victor___

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   by victor___ 8y ago

   It seems like the debate boils down to "should subclasses be able to override behaviour in ways the base class doesn't anticipate?". Pro: sometimes it lets you extend classes in useful ways that the original author didn'
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   by victor___ 9y ago

   I interned at Facebook a while back (pre-IPO). On the first day of onboarding my neighbor was struggling to follow the instructions - it turned out he'd never used bash or any Unix-like system before. Anyway, I guess he figured it out
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   by victor___ 9y ago

   I agree. Turns out being able to understand, evaluate and communicate about multiple perspectives on abstract concepts is a generally useful skill.
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   by victor___ 9y ago

   I think it depends on the individual and the class. With several philosophy classes I saw scores on weekly papers go from around 9/10 to around 5/10 if I tried to wing it and do it at the last minute.
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   by victor___ 9y ago

   I don't think pulling out the number 6 separately from the constant factor results in an apples-to-apples comparison with other operations with logarithmic complexity. The 32-way tree operations have asymptomic complexity 6 * C_1 * log