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Great analysis! I used to ask a fairly open ended elevator system design question for engineering interviews. There is a lot of mileage in this topic and everyone has an understand…

Think I'm with Larry on this one. Someone should chair the meeting and there should be some expected outcome (decision) from it within the alotted time. If we're 45 mins in and no …

This is seriously impressive. I asked it to create 3 different databases: - a customer orders database with products with a timeseries of prices, and multiple fulfilments per order…

I'm genuinely baffled by this, why are the tax filing options in the US so fragmented? Here in the UK there are probably some situations in which you can't use the online, governme…

>> And then there's the competition - I early discovered that I could never outperform my competition. 100% this. I'm a bit competitive, but only a bit :). After 20 years of being …

I have a sort of off-topic question. The marketing for this claims not using STL containers as a selling point. Does anyone know what makes STL containers unsuitable for this use c…

This is a good point. If the users know the difference the costs and benefits between using GPT and not using it then it certainly has value if those users are also willing to acce…

This was my take too. The break-down in communication might not be WHAT is being said but HOW it's being said. This is certainly my experience of being a dev and a manager, sometim…

Interesting. For two reasons. In the many years that I developed software this was known as the producer/consumer problem [1]. A name that is somewhat (to me) more expressive than …

This is a great question! When I was a developer I used to develop software the way you were told not to. I did it that way because the requirements were always very vague and a lo…

Absolutely. Picasso's journey was to transition from stunning realism to a child-like surrealism in later years. In some respects he was trying to unlearn form but keep the aesthet…

My first experience of Tcl/Tk was circa 2000. The finance house I worked at had used it to implement a real-time order management system. Even better was the ability to attach to t…

>> But if you tweak the hypothesis just a little, the data suddenly confirm it This is 'data mining' right? And I've occasionally wondered about this, since I don't work in a scien…

This would be a great win-win! But wouldn't the sequestered CO2 get released back into the environment and potentially the atmosphere?

But doesn't the comment above yours suggest that the 'yellow' dot thing may no longer be an issue and that now there's variation in the dithering parameters. Suggesting extra ink i…

>> My question these days when I read such article, "What has the author done that is equivalent?" Well I happen to (vaguely) know the author and have worked with him in the past a…

>> It's actually pretty difficult to eat back those 1750kcal if you don't go out of your way to stuff your face with sweets. Disagree. Over the course of a week it only means over …

Absolutely, but without stating the blindingly obvious the calorific content of some foods is so high that exercise can not be the dominant factor of that function. This article [1…

This topic is explored in Michael Sandel's book Justice[1]. IIRC his conclusion is that we are products of our environment and as such we owe a debt to the environment that helped …

Yep, I made the same realization as the OP in that changing things to any large extent required being part of the management. I got my break 10 years ago then 6 months after that I…

Full disclosure: I'm not female but I have two daughters :) This is bang on the money to me. The important part is having the interest/curiosity & opportunity to take tech apart an…

This seems pretty close to my experience. I remember thinking when I first encountered SQL Server Integration Services that this is 'visual programming'. It didn't take very long t…

> - it's not unknown for kids to have relatively poor reasoning and decision-making skills Agreed. And one way to get better at decision making (if you're a kid) is having the oppo…

Uploading a URL of white noise from Wikipedia gave it a high-memorability (0.82) with lots of areas of interest. Secondly uploading a purely white image [2] produced high areas of …