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Oh an essay about videos, or wait....

it wasn't required

Indeed it illustrates how much we don't need human resource workers.

I have a reasonable amount of experience with scripted questions for phone calls and face to face conversations.

It of course should be "foundation of" not "foundations for" but that aside...("..." for a short breathing break) your first question has a slash in it? The whole point of preparing questions is to not have such things. After a very tiny number of interviews one would chose between the 2.

I would smile at the second question and politely explain why I thought the job was interesting in well prepared words, then ask "Why do I want to work here? How long have you worked here? Why do you work here?"

I would totally expect an answer (only) to the second question. To which I would respond by asking if they enjoyed it.

By that time the vc question will seem alien to the context of the conversation. If you bring it up again I will ask if you ever applied for jobs while working there.

Then I will openly mock you by arguing it would be interesting just to see what kind of questions they ask.

After "I have other interviews to do today" to crank some urgency into the conversation, I will explain why I thought this job was more interesting than the others (same as before only more contrasting than generic), how it fits with what I know, my expectations for further development of these skills and what interests me about the product.

If nothing serious comes out in response I will leave "expecting to hear from you soon".

You will be in awe - how fast that went.

Then I will set fire to your bikeshed. (haha)

Ah like, what do I look like I want to eat?

Out of sheer curiosity I had a go at manually enhancing the Roundhay Garden Scene by dramatically enlarging the frames, stacking them, aligning them, erasing the most blurred ones and the obvious artifacts.

It went from this:

https://media.giphy.com/media/pUf3YfamV7BV6/giphy.gif

To this:

http://img.go-here.nl/Roundhay_Garden_Scene.gif

The funniest part was that the resolution really goes up if you make 1 px into 40 and align the frames accurately (then adjust opacity to the level of blur)

The crime television thing would be possible if you have enough frames of the gangster.

As noted before, in Europe, the greatest union in the world GOD BLESS US</sarcasm> governments do a lot of the stuff that people in the US expect from charities.

In theory, passionate empathic people should be able to outperform government projects 100:1 and no doubt many do to some extend, even without any formal organization.

If you live next door the just being there for people is priceless. Its not like government will see you rebuilding your house and bring you a hot cup of tea when you look worn out while for a private citizen that would be a minimum effort.

The obvious question is why haven't US law makers moved in for the kill with so many for-profit-non-profits? I think the answer is probably as obvious as the question.

If there is anything I would like to see my taxes used for that would be it.

All that means is that there are many worse charities.

I tried to look into it one time and find things written by people who watched from up close. It made me physically ill long before I looked at any substantial number of them.

I think the usual formula is to "pay" the CEO 200 k and spending the rest on ever larger promotion cycles.

What is needed in the west is a huge tax on charities and other non-profits to be entirely used to monitor their activities. Then we need to write draconian laws forcing them to insure and guarantee delivery.

Any sign of failure should result in persecution and the entire staff replaced - since we have plenty of volunteers.

We need to raise the standards like that to the point where government can safely pump funds into the mechanism when a situation calls for it.

I don't want to be called, receive letters and fill out paper work. I have better things to do. I'd much rather spend 50 bucks in [extra] tax for aid than suffering 2 hours of promotion to fund promotion every year.

When is gates going to provide drinking water to the entire world? Never? Then lets put him in prison and salvage the fund.

You would think text documents work wonderfully but weirdest parts of html [to me] are...

1) the rendering of things outside the viewport. The way wrapping of divs and lines works it seems impossible to make it render the way pdf did from day 1(?) I don't even know if there is a maximum length for pdf but in html you really should try to stay under 20 000 lines. I know, it seems like I'm splitting hairs here, but before the early 90's you could easily scroll though the entire memory of the system as if it was a single document. The amount of code was kind of a lot smaller than the infinite scroll web page requesting pre-cut chunks of xml or json where you get to manually measure the size of elements then get to do crazy calculations with the scroll offset if a new element needs to be inserted above the stuff the user is looking at.

And 2) not having a nice way of doing a reference section summarizing the stuff linked in a text kind of ruins the joy of having links in the text. One ends up building a kind of disposable experience if the text is long enough.

Combined, it's like having a pile of pages that are all the entry point. This is lovely for short reads but far from what books use to be.

I suppose the ultimate creation is one such article that promises everyone a fire breathing pony with laser eyes in the soon to follow up.

