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- gargarplex parentThis hacker agiles.
- Makes a huge difference when considering the tax implications.
- 15 points
- Maybe rankings should be organized through preferences of applicants admitted to several schools.
- I guess blogs that are linked-to in non-killed HN comments should probably be crawled a bit. Have you considered using social user karma (this could be a 1-10 score uniquely calculated for users of each of HN, Twitter, Reddit as long as it's built in a modular way) as a weight in a PageRank style schema?
Here's how I am going to evaluate your search engine. Yesterday I searched Google for "get dynamodb table row count" and found this URL, https://bobbyhadz.com/blog/aws-dynamodb-count-items, which provides a terrible recommendation involving a full table scan.
With DontBeEvil, I didn't find the correct answer, to use the describe-table API.
If you really plan to dedicate a year to this, I would strongly encourage you to re-post again as soon as you have a strong update. Right now this has potential to provide value but really does not. So update us when you have confidence that you might be providing value! But we think you're on to a great opportunity.
- This is the kind of blog post that just ignites a passion for serious software engineering.
- Can you please describe an example of where an application might be memory bandwidth bound, and what engineering techniques might be used to circumvent this restriction?
- Whoa. Super interesting! Maybe even useful for compiling during development ... develop in workspace, use unison to copy over to the ramdisk, then do all builds from the ramdisk dir?
Would you agree with this article's recommendations regarding ramdisk setup? https://www.linuxbabe.com/command-line/create-ramdisk-linux There seems to be controversy in the comments as to whether tmpfs is a proper ramdisk - although no clear tutorial as to a better method. Interested to learn more!
- I am mostly concerned about the mutations coming out of the Omicron contagion than the Omicron variant itself.
- You are clearly modestly competent at entrepreneurship and to the point where it's worth pursuing because of the high opportunity cost. I think it would be wise to take some time as a salaried employee while identifying and correcting the gaps in your skillset.
- Let's say I'm a NY resident with a Nexo account. What happens to my assets?
- The same office shared by Hamas military intelligence.
- I have written a native C++ module to speed up JSON parsing and manipulation by a factor of 10x+
- If it helps him attract grad students, the ROI is better than $60k
- > willing-to-experiment-by-pushing-all-the-buttons
This is a great way of putting it and something I haven't thought of before. Mostly, I have been guarding my 2yo from pushing-all-the-buttons because I'm scared of her breaking something expensive (air purifier) or hurting herself (elevator). But I want to foster this sense of creative exploration.
She has taken a lot of interest in my Macbook (lots of keys to press, and she sees me using it) but zero interest in the cheapo tablet I bought her.
Any advice?
- Strong +1 to this. I passed the FAANG interview after solving 100 leetcodes, mostly medium.
Being able to show up and do the work is table stakes –– and yes, I actually write efficient algorithms in my day-to-day because we process massive amounts of data. But the algos I write were invented 50, 60 years ago. My leetcode study process was to look up the solution and then memorize it through rote practice. Why reinvent the wheel? I'm not trying to win a Turing prize here.
But your intellectual mettle and day to day happiness in the company is tested by your ability to deal with people.
- Zuckerberg wasn't a mediocre programmer. He was an accomplished programmer who had shipped industry-level code by the time he was in high school. Adam D'Angelo was a USACO gold medalist.
- I macro agree with your point about leverage although I'd like a bit more insight here...
"You can give them a hint as to what it is, to vouch for the legitimacy of your finding, but Facebook has one of the better-resourced security teams in the industry, and they're just going to find it themselves and shut it down without paying you anything."
Wouldn't that cost Facebook much more than $7,000?
- There might be an opportunity to write minimalist web clients for popular services.
- Or they realize they have a business model where people are willing to fork over serious money to test drive a Tesla for a week.
- On the one hand, you have a renaissance man (RISD-trained painter and Harvard-minted CS PhD) who authored On Lisp and started up and exited successfully with some of the most respected technologists as partners (Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris). On the other hand, you have the author of Founders at Work, someone who not only thoroughly interviewed tons of successful founders (& bootstraped a pattern-matching capacity) but also has a reputation for a world-class EQ that built community and kept bad apples away.
So, yeah, the DNA of the founding team matters a lot. Seems like for scaling companies (like Y Combinator, itself, is a company – and by Sam's definition of creating more value for others than itself, has become a platform) – traits are extremely heritable (not so much the case with children!)