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I bet they have spent a lot of money on it. How about those folks at Google that, when they were unknowingly reviewing their own packets from when they originally interviewed, decided that they wouldn't even hire themselves?

Google also found that interview performance isn't a good predictor of on-the-job performance.

Sorry, but it's hard to take this style of interview seriously after hearing about these things.

which espresso machine do you have?

Me too. Not a huge Mac user, but I use my iPad and AirPods a lot.

I haven't tried them, though the Sony ear buds look like a great option to AirPods: https://www.sony.com/lr/electronics/truly-wireless/wf-1000xm...

As far as the tablet goes... I dunno. I haven't tried an android tablet and I'm not too keen on it. Maybe a Surface? The iPad is damn good at what it does...

Thanks. I can agree that the process sounds very secure, but I still can't agree that it's more private. Apple had and will have the capability to decrypt iCloud data, so why add the additional scanning on the phone, of all places?

> Unless/until I see technical documents showing why there is a privacy issue for people who don't have CSAM

For me, it's about trust. Why not just do the scanning on their servers? With moving the scanning to the client, they've crossed the Rubicon. Apple has built a generic, automatic reporting tool for content on phones, which to my knowledge hasn't existed to date. On top of that, they've set the example that it's acceptable to perform client-side scanning.

Today it's against CSAM, but what about tomorrow? What will happen in authoritarian countries? Prior to this, I believe Apple had the high ground and could say, "we don't have the capability to scan devices and exfiltrate data". But now, it's there.

Perhaps you may say that this is the "slippery slope" argument, and maybe it is. I hope it never expands to include other things. Though I have a hard time imagining that this doesn't get expanded in the future.

Can you elaborate on why you think this gives us way more privacy than we had before? I don't see how adding on-device scanning does that.

I think that people generally understand what's going on and where this might lead us in the future.

I don't know if they've completely solved the boot camp issue. I was excited to hear the news that Parallels can run ARM Windows, though not all software is supported on ARM Windows (for example IIS isn't available on the ARM version of Windows). That's a Windows issue more than a Mac one, but a software gap with Windows on M1 does still exist unfortunately.

If I spend 4 hours working and the result is enough throughput to make my team and manager happy, then that's what I'm going to do and I'll do everything in my power to keep it that way. Everyone's happy, what's wrong with that?

Can you elaborate a little on how maximizing productivity is directly related to offering a premium product? For what it's worth I disagree, this doesn't seem like a truth at all.

Glad to see you bring this up because I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I get the feeling that many people are on board with the idea that productivity trumps all and are willing to be like rags to be squeezed by their employers until every last productivity drop comes out.

I think this needs to be talked about more with an eye towards reducing the amount people must work.

I feel like chiming in because the way the parent described things makes me sad about the state of interviewing and I personally would be very turned off by this kind of interview.

I'm actually a little shocked that this person whose job it is to interview and hire people seems to say that all these basic things like setting up for the interview, reading over the person's resume, and so on are /chores/. I mean, maybe they're not the most fun things I agree, but the approach seems way off, as if they're just trying to get it over with and check the boxes. Then they talk about defusing stressful situations multiple times, why? I get the feeling that they're creating a stressful environment for both sides.

Then the coding while watching part. That sounds just awful, I'm sorry. While this is part of your job within normal hours, the candidate is likely taking time off or doing it after hours (unless they're unemployed, but still). I don't know how you're actually "giving hints", but this just sounds really uptight and stressful. I'd wager you're really taking people out of their environment and setting them up for failure by doing this. Why is it a problem that they google the answer to your question? That doesn't strike me as wrong at all. Sounds like a good developer and I could see this going into a very healthy discussion about how they'd solve problems perhaps that weren't so obvious from googling.

I don't mean anything against the parent. Just adding my $0.02.

I want to challenge your last statement that these things aren't available to Windows users out of the box. Are you certain of that?

- Move files: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

- File hashes: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

- Grep: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

I feel you may be looking at this through too narrow of a lens since it's not just about lines of code, though that's one part of it. I think the point is that a 13 inch Retina screen can fit more "stuff" than a 14 inch non-Retina FHD/WQHD screen.

I will agree that the WQHD screen is nice. If you only compared the screens themselves (Retina vs WQHD) then I don't think there would be a significant difference. But the problem for me comes from resolution scaling. Fractional scaling on the distros I tried was poor. I think that this is a software issue more than a hardware issue, but Retina screens come with software that supports them well.

Another thing that didn't work well at all was when I tried to use an external monitor with the T480. I had to go back and adjust the fractional scaling settings to make it look decent, and then revert those changes when I went back to just the laptop screen.

Edit: forgot about the aspect ratio too, that's a nice feature of the Retina screens.

I agree.

I've tried using various distros on a Lenovo T480 recently. The laptop itself is decent though the screen is a little small for my tastes. Regardless, no matter what combination of OS and hardware that I've tried, nothing holds a candle to a Macbook. I'd really like to be able to use Linux on whatever piece of hardware I want, though things like the retina display and trackpad (among other things) keep me from leaving. Macbooks are such a joy to use, which I can't say about most other hardware/software unfortunately.