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811.
by RogerL 13y ago
I roast with a popcorn popper I bought at Walmart. They only last a few roasts before they "die" - that is just a heat fuse that is set too low. Buy a new, higher rated one from Radio Shack, and you are good to go. 25 bucks total
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by RogerL 13y ago
The CEO's job is to make the company valuable. That's kind of a sociopathic view, of course (gee, I thought our job was to make heart valve replacements or whatever). But, that is the trade off you make when you go public. And, ju
813.
by RogerL 13y ago
Well, the person that referred to the article used the wrong term. Certainly brainteasers don't work, and they have been prohibited at Google for awhile. But the recent article stated that there was no correlation between interviewer
814.
by RogerL 13y ago
Well, don't forget that all of us are just not interviewing to get jobs, but interviewing people to bring into our companies. It's important to get right, and passion about the topic is encouraging, don't you think?
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by RogerL 13y ago
Do not ignore empirical evidence - reality will always crush theory (in the collequial sense). And empirically, we endlessly observe very nervous people at interviews that do not exhibit nervousness in meetings (after getting the job). We
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by RogerL 13y ago
Things have been a little weird at work with how interviews are going so I haven't done this in the last few interviews, but usually I tell the interviewee that I am just trying to figure out their skills, that I want to hire somebod
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by RogerL 13y ago
That does seem to be their line of thought in most things, but in what universe is calculus in any way a measure of your ability to manage a product, even as a proxy? It's barking mad. I could be great at calculus but terrible as a PM,
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by RogerL 13y ago
Why do you ask questions that don't influence your hiring decision? I find these kinds of questions quite annoying because I suspect the interviewer is not trying to measure me appropriately - and I have turned down job offers where I
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by RogerL 13y ago
Which requires calculus how?
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by RogerL 13y ago
Okay, that just makes a ton of sense. I've never worked for a big company like that, and hadn't considered the latency issue that can be worked around by general interviewing. With that said, it doesn't change my opinion of i
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by RogerL 13y ago
Ability to complete coursework is not necessary and sufficient for being a good engineer in a company. Sorry. I've seen too many people flounder around, never completing things, making inane suggestions, and so on, all while talking gr
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by RogerL 13y ago
That strikes me as very reasonable. 20% (15%, whatever) time is largely self indulgent plus self education. I have no problems with being expected to supply that initiative. I've done it before, and invented products that the company e
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by RogerL 13y ago
I think that is perhaps telling. Google doesn't interview you on your experience, but whether you can can solve network/graph algorithms taken from Knuth exercises. I would expect a random mess from that. It sounds like this perso
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by RogerL 13y ago
Why? Before I roasted my own beans, I was pretty much interested in the output of a specific local roaster. They source the beans, choose a specific roasting profile, are there to answer questions and guide my choices, take feedback (the Co
825.
by RogerL 13y ago
Yes. Millions of years of evolution led us to manual dexterity with our fingers, and with it we have (in an intellectual sense at least) taken over the planet. I have grave doubts about devices that ask us to give all of that up. The medica
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by RogerL 13y ago
They are substantially less massive than the number of cars required to transport all of those workers.
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by RogerL 13y ago
My advice is that it is time to interview them. Why do they do what they do, what are their pain points, are they open to trying X to fix pain point Y, and so on. Interviewing is a two way street, and it may just be how you ended up wording
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by RogerL 13y ago
We don't really need more 'hack a stack' programmers. Somebody needs to write that code in the first place, and that is the hard, but rewarding work. Teach students how to program, how to reason, how to run experiments (yes,
829.
by RogerL 13y ago
The point was that both groups do not tip as well as other groups. 'Canadian' is substituted for black just to avoid having to say what they really think. IOW, the server would say the same thing if it was a table of Canadians.
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by RogerL 13y ago
The article resonated with me on some level, because it does take a long time to learn how to actually do math. If you are at the point of just doing algebraic manipulations on equations to try to figure something out, you've lost the
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by RogerL 13y ago
It was an example . Replace deviceScaleFactor with some other function that modifies, say, m_foo, and you have the same problem. And no, const+mutable is not an answer(in my example), because the function does in fact modify the class in a
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by RogerL 13y ago
Try putting this in an .h file that you include in several places: void hi() { int x = 3; } without the inline and you will get a complaint that hi() is multiply defined at link time. So, one use case.
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by RogerL 13y ago
True enough, but we strive for consistent practice - coding in one way for project X, another for project Y, is error prone and doesn't scale. That handy dandy defrobolizer you wrote for WebKit? You can't really reuse it in anothe
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by RogerL 13y ago
I would like evidence for that statement. Because I have heard many Hollywood stars just exude insecurities. Heck, we talk about it all the time, and it even has a name "imposters syndrome". If you can achieve great things while f
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by RogerL 13y ago
I don't quite buy it. We may just be seeing selection bias How many thousands do that and fail miserably? We never hear about it. How many luck into things? We hear about them, but don't then discount Arnold's story by some B
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by RogerL 13y ago
Right. Basically, Strassen's is not friendly to the cache - any improvement you get in the asymptotic behavior is usually swamped by the cost of cache misses. In that vein, the naive implementation (O(n^3)) implementation is also not c
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by RogerL 13y ago
Seconded. Plus, I don't really buy the 3 year thing. Once you know what to look for, it isn't hard to detect serious problems. Horrible source code? Engineers that don't know how to use SCM? Politics? Cargo cult processes? I
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by RogerL 13y ago
Your numbers don't quite work - Google has to pay taxes, benefits, office space, training, perks, equipment, recruitment costs, and so on. And then, have you tried to hire 18,000 people? Finally, Google's reported head count is ar
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by RogerL 13y ago
I believe you are seeing focal plane shutter distortion. http://maisonbisson.com/post/10531/focal-plane-shutter-disto...
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by RogerL 13y ago
There is far more to business than SV start ups funded by VC.

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