So this is really interesting to me. Why do you need laptops with that much RAM? From other comments, this seems to be fairly common, but my desktop work PC only has 64GB and I donâ(TM)t find I hit that limit even when Iâ(TM)m running a couple instances of the game. Iâ(TM)m in AAA game development (PC and console), so I get that more RAM is great, I just donâ(TM)t know why you need it portable as well?
Weren't the 70s a time of extremely high fuel prices and high interest rates? When you look at inflation, you have to account for what's inflated in cost. If fuel costs less but food costs more, that's a lot worse than fuel costing more and food costing less.
Twitter is capricious with its bans. It bans people for saying offensive things, but doesn't ban them for saying threatening or dangerous things.
I abhor hate speech, and I actually support my country's ban on it. I believe speech can be weaponized; advocating for the extermination of a person or people on the basis of race or orientation or whatever shouldn't be protected speech. (Don't argue with me about this; I don't care what you think in this regard. I'm just giving this preamble as context, not to invite any discussion on the matter. I mean, post if you want, but I'm not going to read any of it.)
The problem with Twitter is that because they're so useless on their own and haven't allowed anyone to make useful tools for the service, people that I *do* want to hear--usually women--are driven off the service because of the unending firehose of rape and death threats. Police don't take those seriously, and neither does twitter, and so the system becomes unusable for anyone at the receiving end of that. I don't think that's an acceptable use of a service.
IF Twitter had provided appropriate tools from the beginning (shared block lists, tools to filter out threats and random hateful garbage, etc.) this would all be a non-issue. The all-speech-is-free crowd could go off and do what they want, and the people that are just trying to live their lives without hearing how they should be raped to death could ALSO use the space as they want. Instead, Twitter lashed out in all directions at none, ineffectually banning people but not making the system any better for anyone.
If you're going to provide a platform for free speech (and for twitter, I fall on the side of more speech being better often because it means repressed populations may actually get heard), you also need to provide tools for some people to make sure they only have to hear what they want to.
My definition of 'engineer' includes 'legally responsible for the work they do', which is what happens with P.Engs in Canada. I don't know how it works in other places, but an engineer signing off on something means something. I have no legal liability for my code and I make no guarantees to anyone about it. (Keeping in mind that I'm a game programmer so, y'know, whatever.)
I've been running iOS 10.3 beta for the whole run on an iPhone 6 with 16GB of storage. There haven't been any problems, despite the limited space that it has to work with and how much it has to go and flush cache files and whatnot. I'd be surprised if there are more than a handful of problems related to the upgrade.
Your anecdote isn't data. It's nice that you've worked for progressive companies and that you yourself are good about working with women, but it's absolutely a systemic issue. Story after story after story confirms it.
Rather, I think you and the companies you work for are outliers. Congratulations on that; I hope you keep your streak.
is an aphorism that is exactly trying to get across what you say at the end
"Don't assume, Profile!"
Basically, the guy that originally said it was trying to say you can't guess what the problems are going to be before you lay the code down. Write the code correctly, but don't try to tinker with your scheduling algorithm to make it provably optimal when it's going to be dwarfed by order-of-magnitude problems with the network code.
10% Asking for clarification on the issue 5% Explaining their understanding of battery tech 8% People talking about the story without reading it 77% 'Good Enough' jokes
This is not true in Canada. Getting into University is based solely on your grades, whether you meet the requirements and whether there's room in the program.
My work internet blocks Oglaf, so I can't find and link the strip in question, but a couple weeks ago my partner put the strip up on her Facebook page. A day later, the strip had been taken down because it was 'offensive'. It's a cartoon, and the punchline was basically that a guy fucks lemons. Woo. It's NSFW, I guess, but it involves two adults and lemons. It's really no big deal, and it's pretty funny.
I have friends that are models. Heaven forbid they show even the barest bit of nipple. Sometimes it doesn't even take that much. They have pictures taken down and temp-bans put on them.
So my question is who are they employing to scan these images, and why do they find partially clothed women more offensive than pictures of exploited kids?
I know quite a number of machine learning researchers and they're not just aware of that, they're also aware of the implicit bias that gets built into machine learning systems based on the training sets. It's a huge problem and it's hard to solve. While I feel like Google has both the resources and responsibility to be a better actor in this regard, only by exposing their system to real world challenges can they actually suss out what needs to be fixed. It's a bit of a catch-22--you don't want to release unless the data is accurate, but the data can't be accurate unless you release it to be stress-tested. Hopefully the turnaround here will be quick.
