milemi

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by milemi 7y ago
The parties you go to must be really fun to be at.
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by milemi 7y ago
I come to this site primarily because I like to analyze things. And no, an attempted joke is not necessarily a joke.
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by milemi 7y ago
The title doesn't say "Reactive and Component Frameworks for me - an Old Fart Programmer"
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by milemi 7y ago
For something to be called a joke it should require at least some creativity. Check out Don Rickles and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog for good examples of what an insult joke is. Calling someone an old fart just isn't funny. It's a
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by milemi 7y ago
Where does the author get the idea that it's ok to refer to people as "Old Fart" Programmers?
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by milemi 7y ago
A completely frivolous and useless note: the photo at the bottom of the article was taken at a table in the restaurant called Mediterraneo on the corner of 2nd and 66th, and behind him is the block on which one of the scenes in Annie Hall w
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by milemi 7y ago
I warmly recommend Analytic Combinatorics by Flajolet & Sedgewick, freely downloadable at http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/book.pdf I like the books you mentioned, but this one I love.
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by milemi 7y ago
That rings true to me, and it sounds very cruel and depressing. By that measure it hasn’t worked with North Korea either, slowly but surely they have turned into a significant threat to US. It may also turn out to be just a short term impro
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by milemi 7y ago
That’s a good example, albeit a special one where the regime was not accepted as being of the people by a large majority of the population.
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by milemi 7y ago
I can’t think of a historical example of economic sanctions even moving the situation toward the putative goal of regime change in the target country, let alone achieving that goal. I’ve lived under UN sanctions imposed on Serbia under Milo
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by milemi 7y ago
I don't understand how Apple TV remote ever came into being, let alone how it still exists. Even when you somehow break the symmetry, in my case by sticking an ugly address label on the bottom part, skating around the screen with the t
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by milemi 7y ago
KitSplit - we’ll split you from your kit!
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by milemi 7y ago
I know of senior engineers at Google in their late sixties, and I’m sure there are folks in their seventies there. Some of them are top people in their fields. Donald Knuth is 81 (10000 in ternary) and he still codes for research all the ti
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by milemi 7y ago
Was Joel Spolsky a great programmer when he was coding?
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by milemi 7y ago
So you’re saying if you see someone over fifty writing code, odds are they’re not very good at it? That’s a nasty prejudice.
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by milemi 7y ago
Those are exceptions, if it was common to get these kinds of questions I would have gotten at least one like that at one of the many interviews I've been in. Getting rid of coding interviews won't stop some interviewers from being
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by milemi 7y ago
There is no way you were asked to implement any of those in an interview.
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by milemi 7y ago
Google, or any other reference, is the hard drive, and the skill you have in your noggin is the cache. You wouldn't want to buy a machine that's all hard drive and no cache.
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by milemi 7y ago
Software is very different from any other type of engineering I can think of, so I'm not surprised that the interviewing processes would be different. Two different aeronautical engineers for example may come up with two different solu
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by milemi 7y ago
But you are supposed to know the algorithms and approaches that apply to the problem, that's the whole point. It took humanity tens of thousands of years to come up with the first script, but nobody wants you to invent the English alph
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by milemi 7y ago
That’s a good story, and I’m glad again, thanks.
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by milemi 7y ago
None of the problems at interviews are really hard.
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by milemi 7y ago
Sometimes there's no time to google, and you want to be talking to someone while you're doing it, as a sanity check. https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/knight-capital-says-... $10M/minute
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by milemi 7y ago
These situations do happen in real life, minus the whiteboard.
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by milemi 7y ago
Sounds to me like the uninterested person is the one who made the decision.
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by milemi 7y ago
Try this https://www.racket-mode.com/
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by milemi 7y ago
I'm just glad NYC 311 turned out to be useful for someone.
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by milemi 8y ago
I think he was concerned about the cost of allocating separate strings that go into the vector.
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by milemi 8y ago
It’s in the Metro section of the New York Times.
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by milemi 8y ago
That price is hard to believe.

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