“Everybody make like a train now”
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With Norah Jones: https://youtu.be/FEzxchU4RUY
With Katy Perry: https://youtu.be/PwZnCkoX5gI
And my absolute favorite, better than the original, with the Goo Goo Dolls: https://youtu.be/uGohKgNOXnU
Edit... but... yes... the Elmo Numa Numa tops everything: https://youtu.be/2rAKszSX2tU (which btw, was indeed uploaded 11 years ago, but I think has an erroneous view count..)
Edit: and from a completely different realm, sadly - why is the baby not moving?
Put differently, answers in that quadrant are the ones the questioned individual would like to avoid. As long as you, the asker, avoid asking them, there is a peaceful equilibrium. Once you ask such, you become a hostile.
Or put in the original context - Unknowns Knowns are coverups.
Former Secretary of Defense for two presidents Donald Rumsfeld once framed (brilliantly actually) the possible things we know.
... there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know [1]
A while after someone (which I can’t trace back) made an interesting (and equally brilliant) observation - there is a fourth option - unknown knowns - that is, things we don’t know we know. In most cases, that person pointed out, the category contains, things we actually know, but prefer to pretend that we don’t.
So, what is a sensitive question?
A sensitive question is one for which the answer is an unknown known.
The cost of asking such a question in American society (and, obviously in SV) is dear. Avoiding them is free.
Ask carefully.
Thanks. Didn’t know that.
I was under the impression the “reply” link is removed when levels get deeper as part of an “anti flame” system.
@dang?
”An interviewer who loads up a process with nonsense is a prat”
It’s not one person - it’s the entire industry. All of us.
Clearer?
Let me clarify - the process by which commenters gleefully (damn that’s a nice word) add things to the list is illustrative of how things got added to the interview process. No one ever said something (or anything) should be done before interview.
Now as for “tackling before you die”.
If your name is Bobby Wagner, than by all means, tackle, it’s your job, but please do not die.
If you are programmer, you are not obliged to neither.
So.
1. “Every programmer” is a matter of speaking. Obviously not every programer should try any of. Author I believe knows that.
2. If you are not a programmer you don’t add to the list. Period. You wouldn’t be adding to the list of “drills any dentist should try”, right? So why here?
3. If you are a programmer, and have not tried all of the above why are you adding more? Yah, I know, you once did a challenging project that is not on the list. So did I. “Doesn’t make me Madonna, never will”.
Now what if you are a programmer and you’ve done all on the list, with or without substitution (like Snake might be equal Space Invaders)?
In which case you’d have at least 6 repos to share with the world, and if you can implement Tic-tac-toe live, you might get to the next round of interviews.
FTFY
My 2 cents - don’t.
You want compensation, you want to direct the roadmap. Your employer wants ownership. Where is the conflict?
Why make one?
(P.S. - my legal experience “peaked” about a decade ago when I hired Andrew Valentine, managing partner of DLA Piper Palo Alto to help bridge what should have been an easy win-win. We ended with a whole lot of losers. I got a full refund, though, so yah.)
(Also - Andrew, in case you read this, you never sent me the invoice for the out-of-pocket expenses you paid to UPS documents to San Bruno. I’d be happy to pay those. Contact in profile.)
Dude, chill, you can just be an expert on a subject without giving a damn about what other people think. It’s an option. Give it a try
I apologize for that.
When a rabbit picture is sent over a fax machine, the machine makes a lot of noise. Unfortunately even if one listens intently, one will not be able to see the rabbit. The message still goes through though.
You can’t.
But on the other hand, in most tech companies, the on-site interview process is like Five Guys.
I'm, obviously, pulling some rabbits out of thin air here but... see this:
import Vue from 'vue'
That's it.
Ah, but why is it noteworthy?
Cause assume, just for a second, you had a private package, that may also be able to pull rabbits out of dark places, and you had reasons to keep it unpublished. Like, you wouldn't want to release the code, not even in bundled apps. In that case, you would look at this HN item, and repo, and note that, yes, one can release code for a magic based app without releasing the code for the magic lib itself. And that this may allow someone at HN to comment Nice work! Just goes to show how clean and readable [insert magic lib name] code is. And this can start a conversation and lead to opportunities.
And that's worth noting.
But also worth nothing. Cause it's nonsense. You can always do neither.
Edit: I’m not saying this is the reason this specific item is on the front page or commenting on the repo itself (the code looks solid). I’m just herding speculative rabbits.
But he did make a fundamental scientific discovery. He proved that snakes and elephants cause Gaussian distribution.
Summerall: Brady is in the shotgun and he's gonna throw it ..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC4qgrUgF9I&feature=youtu.be...
Always trust the stats ;)
A: Because you and them don’t have the same circumstances, and thus don’t have the same utility function. You have different values.
The whole (long) thing is a mess of obvious misses. Too bad.
The collateral damage caused by this lawyer infused, never ending “copyright war”, though is real.
Not worth one good man.
Edit: I’m a “creator”. Never been “corporate”. I had my work “cloned”.
And here is a fine example of how to dribble (via twitter): https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/120241814211214540...
The box Abe is building won't work. He's got it wired wrong. And if they fix that I’ll start actually taking pieces out of it. It's just a gimmick. It doesn't work anymore. Your double will say they have to move on to something else. And mine will agree. They're friends.
It’s been a decade.
I work winters as a snowboard instructor. Over a typical winter I’d teach literally hundreds of people. Every once in a while I’d get a gift card, if guest is American, I might even get a cash tip, but generally, it’s Snow School pay. So, I thought something like Buy Me Coffee might come handy...
Being the summer software developer that I am, I ended up building something from scratch. It has a slightly different “flavor” than Coffee, mainly trying to make it work better in real-life interactions. But it’s in the same problem space.
It’s here: https://www.feedback.land
Profiles look like this: https://www.feedback.land/ronilan
I run the experiment last winter. I’d have printed “business cards” with QR codes in my pocket (app makes a printable version for you) and I’d hand them out at the end of lessons (mittens snowflakes and all).
Bottom line. Got some feedback. That’s it ;)
Might give it another try this winter, but I’m generally off to other interests. If anyone has interest in the product/software (node/Mongo/react) contact is in HN profile.
But toaster has no hands. No money to buy a candle. No access to Apollo computer.
And the author somehow thinks it’s the toaster’s fault that it fails.
There is something sad about this comment. It’s as if, even while standing at the peak, he doesn’t grasp what being “at top” actually is.
Would Eliud Kipchoge say the same thing about a motorcycle?
Senators are required, since the installation of dial phones in the Capitol, to perform the duties of telephone operators
And also seems that it was more than UX that bothered them...