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by nilkn 8y ago
This happens to me as well. I sometimes avoid speaking in meetings because the act of drawing the attention of the whole room on me tends to compromise my ability to think and speak clearly. So I can start with a completely coherent set of
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by nilkn 8y ago
They tend to be contrived, artificial, aggressively timeboxed, unrealistically isolated from normal tools one might use, and the desired solution tends to be one that depends on having one or two central creative insights. Whether they’re a
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by nilkn 8y ago
Given that you are the one who used the term, I’m curious why you used it in the way I described then and not the way you just did. The article here clearly is including LeetCode style questions as “whiteboard questions” — this is explicitl
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by nilkn 8y ago
While the term isn’t very precise, in this context “brainteaser” means precisely the kind of questions asked by Google, etc.
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by nilkn 8y ago
That's fine, but it doesn't change the fact that the sites are very ill-suited to many sorts of discussion that should then be handled by other sites.
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by nilkn 8y ago
That's a separate issue. The content here appears far too specialized and restricted even for math PhDs (while I don't have a PhD, I do have an extensive background in math and have published research).
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by nilkn 8y ago
I imagine the main differentiator would be open-ended discussion that's not necessarily trying to answer a well-defined question (or any question at all for that matter). Stack Exchange and MathOverflow are both fairly bad at supportin
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by nilkn 8y ago
The team I'm on has a hiring rate of less than one person per year, but I can't recall anyone ever turning down an offer because we couldn't offer enough money. We're not in Silicon Valley and finding the right talent is
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by nilkn 8y ago
For what it's worth you can cancel/skip specific deliveries with Blue Apron. That helps some on the logistics side if you know in advance you're going to be busy the day of delivery. But it doesn't completely address the
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by nilkn 8y ago
Thanks for the correction. It's been a while since I used it. We used the two-person plan and I wrongly remembered the other option as being for one person as opposed to four.
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by nilkn 8y ago
This is what I prefer to do, but it's exactly the opposite of how Blue Apron works, which is why I found myself frustrated. BA portions are designed for a single meal (for one or two people [edit: two or four]), so there are no leftove
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by nilkn 8y ago
This was the same issue for me. Maybe I’m just inefficient at cooking but I discovered quite quickly that cooking complex meals at home multiple times per week is actually not something I wanted to do. I found myself spending what felt li
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by nilkn 8y ago
I'd argue that flat structures don't exist outside of tiny companies, only clearly delineated and obfuscated structures, none of which are flat after 20 people or so. So when a medium-sized or larger company says they are "fl
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by nilkn 8y ago
This is very interesting, but I'm curious how it scales to higher levels of management. Of course, if the whole company is only 20-30 people, those higher levels don't exist. In a large company, a single low- or mid-level manager
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by nilkn 8y ago
To be honest, I found myself slightly offended at your original comment, but I decided not to say anything since I agreed with the overall point you were trying to make. This response makes me feel like I have to say something though. Somet
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by nilkn 8y ago
As an outsider to this exchange, I think porpoisely intended to highlight the "since I was 5 years old" part in his/her original quote, so that's why your response was interpreted in that context.
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by nilkn 8y ago
It's significantly improved, but D3 lost almost the entire PC ARPG market to Path of Exile, which had its initial release around the same time. Blizzard also failed to come up with any ongoing monetization of D3 after removing the auct
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by nilkn 8y ago
The common argument I've heard is that these systems won't replace nurses/PAs, but rather family physicians, whose diagnosis and referral skills may become redundant in the face of a nurse/PA to collect data and a machin
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by nilkn 8y ago
This sounds like standard title inflation, and it's not restricted to just technical ladders. It's certainly a problem, but I don't think we should discount the idea of principal engineering roles just because job titles can
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by nilkn 8y ago
It's crucial to mostly ignore and unsubscribe from the default subreddits. If there's a topic you're interested in, try to find a small subreddit dedicated just to it. My personal reddit homepage looks virtually nothing like
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by nilkn 8y ago
It's amazing to see so many things included and yet so many missing. It really speaks to the breadth and depth of the subject. For instance, for elliptic curves, only a single result is mentioned (their points can be endowed with an ab
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by nilkn 8y ago
I don't understand what your point is. Yes, they have PIPs. No, that's not at all the same thing as forced attrition. I don't know about this personal drama with two particular programmers. I'm not sure it's relevan
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by nilkn 8y ago
The counterargument here is empirical: there are companies that manage to do fine at Amazon's scale without forced attrition. Google is one of the most notable examples.
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by nilkn 8y ago
If the great majority of the article presents legitimate issues or gaps in the theory, I don't think the entire article can be dismissed as "anything but ideological" regardless of whether it presents a satisfying alternate t
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by nilkn 8y ago
Well, let's just go to the source. Here's one of the articles in question: https://inference-review.com/article/evolution-a-theory-in-c... I don't have time to read it right now and form a judgment, but
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by nilkn 8y ago
Controllers/gamepads. For instance: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-8BAEcWSEs4-KQp1ULVnaQ/fea...
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by nilkn 8y ago
Chess and Tetris are two of my favorite games. I've known about Lichess for quite a while and recently discovered jstris, which is a sort-of similar site for Tetris: https://jstris.jezevec10.com/ It's not quite as
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by nilkn 8y ago
"Don't trust mainstream media" doesn't mean you have to turn to even more untrustworthy sources, nor does it mean you can't ever go to mainstream outlets for information. It just means you have to examine what you&#
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by nilkn 8y ago
The problem I have with the narrative you advance is that you, like so many others I've seen in the past few years, seem to just ignore the existence of poor white people. This country has entire towns and cities of poor white people w
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by nilkn 8y ago
Looking over the comments and replies here, it seems everyone has their own version of "the real reason Amazon was successful was X..." My own conclusion reading this is that Amazon was just highly competent across the board. Th

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