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I see peoples' opinions here generally falling into one of two camps. The standard way interviews are conducted are either good or bad. I think it's important to consider both the good and bad elements, and then come to a conclusion about what to do in order to move the collective interview process in a better direction. To note, I've never gone through a traditional technical interview, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt. Let's look at the example in the given in the blog post, write an algorithm to find the Kth highest value in a binary tree. Now my data structures and algorithms are a bit rusty, so assuming that I remember the correct definition for node height, I believe the solution looks something like the following.

data Tree a = Tree a (Maybe (Tree a)) (Maybe (Tree a)) deriving Show

-- Assuming k=1 Means the highest node, k=2 means second, etc...
-- Note this solution successfully puns non-positive k's
-- to return Nothing
kHighest :: Int -> Tree a -> Maybe a
kHighest 1 (Tree a _ _) = Just a
kHighest k (Tree _ (Just l) (Just r)) =
case (lRes, rRes) of
(Just x, _) -> Just x
(_, Just x) -> Just x
(_, _) -> Nothing
where
lRes = kHighest (k - 1) l
rRes = kHighest (k - 1) r
kHighest k (Tree _ (Just l) _) = kHighest (k - 1) l
kHighest k (Tree _ _ (Just r)) = kHighest (k - 1) r
kHighest _ (Tree _ _ _) = Nothing

Barring some fundamental misunderstanding of the problem (entirely possible), the evaluation criteria is not that the solution is exactly correct and covers all edge cases. The evaluation criteria is does the solution show fundamental knowledge about properties that are used to classify things as tree-like, and does it use the common idiom (decomposition into smaller sub-problems) that is used to process tree-like data.

In my opinion, the common criticism that interview questions hold no similarity to day-to-day software engineering problems, holds no water. Yes, you will not directly re-write the tree data type every day in your job. However, you deal with recursive data definitions that require solution by decomposition _multiple_ times a day. If you are not dealing with problems that fall under that category, then you should think hard about which problems you see that could be framed as such because I guarantee you're missing a few.

The beauty of the tree as a data structure is that it captures a common set of algebraic properties. Even when other data structures don't exactly fall under said algebra, the concepts to reason about them are reused (note the early language that specifically said "tree-like").

The point of drawing interview questions from your data structures and algorithms course is not to test you on remembering arcane minutia from 5+ years ago but to see your fundamental reasoning skills within the domain of computer science.
> Why are those not nations?

They are, as the term is usually used; the United Kingdom and U.S. are nations. In the former case, it is sometimes argued that the constituent countries of the UK are nations rather than the UK itself; they certainly are historically nations and may be so presently, but nationhood isn't exclusive; the UK definitely has a national identity whether or not England, Scotland, Wales, and/or Northern Ireland also do.

The US is a more clear case of a Nation with a strong national identity and without anything even arguably competing the way the constituent countries of the UK do; yes, it's people have many ancestral nationalities (which is true in many nation-states), but that's hardly relevant to whether it's a nation-state. Since the advent of the idea of nation-states as a general norm, many polities have built national identities to form nations that coincided with the State and displaced ancestral nationalities as the locus of attachment for subjects of the state, often as deliberate projects.
Cool, I’ll take a read.

Just to clarify something in case it’s not obvious from my other comments. I’m not arguing for SRS as a replacement to all other forms of learning. You still need the extensive reading, problem solving, experimenting with a programming language.

However, I’ve found SRS to be a great addition to the methods above. For example, I haven’t found the methods above to give you long-term retention on their own. (And I’ve done a lot of problem solving.) Math is also a lot about building up the level of abstraction, and SRS can help with spacing the practice of lower-level concepts so you can more easily apply them to more complicated ones.

I’ve never been a fan of memorization in the past. However, I’ve found that:

1. Memorization (as in knowing foundational facts and being able to recall them efficiently) is actually pretty useful, as much as I didn’t want this to be true.

2. SRS can be used for thinking + deriving the answer to a card in addition to just memorization. It just gives you the right timing to do so.
Same was said for trump and yet he managed to cancel tpp, renegotiate NAFTA, and a new trade deal with Chinese. Three of Sanders's biggest talking points.

He also made enough political changes so that Sanders went from "open borders are a Koch brothers idea , bad for the nation", to "free healthcare for illegals"
I hear that nicotine withdrawal can be overcome relatively fast. It takes less than 4 days to get past the hardest part. The real problem is beating the habits that push you to smoke. They get you to smoke without you even thinking about it.

You need to identify every reason you smoke a replace the cigarette smoking with something else. Like every time you get the urge to smoke because you are stressed you go for a walk instead. Or if you are bored then you find a hobby to do. Do this for every reason you smoke.

