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Not this time! But for every candidate that could answer, I think so.

I've also had good luck asking about a project they were on that went off the rails and what they'd do differently next time around. You can tell pretty quickly how involved they w…

That's why I try to ask open-ended questions. Get to a solution. Might not be my solution, but at least get me there. How do you run candidate interviews?

My high water mark was the basics... and then the candidate drawing an analogy between char as primitive and char-array-based-strings as object oriented classes that offered additi…

Customer-facing implementation engineer, more or less.

It's a grab bag, tell-me-something-interesting icebreaker question. I'm looking for some evidence of the fact that you can differentiate the two in some meaningful way. Not intende…

I interviewed a guy the other day. CS degree. "I have a proven track record of building and leading amazing engineering teams." "Okay. What's the difference between a character and…

tl;dr - Output nuclear fusion power, plasma volume, and magnetic field strength scale differently with reactor size increases In detail, I'll let someone smarter than me in nuclear…

The wrinkle about "modern Game Genie" is that when the original debuted, there were no microtransactions. Now, hastening grind runs directly counter to most(?) game revenue models.…

Indeed. My mental rule of thumb is to assume that if we're at the point of a legal argument then bridges have already been burned and neither party is inclined to do any favors to …

Stupid question that I've always been curious about, driving around. Can an old C-band (large) satellite dish be used for transmitting as well as receiving? If so, would there be a…

People say lawyers are assholes, but they don't think about why lawyers are assholes. It's a lawyer's job to imagine the worst future outcomes and guard against them in the present…

This happened a few week ago, but I didn't see any discussion on here. Google shipped the newest iteration of FLoC in Chrome 115 in July. Direct Google blog link (HN marks duped) h…

I can only tolerate modern YouTube at 1.5 or 2x playback speed. Principally because speaking slower to stretch video length has become endemic.

The gallery has an excellent video of an R/P FLIP... flip. Complete with suitable ONR/SIO music. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FLIP_turns_50.ogv

Oof, those are some gnarly waves. Wave structure as a surfed experience is my favorite part so far: there are so many wave nuances I never noticed before.

Things funding for atomic warfare has given us: - Nuclear power - Access to Earth orbit - GPS - Mapping of the world's oceans - Miniaturized circuits - The Internet - Interstate ro…

As someone who recently started surfing, I understand the cultural timing a lot more now. Good surfing requires pretty particular types of waves. Which in turn requires particular …

The fact that this appears to be mobile-targeted suggests the intent -- restrict free information flow to the masses.

Hearing the British government care about "the risks of excessive surveillance" is a new one. Although I guess it's because they're talking about companies, not the government itse…

Snap Circuits looks awesome! LEGO + breadboarding To date myself, for me it was the computer game The Incredible Machine , which was a Rube Goldberg physics puzzle game... in 1993 …

Ah, the Venus Defense.