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More bummed than getting Forbes magazine in the mail every month? Wow.

Apple could just throw away the product you return. That would not suffice.

Hashing passwords intentionally slow for security.

The solution to a DOS like this is to ignored all password attempts after N per M time.

Knowing when to not microoptimize is a skill.

Honestly, you should have decided based on compensation, geography, etc. The jobs are similar. But you microptimized :-)

Well trained average people are good enough to do great things. That is a feature, not a bug.

Broken? It sounds exactly how optimization systems work :-)

Why couldn't talented people also game the interview?

If you don't care enough to skip a couple of episodes of Mad Men and warm up your brain before you come in, you aren't interested in working here.

Because I don't know how to judge past work in your niche. My niche is different.

They can't test you on the intricacies of your current project, because they don't know them.

An interview needs a greatest common denominator. That is what an undergraduate CS test is.

Please share what is the ideal interview.

> phone number

Holy cow FB uses my private security tokens as a source of ads?

> product warranty cards

Why hasn't the FTC shut this scam down yet?

I do wonder when/if trackers collapse all addresses on a small domain into a glob. They totally could.

Then I can ask Facebook to show me gifts and stores my friends like, and some general listings.

Everything you listed is from data you inserted into Google's system, not bought from a third party. But keep digging deeper :-)

Since they have proven that they are awful at targeting, I don't want it.

The fact is, 90% of advertising exists because the product is not worth buying in its merits. Word of mouth recommendations and independent research studies are where good jnformarion comes from. Targeting doesn't help that.

Awesome, so their monetization strategy is to undermine the whole product and say "trust me"

How is browser JS closed source?

Without auditing, calling a server open source is meaningless.

He tried, but his product is so good that it scrubbed out the identifying information in his post.

(Kidding)

Before we backslap too much, note that the study isn't about programming skills, it is about sitting on SO all day answering questions instead of working.

Wow, when kids don't even know that the latest fad was originally popularised by Apple, we have entered postmodern hipsterdom.

If your first premise is true, then only old people would have developed this prejudice, and the article's headline is false.

Sad that the completely obvious fatal flaw in the entire premise is so far down the page here.

And since OP doesn't know how source control worms, he will never know how you found him.

You would just leave out the comment text.

Every text editor can uncomment a block of code with a macro. Why on Earth would the number of chracters matter?

And every language has the IF construct.

And of you are flipping between two implementation so frequently, your actual problem is that you have no idea how your program works.

Spraying horrible garbage cleverness in code, and submitting commented out code, are exactly the sort of newbie mistakes that code reviews should sort out.

At best, this gimmick is for hacking out some temp code while debugging, and should not be submitted.

Of course, one should just use an IDE, or even vim, to commenting out code as needed.

Reading tests is not TDD, it is basic due diligene when learning code. Eve still, skipping that, when the test fails, the rush coder will see the problem.

This is one of the many uses for tests that too few people know.