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And there lies the tradeoffs you need to consider as part of an interview question. But if the best alternative is to sort the whole collection, then Quickselect doesn't introduce …

You can use Quickselect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickselect ) or Floyd-Rivest ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Rivest_algorithm ) Quickselect is fairly simple …

> You mention early in the article that you intended to base this approach as a response to your own subpar user experience with support in other products. This was the biggest ( 1…

I wrote something like that about 15 years ago for a financial institution. For what we needed, we intentionally wanted both people to be at the same terminal (it was going to be u…

Imagine you were making purchasing decisions about which LLM-based coding tool to use. If one of the possible vendors convinces you that that they have a next gen model that is so …

The argument here is that they're confident that the bounds check isn't needed, and would prefer the compiler not insert one. The choices therefore are: 1. No bound check 2. Bounds…

> This is also an unconventional drinking fountain. Why do you say that? At least in Australia, drinking fountains ("bubblers"!) are fairly non standardised. I don't recall seeing …

In Australia the entry level "Dolphin essential" is A$30k which is between US$18.5k and US$21k, depending on the (fairly volatile) exchange rates. Still not US$14k, but not quite t…

Phones have a lot of that market covered, and the Switch Lite gets close enough for a lot of people who want something other than a phone. I guess Nintendo don't see enough left ov…

Even Linux users in 1999 (when you had to be pretty well informed to know that Linux even existed) were truly that uninformed. http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general#0…

The market penetration of the switch makes it harder for Sony to expand into the family/casual gaming space. That forces Sony to stick to the AAA lane (which is where their focus i…

It's been more than a decade since I was involved with emergency services, but ~15 years ago there was a requirement (in Australia and elsewhere) that phones must be able to call e…

Its presence implies that the company both is capable of and is overcharging the people coerced into the higher price tier. "Overcharging" is a concept without a precise meaning. T…

It's not as widely available. My bank doesn't support registering my card with GarminPay. Pretty much every bank supports Apple and Google.

It would also be interesting to consider smaller groups for discussion. Break the jury into 2 groups of 6, or 3 groups of 4 people. I wonder whether you could get the benefits of w…

The main source code for DSA is here https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/ss... You can see that the team did a big refactor of key handling about 14 months ag…

It doesn't even have to be a totally "random" (unrelated) motorcycle accident. If he panicked after the Stuxnet attack, as his family is reported to have said, then it's likely he …

The issue doesn't appear to be "pay" but conditions. From the decision (linked 2 up) At all material times, Respondents Cognizant and Google have codetermined the essential terms a…

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Do you have a reason to believe (c) is true in practice? I strongly suspect many interviewers (myself included) would have a few "top issues" and significantly favour candidates wh…

The ridiculousness isn't that Google has changed their hiring process to reflect their current state, it's that other companies are copying what Google does now with the hope that …

I don't think that's true. The underscore is valid in RFC4648, but the exclamation point is not. And the RFC explicitly says: Implementations MUST reject the encoded data if it con…

In which case it wouldn't be "still light" it would be "already light"

> a location east where its still light. You've got your directions backwards. 7pm in NYC is 4pm in SF, so you wanted to use solar power to provide evening energy then you generate…

The GPLv3 has exactly the same clauses (both 5c and 11) yet Google explicitly allows its engineers to contribute to such projects. Why? Because this isn't about IP risk, it's about…