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by jemfinch 14y ago
"That's not how the best coders code, we offload most things to google searches" If that's really what you think, you may want to reconsider who the "we" you're talking about are.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I started in mid-2010. My workday starts earlier than most engineers: I take an 0640 shuttle in from the east bay, arriving at my desk around 0715. I typically take the 1655 or 1720 shuttle back home; on rare occasions or when under exter
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by jemfinch 15y ago
No, of course not. The reason VCs exist is because the expected return on investment is positive. But the reason the returns on those $250k investments is so high is because so few people have $250k to invest in something that only ha
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by jemfinch 15y ago
As someone who has sex on a regular basis with (one) woman who has an IUD, my experience has been that it has no impact whatsoever if installed properly. The uterus (where an I U D lives, naturally) is not typically involved in the act of
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by jemfinch 15y ago
"Have you ever had sex with someone who has an IUD. Or talked to a woman with an IUD to see her opinion on it? Because it's not all you make it out to be." Where does the OP say anything about a change of sensation in men?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
You only believe what women say when you've had sex with them? What?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I write tests to confirm basic functionality. Then I wait for the bugs, write tests to tickle them, and then fix them.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
That's why we're all seeking to ban pornography, right?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Which of your 98 days here qualifies you to assess the peak of someone's contribution over a span of two years?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Until Steve Yegge's using the platform, it doesn't qualify for the term "macro-blogging".
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by jemfinch 15y ago
The clause doesn't just make it incompatible with the GPL, it makes it not open source.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I believe you'll find his explanation in the dictionary, somewhere between "humor" and "sarcasm".
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I've not implemented the C++ std library, but my guess is it's because iostreams need to implement their own buffering anyway, so it would just add complexity and unpredictability to buffer atop an already-buffering library.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
It's a Google service, so it seems reasonable that it should have access to your Google login.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Whenever this question is asked, it's almost always std::sync_with_stdio.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Please show me in Picasa's ToS where it says you'll pay Google's legal fees if Google is sued on account of a picture you uploaded. Please show me in Flickr's ToS where it says that you're giving Flickr the right to sell and relicense any p
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Note that we do expedite the process for people who receive competing offers; I had an offer from another company the day after my Google interview; I told my recruiter about it and she had me an offer from Google within a week. I explained
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by jemfinch 15y ago
That's the same guy that did the fantastic writeup of Dijkstra's Smoothsort: http://www.keithschwarz.com/smoothsort/
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by jemfinch 15y ago
"For the sake of speed and simplicity, our algorithm is not stable." There's your answer. In their defense, the authors do include a footnote to another of their papers adding stability and preserving the asymptotic properties, but admit t
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by jemfinch 15y ago
You misunderstand. The algorithm chunks the existing input into O(sqrt(n)) blocks of O(sqrt(n)) size. That's why they call it an "in place" merge.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Do you have any links to substantiate your claims? I'd be interested in reading the background.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
> what does Google expect to get back from offering a DNS service for free? The same reason we've been giving since we released it: to make the Internet faster for people. > They are way beyond being "no evil", so this is hardly a c
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Why do you consider the marketing opinion held by one company of its competitor interesting, let alone worthy to be posted here?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Google's public DNS is not consolidated with any other Google services. From its privacy page[0]: "We don't correlate or combine your information from the temporary or permanent logs with any other data that Google might have about your
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by jemfinch 15y ago
"We don’t persist logs for our users without accounts and configured networks, I’m not sure Google makes the same statement." What FUD. Was this statement from the FAQ[0] not explicit enough? "With Google Public DNS, we collect IP address
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by jemfinch 15y ago
"So what you are saying is that for me to not have made it through I must have equally messed all my interviews or at least a majority of them. I surely didn't feel like that after the interview, but who knows, since I still don't have a wa
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I wouldn't call the interview process at Google broken. While some of my coworkers are better than others, I've yet to encounter any that truly aren't at the top of our field. Whatever we're doing, however we may fail in other areas, the
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I do work at Google, and I'm saying that Norvig's description is still accurate. It was true when I was hired in 2010, and it's true now for the candidates I interview now. I'm not sure why it's relevant that Google has sometimes hired sub
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Tragic? What's the alternative? Should we ignore mistakes made at the whiteboard because someone was under time pressure? Sure, most software engineers (aye, even Google software engineers) are not under significant pressure on an average
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by jemfinch 15y ago
"I'm sure that most of the times the hiring mechanism is quite compartmented...It's not like the people who interview you are interviewing you for the entire Google." Absolutely, utterly incorrect. This has all been covered publicly by Pet

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