If they get past that, ask them how heap sort works.
Heapsort? I doubt that most CS graduate students could code up heapsort on the spot if you ambushed them with that question. This is the kind of question that interviewers ask to make themselves look smart without realizing that it makes them look like a smart ass. If they have a CS degree from a reputable school you can safely assume that sorting was covered. It's rarely an issue in commercial code because efficient sorting is a built in feature of just about every commercial software framework in common use. If you really must weed out the people who absolutely cannot code, just throw FizzBuzz at them. It's effective and serves essentially the same purpose without annoying (or eliminating) otherwise decent candidates.
Too bad your brilliant plan is no longer legal in Palo Alto.
And yet how many successful people in the valley got that way by bending or even breaking the rules. What's the worst that can happen? They ask you to move on? They can't even get the panhandlers off the street corners here in California without the ACLU jumping all over them, do you really think they're going to waste a lot of time enforcing ordinances against overnight parking?
It doesn't matter when the landlord knows he can charge $5,000 a month and have renters all out bidding each other for that one bedroom in an attic.
So get creative. Buy a used van conversion in decent condition, get a gym membership and live out of your van until you can get on your feet. Many in Silicon Valley have done this and even crazier things to make it. Always remember that it's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission, so don't be a prisoner to rules that were created by landlords and others like them to keep you down. Your advantage over them is that you have less to loose and are willing to do things that they didn't believe you would or could to survive. As a young person, getting ahead these days requires cunning and deceit. Do not fail to use these methods when necessary.
Then once there is a prototype they could hand it to a software engineer for the parts that need optimization for final tweaking.
To use an analogy, would you cut your custom suit from an old plastic tarp using rusty garden shears and then hand it to your tailor for "final tweaking"? No? Then you'd best leave the programming to the experts who frankly don't need your "help".
It's been proposed that this common genetic mutation among Asians is a contributing factor to eastern societies relatively low rate of alcohol consumption.
Have you never been to Japan? Going out after working late and getting shit-faced drunk before showing up for work again early the next morning (hopefully sober) is a long standing tradition of the typical Japanese salaryman. In fact, doing business in Japan without engaging in social drinking would be practically impossible.
Overpriced is in the eye of the beholder. Apple clearly provides enough value for their customers to be willing to pay Apple's price.
Ah, but what kind of value? It's not necessarily limited to the technical quality of the device, regardless of what your opinion of that is, because Apple has cachet as a luxury brand that Android largely lacks. Indeed, there are plenty of Apple users who pay more for their luxury branded cases than Android users pay for their phones. For example, the English luxury goods maker Burberry offers a leather iPad case that costs well over $300 just for the case. The Apple product, complete with high end accoutrements, is exclusive in ways that the $50 pay-as-you-go Android phone is not. That has value to some people. They want to be seen with their Apple product, not the el-cheapo Android special.
You may think they shouldn't be doing that - and fair enough, they probably shouldn't
Inadequate intelligence cost the United States dearly in two previous world wars. It was decided after a costly victory in WWII that we would have a permanent professional intelligence gathering infrastructure. As a citizen in a supposedly free society I don't like it, but I understand the reasons for it's existence. The simple truth is that the world is not always the place that we would wish it to be. I think that most people understand this, even if they don't like admitting it, which explains at least in part the lack of outrage concerning the revelations of Edward Snowden. However, some good may yet come of this if more citizens question the motives of the government and view it's words and deeds with a more critical eye.
While it's true that (poor) encryption is often used in DRM schemes, they aren't really the same thing. Encryption is designed to prevent third parties from observing your data without access to the decryption keys. This is an effective method of keeping secrets from adversaries even on systems that you don't know about and don't control. Contrast this with DRM which has the neigh impossible task of preventing devices, not in the custody or control of these "rights holders", from making copies of or format shifting data while still showing it to the end users in unencrypted form and keeping the decryption keys secret. Nobody who understands these matters believes that DRM is effective or can be made so, the very idea is asinine, but that doesn't seem to stop ignorant business people from trying.
