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by kyralis 8y ago
They're not skimping $2k one time cost on a cubicle. They're skimping on the recurring cost in rent and maintenance on a large facility in which to place that cubicle, plus the cost of that cubicle. My wife was an office manager t
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* for well-off individuals in a major metropolitan area.
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Just for reference, and this does not diminish the parent's point significantly, inflation accounts for approximately 24% of that increase. That's still a 36% real increase in operating budget assuming student size held constant.
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Setting up the same problem in terms of trait matching for Rust is quite a bit more difficult than this toy problem when you're in a limited-duration interview setting. All of the time that you spend laying out the problem is time the
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FWIW, I regularly pass interview candidates who "fail" at certain questions. The point of those questions isn't to complete it perfectly (and sometimes we get less information from those, honestly), it's to see how you g
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As a frequent interviewer I will say that you are not alone in that: any interviewer that isn't following the above guidelines is unlikely to get a good signal from anyone. To your final point about expectations: One question that we t
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If you're trying to find a situation where that exact solution is going to be useful, you're not thinking about the problem from the right perspective. Handled correctly, a problem like this answers several questions: 1) Can you c
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Neither loop unrolling nor avoidance of call overhead have anything to do with this article, with the exception of a small segment actually arguing against manual loop unrolls/structure unpacking. The article is about code structure
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Chess is not real-time, and it's intellectually very "pure" in that your ability at the game is not influenced by any ancillary skills- APM, hand-eye coordination, rapid scanning of multiple windows of screen when managing, s
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I suspect the issue is precisely that he's coming from C. In C, pass by value vs pass by reference is extremely explicit. In python, it's "magical", because it depends entirely on the type of the variable that is passed
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"Less than two years after inauguration" is a very bizarre definition of "lame duck".
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As someone who has participated in quite a few interviews for one of those big companies, it's doubtful that you're being pigeonholed because of your experience. However, one thing that I do see fairly frequently is candidates who