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by jnwatson 5y ago
I recently interviewed with AWS. I still remember one of the questions. It boiled down to: please implement Aho-Corasick in 10 minutes on a virtual whiteboard. Perhaps there are folks in programming competitions that can do that, but not
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by jnwatson 5y ago
That’s not what they did.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
It means you're ignorant, indifferent, or confrontational about the social aspects of "proof" of ownership over the pixels. This is one of those fantastic clarifications that both sides can agree upon. The idea that you can p
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Turo* is AirBnb for cars. I’ve used it a few times and it worked well. * http://www.turo.com
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by jnwatson 5y ago
We’re starting to separate popular mixed-use paths in Northern VA: https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/w-od-trail-effort-...
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by jnwatson 5y ago
This is the libertarian fantasy: just build the entire platform yourself and you don’t have to deal with the pesky decisions of other companies. Yes, you have to choose your dependencies carefully, but where does it end? Steam could go awa
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by jnwatson 5y ago
I don’t understand how it is rent seeking. They are actually improving the supply of housing by fixing them up. How is it possible for the market-maker to make “too much” in a free competitive market? They don’t have any special capabilit
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by jnwatson 5y ago
They could work with a large property management company, or buy it outright. The demand for single family home rentals in the US is quite high.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
There are several TV shows that show house flippers. You think that's immoral? For each property, they engage in two transactions for which all parties involved are willing participants. How is that immoral?
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by jnwatson 5y ago
They actually improved the market by providing liquidity.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
You better not use a VCS that’s also a common insult then.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The Democrats are in charge, and it would remove population from a very blue state and give it to a mostly red state.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution: “The legislature, in cooperation with the properly constituted authority of any adjoining state, is empowered to change, alter, and redefine the state boundaries, such change, alteration and redefin
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Between “discovery” and permanent settlement of the continental US, an estimated 55 million Native Americans died of disease. [1] The colonization of North America would have gone quite differently with that many folks to contend with. 1.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The weird aspect of the whole thing is that if the exec were a corporation, it would have been legal.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The worst part is that everybody copies them. Now, two USB-C ports, one of which is used for power, is standard.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
A transparent attempt at padding the article. It is written like a modern recipe article with a teaser, 10 pages of filler, then the reveal at the end.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The vast majority of dev jobs are outside “big tech, high growth startups”. FAANGs can’t train nearly enough juniors to make up for the rest of the industry.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
It isn’t that either. It is entirely supply chain issues, including oil.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
On my managed Chromebook, I can install Chrome Extensions, but all but approved extensions work on intranet pages.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The government could force the driller to escrow the money to cap the well.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
I didn’t find Tesla’s software particularly good. The overall UX in a new BMW IMHO is quite a bit better. At the same time, it isn’t completely the software team’s fault that their UX is bad. Big touchscreen with no extra controls is naïv
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Keep in mind most of the posts are from SV, so will include the substantial cost of living adjustment. It is easy the underestimate the significance of it.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
That’s not true. What about fintech?
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by jnwatson 5y ago
This is only a single data point, but I recently went through the whole interview cycle with Google, Facebook, and, Amazon, and I thought Amazon was the toughest interviews. I have friends that work at Amazon. It seems that work/life
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The clothing manufacturing industry is also deeply tied to human trafficking, but no one is talking about banning credit card transactions at the Nike store.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
SSRIs tend to reduce libido. That’s not exactly the same thing, but they are connected.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
A great example (and AFAIK, the first quantum biological reaction identified) is photosynthesis [1]. Quantum coherence is part of the energy transfer mechanism of photosynthesis. 1. https://www.nature.com/articles/natu
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Right, but imagining that DNS goes down doesn’t take a science fiction author.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Please enough of this. Trying spending 2 minutes googling it. Hint: pyenv

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