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To be fair, engineers didn't all have smartphones that could take great photos in 2006.
Did anyone have a smartphone that could take great photos in 2006?
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Agreed! Though, just a note that if you use them, you need to use them as your nameservers for your domain (the whole domain) (at least for the free tier) ... maybe doesn't matter for most people, but something that's put me off massively :D
I am certain this is not true, as I only use them for a subdomain CDN for hosting my static site, and don’t use them for any of my other dynamic sites that are on the same parent domain. Maybe what you say was true at one point. I only set up a static site and used Cloudflare to front it within the last couple of months.
When I set it up a couple of years ago, it was a hard requirement and looking at their features, it still seems to be the case: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/#overview (under 'Custom Nameservers')
And, as per (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36001742119... and https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/partial-se...), they state that 'partial DNS' (i.e. using a CNAME to point to them) is only supported by Business and Enterprise plans.
Some other people asking this question: * https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/43719/is-it-p... * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18422998/cloudflare-or-i...
When I tested a while back, I couldn't setup a subdomain in cloudflare, it only allowed me to setup the root domain. When I did this and just updated the NS records for the subdomain to point to cloudflare, their validation of the nameserver change never passed (since I only set NS records on the subdomain level).
I'm not trying to argue for arguing sake, just trying to show why I thought/said what I originally said :)
Honestly, if this does now work, or there's a way around it, I'll be really happy as I could switch a couple of subdomains to them :D
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The candidate would assume the taxi driver was powerless. I really think you’re reading too much into this. Op didn’t say they gave him veto power over their hiring process. It’s a good asshole test. Imagine some asshole was feeling important and powerful after getting flown out for an interview, and then cursed out a taxi driver because he wasn’t careful enough loading the luggage, or because he wasn’t driving aggre…
> cursed out a taxi driver because he wasn’t careful enough loading the luggage But what if this taxi driver really did toss around the interviewee's expensive luggage, with his best interview clothes and perhaps some materials or documents for an important interview the next day? Does the taxi driver report back, yea he got upset, but it was my fault? What if the interviewee just got off a long flight, wants to rest…
This subthread is really getting absurd. It's a perfectly good test to hear whether a candidate mistreated someone who they might perceive to be beneath them, and only severely asocial nerds would interpret Op's anecdote as if they put this taxi driver into the CI/CD pipeline to pass/fail candidates.
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Even if he was (and he'd be a ridiculous taxi driver if the first thing he did was sharing his political opinions [though that's not unheard of, I've been riding with that kind of service provider]), not immediately going ballistic would be a quality I expect hires to have. No-one needs angry activist mob person joining the team.
Sharing political opinions? He could just be rude to someone who was gay. And then project his own rudeness onto his victim.
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I have seen several stories like this - the janitor, or secretary, or whoever is actually a trusted individual who is the true judge of character. To me, it seems implausible, more of a "feel good" story, but it also seems ill advised. Does the driver know he's part of the loop? Does the driver attend the debrief? Does the driver distinguish between great, normal, sub-normal, and bad social skills? What portion of je…
Somewhat related to the anecdote you’re skeptical of: I was a law clerk for multiple years for a presiding judge and if you were a wise attorney rule #1 was be kind to the administrative staff at the courthouse - judges would find out if you were rude and while no-one was ever unethical, in my opinion, arrogant attorneys were definitely grilled more than polite ones. Kindness gets you a long way. And if you were a je…
Need new batteries for my pager? Done! Would like some updated business cards? Done! My desk phone needs replacing. Done!
Honestly I see two asshole tests here. Some of the candidates failed the first one. IBM failed the other. This type of dishonest and unnecessarily stressful approach tells me that I probably don't want to be working there. Even just professing that a candidate needs to work well under stress is somewhat of a red flag. Why are your employees under so much stress? I am software developer not a trauma surgeon. If I am u…
I remember doing an experiment like this as part of my preparation to a new job level. In our case, a natural leader emerged, the previous leader yielded their power, and we solved the game in like 15 minutes with the new leader and suggestions from the others. I guess I was lucky with my group.
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Near the beginning of a class, Professor Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment. According to Dantzig, they "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue. Six weeks later, an excited Neyman eagerly told him that…
Carlo Beenakker answered on MathOverflow ( https://mathoverflow.net/a/298601 ): > The two problems that Dantzig solved were eventually published in: On the Non-Existence of Tests of "Student's" Hypothesis Having Power Functions Independent of σ (1940) and in On the Fundamental Lemma of Neyman and Pearson (1951).
Sounds more like a way to make sure to hire meek submissives who won't question the way things are normally done. There was a reason Apple's entire marketing strategy in the 80s took aim directly at IBM.
It's funny, the way we used to do coding interviews was to systematically ramp up the difficulty of the problem until the candidate struggled. The reasoning was that with easy problems, a lot of candidates could just write the solution on the whiteboard. You don't learn much about a candidate that way. But if you give them a problem they have to think about, and ask them to think out loud, you learn what problem-solv…
Am I the only one who will approach things completely differently when "thinking out loud" as opposed to silently?
Much of my problem solving techniques are non-verbal and involve visualizing. But you can't really do that when you have to keep talking and that forces you down a problem solving strategy that can be verbalized better