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by willberman 7y ago
I haven't come to a personal conclusion on how I feel about the morals of it all, but you have to marvel at the feat of engineering.
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by willberman 7y ago
I love posting things to the internet that end up being wrong :). I think this is an interesting look at ambiguity in wording for computer science terminology. In my mind, height or highest always means node height. The term largest should
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by willberman 7y ago
I just tried, and I can only use my adblocker to block the element that requests I login. My scrolling is still stopped, and I can't see anymore of a user's photos. Am I missing something?
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by willberman 7y ago
Instagram only allows you to see a portion of a user's photos before forcing you to login. It does this on both mobile and browser. I'm not a big application design junkey, but it's behavior like this that makes me appreciate
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by willberman 7y ago
I see peoples' opinions here generally falling into one of two camps. The standard way interviews are conducted are either good or bad. I think it's important to consider both the good and bad elements, and then come to a conclusi
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by willberman 7y ago
FWIW. This is an absolutely awful coding challenge for an interview especially in a 2-hour setting. The challenge requires building off of implementation details for a few very specific technologies. Interviews are supposed to test for gen
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by willberman 7y ago
Because it looks like Lex is reading comments here, I would suggest that an adequate compromise for going into more technical detail on podcasts might be to link to external resources and cover them in a more high level on the actual podcas
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by willberman 7y ago
About a year ago, a similar sentiment hit me very hard. I was in a situation where I had actually checked all the boxes I wanted to check. My boxes didn’t involve working at FAANG, but they weren’t insignificant. I was very confused why I w
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by willberman 7y ago
I generally like a lot of what Thiel says, but people need to be very careful about being heretical for the sake of being heretical. I find a lot of people (myself included) have a tendency to pretend some mainstream way of doing something