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by ashr 5y ago
This is the exact opposite of my experience at AWS. Amazon is all about blameless fact finding when it comes to root cause analysis. Your company just hired a not so great engineer or misunderstood him.
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by ashr 6y ago
Looks like something common between the control plane and data plane failed or there is a run-time dependency between the two (bad!) and that dependency failed.
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by ashr 6y ago
I don't believe 2.5 hours is representative, so please cite these studies. Personally,senior engineers (individual contributors) that I have worked with spend 4-6 hours per day making significant contributions on their own and the othe
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by ashr 12y ago
Towers of Hanoi problem (simple version with 3 towers) is a good practical recursion problem that is stimulating and good for visualization.
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by ashr 12y ago
This summer my kids (elementary & middle school) did the Intro to JS and Advanced JS courses. They really got hooked due to interactive creativity and video lessons. The audio narrative was really fun and kept them interested. Therefore
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by ashr 12y ago
I hear there is a river named Amazon in Southern Hemisphere and there are people landing in Seattle for river expeditions.
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by ashr 12y ago
All I see in your argument is preconceived opinions with speculative statements and nothing to back them up. Sorry but you did not add anything to this discussion, not even in the form of new questions or pointing out flaws in the post&#x27
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by ashr 13y ago
You are assuming that their Business model is to profit from the difference in cost of shipping and prime subscription revenue. Rather than profit from a higher purchase volume if one has prime shipping than not. I for one have observed tha
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by ashr 13y ago
<sarcasm> Right!!! </sarcasm>
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by ashr 13y ago
Wish I could upvote more than once.
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by ashr 13y ago
Ditto. Definitely seems like it has the potential to be the Killer app based on the viral potential of P2P, anonymity and widely adapted OS platform. All the best.
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by ashr 14y ago
That is fantastic info about actual execution, many congratulations to you. It will be great if you could please share your age group range (very roughly; 20+, 30+, 40+ etc). Just trying to relate the results with the age group.
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by ashr 14y ago
Start with www.coursera.org. There, you will find classes with varying degree of difficulty. If you can, audit a computer science class in the nearby college/university. Build something that you think you would be able to use yourself. Buil
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by ashr 14y ago
I agree with the other observations here that the timings aren't even in the ballpark. For North Denver Metro area, it is displaying 50-60mins for places that are 25 mins away in rush hour.
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by ashr 15y ago
+1. OpenPhoto offers the freedom of storing my photos in the storage I own and it is something I really care about. Besides, it is an open source project. I can even run my own server if I wanted to!
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by ashr 15y ago
This is a nice idea executed well. Don't stop here.
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by ashr 15y ago
While you mentioned that you would like to know more details, at the same time you make it sound like you know the current inner workings of how Microsoft spam filters work. Do you work for Microsoft spam filtering/email software teams and
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by ashr 15y ago
Agree with m0th87. Right after my undergrad, I worked in the industry for 5 years and then went to Grad school. Since completing the grad school it has been 10 more years in the industry. My industry experience has been great so far and I l
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by ashr 15y ago
It is unfortunate that instead of turning into a discussion about how to excel in an algorithms interview (which is what the original post is about) this thread has wandered into whether it is useful to even learn algorithms. What a waste!
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by ashr 15y ago
Have you ever experienced coworkers discussing something in front of the computer and touching the monitor screen time and again to point out things? It is not the most popular use case, but it does show that touching a screen to interact w
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by ashr 15y ago
As compared to what? A traditional desktop like interface with application icons scattered over the background? As in... iOS? One would think that the live tiles with continuously updated information show more "connection" with the user.
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by ashr 15y ago
Facebook and Dropbox are not like running water yet and even that isn't available everywhere. A lot of users still use USB drives to copy pictures.
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by ashr 15y ago
Yes. With the eclipse.ini changes alone mine starts in 6 seconds now instead of 30+ seconds. Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 CPU, 4 GB DDR3 RAM.
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by ashr 15y ago
I agree. I was very skeptical about having a "Windows" OS slapped on the touch devices, but after seeing this first video I would say that it doesn't look bad. Lack of complexity in UX and lack of capabilities are 2 different things. The f
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by ashr 16y ago
I am guessing that this is because you are off-topic, writing about the publisher which doesn't seem to be the topic of the OP.
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by ashr 16y ago
Note: This response is about software TDD and not some high level TDD If you don't know the problem then you are just winging it. Writing software is always with a goal (can it be without?) and thus you should be able to write a test (firs
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by ashr 16y ago
Ditto. Couldn't agree more, in fact, I was going to write something very similar. At high level also, Start-ups do need a TDD philosophy. For Start-up business ideas, the market is the test suite (to take the software analogy further) t
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by ashr 16y ago
Plan B? Not Really. More like a wish-list.
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by ashr 16y ago
I have no idea if there is a specific non-engineer that this post is talking about. The author of the referenced techcrunch article Bindu Reddy is certainly not a non-engineer : http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bindu-reddy It also seems t
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by ashr 16y ago
The way I see it Microsoft brings a lot to the table that only a few could: A fresh new OS in WP7, cloud computing infrastructure, it's own gaming ecosystem in XBox platform and its UX integration with the phone OS etc among other things. S

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