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Apparently you don't read replies to your posts. So I'll email this as well as posting it here for the record. I have automatic copyright to all the posts that I've made to this fo…

Obviously we have different ideas about what constitutes intelligent argument. Please delete my account. If you need a formal request to that effect, say here how to submit that.

You said the brits were risking their lives. I said they weren't, at least to the extent that you believed - and explained why in exhaustive detail. But you disagree, based on qual…

Try to follow along. You: the two Brits were risking their lives. Me: Not really, they'd have been following standard cave diving safety protocols. You (effectively): Well, a Navy …

Given that I'm sitting at home watching TV - and they're all busting their asses off in the cave - it's hard to discuss this without being disrespectful to them - which I certainly…

I don't know that cave at all, but from various descriptions, it sounds like they may have had to crawl through several restrictions to get where they are. So it's not a matter of …

You can't be serious. Taking 13 people, with an absolute maximum of Open Water level training (if that), back out through hundreds (or thousands?) of meters of low or zero visibili…

That's really not so. Cave diving has well established protocols for safe navigation, gas reserves, entanglement management, and so on. There's no way they'd have gone significantl…

> claustrophobia can express itself in different ways Too right. I'm a reasonably experienced cave diver, and regularly dive in a system of 11km of intersecting fully-underwater tu…

I did know that, but I'm not sure how that applies. In your scenario, the tank ruptures, there's virtually no water expansion, so nothing happens. In my scenario, the tank ruptures…

But only by 3% - so I still won't set up my chillout lounge right next to the tank fill station! :-)

I'm no scientist and you may well be right. But I'm skeptical of your statement that "much" of the blast would be directed upwards. If you look at the pictures of tank explosions, …

It's always surprised me how many people do not know that water is incompressible! For example, when someone is filling a scuba tank, it's common to put the tank in a large, often …

The other day I dropped in on a local scuba store that I've patronised as a customer and/or instructor for nearly 30 years. They've changed hands recently, and had a few new folk b…

> Wow, congrats on insulting people I posted a detailed exposition of my own approach to interviewing. I expected nothing more than some intelligent comments thereon. In response, …

Quite possibly. I've worked mainly in languages where undefined functions kill the compile, and division by zero is a runtime error. Perhaps JavaScript just facilitates sloppy codi…

> In your first snippet, would you expect a candidate to tell you that `f` might be undefined? No. Because I'd expect the candidate to focus on subtle issues, and not waste time on…

> it's hard to engage meaningfully There we agree!

> I don't think about whiteboard code the way I think about production code. Isn't that the whole point of an interviewer writing code on the whiteboard? To see how the applicant w…

I'm truly bemused by your response. First, if you truly believe that the code I showed is "a snippet of code completely made up or taken out of context and then anonymized by renam…

My long-time financial advisor has a fantastic saying: "I like to buy low, and sell high!" It's amazing how tempting it is to do the opposite. Wow, thing X has tripled, let's get i…

Huh? (1) It's exactly the kind of code that you'll commonly see in a working line of business application. (2) The entire point of my comment is that I dislike hot tricks of the da…

Wow! That sounds like a fail to me :-)

It just amazes me that employers ask complicated CS-type questions for ordinary programming jobs. I've been out of the game for 20 years, and only did a few interviews anyway (as t…

I just had the exact opposite experience! I was discussing scams with my regular painter. He said he got one recently, and showed it to me on his phone. It was an SMS that said, "D…