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shasta
16y ago
> What's more likely: all the candidates suck or your interview process sucks? The numbers he is giving are very reasonable. Remember, that's 5% of the applicant pool that pass this test, not 5% of all programmers. It may be a bad eco
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shasta
16y ago
I agree with you that it's not even wrong, but I disagree with your reasoning. I think (2) is the natural intended meaning of the question. The problem I have is attempting to assign a probability to something that isn't reasonably known t
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shasta
16y ago
I think it's more that shared mutable everything can't possibly scale in parallel, rather than that FP is a panacea.
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shasta
16y ago
You're tau/pi funny
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shasta
16y ago
> any individual seller's gain is some other seller's loss. How do you figure? Generally, the way one seller beats out another is by providing some combination of increased value or decreased cost.
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shasta
16y ago
> I got it for zero yen Sounds cheap, but what is that in USD?
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shasta
16y ago
They mean different things, no? If I were CEO, I'd do things differently. If I was CEO, I don't remember it.
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shasta
16y ago
And after the long day of tennis, the pair returned to their abutting hotel rooms to hash out the plan for tomorrow.
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shasta
16y ago
And that's reasonable in the case of trespass. In this scenario, Facebook should just close your account if they don't want you to log in.
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shasta
16y ago
It's somewhat analogous to posting a sign requiring shirt and shoes for admittance, and then charging violators with trespassing.
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shasta
16y ago
Don't you ever watch movies about programmers? That's exactly how it works. The protagonist looks briefly at some code before declaring "Oh wow, this guy is good." For added realism, he should be typing the entire time.
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shasta
16y ago
You want to offer a working definition of "polymorphism", then? Macros certainly allow you to write code that's applied to differently typed arguments.
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shasta
16y ago
Where do macros fit into this taxonomy?
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shasta
16y ago
Am I the only one who felt the intended audience was surveillers rather than surveillees?