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by RogerL 11y ago
Studies indicate it is more than that. Control of your environment, visual distractions, even airborne illnesses all are a factor as well. I do agree the quiet is required; I'm not countering your point, just adding to it.
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by RogerL 11y ago
The company I used to work for (EER) bought his company to get the IP to his rocket (Conestoga) and tried to go into private space launches, but the single launch in 1995 was a failure. It ended up getting sold to L-3. https://e
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by RogerL 11y ago
"hopes things will change" Get out. You don't "hope" things change, you make a plan, then you execute the plan, and you make corrections as needed. You don't hope. Nothing happens when you hope. Unless this quo
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by RogerL 11y ago
You can also augment the state to take this into account. I have a model that says my system does F with Q amount of uncertainty, and my measurements are Z with R uncertainty. But I have to give precise numbers for R, when it is just an imp
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by RogerL 11y ago
Sure. We all have biases. Almost everything I think about in engineering is passed through two filters: bayes, and nonlinear optimization[1]. It's enormously useful, and leads me to a lot of insights that others don't come up with
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by RogerL 11y ago
I just made that switch, being frustrated by Dropbox and Google drive for reasons of no interest to anyone but me. What I fear losing is previous versions. That saved my bacon once. Well, bacon bits at least. Also, my repositories are far l
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by RogerL 11y ago
You are ignoring the data. Person after person says they do fine in the job, yet have trouble with interviews. I've presented in rooms where the lowest ranking officer was a colonel, and most were important people at the Pentagon. No f
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by RogerL 11y ago
"as soon as we started doing them however, I saw a problem. Almost everyone was passing." Why is that a problem? Maybe almost everyone is decently good (as evidenced by having a string of jobs, and presumably, references), and you
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by RogerL 11y ago
If it isn't in writing, it doesn't count. Heck, in writing doesn't count for much if it isn't part of a contract.
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by RogerL 11y ago
"Show me the code base" Haven't tried that, not sure how it would go over, but I feel pretty reluctant to go somewhere new without getting that chance.
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by RogerL 11y ago
Some interviewers think they have innate abilities that even the best trained psychologists don't have. They are deluded. If you fail that interview you dodged a bullet (assuming you aren't 30 days from foreclosure or something).
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by RogerL 11y ago
The person was an 18 years old intern. Its your job to teach them, not let them do all this and then complain publicly about it. Internship is not cheap labor; it's a mutual relationship where you help train the next generation becaus
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by RogerL 11y ago
The author's point was that memorization is how you pass these silly interviews. There's a wonderful paragraph in Skienna's algorithm book, where he states that if you can reduce your problem to a graph problem you should do
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by RogerL 11y ago
Questions like that are like testing if somebody can touch type by asking questions like "which sequence of finger presses would you use to type qWaMvz%e3("? It's not how we normally access the information. I could type that
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by RogerL 11y ago
salary/1000 = hourly rate is a starting point if you are working more or less full time. What with taxes, down time, and health insurance, I personally wouldn't do it for that unless the life style change made it worth it. I think
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by RogerL 11y ago
Look up lock bumping. I (well, somebody) could be inside your house in 10 seconds if you use a normal lock. I trust you won't be calling the cops when you find your home emptied of all valuables? It's on you, right?
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by RogerL 11y ago
So by your lights I could make a copy of a key on your key ring, enter your house, take stuff, and that is fine because your locked door is a public endpoint? Or if the fact that the key is physical gives you pause, let's say you nave
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by RogerL 11y ago
I remember in the 90s advocating for things like gcc and the absolute scorn I would receive. "A free compiler!!! What kind of crap must that be??". You paid for compilers, you paid for your version control, you paid for your bug t
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by RogerL 11y ago
So, I'm curious. I know how data driven Google is - have they done studies on whether Go met its goals w.r.t C++ development?
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by RogerL 11y ago
No, it doesn't. Say I pass the invert a tree question. Does that prove I am good? That I can design a product, listen to customer requirements, come up with ideas that elude others, read a research paper and turn it into something comm
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by RogerL 11y ago
Ah, and I googled it. Perhaps it isn't that intrinsically hard, you don't need a decision tree or anything, but here also is a 28 page (28 page!) chapter from a book from a Professor at Berkeley on implementing tic tac toe. https
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by RogerL 11y ago
On your latter point (pointers) I've heard that argument before. I work with somebody that turned out not to know about hash tables. I could spin a tale about how this meant they were so wide eyed they'd just be incapable of doing
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by RogerL 11y ago
How is it fair to ask somebody to program tic tac toe? I promise you you'd shit your pants it you tried to do the programming I am currently doing (matrices with 1/2 million element diagonals, optimal estimation, and more linear a
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by RogerL 11y ago
"Red flags often surface at this point. I’ve had candidates with PhDs in computer science, for instance, who did not know that on a 64 bit architecture, pointers are 64 bits wide." Because learning 64-bit architecture is impossibl
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by RogerL 11y ago
I don't know your value, so, a counter argument to consider. A company is not going to pay more than they have to. So, are you easily replaceable at your current compensation package? Then they really have little incentive to pay you m
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by RogerL 11y ago
The only possible choices are ads that flash, pop up, and play music, or a paywall? That is a false dichotomy. It is possible to serve tasteful, malware free, silent ads. Most sites choose not to. I, and an increasing number of people are c
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by RogerL 11y ago
Then you'll have to explain why I see "You seem to have an ad blocker running. Would you consider turning it off, or subscribing" on many sites.
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by RogerL 11y ago
I just say "I write code" in casual conversation. Otherwise I use whatever term my company uses. That has mostly been 'engineer'. I did CS/EE in college. Can't say I elevate one over the other. I knew plenty of
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by RogerL 11y ago
This is really important. I've seen so many people just thrash at problems because they did not have the math to solve it. It's not so much that they didn't take the course or whatever, but that they didn't even understa
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by RogerL 11y ago
The concept is not rubbish, the interviewing technique is. I can think of any number of people that can rattle off what O(n) means, yet inevitably write O(N^3) code given half a chance. And vice versa. And another group that forget the cons

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