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In either case, "it's not racism, you don't know what they're like" completes my bingo card.
Are you scared of definitions? Do you feel like dictionaries are written to gaslight you? Don't blow it out of proportion.
Read as "who knows how much more entrenched future politicians will be able to be? who knows how many more favors they will owe, how many more donors will have their ear?"
What do we call anonymous stories, lacking in detail, being circulated in a public forum? Yes, those are rumors.
> scholarly work stating that they were warmly welcomed 4 centuries ago
Yeah, that doesn't sound legit. Any general sentiment from that time period is lost, and the best your scholar can do is project the lens of the present onto sources from the past. To be fair, all histories are done that way.
Surprise? Well, I was already pretty sure if it was water or life they'd have said so, but now I'm intrigued. I clicked and now I know why the find is actually pretty interesting after all.
- if it's a super difficult problem, remark how fascinating it is and ask the interviewer how often they're doing this stuff
- if it's FizzBuzz or something else that is solved and has a known value, propose hardcoding the answer as a constant and printing it without doing any computation, and see how that goes over
- if it's not one of these, you might be in a 10% case
My favorite was when I applied at, let's call it "StoreJogger" at as entry level engineer. This guy comes in for the technical interview and asks me a question that basically boils down to "how would you make StoreJogger?" and I remember thinking that if I knew the answer, I sure as shit wouldn't be in there. Yeah I guess it was technically a relevant question.
"Hey, money isn't coming out of this function correctly. No, really, here's the math..."
"PACK UP YOUR DESK NOW."
Maybe the author doesn't want to lower his standards. Fine. He's got the rent to worry about. I've got a lot more than that on the line and I'm more than willing to fill that role if they'd just let me get my foot in the door.
They didn't say that. They said this isn't it.
Nah, the C-suite fat cats just need to take a few million less for running a shitty business, and use the money to hire people who actually have to do stuff for customers.