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My understanding was that the helical shape described the orbital of the electron at the molecular level and not its track down an actual wire. I think the hope is to exploit this helical shape using external electromagnetic sources of energy to manipulate (move/rotate) individual molecules due to this.
Disclaimer: I am a layman in this realm. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm guessing that on average the company saves money this way, since people aren't robots and tend to develop a sense of community with their coworkers. Companies possibly exploit this for savings.
That's essentially what we ended up doing, selectively using Serpy for certain slow responses. It still felt hackish though, as though we were taking the brakes off certain responses because we knew they needed little validation (IIRC). DRF serializers still need work; marshmallow provides a similar feature set to DRF but serializes almost twice as fast:
https://voidfiles.github.io/python-serialization-benchmark/
Disclaimer: The above is not my project
My experience has been that interviewers like you are rare. I may have reflected on my observations incorrectly, but it seems to me that depending on a newcomer to quickly learn a language and adapt is seen as a high-risk investment. I consider myself an adaptable person, and while I was able to make this impression upon prospective employers in my early days, they would always weigh this against the cost of training me for "longer" than the average employee.
In a sense, they were right. I have noticed myself increasingly comfortable with new codebases whenever I change jobs, so experience definitely counts for something.
I do wish Django REST Framework shipped with faster serializer code.
As a Django enthusiast and python programmer, I often want less magic from Django, not more. This makes pyramid or flask seem tempting to me. If I wanted Rails that badly, I would simply port my code to Ruby.
This seems like a really good idea. Do you have any suggestions for a hosted email client similar to Gmail as well?
It's not a critique of your design. You solve the problem as you see it pretty spot on.
It's more so that I wish IDEs supported software like this. There's a plethora of such offerings such as CyberDuck, Expandrive, etc that would benefit from reduced read/seek activity if the IDE could just orchestrate when to emit changes to what it thinks is the "disk". As you noted on GitHub, such software gets really laggy when working in directories that aren't trivially small.
These sorts of solutions are always tantalizing, especially when developing on a Mac but deploying on Linux, but the killer feature for such an application would be IDE/ST3/Atom/VSC[/etc...] support. If this sync process could be orchestrated from such a development environment directly, it would avoid many design pitfalls, such as degenerating into rapid fs polling.
I'm not sure why Amazon thinks mobile video ads are a good idea at a time their marketplace has taken a serious hit in reputation.
Most people are already wary of counterfeit goods on the marketplace. For many household goods, cheap offerings from fly-by-night operations clutter the search results. Review sections are chock-full of 5-star reviews reading "Great product!" or similarly generic messages. Many sellers have begun essentially paying their reviewers with free goods via the Vine program; and of course those 99.9% of those reviews are favorable.
What used to feel like a premium experience now feels closer to a dollar store experience full of questionable products. Video ads on top of that will probably decrease my engagement; time will tell whether I'll continue to use Amazon for goods not available in my locale.
Speaks to the fragility of the human mind. The human collective organism, as it were, instead of rising against the challenge from the machines, decides to shift focus elsewhere. Chess is nowhere close to being a solved game, yet we're already treating it as such.
If ops/devops were purely a game, yes. Yet ops is privy to a mountain of confidential information and has the power to arbitrarily shut down revenue sources. I would say this introduces a lot of risk into the equation.
With demand for self-driving vehicles as high as it is, yet with the lag in advancement of computer vision, I think it's about time for a serious discussion about smart roads. I realize this isn't entirely relevant, but I can't be the only one thinking that we're missing the forest for the trees by trying to solve a transportation problem while simultaneously solving a vision problem.
My experience differs from yours. I find the lightning port to be considerably robust. I drop my AirPods case fairly regularly and keep it in my jean pocket on work days (though I find myself not using them all too much). I charge my pods maybe once a week and don't have battery life problems. If the AirPods were only chargeable inductively, they would (presumably) take considerably longer to charge and thus impact my experience.
This may have to do with the signal power put out by each AirPod. One site in particular has noted that AirPods transmit at power levels equivalent to an Apple Airport base station. I wish there were more data out there corroborating these claims, though.
https://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/extreme-emf-exposure-fro...
Note: I own AirPods and use them regularly at the gym. That is to say, I'm not afraid of my own AirPods, but acknowledge that they broadcast pretty loudly.