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Zipfian distribution. After scanning/browsing the first 2-3 pages, there's no point in looking any further. Might as well look at new.

Let me preface by saying this is pretty cool. I feel that this seems like a good idea on paper, and a bad idea in the wild. Last time I looked into shell syntax and such, I found o…

In the deepest parts of my heart, I wish there was a programming language version of this. It would make a good interview question to simulate reading a codebase in an unfamiliar l…

Generating z-scores for weird probability distributions Spoilers: Turns out `c * (ax + b)^-(ax + b) + d` has some really nice numerical shortcuts/ratios for z-score calculations

I feel like this question is poorly formed in the age of resume-driven development. I prefer types of problems to tackle. But, I don't have preferred stacks so much as stacks I dis…

[Edit: Article is spot on] In my experience, pairing works really well to deal with ambiguity, as in problem solving. In my experience, management often mistakes ambiguity with unc…

I crack open a book about the topic (usually from manning publishing). Self-document my learnings in the form of tree-structured bullet-point notes. Usually in a git book space. I …