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by fpig 2y ago
Why is there so much complaining online about algorithmic questions? It’s really weird. Surely there are way worse questions that companies ask. Also, I stopped reading after his first argument which is incredibly stupid. He thinks the fact
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by fpig 3y ago
It's much simpler to provide public services to everyone and handle economic inequality through taxation. Means-tested benefits result in bureaucracy that sometimes costs more than the increase in cost from giving the benefit to everyo
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by fpig 3y ago
You want to attract candidates that have a high probability of being hired. If vJ is the perceived value of getting the job, pJ the perceived probability of getting the job, vI the value of the literal payment for going through the intervie
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by fpig 5y ago
Usually they're trying to profit by being the last holdouts, hoping they will be able to get more money this way. It may not be worth paying everyone 3X, but if everyone except one person agreed to X, then paying the last holdout 3X is
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by fpig 5y ago
> Remote work feels bad for junior employees, for exactly this reason. So many times in life you're stopped from going down a dark path not because of a meeting or a status update, but because you started chatting with the other peo
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by fpig 5y ago
I think your case is a bit different because you don't actually want to live in the city. Obviously both city and country living have their advantages and disadvantages, and it would likely benefit most developed countries greatly if m
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by fpig 5y ago
> Microsoft's UI story is a non-starter until they get back to the point that a user can: Why do you care about this stuff? I don't understand. Surely most developers can build a simple app with a few buttons easily in whicheve
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by fpig 5y ago
XAML is the only thing I was ever able to write a complex layout in, run the app, and see it look exactly as what I intended on the first attempt. That would meet my definition of productivity. For example, my experience with CSS has been t
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by fpig 5y ago
> So while having too many "elites" (by which I assume "wealthy people" is meant), we have a storm brewing. It doesn't mean wealthy people. It means people who feel they deserve to be a part of the elite, usually
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by fpig 5y ago
I've probably spent ~1000 hours writing C++ in my life (admittedly, years ago) and objectively speaking I wouldn't hire myself even as a junior C++ dev.
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by fpig 5y ago
This pretty much exactly matches my own experience (100+ interviews, not as a professional interviewer but as an engineer who does interviews).
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by fpig 5y ago
I think that's the wrong question. If a court can decide (and enforce) what a smart contract "really means", then smart contracts don't really bring much to the table. It doesn't matter what the court would actuall
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by fpig 5y ago
> It's the people who complain about "SJWs" who say sex and gender are the same. Ironically, you've just confirmed what GP said by confusing the concept of grammatical gender with the modern social studies concept of
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by fpig 5y ago
> I don’t know, it sounds like the exact opposite to me That's a ridiculous statement. When you tell someone the grocery store is 5 mn away, you're expressing time, not distance, because you think they're interested in the
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by fpig 5y ago
How is such a definition more useful? It's certainly not more useful to me. If someone tried to sell me such a quantity of land, the first thing I'd ask would be what the actual size is in standard units. A universal, precisely de
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by fpig 5y ago
The study also damns itself because they chose the absolute worst possible timing for their “research” and measuring wfh productivity. It’s like they don’t understand how much the pandemic changes everything.
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by fpig 5y ago
If you see someone write "reed" instead of "read" or "rite" instead of "write", that's likely a native speaker.
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by fpig 5y ago
I don't disagree, but not sure why you associate poor spelling with non-native speakers.
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by fpig 5y ago
Yep it does! Had no idea.
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by fpig 5y ago
This looks like a great service! Edit: crap, looks like it's US-only :/
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by fpig 5y ago
The worst one is probably trying to make it hard for users to stop paying for a service, like cancelling a subscription. That shit should be punishable by literal prison time.
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by fpig 5y ago
I agree that this practice should go away - if you believe that, then the goal should be to eliminate this shady practice entirely, not try to make it more prevalent like you were suggesting before editing your comment.
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by fpig 5y ago
What is good about web sites trying to force users to use their app instead? That itself one of the worst dark patterns out there. Edit: If my comment looks confusing, the comment I replied to has been edited. "compelling first class
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by fpig 5y ago
I'm just going to respond to this comment since all are saying the same thing basically - the comment I replied to was implying something else, that Australians are working in India and weren't able to return when the government d
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by fpig 5y ago
I mean, reading this: https://janeyang.org/2021/04/27/an-open-letter-to-jason-and-... It does seem like it may have been a case of some politically motivated employees being disruptive. The part that is just
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by fpig 5y ago
How is this even an issue? I just can’t imagine many Australians going to India to work since it’s a much poorer country. Like, it’s hard for me to believe there’s more than 100 Australians who did that. And they can easily quarantine that
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by fpig 5y ago
I agree; even before the internet, I rented movies, I didn't buy them. The movie/tv industry has always been massively overcharging for the privilege of owning the content, which is why the business of selling them never even real
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by fpig 5y ago
When I was around 14, some time in the 90s, I contacted a guy whose ad I had read in a paper magazine by calling him over the landline phone and I asked him to burn Slackware on CDs for me. I sent him something like ~$60 over the mail and a
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by fpig 5y ago
Why are you trolling on HN? Edit: yes, Walmart's revenue is 500+ billion. What does that have to do with anything discussed here? temp667's comment is correct. Edit 2: first you didn't understand what "revenue" is,
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by fpig 5y ago
No he isn't.

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