They're not the only one, I recently bought a Nissan and I have to pay around the same amount for a new sd card which contains the update to be shipped which is a waste of time and money compared to just opening Google Maps every morning.
You may have dodged a bullet because if someone has a "only one answer approach to interviewing" then the inability to see other possible solutions may carry over into their daily work as well.
If Bob gets in trouble with his manager for not prioritizing his features over security features and Alice gets in trouble with her manager for letting the security issues happen then it sounds like an issue with management not working together to set aside time for security related issues as part of the development cycle for the product.
Seems like a lot of work to stop users who will probably simply not view the site anyways. It would be interesting to know if having these anti-adblocker techniques makes people turn off their adblockers to use the site.
It would be interesting, it could probably be done with browser fingerprinting. I would wager that some of the larger companies have done this.
Personally, it's a question of what the content is. If it's a summary of objective facts, I'm not disabling my blocker. I can probably find the same facts elsewhere that doesn't require me to disable my blocker. If it's an intriguing analysis by someone respected, it's higher value content to me and I likely won't be able to find the same content elsewhere unless it's been stolen.
Personally, I just abandon the site. I'll have a quick look to see if the page I'm interested in is in archive.is or can be archived, if it is/can all good, if not then no big deal.
All it takes is one or two extra pills to get high from the standard opioid pain prescription. It would've been nice to see this mentioned in the article but it seems pretty light on content.
All it takes is the standard opioid pain prescription. That's getting high. Opioids get you high. That's what's necessary for pain relief: Altered neurological states in which pain coming in from the nervous system doesn't have such a strong effect on the conscious mind. It's that simple. Deal with it.
Drugs have effects. Usage doesn't cross some threshold dose and instantly become abuse.
Oh, I disagree. There is most certainly a difference between therapeutic use for pain reduction, and the euphoric response normally associated with an opiate high. Most people using opiates on-label are not getting high from them. Even if they do the first couple times they take them, that passes.
I definitely got stratospheric on my prescribed dose of one single Ambien pill (couldn't recognize myself in a mirror, saw kaleidoscopic visions, 2d videos became 3d portals into other dimensions). Absolutely some people could get high on one opiate pill. I understand your skepticism, but I'd like to assure you there is tremendous metabolic diversity.
I didn't say anything about one pill not being enough to get you high. Also, that's not even the question I addressed. The GP said "That's what's necessary for pain relief." -- which is an overstatement.
"Painkillers" describes wildly different chemicals, many of which have no euphoric effect whatsoever. We're not talking about "painkillers", we're talking about opiate/opioid narcotics - derivatives or synthetic reproductions of chemicals created in the opium poppy, which are chosen for their efficacy in crossing the bloody-brain barrier and altering our perception of pain (and everything else), via the mu opioid receptors.
These chemicals stimulate receptors in the brain which are part of natural feedback cycles in which part of our brain synthesizes similar chemicals and feeds them to other parts of our brain to nudge conscious thought in a beneficial direction (learning, eating, running, fighting, mating). The broad class of opioid receptors appears to be central to how the vertebrate brain works.
Natural behavioral reinforcement, pain relief, intense euphoric highs: Same receptors, same effect, same mechanism, somewhat different quantity. Injured people given vicodin often describe "Not caring about the pain". Because they're high - at least, a little bit.
I look forward to seeing more articles that find ways to game the interviewing process. Perhaps showing interviewers how easily their hiring process could be gamed will 'inspire' improvements in interviewing.
Good point, it's very important to have balance and be able to adhere to the "And wisdom to know the difference." part. I do think that it is important to have the experience of having too much 'internal locus of control' in order to get a good feel for that.
Or to think that it doesn't matter what happens externally.
Aurelius says something like "How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised by anything that happens in life." As in, why would external events matter or be a surprise? Things happen. The only thing you can control is how you react to them and what you choose to do about them. That helps me at least. It's all about process, not outcomes. Outcome is a roll of the die, so all you can do is make sure your internal processes are sound.
Github makes millions of dollars per year and has a huge amount of users so the product is proven good. While I understand the need to be appreciative of Github, giving the organization a bit of user feedback is not going to hurt them very much. The response assumes that this is written because of the "Dear Github" letter.
While GitHub makes millions per year, it's important to keep in mind that "GitHub" and every other company is really just a collection of people like you and me. I'm sure their engineers are paid well, but money isn't everything, and it's nice (and motivating) to show up at the office and know there's people out there who appreciate the work you put in regardless of what you're being paid.
There's nothing wrong with showing gratitude from time to time, even if it's for a for-profit corporation if you truly appreciate what they do.
every other company is really just a collection of people like you and me
That's cool and all, but wasn't the motivation for the first letter the lack of humanity from GitHub in communication with the userbase?
I don't think they deserve a cooing public letter to reassure them on the basis of humanity after they've decided to give "empty response or even no response at all" to what read like perfectly reasonable attempts to communicate with them.
I'm entirely willing to use person-to-person social standards for a company. I'll start with a trust-but-verity attitude, because leveraging a double standard in customer facing business is often a way for companies to take advantage of customers. Once they show they're not interested: fuck 'em.
Constructive feedback is fine, but "I have told you, you know that, but you are ignoring me, what's wrong" is a different story. My reaction to that is 1) it shows you already sent the feedback, what you want is to complain in public, and 2) I own you no shit.
That's a rather wild insinuation of the "Dear GitHub" authors' motivation. If your constructive feedback is ignored you have to start a public discussion to get the thing rolling again. That's not necessarily as selfish as you imply. There are a lot of people who would benefit from the addressed issues being resolved.
> I own you no shit
GitHub might owe them nothing, but it's in their own interest to address and resolve those issues and not just stash them away somewhere. Their biggest selling point is the great UI and the userbase. If the later becomes frustrated because issues with the former don't get resolved, that might be a huge problem for GitHub in the future. Today, there are viable alternatives after all.
Willing to relocate: Been here 25 years so I should go somewhere else. My gf is ready to move as well.
Technologies: Javascript, Python, Flask, Go, NodeJS, most main flavors of SQL, MongoDB, CSS/LESS/SASS. Also familiar with Scala, Ruby and some other languages and am willing to work with anything except PHP and Java. C# is fine though cause Windows dev tools "tend" to be easy to use.
I'm very active on Twitter so even if I don't seem like a good candidate feel free to add me on Twitter at @SylvesterWillis because I'm always willing to talk about tech stuff.
