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by dayvid 5y ago
For formal resources: You might like the Princeton Algorithms Coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1 SICP is an amazing book, but I HIGHLY recommend you follow along with a lecture video as t
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by dayvid 5y ago
Yeah I was talking about that with my gf yesterday. She commented on how it was basically a little over bus fare to go to and from work. It’s kinda sad that it’s gone due to the pandemic. It made Uber a lot more affordable.
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by dayvid 5y ago
People hate on tech interviews, but it's honestly a lot more fair than traditional interviewing if done properly. You only gauge the candidate on their ability to solve and think through a problem. I also follow a trainer's patter
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by dayvid 5y ago
I bought three pairs of airpods and the mic stopped working for each after a short amount of time. I decided to get a non-apple earbud and got the Galaxy Buds Live. I quickly realized how much better sound quality is out there and also got
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by dayvid 5y ago
I agree that streaming is interesting, and I did it from a mac a few times, but you have to be online w/ a good connection in order to do streaming. I got a switch as a present recently and while I don't like Nintendo's eStor
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by dayvid 5y ago
You have to use Windows or deal with weird compatibility hacks? I’m really looking forward to the Steam deck. It may not have the power of current-gen consoles, but it takes so many good things about current consoles and combines them toget
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by dayvid 5y ago
I haven't checked recently, but PHP jobs tend to pay less than other languages. I've also been at interviews where the interviewer mocked PHP and I would probably have been marked lower if I tried to write my answers in PHP. Overa
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by dayvid 5y ago
From my experience, Apple has a premium on overall quality and longevity. It's hard to quantify or benchmark, but it adds up over time. I bought a Zephyrus G14 a year ago with high stats, but I often get weird issues where I have to re
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by dayvid 5y ago
Very similar experience. It was a boring and tedious interview. The behavioral part of the interview felt odd with a focus on tailoring my experiences around Amazon principles which I wasn't aware of until a few days before the intervi
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by dayvid 5y ago
I'm black and I was in a gifted program in elementary school on through honors college at university. I was surprised when I first heard someone say gifted is racist about a year ago. At the same time, though, I feel like I was raised
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by dayvid 5y ago
Peter Drucker wrote a really good essay called The Second half of your life. I can’t find it online outside of buying the Essential Drucker, but this article covers some of the points: https://www.asme.org/topics-resources&#
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by dayvid 5y ago
I tried it out, but two main things stood out: 1. The 1x speed was unbearable, which leads to the next point 2. The quality of the conversations was very low for me. The more interesting rooms were packed quickly and there were way too many
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by dayvid 5y ago
I was an english teacher in Japan for 2 years at a junior high school. The rep from a textbook company would go to the teacher's lounge every semester, bow to each of the teacher's one at a time in front of their desks, and ask th
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by dayvid 5y ago
An intensive Vipassana retreat is just that, an INTENSIVE retreat. I've meditated for ~10 years. I don't think anyone's FIRST meditation experience should be a 10-day Vipassana retreat. I don't think anyone's first
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by dayvid 5y ago
I'm not knocking FIRE. I like the idea of it and especially the author's comment about a lot people just following what people around them are doing instead of living life by their own standards. The downsides I thought of were th
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by dayvid 5y ago
That post was incredible. Really rare and refreshing to find that level of honesty on the internet nowadays (even when pseudonymous), sadly. Reflected a lot of thoughts I had about potential downsides to FIRE.
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by dayvid 5y ago
1) The only thing GAP has going for them IS brand recognition. Otherwise, they’re in some weird in-between of Old Navy and Banana Republic and there are numerous brands out there that have taken their market share (H&M, Uniqlo, etc.).
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by dayvid 5y ago
When I was in Japan, I met a guy who was a manager of a Japanese supermarket branch in Hawai’i for some time. He said in Japan, people are usually about the same. But in America, people are either really smart or really stupid.
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by dayvid 5y ago
I like Twitter a lot. It's the only social media platform that has a lot of features for power users. The trick is to regularly ban certain keywords associated with posts not relevant to you and to regularly block or mute users. You ca
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by dayvid 6y ago
Makes me think of Wikipedia who have probably A/B tested donation requests to death and have them take up half the page.
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by dayvid 6y ago
Mechanical keyboards are kind of annoying because: 1. You have to try out a few to find one you like and most of them are only available online. 2. Mechanical keyboard enthusiasts drown out casual mechanical keyboard users. Most discussions
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by dayvid 6y ago
I really hope they have a record with playback at higher speed/skip speaker function. I don’t know if it will hurt their growth at this point, but it would make Clubhouse usable for me. Otherwise, there’s too much noise for the value o
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by dayvid 6y ago
Consider Phlebas is probably one of worst culture novels. Same with three-body problem. I personally like Dark Forest the most, though overall I can understand the idea of not liking a sci-fi story if the characters or plot isn’t at a certa
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by dayvid 6y ago
I LOVE my 13" 2015 MBP and only stopped using it because of keyboard errors. With that said, I believe the new Macbook Air and Macbook Pro have the Magic Keyboard which I think is essentially the same as the 2015 Macbook Pro keyboard a
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by dayvid 6y ago
Keep in mind that this happened while: - Members of the Senate - Members of the House of Representatives - The Vice President were in the building during an important legislative event. We can look back at this and say it a mostly harmless
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by dayvid 6y ago
Meetup’s been doing a good job at this for some time. I’ve made friends and I’ve known people who have made lifelong friends from it. I think it’s hard to build a community around people who just want one, and it’s more effective if it’s ba
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by dayvid 6y ago
I had the MX4s and they were just too uncomfortable. I was getting headaches after prolonged use and my manager couldn’t hear me on a call indoors. I’m seriously considering getting the Airpods Max if they have good Noise cancellation, soun
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by dayvid 6y ago
I taught English in a Japanese Junior high and elementary school. The government makes the textbooks with input from senior teachers and they're all inexpensive paperbacks. It makes much more sense when I consider the gigantic expensiv
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by dayvid 6y ago
I’d recommend going through Brian Harvey’s video series while doing the book. Watch the video that covers the topic and then go through the section in the book. They also have recommended problems to do in the book. You don’t have to approa
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by dayvid 6y ago
This is one of the main reason I haven’t used Windows for years. AutoHotKey helps: https://www.autohotkey.com/

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