leetcodes as much as we dont like them. could help to reduce bias. you either pass or fail them at the very least. now too much is being left to hand waving, interpretations can be charitable on the mood of the interviewer, or the opposite.
Although I do appreciate, giving green minds the chance, I cannot help but think hiring managers will read into "A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up For a Lot of Y-Intercept" as an excuse for ageism. Which the industry is already pretty rife with.
The issue that most people bring up is that it optimises for people with free time who can work on these things out of hours.
The same arguments are made against take-home tests.
Personally I'm not sure we can do anything really except try to make ourselves excellent judges of character when interviewing... because people will optimise for the interview if they know what's coming.
> The issue that most people bring up is that it optimises for people with free time who can work on these things out of hours.
yeah, I'm currently trying to improve my ADS skills that have atrophied since I graduated, but it is just so incredibly much harder as an adult with responsibilities, work and hobbies than it was back when I had a bunch of time to go deep into all different programming subjects. By the rate I am going now, it's going to take multiple years to get to where I want to, without sacrificing more than I can of relationships, sleep, health, or other responsibilities
If you look at the timeline it looks like a broader trend. It’s hard for me to believe AI adoption was so immediate it resulted in immediate job loss. 2024? 2025? Maybe 2026? We haven’t even gone beyond the early adopters phase of the adoption curve yet
this bill fixes nothing. if you wanted to prevent harm from the internet you would start with proper privacy laws. but we all know why that will never happen
I'm guessing you are thinking about things like addictive social media and the efforts to keep kids from overusing it, and the idea is if there were strong privacy laws it would be harder or impossible to implement the most addictive features of those sites?
However harms based on sites having lots of personal data on their users are only part of what many people are concerned about. There are various categories of apps and sites that are legally required to not sell to/serve children. There are also things that are not illegal but the majority of research finds is bad for young children, so apps and sites may want to keep young children out unless a parent approves. Privacy laws don't help with any of that.
> if you wanted to prevent harm from the internet you would start with proper privacy laws
Explain how a privacy that protects you and me will somehow not protect a pedophile. How does that work?
I am FOR privacy. I don't think it can be done.
I do not want to have any information at all stored anywhere, encrypted, decentralized or otherwise. Nada. Its just text. I want to just be a number in everyone database. I want to be able to spawn millions of numbers that will never be related to each other. My ideal privacy world is a world where bots thrive.
Just go to face to face discussion if you care so much about who you are talking to.
If you watch YouTube interviews/documentaries about the CIA, one of the things that all of them point out is the disguise division, which makes some fascinating facemasks and other disguises.
Wait til you find out what the GIA[1] did with other forms of cultural expression and education - like motion pictures, music, television, and academia
[1]: Global Intelligence Agency - because we know that they have deep reach into every nation at this point and are only accountable to themselves.
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