bshlgrs

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by bshlgrs 5y ago
(Author here) As far as I know, there are no cases where this actually matters.
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by bshlgrs 5y ago
Yeah, afaik this problem is totally unimportant in practice.
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by bshlgrs 5y ago
Good question :) The difference is that in that case, the problem might take a long time because the input is very long, but in this case, the problem might take a long time even if the input itself is fairly short.
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by bshlgrs 9y ago
(I am a former Triplebyte employee) The Triplebyte process also involves talking to an actual person; how are you proposing to game that?
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by bshlgrs 9y ago
This app sounds really cool! I installed it but wasn't too impressed with the quality of the emoji. (This could be because I look kind of weird; eg I have pink hair.) It's really easy to take photos and see how the emoji look; I e
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by bshlgrs 9y ago
The first part is real, and the second part is the joke.
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Against Murderism(slatestarcodex.com)
7 points by bshlgrs 9y ago|1 comments
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by bshlgrs 9y ago
Here's what Larry Summers had to say on this topic: > 'Dirty' Industries: Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Least Developed Countries]
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The result of s/var/let/g: GitHub search for “letiables”(github.com)
2 points by bshlgrs 9y ago|0 comments
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by bshlgrs 9y ago
"At around 1,000,000 elements our unsorted vector takes around 32 minutes to lookup a string." I don't at all believe that C++ can only iterate through 2000 strings a second. Python takes an imperceptibly small time to iterat
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by bshlgrs 10y ago
This list is an awkward mix of posts containing easily-verifiable but surprising claims about various technical specifications, and posts which just make a variety of contentious claims with no particular evidence provided (I think the econ
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by bshlgrs 10y ago
But that makes no sense--if you want high social mobility (and you think college grads should be paid more), you want both those numbers to be lower. The article treats it as a problem that they're similar.
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by bshlgrs 10y ago
This article is terrible. It makes a shitty and misleading graph, and generates a variety of nonsensical judgements from it. The graph used makes it really hard to see what the actual distributions of overall income are. If you make, say, a
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by bshlgrs 10y ago
I disagree with this recommendation; Project Euler is focused on mathematical questions that don't teach a type of thinking very similar to the thinking used while constructing most algorithms.
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by bshlgrs 10y ago
I think a lot of [these ones]( http://mcntyr.com/52-concepts-cognitive-toolkit/ ) are really useful and more advanced.
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by bshlgrs 10y ago
I think a low-level/algorithmic bootcamp would be great, and it wouldn't be that hard to make one.
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The dumbest algorithm problem in the entire world(bshlgrs.github.io)
2 points by bshlgrs 10y ago|0 comments
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by bshlgrs 11y ago
I also think that it's not obvious that the interviewer is doing the wrong thing here. The claim "good programmers should always think to guard against invalid input" isn't ridiculous on the face of it: maybe checking fo
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by bshlgrs 11y ago
It sort of makes sense. If someone knows a language well, they shouldn't have much trouble writing it syntactically correctly on a whiteboard. Especially in languages which have simpler syntax, like Ruby vs eg Scala.
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by bshlgrs 11y ago
Another tip which I give: Interviewers vary widely in how much they care about whether your syntax is accurate, whether you handle invalid inputs, and whether you write unit tests. It's really useful to ask the interviewer whether they