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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I'm confused about employers' desire to cast a wide net, only to filter through applicants thoughtlessly. What's to be confused about? They don't give a fuck - about you, or your time. Why? Because they perceive (righ
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
... unit testing is automated, repeatable, code review! Except when it isn't. "Unit tests can be one form of code review (that also happens to have the advantage of being automated and repeatable). But should never be mistake
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It's one "kind" of inaccurate, if you will. They're just trying to simplify. They also explain exactly what they mean in the caption under the title.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Right, but I find these demos interesting nonetheless - in that they reveal capabilities of HTML + CSS that, as a casual frontend developer, you wouldn't normally think of them as having.
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Donald Trump breaks Twitter’s rules, so why not ban him?(theguardian.com)
4 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
"Inappropriate unprofessional unsourced editorializing?" The Economist explicitly brands and declares itself a journal of both reporting and opinion. As for "unsourced", it choses to adopt an anonymous style and ton
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
And it works quite well for them, as you can see. You can look at it that way, if you want to. My way of looking at is: "Are these people dealing with me in a way that makes me feel respected and valued, both as a potential colleague
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
They aren't 100% determinative, of course. But by and large, many companies do place a great deal of emphasis on ones performance on these tests (perhaps being only partly conscious of the extent to which they're doing so).
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Thanks. My response to you was a bit off (hence obscuring the point I was trying to make). I do apologize.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
You need to read history to understand the situation. But not the history of the last 100 years, but of the last 1000. Catalonia was never independent, it was part of the Kingdom of Aragon. The kingdom of Aragon and the castle kingdom all
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
But the fact of our industry is there is no way around these interviews. Actually, there is. And it's quite simple, really: "Thanks very much for your time, but I've gone through many, many rounds of questions like these,
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Engineers have used Coderust to crack the coding interviews at Google, Amazon, Snapchat, Uber, Dropbox, Lyft, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, Zenefits, Pinterest, eBay, Twitter, Cloudera, Salesforce, Tableau and many others. If one can &quo
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It's showing a small bump in 2004 after Bt cotton was first introduced, and a precipitous drop in suicides in 2006, when Bt cotton had more wide-spread adoption. Thanks, Alexa. I actually didn't look much at the graph, one way
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
What the description says it shows, most likely.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It doesn't happen too often - but I've had that happen several times, actually. Just like people might pretty much hire you (or invite you to substantially greenlighted interview process - sans whiteboarding or over-the-phone gri
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The suicide rate among Indian farmers is 1.4 to 1.8 per 100,000 Since you're into stats, what do you think of this graph? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bt_Cotton_Hectares_and_Fa... Point being, the story pe
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Your point is perfectly valid, and shouldn't have been downvoted. But as a footnote, the sibling comment here happens to also be correct: like any truly effective propaganda outlet, RT leverages a mix of largely legitimate / munda
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Please note that the article is primarily about historiography - not politics, per se. And so hopefully won't be flagged.
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Files will shed light on a JFK shooting conspiracy – but not the one you think(theguardian.com)
2 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|2 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I wouldn't say any of the BASIC programs I wrote at age 11 were world changing. They changed your world, because they got you into programming, and how cool and complicated and frustrating and wonderful that can be an activity. So
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Amazon Key system will allow delivery drivers to unlock customers' doors(theguardian.com)
2 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Or whatever. Exactly - it's the "whatever" part I'm having trouble working with. I'm seeing the basic point about population samples you're making. But even so, both logically and numbers-wise, the original
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Yup. And yet, it's the very lifeblood of social and economic interactions, for a great many people in the U.S.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
For ex parent's observation is probably spot on if you're comparing MIT/CMU/Stanford/Berkeley to an arbitrarily chosen regional state campus. I'll readily concur that students from top-tier schools are on ave
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I find myself wondering at your definition of "2nd tier school". Any school lower on the perceived status hierarchy than the school they went to, most likely.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The problem in practice is that for every Emily or Anthony, there are a hundred students at 2nd and 3rd tier universities who, partly through their own failures and partly due to the unfortunate circumstances they’re in, are completely inc
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Have you considered the possibility that is doesn't? The thing is, I wasn't making any assertions (or counter-assertions) about the original storyline. The person I was responding to did , in the form of, basically, "But
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I bought a lead test kit for under 10 bucks when I was concerned about the paint in my house. Hmm. Of her device, the article says: The result is Tethys, a sensor-based device designed to detect lead in water faster than other technique
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Buzzfeed Canada is terrible a slimy tabloid organization I don't doubt this necessarily, but could you provide a quick recap? As in, did they create a slimy tabloid site from scratch? Or did they, like, buy some site that was alrea
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EPA kept scientists from speaking about climate change at Rhode Island event(theguardian.com)
2 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments

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