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by wendyshu 6y ago
Reassignment not mutation
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Fascinating to hear about Travis. Allegedly he could drive a car! But there's speculation that the Xanax he was given that day might have been the cause of the attack. I also wonder if he was getting a proper diet.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
The sign up link on the main page goes to apple.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
It has the advantage of using normal syntax rather than string literals (AST manipulation, formatting, static analysis, autocomplete, ...).
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Sometimes people have to use things that are non-standard so that they can become standard. Besides, converting to and from standard regexes shouldn't be hard. Yes there are disadvantages to using a non-standard third party library but
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Cool but iOS only so I'd call it an iOS app rather than a social network
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Why wasn't this done months ago? Seriously, is there any good reason?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
I'm pretty sure people would have understood that requiring a positive test before entry is not just theater.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
I thought managers only care about how many years of experience you have and the presence of certain technology keywords, so how hard is it to write an adequate resume?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
You're saying applicants have to revise their skill sets but I don't think brushing up on algorithms is a very big change.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
What's a bod?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
You mean medians don't matter?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
E.g. when looking over old notes I remember most stuff.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
You'd probably remember a snippet if you made it. If not, there's autocomplete.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Sure there's a lot of memorization in medical school but I'm more interested in computer science, the context of the article.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Thanks for providing these details. For your Python example I'd just use a snippet. On the other hand, Google's pretty fast and always updated. It's all a personal trade-off I guess. I wouldn't say it's common for m
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Indeed. I see the value of Anki for rote memorization, e.g. studying for a fact-based exam. But for more reasoning-based domains I'm skeptical.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Can you give an example?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
There's more to learning history than memorizing facts.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
What's the point of memorizing a bunch of facts you could easily look up on the web?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
How do you know that?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
How good a predictor is a GitHub account with open source contributions?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Their loss.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
I don't see how this addresses geebee's point -- what makes you so sure struggling on programming puzzles implies incompetence on the job?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
There are tradeoffs and "objectivity" may be overvalued.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Why not just ask the candidate if they're willing to do a probationary period rather than deciding for them?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
I don't get it. Obviously assessing candidates by only looking at their GitHub is a bad idea. But if a candidate does have a good GitHub, that's useful information.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
So industry, but not agriculture, screwed up people's faces - a puzzle. Pollution? Watery processed e.g. canned foods (as mentioned in the article)? Preservative methods that replaced older foods like hardtack and tough salted meat?
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Indeed, quite sad. This risk aversion, or maybe inability to weigh benefits against costs, is the stagnation Thiel is always talking about.
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by wendyshu 6y ago
Actually they were already collecting data and people easily set up outdoor sensors all the time. But maybe there'd be more incentive to collect within a smart city project.

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