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jordyhoyt | 15 years ago | on: XOR Swap - Stack Overflow for Tech Interview Questions

It's pretty easy to tell when a candidate has the answer memorized, and it is pretty easy to push them to explain their answer beyond what sites like this give. If they can't tell you things about how their answer would scale, what the tradeoffs are, why they used data structures they did, and what they'd do with slight modifications to the question, they probably won't just skate through the interview.

jordyhoyt | 15 years ago | on: Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?

I have definitely had similar experiences and can remember fiction and non-fiction I read from when I was in jr high school like I'd just read it yesterday (24 now). I can recall the plots and what I took away from each.

This article and most of this thread is just bizarre to me.

jordyhoyt | 15 years ago | on: Wakemate Blog - Final Wristbands

Whether or not they give updates is completely irrelevant to when they ship. Many customers asked for more regular updates, they are responding. Chill out.

jordyhoyt | 15 years ago | on: How to Take a Walk

I'm with you. In college - being in Seattle - it would frequently pour down rain while I was walking between classes. At first, I would run and find cover like everyone else, but after awhile I gave up and started walking, head uncovered, treating the falling raindrops as thousands of gentle reminders that I'm alive. Once or twice, I couldn't help but just bursting out laughing.

jordyhoyt | 15 years ago | on: P versus NP

Gem from the Discussion page:

"1., If P not equal NP, then God cannot exist.

(P=!NP would allow easily creating a problem which God himself cannot solve, making omnipotence impossible. Science is not allowed to prove/disprove the exitance of God per definition, thus P must be equal to NP, where even a non-constructive proof would allow for a God.)"

I wonder what kind of education leads to statements like this.

jordyhoyt | 15 years ago | on: WakeMate (YC S09) Time Table

At least now they are giving us concrete details about the state of the different moving pieces. This much transparency would have been awesome back in november 09.

jordyhoyt | 15 years ago | on: Ars reviews the Motorola Droid X

It is large, but it really doesn't feel like it. I still have to pat my pocket to make sure it is in there, probably because it is so thin. The only time I think of how big it is, is when I am pleasantly surprised at how much fits on the screen, or when I'm trying to operate it with a thumb, holding it in my palm.

jordyhoyt | 15 years ago | on: WakeMate: The Home Stretch

I am very, very curious about this as well. It is something I hadn't thought about until you mentioned this, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they haven't though of it either. At the very least, giving early adopters a free upgrade to the washable version when it is available would be good.

Luckily, there probably won't be a significant amount of summer left once we get the thing.

jordyhoyt | 16 years ago | on: Learn Python The Hard Way: a new book by Zed Shaw

You aren't listening. He said to, "deride the language" and "praise the approach" to those you give the book to.

i.e. When you hand it to them, say, "the language is overly simple and patronizing, but his approach is a good way to learn." Then your (apparently) big-ego friends can mantain their air of superiority while reading the book, without being insulted.

Not that I agree that his language needs to be changed; on the contrary I think is is great. I would have loved such a gentle introduction, at any age.

jordyhoyt | 16 years ago | on: Cat operating an iPad

I completely fail to see how this is any kind of demonstration that it is an intuitive interface. The cat is pawing at something that is moving and changing, the pawing also happens to generate actions through touch sensors. You could have the most horrendously unintuitive UI possible and this could still be true.
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