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> A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters' degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks. For example, I've personally interviewed graduates who can't answer "Write a loop that counts from 1 to 10" or "What's the number after F in hexadecimal?

I wonder if this is true?

That’s why I always use throwaway :) everywhere. Reddit. HN. Twitter. Everywhere. I’ll spam every site with my throwaways.

Long live throwaways.

Re:The Need to Read on Saturday November 26, 2022 @04:11AM (#33751191)
Link?
I wonder why people haven't implemented it yet. Seems like a good project for me.
Re:Alphabet Seeks to Cut 10k Poor-Performing Googlers on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:22AM (#33702676)
> Keep in mind that everyone at google passed one of the hardest technical screens on the planet.

Nope.

Re:Where have all of the employees gone? on Monday November 21, 2022 @09:48AM (#33693062)
I see. Interesting. Thanks for the writeup. Will read it on lunch time.
Re:Where have all of the employees gone? on Monday November 21, 2022 @09:47AM (#33693044)
But how you gonna pay rent/utilities/food?
They don’t care about you at all. You let them live rent free in your head. Find somewhere else to cry and signal your virtue.
Re:Where have all of the employees gone? on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:08AM (#33692068)
I’m curious, if US opens its low skilled immigration gate wide open, what would the 2nd order effects would be?
Re:Where have all of the employees gone? on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:03AM (#33692037)
Where do you get your income if you drop out?
Re:Let Crypto Burn on Sunday November 20, 2022 @07:45PM (#33687309)
Indeed it is. Unfortunately, I am not a globalist. I used to be, used to be gung-ho about diversity and multiculturalism. Not so much anymore, began to see the cost it brings.

We don't need diversity to have modern 1st world comfort. See Japan.

I like my homogeneity.

Re:Let Crypto Burn on Sunday November 20, 2022 @07:44PM (#33687294)
in a diverse society like the USA, we have too many things that we disagree upon. In a homogeneous society like Japan, we don't. Hence we can trust the government more.

Yes, I want my government to test food quality, to inspect the kitchen. But I don't want my government to bailout petty thefts, to give stimulus checks, to hail criminals as saviors (BLM), to require me to pronounce different genders, etc.

It is a dog whistle. I meant to say that.

This is a great ad for League of Legends.
Re:Let Crypto Burn on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:12PM (#33685365)
We are actually a low trust society.

We don’t trust our governments.

By we I mean crypto believers (yes me included)

Impossible to fix. The more diverse a society is, the lower the trust it has in its governments. We don’t want to pick up the tabs caused by the problems introduced by “the others” in our diverse society. For example, student loan forgiveness, affirmative action, diversity hiring, stimulus checks, petty theft forgiveness, etc.

Re:The Anti-Promethean Backlash on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:01PM (#33685244)
What is living agreeably?
Buy hardware wallet, make sure to buy from the source, not third party, not Amazon. It could be tinkered.

Use open source offsite wallet.

Use steel/titanium plates.

And here is the controversial part: use 1password, you can use it as is or combine it with your own method.

> We believe in freedom of speech and will oppose any government's attempt to censor speech on our platform. However, we have rules, which we plan to rigorously enforce via content moderation, with the help of our community

Bruh…

Please no. Kill Twitter. Kill Facebook as well while we are at it.
Re:Can a universal basic income help address homelessness? on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:29AM (#33654294)
Everyone should learn basic economy
Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a Mile on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:39AM (#33635402)
America is so fucking stupid
Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @07:45PM (#33633363)
I was referring to the alabastar flask.

But yeah it applied to 30 pieces of silver as well.

Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:06PM (#33618705)
EA is basically Judas Iscariot's method.
Re:The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @07:47AM (#33608473)
As an asian dude that grew up in Asia, despite my western education, in a western country, I don’t really care.

As in, sure whatever you say, just give me the core stuffs, and I’ll pretend that I care.

Take what’s good, discard what’s not. If math is good, take it, if decolonized math is bad, throw it away, and vice versa. I acknowledge different cultures have different strengths and weaknesses in different areas. White people invent math? Good, take it. Black people invent jazz? Good, take it.

White people invent genocide? Reject it. Black people invent ghetto culture? Reject it.

Re:Tell HN: Social media made me a worst person on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:53AM (#33606446)
It depends on the topic, but I generally only ask technical/straightforward questions like programming, how to do X, where to buy X etc.

Yup just block them, its not like they are going to change your opinion, especially with low quality answers. Internet debate is 99% useless all the time. Books/articles are better. I’d argue that public literal fist fights have better net positive to society compared to public virtual online mudslingings.

Re:Tell HN: Social media made me a worst person on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:52PM (#33605448)
I realized that I can’t escape social media, or media in general. I am still using social media but made very very deliberate attempt to limit its poison:

- Refrain from commenting 90% of the time. Only when necessary. Even for sites like HN, because HN isn’t immune to the stuffs you described above. This has been the most helpful to me. I now only post on HN using throwaways, even for non provocative comments.

- Create multiple accounts for multiple purposes/subtopics (I love firefox container for this) and don’t get too attached, be ready to throw them quick. For sites like Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The purpose of social media to me is mostly to ask for high quality answers if I need something.

- Some sites allow you to block things. Like Twitter can block people, Reddit can block subreddit. On Reddit I block politics, antiwork, workreform, black/whitepeopletwitter, witchesvspatriarchy, leopardsatemyface, murdererbyaoc, and similar topic subreddits that often show up on hot. The content over there mostly are low quality.

- Never tell personal information online.

- Read more books/articles compared to tweets/facebook posts.

You can choose which media you want to consume. I try to refrain from consuming low quality media in general as much as I can (including avoiding tv, netflix, cosmopolitan, etc)