> * The ability to solve easy and medium leetcode-like challenges
What about Fermi estimation problems? The internet seems to have turned on them in recent years, but they are a good test of intuition and general problem solving skills.
> * Have a good reason why you are looking at this company, instead of any other
I don't like this sentiment. Are people not allowed to be looking at other companies at the same time? Your company is probably not so unique that people will have legitimate reasons to have a significant preference for your company over other ones (sans the salary). I feel that it's out of the interviewer's line to expect interviewees to have an answer for that, when it's not like the interviewer is looking at a specific interviewee instead of any other.
XMPP cries in a corner. I wish XMPP had more accessible (to the general public) desktop clients. Conversations is great, but speaking from experience, people aren't going to want to use Gajim because it looks like it's ten years old (even though that's a good thing ;). XMPP needs better clients in general. The last time I used Profanity it had very annoying bugs about sending and saving OMEMO encrypted files.
I realized I wouldn't use it for anything serious, and I didn't renew my domain name. Maybe someday I'll get a domain for ten years and then get google to host the actual email. That way it doesn't matter too much if google decides to nuke my account.
I was also sixteen when I did that, so I mean, of course I wasn't going to do anything serious with it.
That ideally shouldn't happen if your dkim, dmarc and spf check out, though. I hosted my own email for a couple of years and I can't remember a single time when my emails to my friends ended up in spam.
Let's say everybody gets a UBI or whatever the heck. A standards organization would still need someone to give it that money to function/exist. This would be true in any economic system.
>there's a possibility this might not be true
Zero, zilch, nada. People will not do grunt work for free because it's not fun.
Weird comment to make when the OP is literally about standards _not_ being freely available. IETF and those standards organizations are funded by other people BTW, they don't consist entirely of individuals putting their own money in.
People will do some stuff for free, sure, but not everything. Not everything is mentally gratifying or intellectually stimulating enough for someone to take up as a hobby. To quote pg:
>Will people create wealth if they can’t get paid for it? Only if it’s fun. People will write operating systems for free. But they won’t install them, or take support calls, or train customers to use them. And at least 90% of the work that even the highest tech companies do is of this second, unedifying kind.
I think there are very few people on the planet, if any, who would consider writing a standards document for some medical equipment to be fun enough to do free of cost. In fact I doubt it's even possible to make standards documents for physical things like medical equipment free of cost. It's an entirely different ball game from software standards.
But standards organizations would need some way of making money regardless of the economic system we lived in. People aren't going to do that work for free.
If we lived in an economic system that didn't pay those organizations, they simply wouldn't exist.
It doesn't bypass my hosts file... I have a couple of locally hosted websites that I have rules in /etc/hosts for, and Firefox resolves them correctly even with DOH enabled.