chosenbreed

> Makes sense, it is a diet related illness, so it should have a diet related treatment. Instead of treating the symptoms, treat the cause.

If everyone starts that doing we're going to put the pharmaceuticals out of business. There'd be riots!

Superb. Clearly in your case you summoned the necessary will to lose all that weight. But I think another important factor is that you established a new lifestyle/better eating habits.

> And that's why weight loss techniques need to be treated like a new lifestyle, instead of a goal you hit and then finish. I lost 60 lbs a couple of years ago ...

Firstly, fantastic achievement. I'm curious as to what motivated you enough to put in the effort (I'm assuming it required effort).

Secondly, I wonder if the speed/drastic nature of the weight-loss can be counter-productive. When you think about people don't become over-weight overnight. Perhaps a more gradual pace with some time for settling at various stages of the process...I'm thinking losing weight over a couple of years as opposed to over a couple of months.

> - have to overhear irrelevant stupid/mundane conversations

Quite often I get to eavesdrop on interesting conversations. Typically people launching new business ventures of various kinds.

> My only hope is that a benevolent AI will coordinate this, having prime directives not to harm humans ( by the means of interfering with the communication ).

Mmm...who's going to write that benevolent AI? :)

> Why are you hugging your co-workers?

I get the impression that they were on the receiving end of the hugs :)

Good observation

> *citation needed Yes. Citations would be useful. To me, it seems to make sense intuitively. I'd say that at the very least it is a fair/objective way of ranking candidates. Particularly so if where the ratio of candidates to positions is high.

> Who is this article aimed at? Presumably at anybody looking to 'crack' the coding interview. Obviously not all of it is going to be relevant for every role but I found some useful things in there. At the very least I think it offers a structured approach on which to model your own preparation.

Oh...I was thinking of trying out my luck in Berlin...

> I imagined a world of apps designed with xaml /me shudders

Mmm...XAML/WPF has one thing going for it though...you can be assured that a code-base you haven't touched for year will still work :)

> It relieves stress and anxiety, and also gives me an excuse to step out of the office for a few minutes for a break or to collect my thoughts.

Should we really need excuses to step out of the office to get some fresh air, collect our thoughts, etc for a few minutes?

I think there is much to be said about cigarettes relieving stress and anxiety...

> I wouldn't be surprised to learn that human overpopulation and profligate consumption make a few species' population to strive

I can think of a few examples. Pigeons, rats, gulls, cockroaches, etc

Your comment was flagged before I could read. Really curious...:-)

> Reminds me that Kierkegaard seems to have written about social media:

Interesting. Where did you get the quote from? I might add it my reading list :-)

> As long as I meet my goals for savings, I don't really feel guilty about spending some money on stuff I enjoy.

Good approach...you gotta live a little :-)

> True enough. I learned two of the languages I know by reading books (after starting with magazines etc)

Interesting...how long did it take you to become proficient? And does proficiency in speech your reading ability?

> If we can't figure out how to do unbiased interviews at the individual level, then AI will never solve this problem. Anyone that tells you otherwise is selling you snake oil.

I wonder to what extent people want to solve it and perhaps more importantly whether or not it can be solved at all...

> Many who consider themselves programmers produce solution space solutions that just don't get to the core of the problem space problems. This is a function of the simple fact that many programmers never have the opportunity to see what the problem space experts are doing or actually need. This is a real shortcoming in the education of programmers.

I can't argue with that. I would add that another factor is how the work is structured and presented to the programmers. In many places programmers largely disconnected from any users. The programmers are usually given a set of requirements by a third party who themselves derived it from someone other than a user/consumer. Thus, programmers may end producing lovely programs that don't actually address the needs of users/consumers.

Okay...so they didn't fall that trick...but I get the impression that all they want is the opportunity to grill the top executive. The best that can happen is that said executive will apologize, prostrate, etc and the show goes on...

I might be missing something here but my thinking is that Google Inc/Alphabet is bigger than Larry Page. If for whatever reason he was not able to attend he could have sent a representative chosen from among the senior executives. It seems that neither his attendance nor Google's participation in the whole thing was not mandatory

>...Both are highly illegal and pretty unethical

Agreed. But should they? I mean if I start a company with no recourse to public funds why should I obliged to employ someone I wouldn't want to work with? I understand why it is illegal. I think the ethics are debatable too. Most importantly, I think both are routinely violated under some guise such as 'culture fit', etc.

:-)

Basic understanding of programming might be useful. But perhaps critical thinking/reasoning would be even more so. Not sure how this could be developed. Maybe subjects such as philosophy, history, logic, classical literature, etc...

Do general purpose line of business programs last for decades though? I suspect that the ones that have lasted have gone through enough iterations to the point of being unrecognizable to original authors...

Interesting observation. I think it is important to highlight things that are taken for granted. There are seems to be an assumption that there is "the right way" to raise kids and that it should be constant from generation to generation. I'm not so sure that's the case...

Mmm...if the effects are merely "undesirable" and not existential than I dare say that the status quo is unlikely to change. I'd go as far as saying that whatever efforts are being done now might simply be lip-service or at best token gestures. Perhaps it is the case that there is a considerable asymmetry in the impact of the effects...

> Isn't this universally true and not based on location at all? I'm a bit confused by this point TBH.

I think what is universally true is that the ladies will go for the highest ranking guys they can get. What seems to be happening there is that gender imbalance accentuates the effect by raising the bar higher than it otherwise would be.

> Do american coffee chains do things like cappuchino, latte, flat white, etc?

Starbucks is an American coffee chain :-)

Yeah...I think the McDonald's double expresso is great value for money.