Also, make it harder for you to smoke. Like buying the smallest size pack. If you do this then you'll force yourself to out and buy a pack every time you run out. Another one is to pledge that you will never smoke inside so you'll need to go out every time you smoke. I would also keep my pack inside a cash box, or something similar, with a combination lock. Again, you want to make it difficult to smoke so that it becomes a hassle to smoke so you think about why you are trying to stop and it stops being an automatic function.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323012
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This may be your opinion, but I'm not sure it implies a clear general rule that you could even hope to have people accept.

I'm sure a lot of people from the UK would pedantically insist on the multiple nations point, based on my past experience on the internet. On the other hand, in the US, people declare it to be "one nation..." and so saying it is not a nation suggests that the determination is made more from an outside vantage point than a traditional American one.

The Wikipedia page on Taiwan has some information on how people there view themselves. It seems that basically, people may be largely divided between those who came from mainland China after WWII, those who came in earlier waves of immigration, like the 19th century, and "aborigines" who came much longer ago (but it seems there were people from China on the island even before them) These may not seem like large differences, but it seems like they are tied up with the overarching question of the status of the ROC as being separate from China or not, of whether people are Chinese, Taiwanese, or both. And the question remains, do people determine for themselves if they are a nation, or do outsiders do it "objectively"?

A definition can be stated without it being practical to use.
Voter support, as measured by contributions and surveys.

And why do voters feel as they do? Because his weirdness is possibly the result of underlying genius, while for her weirdness it’s more likely to be mental illness.
> It sounds to me that now companies are more afraid of hiring bad candidates than they are excited about the opportunity to hire a great candidate.

People have come right out and said they’d rather miss out on a good hire than get a bad one. There’s no “sounds”. It is.

Rather than more and more convoluted interview processes maybe we should work on better weed out techniques? I mean, what’s the overall cost really of picking the best person you saw in two weeks, getting back to the process of building new functionality (and your new hire training materials) and just kicking the dense ones with a little reflection on what we’re the objective warning signs this was going to happen?

I really think the thing is that people want to believe that training for their team is arduous, and so the cost of every person is huge. I’ve known more than a few people who philosophized about how much they learn about their craft by teaching. And it always seems like the people who create the biggest messes are the ones who can’t explain themselves.

Which we have known forever. In fact during the dot com era it was quite common to hire the most articulate people you interviewed. At least of they were wrong about something you’d know it right away, instead of them obfuscating their bad ideas.
Move? You got in without preparing. You can make it anywhere. Nothing is more precious than your enthusiasm.
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One problem with code that is destined for an early death: It usually lives (much) longer than originally expected.
A vast majority of full time Googlers are bucketed onto ladders that are needed in pretty much any team. Say SWE, SRE-SWE (that can switch to SWE at will), TPGM, all kinds of managers. Much of the remainder are people who should be able to do the switch, say SRE-SWE to SWE, within the grace period. Legal and accounting might find themselves in a pickle, but these don't move often.
The only time I ever saw this it was a dumpster fire. Don't mix family, friends and business. Sure you can get lucky but if you don't get lucky, which you most likely won't, you are screwed.
It does disqualify one from becoming a Democratic President, though.
In addition to that, quantum algorithms are harder to design as your algorithm needs to be reversible; this adds many uncomputation stages into your algorithms.
Well the project's workspace defines svgbob and svgbob_cli crates so probably.
I communicated poorly I accept that but I never insisted it was the reason for unexplainable chronic pain/fatigue. ER amplifies explainable fatigue in some situations hence complaints from three percent of the population. My pure guess is that there's zero non-anecdotal evidence because it is difficult to study a subset of people dismissed as hypochondriacs and it is definitely not profitable.

I'm going to look at the research and I really hope I have to eat my words so I can relax more around my Iphone and laptop but I know from personal hard fought experience while extremely fatigued that minimising ER exposure was helpful. I'm glad to hear there's a gap in the literature and it will be fun figuring out why or that I'm completely wrong on this. Chronically fatigued people do not have the energy spare to even contemplate critiquing er exposure research and only Five percent make a recovery. It's a gauntlet and I ran it with the research I could absorb while fatigued, pre diagnosis dietary knowledge, intuition and curiosity.

The ubiquitous comment was meant in relation to the ER emissions of Iphones which is trivial to study directly rather than relying on models making predictions from what is tested 5 mm out. Test at 1mm 2mm 3mm ... there's no need to model er emission of something as high volume as an Iphone. The research can be done directly for research's sake independently of any health concerns. Sorry about that confusion.

