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For an operation the size of Jet the licensing of Windows servers is trivial. Without looking very hard I found a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - 64-bit License for $574.94. That's a one-time cost. There are ways to get it even cheaper. Maybe expensive for a hobbyist, but not much of a consideration for a company in production.

Companies with a lot of MS licenses have different options available, but this gives you an idea of the scale of the cost.
Then you misinterpreted what they said. The point was that white people don't get to run away from traffic stops and knock tasers out of cops hands without getting shot. But when a black guy does it it makes the cover of Time magazine because it's so racist.
Wouldn’t the solution be to ask the company to pay your favourite charity instead?
> The problem with them is fundamental: "You will only get someone desperate enough to take your exam."

Lots of people do poorly in whiteboard situations. As an employer, you may assert that you don't want any of them, fine. But I don't see the problem in giving people the option of using an alternative testing process.
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Even trivial code is fine on Github. All I look for is that someone can actually write a bit of code, and a GH repo helps me quickly asses otherwise I have to do more digging. I've interviewed entirely too many people who are clueless and leave me wondering how they have ever had a job writing software.

> For those people who prefer FizzBuzz tests to implementing interesting stuff, I suggest companies provide the option to do a test for those who don't want to submit their project code.

In fact a great personal GH repo could be to implement FizzBuzz in a bunch of different languages. I think most companies would get an appreciate the joke.
After doing a handful of these and rejecting several handful of these tests I'd like to add a little to you comment.

I agree that the time it takes is always muchuch longer than what they state.

Companies that offer these tests before doing an initial phone screen get that email deleted. Why would I as an applicant who is applying to 10+ jobs spend time doing this test when I have never even had a chance to interact with a human.

The tests are sometimes not even close to the actual job. As in the job description is for a front end developer and JavaScript knowledge needed and they ask you to write the test using a completely different language. one company (who adversities jobs on here all the time) asked to do some php command line scripting for a JavaScript front end position. How is that in anyway a useful judgement of someone's skills. So wasting people's time is a big deliminator.

An example of a company I experienced that did the take home 'right' did an initial phone screen a couple days after applying. Then did another tech screen which was just basic stuff. After that they asked me to do a take home exercise and while completing it they continued to move forward with the application process including setting up travel arrangements. The take home test was directly related to the job and was given open ended for some creativity if one chose. The onsite final interview was discussing the code, so it would do little good to cheat on it because you need to be able to talk through it.

I didn't even get the job with them but it was actually not a painful experience for once to do a take home test.

Just my two cents, but I believe there is a good way and a terrible way to do it.
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I watch my fair share of TV and obviously the commercials. Surely a lot of commercials do well, but there must be many that also completely fail.
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Yeah, there's a reason they're called a.nutters.
Yes, he studied computer engineering for a bit at UCLA.
> Offer $500 as a 1099 contractor to complete the assignment within the next 2 weeks or so.

I like this, not for the money, but because it guarantees that the company is not giving this assignment to 100 different candidates ($500 x 100 is getting prohibitive for a hiring budget). I'm more willing to put the effort if I know I'm one of the "finalists" for the position.
Not often, but I've taken a handwritten diagram and converted it to paths in inkscape, andd cleaned it up a bit.

The resulting svg or png can be then added to the docs folder of a project. Works well with sphinx, etc.
> Not to mention that now it seems to be a priviledge of the self-righteous SJWs to proclaim which words should be counted as offensive this week. It never comes from the minorities in question.

You're wrong. Use of the word retard has been strongly rejected by people with a learning disability in the UK. The word disability has also been rejected, which is why I use LD for learning difficulties, or I use specific diagnoses for granularity. They have rejected these terms for many years. The change in language is something they have been driving.
Don't you realize the people that believed that theory won't accept this wing as authentic if it's found to be from the plane?
"Everyone should learn to write, but not everyone should be a professional writer."

But, it's not that we want "everyone to learn to code"; what we really want is for everyone to learn how to use computers to build powerful simulations so that they can test and explore interesting and complicated ideas.

