"unconscious bias silliness" so you're telling me that an interviewer is just as likely to hire someone who has visible issues sitting still/focusing on a video call as they are someone who sits perfectly still and gives their full 100% attention to the call? No, not a chance. When there are two candidates for a position at approximately equal skill levels when performing a video interview but one has ADHD that comes along with the inability to remain solely focused on one small screen and voice for an extended period of time you can guess which candidate is going to be picked the vast majority of the time. Dismissing such a huge issue as silliness is exactly the reason why many people who have issues similar to that do not want to perform video calls for interviews.
I think you're misunderstanding them. You two are basically discussing two (very important) topics.
On the topic of fraud prevention, the interviewer could simply ask the interviewee to be on camera for literally 5 seconds, then feel free to turn off video.
Again, this is based on an Upwork profile that already had a picture, so if discrimination was going to happen, it would be before the video interview stage anyway. This is just about a verification step, and in a platform like Upwork, refusing to be on camera for LITERALLY 5 seconds probably SHOULD be considered a big red flag.
This implies that body language is accurate and useful which is not always the case. I'd argue that many who legitimately don't wish to be on camera have very good reasons for this. I do not enjoy being on camera or even talking on the phone. I also have ADHD which makes it very difficult to just sit still and listen/watch an AV feed for a significant period of time even if I know that what is occurring on that feed is very important. My brain literally doesn't care what my mind thinks/knows it's going to do what it wants/needs to do which is fidget, search for sources of stimulation, and in general do all kinds of things considered "rude" to do when having a conversation or attending a meeting. Nevermind that I'm absolutely still paying attention, but I can't JUST pay attention. A lot of this hesitation to appear on camera in situations like mine isn't because I don't actually like being on camera, I don't care, but the negative reactions me being on camera can cause because someone doesn't know me and my specific uh... "issues" means that I just prefer not do so if possible.
Wait this is confusing for anyone beyond a fresh-faced junior dev? An Integer is an object while 100 is a primitive. Of course two different objects aren't going to be equal since they're literally not the same object. Two primitives of the same value will be though because they are the same primitive. It's exactly the same behavior across many languages.
This right here is why it's critical to have developers of all levels across a team. Those of use who have been doing this long enough don't remember what caused us issues as juniors. We need the mid-levels to translate and remind us of these things lol
It's confusing because using 100 works fine; both are seen as the same object. But using a number over 256 causes it to fail to see both as the same object. Of course, as an experienced dev, I would never use "is" for comparing integers, only for comparing things I know are objects that may otherwise be equal in value.
Sure it's "tidier" if by that you mean smaller. Someone who doesn't work in Python all the time and isn't aware of these kinds of operators is going to have to spend a decent amount of time unpacking what the hell that all means whereas someone can take one look at the standard while loop, see the logic laid out plainly, understand what's happening, and make changes, if necessary, fairly easily. Unless there's a performance benefit to an operator like this I'll forgo "tidy" for clear any day of the week. Then again I'm just a senior dev whose only professional experience with Python was maintaining other people's Python projects who never had to touch them again after they wrote them, and who used Python for things Python should not have been used for just because it's "easy" to write.
I imagine that many of these aren't common ones to run into with a team that comes from many languages other than Python or that has people with enough experience to know that realize these kids of unclear, apparently inconsistent coding practices are not a good idea in code you want to be maintainable a year or more from now. The glance I took at a few of them shows me the smack of syntatic sugar that is all aesthetics without any real performance benefit thus provide no real benefit beyond maybe saving a few keystrokes. Keystrokes are cheap, days spent by a junior dev trying to find a bug in a pile of syntatic sugar filled Python is not.
1 bedroom apartments go for closer to $700 or even as low as $400ish in Dayton just an hour and a half south of Columbus. Even here though housing prices are skyrocketing, so that won't be the case for long. Prices in Columbus are going to be absolutely ridiculous once this fab opens unless housing prices plummet for other reasons.
Agreed on the skyrocketing prices. Local here - I live 15 minutes from where Intel is breaking ground and it's bittersweet to be honest. I make good money for this area as a Software Engineer, but it's not coastal money and I can see the writing on the wall. I grew up in this area and have watched the locals slowly get pushed out. It's somewhat sad, but what can you do? Single family homes have went up 40% in the last five years and I'm guessing it will only get worse. The theory is that Columbus is supposed to grow by one million people in the next five to ten years, so a tech hub in New Albany will only exaggerate this.
All that being said, I have every intention on trying to work for Intel or at the tech hub itself, make my money/deal with it until retirement age, then get the heck out of here and find a place far far away where I can get something that looks and feels like this place once was.
Seems they may have finally noticed the hit from a decent number of the pro's using their products migrating to different platforms, and realized they needed to take a few steps back on the more radical innovations to put out a solid working machine. Hell I haven't wanted an Apple machine since the early days of the unibody when other manufacturers started releasing the same form-factor. This has me considering one for my next development machine depending on the price premium over the competition.
No consumer CPU comes close. Just saw an article about the next-gen Xeon's with HBM though that blows even this away (1.8TB/s theoretically), but what else would one expect from enterprise systems. Getting pretty damn excited about all the CPU manufacturers finally getting their asses into gear innovation-wise after what feels like a ridiculously long period of piss-warm "innovation".
Completely and patently false. Amazon is literally copying and reselling completely unique designs/products after determining through their marketplace data that it would be worth their time to do so. They're using their own data to undermine the companies that they should be dealing with in good faith.
It doesn't sound bad when you're just talking about one product or company but we're not just talking about one.
Amazon has done this to thousands of products as part of a plan to use third party sellers as guinea pigs to see what products will sell enough to rip off. This is systemic anti-competitive behavior that is at the very least unethical if not outright criminal.
Thank you for making my point. That bag doesn’t compete with the Peak design bag in any way other than general shape. It’s poorer in design and quality at every step and the user reviews show this clearly when comparing both products. It’s safe to say that Peak is in no danger from poor quality knockoffs because they actually have a value proposition that customers recognize. Lastly, if you need non-public “analytics” to know that Peak bags are popular…
Now what happens when quality and design aren't a priority? Cleaning products, adapters, chargers, widgets like a cutlery tray or kitchen scrubber... not every product can't be knocked off.
Maybe you're going to tell me everything in your home is of the highest quality, but trust me that isn't how the vast majority do their purchasing.
This one was probably affected by the Peak marketing campaign, but when it happens hundreds of times,it's not Verge news any more, it's just life. See: how so many T shirt and hoodie designs in mass market stores are ripped off indie artists.
You ask that about Facebook and thanks to the recent outage we can already see that YES Facebook is having a significant impact on traffic to non-Facebook news sites. When Facebook went down earlier this month there was a 40% spike in traffic to news sites during the outage.
Now imagine a company that has been just as effective as Facebook at replacing/consuming/killing it's competition in the retail space and you've got Amazon. If Amazon went down for a proportional extended period, say for a few days, you'd likely see a massive spike in sales at other retailers just as we saw a massive spike in new site traffic when Facebook was down.