Uhuh. What you really mean is, "Don't dress in clothing that is commonly worn by young black men".
Yes. The goal of the book is to help you avoid being arrested. Achieving that goal may require certain adjustments in dress, grooming and attitude on the part of the reader to be most effective. These are practical matters, not political ones. The book doesn't concern itself directly with politics although it can be seen as a critique of the methods commonly used to evaluate the performance of uniformed police officers in the US.
If you want to look and act like an honest, upstanding citizen, you certainly don't want to dress like a banker.
When was the last time you saw a man in a suit and tie standing spread eagle over the hood of police car while being patted down for drugs and weapons? Avoiding an encounter with the police is the first step in not getting arrested.
Yes, and the reality is that our police and justice system is racist to the core.
All the more reason to take care in how you conduct yourself in public. The irony of all this is that many of the very same people who support a powerful and centralized government to regulate business, raise taxes and increase social spending seldom think about the unintended consequences of granting more power to the state. They complain about loss of freedom and racial profiling without making the connection between their advocacy for more government and the loss of personal freedoms.
So what's your advice for those who are arrested despite not committing a crime?
Most job applications only ask if you've been convicted of a crime. You can honestly answer no and simply not mention the arrests. If it comes up, don't deny it but explain the circumstances as best you can in a positive way. If those asking believe that it was something that could have happened to anyone, they're less likely to hold it against you. In short, be polite and truthful but don't simply volunteer this information to everyone you meet. There's a better than average chance that it simply won't come up, especially if it happened 10 or more years ago.
Even if you prove that you're innocent of everything but similar fashion choices as a criminal, you still have an arrest record
Precisely. That is why Dale Carson suggests in the book that you don't dress in clothing that is commonly worn by criminals or at least the street walking kind. A suit and tie combined with neat personal grooming, clean haircut and respectful attitude is best and will buy you much leeway with most police officers, but at the very least avoid sports jerseys and baggy pants and be polite. The better that you look and act like an honest upstanding citizen the less likely the police are to stop or arrest you. If you drive a car, make sure that it's clean and well maintained. The basic premise here is to be the person that you want to be seen as, not the person that the police like to arrest. You might call that profiling and it is, but that's reality. These things are doubly true for young blacks and hispanics who are more likely to be stopped by police than a WASP, all other things being equal.
How about this one, hire an Indian firm to run a government level oracle database without actually testing it or including load-balancing and you're gonna have a bad time.
For the amount of money they spent on healthcare.gov they could have hired call centers in low cost southern states to handle all of the signups by phone. Unglamorous and low tech, but effective. What matters here is getting the job done, not how pretty and mobile friendly your awesome website is (except that it doesn't work). In fact, the failed launch of healthcare.gov is a perfect metaphor for the Obama administration itself, it looks good and has plenty of style but it has a hard time getting anything useful done.
This guy, Ross Ulbricht, made a number of critical mistakes irrespective of his use of TOR. For example, he posted on the shroomery.org forums using the user name "altoid" and then again a few days later on bitcointalk.org with the same user name. The court documents aren't clear on whether or not he was using TOR at the time he made those posts or when or how he created those accounts in the first place. Apparently, these were some of the earliest public posts promoting what would ultimately become the Silk Road. Eight months after that, the "altoid" identity was used again on the bitcointalk forum to advertise for an "IT pro in the Bitcoin community" to hire for a job with a "venture backed Bitcoin startup company". This was critical because the email address for the job posting was rossulbricht at gmail. So this guy used his real email address (which contained his real name) posting as "altoid", the same account that had earlier promoted the Silk Road concept on both shroomery and bitcointalks: epic fail.. From there it was proverbial cake for the authorities to monitor his Google accounts and trace the IP address of his logins to an Internet cafe in San Francisco. They also found that he had an account on the Mises Institute website (an Austrian Economics organization) under Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road website also linked to the Mises Institute website. Yet more evidence, albeit circumstantial, that Ulbricht was the one behind Silk Road. Game, Set and Match to the the 3 letter agencies and the USSS. Have a nice day.
will all be free to live out the rest of their lives without trouble
If you count living out the remainder of your days in old age on a miserable pension as not much trouble.
or if they're lucky get cushy executive or high-ranking government jobs?
