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jbaskette
12y ago
It is well known that the ability to solve mathematical puzzles was used as a screening tool at places like Google to screen new hires. It seems to me that this practice was based on the belief that there was an affinity or correlation bet
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jbaskette
12y ago
I remember reading and solving this the problem as the end of the article (“A six inch high cylindrical hole is drilled through the center of a sphere. How much volume is left in the sphere?”) as a kid. I did it the hard way using the form
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jbaskette
13y ago
Very good observations. You made obvious to me most of what I did not like in that new design. My first reaction to the look of the new design is that is made each entry much larger filling the screen making the text less noticeable and ha