FT_intern

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   by FT_intern 10y ago

   >Most interviewers at these company, especially those with little empathy or training, are looking to rule you out, and are looking to find a problem with whatever it is you do I disagree with this. Although technically there is an infin
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   When a trigger warning is announced, a triggering concept is mentioned. When a triggering concept is mentioned, people are triggered. Soon, people associate trigger warnings with the triggered symptoms. We need a trigger warning about trigg
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   by FT_intern 10y ago

   Amazon wasn't losing money on margin even with $25 free shipping back then?
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   if you're smart enough to get into an elite university, you're smart enough to get a full ride at an upper tier but not elite university. And if your parents had a high enough income where you had to pay full tuition, then you alr
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   by FT_intern 10y ago

   I'm not concerned about bugs that happen here and there. The occurrence is probably lower than human-made driving errors. The biggest fear is that since the control may be centralized, one failure or bug could potentially be pushed out
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   by FT_intern 10y ago

   [3] is a good newbie book. It explains basic problem solving techniques and introduces the basic problems/algorithms that many questions are derived or built on top of. [2] has a good soft skills section and is a medium difficulty work
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   by FT_intern 10y ago

   They do that because they are either not getting punished for sending bad applicants or sourcing good applicants is too time consuming to be worth it.
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   by FT_intern 10y ago

   is that why Google scrambles everything?
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   by FT_intern 10y ago

   UX engineers are paid well though if you consider "UX engineer" as the new fancy term for designer
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    It's more of "years since last studied algorithms". University algorithms classes are useless for these types of interviews for the most part when 90% of the focus is on the proofs. Most people I know spent time studying by t
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    15% off first 3 purchases, no exceptions. You can get the discount on electronic items that never go on sale. Plus free shipping and return shipping. They're probably loss leading on almost every product sold right now.
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    and the war begins
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    The point of Amazon reviews is to quickly evaluate an item. Watching a youtube review is a much larger time commitment
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    I assume this was implemented to improve usability for people with short fingers. As someone with tiny fingers, I would rather have a huge Ctrl key and a tiny fn key
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    No. In many contexts, feminism attacks equal opportunity and opts for equal ratios instead.
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    compared to emails or text messages, phone calls reduce the overhead of context switching when receiving a new message
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    I skimmed it. It's a condensed summary of cognitive bias concepts similar to those in Thinking Fast and Slow, explored and justified through practical reasoning.
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    Practically speaking, most user data is useless and costs disk space $$$ to store.
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    Can you give a ball park estimate of compensation for a multinational company / satellite offices of well known US companies?
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    I can sympathize with the families in Palo Alto/Menlo Park/etc. who have spent $$$ settling down, but I would be in favor of building tall apartment buildings around SF and SJ. IMO, the nuance here is to allow large apartment buil
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    I wonder how much revenue is being lost every second
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    Wait what? It's possible to pull up random people's social, loans, etc.? As in data with PII and not anonymized data?
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    Aren't those products loss leaders for the purpose of eventually making money off of software (games fall in this category)/consulting services?
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    Switching search engines in 2016 is much easier than switching browsers in 1998.
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    According to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp , Chrome has 3 times the market share as Firefox
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    I don't think there's much to gain from tracking the homeless tbh. The data will be analyzed for interesting, non monetizeable insights.
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    by FT_intern 10y ago

    I'll give the company the benefit of the doubt and assume that they've done the market research and didn't think posting a Show HN would have made a huge difference.