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by Goladus 12y ago
I dislike the idea that men can only be sold on feminism if they think there's something in it for them. Dislike it all you want, doesn't change the reality that if you have one self-interested faction whose interests appear to
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by Goladus 12y ago
Maybe the companies I've worked for have all been unusually picky about hiring ...Or their initial screening heuristics are unusually bad and have to interview tons of candidates. Or maybe their recruiting process is really good at
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by Goladus 12y ago
Answering this question correctly cannot identify people with these highly desirable and uncommon skill sets, so the expected result of using it as your only interview test is to hire the most common subset of people that can pass it. Whi
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by Goladus 12y ago
It doesn't mean you can't have created a sub-project of a larger project, if you want to get picky with semantics which doesn't seem to be the nature of the interview.
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by Goladus 12y ago
I don't think that question precludes all of those things. Anyone who is a "full-stack thinker" with broad experience should have at least one project in their past where they created something they're proud of.
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by Goladus 12y ago
tl;dr: The question he arrived at is: “... will you please tell me about the best project that you’ve ever created?” Then watch for enthusiasm and pay attention to the details. The goal seems to be to identify someone who really enjoyed
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by Goladus 12y ago
1. On-the-fly keyboard macro generation. I use M-[, record , M-]. f9 to execute. (C-x e, e... if function keys not available) Even very small, one-time, but repetitive tasks can be automated. 2. First-class functions that can be bound
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by Goladus 12y ago
True I rarely have a problem editing in web text boxes, I never really committed to using emacs as a word processor. But I'd be lying if I said I've never accidentally closed a browser tab when absent-mindedly trying to do a back
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by Goladus 12y ago
Once you have mastered Emacs, you are good at all other editors I haven't found that to be true at all. I find that due to archaic idiosyncrasies and the customization possible with emacs, the more time I spend with it the more diff
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by Goladus 12y ago
The bonus points for "salacious private life" are short-term, often borrowed against the long term. Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are not exactly long-term success stories, even though they continue to be in the news and their
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by Goladus 12y ago
The old saying is "there's no such thing as bad publicity". I am really so sick of hearing people repeat this mantra. Bad publicity can have silver linings and sometimes what might seems like bad publicity is not bad at al
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by Goladus 12y ago
Every time I see something about her, even overwhelmingly negative, I shake my head and think "another person tricked into feeding her success". What does it say about you, though, that you are reading that person's commen
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by Goladus 12y ago
How is "site take-over" a business model? (Pandora)
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by Goladus 12y ago
Cars also have some value as shelter and storage.
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by Goladus 12y ago
My first language was Basic (in 1982). The second was assembly. This is not terribly different than what I suggest. I'm saying in the modern world, Python fills the role of Basic and C fills the role of assembly. The abstract idea
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by Goladus 12y ago
It's a lot trickier than this. Suppose you have a rare genetic condition that affects 0.005% of the population. It takes very little additional information to single out a person when the first thing you do is rule out 99.995% of the
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by Goladus 12y ago
Just want to highlight one thing: Essentially, the hostname should not have any indication of the host’s purpose or function, but instead acts as a permanent, unique identifier to reference a particular piece of hardware throughout its lif
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by Goladus 12y ago
However, if you want your Computer Science majors to be able to create [...] they need to learn C/C++. It doesn't have to be the first language introduced. It should be second. My other comment in this thread: https:/&#
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by Goladus 12y ago
Maybe, I'd have to see the actual class. Remember that if this is a 4-year curriculum, they may eventually be expected to write code for a hashmap in C or some other low-level language as part of a data structures or algorithms class.
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by Goladus 12y ago
Yes it's funny, these places are teaching Python for the same reason they taught Java That's not what I'm seeing at all. What I'm seeing is discussion of specific traits about Python that make it especially suited for
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by Goladus 12y ago
I've commented before in a variety of places that if I were to design a first-year curriculum that would have suited me best, it would start with python in much the way that is discussed in this thread, focusing on the concepts and alg
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by Goladus 12y ago
Python has types. Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Apr 22 2011, 16:34:07) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> type(5)
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by Goladus 12y ago
We did not want to “adapt” the algorithm to each language to improve speed, because it will open the door to too many “uncontrolled variables” (how good a programmer in that language you are and so on). The only partial exception was with
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by Goladus 12y ago
2. describe in succinct, painful accuracy git internals (the OCD hacker way) when no git newcomer actually cares about tree objects first hand. While true, there's also a category of git users who are no longer really "newcomers
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by Goladus 12y ago
The phys.org article includes the link to the original paper. How is the GrrlScientist blog better than the phys.org article? Based on a quick scan, it seems more or less equivalent to me in terms of basic journalism standards. It just lo
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by Goladus 12y ago
I could take you around Boston and identify a number of scenarios where a bicycle following different rules makes things more dangerous. Here's one: http://i.imgur.com/JRQCRG9.png The Saint Mary's and Mountfort s
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by Goladus 12y ago
The are security implications whether you use the password anywhere else or not.
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by Goladus 12y ago
That's a good article on why it's good to be skeptical of people claiming "our food is toxic," however there are a at least two important pieces of evidence that anyone can observe: 1. Obesity rate, along with dia
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by Goladus 13y ago
Any article on an advanced topic is going to be difficult if you lack prerequisite knowledge, no matter how fancy the cross-reference ui.
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by Goladus 13y ago
I upvoted your comment, but the reality is that the grey area is easy to find. Consider apache's httpd.conf. It includes support for fairly advanced features like conditionals, scopes, and sub-configuration of 3rd party modules. In s

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