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I don’t think it’s an unreasonable expectation to have a candidate write some code in a screening interview for a software engineering position.

When a candidate flat out refuses to, then this is a huge red flag.

It’s not a perfect system, but it’s the best one we have.

I don’t agree with your whiteboarding assertion.

I run an engineering group at Microsoft in Australia, we have a reasonable though not (IMO) difficult screening / interview process.

However despite this, we find it hard to get candidates through our pipeline - even to the point where interviewers have been told "I have 15 years of programming experience, why do you expect me to code now". Now, I'm positive we could improve the screening and process we have in place for this - but by the same token it's not terrible... Yes, MSFT is not a FAANG and maybe there is some selection bias in the people who apply - but we also do manage to attract and retain good people who get through the process.

We also offer a competitive package for Sydney, with the ability to take that and work remote from anywhere in Australia, if anyone is looking for a SWE role :)

TC (total comp) does not include super - it's made up of base, stock and bonus. It allows you to somewhat compare against sites.

Google Australia health insurance is about ~10k/year for a family (2 adults, 2 kids) to replicate outside - BUPA Corporate Platinum 90.

Sorry, it's Australia so it's all NBN...

Awesome work - I ran into an issue with spaces in the TZ_LIST config and sent a PR https://github.com/oz/tz/pull/14

I agree - I already use an extension for emacs key bindings that mostly works.

With such a rich extension ecosystem I'd rather see them invest in enabling extensions to do this, rather than adding the functionality themselves.

This depends on the hiring manager and the org - I'm hiring for a couple of roles in Australia and have explicitly marked them as remote (in AU).

Yeah I've used a hololens for a building walkthrough (showing a new fitout) and whilst it was a cool experience, the resolution was really low, and the field of view was tiny - just a small square in each eye.

The latency tracking was on par with other headsets, which I consider quite good.

Disclaimer: I work for MSFT, opinions my own, yadda yadda yadda.

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Yes, thank you for the addition.

The book was the first thing I read after we received the diagnosis for my son - although a friend had recommended it prior to this.

It also helped me as person feel less different and accepting of myself (I do not have an ASD diagnosis).

For anyone interested in the history of ASD, I highly recommend the book NeuroTribes [1] - I read this shortly after my son was diagnosed with ASD and it goes through a lot of history, up to the most recent DSM V definition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroTribes

+1 to Swiss water decaf.

I use Campos (in Australia) decaf, though I blend that with their regular blend.

1kg of decaf to 500g of their regular blend, giving me a 1/3 strength that I grind and use in either an aeropress or v60.

I moved to this, as near the start of the lockdown / wfh here I was drinking 4-5 regular aeropresses in a day with the caffeine impacting my sleep.

This new mix is much better - I have my ritual and nice coffee, and i can go off it for days without hitting the withdrawal.

The policy was not dropped, the terminal level was just moved to L4.

I’m a Microsoft employee and I run Linux (with a win10 VM for those times I absolutely need it).

I'm in Australia and just ordered one off of Amazon AU (fulfilled by Amazon US) - AU$157 delivered.

I just complete my 9th class (GA) and have really enjoyed most of it. AI4R was great, but so was Adv Operating Systems and High Perf Computer Arch.

In zsh you can C-x, C-e and it will open whatever is on the command line in $EDITOR.

When you save it the changes will be on the command line.

As someone who is constantly (it seems) looking for new ways to take notes / todos this is a very cool solution.

Using a get request to write the one-line notes is really nice - though do you handle any sort of auth with this? Can FF be configured to handle that with the shortcuts?

I love the idea of running this at home and being able to access it from anywhere - and it being a simple webpage.

Edit: I just took a look at the source and no, no auth - though for home-network constrained things this could still be cool.

I like the novel approach to it :)

Possibly - but in my case the windows was just floating on top of all of my other windows, and whilst I could move and resize it, I could not move it like other windows.

So popping out a new firefox window that operates like a normal window would be great, but the current solution seems like the worst of both worlds.

Also on an unrelated note, seeing your username we used to work together - hope all is going well :)

I completely agree - I use i3 and was interested to see that this just pops up a floating window over all of my others.

When reading the feature my thought was that it would be a floating window _within_ the browser window - which I think I would have preferred.

I've used tonic for a number of personal projects and quite liked it.

In a European office I was in they added signing them as a part of promo to L6.

