JesseAldridge

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by JesseAldridge 2y ago
I remember once I worked at a company that was being acquired by another. As part of the screening we all had to go over to the other company to do an algorithms interview. Everyone - including my boss. Our company had a pretty softball int
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by JesseAldridge 2y ago
I do not have an alternative and agree that this type of screening is necessary. I just think the fundamental problem here is not procedural as the post seems to suggest - but rather social-psychological. Making the experience less painful
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by JesseAldridge 2y ago
I always find it strange that people who talk about tech interviewing inexplicably overlook what seems to me to be a core defining characteristic: they are highly traumatic. You take some poor bastard and have him struggle at coding puzzles
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by JesseAldridge 4y ago
Buying a simple Brita filter is probably a good idea, right?
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by JesseAldridge 4y ago
And where does legal authority come from? Social consensus - it's the same thing. The legal edifice maintaining property rights also requires maintenance.
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by JesseAldridge 5y ago
There is value in able to send and receive money more easily.
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by JesseAldridge 6y ago
> boy do I have some fun stories from that experience Not gonna lie, I'm kind of dying to hear them.
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by JesseAldridge 6y ago
Hey guys. I wanted to see if I could invest my money in a better way than just sticking it in a Vanguard account. I decided to just try buying a bunch of stocks following a bunch of different investment ideas. I then made a spreadsheet, dum
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by JesseAldridge 6y ago
I tried a few and I like Emfit's tracker the best: https://www.amazon.com/Emfit-QS/dp/B0158W3E2A It's nice because it goes under your mattress so you don't have to wear anything. The results seem to
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
> they haven't transitioned from SVN to git solely because of the logistical challenge of migrating 30 years of commits lol, I don't think that's the reason. At the only place I worked that used SVN the real reason was tha
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
> Why did founders tie themselves in knots doing the wrong things when the answer was right in front of them? Because that was what they'd been trained to do. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I see another possibility: They want t
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
Here's a map of PM2.5 levels in San Francisco for those interested: https://hoodline.com/2015/04/should-you-be-worried-about-air...
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
It should be stated that the flip side of not giving up is incurring the massive opportunity cost of years of lost compensation. That can easily be over a million dollars for a good software engineer. If you're a genius, then sure, not
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
> add each number in a list x to each number in the corresponding row of a two-dimensional array y I mean, I could write a function `add(x, y)` that does that in any language. You could even inspect the data or type to make it polymorphi
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
> "These planets are much, much too far away. Even in the very optimistic case of a livable planet that is not too far, say a few dozen light years...We are talking about hundreds of millions of days using the means we have availabl
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
Process 100,000 rows?
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
Embodied cognition is definitely a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition And in software development, the primary bottleneck is thinking. Anything you can do to enable greater clarity of thought is go
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
It was a Flask app using SqlAlchemy (so Python). I'm not sure functional programming would have changed the situation much. I imagine there would still be repeated patterns involving reading and writing to the database in slightly diff
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
This was my position for a while. ORMs introduce a layer of magic which obscures what's actually going on under the hood. I decided I would just make raw SQL queries and handle mapping data explicitly. I quickly ended up with a lot of
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
According to the Amazon summary from the linked book: "a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before"
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
> My little brother is 16 and I know he won't use this because no one he knows uses Facebook. Is this really true? I heard from someone at Facebook that while teenagers say they don't use Facebook, if you look at the stats, t
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
I use the desktop version of Draw.io + some custom code to make the diagrams searchable: https://github.com/JesseAldridge/draw.io-convert I do think a truly useful knowledge repository will fundamentally need to be a g
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
What is Tree Notation? This is the first Google result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newick_format Also, what do you do if you want to put the same node in two different places in the tree? (i.e. you want a graph)
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
Haha, I'll be honest, I have no idea what the sicilian or french is. I just played casually on the weekends.
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
I played chess at a low level for about a year. I very quickly learned to despise the Fried Liver Attack. It's the cannon rush of the Chess world: very easy to execute while relatively difficult to defend against. There's a huge,
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
Here's what has worked for me: 1. Think deeply about what's important to you in life. Constantly ask yourself if what you are doing is aligned with your values. If it isn't, figure out what changes you can make. 2. Understand
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
> Installing solar panels kills more people than nuclear ever has by orders of magnitude. Wait, what? Really? “With solar, people fall off roofs installing panels — the health and safety standards are not the same.” https://ww
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
I imagine 10 seconds of quiet reflection would work better.
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by JesseAldridge 7y ago
Yes but the work periods were also ten seconds. So the suggestion seems to be that we should spend 50% of our time resting, with many very small rest periods interspersed between many very small work periods.

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