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by geebee 10y ago
Yes! I really agree. How this will happen I don't know, but it badly needs to happen. I don't object to an employer wanting to see a background in data structures and algorithms, sql, binary, and a few branches of math. This is
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by geebee 10y ago
I don't object to an employer wanting to see a background in data structures and algorithms, sql, binary, and a few branches of math. This is why I agree that hiring is broken but also understand that it isn't easy to fix. Some o
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by geebee 11y ago
This is pretty cool. One thing to note - he "killed" the google interview. Although it can vary from one interviewer to the next, it's nearly impossible to do this without becoming relatively fluid with a subset of data str
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by geebee 11y ago
Kind of odd, though - if the panels will so clearly pay for themselves, why did they have to be mandated? Just to be clear, it isn't a purely rhetorical question - I suppose there's a chance that the people who have to pay the up
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by geebee 11y ago
For the cost of these solar panels, what else could we be doing to reduce carbon emissions? Here in SF or internationally? I do think that carbon reduction is pretty essential, but it's so essential that I don't think we can wast
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by geebee 11y ago
There is a very good essay titled "Graduate School in the Humanities - Just Don't Go" that gives a really excellent description of the mindset that exists when young people go to graduate school. This described me well when
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by geebee 11y ago
Wish I could, this is just something I read or hear about on the news, radio, and so forth every now and then, usually because someone got angry when they couldn't use their cell and was asked to leave and got angry about it and it bec
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by geebee 11y ago
I have no problem with laptop cafes, I bring mine to cafes to work all the time. I really enjoy it. But I also see merit in cafes that establish a no cell, no laptop rule (sometimes just for certain hours of the day). That would be a dra
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by geebee 11y ago
ah yes, the ol' bait and switch. It's fair to point out that employers aren't the only ones who do this, employees are guilty of it too. I've certainly seen it happen where people were hired to write code for a particu
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by geebee 11y ago
I agree. The confounding factor (I'm stating the obvious, I know) here is that it's hard to determine what makes a "programmer", whereas there is a very clear set of criteria for what makes a lawyer or doctor. Although
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by geebee 11y ago
I'm exactly the same age as you. You may very well be right about how people make career decisions. What you've described sounds closer to how this actually happens. Very few people sit down with a spreadsheet, estimating salari
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by geebee 11y ago
I agree that it isn't useful to compare fields. Unfortunately, we have to. There is currently a huge amount of debate about whether there is a "shortage" of software developers. This implies some kind of market failure, th
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by geebee 11y ago
This is a question that interests me. I'm actually not sure that SF has more resistance to building than other cities once you consider that "SF" vs the general bay area is an artifact of an unusual way of managing municipal
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by geebee 11y ago
Fair enough, I'll check out the link.
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by geebee 11y ago
The french quarter in new orleans is also probably less safe than modern buildings, but I wouldn't want to see it torn down just because rents would be cheaper. SF does need to build, badly, but I'm wary of the term NIMBY-ism. It
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by geebee 11y ago
I agree, in a way, since I really want to see the bay area engage in meaningful construction (along with expanding BART and other types of public transportation). But if SF's refusal to build is having repercussions in Oregon, and all
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by geebee 11y ago
I didn't realize there was a paywall. But based on the above comment, it does appear some of this may be manipulation.
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by geebee 11y ago
I've been to a restaurant that totally eliminated tipping in SF (Zazie in Cole Valley). They really, truly eliminated it, there isn't even a line for an "extra" tip if you feel like leaving one, and there is an explanat
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by geebee 11y ago
Fair enough. This is one reason why I tend to use the phrase "age related employment issues" instead of age discrimination or age bias. It's a mouthful, and it certainly includes bias or discrimination, but that doesn'
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by geebee 11y ago
I think you've nailed it. Web programming in javaland was verbose but relatively straightforward until about 2004, maybe a little earlier, when frameworks exploded. I'm not sure the frameworks themselves were worse than what pre
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by geebee 11y ago
In many ways, I see these projects as a stand-in for the kind of comprehensive professional exams taken in many other fields. As developers, we often take a 5+ hour whiteboard interview on some of the fundamentals of CS, but presented as ch
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by geebee 11y ago
I'm pretty sure humans will not stop playing go at intensely high levels just because a computer can beat them. The analogy to chess is an interesting one, though, not quite as straightforward as it may seem. Chess, when it was first
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by geebee 11y ago
But is this true as humans play it? I'm not good enough at either to really know for sure, but my impression is that while the branching factor makes a big difference for computers, it is essentially impossible for a human to manage t
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by geebee 11y ago
Agreed. The part I object to is the unqualified statement that go requires a high degree of intuition, whereas chess doesn't. As humans play the game, I think it's safe to say that this is generally inaccurate. Both games, for h
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by geebee 11y ago
Terrific accomplishment. Just a question to throw out there - does anyone feel like statements like this one "But the game [go] is far more complex than chess, and playing it requires a high level of feeling and intuition about an oppo
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by geebee 11y ago
"You need to be able to write a BFS cold, and you need to understand how a hash table is implemented." Great advice! The list provided in this blog post is an excellent description of what you should know, cold, before you go int
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by geebee 11y ago
Thanks for the link. My use of "borders" was a poor choice of words. The term means something different from what I was describing.
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by geebee 11y ago
Agreed. I'd also add that it isn't even just about rental prices, it's about an existential threat to the community. I've noticed that opposition to airbnb is highest in highly residential areas that are also appealing
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Airbnb Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor in Tourist-Friendly New Orleans(nytimes.com)
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by geebee 11y ago
They are kind of fun. I enjoy the problems in "Cracking the coding interview". In fact, preparing for a google interview (no offer) actually reminded me of why I like programming so much. You need to think deeply and creatively

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