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Granted, I don't know the process of AoC in terms of vetting and building their puzzles, but it seems that the person/people involved all share very similar levels and domain of knowledge. Having more people reviewing or involved in the process that have a wider range of skillsets might avoid these situations.

Example from what I was talking about before: Day 13 of AoC2020 was basically "the answer is the Chinese Remainder Theorem". If you remembered that...great you could solve this in 10 seconds (hell some languages have a _function_ for that theorem!). If not....well good luck finding a solution that runs in under 6h. That has nothing to do with _programming_. Its just math, there wasn't even programming involved (literally some solutions were just "parse the input and pass it to mathlib.chinese_remainder()"). That's not satisfying to solve for the majority of people, I feel (opinion, I know).

"if you memorized some mathematical concepts and an obscure algorithm and also recognize that this exact algorithm is the only efficient solution to the problem then you can solve this in 5 seconds, otherwise it will never finish running with any other algorithm".

I immediately quit. I'm not doing these to prove I'm smarter than other people or memorized random math concepts, I'm doing this to practice writing code or to learn a new language.

Not sure if this is indicative of other years (This is the farthest I've persisted in the 3 I've tried) but it was EXTREMELY demotivating, and killed every desire to continue or to even try it again next year.

*EDIT*: Apologies, I was incorrect on the Day where this happened. It was actually Day 13, with the Chinese Remainder Theorem being the solution. I must have copy/pasted a solution in frustration and continued past that point. My mistake.

Clicking on the link (omg am I even allowed to?? I'm not a boomer!) yields some kind of manifesto about racism, 1%ers, AI, slavery, social justice, and silicon valley? What the hell am I even reading, honestly.

> To date, Google has been found guilty of antitrust behavior in the cases related to Google AdSense and Android, and has been fined over €8 billion (~$9 billion)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...

> In the most recently reported fiscal year, Google's revenue amounted to 181.69 billion US dollars.

So over the course of a decade so far and ~4-5 different cases, the EU has fined Google for approximately 4% of their revenue of a single fiscal year.

Truly "slapping the giant".

*Edit: Conversion to dollars*

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book

Actually that's pretty nice compared to what we actually got:

https://schemahero.io/learn/tutorial/create-table/

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/veblen-good.asp

So the elephants aren't reacting to poaching -- the "reaction" is a random mutation that happens to align with external pressures, causing a shift in genetics for the population.

I have a pair of airpods I got with my new job. Within a year they lasted less than 2h and never even at the start lasted longer than 3h. When playing D&D with friends I had to use one at a time and rotate them out to last the whole session.

Are they small? Yes. I don't expect INCREDIBLE battery out of them. But my wife has a pair of Bose equivalent and they last like 6h a day on a single charge and continue to do so 3 years later. They are slightly larger which accounts for longer initial charge but the degredation on my airpods was stunningly bad. I ended up having to replace them this year (1.5y later) for a new set because they were no longer capable of supporting my work meeting schedule.

If someone is making a claim about anything outside PEP-8 (like whether to use classes) or worse, AGAINST PEP-8...that's when you know there's a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuits_against_the_Devil

- PMI is really not as expensive as you might think. I pay ~$150/mo extra and all told my mortgage is just over $2k/mo

- PMI rate depends on a LOT of factors, including your lender's terms, your own credit history, and even the amount you put down. Your PMI gets re-evaluated yearly and the closer you are to the 20% equity on the house, the less PMI you pay. You can actually even get PMI waived as early as 18% sometimes, if you remember to ask them.

The article never tries to get Nick hired, it never really goes into any depth in his challenges, never talks about HOW he's a developer without sight (I would LOVE to hear about that, sounds fascinating!) It just rambles on a bit in a feel-good "isn't he so brave" tangent that I feel like does him a disservice -- the dude's just trying to live like the rest of us and seems to be doing a decent job of it from what little I was able to gather from the article.

Bravo to you Nick, keep up the good work, and don't let anyone take advantage of your condition in either a good OR bad way. The one time I did any kind of interview it focused VERY heavily on my condition despite having nothing to do with the topic, and I regretted letting anyone interview me in the first place and probably won't again. Nick may be different than me in this respect, but if someone published this article about me, I would be rather insulted by it. If he isn't, then more power to him.

EDIT for opportunity: If there are any blind devs on HN who happen to screen-read this comment, I would LOVE to hear about how your dev setup works! I saw a talk at Strange Loop one year about voice-based development that was AWESOME[1] and ever since then I have been interested in how other people do their work in non-standard ways. Email in my profile if you want to share, or if there are blogposts that works too!

[1] https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2019/voice-driven-development...

This is PHENOMENALLY DOCUMENTED. I am thoroughly impressed, @doctorray. Clear and easy to follow walkthrough and explanation of how it works, amazing troubleshooting tips, suggestions for managing it... This is an exemplar of a well-made README for a service. Bravo!

But also, just because something is "true enough" isn't the issue -- the issue is that these are touted as ways SCIENCE proved someone right, when in fact they are absolutely not "facts" like many believe, and so that can erode belief in science.