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by cecilpl2 7y ago
I recently was given a toy problem in an interview - read data in some format, process it, and write the output. Expectation was 4 hours of work, which is pretty close to what it took me to get all the edge cases, test suite, requisite docu
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Using your example, I think "My name is {name}, I'm {feet} tall and live in {location}.".format(name="Bob", location="USA", feet=7) is less explicit than "My name is Bob, I'm 7 feet tall and live
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
I knew you were poly as soon as you mentioned Heinlein as one of your biggest influences on your theory of romance. :) Love without expectations is a wonderful joyous thing. A couple songs my longest partner and I love are https:/&#x2
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
I appear to be in the minority. I use 3 24" monitors at work because it's the most I can fit on my desk, but at home I bought a 6-monitor stand and have a 2x3 grid of 22-24" displays. It's perfect for project work - one
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
I've been typing dvorak primarily for about 20 years, also since I was in high school, and I highly recommend it. I agree that switching is a pain in the ass. It will make you essentially unable to type for about 2-4 weeks. Ctrl-C&#x
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
And isn't it great that we have figured out ways to efficiently use more of the resources we have available? The alternative is we just throw it away and raise more cows, using far more resources.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Assuming reinvested dividends, the S&P has returned 7% real, or 10% nominal over its lifetime.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
> I've used it mostly for finding obscure or impossible-to-find music. I mean, where else are you going to get a copy of The Mr. Belvedere Show theme song? This is a nice reminder of just how much things have advanced in a short 20
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Not true. To even touch the surface of the Sun you need to subtract nearly all of the Earth's orbital velocity. Parker Solar Probe, for example, did this with a series of gravity assists off of Venus. https://www.youtube.com
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
If I alone pay more taxes, I do not see enough benefit to justify the cost. If all people pay more taxes, a large majority of us will see a net benefit that outweighs our own cost. I support raising taxes for everyone, including myself. Thi
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Eggs milk avocado-oil Eggs milk cheese-buns Eggs milk chicken-salad
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
The idea is that the public projects increase everyone's wealth by a greater amount than the interest on the debt. If you take money out of the equation and just consider that we have a large pool of labor to make use of, government&#x
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
It makes it WAY easier to understand exactly why !(a || b) == !a && !b. Bob and Sally are things that people already understand and relate to. a and b are not, so there is an extra layer of indirection there when attempting to reaso
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Do you remember when they changed the domain from "expertsexchange.com" to "experts-exchange.com"? I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader why. :)
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
The better you get, the worse you think you are.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
For a counterpoint, please see https://www.reddit.com/r/quittingkratom/ Kratom has many benefits, including the ability to get people off of serious opiate addictions. However, it is dependence forming and many pe
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Was FitBit upfront about this when they sold their products though? I don't actually know the answer and I think that's a critical piece of information.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
And then determined that you actually are 80% more likely to have early stage heart disease based on a big data analysis tool, and then sold that information to an insurance company, which correlated it with other data they have (like strav
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
That was the first thing I tried :)
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
I think many festivals have something similar. At Shambhala you often hear "Steve? Allen?"
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Wikipedia on "Riparian doctrine" indicates it's a limited and specialized form of property rights. > Under the riparian principle, all landowners whose properties adjoin a body of water have the right to make reasonable us
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Talk to the most technical person you know. Ask them for an intro to people they would most want to work with. Repeat this process several times until you have someone who will interview for you.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
I did the same last month. I was pressed for a number in the in-person interview. I dropped my inflated public number (which was $30k more than my walkaway), and lo and behold, they offered it to me! It turns out I was way undervalued :)
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
The best platform is the one where you have an audience. Twitter has the benefit of less friction - if it's on your feed you can read and get hooked on the story with no clicks. The reader funnel has one less step.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
This is long, insightful, and brilliant. I had a new "wow" moment at least three times just skimming through it. Saved for later when I have time to read it in detail.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Very cool and I love the idea! I agree with sago that feedback on wrong answers would be super helpful. I'd like a brief description of the genre I guessed and the one it actually was. Also, maybe links to youtube when you post the son
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
You can get a pretty good assessment of someone's C++ knowledge by asking them to rate themselves out of 10, and then subtracting their answer from 10. If they say 9/10 and they are not Bjarne Stroustrup, it's a good bet thei
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
It most certainly does not. I'd hazard that 80% of the population doesn't even know the difference between bacteria and fungus. They are both single-celled organisms and for most people, biology class was a long time ago. It'
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
I don't want to give too much away but consider that if you start by weighing 6 coins against the other 6, you already know what's going to happen.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
I do this when I need to know how many elements are in a spreadsheet list that spans (say) row 18 to 33. "well, if it spanned to row 19, there would be two elements, so N elements end at row 17+N, so 33-17 is 16, so there are 16 elemen

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