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by nandemo 11y ago
How about this? Choose a programming language. Choose a sequence prefix (in your example: 2, 3). Then consider all the programs that accept n as input and output a sequence of n numbers, such that the first numbers are always 2, 3. Now take
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by nandemo 11y ago
But the problem statement doesn't imply the rule involves ordering. Likely, it doesn't accept complex numbers (or vectors or matrices) as input as part of the (implicit) spec: in common parlance, "number" tends to mean r
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by nandemo 11y ago
> I wonder if those jobs would increase in value as less people do them? Sure. Although technically it's not that the value of the job changes (to the employer, the value of the job is basically the same), it's that wages go
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by nandemo 11y ago
I suggest providing a link to a careers page with details for each position.
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by nandemo 11y ago
These days Japanese exchanges have stricter order validation, e.g. orders with price outside a certain range are rejected outright, and if actual trading takes the stock price to (say) 75% of its opening price, the trading for that symbol i
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by nandemo 11y ago
It's not meaningful to talk about absolute returns, what matters is returns/time. It's a 20% drop in less than a month, and that's pretty large.
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by nandemo 11y ago
For this purpose, it shouldn't be too hard. You don't need the evaluation results for deciding raises or promotions, and you don't need to compare employees to each other. You just need to determine if the hiring decision was
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by nandemo 11y ago
I think it exists, but a gender norm is a social construct i.e. there are certain expectations that boys should behave like this and girls should behave like that. When I say such a gender norm exists, I'm not implying that it's a
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by nandemo 11y ago
I listen to metal and stoner rock, from the top of my mind I can think of only 2 bands that include women (Acid King and Electric Wizard). > I somehow doubt that you play guitar, so I should also point out that playing a heavily distorte
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by nandemo 11y ago
So the boys-like-distortion gender norm trumps the pink-is-for-girls gender norm?
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by nandemo 11y ago
In a previous gig, we had a simple rule: there must be a ticket number with a certain format at the beginning of the commit message. A summary follows. The ticket has pretty much all the info you need, so there's usually no need to wri
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by nandemo 11y ago
> Today I'm going to learn how to build a car. First, take the engine from my Toyata... oh... um... To the extent that the analogy works, it doesn't help your case: nobody these days builds or learns how to build a car from sc
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by nandemo 11y ago
> The state including officials and parties is corrupt, This is true. But the rest of your comment is simply hyperbolic. Brazil isn't a "semi-failed state". Iraq, Yemen, Somalia are recent examples of failed states. Brazil
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by nandemo 11y ago
Hey, you can't hardly expect them to provide a course for such a minor, exotic language. Maybe you should try Irish or Ukrainian instead?
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by nandemo 11y ago
Uh, that's not what I meant, though I guess my comment wasn't clear enough. I'm not saying they should change the criteria to food security/malnutrition/etc. I'm saying that, 1) suppose the criteria was food-re
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by nandemo 11y ago
Change "roof" to "food". Giving money only to people who don't have enough food to eat isn't a perverse incentive: there's little point in going hungry to get money; any money you get will be spent on food
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by nandemo 11y ago
There's definitely xenophobia in Japan, and a lot of stereotyping, etc, and I'm not dismissing your experience, but: I've never been denied entry to a nightclub or any decent establishment (kyabakuras don't count). I&#x2
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by nandemo 11y ago
> they'll never call a Chinese or Korean "gaijin" for example. Not true, "gaijin" can be used to refer to any foreigner/non-Japanese. It's just that there are many Chinese and Koreans in Japan, and the
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by nandemo 11y ago
I'm not the grandparent but: Arabic is highly diglossic: in any given area, people use a standard written language called Modern Standard Arabic (used in speech only in certain formal situations) and a local spoke language ("verna
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by nandemo 11y ago
People do that in Tokyo too, but in a lot of places that's illegal, and the police/kuyakusho have been actually enforcing it more and more.
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by nandemo 11y ago
Impossible to say for sure without seeing the exact methodology and the data, but there are probably many other issues with this "study". * taking data for the past year (or for a few recent years) and extrapolating it to 30 years
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by nandemo 11y ago
It's called a regression. Believe it or not, there's a lot of software organizations out there that still get away with using anti-patterns like: not integrating code frequently, not using modern source control systems, not using
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by nandemo 11y ago
> It went something like this: 1. New President comes in with a new plan. 2. President freezes prices and/or bank accounts. 3. President fails. 4. President gets voted out or impeached. 5. Repeat. Yeah... no. Between '64
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by nandemo 11y ago
Sorry, but that's exactly wrong. There was widespread indexation before the URV or, more precisely, before the Real Plan. Salaries, pensions, interest rates, fees, etc, everything was tied to an inflation rate or another. The Real Pla
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by nandemo 11y ago
This. Some of the advice only works out of context, for example: > What's an appointment_list ? A calendar No. Chances are that "appointment" is already a thing in your domain language -- the language you'd use to
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by nandemo 11y ago
If the code is stinky, it's bad code. It can still be have business value , which is why somebody coined the term "technical debt".
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by nandemo 11y ago
I'm learning the flute, and I know how painful it can be to struggle just to play one note in tune and a good tone, compared to playing a note on the guitar or the piano. But it looks like you're comparing pop guitar/piano wi
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by nandemo 11y ago
There are no ads in the streets of São Paulo either: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/07/sao-paulo-city-with-no-... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
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by nandemo 11y ago
Can't you just refuse? Or can the police/DEA forcibly search a random person's belongings without a warrant?
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by nandemo 11y ago
Impossible ? What if I find 1 or 2 HN threads (among the tens of thousands that exist) that are a counter-example to your sweeping, extraordinary claim?

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