I played with the watch over the weekend. I was suprised by how lackluster the experience was. Navigating the interface is surprisingly tedious, and I found myself lost on some screens with no clear idea of how to get out of them. The screen looks good, but it's so tiny. I doubt that it's useful. The maps app can show you that you are on a street, but you will spend so much time squinting and fiddling that i'm certain you just wasted all the time you saved not pulling your phone out from your pocket.
I did think it looked pretty good though. The previous smartwatches i've seen like the early samsungs and the pebbles look like clunky plastic crap. I'd go so far as saying that apple's could be fashionable. That's not entirely a use case without merit. If someone said their reason for blowing $400 on the watch was because they thought it was fashionable, i'd have a lot more respect for them than if they made up stories about how useful it was.
As long as we're just fantasizing, I can imagine some killer usecases. The problem is the device would need to be extremely waterproof and capable of operating without a phone to be useful. I like sailing and surfing. It would be great to have a concise tide table app, and something to track the starting horns in racing. if i could get a text message from my wife out in the waves, that would be cool. Heck, tides and start timing don't even need connectivity. if the thing was just super waterproof and i felt like I could take it surfing, i'd probably be on board.
currently my $12 casio watch gives me a stopwatch and tide information. it's good enough, but i would certainly spend the $400 on something that was more than just a glorified phone remote.
Whenever someone asks why you don't have a social media account, all you need to tell them is:
I'm not a narcissist.
You don't believe your life is anyone else's business, no need to show them pictures of your latest adventure, no need for gratification from the unwashed masses. You are who you are.
ah yes. It's a classic page right out of "how to win friends and influence people". Impress them with your smug sense of superiority!
why didn't they just install some mining software? Sure, it's going to take a while to mine 500 bitcoins, but nobody would have ever known they were there. Instead they take the showboating route. it's like they need to know people know about them to stroke their egos. I bet they deliver some bloated soliloquy at a key moment and ruin their entire plan.
that's something i can agree with. other teams do have female engineers, but the last company conference i went to DID make it seem like we were far short of 15% females.
well, my team is a product team within a big software company. We aren't allowed to actively pursue hires. There's red tape and stuff. We've been given the green light to hire only 2 times in the past 4 years. Our candidates are handed down from HR. I don't believe that our lack of female team members has anything to do with my team. But I DO think it is strange that I have never even seen a female candidate since joining this team.
I guess if i had created some super weapon, I'd feel kind of guilty about it. Once it exists, others are going to find out how to make it, but I think I'd probably struggle to cling to my dignity by refusing to share any of my insights.
I work on a team of 10 people. my understanding is that about 15% of the entire software workforce is women. given those numbers, it is unsurprising to me that a random sampling of 10 software engineers will contain no women.
I can't find statistics that claim the percentage of unemployed software engineers who are women is any greater than 15%. So I assume that I don't have women on my team because there just aren't a lot of them in my industry.
I'm not dismissing this as a non issue. I do think that we should have a higher percentage of women in the industry. There is something weird going on. I feel like that's the thing for sociologists to be working out though. I'm just a software engineer. who want's women to know that the reason my code doesn't pass this test is not because my team is actively trying to keep you out.
yes. and it's not by any choice of ours. we haven't seen a woman candidate in years. I have no idea why. We aren't misogynistic brogrammers. We just want good engineers regardless of chromosomes or gender identity.
I am as afraid of AI as I am of malevolent alien life coming to destroy us. It's possible. It's far more possible that I will get ebola though, and I have zero fear of that. It's really really possible that I will die in a car crash and that's not keeping me up at night.
Spiders though. they terrify me. The arachniphobia has me pinned down.
On my team, there are as many Y chromosomes as X chromosomes. It's impossible to pass this test. In my almost 30 years of writing software, The only time there was more than 1 woman on my team was a year during the dotcom boom. Otherwise, if there is a woman, she's the only one. I didn't need this test to know that.
You don't need to come up with circuitous gimmicks to prove that there aren't a lot of women in tech. We know it. Everyone who has worked in this field knows it. Society knows it. The unknown here is why? can you come up with something that demonstrates brogrammer culture is scaring them off? can you show that kindergarten teachers discourage girls from interest in computers? can you show that hormones make women afraid of logic? can you come up with a test that shows that HR departments throw women's resumes in the trash so i never see them?
