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by rmk 5y ago
Is it really true that Pivotal had only n/2 workstations for the n devs? That seems to be an extreme arrangement (pardon the pun). I can see the benefit of pairing when (a) the problem is somewhat well-defined, and there is a natural &
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by rmk 5y ago
Yes, I understand that fossilization is rare, but that makes it even more puzzling: you'd want to dig furiously if you did find remains in a confined area.
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by rmk 5y ago
If you read the article, you will see that the individuals were dragged into the cave over a span of tens of thousands of years. They were not hunted en-masse.
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by rmk 5y ago
If the first remains were found in 1939, how was there a gap of 80+ years before further remains were found? Is there someone who's familiar with archeology who can explain how?
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by rmk 5y ago
What I'm saying below applies to the advanced liberal economies (the rest of the world is not in this place yet). I think the intersection of feminism, women entering the workforce, globalization and the attendant economic insecurity,
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by rmk 5y ago
It's not an all-or-nothing deal. You can take the good while leaving out the bad.
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by rmk 5y ago
What does this give you over jumping straight to the conventional questions? If the main goal of the interview is to extract signal about coding and general problem solving ability, why not just do the other two problems? Also, seemingly si
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by rmk 5y ago
The old-fashioned dictum, "don't talk politics and religion at work" is very much worth following. I hope plain old professionalism comes back into fashion --- we can all use a return to norms that have existed for a very lon
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by rmk 5y ago
This is a puzzling question. Assuming you are young, $400k invested will easily yield $3M when you are older. Would your future self thank you for roughing it a little? Absolutely! You could attempt to balance work satisfaction with financi
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by rmk 5y ago
One thing of note: The arguments to the method you are memoizing need to be hashable. For example, if you want to memoize a method call whose parameters include a list, you will get an error!
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by rmk 5y ago
Every person has his own definition of what constitutes a late-stage company. For me, a company qualifies as late-stage if any of the following are true: 1. The company has filed their S-1 (including confidentially, but there are rumors). 2
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by rmk 5y ago
Very nice! I often forget this handy thing during interviews. Good thing to impress your interviewer with :)
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by rmk 5y ago
It's not stupid to use an array, because it's the most natural data structure for representing one, two or more variables that can have different ranges and capturing their values. For example, if I have a function 'foo(a, b,
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by rmk 5y ago
It's a bit scummy but I doubt you can do a whole lot about it. Companies like Stripe are doing a variant of this where the number of shares that vest will be dynamically adjusted every year based on a target value dollar number. The qu
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by rmk 5y ago
Later stage startups are able to compete successfully against FAANGs on many occasions, particularly if they're pre-IPO. Early-stage startups are less likely to be able to do this. But then, the motivation for joining an early-stage co
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by rmk 6y ago
A profession relies on specialized know-how and or tools. In my view, the skilled chippers of flakes from stone suitable for making tools would qualify as the first professionals. Making an arrowhead, ax, or a chopper by flaking pieces off
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by rmk 6y ago
- Good Night, Moon - The Runaway Bunny - Harold and the Purple Crayon - Grandfather Twilight (for slightly older children) - Sandra Boynton books - Max's Breakfast (and other books) - I Read Signs (Tana Hoban; other books by her also q
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by rmk 6y ago
Most rich countries take good care of their poor. In the US, most states will pay for food, heating, sometimes even internet access, not to mention healthcare, if you are poor. Indigent children also have separate healthcare programs target
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by rmk 6y ago
This is very much on the money. Code reviews often fall into the trap of people discussing and dissecting things that they are comfortable with, while ignoring the difficult aspects. For instance, reviewers often dissect the elegance and va
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by rmk 6y ago
The trouble with the 'pyramid' is it doesn't take into account interdependencies. For example, it is very important for code to be clean and understandable in order to ascertain correctness (to the extent possible via code in
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by rmk 6y ago
Most companies institute code reviews and invest in tooling that stops nonstandard code (formatting and convention-wise) getting into the codebase, once they grow large enough. I think these two processes serve the same purpose, albeit with
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by rmk 6y ago
This is common. Most publication houses, including magazines and newspapers, have a 'house style' that is enforced by an editorial staff.
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by rmk 6y ago
The Economist is a great magazine ("newspaper", as they like to call themselves). The emphasis is on presenting facts and educate the reader without any of the proselytizing and moralizing of the major American newspapers. I also
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by rmk 6y ago
You can do some of the following: - If there are no code reviews, ask developers you look up to to review your code. Review or be a silent participant in others' code reviews as well. - Ask senior devs to give you a tour of the entire
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The Secret of Nanda Devi(rockandice.com)
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by rmk 6y ago
Of course plenty of people complained about it and refused to give up their freedoms. Many states with Republican governors either refused to impose any mandates, or imposed very few that were never enforced. Democratic states, which genera
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by rmk 6y ago
You are asked these things no matter you level in FAANG interviews. You need high enough intelligence to understand how to solve these problems if you are shown a solution, but I do not think you need much more intelligence than that to do
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by rmk 6y ago
I think you need focused preparation. I have found that intense prep of a few weeks generally gets you comfortable with the basics. Then you have the momentum you need to start building up your skills on the harder questions. Bitwise operat
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by rmk 6y ago
There is much truth in many of the things that the Rabbi has said in this article, but one claim that is patently untrue is that Kamala Harris' ancestors owned slaves . Kamala Harris' father is Donald Harris, who is likely the so
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by rmk 6y ago
The answer is simple: The US is the Global Hegemon of our times, and furthermore, it is a formal guarantor of Taiwan's security (this is similar in many ways to its allies in NATO). Economically, Taiwan and the US have deep ties: it wo

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