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by NTDF9 9y ago
Why do people/companies go to two extremes over this? I can see what the Google engineer wanted to point out. He's simply saying that companies get aggressive in trying to improve diversity at the expense of merit. Does that mean
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by NTDF9 9y ago
With good education and not prioritizing money as THE thing to seek in life. By giving people a purpose to live beyond economics and slaving for the nations GDP.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Neither are "better". Its all about tradeoffs. I hate large python code bases with no strict types specified anywhere. It's a nightmare to maintain that code.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Reminds me of the common saying, "The hardest thing about working at Google was the job interview to get the job in the first place."
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>>I'm really skeptical of this claim. Nothing about CS fundamentals prepares you for debugging mobile browser performance, or machine learning, or setting up a sharded database. Maybe the big companies have a reason for asking th
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by NTDF9 9y ago
You guys should remember that a lot of crap we write nowadays is a consequence of bloated languages and "move fast break things" attitude. Doom and Half life were at their core exceptionally optimized C.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
There's usually a league with more than 2 teams :)
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I never once said that liberal coastal lifestyles are the best way to live. What I was getting at is that the more educated people feel stifled in communities that disregard rational thought process. People out there are good but they have
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by NTDF9 9y ago
As a person who's been about in those areas, I think part of the reason is the mass-delusion that education and sciences is somehow a bad thing. Far too many common folks out in the country think that education is not worth it, science
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by NTDF9 9y ago
People of no where don't claim they are number 1
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Apologies for my foul language but Americans are uneducated as fuck! This is why crap sells so well only in America. Before someone goes off about best schools, best companies, best other things, do remember that these "bests" are
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Sounds like tech coding interview process.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>> That would introduce a ton of perverse incentives. That will also solve the unemployment problem and incentivize people to start small businesses. The family members will also have a choice between working minimum wage for their ow
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by NTDF9 9y ago
It's basically a choice between: 1. Hire more people and get a tax break 2. Innovate and hire less people and have smaller payrolls Both are win-win for companies and customers and employees. Today, it is just point 2.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>> Seems like the cure is worse than the disease. In addition to incentivizing investments that create more jobs at the expense of those that create less Here's the thing. There is still more money to be made by hiring fewer empl
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>> Unfortunately dollars for employees doesn't necessarily translate to return as well as, say, hiring a process manager or automation engineer to try to eliminate the effects of a bad employee. Like I said, there are corner case
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Yes. You built an automated factory by accruing profits originally from workers. That profit either needs to be given back to the workers by compensation or taxation. You specifically didn't do much. Your workers did. If they make you
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by NTDF9 9y ago
The solution to this is plain and simple wealth-tax that can only be avoided if their investment creates X% jobs. There are corner cases to it but the underlying reasoning is, if your investment is just lying around accruing wealth, it&#x27
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Exactly! I'd hire a Durant (a high performing team player) over a sharp-shooting 3 pointer genius (fast algo coder)
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by NTDF9 9y ago
And I'm so glad that Golden State Warriors didn't just Hire Kevin Durant for his 3pt shooting abilities. He'd lose to a lot of people who are better 3pt shooters.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I have had a bad experience with an algorthmic topcoder. The guy has a brilliant mind. But he doesn't understand the big picture or why his code would fail when integrated with big codebases. He thinks his work is "done" when
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by NTDF9 9y ago
The solution is metered trash/pollution for everyone. The more you throw away, the more you pay. The more waste you produce, the more you pay. The more you harm the environment, the more you pay. This will incentivize individuals to th
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by NTDF9 9y ago
I want to know more. As a late 20s person, I am experiencing everything you described.
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If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers(medium.com)
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Don't worry about Gayle. She is very mistaken about the nature of software engg. It'll be funny if she had to interview for a real job and couldn't answer anything unrelated to whiteboard questions.
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>> Was that a long time ago? I've heard stories about things like that a bunch of years ago, but my impression was that things have changed. By then you have wasted a good candidate's time, who doesn't want to interview
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by NTDF9 9y ago
>> I think the main problem with data-structures and algorithms questions is that, the person that originally envisions a question, understands the "soul" of the question and how to vouch the candidate as she solves the ques
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Twitter on the web looks so much like myspace!
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by NTDF9 9y ago
You're not getting the point. In a large codebase, I want to be able to skim code. I don't want to parse idiomatic code. I literally want to be able to read it like a novel and get down to the lines that I'm interested in. Gr
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by NTDF9 9y ago
Am I the only one who likes verbosity while reading code? When I stumble upon a codebase that looks like the following: def unzip(tuples): if tuples: return [tuple(t[i] for t in tuples) for i, _ in enumerate(tuples[0])] &lt

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