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by nineplay 3y ago
It makes me so happy to see this again - thank you! ( There goes my afternoon )
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by nineplay 3y ago
You'd have to remove so much PII as to make any examination worthless "A student of age <redacted> and gender <redacted> at school <redacted> has a GPA of <redacted>". As little information as "a
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by nineplay 3y ago
I have a feeling you're being sarcastic but this isn't terrible advice. I've seen a lot of dysfunction caused by that one engineer who constantly complains about the current code base and tell everyone how it should be done.
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by nineplay 3y ago
The orisinal games were one of my favorite things on the internet. I'm so happy to see them back. https://archive.org/details/chicken-wings
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by nineplay 3y ago
Whatever you do, don't visit https://larn.org . You'll never get that time back
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by nineplay 3y ago
This is all I need, I'm already trying to break my Larn addiction. (/s)
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'll bet that most students with good grades who are applying to elite colleges have higher than average IQs. MIT and Caltech are not Ivy League but even then I'm sure they have a lot of students who benefit from private schools,
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by nineplay 3y ago
I was asked how I would replace an large scale but inadequate logging infrastructure and I stared with "In a way that minimally disrupts everything currently in place for monitoring and alerting". I'm not sure how well that a
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by nineplay 3y ago
In retrospect it was a horrible mistake.
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by nineplay 3y ago
> If you say "column oriented" I'm going to ask you to explain why. I'm going to challenge what the load balancer is doing or what you expect it to do, and why. And I would have happily repeated something from a video
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by nineplay 3y ago
The problem is that the system design interview somehow became a necessary component of the FAANG hiring process.
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by nineplay 3y ago
If you want to ask me about the wider implications for smaller subsystems then ask me about the Linux kernel. How did it become that system design is the only way to demonstrate this particular skill?
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by nineplay 3y ago
You're assuming that people who are admitted to Ivy League schools a) have higher IQs than average and b) have parents with higher IQs than average. Neither of these need to be true. It's a incestuous system where it's easy
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by nineplay 3y ago
There's no shortage of criticism of the leet coding interview questions, but I found the system design interviews even more asinine. I have never in my career had to do anything like designing a large scale system. Maybe I'm inad
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by nineplay 3y ago
None of that justifies a headline of "California will _begin_ backing intentional burns". Already this thread is full of comments condemning California for its wooly-headiness.
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by nineplay 3y ago
A strange article considering that California has been doing prescribed burns for years[1]. You could read it and easily believe that this is some new and novel approach. Many groups agree that California needs to do more but describing
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by nineplay 3y ago
A few hard truths - No alternative is going to show up which can host anywhere near the amount of traffic that reddit receives/received. That takes a lot more money than any new contender can drum up. - reddit isn't going to deci
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by nineplay 3y ago
Disclaimer: I do not live in a red state or a red city. My impression is that in red states or red cities you would not have had a the same level of acceptance. Maybe I read too much sensational media, but the situation seems to be getting
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by nineplay 3y ago
It depends on how successfully people are "making peace". In the US, I think a lot of bad things are happening because a lot of men can't meet the expectations that they think society has put on them. They are afraid to see
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by nineplay 3y ago
I think there has been a terrible loss that is rarely acknowledged in that men in the western world can no longer have intimate friendships without having to defend their sexual orientation. Seinfeld's "Not that there's anyt
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by nineplay 3y ago
If I'm doing the zoo study with 100 kids, I might turn it in for my 6th grade science project and enjoy my A. If I'm the Surgeon General of the United States, I'm doing the follow up study. As far as I can tell, that follow
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by nineplay 3y ago
I will agree if I'm in the minority on this one, but it confirms my larger point - "social media" isn't a useful term. If some apps are putting our youth at risk, tell us what those apps are. Give a top three. Help e
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by nineplay 3y ago
You have some fair points. Some of my criticism is not about the linked article but about the inevitable follow up discussions that usually have a heavy dose of "why are these lousy parents giving kids phones anyway?". Am I in th
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by nineplay 3y ago
I suppose I'd call it a video sharing platform. "Social media", to me, has an implication of media that is shared within a social circle. Facebook is social media because the intention is to share information with friends a
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by nineplay 3y ago
How can they claim that this is all backed up by research if they don't know what social media is? What is the link they are finding? It doesn't feel like science. It feels like hand-waving, correlation, and anecdote.
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by nineplay 3y ago
I have lost patience with articles about kids and teens and "social media" that make no attempt to define what social media is. It is no wonder parents won't seriously - particularly when the follow up advice is "don&#x
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by nineplay 3y ago
My cynical hot-take is that big companies don't need great engineers, they need engineers who are good enough to complete the tickets their given and move on to the next one. The great engineers I've known came up with innovative
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'm so bored with these comments. Companies care more about profits than people - can we put it on a banner somewhere so we all get over it?
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by nineplay 3y ago
Do I get to choose who does and doesn't get laid off? I'm being facetious but I honestly don't know. I've become a softy in my old age. I can imagine how deeply awful it would be for a breadwinner with a home and kids.
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by nineplay 3y ago
A lot comes down to what life stage employees are in. Someone with fixed monthly costs and kids in school is not going to want to a) move and b) deal with the anxiety of working at a start up. Probably companies are banking on that.

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