A whiteboard would be a problem for me. I have some arthritis so extensive use of a whiteboard will get painful fast. Typing is fine though.
Even if that wasn't the case, a whiteboard isn't a great way to see if someone is good at coding. Aside from the poor editing capabilities it favours people who count on their fingers over people who just think things through and then write down the answer. It reminds me of the driving test where they advise students to make exaggerated head movements when looking in the mirrors and give a running commentary on what they are seeing and doing, otherwise it's down to the examiner to notice and give you the benefit of the doubt that you did in fact see that bike and weren't just lucky.
Demonstrating I can program means showing them examples of my work and discussing issues with them, not sitting down and completing some arbitrary task under pressure with a bunch of rival candidates.
That kind of testing just screams code-monkey sweatshop.
"Do this arbitrary coding problem" is usually a good sign that you don't want that job anyway. Such things have little relevant to the job or to producing good software most of the time.
The only exception is on embedded where you actually do need to know the ins and outs of the compiler and stuff like that. But for Javascript or C# devs they should use String.Reverse() because whatever they code on their own will be worse and a waste of time. And even for embedded I would only ask by way of some questions about some sample code the candidate was showing me.
Netflix didn't get rid of their movie library, it was taken away by the rights holders when they realized that they could be making money from their own streaming services by stocking them with all that valuable content. Unfortunately for them their content isn't really that valuable and part of Netflix's appeal was that you got everything for a reasonable monthly fee.
Disney is one of the few companies that might be able to pull it off, because their catalogue is so big and valuable. I'm surprised that CBS's service is apparently doing quite well, but maybe it's only due to Star Trek.
Pepsi-Man had super strength, allegedly derived from drinking Pepsi, which is ironic considering the actual effects of drinking large quantities of Pepsi... But diabetes isn't a great super power.
It sounds kinda interesting. Say Jesus came back today, he would be competing for YouTube views with Beyonce and PewDiePie. Okay it's comics so it has to be a superhero in spandex, but the basic premise is there, and was probably an issue back in his time.
These days there would also be a backlash against an SJW telling people what to do and making them feel guilty about stuff. Then there is the way his teachings have been re-interpreted and corrupted from their original meaning over the last 2000 years. The outrage seen when people discover that their favourite character is actually gay would be multiplied by a million when Jesus introduces his boyfriend to the world.
Seems like he would need a PR manager at the very least.
It just scales the bitmaps, it does't re-render fonts and vector elements for example. Windows has the same problem, one display is the master and the other renders at the master's DPI and then scales the resulting bitmap.
There is also an issue with non-integer scaling of bitmaps looking kinda bad, and older apps that don't support proper DPI awareness. For those having exact 2x scaling is the best option.
Margins are thin and even if you just get a Chinese OEM to build the laptop for you, you still have to provide on-going support for it. There probably just isn't enough money in it, especially with the relatively small volumes they would be selling, and when the competition is someone like Lenovo with world-wide support coverage and established business relationships.
Command line is never going to cut it for serious development on large projects. If you get a compilation error who wants to dick around manually going to the right file and line to fix it, when a GUI lets them go there in a single click? Who is going to muck about with grep and clever regexs to find all references to a particular function, or worse try to refactor it over the entire project with sed?
Who wants to put in hours of research flipping through physical books just to answer a simple question about the entomology of a common phrase?
Google had the right idea. Scan all the books, let people search the text directly. What broke it was copyright laws and lobbying. That's why you can see every page in the book, if it hasn't been purged entirely by the publisher.
Screenshots don't really do it justice... Basically it's like one of the classic two-pane file managers, but each pane is a window and you can have an unlimited number of them. File operations are advanced, such as queued copying, rename with two types of regex, even file selection based on regex, directory structure flattening, multiple scripting languages, rename from metadata, all kinds of stuff.
Dolphin is more of a basic Explorer/two-pane hybrid. Say you had a folder structure where you wanted to extract all the.html files that are 3 levels deep and move them to an identical structure somewhere else, could Dolphin do it? How about if you needed edit the metadata on a bunch of MP3 files, then rename and sort them into a folder structure along with associated album artwork? Or even something simple like wanting to queue up several large file copies so that your mechanical drives don't end up thrashing like crazy.
Cover the distribution centre in solar panels, and offset some more by adding a surcharge to the delivery that gets invested in carbon reduction tech like trees and capture. There is also the packing material to consider, which has a lifetime carbon footprint.
They may also try some more dubious methods such as claiming that a delivered item resulted in one fewer trip to the shops by their customer, or one fewer delivery to a rival retailer that only uses dirty, dirty diesel.
The issue here is that prosecutors haven't figured out how weak emoji evidence is yet. They are treating it like other written evidence, when it is in fact far more open to interpretation.
We have no details of the alleged pimping case, but you would hope that they were not relying too heavily on some emoji to get the conviction.
