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It's not really that hyperbolic. Only thing that clued me in was surprise push to production.
After staring at the rabbit, black hole, and troll question for a few seconds and going "WUT?" I started to get the feeling this didn't actually happen.
I want to be smarter.
> Wait, it's on production? What is this, Ender's Game? Great description of surprise push-to-production.
"You have 60 minutes to code a security patch for a vulnerable payment processing app."
"Congratulations, you shipped to a million people and saved the company from hackers."
I laughed pretty hard at that, and the "aggressive integration bit"...I'd probably leave if a company decided to ship something I coded in an hour in an interview.
It seems that 90% of the comments have missed the fact that this is obviously hyperbolic satire....
It's not really that hyperbolic. Only thing that clued me in was surprise push to production.
I'd also never seen software deployment by RAID before... (or happily since)
Mind you, they were bought for a pile of money and the people who thought the above were a good idea made out like bandits.
I'm looking forward to the collected essays "Somewhat verbatim guide on how not to run a company."
Verbose. Verbatim means "in exactly the same words as were used originally."
i.e. "This is exactly how I perceive start-up interviews but I've taken some creative liberties to drive my point home."
What was the closed form expression for the number of rabbits?
E(number_of_rabbits) = rabbits_in_last_turn - prob(land on rabbit) - sum_i_to_infinity(prob(land_on_blackhole)^i*prob(land on rabbit))
What was the closed form expression for the number of rabbits?
I've made a good living as a programmer for a decade now, and I'm not afraid to say I don't even understand the question. It's a silly question unless it's for a quantitative role.
A closed form expression is basically just a mathematical function used to model a potentially infinite series.
Take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-form_expression
Look at the first and second examples.
You'll see the big summation sign (for loop: i to infinite) and then an explicit function.
If you want to think, what the heck is this math crap used for: think about a more basic everyday concept like recursion. How do you know it will terminate?
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Asian ladies tend to look different from Caucasian ladies. So it evokes a different picture. I don't think racism or sexism or anything needs to be cited. Sure, you can point out that he seems to be writing from the default perspective of a white Caucasian (assuming everybody else is also a white Caucasian, unless mentioned otherwise). Is that a crime? I think not. If you are from a different background and curious a…
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It was a story. I don't think we want stories in general to be devoid of any ornaments at all.