Dirak

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by Dirak 5y ago
I find competitive programming to be creative and expressive. For most problems, there actually can be multiple ways to solve the same problem, with each approach having both hard (perf, memory) and soft (simplicity) trade offs. Leetcode pr
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by Dirak 5y ago
Networking for multiplayer games is a super interesting problem space since games tend to be more sensitive to latency, packet loss, and the accuracy of game states between clients. The problems are even more pronounced in VR where noticeab
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by Dirak 5y ago
> The reason why it is not "junk" is that it will teach him a bunch of important things: that you can "talk" to a computer using different languages, that those languages have different capabilities, different propert
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by Dirak 5y ago
Your reading of the title is grammatically correct. "written in Rust" is a modifier, and modifiers apply to the noun that comes just before it -- in this case, "existing software". The title implies that existing softwar
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by Dirak 5y ago
Rust is a systems language, so while it is possible to build APIs with it, that's not what the language was designed for. For example, in Rust, you'll spend time thinking about memory whereas other languages will just come with GC
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by Dirak 6y ago
* 50% of all US currency is printed between now and the end of 2021 * 1 Bitcoin will cost over $100k on Dec 31, 2021 * An animation tool rivaling Adobe Flash for the web will emerge * FB releases a thin virtual reality headset https:/
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by Dirak 6y ago
That was spectacular! I'm completely blown away by how audacious and bold the Starship project is. Sending a rocket that massive into space and then attempting to land it back on earth, with the intention of using it to eventually send
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Show HN: React Formulate – An ergonomic React forms library using hooks(formulatedemo.netlify.app)
1 points by Dirak 6y ago|0 comments
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by Dirak 6y ago
A while back, the node event-stream package was compromised when the author passed ownership to a hacker. Not for money afaik: https://gist.github.com/dominictarr/9fd9c1024c94592bc7268d36...
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by Dirak 6y ago
An alternative to the html model for building websites. The html model is antiquated for building web apps, and inconsistent across various browsers x platforms. The direction of the spec imo is becoming an overengineered mess that is incre
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by Dirak 6y ago
Theres only mention of medical or health records on the page that I could find is: "Categories of personal information:" "Customer Records: paper and electronic customer records containing personal information, such as name,
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by Dirak 6y ago
Post WWII, Japan was able to differentiate itself from other developing nations in becoming a major economic center precisely because it was the first to adopt American ideas such as the free market and free enterprise. A free market and a
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by Dirak 6y ago
From first principles, the value gained from paying top dollar for SF based engineers is their talent and their being in the environment of SF -- the tech capital of the world. If everyone is working remote, then the environment aspect of t
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by Dirak 7y ago
As an engineer who works on design systems for a living, I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed with Chakra UI. Its implementation is refreshingly simple and support for generally overlooked things like color theming and responsiveness
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by Dirak 7y ago
I would even take your learnings from your experience a step further and say that one should be proactive in talking to teammates and exploring ideas on how to improve the codebase if you think there is room for improvement. For instance, i
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by Dirak 7y ago
Contrarian opinion, but I wouldn't want to work with anyone who couldn't pass a technical screening, and I wouldn't trust any architect who couldn't implement their own designs. Wrangling APIs and knowing which technolog
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React Hooks – Best Practices(medium.com)
3 points by Dirak 8y ago|0 comments
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by Dirak 8y ago
White-boarding challenges are--just as you said--a series of puzzles and nothing more. I also do lots of open source / make (significant) side projects, but I think it's important to be able to do these challenge problems and to b
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Show HN: InstabotJS, an Instagram shitposting automation tool
2 points by Dirak 8y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Instabotjs, a cli app for automating Instagram actions(npmjs.com)
1 points by Dirak 8y ago|0 comments
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by Dirak 8y ago
This article serves as a rebuttal to http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-fo... . It deconstructs each criticism presented and explains why JWTs are a secure and elegant solution
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JWTs: A secure and stateless way to implement authentication(medium.com)
14 points by Dirak 8y ago|6 comments
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by Dirak 8y ago
No. That's exactly wrong. We need to stop even thinking in terms of MVC. React, Vue, Angular all used component based architectures and if you think component based architectures can be labeled as MV* then you're not understanding