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by bmay 7mo ago
> Those hypes are forgotten as fast as they are created. Remember Cursor? of course--i use it every day. are you implying Cursor is dead? they raised $2B in funding 3 months ago and are at $1B in ARR...
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by bmay 7mo ago
where in the podcast (transcript: https://lexfridman.com/peter-steinberger-transcript/ ) did he say that?
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by bmay 3y ago
That study was done on early adolescents. How generalizable are those results to adult, white-collar workers?
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by bmay 3y ago
Kurzgesagt has a video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwpQarrDwk
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by bmay 3y ago
Seems like their status page ( https://metastatus.com/ ?) does not reflect this?
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by bmay 4y ago
> Virginia has [...] a better social scene What's your definition of a "social scene"? I have lived in both and have known many people who have lived in both and you are probably the only person I've ever met (myself
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by bmay 4y ago
> taxes are less than both virginia and maryland Can you elaborate? "Taxes" can mean many different things and, for my situation, income taxes in Virginia are far lower than in the other two municipalities.
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by bmay 5y ago
> Bay Area salaries, according to levels.fyi, for these levels range from $190k to $350k. > According to Robert Half, Bay Area salaries are 42% above the national average, so that range translates to $110k-$205k unadjusted. can someon
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by bmay 6y ago
the "link:" operator doesn't work for me--it just seems to include the URL's tokens in the search
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by bmay 7y ago
installing and running this version did not resolve the issue for me is there something else I need to do?
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by bmay 8y ago
> these are soft-skill books. Clean Code is not a soft-skill book.
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by bmay 8y ago
In college, I went to bed around 2-3:30am every weeknight because that's what the people around me were doing. Also, I was regularly staying out at least that late on weekends. In the last few years, I've been forced to get to wor
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by bmay 9y ago
more qualified women in the workforce => greater efficiency, increase in net jobs created, lower prices => increased benefits for everyone
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by bmay 9y ago
Better yet: repeatedly divide and then take the inverse.
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by bmay 9y ago
You need some cleverness to code an add(x, y) method with only bitwise operators. Then, you need to code a multiply(x, y) method using some more bit shifting cleverness and your new add method. Then, do repeated squaring using your new mult
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by bmay 9y ago
Hopefully, because I'm in a similar situation and starting the program in a week!
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by bmay 9y ago
Tweet their customer service (@FedExHelp). My friend who works in tech support (not at FedEx) recommends this practice.
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by bmay 9y ago
6.042J (Math for CS) is pretty challenging. Anyone who worked through it have any tips when you're stuck? Maybe slightly easier problems to supplement with for practice?
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by bmay 9y ago
A quick Google search led me to this: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/15/shuffle...
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by bmay 9y ago
Thoughts on this vs. Steven Halim's handbook?
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by bmay 9y ago
Say there are a trillion doors and the host closes 999,999,999,998 of them. Which scenario is more plausible: 1) Your 1-in-a-trillion chance original choice just happened to be correct 2) The omniscient host picked the correct door
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by bmay 10y ago
Your comment: > the question is to explain how the red-black tree algorithm works. From your link: > Sample questions included: What’s a Red-Black Tree and what would you use it for? I don't see how those are equivalent. I also d
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by bmay 10y ago
> Outside of the interview context, I haven't balanced a red-black tree since I was in undergrad over 15 years ago. Which company asked you to balance a red-black tree in an interview context? Name-and-shame them. Seriously. I'
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by bmay 10y ago
> When the University of Chicago asked a panel of leading economists about automation, 76 percent agreed that it had not historically decreased employment. > But when asked about the more recent past, they were less sanguine. About 33
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by bmay 10y ago
> implement a red-black tree from memory Can we quit using this ridiculous example? I'd be willing to bet that less than 1 in 100,000 technical interviews have asked someone to implement an r-b tree considering a full implementation
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by bmay 10y ago
That's a good accomplishment. Also, unsolicited anecdote here, but barbell rows helped my pull-up max more than pull-ups themselves ever did.
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by bmay 10y ago
FYI sound does not play in Firefox
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by bmay 10y ago
1) If you know what a DAG is and how to use it, you can most likely implement and traverse one in way less than an hour. 2) I've never heard of anyone being asked to implement a red-black tree during a Google interview.
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by bmay 10y ago
> In the real world, you use a well-tested premade off the shelf library to traverse a DAG or implement a red/black tree. How do you know that DAGs and rb-trees are the best solution to your problem if you don't even know basic
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by bmay 10y ago
I've never publicly called out a company that rejected me. It's not that hard to exercise some self-restraint.

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