Certain issues, like climate change, become much more tractable to discuss once you start using Excel rather than Word.
Object pools are certainly a very useful technique, but can they really be considered a "forgotten trick"? This kind of pooling is pretty basic CS knowledge, and thus is a very popular technique in many applications, libraries, etc. I would have assumed most people working with a need for scale in a GC language like Java would be familiar with this technique (dare I call it a "design pattern")

Perhaps I am wrong and the technique is less familiar than I had thought?.
Apparently it's Daily Users, so I'd be really surprised if the standalone app turned out to be a success. Messenger and Instagram get away with that because people open them several times a day. I don't use Events nearly enough to have it take some space on my home screen.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9967582
Basic skills in medicine and accounting are useful to have and sort of prevalent. I'm sure you put on a band-aid before. Basic skills in automating certain computer tasks seem to be valuable to many people -- almost all office workers, I'd wager.

I don't see how that devalues the profession. There's a huge difference between what people can achieve using stuff like this and what I do every day.

Maybe basic skills in stuff like this will even translate to a better appreciation of what professional developers do. A guy can dream...
I've been pointing out https://github.com/brockma/retard on Reddit since the news broke over there.
The only thing Uber seems set out do disrupt is labor laws (in the sense of finding some way for them to not be seen as employer).

The whole "app" thing reminds of the silly "with a computer" patents that showed up in the hands of patent trolls for a number of years.
> In my experience, some interviewers, particularly Amazon interviewers, get really anal about putting correct code on a whiteboard

I had that experience with an Amazon interviewer. The guy who told me he expected perfect code also gave me zero feedback as I worked (despite me literally asking if I was headed in the direction he expected) and spent the entire time staring at his laptop. He'd apparently forgotten that he was scheduled for an interview, and also his manners.
Love the illustrative parabola thanks! I agree with so many of your points, but I do hope there's an alternative as well, and that's actually why we're in business, to explore those models. This is just the consumer facing engine that will give us (hopefully) the funds to do so. And we have a lot of ideas about things to explore =)

Feel free to keep in touch if you ever have other thoughts, I always like chatting strategy: james@farmfeedery.com
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We'd love to have you as a customer! We don't store any plaintext secrets. Passwords are bcrypted and public keys can safely be public. If I misunderstood your question or if you want a more in-depth answer, please drop me a line: aren@.
If your engine doesn't need to render objects outside the viewport, then you don't need to generate those objects until you actually need to render it.
There are buoys that pretty much accomplish the same purpose... See post #38 here:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/565335-flaperon-washes-up...
At the moment we're not scaling out ourselves just yet, we're just in one region, but you're totally right that franchising could potentially be a model. We have a lot of ideas on how to better scale, when the time is right. Thanks for your thoughts!
I want a rule that limits drones to flying over roads when they fly in non-rural areas.
CYA language on a FAQ is not prevention. I am guessing that they are not performing heuristic analysis of uploaded files against NCMEC databases.
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Thinking about it a little more, I suppose spies and law enforcement could warrant Facebook et al. "Gimme everything you've trawled about a3n."
This is pretty much a huge part of the plot of Lost
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It's everywhere in java ee. Still I guess people writing fronted may have never heard of it (except thread pools?).
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Without ADS-B on the drones, other aircraft won't be able to detect them. It'd be a non-starter.
In many ways I think this article is exploiting a false dichotomy that has always bothered me: Libertarianism vs. Communalism. I've believed for a long that both Rand and Marx were very important thinkers who both fundamentally believed in the freedom of the individual: Freedom from control by 'Capital' and freedom from control by the 'Government'.

I get worried as I see the ever tighter cooperation between capital and government in our society. We risk approaching a world that both Marx and Rand would have been united in opposition of.

At the same time, I have hope. By freely choosing to cooperate, choosing to do what we love, by choosing to give whatever we can back to the world, by choosing to support free software and free platforms, we have shown that we have the opportunity to outpace the ability of capital and government to react to this revolution.

We'll see where things go. I'm sure it'll be interesting.
I agree with you about how hard it is to maintain flavor and texture, it's always something we're working on. The meals come to you in biodegradable containers that you can microwave without transferring elsewhere. So far, so good, but we've definitely had to cut some meals where the reheat didn't work as well. We have stringent QC requirements!

I also love your last points, and totally agree that there are some work opportunities here, which we'd love to explore when we get to that size.
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I know that in things like games and other highly concurrent applications that object pooling is a must, otherwise you inevitably run in to the problem of attempting to update or render some game object that's died and been deleted. Maybe it's less common in other types of application development?
Perhaps a de facto or indirect subsidy, but the cost of moving into those neighborhoods went up while the cost of housing for those being excluded went down. It's also arguable that cities made money with these practices (it would take some work to figure out.)

