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by bonobo3000 10y ago
I'm not totally sure how a blockchain works so please correct me if im wrong - for a hard fork to happen in Ethereum or Bitcoin, the majority of users have to "agree" by switching to thew new blockchain right? In that case, t
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
yeah. adding to this, a great proof that uses new techniques can also generate whole new areas of math to explore or solve other seemingly unrelated problems.
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
They mentioned using hadoop for file storage - perhaps they are just using HDFS and not MapReduce. Otherwise, Spark is relatively new, so they might have some older infra/jobs in Hadoop. Storm and Spark streaming work a little differen
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
Awesome post, thank you so much! I'll get started on the crawler soon :)
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Ask HN: How to *really* learn concurrency,parallelism?
10 points by bonobo3000 10y ago|8 comments
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
Its both. Now news is mostly consumed online, and everyone is competing for eyeballs. I think technology exacerbates the problem - earlier a newspaper could have a bunch of eyeball grabbing headlines, AND real, informative, boring content i
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
Thats a great process. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get rid of the phone screen, even assuming you have some github and contacts? Just ask the recruiter?
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
Agreed! If we did nothing to correct inequalities in society, the biggest and strongest would rule over all - so yes we must have our own values and stick to them. And with AI, we must make these values explicit, which is very difficult to
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
Yeah, i don't really know enough to argue that. You're probably right about the convictions. I just think we need to be able to TALK about these issues, so that when a real expert looks at those statistics they can get to the trut
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
IMO, no one wants to acknowledge simple facts for fear of retribution/being labelled racist, instead we keep dancing around this issue forever getting more and more ridiculous. Also, trust me i can talk about this because i'm not
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
This also doesn't mention the horrible inflexibility of the H-1B once you have it. Once on an H-1B, you literally have ZERO days of unemployment between jobs. If you are fired, laid-off, or leave your job for any reason at all (say hea
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
I'm curious - what do people use now to find jobs? I'm still relying pretty heavily on LinkedIn for recruiters to contact me.
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
this is cool, ive been burned by trying to move a virtualenv before and discovering everything broke. is it possible to merge this into virtualenv? i think it would be much easier to use that way.
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
Consuming "probiotics" is a very similar idea to this. It promotes exactly this kind of food - yogurts, kefir etc.
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
Hey Josh, i have one question - how do the rules about disclosing salary change when you're talking to an external recruiter (from an agency)? I don't quite understand who's "side" they are on - on one hand, it seem
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
If you are only thinking about it, yes. If you want to take a decision based on the thought process, you have to pick a side at one point, knowing that it might not be the right side.
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Ask HN: Jobs working with compilers/PLs?
1 points by bonobo3000 10y ago|0 comments
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by bonobo3000 10y ago
I like it! I have similar opinions on static vs. dynamic, Java vs Python or PLs in general - too many judgements are based on shallow first impressions or ease of getting started to the detriment of future maintenance. Check out Scala :) It
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
It sounds like you like knowing how the whole thing works, end-to-end. At big companies with so much pre-existing code & infra, thats not really possible. Maybe a startup would be a better fit for you? Thats one of the things I loved ab
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
I think this is a great idea, let the H1B prices be freely controlled by market, and let companies buy/sell H1Bs among themselves. People have mentioned that this makes things more expensive for companies. This is true, but i wish some
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
>What's old is new again I suppose. The browser, in general, feels like a giant step forward. I wish, though, that some ecosystem had evolved where Javascript wasn't the sole supported client side language. Webassembly is comin
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
interesting to compare FBs responses with psychology's basic emotions - FB 6 basic emotions - angry, sad, wow, haha, yay, and love Humintell's 7 basic emotions - anger, sadness, surprise (aka wow), joy (aka haha/yay?), fear,
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Shimano may not have been a good guy, but its kind of weird how its framed as the evil man exploiting the poor, vulnerable women, rather than a consensual act between 2 people.
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Ask HN: Understanding a large python codebase
12 points by bonobo3000 11y ago|7 comments
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
Most languages compile the source to an AST, so I would say the AST is one level of abstraction below source code. Then, text and graphical languages could be equally powerful if each can represent any AST the other can.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
It might not be necessary but it does help scale cheaply. You could have people pick up the phone and order food for you when requested, but if they can route that through an API 99% of the time it costs a whole lot less time & money.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
What? I get the article was provocative, but this doesn't make any sense.. * If a startup/piece of technology takes $X to make (VC money, costs of running business etc.) and makes more than $X, it DOES grow the pie. This is almost
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
I have been writing a lisp interpreter and mind=blown. I really want to write a harder one now - maybe a basic python interpreter, or make my own little language :D I also really want to get proficient enough in the JS world to make a simpl
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
I highly recommend Jeremy Kun's blog - Math and Programming ( http://jeremykun.com/ ). His posts are always awesome.
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by bonobo3000 11y ago
You might be interested to know Scala's new compiler dotty takes the phase approach - there are 40-50 phases and logic for fusing phases together to work in one traversal. Check it out - a list of all the phases in the source! https:&

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