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Comment #32921701
what do most people use for a generic graph / tree library in rust?
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Comment #32763550
So nepotism = good morals? You pray everyone can make the choice freely and not be coerced into a decision they did not want. Let's pretend that your family is from the USA and has…
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Comment #32763495
Can I get a source on this please? In particular I would be curious about what is the breakdown in the % of female engineers and female management in Meta.
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Comment #31605035
Can you go into more detail about the food thing? How would I as a non-Indian identify someone's caste from their food preference?
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Comment #31567215
How to get better at anything: 1. Find the limit of your abilities. 2. Push yourself to exceed your limit slightly. If the most you can bench press is 40kg, push yourself to bench …
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Comment #31141944
>Steve recommended investigating Systems Engineering as a distinct subject. Specifically, reading the engineering histories of the Gemini and Apollo projects, and especially about …
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What are the books all junior devs should read in 2022?
I find myself in a situation where I need to recommend some good books on software engineering to some developers who are just entering the workforce after finishing their educatio…
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Comment #28794882
Can you talk a bit about how facebook measures impact from their employees? How is it defined? How closely do you think it tracks real impact. How often do people figure out how to…
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Comment #22543458
If you said this last week about Singapore I would agree with you. Have you looked at their graph in the last few days?
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Comment #20361214
Why do you believe that the optimal point for a business is maintaining the employees on the edge of quitting? What are the pros and cons of doing this?
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Comment #20361177
No. Your response is the reasoning that every non-asshole makes as they get converted into an asshole because of their interactions with assholes. The response to someone being an …
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Comment #20361089
Eh at the very beginning of the article, the writer states that this article is exclusively about smart assholes, assholes who are good at their job. Someone who is not doing their…
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Comment #19268495
Reading Refactoring by Martin Fowler helped me a lot. The examples are in Java but many of the concepts apply across all languages. However I would say the examples makes the most …
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Comment #10150470
It just needs to be tested on more complex decisions, possibly in a larger network. Most people don't feel the need to delegate choosing what kind of food they like to eat. Now if …
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Comment #9487841
If you started programming when you were 12 and you've been programming for fun more than 4 hours a day every day since then, you are going to be drastically better than someone wh…
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Comment #8872866
The questions get progressively more intimate. No reason to finish all 36 questions in one go. Certainly some of the earlier questions are appropriate for a first date.
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Comment #8872855
I really wish the main findings had been summarised in one paragraph at the top of the article, instead of towards the end. All things considered it could have been written a lot s…
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Comment #8825347
Did it ever work?
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Comment #8808919
I wonder what the game depth would be for significantly more complex games like Starcraft 2 or League of Legends. Given the way those games track statistics we should be able to ge…
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Comment #8730267
The only way to be able to quantify "10%" is if you have the ability to predict the future perfectly. If you don't have any stockpiled bandwidth you will have big issues if anyone …
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Comment #8727641
Speaking as someone who used to watch SC2 and now mostly watch DOTA2 only, the reason I stopped was because it got so boring. Blizzard design choices made the games awfully predict…
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Comment #8724189
This was a terribly written piece. It is terribly long winded, when what it was trying to say could have been said much better in a few short paragraphs. I don't think it is possib…
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Comment #8566266
If you're living with your cofounders one person can cook for everyone. Also note with this particular arrangement the commuting time is significantly reduced. If living together i…
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Comment #8468987
Eve, Aurora, Light Table, these names all share the similar property in that they are difficult to google because they are common words. We've already gone through this once with g…
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Comment #8456834
That's a bit of faulty induction going here. Just because one site didn't work doesn't mean it will never work. There are all kinds of other variables involved, maybe it was just t…