Microsoft is in Redmond, not Seattle proper. The outlaying areas are all served with symmetrical gigabit FttH, while Seattle itself in many neighborhoods is still stuck on shit POTS lines
More than any other? Perhaps you forget video rental stores. An entire industry is gone. RadioShack sticking around this long is actually quite noteworthy!
Oh trust me, this has exactly been my thought process too! My interview was right before the big public scandal about their toxic work environments. Considering the entire interview process (not just the one example posted), looking at it in retrospect, it was actually quite obvious how toxic their entire system is internally. I'm quite happy to not be apart of that team.
"successful"? no. That's the job of marketing, not the quality of the developer. "functional"? yes. It should accomplish the task at hand given the parameters required.
GitHub or other online repositories should be one of the highest value markers for any developer. There are other repos out there, but I also like GitHub because it tracks contributions other than just code, such as bug ports and general communication about development projects. It shows how well a person can document and address issues.
Quick cheat sheets are important. Not everyone can memorize every single library function in every single language they use on a daily basis, even simple functions.
Is it: strlen(string) len(string) length(string) count(string) string.len string.len() string.length string.length() or any number of other variations.
As a developer, I'm sure most everyone knows the task they're trying to do (get the length of a string), but there are so many variations of the same function between libraries and languages, that it is often quicker and easier just to search which one is appropriate for the given language, than to simply type each one out and test the code to see which one doesn't bail on execution.
Hi, my name is Vince. I interviewed for Amazon, specifically for their PHP API for AWS development team. Despite an entire background of 10+ years of developing front-facing PHP APIs for other businesses, plus having a major part of my code available for public review on GitHub, I failed their interview process because they wanted me to write a specific type of searching and sorting algorithm, by hand, on white-board. This type of code would never have been used on the job, ever. Yet this is what they interview on. The job was to build a PHP API so PHP developers can call basic PHP functions, and the library would translate them over to HHTPS calls to AWS. All of the complex computing/searching/sorting is handled by the existing AWS services.
Slashdot's Meta-Moderation is by no means perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better than 99% of the web sites out there, especially anything that has automated moderation. Don't feel like dealing with assholes? Then don't browse at -1. Odds are someone else with karma has already come along and moderated the assholes into oblivion.
Almost all major sites I use have both 2FA enabled plus login notifications enabled. *IF* someone attempted to access one of those accounts, even failed attempts, I would have instant notifications. None have appeared for this, or for pretty much all previous leaks for that matter... Guess I'm just "lucky"? Or maybe the hype was simply turned up to 11.
40 million users for $36 million? It has been quite the long time since I've been a site sell for well below a dollar per user. dA really sold themselves really fucking short on this one.
It is all about cost-benefit. CPU speeds continue to get faster, and renting CPU time on cloud providers become cheaper and cheaper.
Why is this significant? There are still major certificate authorities out there with intermediate certificates using SHA-1. Find a collision for these certificates, and you essentially become a new intermediate certificate authority with the ability to issue domain certs for basically anything you want and they'll validate in browsers.
Now thing of government agencies or crime syndicates that could afford the CPU/GPU time to do this. It is a highly practical attack vector now.
Since "analysts" keep claiming that phone are replacing consoles and desktops for gaming, let's look at this from a business perspective. That is equivalent to a single video game purchase on another platform. That is virtually nothing at all in comparison to other platforms right now.
Still using HP LaserJet 2100's in the office I work in, all manufactured in 1998. As of Windows 10, there are STILL official drivers for these things. On top of that, the drivers are the absolute generic "you can print, and nothing more" drivers with no UI what so ever. They just WORK, with zero bullshit. They've all been upgraded with their optional NICs too so now they are network attached, instead of the shitty USB-to-LPT adapters we had ages ago for these. They are simply bullet proof, never failing.
Win10 Ent is available as a volume license purchase only. I'm in an organization with less than 10 people but are required to be PCI Compliant. Microsoft literally offers 0 versions of Windows 10 that are both compliant and purchased in a small enough quantity for our business.
And how many of those people who connected to these access points were doing the same type of monitoring, in reverse. Such as testing to see how exploitable these fake APs are!?
I have not gotten mine yet, either! Oh wait, that's right, Yahoo just flat out deleted my account for being "Inactive" because I used it in the days of Yahoo Messenger and POP3/IMAP, but didn't log into the Yahoo Mail site directly. About 15 years of content, just gone.
