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by walrus1066 9y ago
Good point, also, there is a huge pool of skilled and unskilled workers in the EU to draw from, especially hard hit countries like Spain, Italy and Greece with stomach churningly high unemployment rates. Studies have claimed this has a negl
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by walrus1066 9y ago
The way I see it, my job isn't to just blindly implement what the business thinks they want. It's a two way thing. If a set of business rules are too complex and convoluted, I explain that this incurs a cost, in increased likeliho
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Vica versa, many developers don't know jack about the business they work for, and make little or no effort to.
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by walrus1066 9y ago
It is exactly this which makes interviewing so flawed in the field. Solving well defined algorithm puzzles has zero bearing on the skills described by the author.
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by walrus1066 9y ago
In the UK the broad employment rate (including people not seeking work, students, homemakers etc) is the highest since the 70's. Yet wage growth has been much worse than in the US, and the rest of the EU barring Greece. So I think the
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by walrus1066 9y ago
It's worse in the UK, 3 companies own 70% of the newspaper readership. They have huge political influence, especially Rupert Murdoch, who all prime ministers would try to schmooze https://www.theguardian.com/media/
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Bitcoin would be a very flawed currency. It has deflation baked into it's design. Imagine if bitcoin was legal tender in the country. If my country produced 5% more goods and services in a year, but the bitcoin supply increases by just
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Unless you're writing a database or browser engine, you will never have to implement a binary tree. So it is effectively trivia knowledge. It's like asking how the x86 CPU architecture works, because it's the platform on whic
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by walrus1066 9y ago
'I really have a hard time understanding why people would intentionally do that to themselves.' Because they have no other options? What would you do if you were in their shoes?
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Homeless,assaulted,broke: drivers left behind as Uber promises change at the top(theguardian.com)
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Same here, I think it's a cultural thing. In the UK it's pretty rare.
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Why not choose a problem more representative of the job and business domain? One that demonstrates their ability to write clean, testable, readable OO code, with appropriate abstractions, and not overengineered. I find most candidates, stru
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by walrus1066 9y ago
In which case, the question isn't really relevant to the job. Same goes for stuff like sorting algos. Why not pose problems more representative of the job and business domain?
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Are these tests actually representative of the kinds of problems you need to solve regularly in the job?
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Our test is a shortish take home exercise: implement a simplified version our core business solution (a matching engine). I judge candidates on: - choice of abstractions - quality of the tests - readability (very important, reading code is
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Why can't you use libraries? You're rewarding people for reinventing the wheel.
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Out of curiosity, why the focus on algorithms? Does your work genuinely involve understanding the implementation details of various algorithms? If so, could you provide an example? I'm genuinely curious.
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by walrus1066 9y ago
One could argue that Germany has an undervalued currency, which makes its exports more competitive, both in and out of the EU. The flipside is that countries like Spain have overvalued currencies, which means the jobs flow from there to Ger
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Sure, it's not impossible, but there's a powerful alliance of political and economic forces that will do their utmost to prevent this from happening. I can only see three scenarios where prices fall materially: a) big interest rat
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In the UK it is. The market is too big to fail. The government props up the market, because otherwise they'll get booted out by the millions who have staked their retirement on property, plus the taxpayer owns £ billions of equity via
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by walrus1066 9y ago
A nice intro project is writing your CV in latex, using packages like https://github.com/xdanaux/moderncv
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by walrus1066 9y ago
'I hope someday to conquer my anxiety to a degree sufficient to explore beneficial LSD use without fear of so called bad trips.' I wouldn't risk it. I suffered an acute psychotic episode, induced by LSD, that lasted for three
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by walrus1066 10y ago
I believe you need to continue writing code to stay in the engineering mindset. Otherwise it's very easy to lose touch. It would be a superhuman manager who is able to maintain their engineering practise, whilst managing all the soft s
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by walrus1066 10y ago
Are these complex problems causing more trouble to the business than the ones that are simpler to solve?
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by walrus1066 10y ago
I find his style a bit disturbing. It feels like being hypnotized or brainwashed. The flow of the narrative combined with he imagery, retro clips, audio, music combine to put you in a trance like state.
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by walrus1066 10y ago
Same with deliveroo, I hate seeing their cyclists have accidents, knowing their employer will not help them. Sadly, the employees have no choice, they cannot get unemployment benefit if they leave an uber/deliveroo job. Or they work a
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by walrus1066 10y ago
Good, hopefully people are realising how exploitative a lot of these platforms are. We need new laws that require gig employees to get sick/accident pay and net pay at minimum wage or above.
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by walrus1066 10y ago
The first law of thermodynamics is basically conservation of energy. The internal energy in a closed system cannot change. In this case, if 'the system does not radiate its rotational energy', the particles will keep on moving ind
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A lot of the outflows are deliberate economic policy to the benefit of the countries economy. China has bought ~$6 trillion of US treasuries over the past few decades via it's dollar sterilization policy to hold down it's currency
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It is an inevitability that bad loans get written off. It's just a question when the loss is recognized. You either recognize it up front and write off the loan, or you don't, in which case you keep on losing money into perpetuity

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