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Apple doesn’t use Leetcode. It’s often an 8 hour whiteboard interview during with you write pseudo code for the most part. You can’t “cram” for an Apple interview typically.

It would be great if editors had some kind of terms limits to avoid the WikiMafia stuff we commonly see.

Given that editors are pseudo-anonymous, there are some limitations on enforcing this. Sure you could term-limit a given account but the same person could have several accounts. I know sock puppets are not technically allowed but it's not entirely possible to prevent without sacrificing the anonymity of account ownership.

Good communication should be the goal of all writing.


You wouldn't spell out URL, SSH or HTTPS on hacker news either. I understand it's frustrating, but you can't accommodate everyone.


No one is in a position to dictate individual people what their goals are. That's another example of entitlement.

As an individual author they are entitled to write whatever they want in their blogpost. I as a consumer of their writing am not entitled to anything


Good communication for who?


Trackball?


Trackball.


Have you used Oracle, Salesforce, Windows? That’s why.


PTA isn’t the place. The school board is.


PTA isn’t the place. The school board is.

Well I would still want all the parents to be in the loop even if many won't care.

Also:

- Yup let the board know.

- Notify all biker clubs in North America that explicitly protect children.

- Notify the local Sheriff.

- Notify Chris Hansen to keep an eye on Bob.


The board might not even be the right place. They’re watching children in minimal dress athletics. I think the DA or the AG’s office might be the right place.


You could look at disposable income. That’s a more objective measure.


I think that depends on one's definition of disposable income. I think technically it's more or less what I was calling "net". But many people use it to mean "after I pay my mortgage, and my utilities, and my other thing". The further we go in that second direction the more it captures what I'm getting at.

As an example, if I have kids who need daycare and one country provides free daycare and another does not, then we need to account for the cost of daycare in our equation. And that may or may not fall under one's definition of disposable income.


The further you go in that direction, the more you have to include personal circumstances and values and the less useful it is for general comparison. Of course, the whole premise of looking at just average net income is a bit odd, so looking at expected quality of life makes more sense anyways.


100%. To use my daycare example, if someone didn't have kids, they're not realizing any value out of that.

So sure, there's an even more nebulous "value to society" concept, but since TFA is trying to get to dollars and cents I was trying to focus it on overall personal value. But even then one needs to not treat tax dollars equally.


Not having to use outlook is a feature not a bug.


Completely agree. I hate kids being stuck in a Google ecosystem. Apple’s classroom app is really good.


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