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Thank you for this comment. The links are fantastic. On the reading list. :)

I find Apple 'hate' far more understandable because of their market share. Bitcoin makes up a tiny portion of the market and is completely optional. I mean, it barely even exists. …

That'll be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop, then? ;)

>> In the pre-Gox days of the Bitcoin subreddit This is true! You don't have to agree with them, though. The network still exists and is cool and useful regardless. You don't even …

As I posted further down - most of the issues here seem to stem from people having this idea that in the extreme long term Bitcoin takes over the world and 'their' (as if this is s…

Sort of, but not really. I think really what we're arguing about now is the distinction between hiring for a Google position (pushing the absolute state of the art) and hiring for …

>> rather than just kill time Yeah, that's something I find really odd about most mobile games. They seem designed as a way to basically put the brain into a low energy state or so…

I think that's only true if you follow this idea that Bitcoin is going to take over the world, become a global reserve currency, we should hold 100% net worth in it, whatever. Rega…

I think you're spot on with this. The general quality of discourse on any thread seems to drop hugely whenever politics comes up. We seem to be able to leave each other alone when …

I find the vitriol towards Bitcoin kind of odd. If I posted an article about Linux 4.1 or something, I wouldn't expect to see comments saying 'meanwhile, I used Windows yesterday, …

>> Also your flippant, dismissive attitude on quite important CS concepts wouldn't take you far. Please try to avoid this. We can discuss without resorting to attacks. >> "There's …

Yes, it's really odd! I used to work at St.Oberholz in Berlin. It was open until midnight and had a fantastic vibe. Thanks for the link but I don't have a device to download the 'a…

The article is a bit tangential to what I imagined based on the headline, so I won't comment on that. I would be very happy to pay for journalism, though. I don't know if it's alwa…

Sometimes it's refreshing to get out of the house. Any recommendations for good working spaces? Cafes, bars, libraries, whatever? I'm finding it really hard to find a place that cl…

I think the way to look at it would be to imagine that you are optimizing some utility function which incorporates some mean and some variance. The risk of going for a clean energy…

Yes, I am. >> From my point of view, an interview really isn't an exchange between equals If you design it that way, sure. It doesn't have to be like that. The whole principle here…

Sure. I know what a list, a hash table, a tree are because I looked it up whenever I saw someone mention it, and eventually internalized it. But before that, I'd used them for 10-1…

I think this makes sense if you consider an interview as extending a hand to a poor, down-trodden vagrant, rather than an exchange amongst equals. The article might go over the top…

Well, if the knowledge of a particular thing is useful for that job, then yes, that's reasonable. But we know that most of the time this isn't true. If I'm a multinational company,…

I edited my post. Yes, this makes sense, if the interviewer describes what they're actually after. I have experienced (on both sides of the table) situations in which it just hasn'…

I don't know what BFS is. I just googled it. Oh, I know what it is now. If you haven't been exposed to it, it's just jargon. That's the point. You are testing for jargon rather tha…

Is it even just hiring? Every employer I've worked for has made the experience farcical. If not at the start, then over time. You interview for one job, and eventually end up doing…

I haven't tried JuiceSSH, I use CM and only have F-Droid installed (not play store). Most of the reason I use termux is to get away from proprietary apps (I can run all free softwa…