Surely one electrical engineering school somewhere in the world can make a rig so that we aren't relying on controversial math to accurately determine the magnitude and type of radiation emitted from electrical devices. A series of concentric boxes or globes with sensors going three meters out at sensible intervals would eliminate the need for any modelling and a personal emf sensor industry which seems a rort.
> Just like Alex Trebek is probably a big part of the reason for Jeopardy's longevity

Considering Jeopardy has spread and become immensely popular with similar longevity all over the world, I don't think that's true. It's about the format, not the host.

We also see the same thing happening with the Swedish version of HQ Trivia (called Primetime). It started out extremely popular but lost a lot of momentum fast. They haven't changed hosts so I think that what you say about shelf life is much more intrinsic to the format itself.
Ideally the function's name reveals what it's doing. Only if you are tracing down a problem you are required to look into the details.

This actually helps to speed up navigating code, because parts of it get meaningful names.
How are they paired? is it using ATA password like Xbox? HDD serial number? its all easily bypassable nowadays.
It sounds reasonable to me to call the US a nation state, and the UK maybe a nation state if they feel like it today.

However, what I was responding to seemed to imply that they weren't under some self-consistent definition that everyone really should use.
I really liked monodraw but am reluctant to pay for a license now that it's more or less been abandoned. I still like it, but only bought a copy for work at megacorp and foolishly didn't put it in my name.
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Yes you do - Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, and nearby peninsula cities are even more expensive than SF. At least in SF you can get a nice new construction apartment for 875k.

You can find a cheap house for $1.25M in San Mateo or on the outskirts of San Jose, but it’ll still be pretty small and far away.
I see what you‘re saying and have been wondering the same thing for a while (although I don‘t have Jesus to back me up :D).

The way I see it is, there‘s only so many hours in a day and most of them I spend at work anyway. So, instead of clinging on to shallow forms of connection like commenting on the latest political scandal I try to take the time out of my day and get a good talk in with people I care about about topics that actually matter to both of us in the real world (friends, family, plans, problems, maybe some of the latest office gossip, etc.)

I wish you a happy weekend!
Yes, its a blessing in disguise to fail the interview at such a company, but it is kafqaesque, infuriating and leaves a bad taste. But I agree that’s the best way to think about it.
When I looked at differential geometry, I'd already seen Hestene's Geometric Algebra (a Clifford Algebra) and I was confused that you couldn't combine n-forms with m-forms in DG. The link is (I believe!) that Clifford Algebras are _graded_ algebras, whereas DG's n-forms are not graded, so in DG you can't combine forms of different degree arbitrarily.

For a better explanation I can recommend the accepted answer here:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1991814/whats-the-d...
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Number Shield looks brilliant! I get a lot of spam calls from my area code and three number prefix. I don’t have any legitimate contacts with a phone number like that, so blocking the whole range looks like a good solution.

However, I don’t expect any urgent calls from anyone outside of my contacts so I was able to fix the problem by enabling iOS’s Silence Unknown Callers feature.
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Pretty neat, but notably missing some of the more functional control flow concepts: tail calls, call with current continuation, delimited continuation, etc.
It's way more difficult from a fleet operational perspective and more importantly, way less profitable. Take LA<->SF as an example. That's about 6h driving, and buses do it for $25-50. That's a measly 7-14 cents per minute. Once you've made the trip, the company has to find someone going the other way. If there's any directional or temporal imbalance, the fleet ends up with a lot of cars sitting idle or driving hours to be useful, further reducing utilization. If the car has an issue halfway, now someone has to pick the customer up hours from a company facility and get them to their destination. All this for pennies. You don't even get an easier problem, because you still have to drive in the city to drop people off.

Compare to city driving: 10 minute drive, $5. That's at least 5x more profitable and takes less capex. Plus, if anything goes wrong, your facilities and backup vehicles are already nearby.
Sometimes works with https://www.asciiart.eu

For example: https://www.asciiart.eu/cartoons/felix-the-cat
The black swan event has arrived

But delayed is the feel

Like a slowly approaching tsunami

Distant is the crest

Thinking it may stop

Until the destruction becomes real.
The excess is in the growing income inequality of the world. Productivity has soared, the rich have gotten richer, and since growth is always necessary for businesses, they try to monetize everything they can. It’s no wonder people feel alienated and unmotivated. If they could, corporations would sell the air we breathe. Why invent things or improve the productivity of your employer when the net result is more money going to shareholders and billionaires like Munger and Buffett? Capitalism is alienating and the end result is the perfect extraction of all energy and value out of the entire population in order to enrich the wealthy class. Until this changes, no one is going to want to increase their productivity.

