rnovak

I'm sorry but why do you think you know more about this guys' experience than him? This is like when I'd get calls from a delivery driver telling me I didn't know my own address... Plenty of companies will do custom setups for big clients.

> Software engineers have a NEGATIVE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE.

> land a job within a year of actively seeking

A year lead time is what a negative rate looks like?

Not everyone believes that romantic relationships are "one of the best things about being a human." Just because you believe it, doesn't mean everyone else does, or that you should imply that people are somehow "less than" for feeling otherwise.

As to your other comment, have you considered people who have mental illnesses/disorders? Their lifestyle (in every sense of the word) would not permit a romantic relationship, too bad they can't just "find another one".

The second the interviewer changed the parameters people would start complaining that they were "Setup to fail." These threads commonly illuminate that interviewers simply cannot win, regardless of how genuine they are.

Personally, I don't bother. I went the route of requesting candidates go through a work sample project that I spent a considerable amount of time trying to standardize across all the languages relevant to the role. In the end though, management wasn't for me, and so I ended changing roles for something non-managerial

Okay, give us a generalized example? everyone who (appears) to care about being empathetic while at the same testing for these skills is continually asking for better options.

If you're hiring a point guard, isn't testing their reflexes by tossing them a basketball a reasonable approach?

The point is that solving problems, either by inventing new computer science, or more likely formulating a hybrid of known algorithms requires some semblance of problem solving.

A genuine interviewer (and I realize several/many may not be genuine) is solely trying to figure out if the candidate has these types of reasoning skills.

Let me phrase it this way: By asking a common CS question, you'll get people who simply memorize answers/algorithms. By asking something obscure that is rarely known, you can try to get a glimpse into someone's thought process, which is infinitely more valuable than rote memorization.

What happens when you're asked to solve a problem that hasn't been solved before? By definition something you CANNOT google for

That's what I was looking for as a hiring manager.

> What is the employer putting up? Generally nothing.

Unless you've been in the shoes of a hiring manager, I'm unsure as to where this idea is coming from?

Having been a hiring manager, it is a horrible experience. Unless it's extremely naive, homework sets generally take time to come up with and formalize, and certainly take time to review the results for.

I suppose I can understand conflating the motivations of an interviewer with their employer, but it's not generally true to say that interviewers are just trying to exploit those they interview.

Unless they have a gun to your head, they aren't making you do anything. Applying/Interviewing is your choice.

I'm confused as to why anyone would think facebook's security is good? Their entire profit model is based entirely on sharing information that most people would consider private (and have no clue is being sold to third parties).

Furthermore, however, how would you design a Content Delivery system that was performant that also had the level of security/privacy that you'd consider appropriate? keep in mind that cookie/session based security requires extra network traffic and coordination, whereas a simple GET request is pretty simple.

Considering the massive amount of traffic they deal with (nearly 1B people, right?), I think their use of UUID type strings (though I don't think they're specifically UUIDs) is pretty appropriate.

I guess let me ask it this way: what threat do you feel they've left you open to?

Many people who are actually on the autism spectrum (such as myself, though technically I was diagnosed with Aspergers a long time ago) don't want your help.

I'm continually annoyed that I actually have to say "autism spectrum disorder" to describe MYSELF, lest I be called politically incorrect.

Many just want to live a normal life, and having other people (with no vested interest whatsoever) rushing to our "defense", is quite honestly more condescending than OP's original comment.

Having been on the hiring side of this, I'll note that it does require a bit of start-up cost (i.e. work) on the employer's part, if you want to standardize the process (i.e. to make sure you're giving the same exercise to every candidate, the expectations are clear and consistent, etc).

For example, I set up the project for my team in 7 different languages (Ruby, C, Python, Perl, C++, Java, Go), with the appropriate project structure, etc, for each. This took considerable work on my part, but the end result is that I can judge the output based on whatever the candidate is most comfortable in.

Granted, that's all assuming my skills in each language doesn't completely suck (hopefully).

Do you not use frameworks or anything?

CoC (Convention Over Configuration) solves most of the problem for you, since it's basically CRUD, and that is boilerplate stuff in pretty much any language.

Again, citation? What monitors are you comparing? I honestly hope you're not truly complaining that a 1080p monitor looks less sharp than a 4k or 5k display.

Also, where's your citation/article/anything that you can't get Make without installing XCode?

