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by zwkrt 4y ago
Funding schools based on local property tax was institutionalized as a way to ensure rich people don’t have to pay for poor people’s education.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
This blog post has a nice visualization of sudoku solving using backtracking. https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/sudoku-backtracking-algo... Although the case they use is almost perversely simple. Imagine in a 'r
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Right but that starts to sound like organizational debt, which I think is reasonable to treat differently.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I feel like I have to comment. I can't speak to the others, but Lil Nas X is hardly political. He is just black and gay. And people don't like that, because it undermines cultural expectations of black people and gay people at the
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by zwkrt 4y ago
it would be nice if the standardization could come from using the substances that we already have, even if just as a sensible start. I can understand mushrooms being iffy because they comlpex and vary (even between mushrooms of the same spe
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by zwkrt 4y ago
> A text editor without a well rounded GUI story isn't worth it for me. ed is the standard text editor. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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by zwkrt 4y ago
People can protest without the Internet. However, they’re at a greater disadvantage than protesters in the 80s because the government does have the Internet.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
There are, but the idea that a therapist will be destroyed by your super duper nihilistic puzzle questions is not very realistic. The position of "client thinks their problems are so big and so unique that I won't be able to under
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Awk, like vim, is a tool I love dearly that I absolutely would never recommend someone else learn. It’s like a form of mental illness but it’s so lodged in my brain and I’ll give it up when they put me in the grave.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Well, it certainly helps confirm my theory that Leetcode interviews are actually just intelligence tests.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
When a manager asks for something that is very vague, like “grit”, it allows them to create their own little cult of personality. Because guess who gets to decide who has the “grit”/“moxie”/“chutzpah”/“X Factor”…? The manager
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Google isn’t being threatened by a search competitor they’re being threatened by attention competitors. The fact that Google provides search results is very much secondary to the fact that they deliver advertisements to eyeballs.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
On the other hand, if it’s been championed since Nixon, that means his problem is not solved.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
In my experience working for other people it normally only gets worse, not better. I don’t mean to say that you shouldn’t put in effort or try hard at work—what I mean is that broken or toxic environments tend to only get worse. People with
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by zwkrt 4y ago
considering that it seems like lockdown mode pretty much breaks the internet, I wouldn't be overly concerned. Average user use cases will still need to be accounted for. My guess is that these are security features that they would idea
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I particularly like the spin that the Youtube channel We're in Hell uses to advertise their VPN. Example: https://youtu.be/H_JQAx5uXB0?t=308 "You're still not sure if you are as cheap or as evil as you could
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by zwkrt 4y ago
> Quota or not they likely fired a white person instead of a another person because of their skin color. Again, that would be racist. 'Anti-racist' is more likely that they made sure the white (or Indian, or whatever) manager d
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Crucify me for being woke, but I feel like getting upset at this statement is overblown. There is no way that there was a 'white people quota' or anything like that (which would not be 'anti racist'). Charitably, 'a
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Or even worse: an indicator of time spent in the industry
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I assume the pipe leading in and out of the building have a maximum capacity that was designed for office (i.e., no showers, washers, kitchens).
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by zwkrt 4y ago
It was difficult for me to watch severance because so many of the interactions among the employees reminded me of my time Amazon. I actually cried a little bit when the boss threw a coffee cup and then blamed her report for it.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Not a year goes by where I’m not convinced that things would be easier if as a community we used a modern version of the soap protocol, maybe with JSON instead of XML. RPC is such a clean design compared to REST, and it we had auto-generate
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I actually enjoyed reading Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson. I understand that in the last few years he’s really taken off the human mask and showed a really unflattering side of himself. One of the points I took away from the book is tha
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Five hours and no one has actually attempted to answer the question as far as I can tell. If I was Mary I would probably want A. As a programmer I would tend toward C becuase I have been burned by not questioning requirements before. If Mar
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Well the only way to monetize it is to make sure that only rich people use it. I’m not being overly dramatic either: economics demands it.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The funny thing is that that definition of content is still operating. “Content” is a term for the undifferentiated media framed by advertisement. To an advertiser it doesn’t matter what the content is, it’s just bits on the wire that seem
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I really fail to understand what the etymology of sex and gender classifications has to do with array based indexing.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Aztecs didn't have backend engineers :)
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by zwkrt 4y ago
You’re not thinking on a big enough scale. No big tech company cares about “your” data. They care about everyone’s data in aggregate as much as they can get from every location at every granularity. Even thinking of a tech company as collec
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by zwkrt 4y ago
True. A date with an interviewer can be flattering if they are engaged in your answers, but interviewing is also a subtle way to control the flow of information and remain private.

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