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Real movie junkies probably also go to library to borrow bluerays.

Scale does matter. Consider how your gut-feel attitude toward a thief that have stolen $1 vs a thief that have stolen millions.

"The larger point here is that when groups get larger, it’s an exponential change, not a linear one" --- this sentence is a big pet peeve of mine. It's not exponential, its quadratic. I get that the author trying to say superlinear and the distinction of exponential vs. quadratic doesn't feel much. However, if "math" is mentioned in every paragraph, better get the math right.

If you picked that person to be an reviewer, that means you value their preference, and should at least make a faithful attempt to understand about that preference. If you haven't picked that person as a reviewer, then the merge it in.

This could be the start of a whole new world: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world

There is this trend of coding questions getting harder. Around '12 2-sum was a question that is on-site worthy, now being the first of leetcode people expects dynamic-programming type problems in on-sites.

One theory is that the employers (especially big companies) just want the top X% of candidate by some arbitrary metric, and assume that top X% has to be capable enough to pick up new skills as needed. As people practice more, the questions get harder.

Then of course we'd mostly likely to never use the knowledge tested in interviews in real life. But hey, the goal is not to test knowledge, but to differentiate the top X from a pool of a thousand.

When I was in college I preferred take-home coding challenges and whiteboard coding questions than talking through experiences.

...Because I had no experience, and school projects didn't count.

I had time that no one is paying for, I had skills (at least i believed), but no interviews because of experience. So coding challenge is the one thing that I can compete fairly with people with experiences, and I even had an edge because I value my time less.

Of course, now I don't. But I was thankful that it is a thing so I can land my first job.

It would make sense that for the immune system to fight property, calories are consumed. The soldiers gonna eat after all. (I don't actually know what I am talking about...)

I am not sure if that is true. English professors are paid less than Eng ones and does not require expensive lab and equipment.

In Python we have if 2 <= x < 4.

Same can be said for OSX or Windows, if it is even possible to use a different DE/WM than the default one.

Many systems set up to please underrepresented groups such as African Americans and Latinos indirectly hurts Asians. One of the reasons is that Asians are never as vocal and numerous as the other 2 groups. However, the biggest reason is that the white will not set up a system to hurt whites. Only take away from one minority to give to other minority; then just sit there watch 2 minority group fight.

You are not wrong that Taiwan is part of China according to official definition (from both PRC and Taiwanese gov).

However, "Taiwan is literally the Republic of China." is disingenuous considering that their government is not the one that sits in the United Nations.

Well, just treat your current inbox as your review bucket; and create another tag "approved" as your approved things. Every day you review your incoming messages and tag it approved.

PixelBook seems great... It has a beta linux mode.

Comparing to other athletic sport. I doubt it is more popular than LOL or Dota2 or whatever current popular eSport tho. Or even werewolves (langrensha).

As stated in the article: The reviewer did purchase the product in Amazon and he's getting refund through PayPal.

Or you can vote municipalities that best aligns with what you desire.

What you have described is exactly what happened in Qin dynasty 2000 years ego. Then those languages evolved together and all influenced what is the modern Chinese.

It is funny that this is the reverse process as how Latin evolved into Italian and Spanish etc after the fall of Rome.

Go door to door to small businesses to build them a webpage for free.

In China you can talk shit of government all you want, many people on the street will even agree it with you. Just don't write and publish it.

Parent comment seems to be asking about aesthetics. Is the black brick 'thinkpad' or silver macbook more aesthetic to boys or girls?

However, since we are in topic of risk. Things like TDD and type systems only start to ring a bell when someone is already reasonably invested in computer science. The initial exploration (click all the menu items to see what is there, etc) is a risk seeking behavior.

As a software eng. this is not something I need. I have realized that because computers are designed and programmed by engineers, we had what we need from the very beginning. I am glad that now its designer's turn to get some tools.

To be fair math classes from MATH departments usually have only simple numeric calculations involved, the answer is usually small number fractions combined with pi/e/squareroot of 2 (actually half of time is just 0 or 1). The goal is to force you use identities and manipulate algebraic expressions instead of typing a long long formula into the calculator.

> In many ways the Internet was better 15 years ago when you could get free music on Napster and you could get laid on Craigslist.

I kinda get the point but that is a horrible example. Craigslist is probably one of the few things that works (and looks) exactly as it works before. Whether you get laid on it has hardly anything to do with software quality.

I had sort of different experience. I guess it heavily depends on what hardware you have. I installed ubuntu in an Asus laptop with the Nvidia/Optimus thingy. The optimus thing did not work but I can't really tell a difference because there is no AAA games in Linux; but at least on first boot it renders the desktop in native resolution.

I also reinstalled Windows 7 in the same laptop later to play SC, it supposed to be working great, but did not. I had to hunt wifi drivers from the laptop maker in a different machine and copy over, then hunt down the video driver because it is stuck in 800x600 otherwise. Same thing basically applies to every hardware you use. It used to be you have to install a driver for the mobo to get usb3 working at high speed.

So I really wonder if Windows should take the credit of "things just work" it's not like they wrote all the drivers.

Chinese IRS collects sales tax through fapiao (at 17%). So it has no incentives to not let them create invoices.

> There is a reason why Google Fibre is not everywhere or they are not pushing it very aggressively. Because building networks are freaking expensive even for google.

I am not sure if that is entirely true. At least, Google owns the fibers between any 2 google data centers. It is probably only the last-mile that needs municipality support.

At the beginning, Jeff have only thought of an online book company, instead becoming the 'Everything Store'. This legacy still exists as ASIN (Amazon Stock Indentification Number) is extended on ISBN to work on legacy systems.

nemo is also quite good.