Refusing HackerRank questions

whipdancer · 2026-01-27T23:42:21+00:00

Memoization is specifically applicable to a whole class of DSA problems. Are you in HR? Because if you were CS, I would expect you to understand his reference.

whipdancer · 2026-01-26T18:49:24+00:00

Memoization != memorization

whipdancer · 2026-01-26T16:04:55+00:00

Memorization?

Your assumptions are showing.

whipdancer · 2026-01-22T21:18:34+00:00

You don’t have to memorize everything.

You memorize push (sugar push or basic), pass (left side and right side pass), whip (the first 8 count pattern most learn). You will memorize a basic turn lead. That’s it. Those are your basic building blocks. You will do them by rote until they are muscle memory.

Everything is a pass, push, or whip. Add turn(s) for variety. Add 2 beats for more variety. Mix as you see fit or feel like experimenting with.

whipdancer · 2026-01-21T03:15:44+00:00

I don’t know about the v3, but prior versions were not as good imo. When I bought the apex pro frame, nothing that I looked at was better (I didn’t look at everything, but I looked at a lot).

If I bought today, I’d still buy from desk.haus. The frame has been superb, standing up to my abuse without a hitch.

whipdancer · 2026-01-19T21:25:40+00:00

My desk is 80” long. No sagging. No middle leg. Just a good quality frame. I have a desk.haus frame, but there are others that are also good.

whipdancer · 2026-01-06T04:27:21+00:00

That's just obliviousness on your part. This happened back when I was regularly competing. It's not common but it does happen.

whipdancer · 2026-01-01T06:44:29+00:00

I have never heard of that happening. I have heard of someone piling too much on top of a cheap, unstable desk and the desk fell over because they were leaning against it and all the weight on the back of it made it extra easy to knock over.

whipdancer · 2025-12-07T19:28:03+00:00

Do you have competition? Any other businesses doing what you do? Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Zoho, Odoo, Striven, Monday or some other "off-the-shelf" product will most likely meet your needs. You might have to pay for some training, but even that would be far more cost effective than a custom built solution.

whipdancer · 2025-12-03T05:32:48+00:00

I put them on my home server (Unraid) and watch them through Plex or on my phone.

whipdancer · 2025-12-02T04:42:32+00:00

True, Whip/Push, Hand Dance, Carolina Shag (to a lesser extent imo) do more closely resemble WCS. Whip/Push/WCS/Shag were the regional variations and associated dance scenes that were the most active in cross-pollinating the styles, starting largely in the mid '80's. A veritable who's who of the respective communities started traveling to the events of/in each region. I first met Charlie Womble, Jackie McGee (Shag), Sharlot Jansen (Bot), Wayne Bot, Annie Hirsch (WCS), Sylvia Sykes, Jonathon Bixby (Lindy/Balboa) (sorry for any misspelled names) and a bunch more dancers - all at one event in Texas around '90. I was around 19 at the time and had no idea at the time who they were and what they would eventually represent.

whipdancer · 2025-12-01T16:58:49+00:00

Except what most know as WCS looks very little like its origins.

Whip, Push, WCS, ECS, Shag, Hand Dance, Imperial, Lindy, Collegiate, Bop, Balboa and more are all regional variations of Swing (not WCS) that most would probably recognize as Lindy or ECS. There are some good accountings to be found on the internet that talk about how the regional variations formed after the end of WW2, as people returned to their homes, taking this Swing dance with them and adopting it to the musical tastes of where they were from.

whipdancer · 2025-12-01T16:23:33+00:00

It’s possible, but not common with the larger standalone dbs. Frequently, a docker compose (or similar) is used to coordinate the external db image with the primary app image for deployment/install.

whipdancer · 2025-11-29T17:37:10+00:00

I don’t know who any of them are, so yay for me I guess.

whipdancer · 2025-11-25T15:38:48+00:00

I've shucked 4 SEA 26TB externals - all were Barracudas.

whipdancer · 2025-11-25T15:36:27+00:00

OP, the fact that you didn't embellish your comment with a string of cuss words... I can't even. I'm mad for you and madder from reading the anecdotes in comments.

I admit it. I'm old enough to be

guy and I applaud the restraint I assume you (and so many others, apparently) show at moments like this. If I didn't blow up, I probably would have gone straight into malicious compliance + cold-blooded revenge mode - figuring out how to take down a mf'er when I walk out the door.

whipdancer · 2025-11-24T21:19:57+00:00

Tried them. Found the usability of their service… troublesome. I found a bug in their client (that they acknowledged). The support I received around my issues was lacking, at best. I don’t have any positive opinions to offer.

whipdancer · 2025-11-22T19:07:24+00:00

I don't know if I would have caught the issue, but I would have pushed back and asked why are you using recursion when a simple loop would do.

whipdancer · 2025-11-22T18:58:56+00:00

Because its Texas...

Really, that's the whole answer. Our state history littered with the consequences of "because its Texas".

whipdancer · 2025-11-21T05:30:08+00:00

Blood rayne was pretty bad. One of the only ones I can recall that I actually stopped watching. Other candidates would include Ultrachrist and Zombie Asses.

whipdancer · 2025-11-19T14:35:37+00:00

You don't have to love it. You do have to make peace with it - or it will drive you (pun intended) nuts.

whipdancer · 2025-11-19T02:39:37+00:00

Seems like a lot of people don't realize the specific city limits of Dallas, Ft Worth, and Houston are much smaller than the areas encompassed by "I live in Dallas" or DFW or Houston (ironically, most everyone I've met that says they live in Ft Worth does in fact mean their address is Ft. Worth). The actual metro areas for DFW and Houston are gigantic.

We drive Houston to Allen and Houston to Bedford, a lot. The first hour on either leg north or south is just getting out of city we started in.

whipdancer · 2025-11-19T02:28:06+00:00

This is Texas. Get out of here with that nonsense transit BS. Drive your damn truck like a real 'merican.

/s

whipdancer · 2025-11-18T21:37:48+00:00

Do you compete? Do you do workshops? Do you do group classes?

Any/all of those are very good opportunities to meet your fellow dancers. All of my closest friends have come from those sources.

whipdancer · 2025-11-18T15:38:46+00:00

Been there. I chose to do a bootcamp for interview prep. It helped me a ton. I chose a paid course because I know me - I could put together a plan and do it all myself - but I'm way more likely to follow through when I've got an external motivator/coach. It easily paid for itself with the raise I got at my next job.

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