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601.
by shaftway 7y ago
So you're suggesting that it's a user's responsibility to proactively register their number with every single third party caller ID service that exists and ever will exist? And you consider that a "simple solution"?
602.
by shaftway 7y ago
10 year old me is super jealous.
603.
by shaftway 7y ago
Not that narrow. I remember in the late 80's / early 90's Estes had a model rocket that would pop a picture (onto film) from the nosecone when the chute charge went off. I have no idea what the quality was like (my parents re
604.
by shaftway 7y ago
I actually see that as an argument in favor of touchscreens in cars. If you have accessibility needs, physical controls crammed in a small space should be just as difficult to hit as virtual ones. At least with a screen you may get the choi
605.
by shaftway 7y ago
We own a Model S and a Model 3. 1. Agreed. The size is extremely nice, and the resolution is high enough that you aren't squinting at the screen. I can see what I need at a glance. 2. Agreed. The only controls I use are switching betwe
606.
by shaftway 7y ago
> Unless it does something smart like trying to compensate for the latency on the client end This is actually already done in many AAA titles. The idea is to basically always be showing a prediction of what will have happened in ~70 ms,
607.
by shaftway 7y ago
I'm at Google. I don't have a degree. It came up once with the recruiter, and then only because I brought it up. It's generally a non-issue.
608.
by shaftway 7y ago
Or even worse, they actually do knock it out way faster than expected, but it's buggy and unmaintainable. I was that inexperienced software engineer once. At the time a grizzled veteran tried to drop a knowledge bomb on me and said &qu
609.
by shaftway 8y ago
The standard solution to my problem is on the order of 12 lines of code. I don't expect it to be perfect or "production ready", but the infinite loop should stick out like a sore thumb. I do expect candidates to demonstrate t
610.
by shaftway 8y ago
This is a specific, well-known case. Max Howell (the author of Brew) was rejected by Google. One of his interviewers asked him to invert a binary tree. https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
611.
by shaftway 8y ago
As an interviewer I don't really care. A good candidate doesn't need them, and a poor candidate isn't helped by them. The only thing that's irritating to me is that they actually burn interview questions. Once a question
612.
by shaftway 8y ago
My question is about walking around a data structure. Most candidates choose to represent it with arrays. I agree with stepping through code being lame. If a candidate has tried to do some sort of boundary condition check and mentions a t
613.
by shaftway 8y ago
This one candidate had been allowed to skip the phone screen, and phone screens would likely have filtered them out. Candidate used Java and claimed to be deeply familiar with it. Obviously this isn't exact, but the result looked somet
614.
by shaftway 8y ago
I'm in the interviewer pool @ Google. > practice writing syntactically correct code on a whiteboard This probably differs from interviewer to interviewer as to how strictly it's adhered to, but it's not really a hard and f
615.
by shaftway 8y ago
For us we started making ice cream at home. It didn't replace it, but by making it ourselves we were able to tune the recipe over time to be something that we enjoy, but slowly replace or reduce the things we didn't want. The reci
616.
by shaftway 8y ago
He's right though. There's zero reason for a state like Wyoming to vote for this. Wyoming residents' votes for president are worth more than 3.8 times Florida residents' votes. I agree that it's stupid that they hav
617.
by shaftway 8y ago
This seems very similar to what the Infinite Jukebox does. Granted, it uses the straight audio, so it's more well suited to pop music. But here's the link for this track: http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com&#x2
618.
by shaftway 8y ago
Checking fuckedcompany.com multiple times per day, seeing rumors about a third round of layoffs at 60% of staff in two days, and then seeing 16% layoffs right on schedule.
619.
by shaftway 8y ago
Agreed. Many years ago I knew people who worked in an IVF office in Northern California. There was some drug they needed / used / prescribed / ??? that was crazy expensive. One of the nurses would drive down to Tijuana once a
620.
by shaftway 8y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=fukushima+robots&tbs=cdr%3A1... Limiting results to pre-2019/02/01 seems to go back to an article in 2017. Searching before that... https://www.google.com/search
621.
by shaftway 8y ago
My Shiba Inu would beg to differ. 犬 = Inu = Dog
622.
by shaftway 8y ago
> Can you imagine if people who manufacture components for industrial designs behaved like Google does? "We have these subway trains with busted brakes, but it turns out that they were manufactured by Google and they dropped the pro
623.
by shaftway 8y ago
On the floor at an open-outcry exchange.
624.
by shaftway 8y ago
https://qz.com/1408469/humans-have-bred-fruits-to-be-so-high...
625.
by shaftway 8y ago
My mine take-away from this article is something that I've always thought was key: When you're developing for other people, use the same hardware as them. I was at a fairly large financial firm in ~2004 that was rolling out a syst
626.
by shaftway 8y ago
I think he meant as existing code you can pattern off of, not for direct inclusion. The OAuth 2.0 Playground at https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/ is another good resource for understanding refresh tokens a
627.
by shaftway 8y ago
Yeah, we don't go out to shop much. There are reasons. We tried bundling up Amazon purchases into one big purchase per week, but it'd still come in {n} boxes via {m} carriers. And that's just from Amazon. I wish there was a w
628.
by shaftway 8y ago
Refactoring suggestions welcome. I don't think there's enough room for an if-clause, definitely not a for-loop.
629.
by shaftway 8y ago
Yeah, we had a package stolen off our porch, so we did that. It's a bench with a liftable top. The plan was to put a padlock on it. All of our packages are addressed to: Shaftway Place in Bench - Code 1234 24601 Where I Live St
630.
by shaftway 8y ago
Favicons are used as status icons for a lot of things these days, and in a bunch of cases it makes sense to refresh it. GMail offers it with a counter of how many unread emails you have, and a lot of our internal tools offer it as a thumbna

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