vanusa

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by vanusa 5y ago
They need let go if this "Five Nuclear-Weapon States" charade. Like we're children and don't know how to count.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Homelessness also decreases when cities simply let more housing be built, even if luxury housing. Eh? The paper you are citing doesn't mention homelessnessness at all. You might want to believe that a decrease in homelessness will f
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Student receives praise for bogus paper on how milk is a ‘colonizer’ of coffee(thecollegefix.com)
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An Afghan coding bootcamp becomes a lifeline under Taliban rule(technologyreview.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
Because the people involved find it unpleasant to notify candidates of a rejection. "Unpleasant" to send a standard form letter? I don't buy that. I do agree though that it's what they prefer. As a reflection of how
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by vanusa 5y ago
It isn't "telling them what to do"; it's basic professionalism. If someone has cleared their day to come into your office and talk to you -- you should respect their time . Don't make them guess at the goalposts,
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by vanusa 5y ago
The problem is that soon enough, all these mediocre and wannabe companies started copying the FAANG process, thinking: "If we interview like FAANG, we must be like FAANG. Or at least candidates will think we're like FAANG."
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by vanusa 5y ago
The interviewer's goal is to evaluate the interviewee accurately. More specifically: the interviewer's goal is to minimize (1) false positives and (2) the expenditure of the company's resources. Meanwhile, candidates hope t
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by vanusa 5y ago
I meant like, IRL.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Try talking about execution, not theory.
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by vanusa 5y ago
The original question referred to "target runtime", which I take to me "basic expected performance characteristics." E.g. "Nothing crazy -- should run on a million integers or less, in half a second or less, which
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by vanusa 5y ago
Because in the real world you don't know the runtime of the optimal solution, The question specifically referred to target performance, which IRL is almost always known and freely communicated (in at least ballpark terms). As in:
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by vanusa 5y ago
Alternatives are often subjective criteria like "culture fit" There's a vast territory of approaches that are neither leetcode hazing or culture fit tests. And which, while nuanced, are basically objective. Work sample eva
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by vanusa 5y ago
But really, mostly just of willingness to study. And grind, grind, grind, grind, grind.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Yeah - why not just tell them? You know, like IRL. What this is supposedly about. Again, the question referred to the target performance, not the optimal performance.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Or even on a more basic level - it's like you see someone who's left the water running in their bathtub, and the water is flowing over the sides, through the floorboards and down the stairs, and they come back with: "You don&
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by vanusa 5y ago
Housing has always been a "life or death" need for everyone, everywhere. Like the people who were already living in those places, long before you-know-who tried to move there.
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by vanusa 5y ago
You really think that China banning bitcoin means they no longer use those dirty coal power plants? You may want to examine the logical flaw behind this line of questioning.
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by vanusa 5y ago
How anyone can call this a "crisis" is beyond me.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Well put. I appreciate your clarifications.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Walmart doesn't have a choice -- they're only doing this because of recently passed legislation. Did you think they made this drastic move out of the goodness of their hearts? You can bet their lobbyists are already working overt
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by vanusa 5y ago
A flip argument. By that token -- if you advocate of, for example, EVs then I trust you'll be more than happy to move to an area where the freshwater has been diverted to support lithium extraction. Or if you're a fan of solar po
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by vanusa 5y ago
I see her more as tragically naive. But then, it's sometimes hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins.
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by vanusa 5y ago
"No [one] is saying ..."
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by vanusa 5y ago
Well it does seem to be a cute filter for Python programming ability in that they definitely need to have taken a tour of the modern standard library to come up with min(x) max(x) statistics.mean(x) statistics.median(x) But sti
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by vanusa 5y ago
Walmart had no “justifiable reason” for taking down products from an entire region, the ruling Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a strongly worded statement Friday. The agency added that the move was pr
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by vanusa 5y ago
Either way, the point stands.
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by vanusa 5y ago
If some asks me to "calculate" something I assume they mean from scratch (without using a built-in). That's probably what a fair number of these people did. Also, my sense is that Python is something of an outlier in having
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by vanusa 5y ago
I would reckon (based on my own observation, combined with some research that has come out recently -- see below) that "a good percentage of this good percentage" probably failed due to nervousness, rather than than truly lacking
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by vanusa 5y ago
Finding the median with or without sorting first? If it's the latter (essentially a test of whether they've memorized quickselect) then that sounds like a horrible filter, actually. Unless it's for the position of "Sen

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