Were there any formerly high ranking ex-Stasi who made it into cushy executive or high-ranking government jobs? I suppose that it's possible, but it seems improbable given the infamous nature of their former employer.
On the night that the Stasi headquarters building in Berlin was stormed there were large crowds of people and they were very angry. They overpowered the police and forced their way in to stop the destruction of records. It was a very angry mob situation and it could have been much worse if not for some cooler heads in the crowd who prevailed upon the people not to harm the few police trying to stop them (although they were pushed aside). In Leipzig, where the ropes and knives chant was used by the crowds, the police barricaded themselves in and were prepared to use machine guns if pressed. It was a dangerous situation and it very nearly spiraled out of control. It's fortunate that it wasn't much worse, but it still wasn't a very good day for the ex-secret policemen, all things considered.
Whoever they are they would do well to remember the fate of the Stasi in East Germany when the wall came down and the people finally had their revenge. I believe that the chant from the crowds on that day was something along the lines of, "the ropes are ready and the knives have been honed". Yeah, that wasn't a good day for the ex-watchers.
That would be OK, but on the other hand the guy who wanted a bike didn't necessarily want to pay as much.
The buyer could have walked away if he didn't like the price.
I just don't see why some fast-moving little bastard with special access should get to siphon all the value out of the transaction between us.
That's why you never put in orders at market. You always buy and sell with limit orders. If the order can be fulfilled at a price that you are willing to pay or accept then it happens. If not, the order remains active until the target price is reached and any other conditions, such as all or nothing (AON) or fill or kill (FOK), are satisfied. As a human investor, and not a computer, you prefer to have the price you want rather than certainty of execution at a certain time. You cannot win on timing, but you don't also have to lose on price. Will it be the end of the world if you cannot buy or sell at any given second? For most small investors the answer is almost certainly not which means that you can afford to be patient. That's your advantage. Let the high frequency traders pass their shares around like hot potatoes thousands of times per second, it's meaningless on time scales of months and years because the long term value of the investment will always trend back towards the long term value of the underlying business or asset.
It's because the consequences are far greater for us than past generations. We need the most optimal outcome just to get by.
Whether or not your order executed at $3.50 or $3.52 doesn't make a damn bit of difference over the long run. Learn the lessons of Warren Buffet and you will realize that the intense focus on high frequency trading is a tempest in a teapot for the long term investor.
You asked for $500. Presumably you were happy selling at that price. If you wanted more then why didn't you just ask for more in the first place? If you buy a Powerball ticket and don't win are you mad at the persons(s) who did? A curious trait that I've observed in young people, especially the so-called millenials or Gen-Y, is that they spend inordinate amounts of time agonizing over the minutia of every decision, whether important or not, because they're terrified of making suboptimal choices and regretting it later. Life is full of imperfect choices and suboptimal outcomes. Most of us learn to live with that, but a few never do and spend their lives in anger and frustration over what's fair and what's not or what might have been.
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If they get past that, ask them how heap sort works.
Heapsort? I doubt that most CS graduate students could code up heapsort on the spot if you ambushed them with that question. This is the kind of question that interviewers ask to make themselves look smart without realizing that it makes them look like a smart ass. If they have a CS degree from a reputable school you can safely assume that sorting was covered. It's rarely an issue in commercial code because efficient sorting is a built in feature of just about every commercial software framework in common use. If you really must weed out the people who absolutely cannot code, just throw FizzBuzz at them. It's effective and serves essentially the same purpose without annoying (or eliminating) otherwise decent candidates.
