timv

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by timv 2mo ago
And there lies the tradeoffs you need to consider as part of an interview question. But if the best alternative is to sort the whole collection, then Quickselect doesn't introduce a new problem. You either accept that modifying the col
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by timv 2mo ago
You can use Quickselect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickselect ) or Floyd-Rivest ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Rivest_algorithm ) Quickselect is fairly simple to understand if you
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by timv 2mo ago
> You mention early in the article that you intended to base this approach as a response to your own subpar user experience with support in other products. This was the biggest ( 1 ) complaint for me - in light of what you discovered fro
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by timv 4mo ago
I wrote something like that about 15 years ago for a financial institution. For what we needed, we intentionally wanted both people to be at the same terminal (it was going to be used to give shell access to a specific unix account that ran
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by timv 5mo ago
Imagine you were making purchasing decisions about which LLM-based coding tool to use. If one of the possible vendors convinces you that that they have a next gen model that is so powerful it found 20+ year old bugs in a hardened operating
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by timv 11mo ago
The argument here is that they're confident that the bounds check isn't needed, and would prefer the compiler not insert one. The choices therefore are: 1. No bound check 2. Bounds check inserted, but that branch isn't covere
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by timv 1y ago
> This is also an unconventional drinking fountain. Why do you say that? At least in Australia, drinking fountains ("bubblers"!) are fairly non standardised. I don't recall seeing many with that rubber top, but the rotatin
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by timv 2y ago
In Australia the entry level "Dolphin essential" is A$30k which is between US$18.5k and US$21k, depending on the (fairly volatile) exchange rates. Still not US$14k, but not quite the $25k it is in other markets.
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by timv 2y ago
Phones have a lot of that market covered, and the Switch Lite gets close enough for a lot of people who want something other than a phone. I guess Nintendo don't see enough left over space to bother trying.
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by timv 2y ago
Even Linux users in 1999 (when you had to be pretty well informed to know that Linux even existed) were truly that uninformed. http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general#0
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by timv 2y ago
The market penetration of the switch makes it harder for Sony to expand into the family/casual gaming space. That forces Sony to stick to the AAA lane (which is where their focus is) limiting their growth opportunities. If the switch h
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by timv 2y ago
It's been more than a decade since I was involved with emergency services, but ~15 years ago there was a requirement (in Australia and elsewhere) that phones must be able to call emergency services from any available network even if
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by timv 2y ago
Its presence implies that the company both is capable of and is overcharging the people coerced into the higher price tier. "Overcharging" is a concept without a precise meaning. The SSO-capable version has a feature that cost m
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by timv 2y ago
It's not as widely available. My bank doesn't support registering my card with GarminPay. Pretty much every bank supports Apple and Google.
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by timv 3y ago
It would also be interesting to consider smaller groups for discussion. Break the jury into 2 groups of 6, or 3 groups of 4 people. I wonder whether you could get the benefits of weighing the evidence collectively but reduce the influence t
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by timv 3y ago
The main source code for DSA is here https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/ss... You can see that the team did a big refactor of key handling about 14 months ago that required mu
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by timv 3y ago
It doesn't even have to be a totally "random" (unrelated) motorcycle accident. If he panicked after the Stuxnet attack, as his family is reported to have said, then it's likely he has behaving erratically and was fearful
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by timv 3y ago
The issue doesn't appear to be "pay" but conditions. From the decision (linked 2 up) At all material times, Respondents Cognizant and Google have codetermined the essential terms and conditions of employment of employees emp
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by timv 3y ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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by timv 3y ago
Do you have a reason to believe (c) is true in practice? I strongly suspect many interviewers (myself included) would have a few "top issues" and significantly favour candidates who pointed them out. But as the candidate you don&#
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by timv 4y ago
The ridiculousness isn't that Google has changed their hiring process to reflect their current state, it's that other companies are copying what Google does now with the hope that it will allow them to replicate the success that G
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by timv 5y ago
I don't think that's true. The underscore is valid in RFC4648, but the exclamation point is not. And the RFC explicitly says: Implementations MUST reject the encoded data if it contains characters outside the base alphabe
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by timv 5y ago
In which case it wouldn't be "still light" it would be "already light"
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by timv 5y ago
> a location east where its still light. You've got your directions backwards. 7pm in NYC is 4pm in SF, so you wanted to use solar power to provide evening energy then you generate in the West (SF) to power the East (NY).
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by timv 6y ago
The GPLv3 has exactly the same clauses (both 5c and 11) yet Google explicitly allows its engineers to contribute to such projects. Why? Because this isn't about IP risk, it's about trying to kill the AGPL.
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by timv 6y ago
There's definitely segmentation by role. As an example, the product in the linked article is designed to be customer facing, and at the very least, linked to from within an app or site. The person who decides to take that direction is
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by timv 7y ago
(Disclosure, I work for Elastic) It's definitely complicated, and can be quite confusing due to the number of subscription tiers, the ambiguity around terminology, and historical documentation. We need need to find a way to bring mor
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by timv 7y ago
I'm the lead engineer for Elasticsearch security. I'm sorry - I have never seen that specific post on our forums before, but the poster was mistaken and by not correcting it at the time, we have allowed incorrect information to pe
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by timv 7y ago
As someone who has built and maintains the SAML implementation for an SP it's funny how many of your complaints about bad SPs match my issues with bad IdPs. Most IdP-as-a-service vendors produce their own metadata, but can't consu
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by timv 7y ago
In my experience that leads to the organisation hiring more people at the upper ranks of the management track, and the end result is that management becomes the easier path to promotion and most of your senior staff are managers, not ICs. I

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