If you can substitute the term "white male" into your premise and suddenly find it offensive, then was actually racist/sexist all along.
"a project that passes the test must feature at least one function written by a white male developer, that calls a function written by another white male developer. "
i'm a white male and most of my projects don't pass. It's a joke i know, but it's a good metric in a way. Really, joking aside, to pass, a project should feature at least one function written by a developer that calls a function written by another developer. i'm aware that sadly, I don't work as well with others as i should. I often reinvent the wheel and isolate my codebases. From what i've seen, this is common.
If your are carrying your unlocked phone, and you get mugged and hand over your phone, then the mugger now doesn't have to enter a passcode until he/she puts it down.
What phone does protect against this? AFAIK all phones will remain unlocked as long as you keep using them. If a mugger grabs any phone right out of your hand, they are going to have access to your email long enough to change key passwords and get all your info.
ever notice how the products recommended for your car just happen to be made by the same company that made the car? Ever notice how the manual for your new hiking boots claims they will work best with the leather sealant made by the same company? Ever notice how the helpful recipes found on the packaging of food items happen to have ingredients that all come from the same food company? why would anybody expect anything different?
I'm pretty sure it's all just posturing on both sides. The Uber CEO wanted to make it sound like Uber was all futuristic and stuff for investors. The Lyft ceo saw uber raise some hackles by supporting autonomous vehicles. He figures if he just takes the opposite stance maybe he can get some more drivers in his fleet. In the short term, that's a pretty valuable victory. Then, yeah, he can take his money and buy self driving cars.
I take it because I know how to pay for it. yellow cabs have weird habits of telling you after you get where you are going that they only take cash. sure, i can say, "well all if have is $5 cash so here you go." but honestly, planing for a confrontation at the end of every ride just isn't enjoyable.
Don't watches go in and out of style like everything else? I imagine there are circles that would shun you if you were walking around with your rolex from 3 years ago.
I don't know much about high end watches. I'll be honest, i can't tell a tag heurer from a breitling, To me, it looks like watch fashion has never changed so maybe a rolex never goes out of style.
I do remember a time, though, when everyone wore a swatch. up to 10 on each arm. fashion is a fickle thing and doesn't always drive people to make the sane choices.
I picked up objective-c when ios became big. it's fine and all, but what i find myself doing is writing as much as i can in c++ and then just calling into it from objective-c where i need to. xcode will happily compile the two languages (technically i'm using objective-c++). really, even in apple's apis objective-c only gets you so far. sooner or later you will find yourself calling into c apis. heck even some of their examples only feature a rough skeleton of objective-c working with a big c library.
my advice: learn enough objective c to make an NSView and handle some events, and send that stuff right into you c++ api asap.
I think the biggest problem would be those on the mars days are here on earth and all the life around them is moving on the regular earth cycle... I can't have lunch at my favorite restaurant, go to the bank, etc... because my days are out of sync. Those people in the Arctic Circle are all on the same clock as businesses and everyone else around them.
i don't think it's going to be the martian day cycle that keeps the first people on Mars from getting to the bank or their favorite restaurant for lunch.
Are you just asking these candidates questions that are too specific?
My team asks candidates to solve some relatively simple problems. They don't have much to do with our software. It's just stuff like filtering strings for pairs of characters and some other stuff. It helps us to evaluate if someone can write code to solve a problem.
If they can, we will ask them more specific questions. Now, i'm a graphics programmer. I work with open gl and 3d stuff. I'll often ask, "Given a triangle with points A,B, and C, how would you find the normal?" I realize this community is going to contain lots of people who find that question laughably simplistic. it's not even a programming question (though neither is describing key pairs). I'm just looking for them to say "cross product". . nobody in 3 years has ever known.
the purpose of the question though isn't to shoot someone down. it's more like extra credit. I'm curious if they know anything about geometry, but we've hired plenty of guys who can't answer my questions. they have learned, and i was confident they could because they did well on the general questions.
Also, the days of naming your company after something are long gone. People just apply random stuff like Uber to their company. The next big startups are going to be named stuff like "Zoosit", and "Mixlebin".
oh gosh! mixlebin.com is still available. i better get it!
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I played with the watch over the weekend. I was suprised by how lackluster the experience was. Navigating the interface is surprisingly tedious, and I found myself lost on some screens with no clear idea of how to get out of them. The screen looks good, but it's so tiny. I doubt that it's useful. The maps app can show you that you are on a street, but you will spend so much time squinting and fiddling that i'm certain you just wasted all the time you saved not pulling your phone out from your pocket.
