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I don't really see evil. I see a combination of incompetence and hard right-wing policy.

I really don't like the latter, but at least you can argue it (e.g. pulling out of TPP is a perfectly reasonable position to take).

The former is just... ugh. Huge numbers of unfilled positions, firing all the ambassadors with no replacements, completely unqualified cabinet nominees (DeVos, Carson, Perry).

What myth?

Until the right stops rejecting science and promoting lies (cough crowd size cough) that saying is pretty much true.

> It's all about separating the good from the bad.

No, it's about google being able to continue jerking off to the idea that they only hire the best.

I've seen people smarter than me get rejected and people dumber than me get hired. Google's process is shit, and that would just be par for hte course but the company is god damn arrogant about it.

Hell, you decided to be a condescending fucking asshole just talking about it on HN.

How much of these can you offer before they are considered employees and you have to actually start treating them as such?

> I live in flyover country, and people legit believe that letting the market make choices is best

There is a large segment of the population that worships the free market. They believe it will fix anything. Any flaws are because it's not a truly free market, but we can fix that and make it free and then it will work properly.

> Now, for A-level companies like Google, Apple, FB, etc. it's actually better to do what you do!

Bull-fucking-shit. Google and Facebook are the poster children for algorithm based interviews. They don't give 2 shits about what you have done because it wasn't done at Google, so it counts for nothing. Now go solve another pointless dynamic programming problem you waste of skin.

> for that reason Google claims not to do teasers like this any more.

All google does is teasers like this.

I doubt it would have been that different if the person in question was Robert Pattinson. I think the condescension is more about a "lol as if some dumb actor knows anything about AI".

ooooooh you are one of those "FREE MARKET WILL FIX IT" people.

Well, ignoring that the whole idea just makes me suspect you live in a fantasy world, ISPs frequently have regional monopolies. They aren't going out of business because thye provide shitty service because the internet has become something people rely on. Losing it would be a big blow.

Comcast thrives despite being absolutely despised by a large percentage of their customer base.

> What you think others will benefit from should have not bearing on regulation in my opinion

That is literally why every regulation gets passed. Because someone thinks someone will benefit.

> My parents would only benefit if they get a restricted internet at lower prices

Then they can get lower speed internet and/or lower caps to lower their rates.

oh man I was literally just looking at this yesterday.

I really want to pick up a HOTAS setup for Elite and such. I wonder if I can just do something like this wtih the amazon basic chair I have. Only problem is I was considering getting the warthog HOTAS and I bet it's way too heavy for this. On the other hand a T.16000M would work fine.

> Mao Zedong killed 65 million, Stalin killed 23 million

In their countries.

> and Hitler killed 17 million.

You have to include the WW2 deaths.

> I think there is a reasonable expectation from the company's point of view that they get 40-50 hours of work

The only reasonable expectation should be 40 hours a week.

I could probably build that. The remote for the washlet is just IR, bet it would be easy enough.

Oh good, Google abusing their power again.

I guess as long as it's for "good" reasons.

edit: would any downvoters care to explain how google being able to arbitrarily dictate web content is a power they should have?

I just bought one recently.

Worth it. Heated seat alone... so good.

> It's a demonstration of how powerful a good propaganda campaign can be. 80 years later and still swastikas=bad.

Yes, 60 million dead is powerful propaganda.

Southerners still cling to the notions of "states rights" and "war of northern aggression" and other bullshit.

it's a traitors flag. They committed treason to try to protect their institution of slavery.

> When will it be cleared for use again?

The south has been using it to celebrate their treason and slavery for a while. Only recently have people started to say "maybe don't use that".

Shame about the rest of the attitudes towards women.

> I'd like to see a version of Rust with garbage collection. The language itself is good.

Why? What is the added value?

Is that because go is such a great choice, or because it was written by a famous guy for google?

> I guess just wait until it stabilises then.

Which is when? 1.15? 1.50? 2.0?

What was the point of that whole "1.0" thing?

> most of them will work on stable in just a couple of weeks!

Until they don't again because clearly the authors have no interest in being on a stable compiler release.

> Plus you can easily switch between versions with rustup!

I don't think people are complaining because switching versions is hard. Just unnecessary, risky, and yes kind of annoying.

1.0 was what, 1.5 years ago?

I'm not convinced the problem will just go away. Not as long as people are obsessed with the new hotness language features that require a compiler from the tuesday before last.

Cargo also makes me wary. How do I know what I'm choosing is any good, and if it is will it still be around next year. Nature of 3rd party libs I guess.

> Rust has https://tokio.rs/ and everbody who even looked into network services with rust, stumbled across it.

didn't it launch a week ago?

> I've seen Jira tickets about creating Jira tickets :)

So long as it's one:many.

> forces good design and reduces cognitive load

Except splitting into microservices is an unnecessarily complex design choice. That's almost always worse, and the cognitive load comes in when you now need to figure out how to get this stuff right. The scaling benefits also require that you get it right, small flaws in your system become massive issues.

Is being an ops guy an excuse for letting their software quality drop?

I think the hardware design issues are a result of the change in dynamics with Ive and Jobs, but quality issues aren't really excusable.