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by NTDF9 9y ago
I think your measure of what is ok and what isn't is just on the basis of what you are comfortable with. Doesn't mean every other programmer is comfortable with the same. To tell you the truth, I am ok with coding questions. In fa
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I think the US doesn't have enough accountability for its leaders. These guys just come in, serve the lobbyists and keep renewing their terms. They say one thing and do another. Is there any consequence of this directly to the congress
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Electrical engineering surely is.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Well, if the intent of the interview is just to test algorithms, maybe you don't want to test null pointer checks and off-by-1 errors too? So much time is wasted in trying to accommodate off-by-one errors (which are a sin in production
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by NTDF9 9y ago
It's the recursion (or parameters to functions in recursion that kills most candidates). It's pretty intuitive in the head. But I agree, plain vanilla binary search is easy.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>> If you’re asking a classic algorithmic question, that’s ok, but you ought to bring some nuance and depth to the table, and if you can teach the interviewee something interesting in the process, even better! This! This! This! If you
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Did they use NoSql to pull their pilot records?
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Clearly there are fewer and fewer people selling now causing prices to go up?
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by NTDF9 9y ago
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Except in an interview ;)
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by NTDF9 9y ago
AFAIK, Einstien was neither Mexican nor Asian.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Why would Einstein and Torvalds go through this nonsense bureaucracy? When those guys came, the process was smooth and welcoming. Not anymore.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
But not all of Banking is just validating transactions. Do you get that? The amount of energy that goes into maintaining accounts will be the same with maintaining wallets. The fact that any central authority/gang/thief can seize
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Do they use as much electricity JUST to validate a transaction? With bitcoin, we have electricity consumption per transaction AANNDDD lights in bldgs to provide services like loans, insurance, trading? Wtf?
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I have noticed the uptick in quality of services owned by foreign companies over services owned by US companies. Maybe foreign companies are not under pressure to achieve constant growth at all costs and that allows them to focus on quality
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by NTDF9 9y ago
No one's asking for chaos and anarchy. But do you see the difference between laws that build a society vs zealous obedience of the law however bad they may be?
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Right. I'm guessing you are not opposed to removal of mortgage deduction, if it becomes the law ...or child labor, if that is the law ...or slavery, if that is the law ...or genital mutilation, if that's the law We should all lear
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by NTDF9 9y ago
This is why employees of "cost centers" should just go on occasional strikes. Just don't work for 3 days, let the execs understand what the cost is of not having these "cost centers".
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I have come to believe that scale encourages mediocrity. The financial incentive in scaling is to produce more output, as fast as possible, even if the quality of output is low. They make money by virtue of number of users rather than quali
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Also, We only hire devs who can traverse a tree with their eyes clsoed. Why? Is that what your devs do in day to day job? No, our devs add buttons and pass values from one module to another.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>> I think the code people have to write in interviews is not supposed to work/scale in the real world. The purpose usually is to test whether the candidate can implement a correct algorithm Do you check for nulls in linked list
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I LOLed at your comment! I still remember a recent interview I had with a team at Amazon. That team had accomplished NOTHING (and I mean NOTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE) in past 3 years, went through re-orgs and new managers, high attrition, nothin
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I had a brilliant jerk at another job. One time, he just blabbered and interrupted a junior engineer in a meeting so much, another senior engineer stood up, took off his glasses and screamed loudly, "Let the man talk, will ya?" Th
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>> All the easy stuff is behind us and there is nobody for us to just copy. Healthcare? Education? At what point does the economy serve the people instead of people serving the economy?
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I remember this game. CM was the precursor to FM. This then forked into FM when Sega bought the studio (I think). Did you guys know that FM used real world class scouts to give attributes to players? The scouts were so good that many of the
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I concur! Nothing can describe how detailed that game is.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I would save final matches for the next day so I could think afresh for a few hours before the match starts. Anxiety levels were through the roof.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
This is so similar to Football Manager simulation series. God knows how many years I wasted on it. No, I can't do that anymore...shouldn't do that...let me just try once....I'll eat dinner later....Washing your underwear insi
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by NTDF9 9y ago
So the position in a male hierarchy largely influences male mating success. What does the position of women in the same hierarchy influence? Well, to put it bluntly, if a woman "looks up to" a male, she is likely to mate. For male
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Right...so you want a world where there is no collective security. But hey, at least we all have bitcoins in our wallets?
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>> It doesn't have to be 100% fair, but being somewhat egalitarian produces better results for everyone on the economic scale. Why did you perceive my question to be anti-egalitarian? I understand that a more equal society == bet

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