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by devnull3 5y ago
These comparisons are always relative. There are things I aspire but are out of reach for me and the ppl who have it take it for granted. On the other hand, there are folks who aspire things which I have and I take it for granted.
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And the hypocrisy of companies to make employees read & sign "code-of-conduct and ethics" and shitty training sessions on integrity and values. If execs and top leadership simply walked the talk it will do far greater good.
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Reality or spy fiction, 'Havana syndrome' hitting US diplomats, CIA officers(youtube.com)
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I stumbled on this in my YT feed. Dirty Harry was 70s movie and was amazed to see the topic of diversity/gender hiring in the movie. The lady in pink is monitoring to ensure "fair" evaluation .. lol. Also at 02:52 the lady sa
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Dirty Harry on feminism and women's quotas [video](youtube.com)
2 points by devnull3 5y ago|5 comments
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by devnull3 5y ago
Forget the Hunger Games, here is the dystopian shit right now: For a medium level leetcode problem here is the time split (for which 20 min are given typically): 1. 4 min => Read/interpret/parse the problem statement 2. 5 min =
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Companies offering BMW bikes to attract talent [1] Sure it looks like a cheap PR thing but this definitely is a symptom of heated market for employees. [1] https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/this-i
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Tangential question: Always been curious what is more challenging 1) Find interesting & original problems to research or 2) Doing the actual research? I can imagine the struggles of the research. Does the thought "Damn! I should ha
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I see the point you are making. The issue with mathematical notation is more practical one. Most programmers do not deal with maths (and notation) on a daily basis. TLA+ is a tool. If the tool is encouraged to be used in the field by progra
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I specially mentioned about his childhood to counter the main article i.e. a child cannot follow such a strict regimen. Also, the wikipedia talks about his research contribution and it is highly impressive. He is one of the top mathematicia
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I think what people mean by "genius" is some innate ability which is much way superior (~10x) to general population. Example: Terence Tao attending university level math courses at age 9 [1] This cannot be explained by any checkli
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For me the big issue is the weird syntax. I know this may sound superficial but it is really off-putting. My guess is that if syntax is improved, a lot of people will give it a shot.
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What a nice write-up! The points mentioned are applied to the article which talks about those points!
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I think a better metric now (compared to March 2020) is number of severe cases and hospitalizations and not number of infections. I wonder if we counted how many people got common cold/flu before the pandemic that number would also be
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> Do people just assume she's telling a truthful story? That is why said that no matter who is at fault here, this act of public score keeping is still not ok.
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It seems this person has/had some major work problems at Apple. The employees there apparently kept scores (on a white board?) to make her want to quit the job [1] [1] https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1
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This is not about what one president did in the past. 20 years mean multiple presidents, multiple terms and multiple opportunities for course correction. This is about what a country as a whole has done. This includes folks from both side o
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US & West in general preach about democracy and want/encourage countries like Afghanistan to go that path. And yet US: 1. Ran away from AF without taking lot of ppl who helped them in last many years. (There are videos on net to se
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> I'll take 1991, but without this future. May be with memory wipe of currently what you know and the way the world is
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At times it might make sense not to use SQL. That is fine. But I think there is a value in learning SQL. Some reasons: * Learning effort to Reward ratio is good. A substantial syntax is valid for all of the DBs that support SQL. * Very easy
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> it was seeking to recruit partners and claiming that it combined the features of notorious groups like REvil and DarkSide I wonder if they have leetcode style interviews :)
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> WTF are you software people doing? I think it stems from the fact that software is "soft" i.e. highly malleable and flexible. This improves time-to-market considerably and there is an inherent expectation built-in to "mo
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> correct base solution in the first 2-3 minutes Not only correct solution but also generate alternatives to showcase what other things you know to get strong-hire. Example: This problem was asked in Google: https://leetcode.c
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I really well versed with Python, Golang & Rust. I will not choose Rust for interviews. For me, Python is much more productive in an interview setting. But I get what you are saying though.
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I chose Python because its faster to code
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We only hire the best ... just like everybody else! - Unknown (I read this sometime back on HN and it stuck with me)
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> fucking nightmare for no reason Absolutely! To add, the amount of nit-picking that happens is staggering. I was downgraded from strong-hire to lean-hire because: 1. I did not use classes in Python. That problem could easily be solved u