Do people really not care about some large corporation tracking everything your children do for ears at a time? There's no way in hell I'd let my child use a Google notebook that's tied to all that tracking crap.
FWIW, there's a tab to switch to the old view which is probably what most recruiters will know to do. I hope they track what recruiters actually click on when checking your resume.
I honestly don't know which they'd prefer. As someone who occasionally interviews people, I do tend to find the cookie cutter descriptions of jobs to be moderately unhelpful. I would be interested in seeing more "what you take pride in," in many cases.
Well, his definition appears to be that the people with closed doors did it "enough that they miss fame". Who's to say whether those people made extremely good contributions, but since they were introverts didn't seek out fame, or actively ran from it? The whole quote is just anecdotal stuff.
> Train people to concentrate until it's something that's familiar and available to them on demand, and then they can do it in the face of distraction.
Or, you know, don't put them into a situation where they need yet another skill. Just give them a frickin' office.
If you're in the US, they have to accommodate your condition. Talk to your manager and if they don't help, talk to HR. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen for them.
Care to provide any details on how this was already solved? I'd love to know and I'm sure the many people here who write tools for developers would also be interested.
That's fascinating to me. I find that eating a high protein, low-carb breakfast is a fast track to a migraine for me. I can feel it coming on and grabbing some carbs will fight it off. I wonder why it's the opposite for some people?
Do you find that you can determine a person's technical skills from such a discussion? I've found that I'm not very good at determining such things from just talking. Often I talk with people who sound like they know what they're doing, only to find out later that they don't.
As for coffee - do you ask your interviewees if they want that? I don't drink coffee and generally hate coffee shops because the only other options are sugar and fat-filled starch bombs like scones and cakes, and other drinks I don't enjoy like tea. I usually eat a decent meal before interviews so I don't end up unable to think due to hunger during the technical part.
That said, I also find puzzles and unrealistic tests to be annoying. One thing I've done for the technical side is to pull questions from codereview.stackexchange.com and ask the candidate to review them. (I generally print it out and ask them to do it on paper in front of me, so they aren't looking at the existing answers.) This gives me a better idea of their technical skills without the "gotcha" feeling of whiteboards. It also normalizes for different background (e.g. I'm used to Xcode, but this interview had me working in Eclipse and I couldn't find anything!).
Are they also publicly shaming bikers who blatantly break traffic laws?
EDIT: I say this as both a cyclist and a driver. I can't believe how often I see cyclists do dangerous things. But for sure, I see a lot of drivers do mean, dangerous and stupid things, too. I just get tired of cyclists thinking that traffic laws don't apply to us.
I doesn't seem to me that having what I consider a reasonable retention period would be too bad, where "reasonable" is on the order of 7-30 days. If a person hasn't reported a crime within that time, then the tapes (or drives or whatever) are wiped. Any shorter than 7 days, and you risk the person being in a state of shock/in a period of "I should report this - no, wait, I don't want any trouble - no wait, it could happen to other people," etc.
Have you ever lived with someone with a mental illness? I definitely see the relationship with terrorism. Terrorism thrives on fear - "will they attack today?", "Will they use some horrible method of attack?", "Will I be able to handle it?", etc.
Living with someone with mental illness can strike fear into a person. "When I get home from work, will I get normal spouse, or lunatic spouse?", "Will I need to take my children away from this situation, or will we have a nice normal meal?", "Will I get fired for constantly having to leave work to deal with this shit, or will it calm down for long enough that I can accomplish some of my life goals?"
It can be very terrifying dealing with something like this, and frankly, I find the metaphor extremely apt. I understand your distaste of how the word is used in the media, but please understand that not all of us use these words lightly. These diseases really can be literally terrifying to the people around the disabled. It can literally feel like someone or something is torturing your loved ones when you see what happens to them.
I can't speak to the actual algorithm, but Photoshop also does various types of color space conversions unless you explicitly set it not to. I didn't see anywhere in the article where that was mentioned, or whether Photopea does those same conversions.
