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by foo101 8y ago
> Furthermore, after a couple hundred interviews over the course of my career, use of the term "cyber" is a huge red flag. Very few such people with "cyber" on their resumes are hired where I work. Sounds like a workp
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by foo101 8y ago
From the original article: > EFAIL describes vulnerabilities in the end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME that leak the plaintext of encrypted emails. I don't understand how this is being touted as vulnerabiliti
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by foo101 8y ago
I don't understand what point is. Do you agree that Lisp metaprogramming has benefits or do you disagree with that? If you agree, then what is your point? That we should not use a powerful language because it is not popular? Or that fe
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by foo101 8y ago
So why do you think they had to grow from 50 employees to beyond 1k employees?
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by foo101 8y ago
> I think that guy needs a better work environment How do you make this conclusion when you know nothing about the author's current work environment? Consider that what you see in the slides could be hypothetical examples or example
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by foo101 8y ago
Why should one of the sides be a constant? There is plenty of code where both sides are variables.
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by foo101 8y ago
I don't think "Yoda notation" is good advice. How do you prevent mistakes like the following with Yoda notation? if ( level = DEBUGLEVEL ) When both sides of the equality sign are variables, the assignment will succeed
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by foo101 8y ago
> There may be cases where by-reference (yes, that's an absolutely acceptable thing to say, even in C) I don't want to be nit-picking. But I would like to know why "by-reference" is an acceptable thing to say. When I
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by foo101 9y ago
Why delete the comment? Useful context for stochastic_monk's reply is missing now. You could always preserve the existing and possibly incorrect comment and append an "Update" or "Edit" section to the comment to ove
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by foo101 9y ago
How is that relevant? Many of us are not going to spend our entire lives in a university.
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by foo101 9y ago
And also gives them an opportunity to offer a counter-argument which now requires you to offer your own counter-argument which could lead to a long and unpleasant debate. Not a great way to start work at a new company.
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by foo101 9y ago
Why is WTFPL a problem when WTFPL allows Google or anyone to take WTFPL-ed software and relicense it under MIT or another acceptable license?
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by foo101 9y ago
You are making an ad-hominem argument against legal people. It's a fallacious form of argument.
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by foo101 9y ago
Would not false negative (a critical log being muted) be a major concern while using machine learning in this domain? What if I never see a critical log because the trained model decided that it is unimportant? How is such a situation gener
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by foo101 9y ago
This seems to use the commonmark library to render Markdown? Can it render Pandoc flavour of Markdown? How widespread commonmark really is? Any popular sites using it? If I write my blog posts in commonmark is it safe to assume site generat
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by foo101 9y ago
> I can use whatever writing style I want to. If you don't like it, read another post. We can refute whichever post we want to. If you don't like it, read another post.
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by foo101 9y ago
Please don't make such low-effort, insinuating, cliche comments on Hacker News. It makes the reading experience very poor. Consider that the parent comment author might already be making pull requests to the projects of his interest. T
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by foo101 9y ago
> Maybe the kernel is just another package to be managed. Isn't this already so in most Linux distributions like Debian and its derivatives, RHEL and its derivatives, etc.?
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by foo101 9y ago
The answer is "Yes" to all of your questions. Regarding the question about culture, yes, busy people often get sloppy. But when a P1 alert comes because a site reliability engineer could not resolve the issue by following the play
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by foo101 9y ago
The original GitHub post offers pretty reasonable solutions.
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by foo101 9y ago
I am sure that worked for you and I do not want to undermine the importance of simplicity. However my question was drawn from my previous experience where it was one hell of a task to keep the spam bots out. Therefore, just to offer a count
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by foo101 9y ago
If your company wants people to just do straightforward tasks without raising pertinent questions, your company sounds like a bad fit for many good engineers I know. For example, I personally, would never work for a company like yours. I am
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by foo101 9y ago
I really like the point about runbooks/playbooks. > We ended up embedding these dashboard within Confluence runbooks/playbooks followed by diagnosing/triaging, resolving, and escalation information. We also ended up associ
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by foo101 9y ago
This will not take a lot of time for spambots to figure out. Would it? Are there any web-application-firewall level spambot filtering that would ensure that the bot traffic can be continually monitored and the rules to block spambots can be
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by foo101 9y ago
I am with you. Although most modern languages would offer shortcuts to reverse a string but the spirit of this question is to see if a candidate has the mental agility to come up with a solution purely from ones knowledge to use a programmi
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by foo101 9y ago
I have had the misfortune of doing a few HackerRank tests where the problems were not prepared well. For example, the correct answer does not appear in the list of available options, or where the problem statement is not precise enough to s
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by foo101 9y ago
> Also, if you're good, then why does a low bar for entry scare or offend you? It's not a matter of fear or offense. It's a matter of judiciously investing my time on the right opportunities. I get about 3 to 4 calls from
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by foo101 9y ago
> This is really taking it to an extreme No more extreme than suggesting that someone who raises thoughtful questions on a broken hiring process must certainly be a bad fit for an organization. > Sorry, I don't want to work with
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by foo101 9y ago
> would make me perceive this to be someone who would respond with a complete change to our CI/CD processes, to our infrastructure, maybe to even using Node - as this sort of task is beneath him Looks like it is a difference in cult
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by foo101 9y ago
Your comment with the intended meaning is still incorrect. HackerRank test can be as standard or as non-standard, and as easy or as difficult as the individual employer wishes it to be.

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