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by ubernostrum 11y ago
It's more that there's a lot of cargo-culting and "Google did this, so it must be good" flying around, and a lot of really bad CS programs which revolve more around the Feynman-rant memorize-and-regurgitate style than
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
For much the same reason that someone who has no CS background can productively do a short coding bootcamp and be employable, someone who has a theory-heavy and practice-light CS background can almost certainly pick up practical skills quic
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
I left out some of my frustrations simply because there wasn't room for everything and the piece was already getting long. I've also run into the "OK, you got through all the interviews, here's an offer for a contracting
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
I have, in the recent past, done multiple coding interviews. Thus far none of them have been useful to me, and none of them have provided information the interviewers couldn't have gotten already from my GitHub contributions. The sing
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
People tend, consciously or not, to recruit most heavily from among people like themselves (for lots of reasons which aren't necessarily bad: a lot of referrals are based on knowing someone, for example, and a lot of peoples' soci
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Destroy all hiring processes(b-list.org)
112 points by ubernostrum 11y ago|99 comments
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
So... the metric system magically prevents data-entry errors? Or somehow you can't believe that there actually are common everyday tasks involving splitting something into halves, thirds, quarters, etc. and so feel a need to engage wit
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Nothing stops you taking the advantage of both. I think the main question is why we feel a need to impose a single one-size-fits-all universal unit set onto disparate domains with different ideas of what properties make a unit desirable.
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
In terms of passenger capacity and range, the CS300 falls somewhere in between the current 737-700 and 737-800, or current A319 and A320. The CS100 is more of a 717/E-190 competitor, but the CS300 is absolutely aimed at the types of ro
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Yeah, the thing limiting supersonic/hypersonic/etc. passenger travel is not the technology, it's the economics. There just aren't enough passengers willing to pay the extremely high fares to make fast inter-continental s
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Another important point is how many airlines have standardized their narrow-body fleets. Maintaining a single type/family is simpler and often cheaper than having trained crew, mechanics and parts available for multiple types of aircra
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
"Launch" of an airliner program does not refer to the first airframe going into service; it refers to the point where the manufacturer officially announces the program to airlines and begins taking orders. Typically the actual air
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Outside of scientific and engineering fields, most everyday interactions people have with their units of measure do not involve translating between orders of magnitude, and yet the metric system optimizes for that to the exclusion of all ot
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Yeah, last year when traveling in Europe with a friend we had all sorts of trouble trying to get her a SIM card in Germany. They insisted they could only sell it if we provided the address of a German resident to tie the account to. A Germa
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Yes, fried chicken is stereotypically a southern-US (poor part of the country, for a variety of historical reasons) and even more stereotypically African-American (poor segment of the population, similarly due to all sorts of historical iss
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
It's anecdotal, but enough reliable anecdotes do actually turn into "data". My personal marker has always been, when visiting a city for the first time, to pay attention to the roadside advertisements I see on the ride from t
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
In the US, you have the right to request a blood test, but the blood test is not required and the breathalyzer is considered sufficient evidence (again, since the offense is defined in terms of the breathalyzer).
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
/usr/share/dict/words says: bedwarf bescarf bescurf corf dwarf enserf hippocerf hircocerf Hurf kerf orf overscurf returf scarf scharf scurf semiserf
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Breathalyzers are known to be wildly inaccurate, to such an extent that in some jurisdictions DUI is just defined in terms of a breathalyzer result because they know it doesn't bear a reliable relationship to the actual BAC.
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
We're talking about new features marked as experimental and unstable by the folks who write and maintain the browser that implements that feature. And when the manager says "deadline is next week", and the new and EXPERIM
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
"All" that needs to be done "Those nerds" aren't the ones calling the shots. The decisions are being made by the same people who want the company's original 1970s COBOL application to keep running until the h
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
The only danger to me taking my airplane across the Atlantic is to me. Depends on where and how high over the Atlantic you want to do it. If you pick a spot on the North Atlantic tracks, then other people's safety is at risk (and if
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
There was an incident in which an F-4 on a flight across the Atlantic lost an engine, and then began losing speed and altitude. A KC-135 tanker crew refueling the flight used their fuel boom to tow the F-4 back up to a safe altitude: htt
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
This problem has been solved many times before. Not on the Web, it hasn't. Deprecating experimental features and even just fixing bugs has been difficult to impossible for a long time; "pay the contractor once to set it up, then
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Yup. If hash(x) == hash(y), then some_dict[x] and some_dict[y] will return the same value. The int/float is just a convenient red herring on that one, since it's an easy way to get two different-looking keys which hash the same, c
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
I don't go that far, but I do whitelist cookies. Lately I've noticed a lot more sites that either just show "turn cookies on" or get into an endless redirect loop of trying to set a cookie and refresh. That does not bode
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Again, chained comparisons. For any comparison operator (comparison operators are <, >, ==, >=, <=, <>, !=, 'is', 'not', 'is not', 'in' and 'not in'): x (operator1) y
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Python originally didn't have a boolean type, and people used integer 0 and 1 as stand-ins for boolean values. When the boolean type was added, first (before the type existed) "True" and "False" were added as built-
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
Please sign in to Nautilus Prime or turn your cookies on to continue viewing this site. Thank you! Well, that was an interesting article, certainly.
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by ubernostrum 11y ago
I haven't advocated any policy. Perhaps you're confused?

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