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Just nope out of the whiteboard interviews. There are lots of places that need you that don't do them.

"The fundamentals" can cover an immense amount of ground, especially if you're old enough to have worked in a lot of different sub-fields.

Plot twist: We're all catfish programmers...

Linear time suffix tree construction. You have 90 seconds. Go! :-P

Of those, only the async I/O stuff seems compelling. But compelling it is, at least as used in Curio. It feels like this is still shaking out, with the standard library and Trio (?…

Spent some time on this a while back, and even wrote a driver that let me use a game controller as a complete replacement for my keyboard and mouse. Interesting but not really succ…

Rationale for "make install" rediscovered. Film at 11... :-)

It could well turn out that the common factor here is not consuming a lot of highly refined carbohydrates (sugar, flour, etc.). More importantly, metabolism is just incredibly comp…

Breitbart and The Nation both have a rather dramatic skew. But, since it's obvious and generally consistent, it's relatively easy to "null out". This leaves you with additional sig…

Overt opinion is pretty easy to spot. Subtle "editorials" in the form of omissions, slanted word choice, etc., are harder, esp until you start looking carefully for them.

Try breitbart and thenation as alternatives, for example. Sure, some of it's drivel, but after a while you'll realize that some of the NYT is drivel as well. And actually, if you j…

If you think the NYT is unbiased, you might do well to read a few alternative sources for a while to compare and contrast. Once you've been to other lands, it's easier to spot the …

If you select stringently for WBI ability, you'll get strong WBIers. However, you're also paying the opportunity cost of not selecting for other traits and skills that might matter…

"Informal study"? Isn't that an oxymoron?

Conversation, half technical and half to figure out what the person would be like to work with. For example, tell me about the most interesting/difficult/satisfying problem was tha…

There is kind of a symmetry to it. Get a question that the asker has studied and watch the answerer squirm. Seems like it'd be more fun, and probably more insightful, to take turns…

Possibly true, but I cannot think of a worse occupation to get into right now, with self-driving trucks on the horizon. (Also, I have a trucker in the family, and the financials ar…

Haven't read this specifically, but agree with the concept. Also recommend The Psychopath Code by Pieter Hintjens (the ZMQ guy). Most books are ultimately quite abstract. A few are…

I ran across this "book" recently as was impressed by how deep it was, compared to the vision presented in Sunday School (and a certain 60s pop song). It's a bit hard to read. Star…

At a societal level, I'd prefer that companies didn't act irrationally. (I don't believe in justice per se .) But at an individual level, you have to play the cards you are dealt. …

At 53, it hasn't had much effect on me as far as I can tell. The first time I noticed was at about 45, where a SV startup that seemed extremely enthusiastic nope'd after seeing me …

Can you just keep your devices stateless? This works for me.

Maybe, but I suspect the effects of stupidity would be so strong that you'd never be able to detect the effects of a hostile nation.

Funny, as a pedestrian, I daily observe that any sidewalk a bicyclist is capable of riding on will be entered by a bike, with resulting risk of injury or death to pedestrians. I ha…

Bose noise-cancelling headphones. That tuna ventresca packed in olive oil in a jar. One of those two-chamber syrup time toys.