Interesting Links for 19-06-2020

[andrewducker]

Warren Ellis Accused Of Sexual Coercion

(tags:WarrenEllis abuse OhForFucksSake comics )

UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple privacy-centric model

(tags:apple google pandemic apps uk privacy )

Trump Facebook Ad Openly Using a Nazi Symbol For "Political Prisoner"

(tags:republicans nazis Holocaust wtf OhForFucksSake USA viaSwampers )

NHS coronavirus app to be scrapped after only detecting 4% of contacts on iPhones

(tags:privacy apple Google pandemic apps )

Masked arsonist might've gotten away with it if she hadn't left Etsy review

(tags:police review Etsy wtf )

This kind of shit is why you can't trust it when people "Just want to ask a few questions"

(tags:OhForFucksSake communication fraud )

How are TV subtitles made? Are they done by a human or a machine? (I could not do this job)

(tags:technology BBC subtitles )

FizzBuzz: One Simple Computing Interview Question

You'd be astounded how many people fail this. People going for computer jobs who actually can't program.
(tags:interviews jobs computers )

Vegetarian? Jewish? Muslim? Government food parcels may not be much use to you

(tags:food pork UK government )

Social progress is at the heart of community politics

(tags:politics community )

UK health ministry has no records on Turkish PPE fiasco and won't say if files destroyed

(tags:UK pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[jack]

I think if you understand that much you are probably fine. Even if you get the order wrong and have to fix it. I haven't done hiring, but I think the people who are getting this wrong are like, people who can follow the surface forms of being a programmer but just haven't done any actual programming, so struggle with even the level of "writing a loop and a conditional". Possibly being quite senior if they can tell other people what to do and not have to do it.

I googled for example of failure and it was interesting