> I can give you references of actual political figures of the 30s and 40s who had that speech and led their country to collaboration with the nazis in the name of “Europe”.

I would love to (interested in the topic)

Check out a guy called Laval in france, leader of collaboration, with his famous speech “i wish germany’s victory”.

First national exhibition hosted by the Vichy government during occupation: “la France europeenne”. Showing maps of future europe, where nation-states would have disappeared.

French far-right at the time was also calling England, “the enemy of europe”, for instance on a book from M. Déat, another politica leader from the 40s.

I'll just add that in Israel there is a similar problem with older immigrants from the former USSR (a big wave of them came to Israel just after the USSR imploding), where they don't have any meaningful pensions saved up.

The people I speak of weren't immigrants though. They were just abandoned in their own countries.

"The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed" - I always encounter this theme with healthcare

What's the difference, for the laymen

Say Spotify's share price is $100, and as part of your compensation you are given an option to buy 100 shares at $100 in 5 years time

If Spotify in 5 years time is $500, you buy 100 shares for $10k, and immediately sell them for $50k, making a $40k profit (or you keep them).

If Spotify in 5 years time is $102, you buy 100 shares for $10k and sell for $10,200, making $200

If Spotify shares in 5 years times is $90, you don't bother buying the shares, but your options are worthless.

Now imagine you were given 100 shares instead, but couldn't sell them for 5 years (an RSU - or restricted stock unit)

In 5 years time, if Spotify is $500/share, your shares are worth $50k

In 5 years time, if Spotify is $102/share, your shares are worth $10,200

In 5 years time, if Spotify is $90/share, your shares are worth $9,000

Yeah this model sucks, unless they give you A LOT more of these options than they would give you RSUs. Then it could work out, if you believe in the company.

You only earn money if the stock price appreciate

I'm envious of your laymen speak.

Exactly right.

RSU means they gave you the stock at price X. Options mean, they gave you the right to buy the stock at price X sometime in the future.

so its like call options where employer eats the option fee?

Yes, except I think they usually just issue new stock when you exercise and dilute the existing owners instead of actually paying someone else for an option.

How do you go about digging old PARC papers?

You start here,

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xerox

And then go over to symbolics, Borland, whatever.

Flagged? Why would this thread be flagged?

HN readers can upvote or flag, threads. Sufficiently noteworthy items can be manually overridden by moderators.

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It's not anymore, dang updated the thread.

But how whiteboard interviews help (1)? I see them as unconnected and would prefer for that (for example) giving a sample assignment for 2 hours on/off-site

I hope this insight helps you and others because it's key:

What does an off-site sample assignment tell the company? That you can write code when given a spec. That's great, but that's insufficient for what they are hiring for.

What it doesn't tell them:

- Can you elicit clarity on a vaguely stated problem? These are conversations that top engineers have with their business counterparts and other technologists constantly.

- Can you iterate with another person on a solution. The whiteboarding exercise is a dialogue, and while contrived, problems are often solved in joint manner like that.

- How do you do under pressure? Something is going wrong and it's affecting millions of users. Can you carry your weight when the team is fire fighting?

Obviously the whiteboard isn't perfectly correlated with the above, but it's as good an indicator as I can think of. Saying "just let me write something off-line" means people are oblivious to these other key attributes. FAANG devs aren't earning 300K a year for just being able to write code on a spec.

What distribution?

If you're asking for a recommendation: Ubuntu, Fedora or Elementary. Manjaro is good if you're okay with occasional instability (due to rolling releases).

My experience has been much the same switching from Windows after the past month. The Linux desktop is better.

Please don't throw out statements like "linux is better".

It is better for you, me, and some others in this thread.

But if you make a statement like that you'll get Apple Enthusiasts to try it out just to prove you wrong.

And they will find reasons, because both osx and windows both have areas where they're superior.

Isn't the subjectivity heavily implied in that context? If people take it on face value and try to prove them wrong, it's on them.

>linux is better

But it is! And BSD's are even betterer. 9front and Inferno..pff nearly holy...but if you need applications..well that's another story ;)