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by mankyd 12y ago
> The brothers' taste is [...] vindicated by their ability to name and communicate what they notice in the wine, and to enable us to come to notice it, too. But that's the point of calling it "junk". What they notice
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by mankyd 12y ago
I simply assumed that they made themselves look like the locals. It doesn't mean that they are actually made of meat or see themselves as having any other resemblance to the humans. To give a silly analogy, imagine we visit the world o
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They claim that they match in-store prices: https://support.google.com/shoppingexpress/answer/4559805?hl... Essentially, you're paying them to go to the store and pick up the item for you.
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by mankyd 12y ago
This may very well be, but there's not much you can do about it at that point but continue to try to fix the problem. If you can't be amicable about it with the interviewer, then either they don't want to work you or you don&
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by mankyd 12y ago
I've been in this exact same situation. And I was offered positions. I guess that's my point - I didn't always find the perfect solution. I was pressed to continue to think about the problem until whatever allotted time was u
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by mankyd 12y ago
Ha! I am hardly the paragon of success. You judge my words too harshly. I am simply pointing out that, yes, companies conduct interviews by asking coding questions. Yes, some of the questions are hard and don't have obvious optimal sol
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If you mess up, say so: "Oh, that's completely wrong. Huh. Ok, let's fix it." Again, these interviews are more about seeing how you reason about a problem. People make mistakes all the time - wrong assumptions, incomplet
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by mankyd 12y ago
The "tortoise" pointer does a standard traversal - one at a time. The "hare" pointer goes from one node to the next _and then the next_ - i.e. two at a time. If the hare hits a null node, there's no loop. If the har
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by mankyd 12y ago
If I was interviewing you, I would point out that you're redefined the question: the question gives you a standard linked list, and you state that you want a wrapper-api around it. I would then ask you to try to find a solution that wo
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by mankyd 12y ago
This is... debatable. It depends on what you consider a puzzler. I will tell you that I was asked questions similar to the one referenced in the parent article. It is a programming question that can be answered precisely with code, and that
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by mankyd 12y ago
This question has an "a-ha" moment, but it is not required to solve the problem adequately. I wholeheartedly disagree with this statement: > People like to pose puzzlers to “see how people think” but that’s nonsense in the case
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Small bug: pressing the back button does not stop the music.
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The condition was Pyloric Stenosis. The problem isn't the feeding itself, it's the rate of success; it's meaningfully lower. Similarly, it takes significantly longer to fix, yet the condition is relatively urgent as it result
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by mankyd 12y ago
Interesting to me on a personal level. I have a recently born son who underwent surgery at 2 months. The procedure itself is incredibly simple and safe; the anesthesia was the part that actually concerned us the most, (and my father is a tr
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by mankyd 12y ago
I don't quite see what's amiss. > Static and kinetic friction is only a resistive force to a train if there is slippage between the wheels and the track. No, static friction affects the train _until_ it starts moving. If there
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Doonesbury is not calling Google evil for these things. They're pointing out that others have, fairly or otherwise.
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by mankyd 12y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to simply have a smaller cup? I mean, this is clever, but seems a tad impractical.
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Ask HN: What are you telling your friends and family about Heartbleed?
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by mankyd 13y ago
Microsoft's PhotoSynth has an impressive demo of this. Check out: http://photosynth.net/preview/view/31e5927d-af4b-4678-8bba-c...
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by mankyd 13y ago
This raises an interesting point about design. I've worked for small (<8 person) startups where the open floor plan worked well. I now work for a large company (~50 people on my floor). We still use what I would call an "open f
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by mankyd 13y ago
Provided link doesn't work for me. Use just https://www.okcupid.com/ , and it must be visited in Firefox.
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by mankyd 13y ago
> It seems to transform into its own thing, somewhat tangential to traditional email. Email itself has transformed into its own thing, "somewhat tangential to traditional email". Email is now used for a host of interactions tha
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by mankyd 13y ago
Relevant link to Eich's suppport of California's Prop 8: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/04/business/la-fi-tn-br... This is not something that I was familiar with.
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It seems the what's mostly changed is support. IE10 has it, and Chrome has it experimentally.
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> Of course it's a "free" service and we have no right to complain. This opinion needs to stop. Of course you have a right to complain. They _want_ you to complain. If you don't complain, and instead stop using the se
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by mankyd 13y ago
> I'll much prefer physical controls. I generally agree. I just bought a car and one of the reasons that I skipped the nav system is that I didn't want a touch screen for things that work better as knobs. That being said there
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Looking over this again, two things strike me: 1) Why was a single touch interaction not demonstrated? Each control requires 2+ fingers. Maybe that can bring up a help menu or other information? 2) There is no demonstration of boolean switc
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Neat, but I'd imagine that this represents a steep learning curve for many. Say that I borrow a friend's car that has this. How do I figure out how to change the temperature? Touching five fingers close together is easy but not in
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by mankyd 13y ago
Editors have a general policy of changing the title of the submission to match the title of the article/page.

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