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by dspeyer 15y ago
Sometimes the company has a good reason for wanting an NDA. In that case, it doesn't indicate a company you wouldn't want to work for. Google has NDAs on interviews mainly because we want the questions to be surprises. Coming up with good
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by dspeyer 15y ago
exports.foo = function foo() { }; is indeed where you might use this. It doesn't let you call it as foo(), though. What it does is make exports.foo.toString() include "foo". This can be useful for debugging, and possibly other things.
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What do you do with the answer to this question once you have it? If I were on hiring committee and got this in an interview report I'd be annoyed. I cannot think of any plausible answer that would make me more or less inclined to hire th
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You may also have a goal of learning more about the company, so that you can make the later decision more effectively. The goals must be balanced off one another. This goal can be more dominant if you already have a pretty good offer (pe
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> Instead, I have my own theory about how we should interview programmers: have the candidate give a 15 minute presentation on their area of expertise. ... The one thing every programmer should know, per Steve Yegge, is how to market yo
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The lobbying system enabled hollywood, but it didn't force it. They could have attempted to make an honest profit. Plenty of industries do. Instead they chose to attack the internet. They should be held accountable. I'm sick of th
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Lobbying is a fundamentally stable thing. As you observed, the economic incentives to do it are strong. And lobbying is a very general thing. Truly blatant bribery is illegal, but there are many, many ways that someone with money can h
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by dspeyer 15y ago
Might you consider directly funding artistic startups? It would make sense for each movie or television show to be a corporation mostly owned by its founders (the author, director and major actors). The model looks a lot like conventional
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If it's funded by ad revenue, there will be no reason to deny the third world. In a sale model, dropping third world prices to locally affordable carries a risk of those copies being brought to the first world and resold. Viewers would buy
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Perhaps a copyright law optimized to promote the arts could be crafted. I'm not sure exactly what it would look like, but it could probably restrict ticket sales to licensees without requiring draconian enforcement.
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Awesome story. Who was the employer?
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It's testing how well you can deal with problems that don't fit on a single node -- most problems at Google don't. And if you can't do complexity analysis, you can't scale to very large datasets -- which Google has lots of.
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"rote"? Are you seriously suggesting that anyone has code for a line of pascal's triangle memorized? Why would they? Just in case they got asked for it in an interview? This is one of the advantages of this over something like quicksort:
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What is it you've been doing for 10 years? It does sound like your basic coding skills are pretty atrophied.
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Factorials risk integer overflow in the intermediate calculations, though something similar can work.
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def pascal(i): o=[1] for j in xrange(1,i): o.append(o[-1] * (i - j) / j) return o Recursion's nice, but this isn't really the place for it. Especially since python has a maximum stack depth.
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Anybody have a text version of this? I got maybe 30 slides in before I got too annoyed to continue.
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Are you sure about that? Last I knew, interceptors hardly ever succeeded against guided missiles unless the missiles actually had locater beacons on them. Defenses that work are to create decoy targets (against simple guidance systems lik
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E) A large fraction of GoDaddy's customers know what DNS is and what SOPA would mean. If every Walmart customer who knew what DNS was walked out, Walmart wouldn't feel it. GoDaddy is noticing this.
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Safety in numbers. Sony and Nintendo are both on this. They're counting on nerds being reflexively unwilling to switch to Microsoft on a matter of principle, even though Microsoft seems to be the least evil of the three.
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> The people who run corporations have a fiduciary responsibility. In other words, the corporation does not hate me, but I am made of atoms that it can use to make a profit?
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What's different about it is its circularity. The students' anticipations of the exam are based on their anticipations of the exam. Sort of like "this statement is false".
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Since when does hacking involve following rules and buying the fanciest equipment? Isn't it usually the opposite?
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I wonder if some of these barriers could be dropped fairly easily. For example, a few startups could get together and open source their legal boilerplate.
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What's immoral is to abuse pricing leverage. A proper exchange generates value. The value gets divided between the parties. Divided how? Usually the richer party makes an offer and the poorer party can take or leave it. Taking the lion'
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So why haven't you cured AIDS? What in your argument (or the OP's) changes when the difficulty of the problem is raised to absurdity? Some problems are easy. Some are hard. Some are too hard to be worth solving. Some are essentially uns
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Are they really jokers, or were the tasks unreasonable in the first place? The only way to know is to understand the tasks in detail, which I suspect the author doesn't. The whole "just get it done" thing sounds impressive, but it doesn't
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But he was the first one to use that self-importance to build the richest company in the world. Most of the stories about people like that end "and then all the good engineers quit so they didn't have to put up with him, the products start
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Key question: is it possible to fail upwards deliberately or is it just a matter of luck?
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Every such request gets individually checked over by the lawyers. Many get pushed back on. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/...

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