Is personal data more valuable than ever? Prices seem to be going down because there is so much of it. If you manage to grab a million records from somewhere, chances are a good proportion of them will be duplicates that someone else already sold from a different breech. Plus over-supply pushes prices down, and it keeps getting harder to translate that data into profit.
The origin story thing is what ruined the Spiderman movies, and also some of the old 90s Batman movies.
The best thing Marvel did with the new, actually quite good Spiderman movies was to have Uncle Ben pre-murdered and Spiderman already a street-level crime fighter.
Hmm, I started with all four of those shows. Still watching The Flash, Arrow I kind lost interest two seasons ago, Supergirl almost immediately and LoT after a couple of episodes too.
Maybe it's worth trying LoT again. What makes it great? And can I skip the first season to get to the good stuff?
In the case of Marvel they have managed to produce a string of generally pretty good action movies. Each is enjoyable on its own and the first and most recent Avengers movies in particular have been some of the best of the year.
Meanwhile many other franchises are failing to offer much competition. Harry Potter is still going, DC is mostly failing with only the odd decent movie (Wonder Woman), and many others are DoA like Mortal Engines or the Mummy reboot. Oh, and Star Wars... I guess they thought that if Marvel could do that many movies and not hit saturation then they could too, Solo really screwed them.
So unlike McDonalds the Marvel movies are actually good, and in fact often the best action/adventure movies of the year. They have their flaws but even the likes of the Spielberg can't seem to produce hits on that scale any more.
The Netflix shows were not very super-hero-esq though. The idea behind those characters is that they are mostly just ordinary people with maybe one of the less outlandish super powers, dealing with street level crime.
They also had some of the best villains on TV, far better than the movie ones. Fisk (Kingpin) and Kilgrave both stand out, from season 1 of Daredevil and Jessica Jones respectively.
There were some great fight scenes too, especially in Daredevil.
Software is differentiated by being transient, i.e. it's (relatively) easy to change and not a permanent, fixed feature of the machine. Sure, you can replace gears in a watch, but then you are altering the machine itself. Software is loaded on to the machine and makes it perform certain functions, and is then discarded or replaced as a matter of course.
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A whiteboard would be a problem for me. I have some arthritis so extensive use of a whiteboard will get painful fast. Typing is fine though.
Even if that wasn't the case, a whiteboard isn't a great way to see if someone is good at coding. Aside from the poor editing capabilities it favours people who count on their fingers over people who just think things through and then write down the answer. It reminds me of the driving test where they advise students to make exaggerated head movements when looking in the mirrors and give a running commentary on what they are seeing and doing, otherwise it's down to the examiner to notice and give you the benefit of the doubt that you did in fact see that bike and weren't just lucky.
Demonstrating I can program means showing them examples of my work and discussing issues with them, not sitting down and completing some arbitrary task under pressure with a bunch of rival candidates.
That kind of testing just screams code-monkey sweatshop.
They petitioned Portland to drop ads on busses featuring lesbians, so I'm guessing they would take a dim view of Wonder Woman being one.
Of course an impractical skin-tight costume is fine.
Correctly reversing an UTF-8 string with combining diacritical marks and embedded RTL substrings and other features could be quite fun, though.
Indeed, and also a great example of why you should use String.Reverse() instead of trying to handle it yourself.
"Do this arbitrary coding problem" is usually a good sign that you don't want that job anyway. Such things have little relevant to the job or to producing good software most of the time.
The only exception is on embedded where you actually do need to know the ins and outs of the compiler and stuff like that. But for Javascript or C# devs they should use String.Reverse() because whatever they code on their own will be worse and a waste of time. And even for embedded I would only ask by way of some questions about some sample code the candidate was showing me.
Netflix didn't get rid of their movie library, it was taken away by the rights holders when they realized that they could be making money from their own streaming services by stocking them with all that valuable content. Unfortunately for them their content isn't really that valuable and part of Netflix's appeal was that you got everything for a reasonable monthly fee.
Disney is one of the few companies that might be able to pull it off, because their catalogue is so big and valuable. I'm surprised that CBS's service is apparently doing quite well, but maybe it's only due to Star Trek.
Jessica Jones season 1 was some of the best TV in years. A genuinely compelling and fresh antagonist really made it.
What would Netflix-Man's superpower be?
Pepsi-Man had super strength, allegedly derived from drinking Pepsi, which is ironic considering the actual effects of drinking large quantities of Pepsi... But diabetes isn't a great super power.
It sounds kinda interesting. Say Jesus came back today, he would be competing for YouTube views with Beyonce and PewDiePie. Okay it's comics so it has to be a superhero in spandex, but the basic premise is there, and was probably an issue back in his time.
These days there would also be a backlash against an SJW telling people what to do and making them feel guilty about stuff. Then there is the way his teachings have been re-interpreted and corrupted from their original meaning over the last 2000 years. The outrage seen when people discover that their favourite character is actually gay would be multiplied by a million when Jesus introduces his boyfriend to the world.
Seems like he would need a PR manager at the very least.