And thus why I always love the constant bitching about the classic LAMP stack here on Slashdot. Yeeeup, this is what I work with in my day job. Yeeeup, this has been what I've worked with for a decade now. Yes, I'll continue to use it, too. Yes, it has its flaws, but it is extremely well supported, and has a very clear support and development structure moving forward for the next 10 years.
At least for the region mentioned (King County / Seattle WA), we're almost entirely hydro electric thanks to the Grand Coulee Dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - I know others around the world are not so lucky.
As a local boy, King County (Seattle, WA) makes sense for this. The downtown bus routes have overhead wiring. The city already has a vast network of electric buses running, so adding battery operated buses to transition on/off the connected wired network makes sense. They're probably one of the easiest metros to make such a transition.
Look at the CEOs over the various eras of Microsoft, it seriously explains everything. The current CEO is from their cloud devision, and in distributed computing, take a few nodes offline from time to time for patching is perfectly normal as other nodes are online for redundancy. Rolling updates are the norm in this area. This logic however absolutely FAILS on the desktop. Updates are scheduled to Microsoft's maintenance windows now, rather than when is the most opportune time for the consumer actively using the operating system. Now think of this not only in terms of Windows Update, but Microsoft as a whole. Gates was a business man, all of their primary software focused on productivity within a business environment. Ballmer was all about DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS, and as much as we all love to make fun of him for it, he was indeed quite good to them (Visual Studio had decent advancements during his time). Now we have Nadella, who's entire focus has been on automation, regardless of who all it effects. Again, this worked great in the datacenter, but he's entirely missed the mark when it comes to the end user perspective.
I love how "Machine Learning" is basically the new hit buzzword (phrase) of 2017. Everything is now "WITH MACHINE LEARNING!" - which is really usually just a static algorithm that searches for generic key words. If you use Facebook, you've probably already seen this in where they highlight words representing time or dates and if you click on them it'll generate a calendar item for you. Microsoft is literally just doing the same, only without the asking part now, but labeling it "Machine Learning" and calling it "OMGZ INNOVATION!"
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Microsoft is in Redmond, not Seattle proper. The outlaying areas are all served with symmetrical gigabit FttH, while Seattle itself in many neighborhoods is still stuck on shit POTS lines
More than any other? Perhaps you forget video rental stores. An entire industry is gone. RadioShack sticking around this long is actually quite noteworthy!
All those Galaxy Note 7's from South Korea's Samsung had to go SOMEWHERE...
Oh trust me, this has exactly been my thought process too! My interview was right before the big public scandal about their toxic work environments. Considering the entire interview process (not just the one example posted), looking at it in retrospect, it was actually quite obvious how toxic their entire system is internally. I'm quite happy to not be apart of that team.
Its worse for me, because I did electronics BEFORE programming. I see a bunch of P's and N's and think they're talking transistors, not algorithms
"successful"? no. That's the job of marketing, not the quality of the developer.
"functional"? yes. It should accomplish the task at hand given the parameters required.
GitHub or other online repositories should be one of the highest value markers for any developer. There are other repos out there, but I also like GitHub because it tracks contributions other than just code, such as bug ports and general communication about development projects. It shows how well a person can document and address issues.
Quick cheat sheets are important. Not everyone can memorize every single library function in every single language they use on a daily basis, even simple functions.
Is it:
strlen(string)
len(string)
length(string)
count(string)
string.len
string.len()
string.length
string.length()
or any number of other variations.
As a developer, I'm sure most everyone knows the task they're trying to do (get the length of a string), but there are so many variations of the same function between libraries and languages, that it is often quicker and easier just to search which one is appropriate for the given language, than to simply type each one out and test the code to see which one doesn't bail on execution.
Hi, my name is Vince. I interviewed for Amazon, specifically for their PHP API for AWS development team. Despite an entire background of 10+ years of developing front-facing PHP APIs for other businesses, plus having a major part of my code available for public review on GitHub, I failed their interview process because they wanted me to write a specific type of searching and sorting algorithm, by hand, on white-board. This type of code would never have been used on the job, ever. Yet this is what they interview on. The job was to build a PHP API so PHP developers can call basic PHP functions, and the library would translate them over to HHTPS calls to AWS. All of the complex computing/searching/sorting is handled by the existing AWS services.
Slashdot's Meta-Moderation is by no means perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better than 99% of the web sites out there, especially anything that has automated moderation. Don't feel like dealing with assholes? Then don't browse at -1. Odds are someone else with karma has already come along and moderated the assholes into oblivion.
