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I've interviewed a lot of people, and I've asked LL questions, besides other algorithmic questions, and mostly I ask these questions to new grads with no much experience. The reaso…

If you are only interested in what HEAD has, you can use `--depth 1` with clone

Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of dynamic linking?

Not exctly accurate, for the part of the number that is Also for the part that is L-R, that is not the rule, as some people still read all the number as R-L (actually in a lot of h…

What if foo is `null` or `undefined` ?

Thanks, that's a nice explanation.

Could you explain why is that the case, I've heard that multiple times, but for me the math doesn't work out. If I earn an amount of (x+y), I would get taxed on (x+y), but if I don…

That was Alan Kay Edit: Adding source https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

I'm sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, and sometimes I fall into these mistakes. I think what threw you off is my incorrect punctuation, as I should've wrote it as > Is it no…

For me it's not even a conscious effort, as it feels rude to be on your phone, when you are having a meal with someone. Is it not rude to start reading a book while you are having …

> I can make nasty off-handed comments to my friends in private chat all day, with very little fear that it'll see the light. And then, someone decides to take a screenshot, out of…

And if you don't have minimum wage/hiring/firing laws, that would help with the illegal immigrants problem, as there would be no incentive to hire an illegal immigrant (it's only t…

Have you ever tried to bring a laptop to an interview, and asked to use it instead of the whiteboard? Believe me very few would object.

could you elaborate more, where does it say that your wife should make 80% than what you do?

Here is my recipe (YMMV) - Love what you do, this is extremely important, although you have goals in mind, you should enjoy the process to reach your goals, this would make you wor…

I do understand your sentiment, I was flattered when I first moved the to bay area, with all the recruiters sending me emails, and I would politely reply telling them that I'm not …

> Remember, they said "out of the blue" which means "without prior contact to discuss doing so." If I do contact the maintainer before I do any change, that means I'm making a comm…

Why Not? I see a problem that I can fix, I do that, and then send it back to the original maintainer, making sure that I'm not breaking tests if they exist, and providing a good de…

in your .tmux.conf set -g prefix C-a unbind C-b bind C-a send-prefix

> although you can mitigate much of this with various caching strategies but the typical PHP request involves reading dozens to maybe hundreds of files from disk, compiling them in…

no -- Betteridge's law

You mean criminals that get caught.

They are distros, they are usually referred to as distros (Although you can claim that they are Operating Systems). And they are definitely not new Operating Systems.

Thank you, learned something new today.