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by bolanyo 4y ago
Perhaps spend some time on a real-world toy problem, the kind where you spend a lot of time dealing with small practical things like error handling? I have interviewed a lot of people for coding jobs, and I usually try to test ability at do
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Perhaps there is a sort of selection bias going on, where the people who work at Google have been chosen because they are good at leetcode type problems and think they are important, and so they tend to solve problems by implementing their
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Absolutely right. I once had an interview where the interviewer asked me for a way of calculating pi, along certain specific lines. When I didn't get it, he 'explained' to me how such an approach could work. I pointed out cor
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Aesthetic judgements, and the ability to justify and defend them, are very important, but not the only important thing IMO. Someone who can explain why they love Rust and hate Python (or vice versa) is a convincing candidate but I think you
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by bolanyo 4y ago
This is the right answer. Questions of this type test for both experience (what you want from non-junior candidates - the fact that they have learned to program defensively, check edge cases, etc) and common sense (what you want from junior
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by bolanyo 4y ago
> Not even the Soviet Union had a process where job interview questions were regularly approved by a committee. Not defending Google's practices here, but this claim is nonsense. Many public sector/third sector jobs in Western
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by bolanyo 4y ago
A lot of the top writers have large guaranteed incomes and related incentive structures. The 20M is not all revenue, some of it is a cost for Substack.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I honestly don't care about his political views in my choice of social media (and I'm not aware of any views he holds that I would find extremely objectionable in any case). I care about being able to choose between "For You&
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by bolanyo 4y ago
How do you know that 'most of us' feel that way? I definitely do want to live in such a society.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
> If the people advocating for the homeless and mentally ill have a better solution than leaving them on the streets to rot The comment you are replying to put forward exactly such a solution: that treatment should be helpful enough and
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Mine doesn't.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
The suggestion that this is a threat to someone's reputation is no less a fantasy than the ChatGPT response.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I don't think this is the correct interpretation of 'fiat currency'. 'Fiat' of course refers to making something come into existence simply by saying it, as G_d supposedly did with the words 'Let there be light
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by bolanyo 4y ago
I don't think this is true. If you look at the projects funded by the Roosevelt New Deal (where the stated purpose of the spending was to reboot the economy and create employment, rather than chasing a particular return), a lot of them
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Another thing that people generally get wrong is what government spending goes on, with wide swathes of people believing that vastly more money goes to welfare than actually is the case.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Obviously this is very different from saying "They chose to illegally run a business in the US ."
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by bolanyo 4y ago
if you didn't use throwaway accounts your karma would presumably be much higher?
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Perhaps the actual phenomenon is that humans are much better at saying "Alice wrote this code, she's pretty good at scripting but she might have made a noob mistake, better check it", or even " I wrote this code.."
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by bolanyo 4y ago
What does "receiving information 'regarding HAMAS transactions' on Binance" mean? Isn't it clear that the actual context of this conversation - what the transactions were, what the information was, what the actual c
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by bolanyo 4y ago
It really doesn't appear he was 'knowingly financing Hamas and Russia'. There is a transparent attempt by the CFTC to talk up the pretty nothingy evidence of this.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Yes, the line about "after receiving information about 'HAMAS' transactions" seems deliberately intended to withhold the actual content of the conversation about Hamas.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
But you are arguing, if you run a gas station, and you see a couple of dudes in a car hanging out on the opposite corner all day, and you come to believe that they are selling drugs out of their car, when they come to you to buy gas you ha
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by bolanyo 4y ago
It's not literal terrorist financing, it's a CFTC enforcement action where they mentioned chat remarks including the words 'HAMAS' and 'AK47', without any context or explanation, in the complaint in order to a)
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Isn't it more the other way around here? The CFTC want to prosecute Binance for violating restrictions on allowing US persons to buy and sell derivatives, but they are aware that this is somewhat weak sauce, because the people buying a
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by bolanyo 4y ago
how was their business 'in the US'?
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by bolanyo 4y ago
this isn't very good speculation
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by bolanyo 4y ago
The Muji ones cost considerably more than the cheapest similar notebooks from eg a supermarket.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
- Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble - Turok The first doesn't appear to be the same, the second is evidently a completely different, simpler texture. Several of the other DK images don't look right,
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by bolanyo 4y ago
Disagree. A mile is a well-defined quantity, and furlongs are widely understood by older men.
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by bolanyo 4y ago
A dollar is 10 shilling, or half a pound, and I believe the name goes back much further than the US dollar, to the time when various European precious metal coinages would have been recognized and converted. The Australian dollar, and perha

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