I'm sorry but I can't help to find this situation ridiculous.
Unless you're from a very poor country there is no excuse for not having a working keyboard.
I don't know if that was part of the test, but if it was, it's worse than the big blue chip corps asking about the number of piano tuners. Which actually can be valuable at understanding how one reasons about unknown problems/areas.
About the server being slow, well I don't know the magnitude of the slowness or the anger, but unless you're a ramen fueled startup there is no excuse for having slow machines. It's management failure. It's a waste of developer time. Instead of coding the dev is having to deal with stress inducing constant 5 second hiccups or similar things.
Put yourself in the interviewee's shoes. Do you really want to work in a company that can't conduct a proper interview and has broken/slow hardware?
If you happen to get back to this thread and do have the time then please post it. I would appreciate it very much since I'll be taking that route. Thanks.
While I take care to contract abs at all times and keep a straight back during SQ, DL and MP, I have been getting some lumbar pain/discomfort. Not when I lift. But typically 1 or 2 days after.
Sleeping is not optimal either as muscles contract. As of lately I find myself sleeping on my side. I know it's the advised posture, but some years ago I could sleep (ie: eventually wake up) with my stomach down with no problems. I can still go to sleep that way, but during the sleep I end up switching position -- and I'm aware of it because I "wake up" for a brief second or so.
Anyway, do you have any tips? Do you ever get sore lumbar spine or overfall back?
I have been trying to do 5 minutes a day of "ignorant meditation" (just sitting on the floor, clearing up my head, and focusing on breathing), but have seriously slacking off these past weeks.
Are there any worthwhile youtube videos on mindfulness meditation?
And is Vipassana meditation "better" than the other types?
What would be the impact on the Euro currency if Greece left the Euro-zone?
I would guess the Euro would take a small hit, but bear (speculation) wouldn't have much too feed upon.
This due to the fact that (1) Greece is a small part in the Eurozone and (2) the other countries that were having problems (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland) seem to have things stabilized.
Reading this I can't help comparing it against SpaceX.
SpaceX is actually 2 years older than Virgin. But SpaceX is Getting Things Done at warp speed for some years now, while Virgin Galactic keeps having multiple crashes. Despite SpaceX having a harder mission.
Maybe this is a bit offtopic but I'm curious what are the thoughts with Google driving car.
Right now it feels Google, Uber and Lyft will compete for the same space.
Uber looks to be winning, but can it really win the race against Google.
Although to its own merit one thing comes to mind was that -- at least from PR it looks like it -- Uber is moving faster. Google which is always hiring(?) lost the chance to grab that CMU talent.
Maybe you already know this and in that case a FYI to anyone else.
According to [1] telomere-lengthening treatments may (the author points out that this conclusion may be incorrect since the data measurement may need some changes) only give you an extra 5 years.
So research in other directions is definitely interesting.
Somewhat ironic that Elon Musk's SpaceX whose ultimate goal is to make life multi-planetary, is now collaborating with agents that may as well be responsible for triggering a Kessler syndrome. Not to mention the fact their business very much implies the termination of human life -- if for the greater good that is left for discussion on a case by case basis.
I can't help but feel some "couch coach" desperation with Mozilla's confusion at where should they aim at.
Google has Android which is open source but "spyware" prone and suffers from vendor incompetence/uninterest in updates -- in fact this will bite Google sooner or latter. While Apple's iOS is privacy aware but closed source and carries a huge price premium.
On the other hand Mozilla is known for open source and for caring for privacy. Furthermore with Snowden's revelations, at least among the IT crowd, as well as governments, there is interest for a secure system.
Give me a high-end phone [1] which focus on privacy.
Something that supports a stack like Xposed and Xprivacy out of the box.
Something whose baseband processor is decoupled from the other processors. And if possible the source code for the sensors or at least the ICD, so that you have an alternative to binary blobs.
Give me something that supports encryption and can get consistent no hassle OTA updates.
And make it with a compatibility layer to Android's apps [2]
I'm all for open source, but Android just ends up being nothing but an headache. A better solution would be welcome.
> ssl: Remove default support for RC4 cipher suites, as they are consider too weak.
I'm not following Erlang news but was just wondering, aren't these fixes coming out way too late?