skunk works by ben rich, about his work as chief of the lockheed skunk works during the time they built the sr-71 blackbird and the f-117 nighthawk.

the soul of a new machine by tracy kidder, about the development of the data general eclipse minicomputer.

as long as it’s actually an in-person evaluation rather than an online form.

the annoying thing is that they are still market leaders in their field. it’s a big company.

yeah i’ve been on the other end too. but being forced to take a standardised test should feel humiliating to anyone over thirty.

the most frustrating thing was when they told me they made all their applicants go through the process, from janitors to sales to engineering to c-levels. apparently it made the company “statistically egalitarian”.

i would have done the same. i went through the interview process for an engineering position a few years ago where they required an iq, reading comprehension, and basic arithmetic test. i felt so insulted by their apparent lack of trust in their applicants that i went off in the feedback field, whereupon they cold-called me to ask why i was so frustrated despite apparently being in the 95th percentile of all applicants. not something you want to tell someone applying to an engineering firm…

i mean we already have multiple national payment systems (like vipps, swish, and mobilepay) that are in the process of interlinking with eachother, and there are other eu-sanctioned digital payment systems also rolling out (like tips). wero is very early in its deployment. i would not be surprised if our banks are waiting until a clear winner emerges to jump on the single payment system.

it’s mostly the interface, the layout, the clickbaityness the format encourages, and the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video.

a mess

png is not designed for photos, it compresses graphics buch better. jpeg is the opposite.

interesting conclusion, maybe you should publish? you seem to have more info than they did ten years ago.

yeah that’s my impression as well. being a child star really fucks you up mentally.

then again i haven’t seen the documentaries.

here’s one. it’s a paper from microsoft research researching why so many scammers say they are from nigeria, but the same premise applies:

Far-fetched tales of West African riches strike most as comical. Our analysis suggests that is an advantage to the attacker, not a disadvantage. Since his attack has a low density of victims the Nigerian scammer has an over-riding need to reduce false positives. By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.

michael jackson made incredible music. i don’t even know how much of the stuff about him is true but it does feel weird listening to his stuff now, even though it’s extremely well made.

it’s a car culture thing here.

applications should all look the same. no custom theming.

there should not be a way to skirt the window manager theming system. i decide what my windows look like and that should be what all windows look like. that way it’s all uniform and easily parseable at a glance, not to mention a lot easier for accessibility tools to hook into. and for that matter, stop inventing new ways to present your application without doing a user study. we have years of user studies available showing what ui elements work well and what shapes they should be to be easily understood. just throwing something together because it looks cool and then shipping it like that should be a punishable offence.

people just wanted an excuse to say a slur, no matter what it was for. at least that’s what it seems like.

point being that the active firefox forks are heavily dependent on upstream, just like the active chrome forks. if firefox dies, the forks die, unless they can scramble the 400ish full-time devs seemingly required to keep gecko current.

the cartels and foreign networks that have turned fentanyl into the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45

why even add this? the cdc’s data doesn’t even mention it in the top 10 causes.

sounds like you want this thing but smaller