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That and going to Philz or Tartine afterwards. At one point both those places were on every Apple marketing copy.

Ben Stiller right? That’s Meet the Parents.

If anything, coming across as “a little odd” can be a sign I’m actually talking to a human.

Your perception of the reality is spot on. For this round I was hiring for entry level technical support and we had limited time to properly vet candidates.

Unfortunately what we end up doing is have to make some assumptions. If something seems remotely fishy, like that “Memory updated” or typeface change (ChatGPT doesn’t follow your text formatting when pasting into your email compose window), it raises a lot of eyebrows and very quickly leads to a rejection. There’s other cases where your written English is flawless but your phone interview indicates you don’t understand the English language compared to when we correspond over email/Indeed/etc.

Mind you, this is all before we even get to the technical knowledge part of any interview.

On a related hire, I am also in the unfortunate position where we may have to let a new CS grad go because it seemed like every code change and task we gave him was fully copy/pasted through ChatGPT. When presented with a simple code performance and optimization bug, he was completely lost on general debugging practices which led our team to question his previous work while onboarding. Using AI isn’t against company policy (see: small team with limited resources), but personally I see over reliance on ChatGPT as much, much worse than blindly following Stack Overflow.

I don’t know the answer, but I’d like to share that I asked a simple question about scheduling a phone interview to learn more about a candidate.

The candidate’s first response? “Memory updated”. That led to some laughs internally and then a clear rejection email.

Dear god this is pretty much what I went through when I started taking over a company with a 35-40 year old codebase. Files spread everywhere, no consensus, and supporting customizations for thousands of customers who we didn’t know if they were even still using the system.

It took five years and the firing of the long-time “head” programmer until some meaningful change was made.

Relatively. The amount of diacritics on Vietnamese surpasses European languages so text rendering becomes a challenge if a naive developer doesn't test with Vietnamese.

I used to say this about seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time after seen pictures/video of it, but the eclipse was at least 10x that experience.

I said the same thing about seeing Tunnel View in Yosemite for the first time. It's the closest thing that I can say that describes the experience and the eclipse eclipses (heh) that.

Most advice you find online is useless. "Mommy-bloggers" have SEO spammed the internet with waste. It's either some form of extreme child micromanagement, or rituals designed for people with saint-like patience or time on their hands. Get your advice from real people - pediatricians, parents, friends, etc.

I wonder if someone else can chime in here, but I've found that ChatGPT's answers should be on-par with these mom-fluencers.

As a crossing guard at my local high school told me: "Welcome to the Brotherhood!"

Every baby is different and you should take all advice with a huge grain of salt, including the ones listed here.

Don't be afraid to ask for help. Everyone pays attention to the child but you and your partner will need help too managing this new life transition. Even if you're not the birthing parent, you too have also gone through this massive change in time, mental space, and life meaning.

Also, unless there's extenuating circumstances, don't make any big life changes (new job, divorce, new house) in the first year. You aren't in the right headspace.

I had to look up that last bit. There was a system I was working with whose developers told me “Assume Eastern Time” all the time (I'm on PDT/PST)…until the daylight saving time change in March. I missed some data from their end and their developers told me to “just fetch again and correct your code”

While it may be safe to assume local time when communicating in the same time zone, it is ambiguous when used in communicating across different time zones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_zone_designators

It’s also entirely possible if permanent DST passes and gets repealed (again) we’ll be back to where we are now 60 years later.

It's cheaper to ship something from Shanghai to Los Angeles than from Bogotá to Cartagena, or so my classes taught me when I took a class on Colombia's economy.

The Catholic church has tried:

On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they blocked the natural journey of sperm during intercourse.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-ca...

Flighty leverages the Apple Push Notification Service (APN), which the iMessage infrastructure also uses. It's why you can receive notifications in flight but can't act on them.

As population centers shift and housing gets built, people move in next to noisy airports and then say to themselves "Holy shit, I moved next to an airport and it's loud. How could I have known? Surely this is the airport's fault!" and they go complain to their city.

Harrison Ford makes a similar case about KSMO and why it's important to continue investing in general aviation.

“Of course then they do a survey among Santa Monica voters. ‘What are the ten things that most need to be done?’ Number ten on their list is to get rid of the airport. But number one on their list is traffic congestion. [Lowers chin, raises eyebrows, points at me.] I rest my case.”

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a43965150/harri...

You need one when building a Hemnes or Billy. The back of the nightstand/bookcase is a sheet that you slide in and hammer in with nails.

United and Delta tried during the pandemic to improve social distancing [1] but switched back once travel came back, and I'm guessing this kind of boarding ended up being slower. It turns out the Southwest way (random boarding) was still the fastest.

Loading back to front just moves the line inside the plane, but is not significantly faster than loading from the front to the back.[2]

[1] https://thepointsguy.com/news/back-to-front-boarding-coronav...

[2] https://thepointsguy.com/2012/10/travel-science-improving-ai...

Even PCs that are nearly 10 years old can still keep going when you add more RAM and use an SSD. We’ve done that for work computers for non-devs and it’s been going great.

Berkeley EECS alum: is it true that CS61A (the intro course) is now moved to Haas Pavilion (the basketball court) and there are 45 TAs? I remember the professor at the time I was there said that CS61A was only impacted during the dot-com bubble, and it seems like it's back again.

Slight tangent on this and something I've always wondered: if something as basic yet extremely crucial as scheduling software is outdated (SWA might very well be on a mainframe or transmitting CSV files in an FTP server and that server could've acted up), how on earth are they expected to scale and adopt new tech? It seems like a ticking time bomb and gross mismanagement.

Fortunately I'm not flying this week, but I've already seen and experienced numerous meltdowns from SWA in the past. If this doesn't signal a wake-up call to invest in tech infrastructure for any company I don't know what else will.

Cryptic codes and abbreviations are surprisingly prevalent in more places than you'd expect. Anyone working with EDI documents in medical or retailers has first hand knowledge.

Feel like there's no real difference now. People today who don't use (or don't want to use) password managers keep their passwords/credentials in the Notes app or some combination of "most used symbols and numbers".

What I don't understand is why this is simply normalized. My friends in the Bay Area refuse to leave anything in the trunk of their own car, even if no one has seen them put it in the trunk in the first place.

How is this okay?

In all seriousness, we've been deploying everything on us-west-2, and it seems to have dodged most of the outages recently. Is there something special about that data center?

It's not just Snap that does it. Instagram and Facebook did the same several years ago when I quit, and I haven't received any nag emails in a long time from them.

Anyone here know if the thunderstorm events in SoCal earlier this week is a result of this?

I really wanted to use Coda (now Nova [1]) from Panic, but I kept coming back to VSCode. VSCode seems to be the path of least resistance.

I think I’ll try it again after seeing the news about Atom.

[1] https://nova.app/

Yep, I mistyped. Amazon MWS doesn't have a staging/sandbox environment that's available for third party developers to test on.

Same here in e-commerce. We end up testing in production environments with an element somewhere that's in a development environment that can be tracked and actively watched. Amazon notoriously does not have a production environment, and eBay's is just unusable.