Klockan

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by Klockan 10y ago
> What video games teach you a feel for probabilities? Every trading card game, Hearthstone is a popular example.
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by Klockan 10y ago
I have seen plenty of older people getting hired at Google so it is obviously possible.
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by Klockan 10y ago
About 80% gets rejected at the committee stage, it is the executive review after the committee that rarely rejects.
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by Klockan 10y ago
It could be their first job, they could have been long-term unemployed (you don't get aids forever) or they could have had jobs with lower salaries before.
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by Klockan 10y ago
Because there are many billions of lines written in C++ out there that we still want to maintain.
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by Klockan 10y ago
> We've never witnessed such a conversion We sure have, LHC creates matter/anti-matter particle pairs using enormous amounts of concentrated energy.
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by Klockan 10y ago
Computer science assumes that the code is run on a machine with a very specific set of operations since otherwise you wouldn't be able to calculate time complexity. The set of operations were deliberately chosen to be a reasonable abst
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by Klockan 10y ago
Not psychologically.
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by Klockan 10y ago
> Personal experience is a pretty terrible way to form political opinions, it leads to stuff like overestimating the rate of crime, the cost of terror etc. Isn't it the other way around? Few have significant personal experiences wit
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by Klockan 10y ago
Note that the median income for males have been in decline since the 70's, it isn't strange that they get frustrated with the current situation. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/the-uncom
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by Klockan 10y ago
The bigger the team the more restrictions you want in a language. C++ is lovely when you are working alone, but as the team grows people start having very conflicting opinions on what parts of the language should be used. The only way to ha
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by Klockan 10y ago
> Does a CEO improving his company market value by firing people have the same contribution to society as a paramedic saving a life, a nanny taking care of a baby so the parents can work or a teacher educating kids? Yes, by firing people
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by Klockan 10y ago
Exactly, and since high density cities are more common in Europe it is also more affordable there.
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by Klockan 10y ago
Everything you can't write down as a program is actually done by your subconscious, meaning that all of the hard steps are done by it.
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by Klockan 10y ago
You left out "capitalist democracy", his point is that capitalism and democracy are mutually exclusive concepts when women are allowed to vote since they tend to vote for socialism.
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by Klockan 10y ago
Seems like he said that giving women the vote moved politics further to the left and thus was bad for capitalism, not that it was a bad thing in general.
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by Klockan 10y ago
You need to compare within countries or it doesn't matter. Asians in the US lives a lot longer than whites in the US. Also if you want to find poor whites you just have to look at Russia where they live shorter than even China. Therefo
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by Klockan 10y ago
> As a white male you are the ..., healthiest, ... in modern society. Not true, Asians are healthier than whites and females are healthier than males. White males have some privileges but they certainly don't have all of them.
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by Klockan 10y ago
Who would have thought that people are reluctant to express controversial opinions in a live phone interview?
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by Klockan 10y ago
This argument is useless since polynomial time is just as intractable as exponential time if the exponent is large. For example, lets say that we found a way to solve all np problems in n^1000 time, would that change anything? No, there are
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by Klockan 10y ago
I think the worst offender is writing blog posts about startups rather than running them.
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by Klockan 10y ago
Imagine that you passed your dream job interview, you pack you things and move to another state! 30 days into the new job you get the news, you are fired for being a low performer! You go online and post about your experiences, how horrible
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by Klockan 10y ago
At least I am more scared of not having a job to go to tomorrow than the job interview today.
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by Klockan 10y ago
> but the question here was where it does point to. No, the question was "what happens here" and the obvious answer is "you write 'a' to an undefined location, likely segfaulting". Since the candidate failed
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by Klockan 10y ago
> If you wanted to indicate the type of p, what would you write instead? Then you would just write it as a function like this: void foo(char *p) { *p = 'a'; }
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by Klockan 10y ago
> These screens pass people who can answer trivia but who can't effectively code, and they reject people who have a gift for solving engineering problems with code but who can't answer trivia questions when put on the spot. SRE
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by Klockan 10y ago
Which of the following seems more likely? A person fails to read a question verbatim. A person who has been the "smartest person in the room" for decades has an inflated view of his fluency on a topic and makes mistakes in his fav
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by Klockan 10y ago
Those are just flags, the message contains much more than the flag. Therefore it is wrong to say that they just send the flags and that the flags are equivalent to SYN and ACK.
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by Klockan 10y ago
If you work at Google you can find them by searching for it.
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No, I meant that the interviewee misunderstood the questions/answers given by the recruiter and thus misrepresented them when he wrote the blogpost. Since he couldn't even get the questions right I highly doubt that he gave a corr

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