Most flunk on basic questions like "describe any sorting mechanism" (someone hands you 1000 sheets of paper, each with a page number out of order, walk me through the process you will use to sort them).
If you're writing your own sort algorithms, and you aren't hacking on the standard library of your language, you're probably doing it wrong.
Many of the VC-backed "startups" in the Bay Area are openly proud of their death-march style 60hr work weeks.
The kind where you choose who gets a degree by the brains of the student, not the wallet of their parents.
How unamerican.
Yup. I've been writing software for a decade, and I am ready to get the hell out. I've never even met anyone who earned enough money by writing code to afford decent property in California. Worse, salaryman programmers are treated like beasts of burden, while the VCs are trying to kill off independent consultants as a form of life.
Amusing anecdote: In college I worked as a home computer salescreature at $LOCAL_BIGBOX_CHAIN. We sales staff quickly learned on the job - there was no training in this, or in anything else - to love it when couples came in to buy a computer. Invariably, one partner knew more about the actual tech, and one was more emotional about the purchase.
Our habit as salescreatures was always initially to target the female member of a couple for the "sales talk". This worked >90% of the time, because usually the women were the emotional buyers. But now and then we would run into a couple where the female partner had the tech knowledge. Being good capitalist running dog lackeys, we would immediately turn our sales attentions to the male. For better or worse, the pursuit of filthy lucre follows stereotypes in as much as they are useful predictors of behavior, but little farther.
I think the issue is that it is socially acceptable for men to be assholes but society finds it abhorrent when women are assholes.
WTF planet are you living on?
Iirc, taxi drivers and overnight convenience store clerks have more dangerous jobs than cops. In fairness, cabbies are pretty aggressive. But the overnight clerks are generally super chill, despite being in an objectively dangerous job. So while the danger of police work may play some role in their confrontational behavior, clearly there are other factors at work too.
Its so shockingly one sided it calls into doubt the legitimacy of the court system.
FTFY
Petty harassment is still harassment.
Police don't seem to notice the bizarre circularity of the "arrested for resisting arrest" logic
Cops are mostly dumb, I don't expect them to have any grasp of logic. Problem is, the kangaroo kourts are packed full o' smart-but-evil lawyers and officials who know this kind of logic is irrational, but still think it's an a-okay pretext to destroy the lives of commoners.
...it can't even give efficient driving directions for light traffic in the suburbs. In the city with real traffic it almost always gives "bad" (worse than you'd get from knowing the streets) directions.
But who would possibly need multiple gears, much less brakes, in one of the hilliest cities in America?
In SF's climate, most days one doesn't really get sweaty from biking. (Please do not take this as an endorsement of craft beers and/or mustaches.)
Quick, get on board the hipster-hate train, before it becomes uncool!
Man, I think it's already been uncool for like 6 months. Get with the times already!
Wouldn't that be "wayleh"?
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