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'Incident' Delays Launch of James Webb Space Telescope(bbc.com)
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Not sure if you meant "look at the roads in New Delhi" in a "derogatory" sense I live in Bangalore(Roads here are darn horrible) not Delhi, but instead of looking at this in an "derogatory sense", in al
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by kamaal 5y ago
Turtle Geometry, is a very interesting book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/turtle-geometry
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>HEURISTIC #3 To make a thing inevitable, do as much as you can right now. I have an another HEURISTIC, like do not put impossible clauses as preconditions in front of possible things, if you do- the possible now becomes impossible
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by kamaal 5y ago
I know, it's just so wrong. But this is the world- as is. Just be glad, they haven't yet patented or copyrighted a tree, graph or a linked list yet. Wrote a tree traversal program to solve some problem in your program? Sorry that
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This is so important and most people don't realize this. Ability to build things quickly, make tools, write/rewrite stuff. All this is so much more important than memory skills, or even for that matter novel algorithm design skill
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>>HackerRank is claiming that not only they own the copyright on "How to find the first occurrence of x in s?" but also every solution to that question, which is a completely ridiculous notion. They are in hiring business no
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by kamaal 5y ago
Indeed. The standard practice while designing these questions is to take what already exists(Classic DS/Algo questions, questions on other OJ sites) and then add puzzle aspects to them, or a slight variation in the solution that involv
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>building complex systems using multiple development teams requires effective coordination, which implies not only development skill, but communication of technical plans. That's not what is being discussed here. As a matter of
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>>I know how to build these things and I would take time to do it, but I couldn't do it with the very fast speed that I was limited to during the interview. I've been rejected even after doing all these things. I didn't
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>>Having candidates talk through the solution to a non-trivial programming problem is a critical tool for me. I need to find developers that can not only code, but work as a part of a team So at work, every time your programmers are a
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by kamaal 5y ago
Certain things need to be available out of the box. The whole point of a programming language is to make the programmers life easier. By now decades of exposure to programming languages have made try/catch the standard way of working w
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>the way it effects how people do control flow in general. This. Most people are used to thinking in terms of try/catch. Programs exiting on exceptions. This is just one of those things like Garbage Collection. Its one of those
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by kamaal 5y ago
That's ok if all you write is something like C or C++. If you are writing html, css, react, js, python, sql and myriad other things. Then having all of this configured to your likings is a multi month project. While vscode gets you up
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>It's naive to measure productivity in editor startup times when developer satisfaction is way more important. To be honest, I don't even notice what happens in 1 - 2 seconds. Its like less than the time I take to sip my gr
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Just timed it myself, started and ready to go in 120ms. Let me get this straight. You plan to code for hours, and your biggest concern at this point in time is your editor takes 1 - 2 seconds more to start? A second is 1.66666666666
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Try using VSCode in terminal mode when you're logged into a remote machine via SSH and see how well that goes. On the other had vscode is the best experience I've had editing files remotely. Unlike emacs where you have ins
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>they influence you to want things This is a frequent topic of stress in my life. It's almost every other week, my cousin and his family show up at our home and make it a point to rub their latest purchase in our faces. Some tim
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>I prefer to hire people who are EXCITED about the challenges they will face in the job. Anybody who looks excited about things they they have no stake in is just pretending and is likely a ace imposter. I'd be very vary of hiri
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>VScode-Vim extension is doing the trick I tried using vim on vscode, but it doesn't play well with Python utils like Black and Flake. If you are using these modern tools you are buying into the whole experience. Playing editor
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>What is Emacs really? It's a virtual Lisp machine with a standard library for writing graphical text applications. It's more like the JVM than like Notepad. Well then in that case, ship a better Lisp than emacs lisp?
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>everyone "believes" it dead. Same goes for Perl. This week I did with Python what I used to generally do with Perl. Write big throwaway programs, written quickly. I realise this was possible because Python has been heavily
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>But there's literally nothing I don't have with Emacs that other editors provide. Time. Other editors save you play time you need to spend with emacs to get it to anywhere close to usable.
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>What is this treachery you are talking about ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purnaiah The British simply bribed this guy onto their side. He really was more like Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord - https:
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by kamaal 5y ago
I think the parent's argument is more on the lines on whose politics he considers good and whose politics he considers evil. This is just standard 'holier than thou' talk. Every empire, nation or country ever established ha
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by kamaal 5y ago
There is no deliberate washing of anything happening anywhere. Try reading a book, it works.
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by kamaal 5y ago
Even a child with a Mobile phone today can read what they want to read. What's whitewashing in this world? That's with anything today, not just history.
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>All that my middle-school textbooks said was Tipu Sultan used them against the Brits. The area that is now Karnataka, or erst while state of Mysore/Deccan has a rich culture of knowledge and art that has been pervasive regardle
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by kamaal 5y ago
This is basically saying "Ive worked on this issue for days/weeks, but please solve this in a few minutes and impress me".
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by kamaal 5y ago
So the onsite interview should be a one day phd program? This is kind of thinking is why people hire all these leetcode jockeys who can't write working software, and won't stay beyond a few months anyway.

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