Too bad your brilliant plan is no longer legal in Palo Alto.
And yet how many successful people in the valley got that way by bending or even breaking the rules. What's the worst that can happen? They ask you to move on? They can't even get the panhandlers off the street corners here in California without the ACLU jumping all over them, do you really think they're going to waste a lot of time enforcing ordinances against overnight parking?
It doesn't matter when the landlord knows he can charge $5,000 a month and have renters all out bidding each other for that one bedroom in an attic.
So get creative. Buy a used van conversion in decent condition, get a gym membership and live out of your van until you can get on your feet. Many in Silicon Valley have done this and even crazier things to make it. Always remember that it's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission, so don't be a prisoner to rules that were created by landlords and others like them to keep you down. Your advantage over them is that you have less to loose and are willing to do things that they didn't believe you would or could to survive. As a young person, getting ahead these days requires cunning and deceit. Do not fail to use these methods when necessary.
They just reported they haven't build major parts of the system yet.
Indeed, government employees who worked on the project admitted that fact publicly in sworn testimony before Congress. It's undeniable.
No, this piece of shit belongs to the legislators who unilaterally formulated and passed the bill, nobody else.
Amen. The Democrats are responsible for this mess. It's entirely their doing and entirely their fault.
Then once there is a prototype they could hand it to a software engineer for the parts that need optimization for final tweaking.
To use an analogy, would you cut your custom suit from an old plastic tarp using rusty garden shears and then hand it to your tailor for "final tweaking"? No? Then you'd best leave the programming to the experts who frankly don't need your "help".
It's been proposed that this common genetic mutation among Asians is a contributing factor to eastern societies relatively low rate of alcohol consumption.
Have you never been to Japan? Going out after working late and getting shit-faced drunk before showing up for work again early the next morning (hopefully sober) is a long standing tradition of the typical Japanese salaryman. In fact, doing business in Japan without engaging in social drinking would be practically impossible.
Overpriced is in the eye of the beholder. Apple clearly provides enough value for their customers to be willing to pay Apple's price.
Ah, but what kind of value? It's not necessarily limited to the technical quality of the device, regardless of what your opinion of that is, because Apple has cachet as a luxury brand that Android largely lacks. Indeed, there are plenty of Apple users who pay more for their luxury branded cases than Android users pay for their phones. For example, the English luxury goods maker Burberry offers a leather iPad case that costs well over $300 just for the case. The Apple product, complete with high end accoutrements, is exclusive in ways that the $50 pay-as-you-go Android phone is not. That has value to some people. They want to be seen with their Apple product, not the el-cheapo Android special.
You may think they shouldn't be doing that - and fair enough, they probably shouldn't
Inadequate intelligence cost the United States dearly in two previous world wars. It was decided after a costly victory in WWII that we would have a permanent professional intelligence gathering infrastructure. As a citizen in a supposedly free society I don't like it, but I understand the reasons for it's existence. The simple truth is that the world is not always the place that we would wish it to be. I think that most people understand this, even if they don't like admitting it, which explains at least in part the lack of outrage concerning the revelations of Edward Snowden. However, some good may yet come of this if more citizens question the motives of the government and view it's words and deeds with a more critical eye.
While it's true that (poor) encryption is often used in DRM schemes, they aren't really the same thing. Encryption is designed to prevent third parties from observing your data without access to the decryption keys. This is an effective method of keeping secrets from adversaries even on systems that you don't know about and don't control. Contrast this with DRM which has the neigh impossible task of preventing devices, not in the custody or control of these "rights holders", from making copies of or format shifting data while still showing it to the end users in unencrypted form and keeping the decryption keys secret. Nobody who understands these matters believes that DRM is effective or can be made so, the very idea is asinine, but that doesn't seem to stop ignorant business people from trying.