Here's the thing: those are perfectly reasonable requests, the rules aren't arbitrary, there's some determinism, etc.
I went to an interview, and I got asked how to write something that calculates the nth Fibonacci number. The naive solution is of course to do it recursively, but I'd recently been reading about it, and I had an iterative solution. So I wrote that down. Turns out the question is multi-part, and the second part is "do it faster". My solution was already pretty optimal, so I didn't have anywhere to go. It was clear that this wasn't okay. I did the work better than expected on the first try, but got docked points for the interviewer's lack of imagination.
This is what people mean when they say they don't want to solve riddles. I'm not there to be a dancing monkey, we're trying to have a dialogue about why I'm right for your company and to clear a minimum bar for skill. There's this story about fizzbuzz (http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/) where basically the writer concludes that bad programmers are weeded out by really minimally challenging problems, and making things more complicated doesn't give you any better sense of success.
My questions in interviews are more philosophical. "What do you think about commenting code?" "What's your favourite programming language? Why? What problems does it have? Do those problems have solutions? How do you work around issues like that?" These are questions that programmers think about on their own time and have opinions about, and having an opinion and being able to talk intelligently about it tells me a lot more about how engaged and appropriate someone is for the job than basic BS like 'write a solution for the nth Fibonacci number'. That's not an inherently interesting problem, it tells me very little about what you'd be like to work with or even your problem solving skills, and ultimately bores the both of us.
What does it mean to make a 'superior' product anymore?
The low end is built on no margins. They just don't have the economies of scale to compete at the low end; I think that much is clear. You can't compete on price anymore, because the next guy can sell for a penny less, and that may be your entire profit margin. That's not hyperbole--at some point HTC (I'm pretty sure it was HTC) was making an average profit of only 1-2c per phone. Untenable.
So you need a product differentiator--and what is that? You run the same OS as everyone else, everyone hates it when you mess with the default OS skin, so...hardware features? But differentiating on that basis requires pretty big features now; things that nobody has, by definition. The only way to recoup that sort of outlay is by going to the high-end.
HTC can no longer afford to care if you can't afford their phones. They have to move up-market because that's the only place where they have any potential to make money, and they can cut the costs of sourcing lower-spec components and designing those lower-spec phones. They can move this year's model down one tier next year, and sell that as their 'discount' phone since they'll hopefully already have made enough money on those phones that any additional sales are basically just pure profit.
If they don't make money at the high end, they're doomed as a handset maker; there's nowhere else to go except out of this market.
...I hope that we can come together and agree that it's sad and hilarious that companies like Gartner exist and consistently make such completely asinine predictions about anything at all.
Every year some analyst predicts something absolutely stupid that all of us know is impossible. I hope whoever made this call knows that they are bad and they should feel bad.
Or a nerd. I have my own domain because I like having it. There are two addresses on the domain. It's my permanent contact address. I'm grandfathered in on the free Google Apps plan, but if that ever ends, I'd pay MS $20 a year to do my mail hosting for sure.
So during the week, I get my normal work done, but on Friday afternoons, if I've been frustrated with some part of the build system I've written or I want to make something about my process better, I work on tinkering with emacs. Few people need elisp as their main language, but if they're using emacs, they're working in elisp on the weekends to make the rest of their week more liveable.
Well, emacs lisp is the language that all the extensions and most of the editor is written in, so yes, it matters. The SDKs I'm provided to work on game consoles are all in C++, so we work in C++.
The fact that all these languages are tiring complete doesn't do away with their advantages or disadvantages. In the real world, these choices have consequences.
For tablets over $200, the iPad basically has a lock. iPad is almost a generic word for tablet; the NFL had to really work to remind everyone to say 'Microsoft Surface' and not 'iPad'.
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So this is really interesting to me. Why do you need laptops with that much RAM? From other comments, this seems to be fairly common, but my desktop work PC only has 64GB and I donâ(TM)t find I hit that limit even when Iâ(TM)m running a couple instances of the game. Iâ(TM)m in AAA game development (PC and console), so I get that more RAM is great, I just donâ(TM)t know why you need it portable as well?
Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean nobody's heard of it. It's a subsidiary of PayPal, so it's not small potatoes.
