The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten — and TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing

Issue #741 — April 19, 2022

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The best engineering interview question I’ve ever gotten quuxplusone.github.io \| points: 818 \| comments: 390

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TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing slate.com \| points: 600 \| comments: 297

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‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania pahouse.com \| points: 432 \| comments: 238

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Mental speed is high until age sixty nature.com \| points: 431 \| comments: 247

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Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement news.slashdot.org \| points: 398 \| comments: 554

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The Uber Bubble braveneweurope.com \| points: 395 \| comments: 519

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Unreal vs. Unity Opinion gist.github.com \| points: 395 \| comments: 290

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James Webb telescope’s coldest instrument reaches operating temperature phys.org \| points: 364 \| comments: 175

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CatalanGate: Spyware operation against Catalans using Pegasus and Candiru citizenlab.ca \| points: 333 \| comments: 218

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Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM semianalysis.substack.com \| points: 328 \| comments: 203

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Assume your devices are compromised go350.com \| points: 304 \| comments: 179

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Americans are drowning in spam axios.com \| points: 296 \| comments: 385

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Cytopia: Open-source city simulator with pixel-art graphics github.com \| points: 279 \| comments: 94

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M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2 eclecticlight.co \| points: 263 \| comments: 266

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BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking birdnetpi.com \| points: 259 \| comments: 59

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No one knows why the most used spacecraft propulsion system works twitter.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 107

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Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn up pressure on board forbes.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 346

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7-Zip up to 21.07 on Windows allows privilege escalation and command execution github.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 57

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The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want joemorrison.substack.com \| points: 203 \| comments: 104

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Europe’s now-drowned ’lost world’ and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off everythingisamazing.substack.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 99

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How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf] — and The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)

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