tutufan

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by tutufan 9y ago
Just nope out of the whiteboard interviews. There are lots of places that need you that don't do them.
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by tutufan 9y ago
"The fundamentals" can cover an immense amount of ground, especially if you're old enough to have worked in a lot of different sub-fields.
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by tutufan 9y ago
Plot twist: We're all catfish programmers...
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by tutufan 9y ago
Linear time suffix tree construction. You have 90 seconds. Go! :-P
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by tutufan 9y ago
Of those, only the async I/O stuff seems compelling. But compelling it is, at least as used in Curio. It feels like this is still shaking out, with the standard library and Trio (?) alternatives, but it looks really cool.
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by tutufan 9y ago
Spent some time on this a while back, and even wrote a driver that let me use a game controller as a complete replacement for my keyboard and mouse. Interesting but not really successful. One key takeaway: The input bitrate that a competen
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by tutufan 9y ago
Rationale for "make install" rediscovered. Film at 11... :-)
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by tutufan 9y ago
It could well turn out that the common factor here is not consuming a lot of highly refined carbohydrates (sugar, flour, etc.). More importantly, metabolism is just incredibly complicated, with many complex relationships and effects. On to
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by tutufan 9y ago
Breitbart and The Nation both have a rather dramatic skew. But, since it's obvious and generally consistent, it's relatively easy to "null out". This leaves you with additional signals that are still relatively uncorre
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by tutufan 9y ago
Overt opinion is pretty easy to spot. Subtle "editorials" in the form of omissions, slanted word choice, etc., are harder, esp until you start looking carefully for them.
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by tutufan 9y ago
Try breitbart and thenation as alternatives, for example. Sure, some of it's drivel, but after a while you'll realize that some of the NYT is drivel as well. And actually, if you just carefully compare NYT _headlines_ to their co
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by tutufan 9y ago
If you think the NYT is unbiased, you might do well to read a few alternative sources for a while to compare and contrast. Once you've been to other lands, it's easier to spot the oddities of one's usual locale. But more imp
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by tutufan 9y ago
If you select stringently for WBI ability, you'll get strong WBIers. However, you're also paying the opportunity cost of not selecting for other traits and skills that might matter a lot more. +1 though for "Senior Whiteboar
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by tutufan 9y ago
"Informal study"? Isn't that an oxymoron?
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by tutufan 9y ago
Conversation, half technical and half to figure out what the person would be like to work with. For example, tell me about the most interesting/difficult/satisfying problem was that you've worked on. Or, tell me what happen
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by tutufan 9y ago
There is kind of a symmetry to it. Get a question that the asker has studied and watch the answerer squirm. Seems like it'd be more fun, and probably more insightful, to take turns... :-)
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by tutufan 9y ago
Possibly true, but I cannot think of a worse occupation to get into right now, with self-driving trucks on the horizon. (Also, I have a trucker in the family, and the financials are harder than they look.)
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by tutufan 9y ago
Haven't read this specifically, but agree with the concept. Also recommend The Psychopath Code by Pieter Hintjens (the ZMQ guy). Most books are ultimately quite abstract. A few are useful when the shit really hits the fan.
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by tutufan 9y ago
I ran across this "book" recently as was impressed by how deep it was, compared to the vision presented in Sunday School (and a certain 60s pop song). It's a bit hard to read. Start here: https://www.cliffsnotes.c
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by tutufan 9y ago
At a societal level, I'd prefer that companies didn't act irrationally. (I don't believe in justice per se .) But at an individual level, you have to play the cards you are dealt. There is a huge amount of noise in the sys
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by tutufan 9y ago
At 53, it hasn't had much effect on me as far as I can tell. The first time I noticed was at about 45, where a SV startup that seemed extremely enthusiastic nope'd after seeing me on Skype. IMO, there's just not much to be d
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by tutufan 9y ago
Can you just keep your devices stateless? This works for me.
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by tutufan 9y ago
Maybe, but I suspect the effects of stupidity would be so strong that you'd never be able to detect the effects of a hostile nation.
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by tutufan 9y ago
Funny, as a pedestrian, I daily observe that any sidewalk a bicyclist is capable of riding on will be entered by a bike, with resulting risk of injury or death to pedestrians. I have indeed daydreamed about ways to introduce barriers to pr
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by tutufan 9y ago
Bose noise-cancelling headphones. That tuna ventresca packed in olive oil in a jar. One of those two-chamber syrup time toys.
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by tutufan 9y ago
What downsides do you have in mind?
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by tutufan 9y ago
You might rather enjoy it though.
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by tutufan 9y ago
I'm terrible at talking, and certainly at bullshitting. It happened that I was an excellent candidate for the role , but perhaps they might have hired a bullshit artist instead. But I don't think so. I think I can often smell b
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by tutufan 9y ago
It's like the good side of Zeno's Paradox. If you're alive at age X, your expected number of days to live is still significant. For US males, your life expectancy doesn't fall below one year until you're 113.
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by tutufan 9y ago
Apparently humor is dead.

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