I’m trying to figure out how I feel about this. I guess it depends on how arduous the application process is. If it’s just one click apply on LinkedIn and it gives them an idea of supply in the labour market then I’m not losing sleep over it as an applicant. But if they are expecting cover letters and taking people through rounds of interviews, that’s pretty inconsiderate and speaks to a rotten company culture.
This is short sighted as this will ultimately push more job seekers into going through external recruiters and these companies will be left paying recruitment premiums.
Google called annually for 10 years after I interviewed there, asking if I was still interested in employment. I always said yes and they kept calling every year until I demanded to know what the purpose of the calls was.
{I really hope you don't get offended by my comment - I want to present you a different perspective}
A candidate applying for a job - even with a single click - involuntarily and automatically has a small hope that they might get that job. If that candidate is in a more desperate situation, not receiving a reply, being denied or mislead, has a mental toll.
Do this for a couple of job ads and the effect compounds.
I’ve been using SourceTrail[0] since they open sourced it to get my head around a large Java project. It doesn’t yet support TypeScript projects so I’m really interested to see how Codemap goes on our React app.
Yup, SourceTrail is probably my favorite before deciding to build Codemap. Since my day job mostly use Typescript, I have to build this to serve my own need.
Did anyone else ever publish a meaningful response? I thought Antirez's response was reasonable but I also recognize the inherent bias. I'd love to see responses from other experts, ideally written such that non-experts can reasonably understand.
I recall several people on twitter (I follow a lot of distributed systems people / cs professors as it is part of my job to build these things) who agreed with Martin's analysis.
Honestly given Antirez's response I'm genuinely surprised no one has written a TLA+ or similar formal verification proof. Then the outcome is binary; either redlock is sound and works as expected, or it is not.
Amazon's AWS Architect, James Hamilton is a big fan of this approach, as are most of the heavyweights in distributed systems:
Also time, our university did something like this on their library computers. It meant waiting 5min after someone logged out for it to do a system restore before the next person could log in. Which seemed like forever when you're rushing to print a paper.
Maybe not as a gaming experience. But this could be super cool in the kitchen. Imagine having your recipe or cooking video projected onto the bench or wall and follow you around as you prepare the meal. No more worrying about getting food on your laptop.
You realize of course that 'in the kitchen with recipes' is like the Cold Fusion of computers right? Ever since Altair first talked about "your very own microcomputer" there has been a "and you can have all your recipes at your fingertips in the kitchen" meme to go along with it. And it has never happened. Seriously, its like the anti-app or something.
Is she cooking from one app/format that could be projected easily? When using a resource like that, I usually cook from a mixture of books, blogs, recipe sites and so on. It would be too difficult to get that info put onto a clearly readable display IMO. Sometimes they're lists, sometimes they're fragments of info in image captions, or in a story.
I suspect sound is probably a much better approach. A good speaker + microphone and you can intuitively do things like set 30 minute timers as you put something in the oven. Or just get a quick rehash of the next steps. "Finished kneading bread, now what?"
Also, a single recipe is fairly easy to follow, handling a few a the same time is where a computer could actually be useful.
I have posted here before about an app that helps you schedule a set of recipes so that things are ready in sequence. It would show you what can be prepared in advance, what needs to be done just before plating, etc. A recipe Gantt chart.
I could also make use of a touchscreen splashback showing either general entertainment or recipes where I could strike off ingredients or steps as they were completed. Saves having the iPad or a book taking up bench space.
Could have touchscreen in one area and then display with heat-resistant glass behind the cooktop. Maybe in 10 years time.
No not a far-flung idea, and I would agree the iPad (or perhaps simply tablets) are perhaps the most successful here[1]. The observation though is that it is almost always thrown out there as the thing that it going to be really killer and it never is that thing. The Honeywell advertisement is a great example.
[1] My wife would use her iPad more for this if she could write notes on it. I'm looking at a Note pro for that application, and of course being able to pull up info from the filer rather than the 'cloud'.
So then you end up with a bunch of flat surfaces in your kitchen so you can actually make out the text/video with projectors aimed directly at that. Might as well make them embedded screens at that point I'd think. If you want to be 100% "follow you around" mobile just attach a pico projector to your chest and see whether you can read how many tablespoons of mustard you need off of a handful of turnip leaves. I'd think it'd be more useful to me to just have a screen up where I can reference it rather than something that follows me around.
I suppose it really depends on the poll. Answering ‘What is your age?’ would be frustrating if all the options were scrambled. But anything subjective like ‘What’s your favourite programming language?’ would certainly benefit from random ordering.
This is short sighted as this will ultimately push more job seekers into going through external recruiters and these companies will be left paying recruitment premiums.