Almost all major sites I use have both 2FA enabled plus login notifications enabled. *IF* someone attempted to access one of those accounts, even failed attempts, I would have instant notifications. None have appeared for this, or for pretty much all previous leaks for that matter... Guess I'm just "lucky"? Or maybe the hype was simply turned up to 11.
Another way to look at it: deviantArt is a top-100 site in the USA and top-200 globally. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...
40 million users for $36 million? It has been quite the long time since I've been a site sell for well below a dollar per user. dA really sold themselves really fucking short on this one.
It is all about cost-benefit. CPU speeds continue to get faster, and renting CPU time on cloud providers become cheaper and cheaper.
Why is this significant? There are still major certificate authorities out there with intermediate certificates using SHA-1. Find a collision for these certificates, and you essentially become a new intermediate certificate authority with the ability to issue domain certs for basically anything you want and they'll validate in browsers.
Now thing of government agencies or crime syndicates that could afford the CPU/GPU time to do this. It is a highly practical attack vector now.
Since "analysts" keep claiming that phone are replacing consoles and desktops for gaming, let's look at this from a business perspective. That is equivalent to a single video game purchase on another platform. That is virtually nothing at all in comparison to other platforms right now.
Still using HP LaserJet 2100's in the office I work in, all manufactured in 1998. As of Windows 10, there are STILL official drivers for these things. On top of that, the drivers are the absolute generic "you can print, and nothing more" drivers with no UI what so ever. They just WORK, with zero bullshit. They've all been upgraded with their optional NICs too so now they are network attached, instead of the shitty USB-to-LPT adapters we had ages ago for these. They are simply bullet proof, never failing.
Win10 Ent is available as a volume license purchase only. I'm in an organization with less than 10 people but are required to be PCI Compliant. Microsoft literally offers 0 versions of Windows 10 that are both compliant and purchased in a small enough quantity for our business.
And how many of those people who connected to these access points were doing the same type of monitoring, in reverse. Such as testing to see how exploitable these fake APs are!?
I have not gotten mine yet, either! Oh wait, that's right, Yahoo just flat out deleted my account for being "Inactive" because I used it in the days of Yahoo Messenger and POP3/IMAP, but didn't log into the Yahoo Mail site directly. About 15 years of content, just gone.
And thus why I always love the constant bitching about the classic LAMP stack here on Slashdot. Yeeeup, this is what I work with in my day job. Yeeeup, this has been what I've worked with for a decade now. Yes, I'll continue to use it, too. Yes, it has its flaws, but it is extremely well supported, and has a very clear support and development structure moving forward for the next 10 years.
At least for the region mentioned (King County / Seattle WA), we're almost entirely hydro electric thanks to the Grand Coulee Dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - I know others around the world are not so lucky.
As a local boy, King County (Seattle, WA) makes sense for this. The downtown bus routes have overhead wiring. The city already has a vast network of electric buses running, so adding battery operated buses to transition on/off the connected wired network makes sense. They're probably one of the easiest metros to make such a transition.
Look at the CEOs over the various eras of Microsoft, it seriously explains everything. The current CEO is from their cloud devision, and in distributed computing, take a few nodes offline from time to time for patching is perfectly normal as other nodes are online for redundancy. Rolling updates are the norm in this area. This logic however absolutely FAILS on the desktop. Updates are scheduled to Microsoft's maintenance windows now, rather than when is the most opportune time for the consumer actively using the operating system. Now think of this not only in terms of Windows Update, but Microsoft as a whole. Gates was a business man, all of their primary software focused on productivity within a business environment. Ballmer was all about DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS, and as much as we all love to make fun of him for it, he was indeed quite good to them (Visual Studio had decent advancements during his time). Now we have Nadella, who's entire focus has been on automation, regardless of who all it effects. Again, this worked great in the datacenter, but he's entirely missed the mark when it comes to the end user perspective.
http://authorize.net/
"a first such ban for the technology industry"
PAX has had such a ban since at least 2012. Unless video and computer games no longer count as technology!?
I love how "Machine Learning" is basically the new hit buzzword (phrase) of 2017. Everything is now "WITH MACHINE LEARNING!" - which is really usually just a static algorithm that searches for generic key words. If you use Facebook, you've probably already seen this in where they highlight words representing time or dates and if you click on them it'll generate a calendar item for you. Microsoft is literally just doing the same, only without the asking part now, but labeling it "Machine Learning" and calling it "OMGZ INNOVATION!"