It just scales the bitmaps, it does't re-render fonts and vector elements for example. Windows has the same problem, one display is the master and the other renders at the master's DPI and then scales the resulting bitmap.
There is also an issue with non-integer scaling of bitmaps looking kinda bad, and older apps that don't support proper DPI awareness. For those having exact 2x scaling is the best option.
Thanks. I am going to start with season 2 and try to enjoy it, which should be easier knowing that it's going somewhere.
Margins are thin and even if you just get a Chinese OEM to build the laptop for you, you still have to provide on-going support for it. There probably just isn't enough money in it, especially with the relatively small volumes they would be selling, and when the competition is someone like Lenovo with world-wide support coverage and established business relationships.
Command line is never going to cut it for serious development on large projects. If you get a compilation error who wants to dick around manually going to the right file and line to fix it, when a GUI lets them go there in a single click? Who is going to muck about with grep and clever regexs to find all references to a particular function, or worse try to refactor it over the entire project with sed?
Well British security just said that Huawei gear isn't that bad and that any security concerns can be managed, so I guess their stuff is okay again.
Who wants to put in hours of research flipping through physical books just to answer a simple question about the entomology of a common phrase?
Google had the right idea. Scan all the books, let people search the text directly. What broke it was copyright laws and lobbying. That's why you can see every page in the book, if it hasn't been purged entirely by the publisher.
Screenshots don't really do it justice... Basically it's like one of the classic two-pane file managers, but each pane is a window and you can have an unlimited number of them. File operations are advanced, such as queued copying, rename with two types of regex, even file selection based on regex, directory structure flattening, multiple scripting languages, rename from metadata, all kinds of stuff.
Dolphin is more of a basic Explorer/two-pane hybrid. Say you had a folder structure where you wanted to extract all the .html files that are 3 levels deep and move them to an identical structure somewhere else, could Dolphin do it? How about if you needed edit the metadata on a bunch of MP3 files, then rename and sort them into a folder structure along with associated album artwork? Or even something simple like wanting to queue up several large file copies so that your mechanical drives don't end up thrashing like crazy.
Cover the distribution centre in solar panels, and offset some more by adding a surcharge to the delivery that gets invested in carbon reduction tech like trees and capture. There is also the packing material to consider, which has a lifetime carbon footprint.
They may also try some more dubious methods such as claiming that a delivered item resulted in one fewer trip to the shops by their customer, or one fewer delivery to a rival retailer that only uses dirty, dirty diesel.
The issue here is that prosecutors haven't figured out how weak emoji evidence is yet. They are treating it like other written evidence, when it is in fact far more open to interpretation.
We have no details of the alleged pimping case, but you would hope that they were not relying too heavily on some emoji to get the conviction.
Is personal data more valuable than ever? Prices seem to be going down because there is so much of it. If you manage to grab a million records from somewhere, chances are a good proportion of them will be duplicates that someone else already sold from a different breech. Plus over-supply pushes prices down, and it keeps getting harder to translate that data into profit.
The origin story thing is what ruined the Spiderman movies, and also some of the old 90s Batman movies.
The best thing Marvel did with the new, actually quite good Spiderman movies was to have Uncle Ben pre-murdered and Spiderman already a street-level crime fighter.
Well, there's always one, right? Every well received show always has some people who hated it.
As for Black Mirror, welcome to the world of British TV. You are lucky if you get six episodes a year.
Hmm, I started with all four of those shows. Still watching The Flash, Arrow I kind lost interest two seasons ago, Supergirl almost immediately and LoT after a couple of episodes too.
Maybe it's worth trying LoT again. What makes it great? And can I skip the first season to get to the good stuff?
In the case of Marvel they have managed to produce a string of generally pretty good action movies. Each is enjoyable on its own and the first and most recent Avengers movies in particular have been some of the best of the year.
Meanwhile many other franchises are failing to offer much competition. Harry Potter is still going, DC is mostly failing with only the odd decent movie (Wonder Woman), and many others are DoA like Mortal Engines or the Mummy reboot. Oh, and Star Wars... I guess they thought that if Marvel could do that many movies and not hit saturation then they could too, Solo really screwed them.
So unlike McDonalds the Marvel movies are actually good, and in fact often the best action/adventure movies of the year. They have their flaws but even the likes of the Spielberg can't seem to produce hits on that scale any more.
The Netflix shows were not very super-hero-esq though. The idea behind those characters is that they are mostly just ordinary people with maybe one of the less outlandish super powers, dealing with street level crime.
They also had some of the best villains on TV, far better than the movie ones. Fisk (Kingpin) and Kilgrave both stand out, from season 1 of Daredevil and Jessica Jones respectively.
There were some great fight scenes too, especially in Daredevil.
Software is differentiated by being transient, i.e. it's (relatively) easy to change and not a permanent, fixed feature of the machine. Sure, you can replace gears in a watch, but then you are altering the machine itself. Software is loaded on to the machine and makes it perform certain functions, and is then discarded or replaced as a matter of course.