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2. When to use HashtableLet’s say we have a dictionary, where each word has its definition. Also, we need to get, insert and remove words from the dictionary quickly.Hence, Hashtable (or HashMap) makes sense. Words will be the keys in the Hashtable, as they are supposed to be unique. Definitions, on the other hand, will be the values.
Source: An Introduction to java.util.Hashtable Class | Baeldung
Focus directs your energy toward your goals. The more focused you are, the more energy goes toward what you’re working on. Eliminating things that you care about is hard. You have to make tradeoffs. If you can’t make those tradeoffs, you’re not going to get far. The cost of not being focused is high. The direction you’re going in is important to the extent that you’re applying energy to it. If you’re focusing your energy on 10 goals, you’re not focused, and instead of having a few completed projects, you
When the biggest platforms seem to be flailing or punting on problems, it’s often because they’re trying to address broad social issues with market solutions. They’re rediscovering, at scale and at great expense to their users, the ways in which a society is more than a bazaar, and the pitfalls of allowing human attention to be sold and resold as a commodity. If a platform is addressing a collective problem in a maddeningly strange way, consider that it might see itself, or only know to govern itself, like
Source: Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay – The New York Times
On the other hand, the Trump Administration is not a normal Presidential Administration. This is the essential and easily fudged fact of our historical moment. The Trump Administration is—in ways that are specific to incipient tyrannies—all about an assault on civility. To the degree that Trump has any ideology at all, it’s a hatred of civility—a belief that the normal decencies painfully evolved over centuries are signs of weakness which occlude the natural order of domination and submission. It’s why Trum
As I looked around, I noticed that the most successful people I know have one thing in common: they are masters at eliminating the unnecessary from their lives. The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry hit on the same idea, writing in his memoir, “Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” This principle, it turns out, is the key to success.
How will the administration react to the blowback when the trade war really gets going? Will it admit that it misjudged the effects of its policies? Of course not. What I predict, instead, is that it will start seeing villains under every bed. It will attribute the downsides of trade conflict not to its own actions, but to George Soros and the deep state. I’m not sure how they can work MS-13 into it, but they’ll surely try. The point is that the politics of trade war will probably end up looking like Trum
Source: Opinion | The Great Soybean Conspiracy – The New York Times
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Coordinating the work of many people often leads to slack and downtime.
Persuading others to go along with our ideas requires clarity, persistence and time.
Pathfinding our way to the right answer isn’t always obvious and takes guts.
The first thing we try rarely works, and testing can take a long time to organize.
Persuading ourselves to move forward can take even longer.
A coordinated, committed group with a plan for continuous testing and improvement can run circles around a disorganized group of frightened dilettantes.
Source: Farnam Street Principles
All of this is based on the self-discrepancy theory of the the three selves: the actual self, the ideal self, and the ought self. The actual self is what a person believes themselves to be now, based on current attributes and abilities. The ideal self is comprised of the attributes and abilities they’d like to possess one day—in essence, their goals, hopes, and aspirations. The ought self is who someone believes they should have been according to their obligations and responsibilities. In terms of regrets,
Source: How to Avoid a Life of Regret
This is a useful page:
Employees love benefits almost as much as they love bonuses. For many employees, it’s one of the determining factors whether they’d keep their employment for the long-term or move on to another company. For businessmen and employers, it’s a consideration that must be taken seriously to boost employee satisfaction. Employee benefits are non-salary compensation that can vary from company to company. Benefits are indirect and non-cash payments within a compensation package. They are provided by organizations
Source: Take Note: List Of Mandatory Employee Benefits In The Philippines