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He doesn't post on the website he moderated for hours daily for years? That's rather ironic.

According to the way the vast majority of companies conduct job interviews it's easy: memorize every data structure and every algorithm and practice them every day. Don't be creative, be a drone that loves rote-rehearsal and memorizes textbooks.

Great, glad we can agree. Now let's stop talking about them completely.

He is a nice guy, and very smart. And direct. Nothing wrong with that.

No I'm pretty sure it would be easier (aka shorter) using 7zipped brainfuck.

Did you read the article? It is clearly not "the more sensible constant for almost every use case."

Use your brain. Not kidding.

This looks really cool - like a more generalized map-reduce.

s/orientated/oriented/

This is an interesting anecdote, but we wouldn't really expect you to waste a week doing something pointless like this and then tell us it wasn't awesome. You'd experience cognitive dissonance, so in order to avoid the dissonance of admitting that that redo is not really much better than make (if at all) you are just singing its praises.

If good is defined in terms of economic utility, then Make is possibly the best language of all time. The majority of the world's compute infrastructure depends on make. (See what I did there?:)

> like all companies agreeing together to pay more reasonably

I believe that's called wage fixing, and is illegal.

"Um, Um, Um, Um" - not very entertaining.

First read this as "Why we should all learn ancient Greek" :)

This is not a good study. You should create a two-class classifier to differentiate the two sessions rather than just eyeballing it.

I interviewed with TripleByte and it was different from a normal job interview in some ways, but fundamentally also the same. There is just no culture fit aspect to the interview. Keep in mind that they are not addressing the problem that coding interviews do not predict on-the-job success. They are basically addressing the needs of a broken system.

Expensive Gillette razors can be resharpened with just a leather belt. Look it up!

How can you make projections like "between now and 2040" with a straight face? It makes me instantly lose respect for an article attempting to be serious.

Important according to what metric? Making the software developer feel good, or making the company money? The former is almost certainly true, the latter is almost certainly not.

MCC is trivially extended to support regression and multi-label. See the implementation in http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent

I'm not entirely clear on why this was needed - The Matthews Correlation Coefficient can easily be used in multi-class multi-label classification and regression scenarios.

I see that people here aspire to become rich and don't want to think of themselves as exploiting others when they do, and they don't want to think of themselves as exploited right now.

And yet, I wonder how much of this crowd would vote to tax the rich because it's exploitational. That's called hypocrisy.

Her whole statement just smelled funny. You typically don't get rich without being good at exploiting people.

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"I don't like it, but that's how it is."

No arguing with that.

In the long run, we can hopefully select against business practices that have these kinds of human costs.

Let's do a reductio-style thought experiment: what if everyone was depressed? That's obviously a business concern.

The standard argument for socialism follows from the same reductio: what if everyone was happy? That would be GREAT for business.

That's really a false dichotomy. Ideally you aren't a nice person outside of work and a jerk at work. You are just a nice person. And if you see someone struggling, you don't fire them: you help them.

Just like most of the best practices here haven't been tied to success, it's also true that helping people going through a hard time hasn't been tied to failure.

The right thing to do is really obvious here. Help them.

That accounts for some of the homeless schizophrenics.

"Also, how did you manage to relate this at all to TFA?"

Just what exactly do you think the real world implications of this attitude / policy are more generally?

"It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t."

He is saying: don't try to manage them. Fire them.

Thanks for sharing. I don't think it's off topic.

"It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t."

It's just a really really mean thing to say, especially coming from someone who is a manager / mentor.