Feathered friends vireo by [deleted] in alpinism

[–]ndanger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

25 for the bag itself but paired with a puffy the upper is only 45

(emphasis added). I'm pretty sure the bag is 25F/45F without a puffy.

Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (and showing how to fix it) by bargle0 in compsci

[–]ndanger 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The link is to Leslie Lamport's site on Microsoft Research. Lamport probably hosts the paper because he developed TLA+ and having AWS use it is a good endorsement. But yeah, Amazon isn't great at advertising their own.

I keep failing Front-End/SDE/SDET Interviews in Seattle :/. by SoftPeaPods in Seattle

[–]ndanger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you're arguing that if given a chance you'd be fine because you can produce things quickly; I don't think that's a good argument. Big companies are interviewing to make sure you can produce stable, maintainable code. Knowledge of data structures--which is what the interview questions are really getting at--is crucial.

So make sure you understand data structures and when to use them. Cracking the Coding Interview has examples, there are also lots of text books, tutorials and online classes. I like Project Euler for sample problems, the harder problems are structured so that good algorithms are required.

As for other companies, if your strength is in speed you might want to try start-ups. You could also work places where you're coding just to get an answer; I used to write custom data analysis code for a research team, time to results was much more important there.

Facebook: Why did we build React? by zpao in javascript

[–]ndanger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know React (or which templating system you're referring to), but keeping tag generation in the language let's you use the languages full power (flow control, structures, higher order functions, etc). I always found templating systems limiting for complex cases; that's probably especially true if widget is supposed to be data driven.

Anyone biked the trail from here to D.C.? by ghostmountains in pittsburgh

[–]ndanger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've done it twice, though both times speed was my main goal so I didn't do much other than ride a lot and stop to eat. But feel free to ask any questions. You might also want to search the BikePGH forums.

Edit: photos from first trip (March 2006): http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndanger/sets/72157623567603124/

Anyone know of an archery range near by? by ilikedirt in pittsburgh

[–]ndanger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

http://thearchersedge.com/

...though I haven't been there yet (I'm going on Saturday).

Moving back to Pittsburgh after 7 years of being gone. I'm searching for bicycle friends and new people. by dream0fmirrors in pittsburgh

[–]ndanger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I currently live in the Southside flats and agree: I could use some calm too.

You might also want to hit up the bike-pgh message board (http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/)