I have many accounts that require a PIN. Many of them I set up years ago and have no idea what the PIN would be. I'm always able to talk my way out of it, though. (And this is not something I practice or know how to do well. I literally just say something like, "PIN? I have no idea. I don't even remember having the option to set one.")
>When you get down to it, do you really want to tailor your code base to the top 1% of coders?
I think I agree with your sentiment, but to me a "top 1% coder" is someone who knows how to make things simple and readable, and knows the best abstraction to use for the goal. It's not the person who can write and/or follow the most complicated code. To me complicated code is generally a sign of a poor coder. There are exceptions, but they're rare.
Yes, they are hefty. I don't know if you can find one that's only a printer. We have a printer/fax/scanner model that's now around 10-15 years old. I can tell it's getting ready to give up the ghost soon. We have actually had to use the fax part of it recently, too. The scanner in it is terrible for anything other than scanning documents to PDF. Completely unusable for photos. (Taking a few photos of a photo with my DSLR and doing an HDR merge produces great results, whereas using the scanner produces crushed blacks and blown-out whites with no way to fix them.)
I'm mostly in the same boat as you. However, I have found that with electronics, you run the risk of your beloved older piece of equipment not even being able to connect to your newer equipment because it doesn't have the latest connector (SCSI, Firewire, USB-2, USB-3, USB-C, Thunderbolt, Lightning, VGA, XGA, DVI, Mini-Display Port, HDMI, composite, component, etc.). On top of that, you have the issue of drivers and apps that can talk to the thing, too. Not as bad in the case of a printer, but still an issue for many devices.
>When a person says, "I'm having a problem" and the response is, "Well I'm not having any problem, buh-bye!" it in effect says "I don't care that you have a problem."
What a bizarre interpretation. When someone says, "It works for me," they're saying "I tried your example because I want to help, but was unable to reproduce your problem. Maybe there's some information you didn't provide that can explain the difference between what I'm seeing and what you're seeing? Please add more information so I can understand what's different and help you."
I would think that you could find a well-known artist who would be willing to consult on improving a product, especially if they got to have someone implement their pet features the way they want them to be implemented. But the question is - are the tools good enough to even get there or are there so many missing or poorly implemented features that it would be a full rewrite (at least of the UI) to even start?
Can you explain what you mean by "loving big government?" I watched both season 1 and season 2 and never got anything like that impression. They spend quite a bit of time avoiding the government and using it as an unwitting tool against the corporation and later itself. I'm curious what you saw, because I honestly have no idea what you're referring to.
Yes, it does. Pretty much the entire OS can be controlled by keyboard. You may have to turn on Assistive Services to make it work in all contexts, but it's definitely there.
1) Google is able to be flexible about many things that other companies are not
2) If you work at Google, you have many job opportunities open to you that others might not. So just leaving and finding or creating a job where you can work fewer hours is much easier than someone working in a lower-end position for a small company in a market with few opportunities.
My spouse is a dancer. They generally retire at around 30 yrs. old. (And by retire, I mean find a different job because you aren't going to retire on a dancer's salary.)
You wouldn't happen to live in Santa Monica, would you? That's exactly what we're seeing around here. I drive by the airport on my way home and see all the signs complaining about the noise and all I can think is, "then why did you buy there? It's not like it's a secret!"
This is so true and so awful. I ran into the same thing. I had used a debugger and couldn't believe people had resistance to it when it was suggested by our TA. They were like, "Nah, I'll just 'printf' everything." And then the debugger they tried to get us to use was the god-awful command line version of gdb. I seriously think that turned several people off from ever using a debugger again because it was so bad.
No your utilities do not need it. I never give my SSN to companies. Not the phone company, not the utility company, nobody I don't actually need to if I can help it. They will often waive such a requirement if you pay a small fee (usually around $5-50), which usually gets paid towards a bill after something like 6 months of paying everything in full on time.