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that defend it as if it was a good thing.

I haven't really seen much of that. Just people pointing out that from the start the game has always said a PSN account was required to play online, but a bug meant that it wasn't enforced.

Ultimately it's all shit Sony is pulling as the bastard publishers.

Sony is their publisher and gets to force their hands on things.

If they say no they cease to exist on any platform, steam included.

Why would I want an OS to edit text? It's already on *nix - I want the best text editor smh

Why quit out of the superior text editor?

You can request a steam refund even if you're over 2 hours of playtime, it just isn't automatic

The silver lining: steam's refund policy is good enough that most of them will get their money back. Hopefully that's painful to Sony.

Yeah and how many applicants do you have a day? Hundreds? Tens? How long is your average posting open?

Cause I do interviews as well - the candidates are many and the positions few.

What worked best for me was taking notes on some common algorithms and patterns. Dynamic programming is a really common domain of algorithms that you'll find in coding questions, but you'll need to know a bit of everything. Major graphing algorithms like Kruskals and Dijkstra's, BFS/DFS and maybe the Bellman-Ford algorithm etc etc etc.

But most importantly as you take notes on what each of these concepts or algorithms are - write in your own words how to choose them from the list of possible solutions.

Here's a sample of notes I wrote on backtracking algorithms:

The basic idea of backtracking is that you permute based on a given state, iterating it forward by 1 then removing afterwards to check the next state. It is faster than using a hash table because you're not constantly creating objects.

For example, when trying to do combinatorial sums:

[1, 2, 4] goal 7

You have the following correct answers: [[1,1,1,1,1,1,1], [1,1,1,1,1,2], [1,1,1,2,2], [1,1,1,4], [1,2,2,2], [1,2,4]]

You can quickly see a repeating pattern of values, which is a clear sign of backtracking being an efficient solution.

The point of all of this is to get it into your head how to choose which algorithm, then you work on the speed with leetcode practice. So my regimen when I was searching for a job was to take an hour a day to study an old concept or learn a new one and then run some leetcode questions. This worked much better than unguided random grinding.

The other issue with coding questions is defining the parameters and other communications skills. That's a bit trickier - but ultimately Programming is a collaborative field. The stereotype of the aloof genius programmer who doesn't talk to anyone is noxious: those kinds of people destroy programming teams. The best programmers are collaborative and have good communication skills. They know when to ask questions and when to interpret ambiguity on their own.

That's the harder part to get if you don't have it (it took me more than a decade) but it makes a massive difference in the results.

Good luck and God speed.

Easy way to never get a job.

The market is very competitive right now.

No, not if they already had a "correct" solution.

It's normal to know the answer you're looking for before you ask the question, and they thought they did in this case.

You can't fix a problem that you're being forced to create by your owners.

Sony owns¹ them. Sony says "force PSN log in" and Arrowhead either does what they're told or gets replaced.

1. it has been pointed out that Sony doesn't literally own them. They're the publisher and choose if the game ever sees the light of day but since that's legally distinct from ownership: Sony doesn't own Arrowhead, they just have their balls in a vice grip and a gun to the CEO's head. Totally different.

A diet of fear mongering media with a heaping helping of social isolation.

Antisocial monsters are made surprisingly easily.

I bought 2 of the large bags from Costco this season.

Not my wisest move as far as long term health is concerned but definitely a delicious move.

Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs - specifically the ones for Easter. Those things are insanely easy for me to eat 2000 calories of.

Nah we're not coming for the stoves. We're coming for the entire methane leaking gasworks inside and out.

Natural gas has no place in the 21st century.

It's also a really common result of COVID

Other article specified pneumonia was post intubation

He went to the hostpital for trouble breathing.

In the hospital he was intubated. He got pneumonia and then MRSA in his blood.

He's not, but he's the first one elected using ranked choice.

That was technically the primary. That's 1M registered Democrats - which you had to be to vote.