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* Computer Organization and Architecture [1] * Algorithms [2] * The 50th Law [3] * Applied Predictive Modeling [4] When I get a breather from school... * Cibola Burn [5] 1: http://amzn.com/013293633X ; 2: http://
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Sure. My case is a bit unusual as I'm far above average in height and weight. On average, the recommendation for my size is around 5.0L/day. In relation to that, the top of my head figure of 3.8L seems like a good lower bound. It&
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>' You just don't remember how different is it to sleep longer.' Exactly. Not too long ago the combination of child, work and school forced me to completely re-evaluate how I was spending my time and what is actually imp
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Awk, more often than anything else in my toolbox has been the thing that earns respect and sometimes awe when I come into a new environment and a routine time-saver in practice.
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>'I have never heard of the myth that "HDDs provide random access".' I haven't heard it stated directly, but I've seen it implied plenty. The typical scenario is simply someone who doesn't grok the gu
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I appreciate all the technical discussion of this question in the article and here in the comments, but I think the question is just a symptom. The root issue here is the other interviewer and the apparent interview process. >'In t
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I love that story, it genuinely made my day to read. It might sound corny, but this is what I like to think the profession is 'all about' - identifying real problems and using our talents with whatever resources are available to s
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I was just thinking this yesterday when I had to recover a Flickr account I hadn't used in ages. I had to solve captchas from Yahoo and Microsoft. The Yahoo captcha used rotating, bouncing letters on a scrolling background of more lett
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>'One has a "mobile" lab consisting of 10-15 laptops on a cart shared throughout the school, but they are as locked down or more as the classroom computers.' Sadly, I've seen this sort of thing repeatedly. It&#
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>'When a teacher is teaching a computer science class that requires installing new libraries and executable every other week, they should be given admin rights or else the computer pre-installed with all needed programs (that never
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>'How effective are MOOCs really?' I've done quite a few MOOC courses. The best courses demonstrate what I believe the future of higher education should be. They're better than anything I've at an accredited un
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I've worked with and for a time within a few different public school systems. >'I know of multiple school districts that are absolutely plagued by overzealous IT admins, including the director, who lock down teacher and studen
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Sad that none of this surprises me anymore. I gave up hope after the same local cops who have long been notorious for shooting everybody [1](2001) got off scot-free for contriving a raid of a local mayor, intimidating his mother in-law, sho
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>'But that problem is so ingrained in our culture it is never going away.' I don't know about that. Anecdotally, I've experienced this culture enforced by older (>50) people and don't see much of it at all w
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>'Maybe it was just an oddity.' I think there's a reason, but it's not outright unemployment - yet. On the enterprise side what I'm seeing are traditional sysadmin positions being eaten up by aggressive VARs an
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>'ParkModo was recently offering $13 an hour to drivers who would occupy parking spaces in the Mission District during peak weekend times and then sell the spot through its app, a Craigslist job posting showed.' Wow, I rememb
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1.) Read up on the routine where you're going to be interviewing. If it's a better-known company there will be plenty available. 2.) Work through one of the popular coding interview books [1][2]. 3.) Practice off-keyboard things l
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I can certainly type sixty words a minute, but when it comes to retention there's no comparison between typing and handwriting for me and I don't find myself transcribing. I have a notion that the permanence and chunkiness of writ
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I'm inclined to be extremely mistrustful of messages like this. As best I can tell, the majority of contacts I've had along this pattern came from someone's clever 'growth hacker'. It makes sense, a more typical mes
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Enormous potential. I would use this in a heartbeat if it were available here. They could probably get away with twice the rake - the experience of personally buying/selling a used car is that bad and dealers/Carmax lowball that l
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Maybe now they'll find the time, money, give-a-shit or whatever to address this maddening omission [1] (Can't omit check sources by geography). If nothing else, this move will give me a recognizable name to refer to when trying to
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>'But it's hard to use your brain rather than react to your emotions when this kind of thing gets written up.' No doubt. I've seen more than a few otherwise measured people lose it when it comes to this topic. It&#x
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>'...the cost of daycare was more than her income.' Covering the gap when coming off of assistance is a major problem. The sharp cutoffs and various criteria for violations turn leaving assistance into a leap of faith. A smal
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>'Whereas the American one seems incapable of delivering anything with less than a 6-month waiting list..' My family was on a wait list for housing assistance from the time I was a child until I dropped out of school and star
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>'I think that ignores the fact that the forms and such are there in the first place precisely to contain the tide of applicants.' This thought did cross my mind, but I've done lots of work in the public sector - local,
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I'm glad to see a few studies bearing out the sort of things I perceived growing up. 'To him, the obvious conclusion is to radically change our thinking. “Just like you wouldn’t charge them $1,000 to fill out a form, you shouldn’
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In my experience, the interview process for jack of all trades job descriptions plays out the same way every time. 1.) The candidate shows up with a effectively all the required skills. Predictably, logically, the candidate has a roughly av
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I had the same thought. I don't just question the ever-growing list of must-have profiles and time required to maintain them, but their value in general. It feels like a sort of arms race to engineer and automate hiring. It's gene
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I wouldn't put too much weight on it... I tried it without much effort on my so-so Dell desktop display and got 59. Tried again on my RMBP with even less effort and got 14. However, I did have trouble in the same places both times so i
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>'...if IT systems make it easy and convenient.' Believe it or not, there are people working for these systems who are both willing and capable of making that happen. Unfortunately, there's a trump card of paranoid ass-c

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