Almost, "a good sig" is a good signaler - the operator of the radio. It takes a bit of skill and when you get one on each end that can get into a good rhythm it's fantastic.

Yes, the fire mission (FM) will be opened by the FO (Forward Observer), and then they'll drop the callsigns - so something like this:

2 this is 21, fire mission battery, over. 21 this is 2, fire mission battery, out. # from here they will go to abbreviated callsigns, so just stating theirs (it has been a while since I've done the FO's sequence of orders so it may be out a bit :)). 21, grid 12345678, range 1000, bearing 3759, over. # and now they drop them completely so 2 will respond with the readback: grid 12345678, range 1000, bearing 3759, out.

I don't find it that obtrusive and it's likely it would have taken me a while to notice it if it wasn't pointed out in this version and in 76 threads.

When I click it I also get the address bar drop-down with other common addresses in it, which is many many times larger than the small expansion of the address bar - unless I am missing the gripe here.

I don't know why it was needed to expand like that, but it certainly doesn't seem like an egregious use of space to me.

Correct. I was in the Royal Australian Artillery corps for a number of years, and RATEL procedures (across all corps) drill this into you.

However it is unlikely to occur in practice - the artillery battery will (generally) be on a separate radio net, and the proword will only be applicable if you're in an active fire mission - though it's good to be safe. My wife still gets frustrated with my use of SAY AGAIN.

When you get a good sig on each end, the speed of fire mission comms is a thing of beauty - and once the mission is opened both ends will drop all callsigns.

I read v1 of The Book and then Programming Rust, and I found the latter to be better suited to the way I absorb things.

Both are great and I still refer to The Book (and Programming Rust) from time to time.

I'd be really keen to pick up v2 of Programming Rust.

Google sets pay on local market rate only, not cost of living - they're very specific about this. And generally, the local market rate tends to lag the CoL increases,

I've been using Apple laptops since the G4 Ti Powerbook (in ~2003 I think) - and have generally been on a ~2-4 year upgrade cycle. Last February (~15mo ago) I went from my 2015 13" MBP to a new Macbook Air - they had touch ID, no touchbar, I didn't mind the keyboard and the performance with similar to the old MBP I had.

Now I'm not sure if it's Catalina or the hardware itself - but this machine became almost unusably slow, coupled with some issue where it would not hold a charge - I would routinely open it up in the morning and it would give me the dead battery icon. On this particular issue I tried to dig into it, and something was waking it from sleep every ~5 minutes or so - it was quite evident on the power usage graph, and I found some others online with similar stories.

And even on top of this the machine would occasionally panic and reboot - I don't think I ever saw my old MBP do that, and I'm unsure if this is a function of the hardware or the OS update.

Either way I got pretty frustrated with it, as it had moved into the realm of how I remembered linux laptops - a month ago I finally made the call to get ride of it (read: give it to the wife) and get a new laptop.

I picked up a dell xps13, turned off the touchscreen in the bios and loaded up my debian netinst and began the process. Immediately I was hit with the wifi in this device needing the non-free drivers sigh just like I remember installing linux on a laptop...

Either way, I got it done and I'm actually really happy with the outcome - most things just work (wifi, media keys, keyboard backlight) straight out of the box - the only thing lacking is the fingerprint reader, which apparently Dell is releasing drivers for. The thing isn't perfect - battery life is ~5-6 hours (firefox, editor, terminals) where I think I was getting 8-9 at least on the MBA, and this is far from the advertised time under Windows.

So all in all, I feel that there has been a significant decline in the experience on Apple hardware over the last couple of years - as I said above I'm not sure if this is hardware, software or both. Another anecdata point: the wife picked up a new iMac when they were released pre-Catalina - she loved it, however after the Catalina update she has had endless problems - the filesystem reporting different amounts of free space depending on how you view it, Photos not loading, the iTunes migration has caused endless headaches... So whilst I'm unsure of the hardware quality, I'm sure this is in part due to the changes in Catalina.

This is the exact same though process I went through when looking - I would love to experience Stanford courses - but the single course being nearly the entire cost of the GT one...

I'm on subject #7 of the course this term - overall it has been a pretty positive experience, though you need to research the subjects you're taking on - OMSCentral is critical here.

I've so far avoided any subjects that require group work, and I'm really hoping to keep it that way.