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by monster_group 5y ago
Correct. But to me it seems that pulling the lever to kill a few would be considered more culpable from legal perspective rather than not doing so (and let more people die). IANAL - I am curious to know how law perceives it.
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by monster_group 6y ago
And also they can't interview at Google for another year after rejection. So failing the interview has multiple costs associated with it. It's better to prepare well and then appear for the interview.
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by monster_group 6y ago
But there's no Ctrl+Z in woodworking!
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by monster_group 6y ago
Agreed. I once read a "science article" on whales. The article claimed "since whales are not humans, they cannot be lonely and therefore..." blah blah. I closed the article, immediately after I read that statement. Prete
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by monster_group 6y ago
I find it amazing that people are willing to sacrifice their health and relationships for more money. Even if I was offered a million dollar salary I wouldn't do it. Aren't these grads from top notch business schools supposed to b
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by monster_group 6y ago
I applaud your optimism. (Boeing Max Jets, duh!).
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by monster_group 6y ago
Before investing money, make sure you have access to a dark-ish place to observe the night sky. If you live in a major city, light pollution might be an issue and you may have to drive ways out to get decent dark skies to view anything othe
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by monster_group 6y ago
If you're running Websphere locally, exclude WS folders from anti-virus scanning. It will considerably speed up WS start up.
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by monster_group 6y ago
Because I am working on another team's code base and my code merges are dependent on their whims and schedule. Submit pull request, wait for one week for somebody to review and give feedback (all of which is bullshit nitpicks about spa
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by monster_group 6y ago
Still a lot better than going to prison for multiple years which is what common man would face for stealing.
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by monster_group 6y ago
Agreed but that is not focused on interview prep. These days to clear tech interviews you have to "study to the test". So if you want to do real system design yeah study DDIA but if you want to clear a system design interview stud
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by monster_group 6y ago
I always interpreted as "The Full Article" (as opposed to just the title).
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by monster_group 6y ago
I was amazed when I repeatedly saw how an incredibly shameless guy in my college days not only got what he wanted but was also liked. He would say the most shameless things that would embarrass people while in their presence. For example -
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by monster_group 6y ago
>> surely there would be third-world places today that are the same? You seem to be implying that modern third world is so far behind so as to resemble 18th century Paris. While I agree with you that the quote in parent seems exagger
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by monster_group 6y ago
After reading this kind of fascinating stuff, I feel ashamed that I am wasting the opportunity of having a human mind by writing CRUD applications (though I am nowhere near as smart as this stuff requires one to be - I can barely clear whit
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by monster_group 6y ago
The author is setting up himself for a lot of disappointment. I am not sure why he expects employee number n*100 who gets 0.1% equity (if at all) to give a shit about his company (that he himself most likely has a huge stake in). Also, it&#
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by monster_group 6y ago
Learning to play guitar. I started with self learning. There are excellent tutorials on YouTube and other websites. Got quite frustrated due to painfully (pun intended) slow progress. Then took lessons for six months. Music lessons are expe
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by monster_group 6y ago
Genuinely curious - do you still have to go through bullshit whiteboard coding exercises in the interviews?
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by monster_group 6y ago
It is more likely that those are the instances you remember because they stand out as compared to other uninteresting instances. So you get the impression that the former happens more often.
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by monster_group 6y ago
I don't like printing but printing is indispensable (at least in US). There are many official documents you have to print, sign, scan and send. Just yesterday I had to fill out a mail order so that my office can send WFH equipment to m
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by monster_group 6y ago
That's a good point.
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by monster_group 6y ago
It is easy to look at this list and say gender and ethnicity played a role (which wouldn't be surprising particularly in that era). But five people on the list are white men. Physicists were more likely to be white men (at least in tho
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by monster_group 6y ago
>> I haven't found much of anything in life that you can't get better at by trying again and again. I used to think the same way until I tried learning to play guitar. Have been trying it for a year now and I seriously quest
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by monster_group 6y ago
It depends on what one's goal is. If one's goal is to just be able to read and understand others speaking or comprehend written text, then yes, I think creating your own sentences is not that important and mere exposure can take y
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by monster_group 6y ago
>> I'm white, and I can dance. Confused by this statement. What has your ethnicity got to do with dancing?
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by monster_group 6y ago
I teach Sanskrit to adult enthusiasts. It is mind boggling how people think that they can learn a language by being a passive consumer - that I need to do all the talking while they just sit and listen and take notes. I repeatedly tell them
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by monster_group 6y ago
If you didn't finish watching Interstellar you missed out. It is one of the best phys-fi movies out there. The physics consultant on that movie was Kip Thorne [0], a giant of gravitational physics and a Noble laureate. Phys-fi movies d
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by monster_group 6y ago
I am curious to know why you are working through this book. Is it related to your career or are you doing just for fun? I am asking because I often face this dilemma of whether to invest time in furthering my career or doing something I lik
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by monster_group 6y ago
Reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
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by monster_group 7y ago
A bottom always exists. It is zero. There is no top however.

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