What is an example of these absurd hoops you talk of, w.r.t the google interview process specifically? I just went through the process and had a much more positive experience, so i’m interested to know.
>> If a bird shits on your hand will you use paper or water to clean it ?
>That's a misleading analogy. Do you eat off your butt? If I got bird poo on my bare foot, I'd wipe it off in the dirt and move on. Most people shower every few days anyway. I don't care how clean my butt is, just as long as it doesn't smell and it doesn't itch.
I think this hits at the root of the disagreement. If I get bird poo on my bare foot, I am totally washing that off with water - i am not comfortable wiping it off with paper and then tracking that onto my hand/clothes. To each their own. I believe it is harder to get your butt not to stink or itch when just using paper. I use water/soap when possible, and fallback to paper when not, usually public washrooms - so I’m familiar with both, if that needs saying.
> (FYI, in English, a space is only used after end-of-sentence punctuation, not before. I've never understood why Indians consistently get this wrong.)
Interesting generalization. I haven’t seen too many Indians do that. But as long as you get the point the OP was trying to make.
> Some people criticized anesthesia as a “needless luxury”; clergymen deplored its use to reduce pain during childbirth as a frustration of the Almighty’s designs.
It’s become fashionable to take potshots at Christianity, justified or otherwise.
From a post on internationalskeptics.com[1]
> British science historian Colin A. Russell, in "The Conflict of Science and Religion" (published in The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia), refers to "the alleged opposition to James Young Simpson (1811-70) for his introduction of chloroform anesthesia in midwifery":
Quote:
Despite repeated claims of clerical harassment, the evidence is almost nonexistent. Insofar as there was any conflict, it was between the London and Edinburgh medical establishments or between obstetricians and surgeons. The origins of that myth may be located in an inadequately documented footnote in White[.]”
Around query pricing, my understanding is BigQuery charges by bytes scanned uncompressed. Redshift Spectrum/Athena charges by bytes scanned compressed. That makes Athena/Spectrum cheaper as well.
I’m not the author of the post. Your comment assumes a well known schema. My understanding from the post is that this solution can join and filter on “custom” datasets of arbitrary schema that each of their customers upload.
> because that is who America has designated as their community support system.
This seems unjustified. Your statement assumes (a) Support systems in the community are run only by religious people. This implies (b) Non-religious people do not run any community programs.
Assuming (b) is true (which it may very well not be), the question that needs to be asked is, why do non-religious people and institutions not run more community programs.
Not rail against the religious people who do.
Can’t speak to Azure, but why is this difficult on AWS? You can stop and restart your instances, and you’ll be charged only when they’re running. Your data will need to be on EBS volumes.
AWS.
t2.Micro instance = $15 monthly.
EBS Cold HDD 1 TB = $26 monthly.
With the free tier, the T2 instance is free the first year.
Plus, all the cloudy goodness of EBS Snapshots for backup and easy scalability.
The level of national discourse in India has reached such a low point that questioning or raising doubts about any of the government's policies/actions leads to one being labelled a traitor to the country.
It is depressing to see such knee jerk reactions to healthy discussion, short on facts and long on emotions.
Kerala, the state mentioned in the article, is surprisingly distinct from the rest of India.
It has some of the highest literacy rates in India (something like 92%) and an HDI comparable to developed countries[1].
Historically, Kerala had trade relations with the levant, and Rome from antiquity, and has hosted a large jewish diaspora[2].
Kerala has also had its share of christian "immigrants", starting with the story of St.Thomas, to traditions about Syrian Christians settling in Kerala during the 4th century AD. [3]
Plus, the traditional christian church in Kerala is the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox church [4], with its official language of liturgy being Syriac (a derivative of Aramaic).
Similarly, there is a very ancient muslim tradition in Kerala [5], including the very first mosque in India.
Kerala is also famous for a lot of its contribution to Hindu thought [6], while some traditions are markedly different from the rests of India[7].
Kerala also has its own martial art, which arguably predates the more famous chinese martial arts. [8]
Finally, IIRC, Kerala was never completely under British rule, but I'm not completely sure on this point.
The reason these videos appeal to people is because it returns some power back to the customer being mistreated.
Any fairly frequent flier will have horror stories of being mistreated by airline or border personnel, and most times the only thing you can do is to put up with it. But NOW, after the United incident, it feels like the customer is no longer as helpless as before and can no longer be mistreated with impunity.
This is irrespective of validity of any of the viral videos being circulated.
While individual people need not be rational, a better theory is that society as a whole is largely rational when taking into account disruptions due to causal factors (people, groups, situations). These causal factors need not be rational, and the extent to which society allows these causal factors to influence it determines how far it deviates from rational behaviour.
It is possible you see better representation of both genders in a society where people choose their career based on potential ROI. Fewer societies allow its people to truly choose their career based on interest or passion alone, which might be where you see larger differences in gender representation.
However, that brings up the politically incorrect argument that men are more interested in Tech than women, which seems hard to justify as well.
Thank you for [1], I found the transcribed interview wonderful. However, I did not read his words as taking "perverse pride in being illiterate" but rather more of being happy with his current situation and not wanting to change it.
A few gems from the transcript -
"And as you know, the Dalai Lama, in response to the global times that you and I have been discussing, when he comes to this country, will always tell people, “Please don't become a Buddhist. Stay within your own traditions where your roots are deepest. You can learn some things from Buddhists, Buddhists can learn something from you. But don't too hastily abandon the centuries of tradition sent down you and grab something you don't perhaps imperfectly understand. And I think he brings us back to that wonderful truth, which is also maybe a feature of this age, which is that when a Buddhist and a Christian have a really deep conversation, the Buddhist becomes a better Buddhist the Christian becomes a better Christian."
While I don't agree with the Dalai Lama's argument on staying within one's own traditions, a world where talking about religion is not taboo, and deep and respectful conversations between people of different faiths is encouraged, would be so much better than what we have today.
"I wondered if, what if spirituality is water, and religion is the cup, you know, which carries it forward, although it may be flawed, and we may drop it and break it"
"...is that my education had taught me quite well to talk, but I don't think it had taught me to listen. And my schools had taught me quite well to sort of push myself forward in the world, but it never taught me to erase myself. And the virtues of when I got to Japan, finding that I was essentially an illiterate. I can't read — I can't — to this day, I can't read or write Japanese. And I'm at the mercy of things around me. I can't have the illusion that I'm on top of things."