I did think it looked pretty good though. The previous smartwatches i've seen like the early samsungs and the pebbles look like clunky plastic crap. I'd go so far as saying that apple's could be fashionable. That's not entirely a use case without merit. If someone said their reason for blowing $400 on the watch was because they thought it was fashionable, i'd have a lot more respect for them than if they made up stories about how useful it was.
As long as we're just fantasizing, I can imagine some killer usecases. The problem is the device would need to be extremely waterproof and capable of operating without a phone to be useful. I like sailing and surfing. It would be great to have a concise tide table app, and something to track the starting horns in racing. if i could get a text message from my wife out in the waves, that would be cool. Heck, tides and start timing don't even need connectivity. if the thing was just super waterproof and i felt like I could take it surfing, i'd probably be on board.
currently my $12 casio watch gives me a stopwatch and tide information. it's good enough, but i would certainly spend the $400 on something that was more than just a glorified phone remote.
Whenever someone asks why you don't have a social media account, all you need to tell them is:
I'm not a narcissist.
You don't believe your life is anyone else's business, no need to show them pictures of your latest adventure, no need for gratification from the unwashed masses. You are who you are.
ah yes. It's a classic page right out of "how to win friends and influence people". Impress them with your smug sense of superiority!
> Touch panels are terrible. For games, yes.
It's pretty neat for my mac where I can switch pretty seamlessly between 'X mode' and mac mode, depending on what window I'm in.
Since this is a discussion on gaming mice, I think the statement that touch panels are terrible is right on target.
why didn't they just install some mining software? Sure, it's going to take a while to mine 500 bitcoins, but nobody would have ever known they were there. Instead they take the showboating route. it's like they need to know people know about them to stroke their egos. I bet they deliver some bloated soliloquy at a key moment and ruin their entire plan.
that's something i can agree with. other teams do have female engineers, but the last company conference i went to DID make it seem like we were far short of 15% females.
well, my team is a product team within a big software company. We aren't allowed to actively pursue hires. There's red tape and stuff. We've been given the green light to hire only 2 times in the past 4 years. Our candidates are handed down from HR. I don't believe that our lack of female team members has anything to do with my team. But I DO think it is strange that I have never even seen a female candidate since joining this team.
I guess if i had created some super weapon, I'd feel kind of guilty about it. Once it exists, others are going to find out how to make it, but I think I'd probably struggle to cling to my dignity by refusing to share any of my insights.
I work on a team of 10 people. my understanding is that about 15% of the entire software workforce is women. given those numbers, it is unsurprising to me that a random sampling of 10 software engineers will contain no women.
I can't find statistics that claim the percentage of unemployed software engineers who are women is any greater than 15%. So I assume that I don't have women on my team because there just aren't a lot of them in my industry.
I'm not dismissing this as a non issue. I do think that we should have a higher percentage of women in the industry. There is something weird going on. I feel like that's the thing for sociologists to be working out though. I'm just a software engineer. who want's women to know that the reason my code doesn't pass this test is not because my team is actively trying to keep you out.
yes. and it's not by any choice of ours. we haven't seen a woman candidate in years. I have no idea why. We aren't misogynistic brogrammers. We just want good engineers regardless of chromosomes or gender identity.
I am as afraid of AI as I am of malevolent alien life coming to destroy us. It's possible. It's far more possible that I will get ebola though, and I have zero fear of that. It's really really possible that I will die in a car crash and that's not keeping me up at night.
Spiders though. they terrify me. The arachniphobia has me pinned down.
On my team, there are as many Y chromosomes as X chromosomes. It's impossible to pass this test. In my almost 30 years of writing software, The only time there was more than 1 woman on my team was a year during the dotcom boom. Otherwise, if there is a woman, she's the only one. I didn't need this test to know that.
You don't need to come up with circuitous gimmicks to prove that there aren't a lot of women in tech. We know it. Everyone who has worked in this field knows it. Society knows it. The unknown here is why? can you come up with something that demonstrates brogrammer culture is scaring them off? can you show that kindergarten teachers discourage girls from interest in computers? can you show that hormones make women afraid of logic? can you come up with a test that shows that HR departments throw women's resumes in the trash so i never see them?
