ricardoreis

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Mattress firm tells customers beds do not record them sleeping(theguardian.com)
2 points by ricardoreis 8y ago|0 comments
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
I don't know what the reason is, but I would love to read a truly satisfactory explanation for this. There's too many of us. And most of the good land has been taken and/or ruined.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
In my case, not so much as a harsh word between us-- and yet: Still pretty happy to be rid of her.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Maybe they wanted an easy way to tell people no. Either way -- in tech (and for some reason more so than in other industries) -- when it comes to hiring, it's head games all up and down. And generally to an extent far more than can
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
If you look at another perspective though, of people whose economies are collapsing, or people living under authoritarian regimes, it serves a need. Or in a broader sense: "De-regulated money transfer of any kind" -- for which
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
So the question was: "What problem does X solve?" And your answer is: "Well, problem Y. Except it doesn't solve it." Or am I missing something?
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
This article indicts Amazon of the following cruelties: It seems we were reading different articles, then. In any case your synopsis provides a very skewed representation of what the article actually said.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Am I being too difficult? Nothing of the sort. Hopefully you'll stick to your guns.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Because it's a perfect language. And hence there's no need to improve (or whine and moan) about it. Which is what language conferences are normally for.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
TODO: write a counter-compiler that recognizes resumes based on the stylistic "improvements" suggested by this tool - and mark them for rejection accordingly.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Well, yeah. And they should probably be having discussions based on something beside snarky retorts and popcorn-throwing too, I guess. But I guess those discussions will need to happen elsewhere.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
A NYC Subway that’s 40% worse than it was 10 years ago is still by far the best transit system in North America. But compared to just about any major city in Europe... seriously, it's almost a joke.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
That's fine - non-quantitative (a.k.a. "gut") reasoning is a valid and useful cognitive tool (in certain contexts), in fact. If I was to give a "gut" estimate for the overall deterioration of the subway service in r
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
except start-up cost Which is, well, hugely significant when you think about it.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
No one would consider suggesting it as a "replacement" for surface transport. However, it is a valuable augment to the surface system. The point is that it helps "connect the dots" (providing more options for people t
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Hence why the NYC mayor is so intent on funding worthless ferries; Worthless? The ferries are one of the few unequivocally positive things to have happened to the city in recent decades.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Agreed - I don't need numbers to tell me how unpleasant the daily experience of riding the subway in NYC has become. I was merely responding to someone else who brought up a numbers-based argument only to find out that they... appare
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Numbers, please. (That's what "metric" means, btw).
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Thanks very much for the link. But eyeballing that chart suggests an average deterioration significantly worse than 20 percent.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
A NYC Subway that's 20% worse than it was 10 years ago By what metric?
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Apparently the commenter isn't much of a city person, and may have overreacted a bit. But they shouldn't have been downvoted for expressing that sentiment.
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NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say(theguardian.com)
347 points by ricardoreis 8y ago|456 comments
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
10 years ago I was asked how to tell if an integer is divisible by two without using division or modulus. What they expected was to bit mask the 1s place in the integer and check for equality with 0. Wait, it gets better. I was asked the
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
No, it isn't simply bad or unworkable. It's a tradeoff , with both positive and negative aspects to consider.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
FizzBuzz is just an icon, of course. And by itself not such a bad filter - even if it's just basically a test of memorization (a lot people actually can't remember a simple trick like that, or can't be bothered to see the
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
its more than a little immature to accuse this of those who disagree with you Indeed. Especially when those who are quick to accuse others of not doing the math themselves are not... really doing the math.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
You've nailed the psychological and intellectual rot at the heart of the tech interviewing craze quite eloquently. Thank you.
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Would you be looking for the solution where you subtract every number in the array from 5050? Unless they can swear up and down that what they actually do at this company, for at least a significant part of the day, is throw each other ag
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by ricardoreis 8y ago
Here are some of the popular array-based coding interview questions for your practice: How do you find the missing number in a given integer array of 1 to 100? (solution) [1] How do you land a job at "startups like Uber and Netflix
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Facial recognition system risks 'chilling effect' on freedoms, rights groups say(theguardian.com)
106 points by ricardoreis 8y ago|54 comments

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