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Wish there were actual examples of each one instead of just an explanation. UI is cool but UX is poor.

This is crazy. I used to work on the engineering-side of this on phones (CMAS). The amount of requirements from the government and the carriers for the UI/UX were ridiculous (how the messages are precisely displayed to the users, requirements regarding data scenarios). To give an example, it took about 300 hours to verify each release.

How is it possible that they don't have standards while the OEMs do?

Don't programming bootcamp classes do this kind of thing too? I feel like this just increases the probability for a student to do well on the interview. If you read their intro slide, it clearly states "Level the playing field between applicants who may learn these things through informal mentoring in their friend network, and those who would otherwise not know this stuff"

It's kind of sad that there's a trick that needs to be learned to solve technical interviews without testing the candidates' inherent knowledge, but at the moment, this could seem like the most logical way to get a good job for a Stanford CS student with no knowledge on technical interviews.

I'll add on that this is an absurd lawsuit, in a music theory perspective. However, my legal knowledge is shabby.

Are there any precedents regarding cases like these? If, for some peculiar reason, Radiohead wins this case, then I can imagine they'll have the ability to just sue anyone that becomes popular that uses a similar chord progression / melody. Considering that "original music" is almost non-existent in pop music, what's going to happen then?

I'm glad they transitioned into Rust. OS classes I've taken before were nowhere this cool.

Apologies for asking but how does a company like MS steal thousands from you? Enterprise SW?

Haven as in people join JUST for their visas and green cards. This also means they'll leave once they meet their objective.

I slightly edited my comment. It's a valid claim and I totally agree that the keyboard is atrocious for me as well.

But products aren't just made overnight. I can almost certainly guarantee that these issues came up before release, but they decided that the cost to fix it wasn't justifiable enough. I personally see a lot of problems with that but I'm just letting you know from my experience working at an OEM, Google, and a huge Electronics company.

These arguments are made for cell phones all the time too. The consensus is that it's impossible to please everyone.

At least for phones, and this might be similar to laptops, we made decisions on everything based on intensive research, usability testing, and profitability. Companies can't simply cater to specific demographics and hope for the best. For example, the keyboard quality on the MBP could be a valid concern for some, but it's possible that it was a justifiable solution for them based on cost-reduction. (a worthy-risk, in their opinion. not mine, IMHO). It could be that the keyboard is perfectly fine for most people.

Finding a delicate balance between every factor is a tough challenge, and I know for a fact that following every advice on the internet is not a solution.

I love this! Hope no one turns this into some SaaS startup though :(

I've known people who worked at Snapchat and told me it was a haven for Visa sponsorship. This isn't a negative but it's possible that turnover will be extremely high once these employees get their visas/greencards.

We are definitely not the target users. They definitely have a strong product that appeals to a large demographic.

"Simple" solutions: build a time machine or cure every cancer. Name these devices after your name. With all the money you'll gain, name a bunch of cities and islands after your name.

Just an aside but I love Nakamura and his commentaries!

They don't have zero computer education or infrastructure though. Although the details will never be known, they've been known to have a pretty strong education system. I know this example can be considered moot, but their IMO (International Math Olympiad) performance has been stellar, so if they can apply the same methodology to Computer Science and Education, it's possible that they have some skilled "hackers."

I doubt FB will change how their feed works because of this publicized incident. Perhaps Zuck will make a post about how they'll try and improve because they care about people.

I know a lot of people that work at Facebook and they're all highly intelligent. It's a great place to work at but incidents like this makes me question if their talent is all being put to good use.

The algorithm has definitely a lot more "machine" learning to do to prevent these incidents from happening again. Close friend, related to death and health, gofundme campaign all scream that the statuses should've been shown. (if FB can be so good at showing relevant ads, why can it show relevant feed)

Android Studio has a git UI built-in so it's really useful.

Similar situation here - positive reinforcement helped me.

Every morning, I'd reward myself with something that I like - sometimes I watched a good TV show, sometimes I went to the gym and worked out. I also have a girlfriend but I guess that's a different point. Anyway, I just found stuff I like to do. I eventually associated waking up with happiness.

YMMV. Just what worked for me - try it out if you want.

Actually, have you seen matches between SF without opening books vs SF with opening books? This isn't true anymore as far as I'm know.

I think even with unlimited APM, humans can still beat AI using cheese strategies, like an undetected cannon rush, since you can't really micro your workers against cannons (the projectile isn't dodge-able like the one from siege tanks).

Otherwise, you make a fair point and that video is amazing. AI vs AI strategy with unlimited APM would be very exciting to watch.

I doubt the man resorted to extortion. 100k seems pretty reasonable for the severity of this issue and given Uber's budget it could've been a reasonable initial offer.

Uber paid this Florida man 100K as a bug bounty - and the secrecy was just part of the deal. My understanding is that bug bounties usually come with a reasonable disclosure process but in this case, Uber did not want this because of the severity of the issue, which in my opinion is wrong because of the potential impact of the bug. In any case, I wouldn't be surprised if there are similar cases that happened to other big companies like Google, Facebook.

Edit: According to the disclosure process on https://www.hackerone.com/disclosure-guidelines, there's nothing about disclosures lasting this long.

I know several top-level mathematicians (International Math Olympiad medalists) and not all of them are working as Quants. Some of them compose music, some of them are working as machine learning experts, VC funds, etc. They may be slight outliers but it's possible to do whatever you want as long as you posses the intellect and drive. I think Mathematics definitely help with developing your logic skills that are applicable to anything.

You're right that it's pointless. The paper has the game with Stockfish so that's good enough for me.

I'm not in the OEM industry anymore but I'm aware that 845 has been in development for months. It'll be interesting to see how Project Treble turns out with 845.

It briefly became popular in the otaku culture from an anime called Hunter X Hunter.

Did Magnus play against this? Is there a way we can see the game?

I noticed that the application requires disclosure of metrics related to fundraising. Is this a major consideration for approval? Are there any specific things are you looking for? (hyper-growth, good product, high revenue, etc)

I admire them - they use 20+ SaaS products, and most of them are extremely useful for automation leading to saving tons of time and effort. Unfortunately, they're quite expensive for people just starting out with zero funding.

Just to clarify: CRSP is great but not the gold standard. A lot of big comapnies use services from Xignite,CaptialIQ and ICE Data.