The iPhone 7 is water resistant.
Weren't the 70s a time of extremely high fuel prices and high interest rates? When you look at inflation, you have to account for what's inflated in cost. If fuel costs less but food costs more, that's a lot worse than fuel costing more and food costing less.
Twitter is capricious with its bans. It bans people for saying offensive things, but doesn't ban them for saying threatening or dangerous things.
I abhor hate speech, and I actually support my country's ban on it. I believe speech can be weaponized; advocating for the extermination of a person or people on the basis of race or orientation or whatever shouldn't be protected speech. (Don't argue with me about this; I don't care what you think in this regard. I'm just giving this preamble as context, not to invite any discussion on the matter. I mean, post if you want, but I'm not going to read any of it.)
The problem with Twitter is that because they're so useless on their own and haven't allowed anyone to make useful tools for the service, people that I *do* want to hear--usually women--are driven off the service because of the unending firehose of rape and death threats. Police don't take those seriously, and neither does twitter, and so the system becomes unusable for anyone at the receiving end of that. I don't think that's an acceptable use of a service.
IF Twitter had provided appropriate tools from the beginning (shared block lists, tools to filter out threats and random hateful garbage, etc.) this would all be a non-issue. The all-speech-is-free crowd could go off and do what they want, and the people that are just trying to live their lives without hearing how they should be raped to death could ALSO use the space as they want. Instead, Twitter lashed out in all directions at none, ineffectually banning people but not making the system any better for anyone.
If you're going to provide a platform for free speech (and for twitter, I fall on the side of more speech being better often because it means repressed populations may actually get heard), you also need to provide tools for some people to make sure they only have to hear what they want to.
My definition of 'engineer' includes 'legally responsible for the work they do', which is what happens with P.Engs in Canada. I don't know how it works in other places, but an engineer signing off on something means something. I have no legal liability for my code and I make no guarantees to anyone about it. (Keeping in mind that I'm a game programmer so, y'know, whatever.)
I rarely find it's programmers that say this, it's people that are programming adjacent that say this.
Programmer:
"This'll be finished on time barring "
Manager/Marketing/Whoever:
"It'll be done on time? Great! NO BACKSIES"
I've been running iOS 10.3 beta for the whole run on an iPhone 6 with 16GB of storage. There haven't been any problems, despite the limited space that it has to work with and how much it has to go and flush cache files and whatnot. I'd be surprised if there are more than a handful of problems related to the upgrade.
Your anecdote isn't data. It's nice that you've worked for progressive companies and that you yourself are good about working with women, but it's absolutely a systemic issue. Story after story after story confirms it.
Rather, I think you and the companies you work for are outliers. Congratulations on that; I hope you keep your streak.
"Premature optimisation is the root of all evil"
is an aphorism that is exactly trying to get across what you say at the end
"Don't assume, Profile!"
Basically, the guy that originally said it was trying to say you can't guess what the problems are going to be before you lay the code down. Write the code correctly, but don't try to tinker with your scheduling algorithm to make it provably optimal when it's going to be dwarfed by order-of-magnitude problems with the network code.
I'd consider my comment more of a meta-joke. :D
10% Asking for clarification on the issue
5% Explaining their understanding of battery tech
8% People talking about the story without reading it
77% 'Good Enough' jokes
This is not true in Canada. Getting into University is based solely on your grades, whether you meet the requirements and whether there's room in the program.
My work internet blocks Oglaf, so I can't find and link the strip in question, but a couple weeks ago my partner put the strip up on her Facebook page. A day later, the strip had been taken down because it was 'offensive'. It's a cartoon, and the punchline was basically that a guy fucks lemons. Woo. It's NSFW, I guess, but it involves two adults and lemons. It's really no big deal, and it's pretty funny.
I have friends that are models. Heaven forbid they show even the barest bit of nipple. Sometimes it doesn't even take that much. They have pictures taken down and temp-bans put on them.
So my question is who are they employing to scan these images, and why do they find partially clothed women more offensive than pictures of exploited kids?
I know quite a number of machine learning researchers and they're not just aware of that, they're also aware of the implicit bias that gets built into machine learning systems based on the training sets. It's a huge problem and it's hard to solve. While I feel like Google has both the resources and responsibility to be a better actor in this regard, only by exposing their system to real world challenges can they actually suss out what needs to be fixed. It's a bit of a catch-22--you don't want to release unless the data is accurate, but the data can't be accurate unless you release it to be stress-tested. Hopefully the turnaround here will be quick.
