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I've noticed a growing trend of people assuming algorithms are pointless questions that are asked by tech companies purely as an arbitrary measure. Writing your own quicksort didn't make the list?
Yes, there is a bad word on a tweet quoted in the article. I hope that one day you may find it in your hearts to forgive me
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At one [group] interview, I was asked how to reverse a string in C. I went to the whiteboard and wrote strrev. Most thought it the right answer.
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It's absolutely the right answer (assuming the job was in C) 
TTFN - Kent
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One should know how to use the tools that are available.
Reinventing the wheel when it is not needed at all... why?
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The search giant has been working on or funding a new generation of wearable technology. Coming soon: branding irons and ear tags
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Coming soon: branding irons and ear tags
and don't forget some not documented sensors to start testing the slurping of the last frontier... our thoughts.
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These are not related, but I’ve decided to bundle these in a single blog post. Because the language designers have been reading Python code?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: These are not related, but I’ve decided to bundle these in a single blog post.
No worries... after windows, linux and apple... nobody is going to blame you for mixing up things that were not expected to even get close.
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A new suit alleges that Android and potentially iOS users are secretly having their personal data harvested by "voyeur extraordinare" Google, even if they are not using Google's own apps. Google is spying on us? Why has no one told me before?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Google is spying on us? Why has no one told me before?
You do live in planet earth... don't you?
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Following the announcement about porting OpenJDK to Windows 10 on ARM devices, Microsoft today revealed that it will bring WPF support to Windows 10 ARM in 2021. It ain't dead yet (yet)
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How about bringing WPF to .Net Core in Linux.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Facebook researchers scanned 57,804 photographs of popular tourist destination spot Cuzco, Peru, that were posted on Flickr over a 15-year period No need to take any more photos; Facebook has them already
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what a waste of computing power....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: what a waste of computing power....
are we not speaking about facebook? 
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 Wonderful, thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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you are welcome 
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And no need to refrain from tagging the location of photos or "checking in". They'll know where you are, anyway.
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Next steps:
- Based on the pictures, build a free VR model of the original
- Buy the original, and close it for visits
- Charge for viewing the VR model
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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One day, people could monitor their own health conditions by simply picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin. I could have been doing something when writing notes on my arm all these years?
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I got a bridge for sale.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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one more step to making the mark of the beast
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Didn't Elizabeth Holmes originally try and market something like that until she ran the amazingly successful startup Theranos?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It was nano-volume blood-tests from memory.
This sure stood out on her wiki page:
Holmes attended St. John's School in Houston.[16] During high school, she was interested in computer programming and claims she started her first business selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities.[17] Her parents had arranged Mandarin Chinese home tutoring, and partway through high school, Holmes began attending Stanford University's summer Mandarin program.[18][10] In 2002, Holmes attended Stanford, where she studied chemical engineering and worked as a student researcher and laboratory assistant in the School of Engineering.[15]
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Originally she was marketing a device that attached to your arm and would analyse your blood and then inject the correct dose of the correct drug at the right time depending on the built-in diagnosis computer.
It was said that what she was attempting was beyond even what Star Trek could do.
When that fell through she went with the nonotainer with the Edison machine debacle.
I read Bad Blood - which was about her exploits, a really good read.
Also quick note - she attended Stanford but left before graduating so that she could pursue her projects.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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