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by gaylemcd 13y ago
"Although it’s unlisted in the release notes, the developers tell us that it will now keep tracking your without a data connection – perfect for when you’re roaming (and roving) abroad." Neat! Been waiting for it to do this.
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
No, it's not. Brainteasers are banned and have been forever (or at least since 2005). However, everyone has a different definition of what a brainteaser is. You think the Prisoner's Dilemma is a brainteaser, but other people (as y
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
That's really not the case at Google (or, I would hope, at any company). The engineers would be very much involved with this decision, largely driving the ultimate conclusion.
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
"Such as "On a scale of 1-10, 1 being novice, 10 being creator of said technology, how would you rate yourself?" Then based on this answer I'll ask a question at that level. I find that most people screened don't ac
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
Try something like: I have a 100 billion webpages and wish to build a hashtable-like structure that maps from each word to a list of the documents that contains that that word. How many computers do I need to hold this hashtable?
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
Yep. I don't like questions like that, mainly because -- whether it's really an algorithm question or not -- candidates will feel it's a brainteasers. Given that there are more than enough questions that won't be perce
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
"BTW, I've been to Manhattan and noticed that there are remarkably few gas stations there for a city of its size, so whatever estimate you come up with will probably be very, very wrong." Yes, and that's precisely the so
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
Yup. Exactly.
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
I don't see how I'm perpetuating the problem. I'm just explaining what Google actually does and what they don't do.
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
(1) I was at Google when the study was done. It wasn't before my direct experience. (2) I've confirmed with a bunch of people currently at Google that, indeed, nothing has changed. This study was done 5+ years ago. (3) My books do
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
It's okay that it's ambiguous. You can ask questions, like whether or not they're including motorcycles and buses. The point is not to get the right answer. It's to deduce a reasonable answer that's in the right b
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
I would agree with you that that's a brainteaser -- or at least a stupid question that shouldn't be asked. However, brainteasers are indeed banned and they always have been. The problem is that what you and I call a brainteaser is
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
Asking "how would you estimate the number of cars sold in a year?" is not a brainteaser. It's an estimation / market sizing question. You can deduce a reasonable estimate from the population size and other assumptions. A
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Google Hasn’t Changed Their Interview Questions(blog.geekli.st)
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
I agree -- harder to be successful in self-publishing for fiction. (1) There's less "need" for your book. People aren't saying, "gosh, I wish I could find a book on zombies from Mars attacking Earth. Let's see
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
"I don't know about the various comments here about createspace isbn's. That's what we went with, and small bookstores and Barnes and Noble stock the paperback version. (Although I don't know if B&N have it in t
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
I'm not sure that's true that CreateSpace recycles its ISBNs. I haven't seen a credible source discussing this, and it doesn't make sense to me. ISBNs are cheap and it would be a pretty gross misuse of the ISBN system (w
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by gaylemcd 13y ago
Whoa! Not saying CreateSpace is disreputable at all. I love CreateSpace. It is, however, a self-publishing service and thus it is "disreputable" in that sense. There's additional credibility when you're backed by a publi
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by gaylemcd 14y ago
You're using the "where does it end" logic to - what? - suggest that she shouldn't speak up about something? I don't get it. Here, I'll play your "where does it end" game. What if someone was giving a talk about how to distribute kiddie por
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by gaylemcd 14y ago
Did it hurt her soul and torment her mind? No. The talk was not only called "Getting the Money Shot" but suggested in the abstract "how thinking like a porn director will help you achieve the "'money shot.'" Many people (I am not one of the
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by gaylemcd 14y ago
To be clear, what she did was this: she saw something she thought was utterly vile and morally reprehensible being seemingly "celebrated" in a talk. The talk wasn't necessarily happening yet; it was still being voted on. She mentioned in he
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by gaylemcd 14y ago
It's more than just a pop culture reference. The fairly short abstract stated "how thinking like a porn director will help you achieve the ‘money shot." And, yes, obviously, Adria has the right to not attend. She ALSO has the right to say t
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by gaylemcd 14y ago
Have you read the article? I agree that Adria screwed up here. Absolutely. However, Amanda Blum paints a pattern of behavior that just isn't there when you really read into those stories. THAT is what the "teardown" is about. It's not sayin
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by gaylemcd 14y ago
Yes, it's really, really a reference to porn. The abstract even mentioned thinking like a porn director to get the money shot.
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by gaylemcd 14y ago
MIRROR: http://gayle.quora.com/That-Amanda-Blum-Article-on-Adria-Ric...
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by gaylemcd 14y ago
It is (or close enough)