So the subsidy argument falls apart. If it doesn't cost the city money overall and white people end up paying more both for housing and in taxes then the problem with redlining lies elsewhere. (I am not trying to defend redlining, by the way.)
I have a PhD and work at a top CS research lab. Been there for almost 7 years. I feel like a peon .. I have 3 people who tell me what to do. I have to work with people from every time zone and who don't speak proper English and have thick accents. I am not a native speaker btw. The old days of monopoly sponsored research are gone. The new reality sucks. Things aren't a whole lot better in academia from the people I have spoken to. Oh ... and I make low six figures in the US. It is better to just become a programmer.
This blog post hints at but doesn't outright state a crucial fact about TCO: it is only possible when the code could be expressed with a loop instead of recursion. People make a big deal about TCO, but it was only necessary in Scheme because they didn't want to include loops in the language, opting instead to provide recursion and implement loops in terms of recursion. Without guaranteed TCO, that would sometimes blow your stack out. Hence, guaranteed TCO in Scheme. In a language with loops, however, TCO is not essential since you can always just use a loop.
I considered a job out in SF working for a decently well-known guy, Andrew Chen. I had gone through 4 coding interviews progressively working my way up their ladder to their CTO. Now, each of these I did well on but they didn't like how fast I went. Despite them saying "Our fastest done was 1hr!", they didn't seem to appreciate me going fast and came to the conclusion that I probably didn't know how to write production code -- just a quick hacker. Actually, it was rather annoying because their "top" iOS dev didn't even understand basic shit I was doing. He'd have to keep stopping me and being like wait -- why'd you do that? Yet as I worked my way up, I really enjoyed a couple of their engineers and CTO. I didn't have to hold THEIR hand during a code interview.

So I was an iOS developer getting considered for Android position, and they said "hey it's great you can code fast & all, but can you learn fast?" and told me to create an Android app that searched images on Google. I sighed because I had already been through 4 coding interviews, but oh well, this will be it I thought. Since I wanted to do a good job, I spent two hard days working on it basically all day every day. Since I was new to Android world, I had to learn that while being productive. You can see the result of my efforts here: https://github.com/joslinm/android-image-search-example. I thought I did a nice job because rather than using a HTTP library, I read the streams myself to give nice progress indicators for each image (which persisted even thru phone rotates).

I give it to them and they say, "ok seems to be working." After that, I was invited to SF to interview with them in person -- actually, interview is the wrong word, I would be working with them for 2 full days. So we did that. When I wasn't coding, I was being grilled about my work history (perfectly acceptable, but why didn't we do this earlier?). Finally, after that, I was told they had come to their decision. Thinking I was a shoe-in, I went to go meet with Andrew. Andrew's decision: "You're too entrepreneurial."

Now let's examine this for a quick second. They had come to a pretty fair conclusion that I was too entrepreneurial after talking to me. They realized, hey this kid is a go-getter and probably isn't the greatest fit for our #7. Yet this was AFTER copious amounts of coding and wasting my time doing all these code interviews and even joining them to code in-house. If they had just went about a pretty normal interview, they would have discovered this fact way earlier and not wasted either of our time. So why waste my time forcing me to code before they do their diligence? Because he's Andrew Chen; you can google his name and discover who he is. It would be a "honor" to work for such a prestigious start-up pundit. In other words, he can get away with it.

For those of you considering a start-up and actually have skill.. don't get taken advantage of by these bogus work projects. The employer wins because he's not paying you and gets a lot of evaluation for free. And if they do insist on you working with them for a couple days, you insist on getting paid for those couple days.
While this is a nice view on the experience of an Uber driver, its from the lens of very much of someone is "make-for-great-cultural-learning" and not someone who's forced into the share economy due to lack of opportunity elsewhere.
Waiting for someone to make something like Tracktor for Jet. It shows you pricing data for Amazon products using an extension.

https://thetracktor.com/
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Cool and interesting. The company I worked for in Italy makes machines that take those retinal images - but probably not the ones shown in this article, if I'm judging correctly. http://centervue.com/ - great company in a difficult place to do business!
Interestingly, in my firefox, the CSS style "font-weight: 100" makes the text virtually blend into the background and quite unreadable.
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"My initial research shows the point is somewhere in 60s..."

