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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
As Spooky23 explains elsewhere in the thread, it’s the A/C costs that matter. With 12 foot ceilings, you need the A/C less, But when A/C was a big new thing, it was much less efficient and much more expensive than it is today
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Good for you to say so, and good for you to stand by it. Right and wrong is not a popularity contest. If anything, really right things are often unpopular.
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Argument Cultures and Unregulated Aggression(kateheddleston.com)
47 points by picks_at_nits 12y ago|61 comments
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Programs = Data Structures + Algorithms, and it is often the case that there are deep relationships between the data structures and the algorithms. For example, any linear recursive algorithm that deals with the head of a list and the tail&
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
I have no plans to follow him in that regard. My plan is: - One day, die.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
How about you don’t tell me what I’m going to say in response to you, and then you don’t argue with yourself ? What I’ll actually say is that you appear to have decided that she got what she deserved, and everything you’re arguing is post-
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
What exactly did she do? I recall she complained on Twitter, and exercised her freedom of speech to express her opinion. A number of people shared that opinion and also spoke freely about their opinion. In the fullness of time, his employer
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Your argument seems to be, "If only I would appreciate how good this is for him, I would stop worrying about whether his choices are toxic for anyone else." Am I missing some relevant nuänce?
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Also, my sociopathic HR lawyers says that if you decline to hire someone, and then any one of your employees hit on them, you are exposing your company to a lawsuit alleging that they were qualified, but you elected not to hire them to pave
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
If he’s interviewing, then that is his actual job. If he’s hitting on people while representing the company in any context, e.g. at conferences, that is his actual job. The way you framed this as a “PR liability” suggests you don’t think th
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Oh, Stefon, don’t ever change.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Those are not “exceptions” to Ruby’s primitives, those are Ruby’s primitives. Things that desugar to methods aren’t primitives. The thing is, they’re rare in practice for cultural reasons.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
How do “while” and “until” desugar? Kernel#loop?
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Ruby iteration primitive isn’t block based, either.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
I think I understand what you are trying to say, but when you describe values as “luxuries,” I think we’re standing on opposite sides of a chasm shouting at each other.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
If I understand what you are saying, we can look at the results of an interview test and say, “this test has few or no false-positives,” meaning that everyone who passes the test is competent. But the way that the industry is set up, we hav
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
> " Women would highlight the cooperative nature of their work, while men would highlight that they did it all themselves. In my experience the latter is typically more honest, especially if you actually were working on a team or on
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
I wanted to take some time before answering this, to make sure that my feelings did not change, and they haven’t. I do not consider a question of pretending to be someone I’m not a question of “strategy.” I do not need to convince myself th
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
The particular example that stood out for me was the story of the elevator design problem. At some point, she lost interest. Fine, she lost interest. I think it’s fine to say so. “Sorry, I really can’t think of anything more productive or i
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
“Too many notes."
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
> Then there are those that insist on highly flexible and overly engineered solutions. Yes, they got it to work. No, they aren't doing any favors to anyone that was wanting to pick up the code and make changes. https://en
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
I stand by “if the objection has some merit.” If you don’t think it has merit, deploy the counter-snobbery. Naming seems cut-and-dried, but there are other cases that aren’t so clear cut. What if there are two factions in a team, one of who
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Consider a colleague who constantly objects to non-idiomatic variable name casing (snake_case_in_ruby, camelCaseInJavaScript, dashes-in-lisp, scheme-predicates?, &c.) When you first get a comment like this, it may feel like friction. Af
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
I think this is related to the “teleporting turtle” algorithm. Unless I misunderstand your suggestion, you’ll need a mechanism for checking a short length, then moving forward and checking a longer length (usually 2x) then moving forward an
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Well, __iter__ was baked into Python decades(?) ago, so there’s no danger anybody might have their own __iter__ methods that mean something else. But now that JS is adding iteration methods to the language, there are lots of libraries and f
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Let’s not fall into the common trap of assuming that blame is a zero-sum game. I have no problem blaming all three of the participants for what happened here.
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
I think a good interview process would involve suggesting that the solution as given does not meet that interpretation of requirements, and asking the candidate to discuss/adjust, as you suggest. A poor process would fail the candidate
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
This is why a more interactive interview is useful. Christine could ask politely, “How would this work if you were given a streaming web service, instead of an iterator that you could restart? What would you change?” It would be interesting
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Here is an ES6 fiddle with the completed solution. Where is the flaw? http://www.es6fiddle.net/i6gs4jik/
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by picks_at_nits 12y ago
Yes. The tech community has no trouble whatsoever understanding that getting good grades in school is overdriven by skill at taking tests, but somehow misses the fact that getting hired in tech is overdriven by skill at being an interviewee

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