"Have an impact in the world" is a canned answer. I seriously doubt a large percentage of candidates really care, its just not appropriate (unfortunately) to say we're here for the money.
A lot of people get into software because we love to make things that are useful and we love world of elegance and beauty that algorithms and abstractions allow us. We tolerate but don’t support the people that want to become some rich and famous person. I cannot tell the difference during an interview, fortunately, but you can after a while of working with people.
Typically Terraform takes longer to get something working than mindlessly clicking through the console. In my experience those mindless clickthrough things end up sticking around for years even when they weren't intended to.
This is why you have separate development and production accounts: a development account where you mindlessly click through so that you can learn through the UI what's available and how it works; cleaned up on a regular basis by something like aws-nuke, and a production account where you have the discipline to only create resources through Terraform / CloudFormation etc.
Presumably the folks behind this would know that he was being transferred to Germany. I wonder why they would not have prevented it through some bureaucracy? Is it common for critically ill Russians to be transferred to Germany? Just seems like something that would have to go through a lot of channels to get done, but I have no experience in healthcare.
If you watch Navalny's video on this he explains that they likely assumed it was out if his body after 2 days and is why he was allowed to be airlifted out.
I was investigating unions over the holidays and saw that these types of things are specific to companies which didn't make sense to me. I'm not familiar with unions in general, but the ones I hear about most in the trades seem to be exterior to any specific company.
Making unions specific to a company rather than a profession seems less useful...or are trade unions specific to their companies as well?
I'd say it is possible to run Darwin on AWS, but I have never tried. FreeBSD runs well, so we know that any OS with drivers will boot on AWS.
They're Apple after all, so they can build macOS to boot from a standard environment - UEFI, kernel that doesn't check the copy prevention string on SMBIOS, etc.
Us, mere mortals, are more restricted, as we don't have the keys of the kingdom.
I think the issue is the filter is based on the specific algorithms and not that problem solving ability.
There seems to be more emphasis on "the candidate knew to use bubble sort" or something stupid like that instead of "I observed this candidate reason through the problem and I don't really care that they didn't know a canned algorithm".
I think a big point people miss is that you need intuition which algorithm fits where. You don't need the details of how it works, but if you have a good idea how it works you usually have a better intuition.
It's a bad proxy, but better than no proxy in my opinion.
No, that's what you assume they are looking at. You're assuming they only look at whether you properly memorized bubble sort, but in reality good interviewers don't care if you don't even finish the problem or find the answer, they are looking at how you approach the problem and your problem solving skills.
You often need strange problems to really get to see people's problem solving, which is why they're often not things you see in real life, but again, the goal isn't to see if people know how to do the strange thing, it's to see how they approach a novel problem from scratch. Aka problem solving skills.
As someone who cooks a lot, recipes are the worst. As the author points out, it is the obviousness of what the recipe writers are doing that makes it so annoying. I have to acknowledge that I am at least somewhat to blame for this (albeit miniscule in the scale of things) as instead of seeking out concise recipe sites I opt to google in the first place.
Not only that, but the recipes themselves are often poor quality. A few years ago, I was looking for recipes for banketstaaf, a Dutch almond pastry usually made around Christmas. I found half a dozen copies of the exact same recipe. Sometimes with unit differences or scaling everything up/down, but the exact same recipe. And that recipe didn't even work, as it resulted in an extremely runny filling.
It ended up taking half a dozen attempts to vary the recipe before I got it right, but it was rather frustrating at the start.
Why don't you just buy a recipe book? You said so yourself that you know exactly what these sites are doing. They won't give you a concise recipe because it goes against their incentives.
Usually I'm looking for something specific and question whether books will be much help. Eg., I have some salsa, sausage and lentils what can I turn them into type searches.
I don't know how much we know about the brain but I think inputs could be electrically simulated. Regardless, I'm not so sure "consciousness" depends on inputs as much. The assumption is its consciousness would be similar to our own but an organism that was created in a lab might feel entirely different such that we can't really compare what it would be like to just take our brain and put it in a jar.
I believe there is some phenomena related to the way people born blind visualize or think about things, but I only vaguely remember reading about such things.