If you can substitute the term "white male" into your premise and suddenly find it offensive, then was actually racist/sexist all along.
"a project that passes the test must feature at least one function written by a white male developer, that calls a function written by another white male developer. "
i'm a white male and most of my projects don't pass. It's a joke i know, but it's a good metric in a way. Really, joking aside, to pass, a project should feature at least one function written by a developer that calls a function written by another developer. i'm aware that sadly, I don't work as well with others as i should. I often reinvent the wheel and isolate my codebases. From what i've seen, this is common.
If your are carrying your unlocked phone, and you get mugged and hand over your phone, then the mugger now doesn't have to enter a passcode until he/she puts it down.
What phone does protect against this? AFAIK all phones will remain unlocked as long as you keep using them. If a mugger grabs any phone right out of your hand, they are going to have access to your email long enough to change key passwords and get all your info.
ever notice how the products recommended for your car just happen to be made by the same company that made the car? Ever notice how the manual for your new hiking boots claims they will work best with the leather sealant made by the same company? Ever notice how the helpful recipes found on the packaging of food items happen to have ingredients that all come from the same food company? why would anybody expect anything different?
I might be more compelled to vote if i got a better sticker. Maybe make it a metal pin.
I'm pretty sure it's all just posturing on both sides. The Uber CEO wanted to make it sound like Uber was all futuristic and stuff for investors. The Lyft ceo saw uber raise some hackles by supporting autonomous vehicles. He figures if he just takes the opposite stance maybe he can get some more drivers in his fleet. In the short term, that's a pretty valuable victory. Then, yeah, he can take his money and buy self driving cars.
I take it because I know how to pay for it. yellow cabs have weird habits of telling you after you get where you are going that they only take cash. sure, i can say, "well all if have is $5 cash so here you go." but honestly, planing for a confrontation at the end of every ride just isn't enjoyable.
Don't watches go in and out of style like everything else? I imagine there are circles that would shun you if you were walking around with your rolex from 3 years ago.
I don't know much about high end watches. I'll be honest, i can't tell a tag heurer from a breitling, To me, it looks like watch fashion has never changed so maybe a rolex never goes out of style.
I do remember a time, though, when everyone wore a swatch. up to 10 on each arm. fashion is a fickle thing and doesn't always drive people to make the sane choices.
Just wait until selfie drones are all the rage! i'm guessing within 2 years.
I picked up objective-c when ios became big. it's fine and all, but what i find myself doing is writing as much as i can in c++ and then just calling into it from objective-c where i need to. xcode will happily compile the two languages (technically i'm using objective-c++). really, even in apple's apis objective-c only gets you so far. sooner or later you will find yourself calling into c apis. heck even some of their examples only feature a rough skeleton of objective-c working with a big c library.
my advice: learn enough objective c to make an NSView and handle some events, and send that stuff right into you c++ api asap.
I think the biggest problem would be those on the mars days are here on earth and all the life around them is moving on the regular earth cycle... I can't have lunch at my favorite restaurant, go to the bank, etc... because my days are out of sync. Those people in the Arctic Circle are all on the same clock as businesses and everyone else around them.
i don't think it's going to be the martian day cycle that keeps the first people on Mars from getting to the bank or their favorite restaurant for lunch.
Are you just asking these candidates questions that are too specific?
My team asks candidates to solve some relatively simple problems. They don't have much to do with our software. It's just stuff like filtering strings for pairs of characters and some other stuff. It helps us to evaluate if someone can write code to solve a problem.
If they can, we will ask them more specific questions. Now, i'm a graphics programmer. I work with open gl and 3d stuff. I'll often ask, "Given a triangle with points A,B, and C, how would you find the normal?" I realize this community is going to contain lots of people who find that question laughably simplistic. it's not even a programming question (though neither is describing key pairs). I'm just looking for them to say "cross product". . nobody in 3 years has ever known.
the purpose of the question though isn't to shoot someone down. it's more like extra credit. I'm curious if they know anything about geometry, but we've hired plenty of guys who can't answer my questions. they have learned, and i was confident they could because they did well on the general questions.
Also, the days of naming your company after something are long gone. People just apply random stuff like Uber to their company. The next big startups are going to be named stuff like "Zoosit", and "Mixlebin".
oh gosh! mixlebin.com is still available. i better get it!
Show me a c program that can describe the beauty of yesterday's sunset to someone and i'll show you a printf wrapping some text.