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by pytester 8y ago
It absolutely was based on people being equal, yes, but all humans being equal does NOT imply an obligation on the Czech Republic to care for citizens in China's society. It implies that both China and the Czech Republic are obligated
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No, but she mentions the word "society" a lot and discusses its obligations. France and China are self evidently distinct societies. So no, the requirement definitely is not there.
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You're conflating wanting each society to provide the best for its citizens with wanting each society to provide for other society's citizens. Like her, I think China should do something about its wealth inequality. Like her, I
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by pytester 8y ago
It makes perfect sense. There's no logical requirement at all that she should want France to be obligated to provide for China's citizens just because she wants China to be obligated to provide for China's citizens.
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by pytester 8y ago
>Her moral philosophy seems predicated Was that something she actually said or just something you inferred? It seems pretty clear that she thinks that each society has an obligation towards its members but I didn't her mention any
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>By her argument, a free society should be equally obligated to someone unlucky enough to be born in Congo, and should afford her all the same freedoms to live, work and participate in a well functioning free society. Where did she say t
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by pytester 8y ago
I joined a team two weeks ago that built a fairly complex machine learning pipeline. One week in I was told I needed to help interview a candidate. I lopped off a block of the code, made it run without the rest of the code base and explaine
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by pytester 8y ago
That would be the complaint if you didn't isolate the code and explain the task properly. If you can't do that then you should probably worry about your own skills before testing somebody else's.
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by pytester 8y ago
It isn't that hard to isolate a block of code that addresses a small cross section of your business rules and ask a candidate to do something meaningful with it.
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by pytester 8y ago
>you need to do similarly complicated things all the time My policy is to ask about those things instead. The ones you'll actually do rather than the ones that are, at best, tangentially related.
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by pytester 8y ago
I kind of wish we applied "micro-methodologies" rather than methodologies. I think we should be doing "import retrospectives" rather than "import scrum" and sharing and experimenting with a diversity of approac
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by pytester 8y ago
Germany and California have both experienced negative electricity prices. The economics of this kind of battery could very well work with a low efficiency if it's cheap to build.
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>Has anyone run models of what happens if the Fed just keeps the interest rates low forever and lets the market price each loan? That model is Japan, no?
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by pytester 8y ago
This is kind of what I have been doing with this testing framework: https://github.com/hitchdev/hitchstory It's designed so that you can write tests that are the basis of the "how to" documentation - w
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by pytester 8y ago
>I also am a big fan of pyenv I like the idea of pyenv, but in practice I find it to be pretty buggy (e.g. failing when installing older versions of python due to openssl build issues). I kind of wish it had some competition.
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>The purpose of a test is to assert "This will never change". IMO the purpose of test is to assert "this is behavior that will likely happen in production", not "this will never change". I try to use data th
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by pytester 8y ago
I've had success making an effort to build more realistic and isolated integration tests. One technique in particular that has worked well is to identify small infrastructural problems in my integration tests that prevent me from writi
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by pytester 8y ago
>Talking through a few whiteboard problems and talking about tools they have used (why and how) are sufficient. I've done interviews with a whiteboarding "tell me about stuff you've worked on" component followed by a
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by pytester 8y ago
1) A test that tries to mimic what the developer would be doing in the actual job as closely as possible. This is what most interviewers fail at - they seek out stupid proxies like whiteboarding rather than simply trying to mimic real life.
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by pytester 8y ago
I've set tests more or less like this in the past and I took one just the other day. It's actually kind of interesting doing this from the hiring side because it became evident that there are a lot of relative "bargains"
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by pytester 8y ago
I hate doing take home projects. * It's way too easy to set a project that takes too long. I was given one the other day that would have taken about two to three full days. That simply doesn't happen if you do the test sitting
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by pytester 8y ago
>Listing the officers by name is a kind of online vigilantism that ultimately might threaten their personal safety. As soon as: * The blue code of silence collapses. * Judges and politicians stop covering for cop brutality and protecting
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by pytester 8y ago
IME "knows what metaclasses are" is intermediate knowledge while "knowing in which very rare situations use them and when to avoid them at all costs" is more advanced knowledge. I've seen it enough that I almost con
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by pytester 8y ago
Asking questions like this is a pretty bad approach to interviewing IMHO. It selects more for people who have googled "advanced python interview questions" than it does for people who actually have advanced skills. I've found
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Investors everywhere drool at the idea that automation can make employees redundant - they're expensive and one of the biggest sources of risk in a business. Employees make investors super jittery. I think the Trump trade war has only
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by pytester 8y ago
>I could never understand the complaint that Git is "hard to use". It uses horribly unintuitive metaphors and has weird cryptic methods for doing common, simple tasks that practically require the use of google unless you'v
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>Bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan and the government there tried to protect him instead of handing him over. They asked for evidence and when the US said no they said they wouldn't hand him over. Unlike his previous attacks, Bin
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by pytester 8y ago
>If you base your hiring decision on how awesome the applicant tells you they are, a certain number of the people you say "hire" for are going to be bullshit artists who can't code. If you base your hiring decision on how
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by pytester 8y ago
I've found that creating a 1-1.5 hour test that is deliberately designed to be a realistic depiction of the work the candidate will do works and scales just fine. In practice this means creating a small example project with all of the

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