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Why? More accounts = higher numbers = happy stakeholders. Is it in twitters best interest to delete "fake" accounts? Also, how do you disambiguate a friendly bot from an unfriendly one?
I prefer "freedom to roam" like in most of the scandinavian countries, where I can BASE jump and not fear being tased after landing.
In case anyone cares, this is what it'll find on openssl:
https://bpaste.net/show/4914ab7990c9
Has its pros and cons. I like that when I am a guest, the host has a sense of duty to ensure I have a good time, feel welcome, am well fed. I always feel awkward when I show up at a non-Iranian's gathering and everyone, including the host, just remains seated, don't get up to greet me, don't offer food other than "there's food in the kitchen, help yourself."
Well you could change the interface to not need so much resolution. Maybe you could use a giant card and punch out holes in it?
Well, to be fair, the article has a slanted view of 'culture fit'. While the article says several times that 'culture fit' can mean anything, the examples it gives keep returning to evening drinking, and implies bro-culture as the problem.
Theoretically, a company in each country could do the same thing. You wouldn't want multiple competing companies in a country with overlapping databases, though, because it'd be way easier to just use your other-company identity to get a duplicate account. (It'd be like using your Facebook account to register once and then your Google account to register again.)

And because of that, any company that did this would have a sort of natural monopoly. So the respective government would have to at least regulate them a bit to avoid them exploiting their users. A "crown corporation", in the British terminology. (In British Columbia we have ICBC, a crown-corporation insurance company, as the issuer of physical ID, which works well enough.)
> This might just be me, but I was kind of struck with just how much progress and accuracy you are expected to achieve at the whiteboard. And like I said, I am kind of blown away that people are able to do this. While I can pose those questions and develop a mental model for how to approach it, I just couldn't solve them at a whiteboard in 45 minutes to anything approaching what I believe is the standard.

That is why I stress its memorization because without memorizing things you've long since abstracted to libraries, you really can't perform in the stressful interview situation to the level the interviewer expects.

If, however, you take something the interviewee implemented in the past 6 months as the "standard problem" they could probably do it without much trouble.
It's mostly a waste. Very difficult to eat enough bacteria to have them compete with your extant gut flora.

This paper is questionable for other reasons.
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why is it a joke? it's true.
Could the recent Medium re-org by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams be related? If Medium was acquired by Twitter and Williams became CEO, it would combine the product vision and data from Medium with the Twitter users who were originally drawn to Williams' vision.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/medium-budget-cuts-and-restruc...

"Medium now wants to become more of a social network rather than a publishing platform. But this comes at a great cost to its full-time and freelance staff ...

“Medium is not a publishing tool,” CEO Ev Williams wrote in the announcement. "It's a network. A network of ideas that build off each other. And people. And GIFs."

Many are still trying to decipher what this means ... Nearly all of Medium's sites are undergoing major upheavals.."
Ruins the experience. Fake followers. Fake tweets. Just don't understand how it hasn't been fixed yet.
There's already a huge link between the gut and the brain called the vascular system.
Use of the word "just" with regard to a technical issue is—in my experience—a good indication that the issue is incredibly thorny and complicated, and there's probably a really good reason why things are the way they are.
Any reason why this wouldn't be a scam? eg. collect $150 fee from a bunch of people. Award house to preselected person who pays some amount less than the normal market value of the home.
Where do you keep hearing that? I don't religiously follow GamerGate, but I am subscribed to /r/KotakuInAction and that particular community holds no such opinion of themselves.
I'm TL;DR-ing The Fine Article.

Scroll up for the link.
Then you end up with the "postal service".
BBC Micro Basic let you interpose assembler in the middle of the program - although it was a two-pass assembler and you had to call both passes seperately with a small FOR loop if you wanted labels to work.
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I don't mind going out for happy hour once in a while, I enjoy it, and would never give anyone a hard time that was drinking, say a diet-coke with lime. The writer seems a little sensitive to socializing/drinking though. Perhaps he doesn't realize young people like to "rib" those who are a bit different... I don't think they mean any real harm, they just lack perspective that comes over time. I've learned to ignore people's dumb comments, as I've made quite a few myself--hopefully they are decreasing over time.

However, in agreement I've noticed that a lot of company/startup "culture" tends to exclude anyone not a late-twenties white|asian male with skinny jeans. Here's a few job pages I've looked at recently:

https://stripe.com/jobs/

https://www.olark.com/jobs

https://www.planet.com/assets/themes/planet/images/team/taho...

http://jobs.lifesum.com/

Look at some of these photos, and struggle to find a team member from the majority of the population who is homely, or chubby, or female, or $other_minority, over thirty, or god-forbid over forty.

No wonder it is so hard to find people when you exclude 90% of the population.
>You do want to pay attention to the mobo choice if the card itself requires PCI-E v3.0.

Nope. PCI-E 3 capable cards work perfectly in PCI-E 2 motherboards. In fact, no graphics card currently on the market can significantly benefit from the boost offered by PCI-E 3. This includes Titan Xs in SLI: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7089/geforce-gtx-titan-twoway-...

>Things get a little more complicated with multi-GPU card builds.

Sure, but I would speculate that anyone going that route is an enthusiast who knows what they're getting into and is happy to do the research.
Important to remember for each data byte in the buffer to also store the LSR along with that data. Windows serial port driver fails to do this, meaning you can tell there was (for example) a parity error on a byte in your fifo, you just don't know on which byte.
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My guess would be that it is because fake accounts are not merely fraud, but are often front organizations, either by lobbyists and political PACs or by corporation PR groups, or by nations states abroad and at home for their own covert 'PR'.

These fake accounts are quite difficult to detect.

The accounts that are easy to detect are avoided anyway, since users get to manage their own subscriptions. Some are even cherished for their novelty - horseebooks, etc.

Detecting these covert accounts means being a middle man for whichever party lays a claim about source - and this makes Twitter a middleman for other parties' curation.
Consider that in many cases, you don't need to recreate the whole universe--lots of stuff may stay the same.

Also, to get to the old ship, you just rewind the events, because the state can be fully reconstructed (no weird side-effects).
Engineers :)

If Jerry Yang did not have the credentials of Yahoo founder/CEO at the time, do you think Jack Ma would've let him in? Alibaba was growing very fast at that point, and one big reason they let Yahoo in is its brand.
Well the Rift ships in Q1 2016. So by the time it comes out, you will have access to the Wireless PC adapter they announced coming this fall.
I'm surprised they haven't added something along the lines of docs.twitter.com that allowed Twitter to host/own long form copy but linking to it via short URLs just as they do with photos. Best of both worlds or too fragmented/confusing?
I think this is a critical point. Intelligence seems like a much more effective means of security than physical security. Of course we have to debate the relative merits of intelligence if there are tradeoffs with liberties/freedoms.
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it would be impossible to follow such a text-storm for any human.