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> A question to everyone: What would a good application process look like?

I work in a top company with infamously difficult interview. I made major contributions to several opensource projects that modern tech runs on. I can easily show a clean standalone pull request attributed to me that introduces complex multithreaded code. That code runs daily on millions instances.

Why the hell do I need to spend hours answering “what a mutex is”? Also, understand that a lot of stuff is much less obvious and clear cut (e.g. how HTTP protocol works) for me than for your engineer. They only saw the basic case. For me the answer will be “it depends”.

Please, respect the candidate time and experience.

As a proud Republican, you calling some point of view "far right" does not automatically invalidate it, no matter what you think. Dismissing alternative opinions makes you seem bigotted, not more intelligent.

Blood letting and lobotomies were believed to be "life-saving" and grounded in science. I am willing to bet there had been quite a few kids with mental issues that received lobotomy back then would end up getting "gender affirming" care nowadays.

Based on detrans stories online I do not believe these procedures are "voluntary". Coercion seems common. At least that's what had been said in Congress under the oath.

Also, why didn't you ask me if I call all medicines "a poison" - or only one for cancer patients?

I always thought radio was less damaging overall. I had been a caregiver for a family member with cancer and I recall radiation was causing burns, nausea, fatigue - but chemo was 100x all that. Chemo accumulates over weeks (she had one session/week) - first month is "ok, we will make it through it". Then it becomes unbearable.

1950s: "This teenager girl is "hysterical", let's put an ice pick through her eye socket" 2020s: "This teenager girl is depressed, lets cut off her breasts and pump her full of testosterone"

SEC. Yes, I mixed up to US 3 letter acronyms.

Burden of proof would be on FCC.

I remember there was at least one video game (some turn-based tactics game, don't recall the name) that had Access as a savegame format. It was very convenient to edit the save file.

I think every country has recognized map of other countries. E.g. US has officially recognized borders of Ukraine.

That’s exactly what Russia is trying to do to my people. Erase language, identity and such.

“Reality” had always been fragmented. People across the mountain range would have different beliefs, measurement units and traditions. E.g. talk to people from different countries which food is healthy or what to do to prevent cold.

Ha. I barely recall details (it was 30 years ago) but I remember there was a trick to somehow run Windows 3.x to make the game believe your system had more RAM that it actually did. Don't remember details, but remember it _mostly worked_ (swapping was an issue and some games would not work). This - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160328-00/?p=93... - explains it.

I believe I had to do that to run some games in SVGA mode. It might've been KKND or some other game...

Things like Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ and such are packages and not the products. Think distinction between Linux distro and Linux kernel.

E.g. my former team used to ship "IDE" - that is, use new project wizard to setup your folder, use editor to write the code, press a button to build, debug and profile. We also shipped standalone "visual profiler" - that had custom configuration for window layout/toolbars and stripped down list of included plugins. You open an executable, profile it, see per-line metrics in the read-only editor (that was a complete editor from the IDE, just in read-only mode).

So, does dropping a bunch of plugins (that noremally should not activate unless used) suddenly convert sluggish IDE into fast editor.

I feel like the negative perception of IDEs usually comes from busy UI. Devteam needs to balance discoverability (e.g. adding UI for configuring build and debug) and perceptions of the lightweightness.

What is an IDE? As someone who worked on IDEs approx between 2003 and 2014 (I did not like the market afterwards, commercial IDEs I basically impossible now unless you are legacy, like JetBrains).

What is an IDE? Personally, I consider IDE an integrated suite of source editor, visual debugger, build system. E.g. I put a breakpoint, push a button, it builds, runs and hits a breakpoint. Other tools (SCM integration, profiler integration, design tools) are an add-on.

So, is Bash an IDE? I think pretty much every modern editor allows setting up macros so it is possible to trigger build/run GDB from within the editor. Does author have an issue with Vim, Emacs and Sublime? What is the difference between Sublime and VSCode?

I started working after the collapse of RAD (rapid application development, think Delphi/VB) and model-driven tools (where you do UML and generate code from model). I am very strongly against those tools, don't think they can be done well. But those are category separate from IDE :) E.g. Rational Rose - could generate code from UML and parse the code to UML, but no code writing inside.

