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by unoti 10y ago
Every day I use OneNote on windows, Mac, and on my iPhone and iPad. One Note is truly a first class citizen on all of those platforms, and it was on Android, too, last I checked a year ago before I switched to iPhone. OneNote is great on
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It doesn't know about "vibrator", but it knows all about "astable multivibrator". Sounds a lot like me as a kid! This data could be used to automatically generate trivia questions and to power other kinds of word ga
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> The author is a moderately well-known cynical internet humorist; I think essays like this are his main line of work. Ah, fantastic! Over the years I've worked with an astonishing number of engineers whose apparent main line of wor
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There is a thing that engineers do in all disciplines, not just game programming, where they wallow in how complex and difficult everything is. Yes, it's complex and difficult, but you need to look for ways to simplify and succeed. Th
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This is like a poster child for a bad metric. It's bad because it's possible for a team to do a good job and have the metric look bad, it's possible for a team to do a bad job And have the metric look good. Are we sure that
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My biggest oh wow moment came from learning Erlang. At first I had trouble adapting to its functional style and punctuation, so I gave up. Later when reading a book about another functional language (Scala) the concepts fell into place. T
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> But were they indeed confirmed? This is the problem that keeps cropping up. The book is carefully researched and exquisitely footnoted. Can you cite something specific that you have a problem with in the book? I'm curious if you
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My favorite from an information perspective is The Great Leap Forward ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward ). Another honorable mention is that I've been having a great time learning about AI techniq
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> Can anyone still take the other side in a negotiation (or any other situation, really) seriously if it becomes know that they're trying to pull this parlor trick? That's why it's so important to know about these things.
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I love codingame! I looked into it before recommending it to a friend and got all sucked in. I'm currently working on an AI bot there for a competition. It's fun and forcing me to go do research on AI concepts.
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In so many endeavors the hardest part is beginning. Starting a new job. Starting an exercise program. Quitting smoking. Leaving your comfort zone to do something new. For many people, starting a new software project can be intimidating: the
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While most people in the industry were busy debating the usefulness and definition of "cloud", Amazon and others were busy building it. To me this is similar to that situation. There is real progress happening with practical benef
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One issue with data centers in a box and scaling is physical security. It's possible to pack these data centers into containers, but physical access controls and site security is something in which there are cost benefits to grouping l
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I'm actually interested in this topic, and seeking other perspectives on how to look at this. I've been down voted here to the point that many people seem to think I'm adding nothing to the conversation, or trolling. I'
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If you're serving your time at a large corporation, it's good advice. If you're trying to accomplish things with a team in a large corporation it's harder to figure out the appropriate application of those rules to dail
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There is good wisdom here, but the overall theme is something I currently struggle with. The overall theme as I see it is listen more than you talk, be careful and mindful, because everyone is out to get you. While there is wisdom in this,
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This isn't a problem unique to software engineering. All kinds of things in business require estimating the unknowable. Investing in any business enterprise requires forecasting what the return on investment is and how long it'll
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Learning is painful, and it's tempting to just go back to your comfort zone. You dont really learn much in your comfort zone, and learning often feels a bit uncomfortable. Check out the Ideas behind "growth mindset" for more
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I wonder if Trump fans don't read things on the Internet as much.
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> Do you not find it strange, or at least confusing, that you're arguing a point here that is predicated on studying for an interview, rather than the actual position? No, I don't find it strange that I want them to prepare for
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> Why go through the ridiculous process of finding average developers who by luck (or some homework) happen to solve the problems you throw at them perfectly? Never underestimate the value of hard work, preparation, and a can-do attitude
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It's well publicized what to expect at interviews for these firms. It shows that you're willing to put in the preparation to make it work. In addition to putting in the work of memorizing the algorithms, a candidate needs to know
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Google and similar companies aren't for everyone. They're looking for people on top of their game and willing to go the extra mile. > To be fair, I already knew about Google’s idiotic interview process that is optimized for hir
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by unoti 11y ago
I'd focus more on graphs and trees, and having a passing familiarity with the algorithmic and space trade offs of sort algorithms. One could argue over whether it's important philosophically, but from a practical standpoint they
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It's useful if you're planning to interview at a place that cares about it, which includes Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. If you want to work at one of those places it's undeniably useful.
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It'd be interesting to run the same tests on the Windows scheduler to see how it compares. Anyone know?
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> editing a file that's a few hundred megabytes big? As long as that's not possible it's not even a contest ;) I usually try to keep my source files and config files smaller than a few hundred megabytes. Sounds like you m
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Grouper is a recipe, it's not part of itertools. It probably should be!
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Cool! When you need it to work on an input that's an iterator, please submit a patch with a doctest. That's one of the important benefits of reusable code.
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Comprehensions are great, but they can hurt readability and maintainability when taken too far. Most of the time you shouldn't be playing code golf with your code, iteratively seeking to pack more and more work into a single line of c

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