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Thanks for HexFiend man! I use several times a week.

They should have chosen April 1st so most people would think it was a joke.

Another: LaTeX

It's ironic that the toxicologist's name is McIntyre!

Same with Vancouver Island: https://goo.gl/maps/aXADesFXHUbyjPMw8

Actually, I did one of these jumping from one megacorp to another. It took up my entire weekend, but I landed the interview. I then had to take 2 days off to fly out for the interview. Luckily, I got the job.

Move fast and break stuff, like a bull in a china shop.

I've seen seagulls break mollusks that way too.

Thanks to a vulnerability I reported a decade ago: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0724

which isn’t necessarily a bad thing for society as a whole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible

Ugh, lame. Thanks though!

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I can see the pattern: count successive powers of 2, dropping the digit that would occurred. So the next part of the sequence is 123456789012345678901234567891... etc.

But I have no idea how much of the sequence they want me to type in. Very frustrating!

Not exactly from the past, but how do you feel about this scene from Minority Report? https://youtu.be/7bXJ_obaiYQ

I wish I could cook at work!

Good question! Yes. Here’s an example: http://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/

If you’re looking for an example of subtle and thoughtful electronic music, I recommend listening to recent works of Tipper.

Shpongle is from the 90’s (though mostly not techno). Granted, most of their hits came out in the 2000’s.

It's time another instrument got a chance at the spotlight. I'm going to call it: the next big thing is Tuba heroes!

I do this, mainly because “I’ll get a Lyft” can confuse people.

I think I might used this to practice touch typing. It looks addicting :)

I tried to bookmark it by hitting command-D (in Safari on a Mac), but since you capture all keystrokes, I couldn't bookmark it. Perhaps you'd see a bump in your numbers if you allowed command-D through?

Imagine being able to explore distant planets with robots and VR googles in real time!

and most Linux distros

I totally agree. I'm interviewing someone tomorrow morning, and I plan to give them a simple finite state machine problem in C. Full open book (i.e. access to the web), and they're free to compile and run as many times as they want. You’d be surprised how many candidates can't implement something as simple as fizzbuzz.

My answers to those example bAbI questions don't match to "correct" answers. I guess I'm not human...

While I certainly agree that all government software should be open source, it sounds like a big part of the problem here was a failure in gathering accurate requirements (which is a very expensive endeavor).

Getting into programming helped me isolate my perfectionist tendencies. As long as I have something I can obsessively polish, I can relax in other areas of my life.

Or just force a shutdown by holding the power button. A passcode is needed on boot.

For iOS devs: mach time is just a more precise, monotonic equivalent to wallclock, and it never pauses :p

See https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2169...

For Python, check out Pyke or pyDatalog.