Another thing I take huge offence is people dumping on Eclipse. It was a revolutionary product that disrupted the space. It was blazingly fast compared to Java IDEs of the time (JBuilder, Visual Cafe and such) and had refactoring support comparable to IntelliJ (that was a paid product). It got destuffed at a critical junction (complete rearchitecture from Eclipse3 to E4) and saw crappy plugins (and Java really lost popularity since). But it was an amazing product 24 years ago.

Fun fact - I added a pretty feature complete WS connection in Node core (https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/src/inspector_socke...) 7 years ago (it is well-tested - every debug/profiling session goes through it). There's no public API for it because I did not want to deal with politics.

There's rudimentary HTTP server as well (no TLS and such though). All in C++. Should be fairly fast, based on expertise of the Chromium team.

Just use gRPC.

I am a successful software engineer (20+ years, worked in companies like NVIDIA, had been at Google for the last decade) and I have dyslexia. I was also diagnosed with ADHD a couple years ago but I do not want to take medications as they did not improve my quality of life.

Syntax/semantic highlight and animations are the only reason I am in this profession. I do not "read code" - I mostly "parse" the shape of it, relying on identations and colors to grasp what is going on. I loved when I worked with Java that Eclipse and IntelliJ refactoring support enabled me to quickly restrusture code the way I can easily understand it.

Uneducated people are not idiots. Coming from peasant family, this infuriates me. My peasant grandma never read anything except Bible but was among the wisest and most respected people in her village. Us, her grandkids, are now working high-knowledge jobs in top companies in the world.

Cheaper. Simpler electronics. Less memory requirement (text mode only stored character codes, with the font in the ROM). Not all computers did graphics.

Clarification: those people do not have choice between good and bad job. They either have a bad job or no job at all.

To me your response sounds very much like "let them eat cake". Would they be better off without any job at all if those companies did not exist?

It's just the state of the web. Google search uses metrics for the web sites (number of links, etc) so Reddit threads do not rank high compared to real web sites.

Apple has the volume. Random search shows they have roughly a quarter of the world smartphone sales (I also would expect Apple users to upgrade more frequently). Apple has just several SoC packages with the same cores across all its products. Samsung (2nd is sales volumes) has many more product lines and uses vastly different silicon.

I'm a part of a medium-sized team working on a popular infrastructure open-source project. There was no impact on our team, so it is not like Google hates open-source now.

Exactly, like they split movie theaters from the movie studios or car dealers from car manufacturers.

It is really nice if you actually work on site of company that holds your visa. A lot of H1s work in consulting companies that place them with the clients. These people are second-class citizens in the office, have much lower salary and less benefits. I've seen a lot of people who came to a company from some low-cost of living state - and being posted in California with the salary that is calculated based on that state. Also, those people with their families get tossed across the States really unceremoniously.

I am 100% certain you have a selection bias. Imagine if you worked in Tata/Infosys and started asking around.

From my experience most h1s are imported by vendors. I've seen a lot of really small "consulting companies" who does this. I had heard over and over again that most regular companies are terrified of having to deal with H1s, due to extra cost and lots of uncertainty.

I would seriously doubt that most H1 workers come from US colleges. It is a common knowledge that most H1s go to Tata/Infosys and friends.

Also, I would wonder: 1. How much of those foreign graduates went to college solely for a visa. 2. I would also expect that those graduates have much lower expectations from the life style. Young men don't really need a lot of money and have a lot of time to spend at work.

As ex-H1 immigrant I will dare to explain.

Companies are paying absolute minimum they can. It is only rational.

The problem is with expectations. A lot of H1 workers are used to a much lower quality of life than native workers. US graduate would want to have a 40 hour work-week, separate bedroom, 401k and such. For a foreign worker from a less reach region 401k and medical are not a requirement, sharing a bedroom with 3 other guys is not an issue. Working round a clock is fine as long as you can send money to your family back in the old country. Oh, also in US you can afford a car that will make you look super-successful on social media.

Do you really want to drive down quality of life for everybody.