When you write one, be sure to rage at the thing everyone loves and to suggest abolishing it - to be replaced by that pony you will get in the next episode!

I for one am all ready to be disappointed by this holy grail of subscribe baiting.

"the market distribution of wealth patently does not reward in proportion to how hard-working people are, or how much of a contribution they make to society."

I've always wondered why we collectively defend this unproductive distribution.

The best example to me are jobs where few serve many thousands of people making it so that charging 2 or 3 cents extra would add up to a relative enormous salary. But in stead people are paid minimum wage while almost no one thinks it is idiotic.

Would you ask the consumer for a raise so that the pack of cookies would cost 1.02 in stead of 99 cents I think few wold protest. I would have a hard time taking those who do seriously and their % would would have us completely ignore them in the decision making.

So much truth you get sick of hearing the truth.

I suppose I should clarify that without joking so much.

Drug addiction can be very harmful but society retaliating against the victim is endlessly worse.

Its like death by a thousand cuts, everyone seems to want to take a stab at the person as if that is going to cure them but it only makes them use more. They have to hang out with criminals to buy their fix and become one themselves to finance it.

A drug addict can be successful and have a happy life but only if no one finds out. When people do it triggers a kind of social death spiral.

You get the proverbial guy drinking a liter of coffee then smoking a cigar with a glass of whiskey at 11 am ranting about drugs as if the drug user is the embodiment of evil on earth.

I work 7 days most of the weeks but its physical labor. (the mind is reserved for personal use) I've convinced myself that the joy of relaxing depends on how hard you've worked and that the longer you relax the less enjoyable it gets. You pretty much have to get back to work asap.

I stay productive by eliminating idle time between tasks. Switching should be seamless. If at any time you don't know what you are going to do after you've done the thing you are doing you are doing it wrong.

My coworkers all work harder than I do. End of the shift I've done just as much but they are totally worn out (when I go to my next job)

I do procrastinate for a total of 20 min or so by spending excessive attention on details. This amuses me greatly specially when it infuriates coworkers.

It is like a sport, the work it self is not important it is all about the experience. If I ever get bored with this routine I take 3 or 12 months off right at that very moment. The thought is very comforting. No way I'm going to push it into burnout.

These type of articles are always shit, I expected it to be shit but clicked the link anyway. Imagine my surprise when it wasn't shit.

Now if only implementation didn't terrify me.... hah...

The big "trick" described seems to be an instance of: You are the product of your environment if you like it or not. There is very little you can do to fight its influences. The environment is there and you are becoming it. The only conscious remedy is to make the environment into what you want to be.

I think the article provides the means to do a check list that could convince companies to allow remote work.

If you strip out the legacy cruft it should be much faster. Reduce it to just the components used!

If I understood properly: yes, I do share the bitterness.

<troll> Look at us introduce this great new lang! It will potentially get rid of 99.99% of the current web developers and prevent any future script kiddies from getting in the game!

Behold the speed of our sealed box environment little jimmy!

Stay tuned for next weeks episode of Tech%20Elitism where we cover DRM for the web and public discourse policing!

Put a vm in the browser!

I haven't done it in years but I'm 87.4% certain that you can put a html file in the local folder and hardcode the relative paths. It requires some non-web software to populate it with data but since most of it is static it should work just fine?

I use to rip torrent websites by de-paginating their browsable tables of things to hold 2000 entries each and saving it as .html. The search engine got with some dumb ajax thingy that would just perform a full text search on the link.textContent.

small print: The browser would still "download" the files before you could open them in other applications.

But I'm not sure if this local file access "security hazard" got patched.

I think it made sense since html email was much like html on the web. Who knows, maybe in the future people will think it strange that the email reader had an editor to send mail?

I think it is fair to say that not forcing people to have a web authoring tool that reminds them they are the author contributed greatly to the new web of walled gardens.

Output scales with design, size, location and height. With "beyond some height" I mean really tall buildings would need just a tiny propeller. Micro turbines are nice for a very different reason. -- "Unfortunately, micro wind turbines deliver hardly enough energy to power a light bulb." The benefit from not siting in complete darkness starts at about 1 Watt, the example produces considerably more. -- "Payback time: 50 to 750 years" The interesting bit here is the static world assumption. No one can tell how manufacturing, wages/income, the economy, geopolitics, climate, migration, food, etc will change. There is lots of room for the grid to go down and it kinda already regularly does in the best of locations one time every 10 years. (atm the entire grid in Puerto Rico is down) -- While it would be nice to have a heater or a cooker small devices like led bulbs and radios are valuable when the power is out.

