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This sounds good in principle - but that's not what usually happens.
We habve to make decisions on insufficient information all the time.
If you would follow this rule, you could not infer that
Quote: We have to go on what was written here in the article. In which case, the candidate was rejected because they didn't give the expected answer.
Because that's not spelled out in the article.
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I like it. 
Kevin
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It did not, however, change the fact that he did not know Java well enough, but as a matter of fact in this very specific question, she was right.
No wonder he/she didn't get the job, if he/she was undergoing gender-reassignment surgery in the middle of the interview! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Milking an older PC for every ounce of life makes perfect sense for most people. It's good enough, and fast enough, and dog-gone-it. People like it.
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Well, I'm not sure...
"PCs aren’t like smartphones, replaced every other year. To the vast majority of people, PCs are like microwaves—pricey appliances replaced only when they’re no longer able to fulfill their basic function.
Not talking about low-end, but SmartPhones are just as pricey, and cost even more (accumulated) considering the fact that they are replaced every other year (not to mention the enviromental cost of this behavior), and they are replaced even though they can still fulfill their basic function in most cases. So the question becomes: Why aren't phones like microwaves to the majority of people? I can think of several reasons: They are designed to not last very long, it's hard to repair them, often hard or impossible to replace the battery, expand storage capacity etc., and sometimes it's just missing software and security updates because the vendor decided to not support the device anymore. If PCs were like that, it would be just the same (and some actually are: just look at devices like the Surface or iPad...glued together, irreplaceable components, motherboards with soldered RAM chips...)
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That's a very good point. I shared the same thoughts about phones - before I had any experience with smartphones. They were basically very replaceable, I just had to save my contacts and some random notes.
Now after using my second smartphone(first was the same but smaller and not as capable), it feels like I have a mini computer with me all the time. If I weren't a developer, I could replace my computer with it. And I don't feel like changing phones every two years or whenever a company says that it's obsolete and therefore won't support it.
And when I was buying my latest phone, it was already somewhere in the middle regarding it's "age". But it wasn't too expensive and luckily MS decided to upgrade my device too.
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: ... and sometimes it's just missing software and security updates because the vendor decided to not support the device anymore. If PCs were like that...
Well... They are going that way. If not... why to kill Win7?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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PCs (Windows/Linux/MacOS) have a hardware maturity that portable devices do not yet have.
Most people (not us) can live with couple of years old computers with minor upgrades (add more memory and HD space).
We do not change our habits just because there is new hardware available; mom or dad will not use GPU/CPU intensive software if they have not done so before; if they used such software, they already have what they needed from the start.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Want to control a Windows 10-based robot or sous-vide machine with your voice? Microsoft is giving developers guidance how to add cloud-connected speech capabilities to IoT devices. "Everybody’s talking at the same time"
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And yet at the same time, we still have totally crappy speech synthesis.
Marc
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Google made its Cloud Machine Learning platform, which is used by Google Photos, Translate, and Inbox, available to developers today. There you go: teach your machines well
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The company is expected to provide details of the open-source OS at a developer conference next month Oh, good. We were running a little short on those
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I found out about this problem like a lot of you, when our builds started failing because we use the extremely helpful JSCS. More on yesterday's "LeftPad-opaclypse" (needs a better name)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "LeftPad-opaclypse" (needs a better name)
Sinister Space Shenanigans?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Through a long chain of dependencies
Which is one of the long chain of reasons that I refuse to work in Ruby on Rails. Some dependency changes, and its like watching dominoes fall over, not hitting the next domino, because of course the dependencee isn't yet up to speed with the changes made by the dependencer, so the whole abortion that is supposedly awesome -- to quote:
What’s awesome about open source is that I can go to a project like Redux or Express and peek under the hood, see that there are real people working on it, and understand their reasoning.
fails.
Reasoning? 
Insanity does not reason, and insanity is what much of the open source community is.
Marc
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"They haven't encrypted the mouse traffic, that makes it possible for the attacker to send unencrypted traffic to the dongle pretending to be a keyboard and have it result as keystrokes on your computer. This would be the same as if the attacker was sitting at your computer typing on the computer," said Newlin, a security researcher at Bastille. This is why I only type by shorting out the wires on a PS/2 cable
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AFAIK, any rodent is wireless... 
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Microsoft is finally addressing the elephant in the room in terms of security for Office users and has announced a new feature in the Office 2016 suite that will make it harder for attackers to exploit macro malware. Barn door: successfully closed!
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They removed the VBA (Visual Basic for ApplicationsAttacks) subsystem?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Now that would actually fix something. No, they probably just added another dialog that people will immediately disable, leaving them just as unprotected as before.
TTFN - Kent
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The bot is the brainchild of Microsoft’s Technology and Research and Bing teams, which created it in order to “experiment with and conduct research on conversational understanding.” Because... because... because... Nope, I'm broken. All I have is Why?
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Unfortunately their answer is either "y not" or "kos we kan".
Teaching an AI to spell badly and use slang jibberish is... er... I agree (as I said the other day)... "Why? Just Why?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Oh God. The /b/tards at 4chan have got to be soiling themselves over that fiasco.  
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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See, she is JUST like a real teenager.
Oh, my Microsoft... 
TTFN - Kent
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