Mahh

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by Mahh 9y ago
I'm not the person you responded to, but I did also recently make a transition from an individual contributor role into a management role and can share some experiences. In addition to taking on more leadership roles in engineering pro
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by Mahh 9y ago
The fact here isn't quite right. (I'm an employee at Dropbox) Primarily, until 2 years ago we did lean on S3 for all block storage, but most of the rest of the infrastructure (metadata storage, etc) ran in our own datacenters. You
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by Mahh 10y ago
I think a few visits to a therapist may help you discover more about yourself. (Though I do think some people associate 'going to therapy' as 'having problems', I see it also just as a resource for guiding introspection.
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by Mahh 12y ago
I would recommend trying to learn whatever tools they use, so that when you start you can focus your mind on the projects and less so on the environment. Once you start, you will be less overwhelmed, and you'll consciously feel good ab
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by Mahh 13y ago
That's only in regard to a phishing attack, but two factor authentication protects you in the case that you lose your password to an adversary who tries to log in themselves. If said adversary can steal your password through other mean
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by Mahh 14y ago
Hashing passwords for storage is standard practice in all systems that involve password based authentication. Even then, the password must reside in memory at some point in order to compute the hash of your password [using bycrypt or whatev
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by Mahh 14y ago
If you're interested becoming afraid around your cars, some of my security friends at the University of Washington have been busting up cars for research: http://www.autosec.org/faq.html This paper is particularly in depth and interesting
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by Mahh 14y ago
I'm a CS student at the University of Washington. We do something [that I consider] interesting here to staff TAs for courses, which is hire undergraduate teaching assistants. Generally, a course will have one head TA who is a grad student,
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by Mahh 14y ago
An additional thought on this is that not only my own time went into games, but my competitive spirit did too. After dropping games, my hunger for being competitive and becoming more skilled did go into computer science, and my rate of impr
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by Mahh 14y ago
Most of the mainstream tech companies that the other students are going after don't ask for GPA. The only company who did go out of their way to ask for it is Google. I don't list my GPA on my resume at all, and it's worked out pretty well
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by Mahh 14y ago
Do you have any resources for studying up on design concerns? It's easy to find software examples and instructions online, but I really have no idea where to start with building my eye for design. Thanks.
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by Mahh 14y ago
This reads like a post that exists just so that people pirating music can give themselves an excuse to keep doing so. I'd be interested in seeing the process that Hammond took to establish this relationship between pre release piracy and al
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by Mahh 14y ago
You might consider looking for companies that really interest you, and you can directly email their recruiters. As a student who has had my fair share of internship hunting, I find it more reliable to go hunting for what interests me rather
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by Mahh 14y ago
His discussion pertains to actual sources of randomness(not just the notion of randomness). Even randomness in our technology is generated from deterministic models. It's sort of strange -- Physics seems like it should be deterministic, so
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by Mahh 14y ago
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/multitask.html Really liked this one since we all try to multitask all the time(and fail context switching)
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by Mahh 15y ago
I wouldn't worry about it since you have so much time. Seems like you're in a pretty good spot. I'd consider getting into internships while you're in University(If you go to Waterloo, I think that they pretty much force you to do these in o
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by Mahh 15y ago
I wonder if finding sketchiness in those image results could be automated. Everyone through the machine stands in the same position, they're just of sort of various statures. I mean, the supposed upgrade would mean that they are reducing th
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by Mahh 15y ago
I'd say that the point is more on the company's perspective. Even if some people realize <what you said> and know to just go for it, the job description scares away some people who could otherwise be qualified. And a new startup pro
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by Mahh 15y ago
He's only saying that a copy of a brain would create a separate entity, and that separate entities won't share experiences. Like how identical twins have different experiences. There were no claims about morality of using brain models for t
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by Mahh 16y ago
Putting myself in positions where I have to pull through. Like signing up to be a TA at the university -- now I know that I have to really master the course content. Or telling people that I do/will do x and y.. so now I have to do x and y
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by Mahh 16y ago
I feel like reading this article may make me react in the same way that the sample groups of the tests did. Hopefully in the much greater long term, that'd be nice. Good thing I read it(maybe). I had noticed the same pattern in myself. My p
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by Mahh 16y ago
Some cool stuff here: http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/ The real challenge behind Watson is the natural language parsing. Instead of abstracting information away from their sources(like a graph), sources seem to have been left
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by Mahh 16y ago
>But I’m convinced that almost anyone can be drawn into maths if they are presented with something intriguing or surprising which prompts them to want to investigate That's what I used to think when trying to get other students into pro
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by Mahh 16y ago
This reminds me of that 'troll math' post some time back. There was a square of edge length 1, but the corners were bent such that the total length(4) around the shape would stay the same. And then to infinity the corners were raggedly bent
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by Mahh 16y ago
This reminds me of when Heroku was acquired... I call it Cloud 2
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by Mahh 16y ago
This could be a fun experiment on how many people click the upvote based on pg's name
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by Mahh 16y ago
I have my account filled with tiny apps that barely do anything from when I was making apps to learn rails. There should be a ton of people like this too.
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by Mahh 16y ago
It's not
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by Mahh 16y ago
The families of many of those students you refer to are just as shattered as their neighborhoods and that may be what makes it easy for them to be susceptible to influence from the neighborhoods. They wouldn't particularly care if boarding
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by Mahh 16y ago
Techcrunch really is eating up these Google and Facebook stories. I mean they're kind of interesting, but not interesting in the way that stories on innovation are interesting. I kind of want to see the perspective of lower level google em

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