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I remember once I worked at a company that was being acquired by another. As part of the screening we all had to go over to the other company to do an algorithms interview. Everyon…

I do not have an alternative and agree that this type of screening is necessary. I just think the fundamental problem here is not procedural as the post seems to suggest - but rath…

I always find it strange that people who talk about tech interviewing inexplicably overlook what seems to me to be a core defining characteristic: they are highly traumatic. You ta…

Buying a simple Brita filter is probably a good idea, right?

And where does legal authority come from? Social consensus - it's the same thing. The legal edifice maintaining property rights also requires maintenance.

There is value in able to send and receive money more easily.

> boy do I have some fun stories from that experience Not gonna lie, I'm kind of dying to hear them.

Hey guys. I wanted to see if I could invest my money in a better way than just sticking it in a Vanguard account. I decided to just try buying a bunch of stocks following a bunch o…

I tried a few and I like Emfit's tracker the best: https://www.amazon.com/Emfit-QS/dp/B0158W3E2A It's nice because it goes under your mattress so you don't have to wear anything. T…

> they haven't transitioned from SVN to git solely because of the logistical challenge of migrating 30 years of commits lol, I don't think that's the reason. At the only place I wo…

> Why did founders tie themselves in knots doing the wrong things when the answer was right in front of them? Because that was what they'd been trained to do. Maybe I'm overly cyni…

Here's a map of PM2.5 levels in San Francisco for those interested: https://hoodline.com/2015/04/should-you-be-worried-about-air...

It should be stated that the flip side of not giving up is incurring the massive opportunity cost of years of lost compensation. That can easily be over a million dollars for a goo…

> add each number in a list x to each number in the corresponding row of a two-dimensional array y I mean, I could write a function `add(x, y)` that does that in any language. You …

> "These planets are much, much too far away. Even in the very optimistic case of a livable planet that is not too far, say a few dozen light years...We are talking about hundreds …

Process 100,000 rows?

Embodied cognition is definitely a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition And in software development, the primary bottleneck is thinking. Anything you can do to e…

It was a Flask app using SqlAlchemy (so Python). I'm not sure functional programming would have changed the situation much. I imagine there would still be repeated patterns involvi…

This was my position for a while. ORMs introduce a layer of magic which obscures what's actually going on under the hood. I decided I would just make raw SQL queries and handle map…

According to the Amazon summary from the linked book: "a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against a…

> My little brother is 16 and I know he won't use this because no one he knows uses Facebook. Is this really true? I heard from someone at Facebook that while teenagers say they do…

I use the desktop version of Draw.io + some custom code to make the diagrams searchable: https://github.com/JesseAldridge/draw.io-convert I do think a truly useful knowledge reposi…

What is Tree Notation? This is the first Google result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newick_format Also, what do you do if you want to put the same node in two different places in…