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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • One time I was meeting someone for a second date. I got a seat at a table outside. There’s a fence and a gate between that area and the sidewalk.

    I see her walk by. She sees me. She waves. She keeps walking and is gone.

    I’m have so many questions. I text her.

    Turns out she didn’t know there was a gate in the fence there and thought you had to go like around the long way, but for solid moment I thought she was like aggressively standing me up.

    We dated for a few years and are still friends.


  • Other people have good answers already. Chiefly to ask questions and talk through your reasoning.

    But also I’ve noticed the difficulty of interview questions varies wildly. Some places would give dynamic programming problems I’m terrible at. Others would give trivial "find the largest number in this array of integers, in python. Don’t worry about efficiency. " problems.











  • Ed Zitron wrote an article a while ago about Business Idiots. From what I recall, the people in charge of these big companies are out of touch with users and the product, and so they make nonsense decisions. Companies aren’t run by the best and brightest. They’re run by people who do best in that environment.

    Microsoft seems to be full of business idiots.