I'm thankful for Firefox reader view. Had that not worked, it would have been a quick Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V into my fav editor. Good article. I'm not sure why someone would intentionally make it more difficult to read. The world is swimming in content, but I'm not so certain attention spans have increased. Risky business.
That said, I don't disagree that the special effects seem impressive -- not that I'm competent to judge.
> The in unit smoke detectors can be triggered to warn occupants
This is specifically because the National Construction Code (NCC) requires multiple occupancy buildings to have certain fire safety infrastructure that generally includes a 2 hour fire separation between different occupancy units. This gives a buffer to all other occupants.
> There are also smoke detectors in the hallway.
If a detector is triggered in a common area this has the potential to affect the escape routes of multiple occupants so it triggers an immediate fire alarm.
Australian fire safety rules are some of the best in the world.
The test proposed on the website is NOT currently approved for use in Australia, and is unlikely to be approved for self-test use.
Quote from TGA:
"NOTE: In Australia, the supply of self-tests for most serious infectious diseases, including self-tests for COVID-19, is prohibited under the Therapeutic Goods (Excluded Purposes) Specification 2010. Testing for serious infectious diseases is best conducted in conjunction with a healthcare professional who can provide appropriate advice and treatment if required."
>The test proposed on the website is NOT currently approved for use in Australia
I can see it right there in the table. So it's definitely approved. On the self-test bit, of course not, even the manufacturer stresses this is for professionals to use. Not lay people.
Australia has in some states added nCov-19 to the standard testing panel for all respiratory illnesses, and we haven't seen a spike in detection so far. I'd expect to see an increased detection rate if it was in-fact endemic.
The pause button make sense, force users to focus on the page briefly every now and then to save bandwidth - Netflix does something similar to prevent long running auto-play.
The looping is quite different though, there's no legitimate use for it, and I can't find any controls that would allow you to set a song to auto-repeat. So it's either a bug that they're struggling to fix or an intentional change to make play-lists less functional when you are not watching the platform.
I'm only guessing, but in the blog posts about the password search feature he said there was a lot of cleanup of badly formatted files it's possible that the whitespace got ignored?
I disagree pretty strongly with both, your undergraduate does not determine what breakthroughs you'll make. There are plenty of examples of businesses built by people that did not complete an undergrad.
As for Elon Musk, though I don't claim to know what he's done to be successful, I doubt very that he has not asked for advice.
Based on what you've said here:
>"Went through one company which lead me on with first a phone
>interview then a hacker rank challenge then a take home
>project then a onsite interview with a whiteboard programming
>challenge and a final interview. I never heard back from
>them, only to find out later on that I had been rejected
>without them telling me!"
I would suggest you could have a couple of issues (bearing in mind that I have little evidence to go on):
1. One might be technical competency - The only time I'll repeatedly give technical questions i.e. HackerRank, TakeHome, Whiteboard is if I'm not convinced that you have the technical skill by some earlier stage.
2. You're failing the "cultural fit" test. This is in my opinion always the hardest one to figure for an interviewer, and is usually the last question hanging over a candidate. I understand that you're frustrated with the process, but any semblance of arrogance during an interview is often a big negative in the post interview recap. Particularly if the position is more commodity than specialist developer.
To add more context can you do any or all of the following;
- Post some code
- What sort of position are you going for?
- Where are you based?
