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by cr0sh 7y ago
There's actually two acceptable answers for the question... I should note that my statements below may be FOC; I do not myself have a CS or EE degree, so take what I say with a modicum of salt... But first, note that I wrote "func
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> My first thought upon reading this was: "If you don't want to quit your job, then just stay." Well - that's always what I try to do, but the last several places I've worked, the decision was effectively made fo
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> They are more likely to have not seen the problem before and have to run the gauntlet with no practice. The other possibility is that they have seen the problem before, fixed it, but didn't know it was called "calculating the
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by cr0sh 7y ago
From what I gather, what is most shocking of all is that candidate still fail this test, despite it being so common, despite there being an several github repos devoted to it, as well as other pages and articles about it (somewhere out ther
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> I disagree if it means, ask them to implement an algorithm on a whiteboard to steer a robot through a maze in a time with optimal algorithmic complexity. This is completely useless and the people that can do this have little overlap wi
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by cr0sh 7y ago
It does seem incredible, but it happens. One place I worked at, the company hired a developer who claimed to have a CompSci masters. He was completely unable to code anything. I thought it strange. I started to ask him some basic questions
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by cr0sh 7y ago
The best coding challenge for a hiring process I ever had happened, of all places, when I applied for a PHP development position at Fender. At the time, their marketing department did all of their web development in-house. I don't reca
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by cr0sh 7y ago
In a little over a month, I'll be turning 46. I've been doing software development professionally since I was 18. I have no formal education in it, except for a couple classes taken at a CC for C++. Between hearing things like thi
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Is it true that plotters were the first graphical device to be controlled by computers? Do you count differential analyzers as computers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser If so, then yes. IIRC,
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I second this suggestion; I took that course when it was called "ML Class" during the Fall of 2011 (yep, I was one of the guinea pigs for what became one of the first courses of Coursera). It was an excellent course. Here's a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
A good course that comes close to this would be the Coursera Machine Learning course (what used to be known as "ML Class" by Andrew Ng). It uses Octave - but you first do everything (in the section on NN) "by hand" - bui
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> to deplatform people, types of legal content, or political views. Who determines what is legal? What is legal in my country may not be in your's, and vice-versa. How do you decide what to show on an international media platform in
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> We haven't had real physical strife and a world war in our generation to keep this distinction fresh in our minds. Don't worry, we're doing our best to make it happen, give it time, we'll get there! /the nice t
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Controversy is inferred from like/dislike ratios and/or content reports, all of which is user-driven. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I don't think it will be as simple as you think. For instance, it's p
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Let's say you make users responsible for the content they create; how do you intend to enforce that? Country A's User B uploads Content C that User D in Country E find's objectionable, or in Country E is illegal to view or po
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> OTOH, truly public spaces on the internet ... where reasonable speech can truly be free ... are in very short supply. Who decides what is "reasonable"? One's person or group's "reasonable" is another'
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> But in the modern US, while we still have outlets of that type, there is a very strong belief that they shouldn't count as "news", and that they are less legitimate than "neutral" journalism. At least one of th
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Though not a game in itself, my favorite "minecraft"-alike engine for the web is this one: http://voxeljs.com/
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> But my next phone will be an iPhone. I'm seriously considering my next phone to be one I build. The hardware is available - cheap 4G LTE modules that plug right into a Raspberry Pi Zero exist; that and a cheap touchscreen will get
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by cr0sh 7y ago
If you wanted to mess with a person, other substitutes could be vodka or white vinegar. Note you could do the same for a vodka drinker; it gets more interesting if they're already in the bag...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
In case it hasn't been said yet - the color scheme for the page needs work. On my MBP it looks/feels like "dark on dark"; that is, the buttons are a dark blue on a darker blue background - at least, that's what I pe
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Are you in the United States? I'm just curious how your homeowner's insurance feels about this? That is, will they still pay out for a claim should something happen, and they determine your modifications were at fault? Because if
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by cr0sh 7y ago
This almost sounds like a case where the city cheaped out (maybe the budget just wasn't there?), and went with a third tier supplier. I noticed the article noted that units supplied from Cree, used in other areas of the country, are pe
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by cr0sh 7y ago
At one time IBM (and probably other manufacturers) installed RAM and hard drive capacity, but didn't enable it. If you wanted more capacity, they sent out an engineer to basically "flip a switch" (more or less). You always ha
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm kinda curious if this "new" plastic is going to be flexible enough in the number of applications to replace most common plastics in common applications, or if it's going to have the same issues (ie, needing fillers o
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Hmmm, last I checked concentrated sulfuric acid is not commonly available to or advised to be used by the public IIRC, lead-acid batteries, common in automobiles, contain a somewhat concentrated form of sulfuric acid; they are also mad
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by cr0sh 7y ago
So - on a more "applies to ordinary mortals" level - the fact that they are going to use all AMD components is intriguing. In reference to AI, NVidia has things "locked up" with CUDA, versus 2nd cousin AMD's OpenCL.
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...and yet, even a machine at this scale, or even 100 times that, could not come close to being on par, in terms of neural/neuron simulation, with that of the human brain. We are definitely "doing something wrong" when it com
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One of the more interesting thoughts from this article comes near the end, with the notion that while Trump's critics have noted that he speaks like a fourth grader, that also means today's fourth graders can understand him, and t
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Tank tracks have problems at a small scale that aren't immediately apparent at full scale. The big one - especially for something "in the dirt" - is dirt/mud getting between the tracks and ground wheels/idlers. This

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