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> Those hypes are forgotten as fast as they are created. Remember Cursor? of course--i use it every day. are you implying Cursor is dead? they raised $2B in funding 3 months ago an…

where in the podcast (transcript: https://lexfridman.com/peter-steinberger-transcript/ ) did he say that?

That study was done on early adolescents. How generalizable are those results to adult, white-collar workers?

Kurzgesagt has a video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwpQarrDwk

Seems like their status page ( https://metastatus.com/ ?) does not reflect this?

> Virginia has [...] a better social scene What's your definition of a "social scene"? I have lived in both and have known many people who have lived in both and you are probably t…

> taxes are less than both virginia and maryland Can you elaborate? "Taxes" can mean many different things and, for my situation, income taxes in Virginia are far lower than in the…

> Bay Area salaries, according to levels.fyi, for these levels range from $190k to $350k. > According to Robert Half, Bay Area salaries are 42% above the national average, so that …

the "link:" operator doesn't work for me--it just seems to include the URL's tokens in the search

installing and running this version did not resolve the issue for me is there something else I need to do?

> these are soft-skill books. Clean Code is not a soft-skill book.

In college, I went to bed around 2-3:30am every weeknight because that's what the people around me were doing. Also, I was regularly staying out at least that late on weekends. In …

more qualified women in the workforce => greater efficiency, increase in net jobs created, lower prices => increased benefits for everyone

Better yet: repeatedly divide and then take the inverse.

You need some cleverness to code an add(x, y) method with only bitwise operators. Then, you need to code a multiply(x, y) method using some more bit shifting cleverness and your ne…

Hopefully, because I'm in a similar situation and starting the program in a week!

Tweet their customer service (@FedExHelp). My friend who works in tech support (not at FedEx) recommends this practice.

6.042J (Math for CS) is pretty challenging. Anyone who worked through it have any tips when you're stuck? Maybe slightly easier problems to supplement with for practice?

A quick Google search led me to this: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/15/shuffle...

Thoughts on this vs. Steven Halim's handbook?

Say there are a trillion doors and the host closes 999,999,999,998 of them. Which scenario is more plausible: 1) Your 1-in-a-trillion chance original choice just happened to be cor…

Your comment: > the question is to explain how the red-black tree algorithm works. From your link: > Sample questions included: What’s a Red-Black Tree and what would you use it fo…

> Outside of the interview context, I haven't balanced a red-black tree since I was in undergrad over 15 years ago. Which company asked you to balance a red-black tree in an interv…

> When the University of Chicago asked a panel of leading economists about automation, 76 percent agreed that it had not historically decreased employment. > But when asked about t…

> implement a red-black tree from memory Can we quit using this ridiculous example? I'd be willing to bet that less than 1 in 100,000 technical interviews have asked someone to imp…