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by rendall 4y ago
While I do think it's a great interview question, I do think all technical candidacy flows where the person will be programming must have a coding component of some kind. Even just "FizzBuzz" is better than no coding. That sa
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by rendall 4y ago
I read it as asking for a function that takes a string and returns a "true" if it's a word comprised of two words and a "false" if it's not. So: "lampshade" => true "grip" => fa
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by rendall 4y ago
It's true. I was teasing, but I did work this out once. IIRC it went something like: A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 5 E = 7 F = 11 ... and so on Then any number can be represented in terms of its prime factorization: 4
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by rendall 4y ago
Your joke was misinterpreted as a dig, unfortunately. I mean, it's obvious that a prime-number base is best above all: 1 = 1 10 = 2 100 = 3 1000 = 5 10000 = 7 100000 = 11 etc
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by rendall 4y ago
If the test is open ended like "implement a simple API and a client that accesses it" then it's a terrible test. Tests that are better the more time you put into it are always terrible take home tests. If it has well-defined
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by rendall 4y ago
I have a whole concert of tinnitus frequencies. It is not a single tone. I don't remember when it started, but it has been there for decades. I've read that tinnitus is akin to phantom limb syndrome, the brain compensating for mis
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by rendall 4y ago
When my girlfriend at the time told me she doesn't like soup (any soup, of any kind) I knew it wouldn't work out.
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by rendall 4y ago
What papers or data out there support spaced repetition? Has its support weathered the replication crisis?
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by rendall 4y ago
I found this video to be helpful. "Why Going Faster-Than-Light Leads to Time Paradoxes" from the Cool Worlds channel https://youtu.be/an0M-wcHw5A
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by rendall 4y ago
I am frankly surprised they do not all do this, and predict they all will. There will be no "don't connect it to the internet" nor even "use a pie hole" solutions possible, because the manufacturers will intentional
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by rendall 4y ago
I was decently productive while a "flow" practitioner but I am definitely more productive than that after abandoning it as a concept. It's much easier to pick up where I left off because code is structured that way.
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by rendall 4y ago
People often misuse the Socratic method like that. Socrates asked those questions not to guide the students to a certain answer, but because he himself didn't know where the questions would lead. It really was a dialogue and not a way
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by rendall 4y ago
I read that article with an open mind, but ultimately do not trust it. Among other tells, the term "break-away republic" betrays his sympathies. I might summarize it as "Pro-Russian journalist visits Ukrainian children's
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by rendall 4y ago
Here is one of the rare places you have the choice either to ignore your ideological opponents in favor of vastly more interesting things to read about; or to ask in a spirit of humility them to explain their thinking and have a good chance
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by rendall 4y ago
I thought the consensus was that "flow" isn't actually all that great. If you're writing code while juggling multiple difficult concepts in your mind at once, your code will be difficult to follow. While in flow, you ten
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by rendall 4y ago
Depends on what's going on. Anxiety? Relaxation techniques. Tedium? Find the interesting. Something physical? Stand, change position, go for a run or walk. Eat. Take vitamin D in the cold dark winters. Often, though, it's as simpl
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by rendall 4y ago
Dunno man. Booting the invaders and keeping sovereignty after your tiny nation of 3 million is invaded by an army of over 500K soldiers seems like a win to me, especially when literally every other neighbor fell. But whatever. Finland'
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by rendall 4y ago
Fair point
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by rendall 4y ago
> " The case for banning children from social media " As a parent, I was looking forward to an article discussing reasons for banning children from social media. What are the philosophical implications? Mental health? Psychosoc
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by rendall 4y ago
Oh yes, I see now. Thank you!
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by rendall 4y ago
At first I thought a bot shop was a robot or gadget company, and I looked forward to reading about crime committing robots.
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by rendall 4y ago
I don't understand how that's a 3x3x3x3. While there are some 3x3 elements, there are only 2 layers and 2 side by side. What am I missing?
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by rendall 4y ago
Maybe if we are super clear what "open" means. As we see here, it has different meanings for different people, apparently radically so.
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by rendall 4y ago
> ...this is fantastic news. More stuff should be open. Interesting idea. Did you notice this part? >> Two of the on-camera apps (MobileLink, Remote Viewfinder) open an unencrypted access point... we can connect with whichever c
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by rendall 4y ago
True, but invasion is unnecessary. It would be the condition for normalization.
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by rendall 4y ago
This war must end only with Russia's defederation and demilitarization.
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by rendall 4y ago
I'm pretty certain that it was Ukraine's increasingly successful campaigns to purge its corruption that prompted Russia to invade.
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by rendall 4y ago
Yes, and it's a FUDish distraction from the main point of political free expression.
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by rendall 4y ago
Marvelous news. Onneksi olkoon Suomi!
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by rendall 4y ago
Why would you conflate the rights of free political expression (about an authoritarian dictator, no less) with the regrettable compulsions of anime porn obsessives? David Holz should be criticized for this decision not to allow satire of X

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