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Es ist soweit. Der letzte #ACPP Blog vor der Weihnachtsruhe. @nosolebt und ich haben uns nochmals mit den Corona-Demonstrationen beschäftigt. Hier nur ein detaillierter 🧵 samt Bonusmaterial 🎁. 1/26

Den ganzen Blog gibt es hier:
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Im letzten Blog fanden wir heraus, dass Unterstützer*innen der Demos die Corona-Maßnahmen eher als ungerecht wahrnehmen, sich durch Verschwörungsglauben, das Coronavirus verharmlosende Ansichten sowie geringere Test- & Impfbereitschaft auszeichnen. 2/
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@msulzbacher hat damals über den Blog berichtet:
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In June, #DeJoy bought $50,000 to $100,000 of #Amazon stock options. In July, a directive to sort Amazon packages 1st meant "deliberately delaying the delivery of 1st-class & priority mail" (@PressHerald 8/10). thread theverge.com/2020/8/13/2136…
"Hundreds" of #sorting machines "have been destroyed around the country," acc'g to #Maine Rep @chelliepingree. Some are worth more than $1 million. “There is no rational explanation that any mail sorting machines would be secretly thrown in the trash," centralmaine.com/2020/08/19/2-m…
"On the heels of Pres Trump’s assertion last week that he was deliberately blocking support to USPS, this report calls into further question the Trump administration’s attempts to hinder voting-by-mail and destabilize our elections": Rep @chelliepingree (D-ME).
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“Why do companies ask data structure&algorithm questions? It’s not like you’d use this day to day...”

At my past 3 companies - Skype/Microsoft, Skyscanner, Uber - I needed to use them to write some code, and *especially* to understand things. Here’s some examples. A thread.
At Skype, building Skype for Xbox One, the platform was missing a bunch of basic libraries. We built a navigation framework on top of WinJS that needed to keep track, and in some cases, traverse the DOM tree. #Trees, #DFS, #BFS
Also at Skype, one of the devs was obsessed with performance. For the contact list sorting, he built his own algo. I used the O(n) approach to tell him why this was silly. Then built a faster version. Then we benchmarked the built-in sort which was faster #sorting #facepalm
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