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It's a little strange to me that otherwise experienced people feel the need to "study" for Google interviews.

To me, this seems less like they're selecting for good engineers and more like they're just selecting for people who really want Google on their resume.

Also the point the commenter thinks they're original in making is the main point of the actual article.

The article goes on to mention that it likely developed gradually over several generations. The first kids with the mutation would have never been taught recursive language by adults. Instead, they probably developed some semblance of it from speaking with siblings/cousins their age. While this would be pretty weak, it probably gave them enough of an advantage over others.

Once they themselves had kids they would be able to teach them their imperfect version of recursive language. This probably continued and amplified over generations.

It's a pretty interesting case of nature and nurture combining. The mutation is a prerequisite, but largely useless unless there's enough "nurture" happening during the critical period.

Haven't log-based file systems been a thing for a while now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system

I think they're talking about your machine's memory, not human memory.

He does measure the ambient temperature in the article. Happens around 60 degrees Fahrenheit, so well over freezing.

Shareholders care what the company they have invested in spends its money on.

Most people do not have the resources to lobby for that sort of tax system. Amazon, and other corporations, do.

It seems that every few years a new backend language comes to the forefront and becomes a popular for greenfield projects or rewrites. First people moved from PHP to Ruby, then Node, and now Go.

Of course, Go's popularity is helped a great deal by Google using it, as well as the huge amount of devops software written in Go (docker, terraform, kubernetes). But at some point the hype for those will settle and they'll just become more tools. At the same time there'll be more and more legacy Go projects at various companies that won't be very exciting. Around about this time we'll probably see the next language start rising in popularity.

Isn't the code on GitHub?

I use Karabiner https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ and then used one of the Caps lock modifiers in https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/complex_modifications/#caps_l...

It was almost life-changing when I figured out how to do that on both my work Macbook and my home Linux machine. As another evil mode user I second what you said

I wish I could take a class on early film history. It's fascinating to see how people figured out all these techniques, tricks, rules, and conventions in the first few decades of movie-making. It's simply incredible how quickly it developed as an art form so quickly.

What do you mean by the "Gell Mann" test?

Not quite mammals but mammal-like reptiles. They're related to mammals but not our direct ancestors, more like aunts and uncles in the evolutionary family tree.

Yep definitely true. I meant that the original author of Gilgamesh would have lived at a time when certain Sanskrit names may have been heard of in Mesopotamia.

Gilgamesh was written ~2000 years after PIE's theorized origins. It actually lines up well with the Rigveda, one of the oldest surviving Vedic Sanskrit texts.

That was one of their grievances, yes. What's your opinion on the others on the list?

I added my home and work addresses to my phone's dictionary under the shortcuts "hm" and "wrk". In some ways this is even faster since I don't have to rely on the maps UI to insert my address.

> and applying what I learned

This is a big part of it. This sort of improves with practice, but can also decay from lack of use. For me, I've found that regularly putting myself in a position where I talk to people I don't know helps a lot.

Is it still high after factoring in paying for your own insurance and tax?

Really refreshing to see someone say they might do the same thing if the tables were turned. It's easy to judge others shortcomings in what we know, but there's probably plenty of other things that we have our own shortcomings with.

You saw what they did there eh?

Probably some sampling bias there. If there wasn't a bright light (whatever caused it), then chances are a person wouldn't have seen it at all.

You also said that all you would get was an "automated ack". This seems to not be the case if aws provides an on-call support engineer.

I don't know about most of the entertainment. Now that Disney owns Fox Studios they're the other major creator of film and music.

What if your server gets blacklisted by your email provider?

They use the marketing companies that use 3rd party cookies to track you on every site you visit.

Definitely. Iran already has more in publications in total than Israel, although they're still way behind when looking at the per capita number. Hopefully this trend continues.

Very true! Egypt was able to continue mostly unscathed. Perhaps this indicates that the Arab golden age was in its twilight? Maybe the Mamluks didn't invest in the sciences as much as the Fatimids?

And even further west Andalusia was still chugging along. That was definitely an important source of knowledge for the first universities in the rest of Europe.