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by RogerL 13y ago
I guess my main question is what is pg seeing that he doesn't like? He stated that comment quality was 'higher' after he turned this on briefly. I honestly have no idea what this means as it lacks specificity. From there I we
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by RogerL 13y ago
We don't have that problem here. Notice my argument was not for anarchy. Back to signal processing for a moment, I used 'noise' loosely. Signals of interest have noise and signal interspersed. It is often trivial to filter ou
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by RogerL 13y ago
I am currently spending my life working on signal processing - constructing a story of what is happening in the world from sensor data. And you know what - noise is good. You would perhaps think that the thing to do is to turn on the filter
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by RogerL 13y ago
Can you recommend how to learn this? I don't work with the web or networking, and would like to shore up that part of my knowledge. Are there any good books that gives the high-level overview of it all?
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by RogerL 13y ago
That is what gets me about these interview questions. I know a lot of very clever people. I am carefully differentiating 'clever' from 'smart', by the way. So many that are superficially fast and smart about solving whit
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by RogerL 13y ago
* The blind audition equalizes for more people than for whom it disadvantages.* Maybe. Do you have evidence for this statement? I haven't put myself to any sort of test, but my perception of myself is that I am far more attuned to laps
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by RogerL 13y ago
Someone that cannot type fast is going to be selected against in this format. Someone for whom the interview language is not their native tongue is going to be selected against in this format. Concrete examples: I work with someone that is
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by RogerL 13y ago
So, you want something (good hires), and you do nothing to get them? You are contradicting your own advice. If somebody doesn't respond to me, I take that as an extremely loud and clear signal of "not interested" or "can
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by RogerL 13y ago
That all strikes me as being incredibly rigid for a process called "agile".
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by RogerL 13y ago
I worked on big government projects using military standards that more or less imposed the dreaded 'waterfall'. What was our mantra? "Design a little, code a little, test a little". Agile re-invented or popularized vario
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by RogerL 13y ago
I find the Facebook comments interesting - lot's of "I can't figure this out". I suspect, strongly, that a lot of people learned the traditional manipulation but never understood why they were doing it. This just make it
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by RogerL 13y ago
I am by no means an aviation expert, but my career was largely built on things like putting GPS and modern radios into military aircraft, writing flight planners, and so on. I ask you to envision the logistics of a simple change. You want t
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by RogerL 13y ago
You'll perhaps take this as snark, but I am not going to read light gray text on a white background with a poorly rendered font (windows 7, firefox 27, 47yo eyes).
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by RogerL 13y ago
This is why banks are FDIC insured (in the US).
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by RogerL 13y ago
See, I don't find that clearer; quite the reverse. With trailing 'or' the type variable is nicely lined up, and the pattern matching that is going on is a lot clearer to my eye. With things misaligned, I have to much more c
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by RogerL 13y ago
9 reviews and 1-5 installs. Not sure how those numbers are generated, but I get the same feeling as you.
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by RogerL 13y ago
I upvoted this. I started in 1988. Interviews were like you said, and I absolutely do not see any difference in the quality of hires today as back then. And, how could I? It's the same population of skills, distributed across companies
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by RogerL 13y ago
I agree with most, if not all of this. However, my takeaway (what I learned) was the graph at the bottom. Ask hard question if someone ranks as mediocre for 8 quarters. This is counter-intuitive, as most people are, by mathematical necessit
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by RogerL 13y ago
It depends. I worked in a small convenience store in the late 80s. The bread delivery (loaf bread, donuts, hostess twinkies, and so on) would directly fill the specialized display stands for these items. Part of the job was to remove items
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by RogerL 13y ago
That's a good point, but not the whole story(at least for me). I love my Kindle. I am very adverse to buying books on it, even though I would sometimes go hungry to buy physical books. It makes no sense, I know and acknowledge that it
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by RogerL 13y ago
But everyone is saying "elect me and I will close and flag more posts"
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by RogerL 13y ago
Q:"What is the standard deviation in height for humans?" A: inches and people are not compatible whereas: Q: what is the average height of humans? A: 5.3, with a nice graph showing the +- sigma So it had the info, but just couldn&
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by RogerL 13y ago
And yet the community did find the answer.
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by RogerL 13y ago
I don't want to do what Yegge says. I can get a job in a few phone calls. Why should I go study a book for a month to be tested on a bunch of algorithms not pertinent to my field, to almost certainly be rejected even if I am (and I hon
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by RogerL 13y ago
I looked at it, even bought a couple books. A guy here at work was a huge booster for it, and used it in some small piece of production code. It looked cool, and I love parallel and distributed processing, so the idea of 'fail fast&#x2
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, I like him and have read much of what he has written, but I feel he missed the boat on this one. Facebook did not buy this company to get users. Facebook bought this company because it was a threat. There is not much value in being #5
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by RogerL 13y ago
I honestly don't grasp why this is a good question. Sure, I write a SQL query now and again, but if I have to join I look it up. I don't do it a lot. If I had to do it a lot for you, I would learn it inside out. If I told you I wa
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, but I suspect his point was "I work with NoSQL, so testing me on my SQL knowledge isn't a very good proxy for my ability to tune a database". If he didn't know the details of MongoDB, and that was in the hot path (l
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by RogerL 13y ago
The article did not say the bay area is uniquely, or especially racist, it was just stating that there is noticable racism here. Which there is. More than Vancouver I have no idea.
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by RogerL 13y ago
That one was somewhat overstated. It entirely depends on what circles you move in. I know plenty of people that brag on their drinking, and/or like to deride others for being lightweight. Surely there is a large contrast between Japan

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