pkteison

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by pkteison 7mo ago
"a small slimy creature" was added after this picture was drawn, in the 1966 edition. Other languages adaptions had larger gollum's also - see some at e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments&#x2F
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by pkteison 8mo ago
It isn’t. Settings > Privacy & Security > Wired Accessories Set to ask for new accessories or always ask.
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by pkteison 8mo ago
I love this idea, and agree the bugs are important and embarrassing, but find the “it should only take Apple 320 hours to fix Mail search” to be so insulting that it ruins it for me.
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by pkteison 2y ago
What was the solution you went with?
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by pkteison 2y ago
Fair source sounds like a really bad idea. The problem is if you let someone else define what reasonable limits to competition are, you end up in court and learn that it can be anything. Say a company sells me fair source, but I don’t like
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by pkteison 2y ago
Nobody will give you an unsecured loan for 100 percent of your salary, but tech companies will happily grant you rsus for that much.
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by pkteison 2y ago
These articles scare my mom and she gets convinced she will be hacked. I wish there was a way to write stories like this to make it clear it's a real, important issue, but not directly to you. Mom banking on an iPhone is the safest w
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by pkteison 2y ago
Related, this is one of my favorite videos ever: Building a classical guitar from scratch (with a pro luthier): https://youtu.be/qmDAIlEGO_Q?si=uLyMOGBMXEGMkIFt Everything about the process is fascinating.
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by pkteison 3y ago
So basically: law intended to encourage domestic industry via economic pressure has intended effect. It's just a one sided argument that any form of trade protectionism is bad.
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by pkteison 3y ago
Going to college is still the most successful route towards landing an interview. My managers generally won’t let me schedule an interview with somebody with no degree, even with personal recommendations. And all of my coworkers have colle
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by pkteison 4y ago
I've had it take 80 applications to actually get one on-site interview before (and I have a pretty good resume). I would not be suggesting people consider major life changes based on a few dozen attempts not progressing, it can defini
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by pkteison 4y ago
it’s weird. The WARN law requires notice, but, the penalty for violating the law is you have to pay people 60 days of pay. So paying instead of providing notice is technically illegal, but enforcement is pointless if you pay people with no
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by pkteison 4y ago
I have given over 100 on site interviews for a large well regarded company, and I’d say about 20 percent can’t seem to program at all. I have only actually asked FizzBuzz once because it feels terrible to go with that simple a question, but
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by pkteison 6y ago
Up says they are .1% without the bonus. "Interest rate Up to 1.60% p.a. (base 0.10% p.a. and bonus 1.50% p.a - details below)" from https://up.com.au/pricing/ .1% does indeed sound pretty awful.
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by pkteison 6y ago
What an awful article. Expensive conclusions are drawn with no apparent consideration for their cost. The experience of a company which appears to have successfully balanced complicated tradeoffs in choosing features is discounted because t
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by pkteison 7y ago
This "article" appears to be an ad for a license selling business.
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by pkteison 7y ago
Grubhub charges restaurants for phone orders based on some claimed artificial intelligence determining that an order was placed on the phone call + the average price of the last 6 internet orders. A reporter easily found examples where rev
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by pkteison 7y ago
This actually isn't the "all your base are belong to us" situation. This is "we will stop employing you if you do [x]", not "we will own [x]". That's a much, much, much lower bar. They are legally
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by pkteison 7y ago
I have an employment agreement which their lawyers believe says otherwise and I like my job.
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by pkteison 7y ago
Monetized: Management must approve. Doubt they do, haven't asked. Hobby: Not allowed to do anything similar to what employer does. Got an official opinion from legal that employer programs, working on a videogame mod is programming (
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by pkteison 7y ago
Can anyone recommend a good book on becoming a better technical interviewer? I’ve found plenty of books on being a better interview candidate, and a few for hiring ceos or sales people, but I haven’t been able to find anything with useful s
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by pkteison 7y ago
In case you're still curious, I think the reason it isn't included is because auto-increment is a hard problem to do right, ends up being a leaky abstraction for technical reasons, causes bugs, and is philosophically sub-optimal f
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by pkteison 8y ago
I interview programmers. I would love to see a candidate who prepared like this, but it seems like everyone I talk to hasn’t done any practice at all.
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by pkteison 8y ago
The thing that intrigued me the most about Prolog was that true and false are not opposites. True means it could prove it, but false means it couldn’t prove it in time, not strictly necessarily really false as in not true. Thinking about t
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by pkteison 8y ago
I find it weird that the responses seem to draw a distinction between whiteboards and coderpad. The assumption seems to be that the problem making the whole thing stressful and unnatural was the communication medium and not the fact that i
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by pkteison 8y ago
Every time an interviewer has told me something like this, they then nitpick syntax and appear to be primarily concerned with "does my whiteboard code compile" sorts of problems. And getting stuck / asking for help feels lik
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by pkteison 8y ago
I was once sent to a training where they suggested we consider that people interact in four specific different ways and tailor interactions based on the recipient. It has seemed useful in future interactions to have a few more examples to
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by pkteison 8y ago
I have interviewed a lot of people with great resumes who literally could not fizzbuzz, or even write a simple for loop. And then if they can write the for loop, most fail when it's a nested for loop. And I don't mean got the sy
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by pkteison 9y ago
Your site shows up fine if I search for SGML Syntax Reference or SGML syntax. Meanwhile, it doesn't appear to generally be about learning basic SGML concepts, so it seems quite reasonable that it doesn't show up when just searchi
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by pkteison 10y ago
Yes, surprise firing is technically an option for almost all employees, including the long-term engineering staff talent at wealthy tech companies. It's reciprocal - the employee can quit with no notice also. A very very few public f

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