Gunax

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by Gunax 7y ago
So everyone knows that the interview isn't perfectly realistic--it's a simulation. Consider that when athletes are scouted, they are usually not asked to play in a full game of their sport. But instead certain stats like 'how
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by Gunax 7y ago
I've been a developer for almost 2 years (I know not that long) but I have never even heard of bubble sort. Looking it up, it is O(n^2). Is there a reason this is a common interview question? It doesn't seem like a sort one would
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by Gunax 7y ago
Yes. It's more like a blog post.
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by Gunax 7y ago
I think there can be just as many issues with that style too. There are so many critiques possible, it's difficult to know what to focus on. Some people care about algorithm efficiency, and others don't. Some interviewers require
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by Gunax 7y ago
Well then you disagree with the post I originally replied to.
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by Gunax 7y ago
No. Using drugs and driving fast are both victimless crimes. There is nothing criminal about them per se. I am saying that the same justification is used to justify both speed limits and drug prohibitions. My parent comment said (referring
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by Gunax 7y ago
And now we are back to why drugs laws were justified in the first place.
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by Gunax 7y ago
I have an alternative explaination for some of the names. Usually feminine names are longer--often just longer versions of the male equivalent. Think Patrick vs Patricia, Jesse vs Jessica, Robert vs Roberta etc. It seems a lot of the gender
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by Gunax 7y ago
Does the name have to get one letter shorter each generation as well?
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by Gunax 7y ago
I was thinking the same thing wrt to Jean (french) vs English Jean. Or Ariel (Hebrew).
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by Gunax 7y ago
I actually think the first chart is most telling. Since they are ordered by popularity, the names which had a visible male presence (Kelly, Kim, Riley, Avery) are what I would call 'switched'. Most people would have identified tho
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by Gunax 7y ago
Of course it's not worth it if you can pass it yourself. Plenty of people would gladly accept this offer. I would accept the google offer with a 15% pay cut in a heartbeat. No hesitation at all.
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by Gunax 7y ago
Thanks for the read... That was exactly how I've felt only I was not able to articulate it so well. The best dev I know didn't go to college (he tried to be a traffic controller when other people would have been at university). He
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by Gunax 7y ago
Eh, I guess this is not true. To me, 'social media' always meant websites like MySpace and Orkut where friends connect, and not just 'website where users can communicate in some way' a la Pinterest/Reddit/YouTu
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by Gunax 7y ago
I lean libertarian, but sometimes realty breaks that. True libertarianism dictates that I can ban whomever I want from my shop. But in reality most of the bans were of the 'No Negroes' variety. I would love to think that the free
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by Gunax 7y ago
Eh, I guess this is not true. To me, 'social media' always meant websites like MySpace and Orkut where friends connect, and not just 'website where users can communicate in some way' a la Pinterest/Reddit/YouTu
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by Gunax 7y ago
That doesn't sound so much like that's discussing politics at work' so much as it's 'indoctrinating' at work.
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by Gunax 7y ago
> Refusing to serve a customer when you disagree with that customer's goal is pretty far from being a "moral arbiter for society." Keep in mind that anyone is free to use other services (or roll their own) and gitlab can&#
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by Gunax 7y ago
Robert Sedgewick's algorithm's course, available on Coursera (or if you're a princeton student I guess) implements this for one of the class assignments.
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by Gunax 7y ago
That's just a bad system design, not your dad's fault really: "You're password 'huntet2' is invalid" unless the password is just random characters, anyone can guess how it was mistyped. Hell, even if it w
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by Gunax 7y ago
In the finance world 'eventually' is a long time. This is an industry that I am sure will 'eventually' eliminate mainframes from its tech stack. My guess is that ACH systems will be maintained for a few decades as a lega
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by Gunax 7y ago
Isn't venmo just ACH underneath?
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by Gunax 7y ago
Yes. log(log(log... GN))) applied X times (where X is the number of planck volumes in the universe) is still greater than X. Where log = base 10 logarithm. Hofstadter talks a bit about this abstraction in his article 'On Number Numbnes