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by skytreader 9y ago
Don't these companies make you sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep their question pool as secret as possible? Doesn't contributing to this violate whatever NDA you sign?
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by skytreader 9y ago
> That would seem that they reported fake news that could have caused panic but later on just conveniently issued an erratum. You are taking excerpts of my response out-of-context to argue your point. Again, they had reason to believe it
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by skytreader 9y ago
> Initially, they reported without verification that ISIS was responsible. Because that's what came from the news wire, which as I pointed out is standard practice for professional journalists. News wires work under the assumption t
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by skytreader 9y ago
> You did not even bother to ask Katz herself and instead relied on a news wire! Uh. Because the press relies on news wires all the time? While standard practice, I am not claiming that news wires are infallible. Mistakes can happen. But
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by skytreader 9y ago
Where was it specified that lock-outs are to prevent repeated attempts? It is a plausible reason but the premise of my question (and confusion as to whether this process is automatic or not) stems from: > ...users are locked out of their
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by skytreader 9y ago
> The process is automated, including identifying suspicious activity and checking the photo. ... The Facebook spokesperson said the photo test is one of several methods, both automated and manual, used to detect suspicious activity. So
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by skytreader 9y ago
Worth noting that 3Blue1Brown also did a series on linear algebra which is eye-opening to say the least. Playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x... Even if you think you grok matrices, have
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by skytreader 9y ago
I like your idea better. For an SV darling like Facebook (and especially since this is Facebook), what the article describes sound incredibly manual and low-tech. But what really bothers me is > ... a community operations analyst will ac
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by skytreader 9y ago
Hmm just a detail I thought to add, not trying to imply anything about the morality of it.
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by skytreader 9y ago
Nice example, thank you. I see how they managed to avoid my issues. (To save people the click: LaTeX ligatures != Fira ligatures. Most Fira ligatures are for programming operators/comparators and they are made to take as much space as
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by skytreader 9y ago
Honest question: Why would you want ligatures in plaintext? Especially in code, wouldn't that be weird as some people tend to manually align their code? Like, modular_raft = 10 spam = 20 The "ft" in modular_r
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by skytreader 9y ago
+1. I did the same. At the time I had to do this (around 2015), Yahoo was the least concerned about identifying duplicate accounts. I was testing for an actual paying job, not some side interest investigation, mind you. Some of the services
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by skytreader 9y ago
> I personally think any democratic government should allow for succession. Nitpicking but considering the context of the news item, I think you meant "secession". Edit distance of 2 but makes a lot of difference in the meaning
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by skytreader 9y ago
That sounds like a reasonable explanation, thank you. And it works! Now behold all the work I will not be doing today. :v
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by skytreader 9y ago
Windows 2000 plays wonky with my keyboard. Any idea why? For instance, I open Pinball and, after getting a new game with F2, pressing space (to launch the ball) does nothing except open that menu that pops up when you right click a window.
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by skytreader 9y ago
JS isn't a very dev-ops tool if you ask me.
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by skytreader 9y ago
Not a huge gripe but the title text changes on every button click too and it is not synced with the featured quote. I'm not sure if that's intentional or a bug. But otherwise, pretty work!
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by skytreader 9y ago
SICP (w/ Brian Harvey's CS61A lectures) influenced how I approach abstraction _a lot_. Its "baby brother" _How to Design Programs_, with its design recipe approach, ingrained testing and iterative refinement in me early
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by skytreader 9y ago
Read (good) fiction. Backed by science! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-rea... https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/08/lite... https:&
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by skytreader 9y ago
Would love to try this (out of curiosity) but do you have a list of jobs you'd send my profile to? I'd bet most jobseekers would want that to, as an assurance that they won't get messages just from _any_ recruiter.