veets

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by veets 5y ago
I always find this argument of "Google gotcha" questions weak. I agree 100% that tricky questions around dynamic programming, linked lists, etc. are a terrible choice. However, I think a lot of these questions do a good job of mea
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by veets 6y ago
I wish they would have also tested running (unless I missed it). Is there a benefit (with respect to thinking/creativity) to walking over running? I think that would be quite interesting...
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by veets 6y ago
This is nice in theory but a bad idea in practice (as a blanket statement, I am all for checking preconditions in general). An easy example is binary search, which I think is a reasonable "piece" of code by your definition. One sh
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by veets 6y ago
Yes - and that is the point the OP you responded to is making. This is not a generic library function. It used in a specific setting where preconditions exist and presumably are checked _prior_ to calling this code. Sure you could make the
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by veets 6y ago
In my experience, which is graduate level mathematics, spaced repetition is essential. Once you get beyond basic mathematics and algebra, recalling and understanding concepts and definitions is essential. This is true at the calculus level
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by veets 6y ago
You can do the same in Java and C++. This may violate a strict definition of parametricity (I've read the definition from a few different sources and am still mulling it over), but I'm not sure how this relates to parametric polym
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by veets 6y ago
I don't doubt you know more about Rust than I do, but this seems pedantic to me. Kind of like correcting someone for pronouncing forte as "for-TAY" instead of "fort" or telling someone "well technically you don
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by veets 6y ago
Can you clarify why you don't think Rust has parametric polymorphism? struct Person<T> { age: T, } Is parametric polymorphism and valid Rust.
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by veets 6y ago
Of all the people I know at FAANG companies and that I interacted with while at Google, only one of them has a degree from one of those schools (a MS from Stanford done while they were already at Google). The idea that they mostly recruit f
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by veets 6y ago
There is plenty of work running evolutionary algorithms on GPUs, but there are a number of limiting factors that make it less than ideal. Evolutionary algorithms in general can be extremely effective, they just solve very different problems
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by veets 6y ago
It seems you are arguing something different, although I am having a hard time understanding what you have written. I think you are saying algorithms and data structures aren't hard, distributed systems are hard. In my experience choos
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by veets 6y ago
I have tried linux on a laptop and the battery life was abysmal (it was an older Thinkpad X1). With macos (which I don't particularly like) I get a solid dev experience and reliable battery life. Plus, their hardware is untouchable IMO
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by veets 6y ago
I have taught at the undergrad, which gave me the perspective of observing those undergrads that got job offers and those that didn't. Almost without exception, those students that did well in class and made an effort had no problem ge
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by veets 6y ago
My wife once told me "no one wants to listen to you talk" when I was preparing to give a speech. It is obvious now, but I had never really thought about it. Her point wasn't that no one cares about what I have to say but that
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by veets 6y ago
How do you find the battery life on you XPS 13 with Fedora? I have a pretty old ThinkPad X1 running Ubuntu and while it works reasonably well I still find the battery life lacking (I am sure the age of the battery is a contributing factor h