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by behdad 29d ago
Thanks. :) Yeah this is not the main wedding invitation. There's a proper HTML with details. This is extra me going wild with the agents fun side. If we were to expect people to finish this to get to the RSVP, we'd have exactly tw
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Show HN: Loft Day – a wedding invitation turned point-and-click game(marketa.behdad.org)
9 points by behdad 1mo ago|6 comments
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by behdad 5mo ago
msdf still suffers from detail loss at large sizes, which this method doesn't have.
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HarfBuzz at 20(docs.google.com)
1 points by behdad 7mo ago|1 comments
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by behdad 7mo ago
A wave of manic energy in December had me put together a long deck called "HarfBuzz at 20! " , celebrating 20 years of HarfBuzz. I designed the deck to be presented at the #WebEnginesHackfest later this year. Then reality hit that
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HarfBust: A font software puzzle for the curious(behdad.github.io)
3 points by behdad 1y ago|1 comments
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by behdad 1y ago
I have a puzzle for the hacker in you: The font HarfBust.ttf is an offshoot of Anton Regular, with a twist: - On software using HarfBuzz (as far back as you go, back to the 2000s) and HarfBuzz only, it will ligate "HarfBuzz" t
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by behdad 1y ago
Thank you for the question. Rasterization is not my specialty. There definitely is still immense amount of research going into rasterizing fonts and 2D graphics on the GPU efficiently. Here's the latest from Raph Levien's research
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We maintain HarfBuzz – Ask us anything (or tell us what confused you)(old.reddit.com)
4 points by behdad 1y ago|4 comments
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by behdad 1y ago
We’re the maintainers of HarfBuzz, the open-source text shaping engine used by browsers, operating systems, and applications to render all text, including supporting scripts like Arabic, Devanagari, Khmer, CJK, and more. HarfBuzz is known f
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by behdad 2y ago
Browser zoom works fine for me. Does it not for you?
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by behdad 2y ago
Hi. As mentioned, I'll expand on my motivations in a future paper. -behdad
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State of Text Rendering 2024(behdad.org)
204 points by behdad 2y ago|66 comments
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by behdad 3y ago
Like it or not for hiring purposes it does.
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by behdad 3y ago
How does that work with new grads?
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by behdad 3y ago
Assuming that the dictionary is arbitrary as well, just comparing the string to the strings in the dictionary (or hashing it) it takes O(n), regardless of the data-structure you use.
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by behdad 3y ago
That is a correct solution. The one I was talking about would stop after just trying "The" and "reis".
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by behdad 3y ago
My bad. The dictionary should be {"the", "there", "is"}.
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by behdad 3y ago
Imagine the string "there is", and the dictionary {"the", "there", "is"}.
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by behdad 3y ago
I beg to differ, this is exactly the opposite of a manhole problem, which I tried to explain, which I clearly failed.
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by behdad 3y ago
My mid-mark would be where someone could write the code for the brute-force answer for both parts but couldn't get the memoize / dynamic-programming solution. That would be where I'd say "I'm not sure, look at other
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by behdad 3y ago
You'd be surprised.. but we're trying to distinguish between someone who can code simple algorithms versus one who can't.
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by behdad 3y ago
Typically candidates are scored on a scale. And there are multiple interviews. The final hire / no-hire is decided based on the scores and written feedback from all interviews.
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by behdad 3y ago
It is true that many companies, Google included, have added area-specific questions including some for frontend webdev if I remember correctly.
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by behdad 3y ago
As someone who actually uses algorithms and data-structures in their job, I disagree.
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by behdad 3y ago
Thanks. That's definitely an interesting question. How does it do with new grads? How do you grade people on that on a numerical scale? Curious.
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by behdad 3y ago
This is very nice indeed. I should mock-interview someone using it.
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by behdad 3y ago
> How do you measure the question's success? Is there some kind of feedback you get about how the person you made a decision about went on to perform? Not the latter. However, there are five interviews that each candidate goes throu
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by behdad 3y ago
You are absolutely right. I should have been more clear about the dictionary size being large compared to n, and similar about the length of the longest word in it for all my analysis to follow.
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by behdad 3y ago
Multiplication.

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