ethbr0

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by ethbr0 3y ago
Not this time! But for every candidate that could answer, I think so.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I've also had good luck asking about a project they were on that went off the rails and what they'd do differently next time around. You can tell pretty quickly how involved they were and if they were thinking through solutions vs
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by ethbr0 3y ago
That's why I try to ask open-ended questions. Get to a solution. Might not be my solution, but at least get me there. How do you run candidate interviews?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
My high water mark was the basics... and then the candidate drawing an analogy between char as primitive and char-array-based-strings as object oriented classes that offered additional functionality on top of chars.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Customer-facing implementation engineer, more or less.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
It's a grab bag, tell-me-something-interesting icebreaker question. I'm looking for some evidence of the fact that you can differentiate the two in some meaningful way. Not intended to be a gotcha question! Just a quick test of ba
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I interviewed a guy the other day. CS degree. "I have a proven track record of building and leading amazing engineering teams." "Okay. What's the difference between a character and a string?" *crickets* We all have
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by ethbr0 3y ago
tl;dr - Output nuclear fusion power, plasma volume, and magnetic field strength scale differently with reactor size increases In detail, I'll let someone smarter than me in nuclear physics explain: https://physics.stackexcha
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The wrinkle about "modern Game Genie" is that when the original debuted, there were no microtransactions. Now, hastening grind runs directly counter to most(?) game revenue models. Interesting times!
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Indeed. My mental rule of thumb is to assume that if we're at the point of a legal argument then bridges have already been burned and neither party is inclined to do any favors to the other. Ergo, the legal language is the only langu
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Stupid question that I've always been curious about, driving around. Can an old C-band (large) satellite dish be used for transmitting as well as receiving? If so, would there be any benefit to doing so, versus smaller/K* dish dim
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by ethbr0 3y ago
People say lawyers are assholes, but they don't think about why lawyers are assholes. It's a lawyer's job to imagine the worst future outcomes and guard against them in the present. Everybody focuses on "It's craz
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by ethbr0 3y ago
This happened a few week ago, but I didn't see any discussion on here. Google shipped the newest iteration of FLoC in Chrome 115 in July. Direct Google blog link (HN marks duped) https://developer.chrome.com/blog&#x2
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Google starts the GA rollout of its Privacy Sandbox APIs (Chrome 115)(techcrunch.com)
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I can only tolerate modern YouTube at 1.5 or 2x playback speed. Principally because speaking slower to stretch video length has become endemic.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The gallery has an excellent video of an R/P FLIP... flip. Complete with suitable ONR/SIO music. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FLIP_turns_50.ogv
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Oof, those are some gnarly waves. Wave structure as a surfed experience is my favorite part so far: there are so many wave nuances I never noticed before.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Things funding for atomic warfare has given us: - Nuclear power - Access to Earth orbit - GPS - Mapping of the world's oceans - Miniaturized circuits - The Internet - Interstate road systems - Hubble Space Tel
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by ethbr0 3y ago
As someone who recently started surfing, I understand the cultural timing a lot more now. Good surfing requires pretty particular types of waves. Which in turn requires particular wind. Even at good locations, these are transient conditions
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The fact that this appears to be mobile-targeted suggests the intent -- restrict free information flow to the masses.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Hearing the British government care about "the risks of excessive surveillance" is a new one. Although I guess it's because they're talking about companies, not the government itself.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Snap Circuits looks awesome! LEGO + breadboarding To date myself, for me it was the computer game The Incredible Machine , which was a Rube Goldberg physics puzzle game... in 1993 on DOS. ;) Critically, the failure-iteration loop was tight
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Ah, the Venus Defense.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
It'll be fascinating to learn whatever grey/black ops details come out after the war hopefully ends. The naval drone question is especially fascinating. IMHO, they have to be transported closer to impact site by some other vessel.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Not author, but I've always wanted to approach programming from an algorithms-first perspective with younger kids. Not called algorithms, of course. If they can create/combine algorithms to solve a problem... that's most of p
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by ethbr0 3y ago
In my experience, it's an unknown-unknown problem (don't know what we don't know). Is it important you can recite cache eviction algorithms from memory? No. Is it important you know there are such things as caches and roughly
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by ethbr0 3y ago
But not illegal, no? I actually kind of respect Neumann. Not in a moral/ethical way, of course, but in a defend-yourself-at-all-times way. He never would have gotten that payout if he hadn't legally fortified his position like he
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Liquidity. It's the difference between initial equity holders being able to sell and not.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
'We paid Neumann too much to exit quickly, because we knew the company prospects were bad and we needed an IPO to exit ASAP' probably isn't a crime, assuming there weren't errors on financial disclosures. But it's c
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by ethbr0 3y ago
This would have been categorically true circa-1970s. Unfortunately, US industrial vertical integration now includes foundations placed in global low-labor-cost countries. The crash vaccine manufacturing scaling program was possible because

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