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by thdc 2y ago
I only go through job listings directly (though some listings may say email this person with your resume and I'm including that), and the response rate has always been low for me. I'm pretty strict with requirements and the kind
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by thdc 2y ago
It's probably alternating the comparisons. Compare [0, 1] [2, 3] [4, 5] ... in parallel and swap if necessary, compare/swap [1, 2] [3, 4] [5, 6] ... in parallel, then go back and forth until no more swaps are made - second element
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by thdc 2y ago
Knowing to DRY there depended on business knowledge that the original author did not have. While they were wrong in this case, I would say it was a reasonable move to not DRY based on the code pattern itself at the time. And that's the
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by thdc 2y ago
I feel like I've been in this situation for the past year - the place I'm working at had a large culture shift for the worse. I would change jobs, but I hate interviewing and everything else in the process, so instead I work at my
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by thdc 3y ago
I like to think it went like this 1. Interviewer: If you're a good software engineer, you can answer basic algorithmic questions. 2. Interviewees: Practice algorithmic questions so you appear to be a good software engineer. 3. Intervie
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by thdc 3y ago
Here's an older submission about using ChatGPT to de-obfuscate the more basic methods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150096 Some comments claim that it can break some of the more complex techniques presented i
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by thdc 3y ago
Yeah around 1.5mb transferred but less of an issue with caching of course. You also won't have something nice like $$ or \[ \] and will have to put the <script type="text/tikz"> \begin{tikzpicture}
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by thdc 3y ago
I use TikZJax https://tikzjax.com/ (wasm tikz). It works well, but you have to figure out the markup and dynamically styling the images are difficult; For example, to make darkmode work, I have to apply css filters over the
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by thdc 3y ago
You are correct that good code does not translate directly into revenue, but it affects it indirectly e.g. through ease of future development, maintenance, and fixes. If the thing being written is not going to be updated at all, then, sure,
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by thdc 3y ago
I like to say that users includes the people working with (using) your code in the future. It changes the definition of user compared to the normal usage, but I think it's a good point.
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by thdc 3y ago
Email obfuscation has a lot more techniques than what would be encountered in a text response, so I find the title too broad. I'd be interested to see attempts to extract emails from pages that utilize javascript/css. For example,
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by thdc 3y ago
It's very important to me because it's an instance of one of my values - keeping something borrowed in the same or a better condition. For example, we're "borrowing" the earth/environment from future generation
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by thdc 3y ago
Arguably it's less direct due to the superlatives and exclamations. For example: > Christ. That's literally the remap_file_pages() system call definition. No way in hell does "ON_BEHALF_OF_KERNEL" make any sense in
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by thdc 3y ago
Agreed, they have a pretty nice setup for a "big" company. I've been contributing code to Mozilla for the last few years despite not working there and I got started on https://codetribute.mozilla.org/ The mos
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by thdc 3y ago
Will you follow up with stats and analysis on response rate and further steps in the application/evaluation process? I'd be interested in that.
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by thdc 3y ago
I think this is a perfect example of why "We don't have Senior Engineers anymore". It's hard to show the thinking process to others, so the person who says an answer faster is assumed to be better/more senior.
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by thdc 3y ago
Yep, but op also mentioned spammers that get through signup without being flagged and having to go and manually flag them. My thoughts on the loop overall are: - maybe users are false flagged but not complaining because the "bugs"
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by thdc 3y ago
I assumed that the two paragraphs were connected > Enter Akismet. This is a spam detection tool by the Wordpress people and is pretty accurate and easy to use. > Blocking spam on signup worked somewhat, but was easily circumventable b
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by thdc 3y ago
I'm missing the part on how op determines valid users for the frustration loop. > Enter Akismet... Blocking spam on signup worked somewhat, but was easily circumventable > some spammers found ways to parade as legitimate blogs...
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by thdc 3y ago
A quick glance at the script (I may have missed important parts) shows that everyone costs the same so you should only need to consider the effectiveness of the type of hire; every type has a manual click button effect and a daily automatic
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by thdc 3y ago
> (in selected cases) The tweet presents the quote without context so I interpret it to be a sweeping statement and therefore disagree based on that. If someone could provide a transcript of the cross-examination (I couldn't find it
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by thdc 3y ago
Yeah, it seems like the author is storing more information than just the position but not enough to figure out all of the possible next states of the game. Another straightforward thing missing is the player's turn; this could determin
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by thdc 3y ago
You would still need a STUN server, though there are many public ones out there. The main idea in removing the signaling server is to somehow transfer the session description between clients e.g. one client scans a qr code that encodes the
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by thdc 3y ago
I'm all for alternative sources of energy (including nuclear) but I feel like generating and storing nuclear waste for future generations parallels how coal/oil/gas/etc. ruined the environment that our current generation
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by thdc 3y ago
I would argue it is quite similar to an Angular.js moment, even if it's not a breaking change. > React suggests mixing server-side and client-side rendering, using what feels like black magic. You can use client components in server
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by thdc 3y ago
I wonder how the employee who purchased a multi year lease for a cruise cabin in anticipation of permanent wfh feels
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by thdc 3y ago
The most entertaining part of when I first ran into endless verification loop/Cloudflare error codes is that I couldn't access their official forums/support articles for information due to the same problems.
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by thdc 3y ago
Same here, I may browse various places periodically in search of an interesting article/content but I don't aim to be informed of every current event. I may research topics individually if I want to "catch-up" (learn) ab
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by thdc 4y ago
A senior interviewer's guide to the system design interview*. I've speed read over the existing two sections and while it's informative, I'd argue that the maybe 10+/12 of the core design concepts are things that so
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by thdc 4y ago
I tried it on an iPhone and noted that it said I visited several times before even though this was my only time. Previous instances varied in IP, incognito mode, and location. This was through the demo on their main page fingerprint.com &gt

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