Beyond some height wind makes total sense.

Drugs cause psychopathic behavior in those who didn't take them.

It is all because of a self-enslavement formula where it is magically expected to have every angle of everyones life managed by others.

I say we force them to smoke the weed and calm them the fuck down. It's just better for them.

The term has been repurposed into philo-historianism. IOW A modern philosopher is someone who studies real philosophers. Look how the field is void of any original idea and at its endless citation of dead people.

Far to much value is attributed to "what they said" rather than the mind set that made them say it.

This could happen to any field and to some benevolent and productive extend it does. We normally put the word history or historian behind or in front of it like computer science history, art history, the history of foobar.

I have to ask: how does one write the "hello world" of philosophy? And please don't cite me a manual.

If your project involves picking a default likable font for others to use it makes sense.

Also, in the larger scope of things all the "good enough"'s at times add up to something awful. Had we perfected everything the bothering wouldn't exist. You would look at the font and click some button to have or have not become it part of your collection.

Provided some conditioning, mine is actually readable :D

http://synesthesia.go-here.nl

(the obvious: 3 height allows for a lot more lines than 5)

The success of censorship is measured in how much you don't know about its topics.

having stuff do stuff for you is useful until it doesnt

what/where is the something?

REMEMBER TO USE CAPS!

I just invented this for that.

Even Shorter Syndication [ESS] AND No Nonsense Outline [NNO]

http://go-here.nl/ess-and-nno

Ill try a simplified explanation:

An NNO file is the end result of aggregation that can be used for the next session but is primal intend is publication/sharing.

It it s a comma separated text document that starts with a unix build time followed by a sorted list of items 1) feed url, 2) minutes before build, 3) title checksum

For example:

  1503411304088,
  http://example.com/rss.xml,223432,27,
  http://example2.com/rss.xml,453223,44,
  http://example3.com/rss.xml,5432242,125,
  http://example4.com/rss.xml,23143231,241

The file is build after the aggregator aggregates the users hundreds, thousands or millions of ESS, RSS and/or Atom subscriptions while reducing the result list by a configured amount. (say 3000)

When published a 2nd user can load the NNO into their aggregator which should fetch the top feed items listed in the NNO until they have a screen full of results. (scrolling loads more)

The 2nd aggregator can then proceed to fetch that users own subscriptions and/or parse additional NNO files into the result set.

When done they can publish their own NNO file to be used the same way.

Ideally the aggregators maintain their own manually unsubscribed feed list and implement a configurable filter like a word and a word combination filter, a Bayes filter, a machine learning implementation or some other filters. The news items displayed should have an indication about their origin (which NNO file) and they could provide an auto translate link or do inline-translation of headlines/articles.

Like you suggested, the point of the entire exercise is to have people access the internet without a multinational man in the middle.

I also coin ESS in the document, it is not required to make NNO work:

An ESS is a tiny comma separated text document with a unxi build date, an url for an RSS or Atom feed then, for each news item, 1) a publication date that is an offset in minutes from the build date and 2) a tiny check sum.

For example:

  1503411304088,http://example.com/rss.xml,
  0,27,
  3600,22,
  7890,142,
  23421,17

Like RSS is much smaller than the HTML document the ESS is much smaller than the RSS. The example is 71 bytes long. That is considerably smaller than a killobyte.

I would describe the problem with RSS with an analogy with juggling chain saws. :) When you toss the chain into the air it needs to land into your hand at the right moment for you to be able to toss it again.

When you request an RSS feed (or more like x per second) the results arrive with a random offset. The parser at times just sits there waiting for something to do then it is drowned in results arriving all at the same time. If that pile is large enough additional results arrive faster than the old ones can be parsed into the result set. Parsing feeds is not trivial the way it is with ESS. There are multiple formats (RSS and Atom), there can be multiple link elements with different attributes, the pubdate (or updated) has to be dug out and is not a number and lastly the feed can be quite huge.

With ESS you just take a substring (up to the first comma) and compare the number to a desired age or your oldest item.

If you or anyone else is interested in non-corporate technology just for the sake of making things great again feel free to contact me: gdewilde@gmail.com

Thanks,