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13 years ago
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on: How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews
I don't think this approach would scale, due to the time investment required. It also suffers from making it hard to compare one candidate to another in a fair way, unless you have everyone fix the same bugs. Having a bunch of canned bugs to be fixed doesn't seem much better than asking a CS puzzle.
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13 years ago
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on: Programmer Time Translation Table
Using the same multipliers for everyone is bound to be sub-optimal, due to Parkinson's law.
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13 years ago
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on: Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus
I think a better analogy is
Conservative: the existing system must not break!
Progressive: we must add new features!
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14 years ago
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on: Why I Left Google
This individual joined Google in 2009, and left before he'd been there 3 years. He's in no position to be waxing nostalgic about the "good old days" of Google.
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14 years ago
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on: Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive
This is a good case for providing state-funded public computer centers, but not such a good case for continuing to fund large collections of books.
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14 years ago
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on: Show HN: Very low footprint JSON parser in portable ANSI C
Where are the tests?
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14 years ago
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on: Why 13th Chords
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14 years ago
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on: Why 13th Chords
I think the convention for chord notation is different to the convention for scale degrees. The 7th note in C major is B, but a C7 has a Bb.
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14 years ago
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on: Why 13th Chords
Sorry to be pedantic, but a 9th chord actually has a 9th and a _flat_ 7th. For example C9 has the notes C-E-G-Bb-D. 9th chords are part of the dominant group, not the major group.
A chord with a 9th and a 7th is a _major_ 9th. For example, the chord C-E-G-B-D is Cmaj9 (sometimes written C triangle 9).