Says the guy that typed "your's". "Your is is a special breed of stupid..."? Nice.
Here's the thing: those are perfectly reasonable requests, the rules aren't arbitrary, there's some determinism, etc.
I went to an interview, and I got asked how to write something that calculates the nth Fibonacci number. The naive solution is of course to do it recursively, but I'd recently been reading about it, and I had an iterative solution. So I wrote that down. Turns out the question is multi-part, and the second part is "do it faster". My solution was already pretty optimal, so I didn't have anywhere to go. It was clear that this wasn't okay. I did the work better than expected on the first try, but got docked points for the interviewer's lack of imagination.
This is what people mean when they say they don't want to solve riddles. I'm not there to be a dancing monkey, we're trying to have a dialogue about why I'm right for your company and to clear a minimum bar for skill. There's this story about fizzbuzz (http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/) where basically the writer concludes that bad programmers are weeded out by really minimally challenging problems, and making things more complicated doesn't give you any better sense of success.
My questions in interviews are more philosophical. "What do you think about commenting code?" "What's your favourite programming language? Why? What problems does it have? Do those problems have solutions? How do you work around issues like that?" These are questions that programmers think about on their own time and have opinions about, and having an opinion and being able to talk intelligently about it tells me a lot more about how engaged and appropriate someone is for the job than basic BS like 'write a solution for the nth Fibonacci number'. That's not an inherently interesting problem, it tells me very little about what you'd be like to work with or even your problem solving skills, and ultimately bores the both of us.
Yeah! Fuck developers! I deserve all the useful apps I can get for free because nobody else deserves food or convenience!
NOW WHERE'S MY UPDATES, YOU LAZY JERKS? I PAID NOTHING AND I EXPECT THIS APP TO BE REFRESHED DAILY
If it's a subscription that you bought through the AppleTV/iOS, then yes. If you paid for the subscription through the web or something, then no.
What does it mean to make a 'superior' product anymore?
The low end is built on no margins. They just don't have the economies of scale to compete at the low end; I think that much is clear. You can't compete on price anymore, because the next guy can sell for a penny less, and that may be your entire profit margin. That's not hyperbole--at some point HTC (I'm pretty sure it was HTC) was making an average profit of only 1-2c per phone. Untenable.
So you need a product differentiator--and what is that? You run the same OS as everyone else, everyone hates it when you mess with the default OS skin, so...hardware features? But differentiating on that basis requires pretty big features now; things that nobody has, by definition. The only way to recoup that sort of outlay is by going to the high-end.
HTC can no longer afford to care if you can't afford their phones. They have to move up-market because that's the only place where they have any potential to make money, and they can cut the costs of sourcing lower-spec components and designing those lower-spec phones. They can move this year's model down one tier next year, and sell that as their 'discount' phone since they'll hopefully already have made enough money on those phones that any additional sales are basically just pure profit.
If they don't make money at the high end, they're doomed as a handset maker; there's nowhere else to go except out of this market.
...I hope that we can come together and agree that it's sad and hilarious that companies like Gartner exist and consistently make such completely asinine predictions about anything at all.
Every year some analyst predicts something absolutely stupid that all of us know is impossible. I hope whoever made this call knows that they are bad and they should feel bad.
Or a nerd. I have my own domain because I like having it. There are two addresses on the domain. It's my permanent contact address. I'm grandfathered in on the free Google Apps plan, but if that ever ends, I'd pay MS $20 a year to do my mail hosting for sure.
So during the week, I get my normal work done, but on Friday afternoons, if I've been frustrated with some part of the build system I've written or I want to make something about my process better, I work on tinkering with emacs. Few people need elisp as their main language, but if they're using emacs, they're working in elisp on the weekends to make the rest of their week more liveable.
Well, emacs lisp is the language that all the extensions and most of the editor is written in, so yes, it matters. The SDKs I'm provided to work on game consoles are all in C++, so we work in C++.
The fact that all these languages are tiring complete doesn't do away with their advantages or disadvantages. In the real world, these choices have consequences.
For tablets over $200, the iPad basically has a lock. iPad is almost a generic word for tablet; the NFL had to really work to remind everyone to say 'Microsoft Surface' and not 'iPad'.