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by mquander 14y ago
It's absolutely cheating if you don't tell the interviewer. If a candidate doesn't know X, then just tell me, and I'll explain X! That's quicker than Googling and they'll get a better answer. But the whole point is to figure out which
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by mquander 14y ago
Absolutely. That's why I paid my smart classmates to do all my take-home tests in school; it's an efficient, effective way to get the right answers! I don't know if you interview people, but I do, and it's hard. I try hard to come up with
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by mquander 14y ago
I am empathetically not condemning it. I'm pointing out that if we're measuring things by "how useful are they to society at large", it's not obvious that the time spent by a lot of people in college is ahead of four years spent becoming a
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by mquander 14y ago
You might be right about any number of such subtleties, but you are not right about this. There is no way that spending half an hour to learn how public-key authentication works is a bad investment for any person working on an applicatio
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by mquander 14y ago
So, obviously, we have no choice but for some people contribute to society. Is there a fair way to decide who has to contribute, and who is allowed to opt out and play video games all day? Not really, but we have a way anyway, and it's ca
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by mquander 14y ago
I agree that you don't learn how to be a good person or do anything terribly useful by studying chess, but how is playing music or building cool things with Legos substantially different? Just do what you please.
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by mquander 14y ago
Any piece of software/service/product you are likely to use has clauses that may not fit into what you would like to hear. And people accept those clauses because the net utility of the product is more than what they trade for the clauses.
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by mquander 14y ago
Dude, you're the one describing things as "evil", "evil", and "satanic." The single worst thing jacquesm had to say about Facebook is that it makes money by getting people to give it information and then selling it, which is a fact. Respon
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by mquander 14y ago
It sounds to me like it makes a culture of happy people. If someone wants something that doesn't hurt anyone, and it's super easy to provide them the thing, why wouldn't you do it? Asking for and giving things that fit that description is
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by mquander 14y ago
Why would a company ever cut 30,000 jobs at once, instead of smaller amounts of jobs incrementally? Presumably their desired number of employees did not actually change overnight by 30,000.
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by mquander 14y ago
Free as in speech, not free as in beer, etc. It's not particularly ethical to sell food and refuse to tell anyone what's in the food, which is why we have various laws regarding that. Nor does it seem particularly reasonable to sell someo
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by mquander 14y ago
That doesn't make sense. A "nice extra that might disappear any second?" That's worth as much as a hole in my pocket. If giving referral bonuses is company policy, nobody would imagine that it might "disappear" retroactively if the manag
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by mquander 14y ago
What planet do you live on? Your comments are comprised entirely of droppings. This post had nothing to do with any of those topics until you arrived; it's about a way to abstract operations over collections of data that has some cool
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by mquander 14y ago
If you call reduce on it twice, then sure, it would do all the work twice.
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by mquander 14y ago
I don't understand your point. What does maturity have to do with "the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention?"
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by mquander 14y ago
Is this Engadget? Why is this here? Are there no things to read which are more interesting than the launch of yet another 10% more efficient iteration on a five-year-old phone design?
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by mquander 14y ago
The startup I work for would! Assuming, at least, that you have experience in a couple moderately dissimilar languages (e.g. not only Java) it's really not a big deal. It's important to have someone who is a real expert on a language
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by mquander 14y ago
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Bill Vaughan
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by mquander 14y ago
It's trivial to parse when statements end in my head, because I write code in a structure that makes it unbelievably clear where statements begin and end (with or without semicolons.) Knowing that is of prime importance to human readabilit
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by mquander 14y ago
Also, it's interesting you find it hard to make a critical mistake in Go - this feels very common to me. For example, a decision like deciding to defend a group instead of sacrificing it (which comes up all the time) often snowballs really
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by mquander 14y ago
Like asynchrony, I don't understand this argument at all. You can play however you want in chess. It doesn't change the actual victory condition, nor does it in Go. The sub-objectives during a game of chess appear to me to be equally dee
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by mquander 14y ago
This is the flamebaitiest flamebait I have ever seen, even accounting for the topic. It is insanely rude and unproductive. I hope it gets flagged into oblivion. To the author: Respect your fucking readers or don't click "post." Your mot
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by mquander 14y ago
Why would it be better to have an ultimate goal? The intentions are clearly just to give people who are hungry to learn about some subject matter a great place to go learn it. That's a fantastic service.
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by mquander 14y ago
As a first impression, that seems pretty specious to me. I wouldn't at all describe frontal assault as being a normal chess strategy -- the most common would probably be the idea of a multi-pronged attack where your opponent cannot simulta
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by mquander 14y ago
I'm of moderate strength at both, being a chess expert and a 1d-1k KGS. Some brief comments: - Go makes me confront my fear of heuristics. My unconscious ability to pattern match the right moves is always ahead of my ability to understand
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by mquander 14y ago
Fair enough. I'd call it a "quick" game, analogous to quick games in chess. It was 25 minutes of main time and 5x30 sec byo-yomi periods, IIRC. Not the kind of blitz people play on KGS, at least.
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by mquander 14y ago
Zen beat Takemiya Masaki a few weeks ago in a non-blitz two-game match at five and four stones. It didn't even use an excessive amount of hardware, just a couple of boxes: http://gogameguru.com/zen-computer-go-program-beats-takemiya...
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by mquander 15y ago
TIncubator? I can't tell if that's better or worse.
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by mquander 15y ago
That's even less interesting. I give 2/10 of a crap about what the best way is for me to avoid missing-semicolon errors in Javascript, but I give 0/10 of a crap about who wins an ego battle between Crockford and some other dudes. Why on
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by mquander 15y ago
FYI, it's not actually all Clojure; stuff like the parser and the core data types are still written in Java. (Of course, it's still open-source.) https://github.com/clojure/clojure/tree/master/src/jvm/cloju... I think translating the res

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