Uhuh. What you really mean is, "Don't dress in clothing that is commonly worn by young black men".
Yes. The goal of the book is to help you avoid being arrested. Achieving that goal may require certain adjustments in dress, grooming and attitude on the part of the reader to be most effective. These are practical matters, not political ones. The book doesn't concern itself directly with politics although it can be seen as a critique of the methods commonly used to evaluate the performance of uniformed police officers in the US.
If you want to look and act like an honest, upstanding citizen, you certainly don't want to dress like a banker.
When was the last time you saw a man in a suit and tie standing spread eagle over the hood of police car while being patted down for drugs and weapons? Avoiding an encounter with the police is the first step in not getting arrested.
Yes, and the reality is that our police and justice system is racist to the core.
All the more reason to take care in how you conduct yourself in public. The irony of all this is that many of the very same people who support a powerful and centralized government to regulate business, raise taxes and increase social spending seldom think about the unintended consequences of granting more power to the state. They complain about loss of freedom and racial profiling without making the connection between their advocacy for more government and the loss of personal freedoms.
So what's your advice for those who are arrested despite not committing a crime?
Most job applications only ask if you've been convicted of a crime. You can honestly answer no and simply not mention the arrests. If it comes up, don't deny it but explain the circumstances as best you can in a positive way. If those asking believe that it was something that could have happened to anyone, they're less likely to hold it against you. In short, be polite and truthful but don't simply volunteer this information to everyone you meet. There's a better than average chance that it simply won't come up, especially if it happened 10 or more years ago.
Even if you prove that you're innocent of everything but similar fashion choices as a criminal, you still have an arrest record
Precisely. That is why Dale Carson suggests in the book that you don't dress in clothing that is commonly worn by criminals or at least the street walking kind. A suit and tie combined with neat personal grooming, clean haircut and respectful attitude is best and will buy you much leeway with most police officers, but at the very least avoid sports jerseys and baggy pants and be polite. The better that you look and act like an honest upstanding citizen the less likely the police are to stop or arrest you. If you drive a car, make sure that it's clean and well maintained. The basic premise here is to be the person that you want to be seen as, not the person that the police like to arrest. You might call that profiling and it is, but that's reality. These things are doubly true for young blacks and hispanics who are more likely to be stopped by police than a WASP, all other things being equal.
How about this one, hire an Indian firm to run a government level oracle database without actually testing it or including load-balancing and you're gonna have a bad time.
For the amount of money they spent on healthcare.gov they could have hired call centers in low cost southern states to handle all of the signups by phone. Unglamorous and low tech, but effective. What matters here is getting the job done, not how pretty and mobile friendly your awesome website is (except that it doesn't work). In fact, the failed launch of healthcare.gov is a perfect metaphor for the Obama administration itself, it looks good and has plenty of style but it has a hard time getting anything useful done.
I used to work for an adult internet company who had massive traffic. We were serving millions of people daily before 2000.
Was it first served first come?
I agree - they suck! like those xmas albums with the barking dogs at different pitches.I want my $9.99 back!
Hell, I'd be happy if the stores just agreed to give "Jingle Bells Rock" a rest this year.
This guy, Ross Ulbricht, made a number of critical mistakes irrespective of his use of TOR. For example, he posted on the shroomery.org forums using the user name "altoid" and then again a few days later on bitcointalk.org with the same user name. The court documents aren't clear on whether or not he was using TOR at the time he made those posts or when or how he created those accounts in the first place. Apparently, these were some of the earliest public posts promoting what would ultimately become the Silk Road. Eight months after that, the "altoid" identity was used again on the bitcointalk forum to advertise for an "IT pro in the Bitcoin community" to hire for a job with a "venture backed Bitcoin startup company". This was critical because the email address for the job posting was rossulbricht at gmail. So this guy used his real email address (which contained his real name) posting as "altoid", the same account that had earlier promoted the Silk Road concept on both shroomery and bitcointalks: epic fail. . From there it was proverbial cake for the authorities to monitor his Google accounts and trace the IP address of his logins to an Internet cafe in San Francisco. They also found that he had an account on the Mises Institute website (an Austrian Economics organization) under Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road website also linked to the Mises Institute website. Yet more evidence, albeit circumstantial, that Ulbricht was the one behind Silk Road. Game, Set and Match to the the 3 letter agencies and the USSS. Have a nice day.
