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by maehwasu 7y ago
The quality of discourse in the comments there is amazing. I miss old-style blogging/commenting...
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by maehwasu 7y ago
If you design for today’s $1K phones, you have an outside shot at maybe, maybe having your system sort of ready by the time a few billion people have the phones that cost $1K today. In other words, the fact that not everyone has this tech
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by maehwasu 7y ago
In my experience, the sweet spot is anything that involves recursion or pointers, preferably in combination. You get some false negatives, but not tons if you don’t disqualify non-elegant solutions.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
It was incredible to me too. But it’s reality. As another poster said above, best guess is some version of copypasta and navigation of bureaucracy.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
+1. I’ve interviewed senior guys, with medium to high salaries, who couldn’t do fizzbuzz. What’s worse, a lot of them were fully confident in awful solutions, and didn’t even want to test them. Talented people frustrated at the process just
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by maehwasu 7y ago
When I was involved in hiring at a company, we found some amazing candidates through code screens whom we never even would have interviewed otherwise. They were terrible at resume writing, didn’t present themselves well, but could code well
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Another way of saying it: database abstractions should be specific to your codebase, rather than use generalized patterns.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
The misleading headline (likely not written by the author) is meant to imply the possibility of some sort of hitherto-unknown 1300s trade route. In fact, the article indicates that the most likely scenario is Portuguese traders blown off co
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by maehwasu 7y ago
People aren't downvoting you because they hate homeless people. They're downvoting because the city already devotes a ton of money to homelessness, and has proven itself extraordinarily inept or corrupt at solving that problem. Th
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Great description. It’s also interesting to note that the description of gentrification given is indistinguishable from colonization, except that the colonizing is internal to a nation.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
It's frustrating because, as propaganda, it's been extremely effective. If you're an opponent of increased housing supply in California, you can roll out that talking point whenever threatened. It's tested, emotionally
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Fewer people learning humanities is a bad thing. Fewer people putting themselves in debt slavery for humanities to perpetuate the economics of the college bubble is a very good thing. These things aren't binary (more humanities bad! mo
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by maehwasu 7y ago
> He was already wealthy, he decided that the upside of turbocharging the electric car revolution and the exploration of space were worth the constraints of dealing with regulatory bodies. The regulatory bodies don't exactly come ou
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by maehwasu 7y ago
If you're going to comment, make it substantiative. Arguing over the definitions of words, and not the underlying phenomenon, is the opposite of that. If "corruption", as you prefer to call it, leads to selection pressures an
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by maehwasu 7y ago
> We need more people in government who actually have a plan, that are actually willing to take bets on people, to hire high-quality people, to see hard projects through, not to punt everything off to consulting firms. I share your frust
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by maehwasu 7y ago
There are tens of thousands of those companies out there, they get less attention (on a per company basis) than the billion $ ones for obvious reasons, and occasionally stories about them are posted on HN, where they not infrequently rise t
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by maehwasu 7y ago
There’s definitely a learning curve, but it’s not a terribly steep one, and most minds with programming aptitude don’t seem to have much trouble with it after that. It’s similar to learning declensions in Russian/German/Latin: wei
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by maehwasu 7y ago
How would that help the government achieve its goal of maintaining power, in any way?
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Analyzing widely differing cultures and peoples under the unitary framework of “totalitarianism” isn’t terribly compelling either. The Chinese government has shown remarkable staying power, and it’s important to analyze the ways/reason
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by maehwasu 7y ago
(I'm not OP) My concern would be that the candidate might have memorized the explanation for his code, and would be able to discuss it despite not having written it. I agree with the DRY intuition though: making coders repeat code chal
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by maehwasu 7y ago
You've clearly never worked on the hiring side of a company. I mean that literally and not snidely: you're completely unaware of the costs and complications and risks that go into hiring from the company's side.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
> Shareholder democracy works. As long as the unsupported assertion is confidently stated in a short, declarative sentence, that's good enough for me.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
If the problem looks imminent, as opposed to "we'll deal with it in 50 years", you will suddenly have a lot of VERY incentivized landowners to contribute money. Is this the ideal way to do things? F * no. Is it what's l
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Didn’t Nabokov have live-in English tutors from a young age? The Russian aristocracy was extremely multilingual.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
That’s an accurate description, and, as someone tempted to go for humor, I think HN’s constraints are valuable for me. I’ll often have a knee-jerk post that’s either funny, caustic, or redundant. I find things go best here (with some ups an
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by maehwasu 8y ago
I dream of a world in which, when someone says "studies have shown", the appropriate response is to politely change the subject so as not to embarrass the speaker.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
As someone who frequently takes and stores such photos, I would argue that mutual arousal between partners is an extremely strong human drive/need. "I like things that make me feel good" is generally considered a very, very s
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by maehwasu 8y ago
You’re mostly correct in this case, but for more commoditized houses or complexes, that can generate income, the reasoning is as follows: There’s always significant uncertainty in construction: timelines, permits, cost overruns, contractor
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by maehwasu 8y ago
> according to Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidelines on screen time And really, if we can’t unthinkingly trust Dimitri Christakis of Seattle
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Or how your EU4 spies need about a year to generate a claim on a neighboring province, thus giving you a casus belli.

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