On another note, it’s a little rich to hear a multi-billionaire complain about excess. I mean seriously; he is worth more than one order of magnitude more than probably 50% or more of all human beings. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and many Americans have to ration medication in order to afford food. The world of finance exists in a bubble. The economy does not work for the vast majority of human beings (or organisms), and sooner or later the financial sector will find that out.
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BTW, I love your About[0] line.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anodyne33
"Nation state" is more of a verbal tic from people who need to distinguish that they don't mean US state, than a statement about ethno nationalism.
I think the point of the argument is that this trend is abnormal, and the increases we see are the result of (decades of) govt policies distorting the housing market.
I'm not seeing a secure element in there (nor in the uC)... is there one? If not, why not?
Still no first class Win32 support.
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2. Eric Buijs: http://homehack.nl/

Eric Buijs about himself:[0]

> I’m an privacy, free/libre software, open data and open standards advocate. I’m holding a grudge against Big Tech, big IP holders and authoritharian governments. Furthermore I’m a 3D designer, 3D printer, webdesigner and overall DIY guy. But most of all I’m a free man.

> In addition I'm also a bicycle enthusiast. The bicycle is one of the most energy efficient ways of transportation and as far as I'm concerned the most fun way. On top of that riding a bicycle is an excellent way to lose weight, increase strenght and improve overall health. Now get on your bicycle and have fun.

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@ericbuijs

[1] https://homehack.nl/about/
Thank you very much for your feedback! That makes a lot of sense and is our current plan, making Wasp open-source and build the community around it.
Could you tell us a bit more about how do you imagine the ecosystem could develop, what are you the most excited about?
That would be helpful since we are also now trying to understand what should we focus on first. Thanks!
I find it interesting that "not shouting" seems to be an argument for the right. I've recently taken a bit of time to read through some right wing think tanks, from the laughably simplistc PragerU to the slightly more sophisticated AEI to the academic writing style of Cato.

One thing they all have in common is the aesthetics of rationality. Of, "unlike the left, we like to have discussions rationally". They don't ever engage the left, and any of their points are easily disproven, but repeating them ad-nauseam while seeming to be reasonable (no matter if you are) seems to be sufficient to a large number of people.

No wonder those trying to counter this propaganda get tired and seem patronizing to those that just enjoyed a nice fireside chat with Dennis Prager about how the left despises free speech.
When I'm flying at the airport, a border guard can compel me or my friend to unlock our phones and show them all our messages. If our conversation history is regularly automatically cleared, we can both have peace of mind.
Do you have a source for that? I watched all the GOAT episodes and would both say that they were MUCH harder than typical Jeopardy games where I can typically answer 60-80% of questions and did not notice such a high percentage of questions being contextually about Disney.
I'm not sure what this question means.

TV as the brodcast platform ? ie OTA programs, with ads ?
TV as the content format, ie scripted shows, unscripted shows, sports, news, ....
TV as "video content on a screen" ?

Looking at the younger type around me, they kind of brag about no-TV; but replace that with lots of social and viral which have very low info content and prod values. And sports; which is the emptiest of empty contents.
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Why would they do that? That footage might include their own customers.
I understand where they are coming from, but most of the apps I write 'hook or poke the OS in unsavory ways'. That's one of the benefits of the win32 app model. If you can't do that anymore, you might as well write web apps.
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I don't know why taxpayers should have to pay for the search for E.T.. That's a hard sell. Probably not what the founders had in mind when they gave the government the power to take money out of the pockets of the country's citizenry. I'm all for the social contract, investing in infrastructure, and making sure everyone has affordable housing and medicine, but this is a tough fucking sell. Get some rich scifi enthusiast to fund a grant. Some people just see the country's coffers as a free for all for any crazy idea. That money belongs to the public it came from and should be used to the benefit of its people with utmost seriousness it deserves. What the government can spend its money on is a zero-sum gane and any dollars we can invest into kids getting better meals or finding a biomarker for detecting ALS would be better spent than figuring out if UFOs are real.
If you don't think there's anything wrong with your group, you might just be a "good German."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_German
Oh, nice! I'll keep that mind and see when I can play it that way. Good suggestion!
If the business is only optimizing one specific focus then yeah it is removing the humanity aspect from the co-operation of its worker and focusing only in resource extraction/consumption.
I was a registered democrat, and a immigrant, till democrats started doing what you exactly did here. Now I vote republican.
If I want to call someone using a different caller ID through twilio, twilio makes me verify ownership of that number.

But of course, then twilio is only doing this to keep scammers off their own platform. Since the telcos don't validate anything, there are plenty of less scrupulous providers that don't validate anything.

So all the telcos need to do is require anyone providing access to their networks to validate their caller ID numbers.
Sorry, you're definitely right about that.

I guess I was thinking about "ambitious" people who see certain kind of work as beneath them. I feel like if you had a room full of million dollar engineers than a lot of "papercut"-style issues wouldn't get fixed.

There's a rumor that for a while Valve had this problem because to many people wanted to make games, and not enough wanted to maintain Steam