People who were born in the 1960s are now between 46 and 55 years old.
I don't understand your point.

Why is it not okay to use the word Jew as an insult against non-Jews, while it's fine to use the word retard as an insult against non-retards?
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Agreed that it's a positive thing to actually pay people for nontrivial amounts of work.

Downside is that, as a company paying someone to accomplish a task, I'd want to give a different task to each applicant, so that if they do a good job, it provides value to the company.

And this is a problem because rarely are two programming problems exactly as difficult as each other, so the test isn't normalized. Interviewing is hard enough when you keep all the variables that you can control the same.
I find myself reminded of a personal experience from the "early" days of the net.

Back then it was dialup that was the thing, and IRC was the main communications system. This resulted in local and regional channels popping up on various networks.

But then came IM, in particular with MS bundling MSN Messenger with Windows.

Over a year or so i watched the IRC channel dwindle as people moved to using IM.

And some kind of spark was lost in that process.
Most VC firms that make seed investments will hear pitches from founders who just have an idea. However this would require for you to be in the VC's sweet spot in terms of vertical or that you get a referral from someone who knows the VC personally.

Not sure about the specific one you're asking about. I'd recommend looking at what seed-stage funds like to invest in your vertical and then seeing if anyone in your network has a connection there.
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just want to point out the obvious here: the VP of Amazon Prime Air's name is Gur Kimchi.

Godspeed, brother.

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Or, if they don't actually expect you to spend more than 3 hours on the task, they will compare you to people who have spent 9 hours on it.

Had that recently: they said "spend no more than two hours on it" so I finished in about an hour and 45 that evening and flipped it over.

Then they started asking why my 20 or so unit tests only covered the basics when other candidates had full unit tests in the two hour time frame. I told them the other candidates were simply lying :-)
Well, a more detailed comment from me would have expanded upon themes of reward, social mobility (which requires resources or connections or both), etc., etc. But as a quick comment, it serves.

For example, consider serfs as examples of hardly paid at all: They made enough to survive, but even if they had surplus and managed to sell it for a luxury item or two, they stayed stuck in their fiefdoms, by and large, unless they had skills or talents both in demand and recognized, e.g., qualities for the priesthood, for becoming a mason, etc., or unless they fled and/or joined the military.

I guess they key follow-on to both the original article and to Christie's comment is one disposable wealth and choice: For much of human history, most of us have had neither. For part of the 20th C, many of us have had both.

Perhaps that is the return to the mean (that I honestly hope we are not experiencing - otherwise, my daughter's world will be far crappier than mine, regardless of the efforts of either of us, unless one of us should win the platform creation-and-ownership lottery).
But - Won't the market sort it out?
These are two pretty unrelated issues, and it is a fallacy to compare the two in this context. It's not unlikely that the majority of transit in the western will be automated in the next century or two.

The technology to filter and clean water has existed since the Roman era, but its implementation is highly dependent on political and economic factors (fun fact: western civilization didn't match the Romans' quality of water engineering until the mid-19th century).

The technology for automated cars could well exist in 150 years, and its implementation depends on the cycles of industrial production and consumption. It's likely that much of the western world will have automated transit in 150 years, because everyone will eventually get rid of their 2015 toyota for a model 2077 automated Tesla-google car.
A more accurate title would be "Why Jet didn't choose C#" as they don't seem to pay any attention to the non-Windows stacks available.

I'm still no closer to understanding why they would build a startup on a MS stack, a question I've been pondering for the past year and a half.
I wonder if the author subtracted his expenses
>For example, are you going to exclude pilots from a conversation about aviation because they have an obvious conflict of interest?

This example is not at all like the situation with Jeff Bezo, Amazon, and The Washington Post. In situations like this, there is the perception (and often the reality) that employees of the media organization would self-censor and not write anything too negative about a company owned by someone that can fire them (or indirectly hinder their careers).
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We have something like this built in-house on top of Keen already. Great to know that we can now use this to put it in our analytics dashboards to help w/ ad-hoc analysis.

Are you going to be maintaining this with the one you have in your web-app? Seems like it would make a lot of sense.
Well, they are also out to disrupt the government enforced taxi monopolies using VC money.

I agree that there isn't anything patentable about their approach. We'll see how hard it is to compete with their combination of infrastructure and network effect.
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