will all be free to live out the rest of their lives without trouble
If you count living out the remainder of your days in old age on a miserable pension as not much trouble.
or if they're lucky get cushy executive or high-ranking government jobs?
Were there any formerly high ranking ex-Stasi who made it into cushy executive or high-ranking government jobs? I suppose that it's possible, but it seems improbable given the infamous nature of their former employer.
On the night that the Stasi headquarters building in Berlin was stormed there were large crowds of people and they were very angry. They overpowered the police and forced their way in to stop the destruction of records. It was a very angry mob situation and it could have been much worse if not for some cooler heads in the crowd who prevailed upon the people not to harm the few police trying to stop them (although they were pushed aside). In Leipzig, where the ropes and knives chant was used by the crowds, the police barricaded themselves in and were prepared to use machine guns if pressed. It was a dangerous situation and it very nearly spiraled out of control. It's fortunate that it wasn't much worse, but it still wasn't a very good day for the ex-secret policemen, all things considered.
never know who is listening in.
Whoever they are they would do well to remember the fate of the Stasi in East Germany when the wall came down and the people finally had their revenge. I believe that the chant from the crowds on that day was something along the lines of, "the ropes are ready and the knives have been honed". Yeah, that wasn't a good day for the ex-watchers.
Do they do ANYTHING for the actual good of the country?
Well, they can't be all bad if they're taking a break from screwing everybody over for a week or two.
That would be OK, but on the other hand the guy who wanted a bike didn't necessarily want to pay as much.
The buyer could have walked away if he didn't like the price.
I just don't see why some fast-moving little bastard with special access should get to siphon all the value out of the transaction between us.
That's why you never put in orders at market. You always buy and sell with limit orders. If the order can be fulfilled at a price that you are willing to pay or accept then it happens. If not, the order remains active until the target price is reached and any other conditions, such as all or nothing (AON) or fill or kill (FOK), are satisfied. As a human investor, and not a computer, you prefer to have the price you want rather than certainty of execution at a certain time. You cannot win on timing, but you don't also have to lose on price. Will it be the end of the world if you cannot buy or sell at any given second? For most small investors the answer is almost certainly not which means that you can afford to be patient. That's your advantage. Let the high frequency traders pass their shares around like hot potatoes thousands of times per second, it's meaningless on time scales of months and years because the long term value of the investment will always trend back towards the long term value of the underlying business or asset.
It's because the consequences are far greater for us than past generations. We need the most optimal outcome just to get by.
Whether or not your order executed at $3.50 or $3.52 doesn't make a damn bit of difference over the long run. Learn the lessons of Warren Buffet and you will realize that the intense focus on high frequency trading is a tempest in a teapot for the long term investor.
You asked for $500. Presumably you were happy selling at that price. If you wanted more then why didn't you just ask for more in the first place? If you buy a Powerball ticket and don't win are you mad at the persons(s) who did? A curious trait that I've observed in young people, especially the so-called millenials or Gen-Y, is that they spend inordinate amounts of time agonizing over the minutia of every decision, whether important or not, because they're terrified of making suboptimal choices and regretting it later. Life is full of imperfect choices and suboptimal outcomes. Most of us learn to live with that, but a few never do and spend their lives in anger and frustration over what's fair and what's not or what might have been.
It's not one or the other. Both are true.
Why certainly sir! When have you government types ever steered me wrong?