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by omegaham 12y ago
I like this response. I think that one of the best things about a take-home challenge is that during the interview, you can then say, "The way you implemented this function was interesting. Let's talk about why you did it that way
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by omegaham 12y ago
This is a great point. Again, we're getting a weird look at things because we're posting on Hacker News, not Defense Contractor News or Accountant News. Software companies are definitely a significant group, but there are lots of
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by omegaham 12y ago
> Universities seem to have no incentive to fail people out, and every incentive to continue grade inflation. Ostensibly, the idea is that if you don't weed out the idiots, you are going to end up with people with degrees from your
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by omegaham 12y ago
I think that we get a really skewed view of things because we're on Hacker News, a site that focuses much more on startups. If we were on Factory Manager News or Corporate Retail News, there would be much, much less talk about firing.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Deluge is fantastic.
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by omegaham 12y ago
And despite all of their shiny improvements, Madden 2005 and 2008 are considered the best from a gameplay and mechanics standpoint.
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by omegaham 12y ago
> See athletes for common ailments. This is a good point, and it's a good idea to pick a form of exercise that has less impact, (at an extreme end, I'm sure that the skiiers who do mogul racing are in great shape, but their kne
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by omegaham 12y ago
Yep. I remember growing up with one of those older playgrounds - there was a platform about 6 feet off the ground that had a rope climb on one side of it. The idea was to get a kid to climb up the wall with the rope. Six-year-old me was fas
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by omegaham 12y ago
Just to provide a counterpoint, I had a master sergeant who would flip the fuck out if he saw obvious problems. The idea was that if he could find obvious problems, then his juniors don't give a fuck at all, and there are going to be a
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by omegaham 12y ago
Matt Parker and Trey Stone, the creators of South Park, did the exact same thing when making Bigger, Longer, and Uncut . Put completely ridiculous over-the-top NC-17 stuff in there, get it rejected for those parts, and keep the iffy stuff.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Nope, and you'll see this everywhere that you see the intersection of pop culture and the advice to "be yourself." This isn't a dig at Nimoy's advice - it's damn good advice . But it doesn't sell compared
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by omegaham 12y ago
Unfortunately, the vast distances required make public transport limited in effectiveness in the US. They're great in the cities, but the very low population density outside of the cities means that it's not going to do very well
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by omegaham 12y ago
My girlfriend grew up on a boat in San Diego. Better weather makes it a viable option.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Rent control will lead to more slums and more boats like this. American cities have tried rent control, and it simply leads to a shortage of rooms for rent. After all - why would you build apartments or rent out existing rooms if you'r
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by omegaham 12y ago
Good ol' Julian Simon to the rescue, again. We will always come up with some alternative. "We're running out of X" is always louder than "We've found another way to extract it, sound the alarms again in forty
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by omegaham 12y ago
Is this for the city proper, or does it take an average of the suburbs, too? I live in a suburb of Portland, (Hillsboro) and I live a perfectly decent life making about $44,000 a year before taxes. I'm also young and don't have ki
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by omegaham 12y ago
Now I'm picturing your body's immune system yelling at the wayward cells. "I don't know what your major malfunction is, but I'm gonna unfuck you, one way or another." That or it was the Motrin, sock changing, a
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by omegaham 12y ago
One thing that I've become a firm believer in is that teaching isn't the problem; administration is. A good administrator or group of administrators will make the entire school into a team that can excel. They set a clear vision
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by omegaham 12y ago
Just re-read that book a little while ago. It's dated in a couple of its examples, but it's still pretty powerful and easy to read.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Yeah, it's perfectly fine not to have a good grasp of calculus. But basic math? We use it every single day. Someone who is innumerate is at just as much of a disadvantage as someone who is illiterate.
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by omegaham 12y ago
While you're correct in that teachers in better districts are respected, teachers in the inner city literally are babysitters (although I would argue that they earn every penny of their paychecks; they aren't overpaid). They spend
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by omegaham 12y ago
This is an excellent couple of points. A math teacher doesn't just have to be able to know how to do the problem himself; he also has to be able to figure out where the student's misunderstanding is and how to correct it. Not only
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by omegaham 12y ago
The opposite happened when I went through high school. AP classes gave you a .75 bonus to your GPA, Honors classes gave a .5 bonus. However, many of the AP classes were hard , to the point that the AP exam was laughable. The average grade
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by omegaham 12y ago
I think it rapidly turns into "How much effort are you willing to use to make yourself more secure?" There's diminishing returns as you increase your money and effort devoted. $50 and a couple hours will get you another hard
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by omegaham 12y ago
The difference is that I go to the supermarket every week and spend money, so coupons save me money on stuff that I'd be buying anyway. In contrast, Internet advertising offers me pretty much nothing of interest.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Outstanding. It's like a ridiculous Law & Order episode where the defendant goes "I wasn't even in town that night." "So what's your face doing on all of these security cameras at the scene of the crime?&qu
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by omegaham 12y ago
Define C(n) = [BB-(BB-(BB-....] And define D(n) = [C(C(C(C(...n)] And define E(n), and so on. Then make the Greek letters the entire alphabet iteration process (meaning BB-n through Z(n)). And then make the Hebrew letters the entire Greek l
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by omegaham 12y ago
A lot of drugs are unpleasant to administer. It's difficult to think of something more unpleasant than injecting yourself with impure narcotics. Weed smells and tastes awful ; stoners end up liking the scent only because it's ass
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by omegaham 12y ago
I laughed at one of the answers mentioning this: "Connect one end of cap to ground - one end of cap to cat. .... ( How 'to cat' is achieved is left as an exercise for the reader.)"
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by omegaham 12y ago
> Likewise, who would want to use an inferior language or library when superior ones exist? My guess is that the existing codebase is in inferiorLanguage, and it would be a massive pain in the ass to rewrite it in superiorLanguage. The c

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