alexh

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Models are smart as heck but they are not wise(subjunct.bearblog.dev)
1 points by alexh 2mo ago|0 comments
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by alexh 6y ago
Coding interviews are not about coding skills, they are about communication skills. I thought I had discovered a clever hack when I was interviewing. You ask enough closed questions about the problem that the interviewer tells you the answ
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by alexh 13y ago
This article leans rather heavily on fallacious arguments. Taste is a weak sense -> Wine tasting is bullshit. On a subjective measure people varied within a range ( of only 8 points ) -> Wine tasting is bullshit. People are subject
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by alexh 14y ago
I actually forced myself to learn to use this. It seemed cool, and potentially very powerful, so I used it exclusively for 6 months on my phone. I got to the point where it was completely coded into muscle memory, I can still type on it wi
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by alexh 15y ago
Because people find this attitude so western, and entitled, I would like to propose a slight change. Rather, I will propose some sound bytes, and hopefully somebody else will express the sentiment eloquently. Learn to love the process, not
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by alexh 15y ago
I was under the impression that jQuery cached selectors, so the advice "Cache jQuery Objects", while smart for many reasons, would not actually affect performance much at all. Was I wrong?
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Rhetoric vs Data, and the Gender divide in Tech(middleclassgangsters.posterous.com)
1 points by alexh 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexh 15y ago
This is a problem that I had down to the word ( except being able to give presentations, you got me on that ), and fixed. Here is my short guide. 1: Read everything written here - http://30sleeps.com/blog/ , particularly the old stuff is
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Ask HN: Less Bureaucratic productivity software. Activation Energy, it's a thing
4 points by alexh 16y ago|2 comments
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by alexh 16y ago
for some reason, the hyphenation does not show up in the source. Could be a glitchy javascript library trying to do intelligent line wraps.
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by alexh 16y ago
This happens in a lot of organizations. One that I think is most relevant is CUSID( Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate ) It was very much an organization which had a problem with women feeling pushed out, harassed, and u
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by alexh 16y ago
Existentialism. The philosophy that I have, that most people disagree with is "Given that Ignorance of a thing is or would be bliss, that thing is not immoral" So if I steal and give it back, but they would never have used it in the interim
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by alexh 17y ago
I like it! Unfortunately, the fundamental problem with diabetics, and the reason that the (now) 4 people who have commented here never created this app, is that diabetics are lazy. This needs to be soooooo easy to use. Which it is, to the
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by alexh 17y ago
Debate. Hands down. If you want public speaking skills, you will get them at debate. When I started, I could hardly keep my sentences going the whole time. Very recently I got into the finals of a tournament where we were judged primaril
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by alexh 17y ago
I read the documentation he linked to. It seems odd to me that there was no mention of a N-Pivot quicksort. Unless I missed it. It seems like the burden would be on proving that 2 was the optimal value of N