vitaminbandit

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by vitaminbandit 9y ago
Considering that it's almost impossible to get past any whiteboard interview without an understanding of Big O, I think you're being a bit too harsh on OP here. It's literally CS 101.
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
I'm sure they understood exactly what you meant and could apply it. Nobody measures distance the way you described it.
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
> but if contact with the plane is lost for any reason, you lose that bit of wetware seated at the helm. I agree with this, but this wasn't your original point.
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
> "The digital helmet projects what the pilot often sees from cameras, so the pilot isn't really looking through a window, but seeing through a digital camera."
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
I disagree. Writing more code without direction is like exercising with bad form - it only further reinforces bad form. My advice: pick up a design patterns book and work your way through it. Pick a problem (i.e. how to design Slack) and go
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
Everyone knows it's mathematically impossible to replace the liquid inside eye drop containers with something else.
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
As a huge fan of Nomos, it's very hard to pull the trigger on one. On the one hand, they increase their MSRP very regularly - so the best time to buy is now. On the other, it's easy to lose 30-50% reselling a Nomos because the bra
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
+1 Got the non-touchbar model and it's by far the best machine I've ever used.
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
That argument only makes sense if you assume your uncle and father have more willpower than the average person who attempts to quit smoking.
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
Clearly just a rounding error... ;)
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
Very common. I no longer do these tests. Basically, I refuse any interview that has me invest disproportionately more time than the interviewer. You're interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you.
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
I've kept a digital journal for the last five years (I have a chronic illness, so I look over my logs whenever I get sick to try and identify the trigger). I tried a bunch of different programs, but I ultimately ended up writing a pyth
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
ctrl + F: "20 years", "Western country", "not focusing on other things"
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
His heart surgery question is ridiculous, but standardized testing is clearly necessary. There are more than 30,000 high schools in the US, meaning 30,000+ valedictorians. There are ~1,500 freshmen spots at Harvard, how does Harvard choose
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
You're right about the cash available, but how much is Google (and its investors) willing to lose to compete with Uber? Are Google's investors willing to put up with another [vastly more expensive] Google Plus? Because when I say
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
As far as war chest goes, Uber basically has no competition. As far as their routing and vehicle management algorithms go, there already exist companies with more sophisticated routing systems than Uber. Uber's routing algorithm is bas
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
"The jury did find that 145 lines of A10's implementation of the public "Aho-Corasick algorithm" constituted copyright infringement, and assessed $60 million in damages. These lines of code were removed from A10's p
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by vitaminbandit 10y ago
How is the notion that "the vast majority of curriculum (quantum, EM, mechanics) are things THAT HAVE BARELY CHANGED IN THE PAST 50 YEARS" relevant to this discussion?