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by p4wnc6 10y ago
He is the reason I took up playing Caro-Kann again, and the primary inspiration for my feeling that it's much more fun to play as Black -- a feeling that got me back into chess after years away.
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I receive a 403 Forbidden error when trying to submit on your software engineer page.
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I agree, and feel it's also irrelevant for what this could possibly tell me about a candidate as far as interview questions go. You're totally right, it just doesn't mean that someone doing these wrong things in the interview
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I mean it is supported directly with __instancecheck__ or __subclasshook__ .. explicitly to allow you to create metaclasses with custom implementations of instance checking or subclassing. To call use of this a hack is similar to saying tha
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> instance checking and class-hook hacks These are not remotely "hacks" in Python. They are up-front, first class patterns for Python metaclasses. I do agree that monkeypatching is a hack, and is unfortunately relied upon too o
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The shocking thing for me isn't so much that certain sections of the programming community don't natively think this way (I'm not convinced that I want them to ... someone whose primary value add in life is site design, for e
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I've never worked in any company that was able to fill any position faster than 2.5 months. Everyone clamored that we needed to fill positions fast, but then endless, nauseating political debates about minutiae on resumes and tiny fl
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I assume the 'poor' solution you meant was the sort and count solution. You're totally right. I was confusing the stated problem with a common associated problem: whether a string is a permutation of a palindrome.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
You're totally right. I was confusing the stated problem with a common associated problem: whether a string is a permutation of a palindrome.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Regexes would not be a good way. Starting a pointer at the beginning and end and moving them toward each other is what I would suggest in an interview. If I was interviewing someone else, I'd also be impressed if they came up with the
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
No, "design-by-contract" is a matter of degrees, and pure functional languages tend to afford the most extreme degree. Most other languages have easier to access backdoor escape hatches, but also have other benefits, like faster d
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Are you suggesting that interviewers should try harder to conform to social beliefs of a company -- as a valid interview strategy? I'd instead suggest that it should never get to the point of an in-person interview unless both parties
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
The author says, > When you get the job you will never have to code on a whiteboard, but I guarantee you this, there will come a time when we are banging our heads against a problem and there is a deadline looming and we’re tired and peo
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It's not so much static typing as functional purity that guarantees design by contract. In a pure language like Haskell, you are forced to go out of your way and do things with glaringly bad code smells to avoid designing by contract.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> Taking about Champerty makes you look like sore losers and you know it. This is weirdly personal, since I am not a member of the media and have no vested interest in the outcome. I'm interested in the moral implications, more for
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
You unjustifiably dismiss champerty. Champerty is not merely participating in the financial outcome of another's legal result, rather it is participating in "the subject matter of the action." In this case, it's reasonab
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
This still just seems unsubstantiated. Can you point to what is hand waving or what important things are left out?
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Can you substantiate this?
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It would be interesting to see this linked to interviews too where the entire situation, mannerisms of the interviewer, and presentation of a given exercise are all specifically tailored to make sure it is perceived as difficult.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> That's not the most damning criticism in the article though. The most damning is that they seem to have copied entire paragraphs off Wikipedia, which suggests they have some kind of infantile understanding of science. I agree abou
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I feel this is a silly idea. Of course physicists (many of whom love poetry) understand the difference between a literal depiction of a real event (as is clearly the case in the Sappho poem) and an artistic description that seeks to estab
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
This seems like a clumsy and spastic criticism of the Cuntz, et al paper. Don't get me wrong, just as happens like 99% of the time, some science paper sweeps some assumptions under the rug and some university PR machine hypes it beyond
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
You've only been rejected twice out of 155 attempts due to technical lack of fit. Most people I know in tech have read the Carnegie book, etc., and put tons of effort into the human and communication side, that's super common. But
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I've never encountered a situation in which the One File - One Module imposed convention was problematic. I also find it greatly helps when reading new Haskell code bases. I think it's generally a sign of good project design when
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I actually quite like this limitation. It encourages you to separate data structures into their own modules and use qualified names to access their member data, which I think is often the right idea.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Thanks for providing the extra detail. I think it helps to confirm that your situation is a major outlier experience.
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What a terrible strain on the animator's wrist.
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I'm sad they still don't provide an option to hide all contributions . There is a huge difference between presenting all contributions in an immediately visible chart smack on someone's landing page vs. tacitly allowing the
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I generally don't find heavily up voted stuff too useful because it represents the HN monoculture / groupthink. I'd rather highlight comments that are controversial: they have been voted on a large number of times, with nearl

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