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by RogerL 13y ago
I really don't want people driving with Glass, even if it was turned off as she claims (how could a PO know?)
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by RogerL 13y ago
It's typically been my experience that (within limits) higher quality equals faster production. Can you imagine the debugging time they must burn with 11,000 global variables?
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, I also read it as the other responders to you read it. Losing your staff, probably spending more on talent (you usually, not always, have to pay more to replace somebody), losing tons of institutional knowledge, basically having to rew
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by RogerL 13y ago
I'm nobody compared to the quoted people, but I use AI in computer vision, and while I love using Bayesian math for parts of it, I've found no substitute for pragmatically programming in knowledge about the system. Which is differ
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by RogerL 13y ago
Well, it surely was lacking in the evidence department. However, it certainly squares with my experience. Heck, I was up at 430am this morning, standing in my garage and giving an impromptu lecture to my clothes dryer about the math behind
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by RogerL 13y ago
I always found it extremely useful to 1) learn to program in assembly 2) inspect the assembly generated from your compiler 3) trace a call all the way from user land down into the kernel, and back up 4) don't forget networks. Whether t
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by RogerL 13y ago
I think it is more than that. I had a boss that basically would not hire somebody if they said they were at the top of any measure. In one sense, she was correct. No one can know everything about C++. OTOH, if you are in the 9x percentile,
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by RogerL 13y ago
Okay, you are assuming an Intel architecture? Plenty of embedded environments don't have OSes, let alone pages or virtual memory. IOW, I've worked in environments where, yes, the value in memory is based on what the compiler does
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by RogerL 13y ago
That is an extremely long post that says "hire the rock stars". Except, of course, we all cannot only hire the very best, transformative people (like Jeff Dean at Google). And, he has no way to actually identify them, except &qu
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by RogerL 13y ago
"just use doubles" Okay, and all of the data that I send off to my GPU for either computation or rendering - I should just accept the huge performance hit I get when using double on them? Or I am up against the cache limits - I sh
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, I've interviewed plenty of people with degrees from very prestigious Universities that evidenced no real programming skills, and a wonderful (truly) grasp of algorithms. Trouble is, the former is necessary on a day to day basis, a
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, I did read your post. The point is whether asking math questions at all is valuable compared to the other questions you asked. I do not believe you particularly addressed that in your post or in this one. It is a proxy for what you
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by RogerL 13y ago
Did you read the OP? The point of the article was that one can be great at that sort of thing and yet quite terrible as a production programmer. You are not measuring the skill you want with math problems, you are measuring a proxy. Further
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by RogerL 13y ago
Who is assuming that? The comments let you write your code quickly, and then of course you test to make sure it works. Comments do not obviate the need for testing, they just mean you don't have to (if up to date) read tons of source c
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by RogerL 13y ago
I think you are neglecting the "API" case. If I want to call some code that you wrote that I think might solve me problem, I have to have access to your source, read all the source code, implement the machine state in my head, and
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by RogerL 13y ago
"I think if a dev bootcamp is confident, they won't charge their students unless they land a job." That sounds seriously un-optimal. Like it or not, some people will sign up and for whatever reason not get a job. They decide
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by RogerL 13y ago
I see what you are saying. I was initially thinking about using dynamic programming, and surely I could illustrate my chops (or not) in that regard. But what if I do have that 'aha' moment, or I just remember that trick? Now you a
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by RogerL 13y ago
I think the programming/algorithms questions are probamatic. They by and large depend on seeing some trick. Take the array 1..n one. It's an 'aha' type question. You either see the trick, or not. I saw it after a minute,
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by RogerL 13y ago
Shrimp, crab, lobster: shudder. They are bugs!!!! (cue mental shrieking) I can handle eating processed crab for some reason I cannot understand. But to watch somebody breaking down and eating a lobster at the table is almost more than I can
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by RogerL 13y ago
My business idea is to collect your social data and sell it to the highest bidder, in exchange for letting you play some free games. Some people love that. I personally cannot then conclude that the business plan is 'good' (for
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by RogerL 13y ago
Sure. And small part of a system != whole system. Anyway, kind of off the point of the OP, I got rant-y there.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Several posts are talking about 'hacking' and the meaning thereof. In my mind, it is pretty simple - it's a reference to Zuckerberg's "The Hacker's Way", which goes to considerable length talking about the
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by RogerL 13y ago
This person is talking about doing something that could land them in jail. The only correct advice is "see a lawyer".
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by RogerL 13y ago
Zero. They are hard to find, but there are good recruiters that already do all that for free. That you charge for it does not automatically put you in the 'good recruiter' category :) If I was a consultant probably my answer would
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, it really depends on the person. By and large, though, I've observed that your post's parent is correct - lousy home life, want to cheat, that sort of thing. Living in a hotel is dreadful (IMO, of course), having none of your
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by RogerL 13y ago
Plenty of people like segregation, the death penalty, imprisonment for drug use, add your own absurdity or dislike here . Not trying to Godwin the thread, but really, like/dislikes are a terrible measure of the value of an idea.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Hmm, I find it extraordinarily bizarre. My life has been filled with people charging down the wrong path because they have elevated system/process over goals. For example: Agile/Yourdon/waterfall/XP/ISO9001/wha
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by RogerL 13y ago
Hmm, I regularly used things like code injection and/or edit and continue in Visual Studio to dynamically change the UI code. There were limits, but it worked great for doing things like incrementally changing the positions of elements
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by RogerL 13y ago
Repair it yourself. All the parts are purchasable on the web, the touch screen plug in with a ribbon cable, and there are youtube instruction videos for any conceivable brand.
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by RogerL 13y ago
The ars article says the bend radius (400mm) is far to modest to allow that.

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