kidintech

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Ask HN: What challenging hobbies do you have?
4 points by kidintech 7y ago|5 comments
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by kidintech 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback too! Since you seem to have similar taste (or people you respect?), what other books/authors have you enjoyed/would recommend? I am a big fan of Hesse, despite his works being very unrelated to anything on
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by kidintech 7y ago
how are you finding it?
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by kidintech 7y ago
My compiled list for 2020, as suggested by friends I respect and HN: General ==== - Master & Margarita (w reader's guide) - Why we sleep - The righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion - The wisdom of ins
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by kidintech 7y ago
This looks fantastic and gets me excited about where the field is going, despite the performance issues.
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by kidintech 7y ago
why is a least common multiple news and a concept that we love/hate??
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by kidintech 7y ago
But this way the people who don't have a subscription (which we can safely assume to be GREATER than those who have ad blockers) don't even open the page, so they still don't get any revenue. ???
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by kidintech 7y ago
Yeah haha, caught it just after I wrote my comment. IMO, I expected the author to talk about that right after the snippet, as it was the first thing that stuck out.
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by kidintech 7y ago
Have I not drank my coffee today or does the 'multiplied' value in the strawman program never change? It starts at 0 and keeps multiplying itself with integers, which should always result in 0. EDIT: My bad, it is explained after
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by kidintech 7y ago
I think this is highly dependent on how your course is structured. I used to do a lot of contractor work and competitive programming before going to uni. I thought I knew how to write code, or at least knew how to "teach myself".
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by kidintech 7y ago
That is a pretty unwarranted passive-aggressive remark, especially considering you know nothing about the person you'r e replying to and all he said were objective truths.
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by kidintech 7y ago
That makes a lot of sense, and is probably a version that's much easier to quantify.
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by kidintech 7y ago
> you’re saying only the top 10-20% of CS grad I'm saying that ALL top 10-20% of CS grads will be able to answer questions at this difficulty level in an interview scenario (accounting for nerves and so on). I'm not limiting it
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by kidintech 7y ago
Am I misunderstanding your problem, or would this be a valid solution: https://pastebin.com/GWKr4AQ8 If so, then the company you're interviewing for must not be attractive to first-class CS grads (top 10-20% I think) f
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by kidintech 7y ago
> Have you ever had a hard time figuring out if someone is really bright or not? How do you define bright? Assuming bright to mean able to achieve post-grad honors: I feel like you could easily distinguish if someone is bright or not wit
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by kidintech 7y ago
Yep, that seems like an elegant solution.
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by kidintech 7y ago
> CT was unnecessarily difficult due to being thrown into a bunch of definitions way to soon I had a similar experience. Luckily, due to reading many definitions of the basic things (such as monoids), I reached a more complete? intuition
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by kidintech 7y ago
I agree that to an inexperienced reader, most of your points would be valid. The downside is, it would be too verbose (imagine defining what big R is, for example). It being too verbose would stray away a different subset of readers, which