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Coding interviews are not about coding skills, they are about communication skills. I thought I had discovered a clever hack when I was interviewing. You ask enough closed question…

This article leans rather heavily on fallacious arguments. Taste is a weak sense -> Wine tasting is bullshit. On a subjective measure people varied within a range ( of only 8 point…

I actually forced myself to learn to use this. It seemed cool, and potentially very powerful, so I used it exclusively for 6 months on my phone. I got to the point where it was com…

Because people find this attitude so western, and entitled, I would like to propose a slight change. Rather, I will propose some sound bytes, and hopefully somebody else will expre…

I was under the impression that jQuery cached selectors, so the advice "Cache jQuery Objects", while smart for many reasons, would not actually affect performance much at all. Was …

This is a problem that I had down to the word ( except being able to give presentations, you got me on that ), and fixed. Here is my short guide. 1: Read everything written here - …

I am sure that everybody has tried at some point to use some sort of productivity software. A to-do list, project management software, or a personal wiki containing personal wisdom…

for some reason, the hyphenation does not show up in the source. Could be a glitchy javascript library trying to do intelligent line wraps.

This happens in a lot of organizations. One that I think is most relevant is CUSID( Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate ) It was very much an organization which …

Existentialism. The philosophy that I have, that most people disagree with is "Given that Ignorance of a thing is or would be bliss, that thing is not immoral" So if I steal and gi…

I like it! Unfortunately, the fundamental problem with diabetics, and the reason that the (now) 4 people who have commented here never created this app, is that diabetics are lazy.…

Debate. Hands down. If you want public speaking skills, you will get them at debate. When I started, I could hardly keep my sentences going the whole time. Very recently I got into…

I read the documentation he linked to. It seems odd to me that there was no mention of a N-Pivot quicksort. Unless I missed it. It seems like the burden would be on proving that 2 …