elq

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by elq 12y ago
We try very hard to NOT ask questions that have only one correct answer, and my team only interviews/hires senior people. So my approach to interviewing might be different than someone who's interviewing a fresh grad. I treat all
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by elq 12y ago
The interviewers in these loops are generally quite introverted themselves, I know I certainly am. I believe we are sensitive to people who are the same and cut them slack. My goal when interviewing someone is to determine if they will, on
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by elq 12y ago
I can't really explain it. It was a puzzle to all of the interviewers. The only reasonable hypothesis I have where I assume the candidate was honest is that the quality of the code in his github profile is largely due to help from othe
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by elq 12y ago
Oddly enough, people lie, unknown references can be bullshit. The cost of hiring someone who is incompetent is high. High enough that companies generally make several attempts at finding and filtering people that might be incompetent. I don
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by elq 12y ago
indeed! Yet, in the interview I'm thinking of, he didn't even get this far. poorly specified questions are very important to ask IMHO :)
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by elq 12y ago
>I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at... I've interviewed several people with lots of code on github and what looks like lots of accepted pull requests to many projects who still can&#x27
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by elq 12y ago
Have you actually contacted customer support for Shopping Express? I have, twice and both times my issues were resolved very much to my satisfaction quickly. Further, customer support for Nexus - my one issue with them was also satisfactori
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by elq 12y ago
You keep saying that Netflix is saving money. Please provide a reference for this.
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by elq 12y ago
I do machine learning, I don't particularly care about object layout - almost everything I deal with is just arrays of floats, doubles, or longs. I'm also not bothered by GC issues as I simply iterate over the same arrays many tim
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by elq 12y ago
In my experience, PGO is something that relatively few C/C++ programmers know about or at least use... roughly the same percentage of java programmers know how JIT works. But all java programmers get to benefit from JIT. Don't get
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by elq 12y ago
Well... A lot of hotspots potential comes from runtime profiling, this is not necessarily the same as having an optimizing compiler generating code at compile time.
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by elq 12y ago
One good reason to use a VM - JIT's can generate very very fast code. Hotspot has gotten so good that there are several cases where numeric java code I've written is faster than reasonably tuned C.
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by elq 12y ago
counterpoint http://xkcd.com/1064/ And I think you're missing the point of the post...
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by elq 12y ago
I work at netflix. zuul is used by the netflix API. It's not a cache. It's a request router. EVCache is used internally for ephemeral systems data - things that would frequently go into mysql or cassandra but don't really nee
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by elq 12y ago
no. Netflix uses aws for serving html, and other relatively low bandwidth content. But media bits are not served from aws.
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by elq 12y ago
I'm reminded of Viva from Starbridge which was supposed to make FPGA "programs" easier to build and debug - using large generic blocks. I have no idea what happened to them, but I suppose the problem was harder than they beli
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by elq 13y ago
I have a very different experience. I've had my fastmail account for ~5 years and get 20 new pieces of spam in my inbox daily, while on my gmail account, that I've used for ~10 years, I only get 1 spam per month on average. Fastma
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by elq 13y ago
Engineers are expected to take responsibility for themselves. They are, after all, "fully formed adults" (in Patty's parlance). And honestly it's not that hard to figure out which skills are useful to the work around you
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by elq 13y ago
re: friends - I think people are just put off by Patty's "we manage the company like a sports team, not a family" philosophy.
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by elq 13y ago
I've been at Netflix for close to 6 years. Working there, IMHO, is no more demanding than any other company. There are no bonus', the salary is just raised - the average pay for engineers at Netflix is something like $200k which i
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by elq 13y ago
There are no regular firings at Netflix. If a manager is really happy with all of their team, there is no pressure to rank everyone and can the lower n%. This alone suggests that it's most certainly not like stack ranking.
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by elq 13y ago
> Netflix could port the DRM if they wanted to I'm pretty sure the DRM used in the Netflix silverlight player is Microsoft's "PlayReady", so no... Netflix can't port it if they want.
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by elq 13y ago
Gilbert Strang made a great series of lectures on the big ideas of calculus sans most of the computation - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE9407EA64E2C318
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by elq 13y ago
Math. math. math. Linear algebra. Bayesian statistics. MUST know these inside out, upside down. Vector calculus. Convex optimization. A boatload of machine learning literature. The ideas coalescing into deep learning are based more than a d
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by elq 13y ago
They were apparently trying to understand performance issues with adblock, so they can fix them... // TODO(mpcomplete): remove the extension-related histograms after we collect // enough data. http://crbu
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by elq 13y ago
Yahoo isn't exactly an attractive company to many developers now, IMHO.
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by elq 13y ago
There are no free nights and weekends with this plan.
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by elq 13y ago
LTE is based on GSM. The specs found in FCC docs for what is believed to be this phone suggests that the phone contains radios that support the Sprint network which is CDMA, but does not support the Verizon LTE band. Perhaps in the not so d
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by elq 13y ago
Schneier explicitly mentioned tempest ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename) ) in the article.
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by elq 13y ago
The suggestion is that hardening is less valuable than obscurity. As long as your choice is secret and uncommon you'll probably be safer than a well known hardened OS.

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