nanidin

Did you visit the link provided? There is clearly a "Room type" classification, which would be used to indicate that you're renting a room in a house, a whole house, a bed in a room, or a couch in a room, for example. And there is also a "Bed type" classification to specify the type of bed you will be sleeping in.

Did you pay with a credit card? When companies try to blow me off like this and I used a credit card, the next email usually goes as follows:

> I'm sorry that we have been unable to resolve this issue. If {demand for refunded amount} is not processed by {date one week from now} I will begin the chargeback process with my credit card issuer {bankname} as I did not receive what I paid for. Please keep me updated if anything changes.

This puts the pinch on both the vendor that processed the transaction (since they're going to be the ones getting their merchant account dinged, and since they're going to lose whatever money was charged to the card + a fee for the chargeback) and the party ultimately responsible (wanna bet that AirBnB isn't going to be happy with your host for causing them to lose several hundred dollars on a transaction they only stood to gain $54 from in the first place?) Things should get resolved pretty quickly once you step outside of the box & assert whatever rights you have under your credit card agreement.

I've had to do this with Agoda over a reservation made in Thailand. And I used to sell stuff on Ebay - no one pulled this on me, but I know firsthand how much companies like PayPal hate it when their merchants get chargebacks.

If you're going to go as far as running it in an emulator... then why not just write something that works in process and avoids the whole visual feedback / physical input loop altogether? It's how bots are written for MMO's like WOW.

You won't be restricted to physical displays anymore - what if your alternate desktops floated off to the side / above / whatever your current "display"?

Seems realistic - not everyone's internal clock matches with the 24 hour day. This guy let himself live on a 28 hour day, but the tradeoff was that instead of 7 chunked out pieces of living per week, he had 6. So when is the weekend? Still 2 days, or just 1 now? It presents an interesting set of problems.

I don't have the ability to downvote, but this type of meta/complaining is exactly what I would downvote.

Indeed - we were developing on & evaluated on a homogeneous cluster :)

We provided build scripts and source. The extra credit was for fastest execution time.

I assume you're payed based on final results, not based on source. Not so crazy of a concept - whoever delivered the best results got rewarded for it.

I was in a parallel programming class where the fastest correct assignments got significant extra credit boosts. Compiling with the intel compiler with optimizations turned on (vs gcc) was often enough to make the difference in getting that extra credit by a significant margin.

By leaving if they don't agree (assuming you're a good developer.)

These are also examples of tampering with the radio, just more obvious (to me at least) than modifications to the actual functionality of the device.

Clear is probably a requirement so that the guards can see inside and be reasonably sure it hasn't been tampered with, for example, to communicate back to the outside world.

If the result of telling coworkers is so undesirable, why not keep it between yourself and your immediate manager?

The final uninsured cost being closer to $100 :(

IIRC we couldn't ask about things like kids because it's illegal to base a hiring decision on whether someone has kids or is going to have kids - a bad actor could decide not to hire you based on this because kids equate to more insurance premiums, and having kids equates to maternity leave.

If we make a decision not to hire someone and we asked that question and they wanted to stir up trouble, they could try to build a case based on us asking that question. Would they succeed? Probably not. But it would cost the company a lot more than just not asking the question.

It kind of sucks, because there are lots of good schools in the area, but we couldn't bring them up unless the candidate did first.

At Garmin, they pull in non-interviewers that have interview training (for legal reasons, don't want to ask the wrong questions like do they have kids, etc.) to eat lunch with candidates. There's no pressure on the candidate, and no pressure from HR for any kind of report, unless the candidate does something weird that would indicate they're not a fit for the company.

When I did lunches, I would make it clear that they could ask any type of questions or just hang out.

When I eat at my desk, it is because eating at my desk means eating in a relaxed quiet environment without lots of people around.

You're making a huge assumption that people eating at their desks are doing work while eating.

I'd imagine the fun parts of driving a ferrari aren't really legal on public roads in the first place

It's popular to hate on being a manager!

It's similar to how you'll hear people in academia refer to "industry." It's a popular thing to put down.

My biggest gripe to date about UPS: For years, they would deliver stuff to the doorstep & sign it themselves as stupid stuff like "Dr. Door."

Well one delivery this backfires when the driver takes the package to a house up the street and signs it as delivered. We check the tracking page, it says delivered. Give it a day or two, package still hasn't shown up. Alert UPS and the vendor. Eventually, the purchase was reimbursed. Maybe 2 weeks after that, the neighbor wanders down with the missing package. (This is a guy that isn't friendly towards my family because we do fireworks on the fourth of July, he holds a grudge for the rest of the year as a result.)

Anyway, ever since UPS made the error & delivered to the wrong address, they will no longer leave packages on our doorstep. We must be physically present to sign for the package - we cannot sign the slip and have them leave it the next day. Must be physically present. UPS comes at about 3pm. You can see how convenient this is.

You can sit in the house and watch as the UPS man runs up to each house on the street, drops a package, rings the bell, and runs off. But at our house, they always have to stop and wait. The delivery people must hate it as much as we do, since they have to fill out the paper slip if we're not around to answer the door at a time when most people are at work (luckily, one of us works from home now, but I can only imagine how bad the 3pm deliveries would be if that weren't the case.)

Long story short, my address is flagged (only by UPS) and someone must be physically present to receive the package. Which is a huge pain. Especially when vendors don't give you an explicit choice in the matter as much as they used to.

It depends on how you define better: In the context of the owners of a for-profit prison system, better training would result in more parole violations.

When something is expunged or sealed, is it required that that non-government entities purge the records also?

For instance, it's common for local news companies to report arrests & mugshots on their websites. I'm assuming there are similar aggregators for arrests and convictions that span larger areas than a single news company, and these are the same people that service background checks.

What obligation(if any) do they have to respect the fact that a conviction has been expunged or sealed by the courts?

Is it legally possible to FOI / subpoena / sue the NSA for records the NSA has? That could be a good weapon in the copyright infringement cases they like to throw out - probably a lot stronger link than just IP.

In javascript, the number type is just number. To truly bit shift with this method, you'd need to convert the bitwise representation into a number, perform the given operation, handle the corner case of odd numbers when dividing, and the convert it back into some representation of bits.

Trying to judge people with questions like this seems like a misguided endeavor. Yes, it's probably valuable to know that bitshifting is roughly equivalent to *2 and /2. But that's more like trivia - the chances you'll actually use that in real life is really low. I've had to work with people that think bitshifting is an appropriate optimization for division/multiplication by even numbers. I then have to explain overflows, underflows, and the fact that the compiler will compile it to shifts if appropriate anyway, so don't sacrifice readability in the name of micro-optimization.

Is that really code for "merchants who sold something to a fraudulent card will have that money taken back, and effectively lose the merchandise they sold"? In my experience (several years ago, through PayPal though) that was the case.

Any public API should be documented. I can spend all day reading your code trying to code against your API, or I can read the API docs & be on my merry way. When/if there is a bug, I can fix it so it adheres to the specified purpose/pre/post conditions.

Enable 2 factor authentication. IIRC Coinbase doesn't use it per user action, but at least having it has the potential to save you some headaches.

I could see the Airbus lobby pushing heavily for something like this :)

But your email server would only need to send links to images that are gigabytes apiece, and that are generated procedurally, no?

The true bottleneck would be the pipe between your procedurally generated image server & Google's server.

Hmm - so we can flood Google's cache by sending an email full of links to procedurally generated images?