What?

Citations for any of these? I have 'make' installed on my mbp without XCode (along with clang, etc), and I use my mbp with 2 24" monitors all the time (in clamshell mode), and it's no less sharp than it is with a desktop.

\D is a subset of \S, so the \S accomplishes nothing (said another way, there is no character that matches \D that doesn't also match \S).

Secondly, there are very few intersecting character classes (sets) that I'm aware of, and in all cases, you could achieve the desired result more clearly in other ways.

Said another way: "AND" would just make regexes even harder to understand/approach, and that is almost always undesirable.

I completely disagree, there is a lot of semantically valid information in the talk, like "make file paths configurable". Is that really only applicable to iOS? I think not.

Interesting, exercise has been the biggest factor for me, and it's actually kind of two fold. 1: it burns calories, 2: because I dislike working out, it makes me not want to waste it by eating shit food.

A lot of people I think take the approach of "well, I exercised, so I can afford to eat this cheesecake", or something like that.

I took it as: "ugh, I hated that workout, so I had better not eat this cheesecake"

I think the biggest battle is mental, and not so much physical.

Why are you advising him to run before he can crawl? All of those paradigms are built on top of the 70's era threading-model as used by the JVM (as well as every other language, behind the scenes).

How can you understand these tools thoroughly if you don't understand the foundation that they're built on?

Yes, they probably have been used in services with billions of users, but I guarantee those engineers understood the basics of threading just as well, if not better, than the tools built on top of them.

OP: This video is pretty good at explaining some core concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4

> So does Qt.

No, they don't. Not in any meaningful sense. They're offering to let you evaluate a bed, so long as your evaluation doesn't include sleeping on it.

> expect to dictate pricing terms after the fact

Excuse me, but who here has said a single thing about the customer dictating terms? Not a single person.

> I'm not going to talk about my work here.

The question was rhetorical, thanks.

> who wasted their time asking for freebies and handouts

No one is asking for either a hand-out or freebie. Potential Customers are asking to evaluate a product before paying for licenses THAT THEY MIGHT NOT USE. That is not un-reasonable.

Why do many enterprise software companies offer free (or low cost) trials then?

Does the company that you work for (or yours if you're a founder) take the same "take it or leave it" attitude towards potential customers?

Thanks for the correction. I will point out that the article does indicate that there is some type of difference, so I would still think that such a loss would have some sort of impact (though obviously not ~400-500 calories worth).

From his picture from the biggest loser, he looks a lot different at 191lbs and 5'11" than I do at 195lbs and 5'11".

With as much cardio as they did, with as little as they ate, I can easily see them having a different body composition than someone else of their height/weight.

Now, here's my opinion, and I know it might be wrong. Anyone, please feel free to correct me, but:

Everything I've read suggests that 1lb muscle requires about 50 calories a day to maintain.

The workout programs these contestants are using are focused solely on cardio, or very heavily focused on cardio.

If as part of the 239lb weight loss, Mr Cahill lost 8lbs-10lbs of muscle (and never regained it), there's your entire 400-500 calorie difference right there.

Like I said, I could totally be wrong, but over the last year I lost 93lbs (as of today), but my measured BMR is actually higher than it should be (and higher than it was when I started). I attribute that difference to my focus on lifting weights more than cardio.

So according to you, doing mediocre on an IQ test makes someone not smart, right?

What about people with dyslexia (such as myself)?

What about people who have test-anxiety?

They aren't arguing that hiring smart people is a bad idea, they're saying being dismissive and discriminatory is a bad idea (and illegal, in the US - violation of the ADA).

> Later on, we will gradually leverage into a fractional reserve, but we will always be completely transparent about our USD reserve levels and how close we are to running out.

So again, you'll be co-opting merchants into a credit issuing agency.

you haven't explained any benefit to the merchant, other than a brief marginal increase in sales, for which they're taking on risk.

What happens if you fly afoul of banking regulations (since you seem to be acting as a bank in this situation), and get shut down by the government?

Or, you know, less people vote in the south. In the 2012 Election, southern states all had far less turnout than northern states[1]. Your'e not comparing apples to apples.

Saying the entire south in aggregate is "stupider" because of that is plain wrong.

http://www.electproject.org/2012g

So you're co-opting them into a credit issuing agency?

What if your company goes bankrupt in that 30 days?