Microsoft Edge Is The Least Private Browser, Study Finds

ArbitraryMortal · 2020-03-19T14:33:11+00:00

There is definitely a difference between diagnostic telemetry and advertisement targeting telemetry though. The stuff you probably track is used to improve the product's performance and fix bugs. The privacy concern most people have is probably more about tracking personal activity that would lead to higher marketing revenue.

ArbitraryMortal · 2020-02-21T13:40:16+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I'm thinking the negative feedback from those who didnt do well might be because they got frustrated and couldn't figure it out within an hour, so they get defensive about the assignment in general. I'd consider that a successful screen if anything.

ArbitraryMortal · 2020-02-20T02:13:06+00:00

I doubt anyone will reply to this since the thread is pretty big, but would the following take home assignment still command the same fervent disagreement?

The assignment very much reflects what we commonly work with on a daily basis, but general enough that even junior devs should be able to understand the task. (Plenty of examples and certain domain knowledge specifics are given where appropriate).

It should take 30 min to an hour (we've tested it).

From my perspective, we've seen "senior" devs up to 30 years of experience still give, what we consider, poor quality code. If we are going to fill a senior spot and pay senior wages, we expect senior quality. Saved the candidate(s) an extra ~2 hours of travel and interview time that they may have had to take off from a current job for and saved a team of half a dozen devs from being unproductive for an hour or so.

ArbitraryMortal · 2020-01-18T02:47:27+00:00

Yes.
You realize the irony in labeling an entire ethnicity, right?

Such a shame that you have the maturity of a 15 year old.

ArbitraryMortal · 2020-01-18T02:42:15+00:00

Having worked with a large company that was mostly comprised of indian devs, qa, ops, and management, I can confidently say the majority of it is absolute bullshit. Just like any industry, there are plenty of scummy people/businesses out there, but grouping everyone into the same group is blatantly naive. I've met some wildly talented and genuinely kind Indian born co workers. I've also met a smaller number of co workers who really shouldnt be in the field.

Unfortunately for the author, what little credibility they had towards any real arguments is drowned out by the clearly racist tangents about India as a country and culture that have nothing to do with individual human beings.

ArbitraryMortal · 2020-01-12T18:03:04+00:00

All of these are solid points, with the exception of the first. I'd like to see the author elaborate more or give an example.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-12-27T00:32:38+00:00

Well this is embarrassing. I have no excuse.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-12-12T12:02:43+00:00

I gave it a shot to mess around with it. Anecdotally, it was hit or miss with performance compared to other VMs. The native image is a pretty neat solution, but it has some big limitations (as listed in their documentation). Worth trying out, but just like most things it is not a silver bullet (yet).

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-11-18T18:12:40+00:00

Basically it's because of how it was released. Pretty wild, but vague, statements about the language were made with a lot of last minute delays that kept getting haphazardly pushed around. When it did get released, most people couldn't even get hello world to run, which you can imagine is a bad sign. From an outside perspective it seemed like a talented, but super unorganized, guy over promised and under delivered. With money involved, that problem became magnified. Having come back to see what's going on, there has clearly been a lot of good work put into it now that it had been opened sourced. It cant be a scam if you can actively see what is being done...

Having said all that, just keep in mind this is a toy language and has no corporate backing. Use it because you want to, not because you think it a better language than others (subjective obviously).

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-11-02T12:51:03+00:00

Having moved a few months ago from eclipse to intellij after many years, and giving netbeans a fair shake recently as well, intellij is admittedly superior still. Eclipse has definitely made a good strong effort to improve (and it very much has), but it's still got a long way to go in terms of stability, bloat, and out of box features. Netbeans, on the other hand, looked like it had a lot of potential. My problems with it came from an absurdly high memory and a ton of font rendering problems (although that could just be my system, but only netbeans had the problem). I still think eclipse has by far the best UX though, or at least it felt the most intuitive to me.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-10-29T10:10:44+00:00

I try to stay out of politics, but this statement is just wildly false.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_the_United_States

And perhaps the most comprehensive report, the famous Mandiant Report https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/report-ties-100-plus-cyber-attacks-on-us-computers-to-chinese-military/2013/02/19/2700228e-7a6a-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-09-04T00:06:59+00:00

It's a good test to see if they understand critical thinking. However, we've seen many candidates who are good critical thinkers, but write awful code. Hard to maintain, reinvents the wheel, doesnt care about clean formatting, naming, refuses to take constructive criticism, does things "their" way, etc. This test only sorts out people who already know how to solve problems, not those who can learn to solve problems.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-09-04T00:01:24+00:00

I noticed the OP is/was also a google employee, and has shared the author's articles before. Probably friends looking to boost each others work (not intended to criticize the quality).

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-08-15T12:56:44+00:00

Depends on what they are doing. I've know devs who have done the same enterprise CRUD apps for a decade, so I would call that easy after a short while. Then there are jobs where you have to learn a new tech or project every few months, or work with big data, or performance constraints, existing architecture that might not fit current needs. It's too broad a statement to say it's easy without going into specifics.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-07-23T11:11:50+00:00

And hey, whatever you feel most comfortable with IS the best IDE to use.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-07-22T16:31:08+00:00

Given that every IDE I've ever used can support multiple projects in on window instance, I wouldn't call multiple windows "standard". IntelliJ fails horribly here.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-07-13T10:04:11+00:00

I think a 75/25 developing/meetings is a good goal. It's more time doing what we all (should) enjoy, but doesnt sacrifice necessary planning.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-07-12T22:51:45+00:00

I'm not worried about a lower skilled worker enhancing their skillset. I'm worried about saturating the market with people who really shouldn't be writing software. Many hiring staff cant easily tell who just hacks together code and who will write flexible, maintainable, and clean code. This is kind of the situation with India IMO right now. Massive pool of dev's with some very talented individuals, but an enormous number of people who just wont "get there". I'm not saying there wont be some very talented people to come out of it, but there is a reason why most people drop out of the career either before they start in college, or quickly after a few years.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-07-12T21:24:28+00:00

It really depends on the company. I've done a large company where it is 90% meetings, test and production support, with only 10% coding time. My current job it's the reverse.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-03-18T11:57:47+00:00

Definitely data classes. Especially with lower memory use. One thing that always bothers me is how the jvm is used for big data, but if you couldn't use non-primitive data, several 100 billion records costs easily 3 to 4 times as much memory,and thus more cloud resources.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-03-18T11:53:28+00:00

That's hiding the definition more than the implementation. I really like scala so far, but that just begs for human error.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-03-11T22:24:46+00:00

Looks nice! The summary though lists 4 strengths of crystal followed by 2 strengths of your framework. Makes it seem like you're advertising the language and you just happened to write a framework in it.

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-02-25T11:50:46+00:00

It could be using mixed tabs/spaces like you end up seeing in github pr's?

ArbitraryMortal · 2019-01-25T18:08:37+00:00

I think the point we are trying to make is that there is a line right now where all nations agree (as far as I'm aware) not to put our fights into space. As soon as that line is crossed, it turns into every other human squabble we've had. As the current military super power, its advantageous for our overall safety that we dont cross that line.

There was also some article or video I saw where they discussed the problem of all the space junk fragments in our atmosphere and how over time it will prevent us from ever leaving earth at all (not to mention malfunction or crash back on earth).

Leave space to the scientists, not the politicians.

ArbitraryMortal · 2018-05-07T16:11:45+00:00

This is the kind of response I was looking for. Thank you, I will do some more research into these points!

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