Arcten

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by Arcten 5y ago
Iterating via reference instead of copy in C++ is a great way to get a speed up with a one character change. I.e. changing for (const MyType v : collection) to for (const MyType& v : collection)
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by Arcten 6y ago
This view ignores that energy can have a different cost in different locations, and that fuel is convenient due to its portable nature. Converting energy into fuel may be economically viable at a solar plant in the middle of a desert even i
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by Arcten 8y ago
Thank you. Those were in cash, RSUs were separate. It is definitely very high, and I feel fortunate to have gotten it. Many of my fellow interns received similar signing bonuses on their return offers, so at least for people in similar situ
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by Arcten 8y ago
As a new grad from CMU undergrad, every offer I had came with a sign on bonus (n=5). Size ranged from 5k at a smaller public company to 75-100k at a couple of FAANG companies, one of which I was a returning intern at.
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by Arcten 8y ago
>I'm a member of a protected class [...] Technically speaking, we all are, no? We all have genders, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities? Of course you probably meant that you fall into a minority group in one of those classes, b
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by Arcten 8y ago
I haven't found an academic source for this, but the suggestion is that even though triggers for fires may be unrelated, the scope and intensity of the fires are intensified due to the effects of climate change. This article discusses
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by Arcten 8y ago
I spent 4 months travelling throughout Spanish South America and some of my favorite cities where I would consider being a nomad were Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Medellín, and Valparaíso. All have good night-life, art, and excepting Medellín
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by Arcten 8y ago
I've done quite a few phone screens with coding over the past few years, and the best solution I've found is a headset. Speakerphone means that the interviewer hears every key-stroke and likely can't hear you. A decent set of
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by Arcten 8y ago
Not that it detracts from your point, but the best offers I've seen for FB new grad are 115k salary, 270k/4 RSUs, and 100k signing, giving ~280k first year.
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by Arcten 9y ago
Probably, one day of lecture on the material would be useless. But the weekly homework assignments force you to develop a better understanding. I frequently remember topics, assignments, and even specific questions from this course when the
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by Arcten 9y ago
@pinboard for excellent snark + tech political activism
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by Arcten 9y ago
For such a "lingua franca" the pure number of speakers is not quite as relevant as the distribution of those speakers. According to the numbers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
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by Arcten 9y ago
I invest using mutual funds through Vanguard. Some percentage US stock fund, some percentage US bond fund, some percentage international stock, and some percentage international bond. This is by far the simplest and easiest approach. I curr
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by Arcten 9y ago
It's neither. All BarZapp does is read the barcode and check that it contains reasonable information and it formatted according to the standards. Vendors have figured out proper formatting so they look appropriate to BarZapp. Of course
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by Arcten 9y ago
Teslin and PVC are still big, although some states are using polycarbonate as well. Real holograms got a lot easier. IDGod (among other vendors), apart from selling IDs, also sells bulk holograms, so most vendors on Reddit now have them. Th
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by Arcten 9y ago
I've been interested in this topic for a while. The article was fairly good but I did have a few minor quibbles. For one, ordering from IDGod (the vendor in the story) is known to be very reliable. If packages get stopped at customs, a
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by Arcten 9y ago
A Github account for someone earning $500k is probably completely empty, or barely touched. When you're getting paid that much to program, typically your attention is less focused on your side projects.
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by Arcten 9y ago
Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills is the de facto reference book for most serious mountaineers
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by Arcten 9y ago
The standard advice given to incoming CS students at my university who ask how they should prepare over the summer is typically "don't do any studying at all", in the sense that it is rare to have so much free time and it is
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by Arcten 9y ago
Using the HyperLogLog algorithm to estimate the number of unique elements in huge datasets: http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinali... Very cool algorithm used in (among other things) redis.
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by Arcten 9y ago
I have no inside information, but I've bicycled past them on occasion and felt comfortable enough. Lots of friends posting about riding in them and the experience seems to have been positive for them as well. There are so many around t
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by Arcten 10y ago
I don't have that information, and I perhaps was a little too strong in my phrasing. Nevertheless, if you're not confident that you fall at an E5 level when joining, there's a chance you'll come in at E4, which is not ne
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by Arcten 10y ago
Average salary is about $170,000, RSU grant is somewhere between $260,000 - $300,000 over 4 years. Number of datapoints on that is somewhere between 20 and 40. Do note that if you're on the cusp of a level, Facebook can and will put yo
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by Arcten 10y ago
How many years of experience do you have? Salary is fairly tightly banded depending on your level E3 - E6+. You can estimate level based on description here: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-expectation-out-of-each-so...
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by Arcten 10y ago
What's even cooler, is that after building this VM (for the C0 language) as a freshman, you can come back as a junior/senior and write a compiler for that language in 15-411. It's a very cool way of going full circle.
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by Arcten 10y ago
This is part of the premium you pay for using Apple products. While the design is aesthetically nice, you are limited in your flexibility. This is why I prefer other operating systems that I find easier to customize.
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by Arcten 10y ago
The only internships in your link are support roles or are in Hyderabad. I'm very interested doing an SDE internship for AWS, what would be the best way for me to do that?
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by Arcten 10y ago
Based on some of the quotes from Twitter, I don't think they will be suppressing non-verified users. It seems this is more so that people who would be deserving of verification based on the criteria that previously existed don't n
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by Arcten 10y ago
If you're alright with destroying the notebooks, you could try removing the spines and running them through a tray-fed scanner. That would be much faster than taking individual pictures/scans of each page.
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by Arcten 10y ago
Make sure that you are sipping from the side opposite the seam that runs up the side of the cup. If you have a lid, put the hole on that opposite side as well. I believe this reduces the dripping.

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