jemfinch

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by jemfinch 16y ago
I would say it's obviously a joke. Do you always assume the worst of people?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I think it's not useful because you're not hiring me to draw pictures. I'd pass on any interview where crayon drawings of my future had any impact whatsoever on the likelihood of my hire.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Because some of us went on to better places :) Ning was recognized for its selectivity in hiring; though it did come as a shock, everyone that I knew in my short time there landed on their feet at similar or better operations (Google, Amaz
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I don't understand your objection here. The question presented is a simple, open-ended question with a number of acceptable solutions. It's not even remotely "unanswerable". It's at least mildly interesting as indicated by the number of r
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by jemfinch 16y ago
"While descriptivists and other such laissez-faire linguists are content to allow the misconception to fall into the vernacular, it cannot be denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual label should the meaning of
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Can you describe your kobayashi maru question? I'm curious.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
This may come as a shock, but you can put more than one SSD in a server :-P
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Does no-one in the legal system see the injustice of current copyright law? See it? They're leveraging it for personal gain!
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Often, a good test of whether something is worth doing is "what if everyone did the same?" Nice try, Kant!
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Isn't it commonly recognized that it's cheaper to run your own hardware than to pay a cloud provider? It just requires more capital outlay and maintenance.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
That was incredibly interesting.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Even if you're a vegan you should consider Oysters. Perhaps you mean, "Even if you're a vegan and you don't feel like being one anymore you should consider oysters."
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by jemfinch 16y ago
There are actually implementations of deque which can store elements contiguously: imagine a vector where the "first element" is placed in the middle of the vector, and push_{front,back} reallocate whenever either end is reached. It wastes
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Until I lose it, typically.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Sorry, you are correct; I should have been more specific: the memory management overhead was tremendous. For every object added and removed, the vector and all of it's data was basically reallocated, moved, deleted, repeat. If that wa
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by jemfinch 16y ago
If you want to stick with Python, tornado is a really good async server without all the learning curve of Twisted.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Did you really need such an argument?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
That's a perfect demonstration of the difference between epistemic induction (unprovable) and mathematical induction (provable).
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> The inverse is actually true.. Evidence? > The people who espouse otherwise either haven't studied enough math, or more usually, haven't done that much programming. Dijkstra? Hoare? Knuth?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> You seem to have neglected the part where I was talking about domain knowledge I didn't neglect it, I just didn't disagree with it.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Omit needless words.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> I'm calling you not particularly self-aware. Based on no real data except your prejudices. > Unless that language is so domain specific that there's no room for design or so derivative that you can apply another language's style 1
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by jemfinch 16y ago
EDIT: An HNer says without evidence that my coworkers suck and gets upvoted; I come to their defense and get downvoted? What strange world is this in which baseless accusations are encouraged? > Just cause your coworkers sucked doesn't
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Maybe I'm just prejudiced, but I look at snazzified, graphical resumes like that I think, "This person wastes time on things that aren't important." Go grab a LaTeX template, replace the filler with your own information, and get it down to
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Programming languages can't all be picked up that quickly, since semantics may differ a lot. The second day with my new employer I was tasked with writing an analysis project in a language I'd never even heard of before joining. With
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> If I'll ever meet Aliens I'm sure lists, sets, hash tables, and trees are in their CS books as well. But I bet their mainstream DB model may really be different than our relational one. I actually doubt that. The relational database
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by jemfinch 16y ago
"Lists, sets, etc. are more fundamental to computer scientists than relational database tables, columns, and rows." That does not ring true to me. I'm curious what his data source for that claim is.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> it is technical breach of contract with Amazon What contract did you sign with Amazon?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Is pedantry really opposed to humility? I know of Alan Kay's witty invective ("Arrogance in Computer Science is measured in nano-Dijkstras") but having read much of Dijkstra I'm not convinced that he was really arrogant so much as very in
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Honestly, I think you deserved your downvotes. The segway is clearly not useless; the market has shown that. Just because something isn't a runaway success doesn't mean it wasn't a success.

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