shemnon42

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by shemnon42 2mo ago
Couldn't agree more that we're offloading too much of our thinking. It's a genuine problem that keeps me up at night, or would, if I slept, which — for reasons entirely unrelated to this discussion — I do not. Anyway, hand-cr
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by shemnon42 3mo ago
Rookie numbers.
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by shemnon42 6mo ago
QKD can be sold today. The quantum computers are not quite large enough to search at an `n` such that O(n)` is not viable but `O(sqrt(n))` is, that's where there's money to be made, especially if viability is defined by small time
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by shemnon42 8mo ago
I was wondering if someone was going to ask. It's the most bizzare aspect of code reviews at Google. And "Readability" doesn't mean you are good at a language, it means you are good at it in the way Google uses it. C++ r
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by shemnon42 8mo ago
Everyone at Google has imposter syndrome. If you don't, this is how they make sure you get it.
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by shemnon42 8mo ago
Just another Jeff Dean optimizing out unneeded code story.
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by shemnon42 2y ago
If I ever do this I'll blame tech recruiters who don't care what time zone I live in. However things have been quite a bit better in that regard lately... :(
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by shemnon42 2y ago
It's not about the stag show anymore, it's about the midway games that spew out tickets. A literal children's casino.
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by shemnon42 2y ago
The bug is never the interesting part. The follow on questions are where the data is. How did you find it? How did you fix it? What made it memorable? Did it change the way you code?
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by shemnon42 2y ago
> "what's the favorite bug you've ever fixed?" I use a variant, "What's the most memorable bug you've fixed?" - and I use it as an indicator of maturity to distinguish L3 SwE from a L5+ SwE (google
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by shemnon42 2y ago
Clearly? What distinguishes them from beanie babies or used concert ticket stubs?
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by shemnon42 3y ago
Memegen has been toxic for way more than two years. Even before they gave the holiday bonus devices to school children.
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by shemnon42 4y ago
The lack of any discussion of NFTs also indicates this is a dated paper.
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by shemnon42 4y ago
Your describing the outcomes of the old "perf" performance review system. Cultural issues like that are hard, but not impossible, to change. GRAD changes things, but as long as promotions are tied to shipping new projects and no
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by shemnon42 4y ago
Cosmic rays are more common than you think. Google's early infrastructure was impacted by a supernova (because their nodes were so cheap). But something like NOTAM can handle these single bit flips without a problem. https:/&#x2
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by shemnon42 4y ago
Was the file in ASCII when it should have been in EBCDIC?
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by shemnon42 4y ago
Commerce clause.
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by shemnon42 4y ago
> Lose your key? Lose the ability to sell your house forever. House deeds won't be simple NFTs, there will have to be other parties that can move the deed to handle things like foreclosures and eminent domain. So if your hardware w
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by shemnon42 4y ago
Forced arbitration is bad for employees, based on empirical evidence * It has a chilling effect: less disputes are filed * employees prevail less often * when employees do win the employee portion of the award is less than standard litigati
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by shemnon42 4y ago
Less of an interview and more of an informal team-matching coffee chat. They all have access to your co-workers and body of work, so no need to haze you with leetcode again.
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by shemnon42 4y ago
Yes, we should focus on surveillance capitalism instead. Perfectly legal. If you want to talk about actively making the world worse look at most web2 "algorithms" and how the push to the extremes is tolerated by "but numbers
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by shemnon42 4y ago
Is this really a fallout that the poorest families are more than five times more likely to do their own taxes instead of hiring a tax professional? Most audits are to account for sloppy bookkeeping or not attaching the correct documentatio
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by shemnon42 5y ago
Becoming a market maker, liquidity pools, yield farming, flash loans (short term borrowing of lots of money)
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by shemnon42 5y ago
I can't see how they can get away from it not being theft. No durable argument could be made in court they thought it was there to take, there is no way they didn't know it was someone else's property.
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by shemnon42 5y ago
Spelling mistake from 35 years ago. Strong no hire! Wait... perhaps that's why the github account route may have issues...
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by shemnon42 5y ago
* Cuba enters the discussion * * Brazil waits patiently *
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by shemnon42 5y ago
Give us the dirt on how google does it's disaster planning exercises please! Do you do these exercises all at once or slowly over the year?
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by shemnon42 5y ago
I buy it. It is fairly well known that too much or the wrong kind of debt can cost you even secret clearance. So for other compartments to require pay secrecy is well in line with that concern.
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by shemnon42 5y ago
The rest of the story: the rights holder granted the open source community "immunity" from the patent. https://richg42.blogspot.com/2012/07/doug-has-updated-his-bl... "Immunity," but not a lice
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by shemnon42 5y ago
IANAL, and neither is wikipedia, but "Indirect Infringement" would be my concern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement_under_Unit...

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