Daily bread 04/20/2018

• Norway Unveils Ureddplassen, the World's Most Beautiful Public Toilet | The Manual

  • Norway Lifts the Lid on the World’s Most Beautiful Public Toilet
  • minimalist design
  • cornered the market on
  • their considerable design savvy
  • Popping into public restrooms
  • We’d venture to say
  • downright traumatic
  • is angling to change that perception
  • stunning terrestrial scenery
  • is crafted from
  • stargazing
  • newly revamped site
  • to encompass
  • one-of-a-kind
  • the most blissful poop of your life
  • a new initiative

• BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Lying to children

  • Lying to children
  • Listen to a discussion about the lies that parents tell children and whether that's a good or bad thing - and learn some useful vocabulary too.

  • This week's question:

     

    According to a study by a US psychologist, what percentage of people will lie in a typical ten minute conversation?

     

    Is it:
    a)    40%
    b)    50%, or
    c)    60%?

     

    Listen to the programme to find out the answer.

  • Vocabulary
    

     

    a white lie
    a lie we tell without meaning to hurt someone

     

    distortion of the truth
    changing or bending of the truth

     

    malicious intent
    doing something deliberately to be cruel or to hurt someone.

     

    societal norm 
    accepted or ‘normal’ way something is done in society

     

    Transcript

• Job interviews for programmers now often come with days of unpaid homework — Quartz at Work

  • The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework
  • interested in hiring
  • a fictional restaurant
  • building an entire application from scratch
  • time commitment
  • I was a bit shocked
  • I was so exhausted and miffed that I gave up
  • I was dismayed at
  • I queried my network
  • had encountered the practice
  • working on
  • How homework became part of the tech interview
  • I endured a 6-hour-long unstructured interview
  • to avoid this potential bias
  • backlash against
  • critics pointed out
  • the most famous proponent of
  • emerged in this vacuum
  • to work on solutions to relevant problems
  • She was especially irked that
  • may or may not
  • a fairer process
  • already contend that
  • less time consuming.
  • used to use
  • ruling out
  • cast a wider net
  • they were more than capable of
  • a structured “live-coding interview” format that involves reviewing code together and talking about it. The process typically takes between 30 minutes to an hour.
  • made the same switch
  • to work directly with
  • In the meantime,
  • on the job market

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