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globalrevon Google interview questions - fun brain teasers

But if they can talk to each other about it they would have killed all the man before the queen came.

globalrevon Google interview questions - fun brain teasers

Hmm I am not sure about this one.

With 2 couples it goes:

Both women know that the other man has cheated but they don't know if their own has. So when the queen says one has cheated at first they don't kill their husbands becuase it could be the other one. But if the other woman didn't know the others man had cheated the cheater had to be their own but since she didn't she must know the other has cheated. So they will both kill their husband after figuring that out.

But i am not sure this is the same for 3 and more couples. Can they make the same deduction? If the queen said that 99 other men had cheated, yes, but 1? I don't see it.

globalrevon What's Really Killing Newspapers

Onlline aggregators are great but what will replace those deep-digging articles done by journalists?

And then I am not talking about tech stuff, professors and business people have an income.

I am talking about investigative reporters. How will they get financed?

globalrevon Google interview questions - fun brain teasers

14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?

Is this a trick question? The answer is a definite no right? Or is there some tricky detail that I am missing? If the answer is no what is the question for? To see that the candidate can think clearly and don't try to come up with "smart" solutions when not needed?

globalrevon Ask HN: Review my startup

  * I want to try stuff without any signup-process.

  * How will you make money?

  * Looks good

globalrevon Why no downmod for links?

Wouldn't that stop a lot of people from getting involved here too?

globalrevon About the Cruft

Yes but you are talking about abstraction power which is ofc important.

But 4 lines vs 5 lines doesn't really say that, if it did then we would all be using Perl.

globalrevon About the Cruft

Me too.

Also I am getting tired of all these "my language can do this in 4 lines vs 5 lines in your languae so your language sucks"-posts. Line-counting is a pretty dumb and insightless way of comparing language power and tells far from the whole story.

globalrevon Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Erlang?

Erlang book part 1: www.erlang.org/download/erlang-book-part1.pdf Buy: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlang

http://www.erlang.org/doc.html

Write a spamfilter.

Write a chatclient.

Write a webserver.

globalrevon Pickens rips Yahoo management, says he dumped shares at a loss

I dispise these shortterm-investors. Dudes people have other more meaningful goals than to make you rich.

globalrevon YouOS (winter 07) shutting down?

So what do we need? More advanced browsers?

globalrevon New Search Engine Launched to Defeat Google

Has been posted several times already.

globalrevon AI beats human poker champions

Game theory dude.

globalrevon Lisp, too, is mainstream

Plus shortening programs should on the contrary make programs easier to read, all they have to do is choose reasonable names for their macros.

globalrevon Ask HN: Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available?

Ok I found something:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_and_larger_cit...

globalrevon Ask HN: What's up with this type of superannoying ads?

Mozilla has no block for this?

globalrevon Ask HN: Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available?

Or do some hacking...

globalrevon Erlang meets Lisp (again)

Clojure is a different philosophy than Erlang but still relevant since it is LISP + concurrency + it runs on the JVM so you get access to all those nice JAVA libraries.

globalrevon [dead]

Seems he has chosen sites which use a concept that might be big but he has chosen the less known ones that use that concept.

globalrevon Why are geeks often atheist?

i meant that some singularitists seem more reliogious about it that scientific.

i have no real opinion whether it will happen or not.

globalrevon Why are geeks often atheist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity == Atheism?

globalrevon Success of Y Combinator startups?

So how should I write: "I think I have seen such data before" 1: I think I have seen data like that before 2: I think I have seen that kind of data before

globalrevon Y Combinator Diaries: Installment #4

Unfortuneately that seems to be needed to be pointed out.

Why do people insist on calling things startups when it is just a cool app that will never make any money?

globalrevon A Gmail tip You Don’t Know about.

ok, then it is indeed very cool.

so they had this feature from the beginning?

globalrevon Problems With Life Extension: The Brain

is express any algorhitm == do any possible computation?

globalrevon A Gmail tip You Don’t Know about.

Seriously?

So if someone else has the email george.bush@gmail.com and you have georgebush@gmail.com which email will g.eorgebush@gmail.com be sent to?

globalrevon Success of Y Combinator startups?

Hmm I always thought I speak and write english really well. I have also been told so by a number of americans but then it perhaps has been in comparisment perhaps with other europeans :)

I am swedish btw.

globalrevon Programming parallell systems vs parallell computers

clojure disagrees? http://clojure.org/state

globalrevon Does Microsoft + Powerset Beat Google?

If it scales yes, why not?

If it doesnt, well no ldo.

How long would it take for Google to implement something similar?

globalrevon Early Retirement is a False Idol

The point of a big score is not to retire.

It is having the privileige of not having to worry about money and being able to do exactly what you want.

If I sold a company for 200 million dollars I'd give half of it to charity, keep 10 millions as my own money and then put the rest in some big hard interesting project.