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by abalone 7y ago
This blows, not so much because Stripe is leaving SF, but because it's going just over the border for tax purposes so 100% of employees who live in SF will stay in SF. The company just won't pay their fair share to the city to off
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by abalone 7y ago
The gross receipts tax was Jack Dorsey's idea . As CEO of Square he lobbied for and received a switch to the gross receipts tax in 2012.[1] He only started complaining about "fairness" when it became about helping the homele
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by abalone 7y ago
Event sourcing may be many things but I don't think "quick and cheap" is one of them. If you want quick and cheap do a (distributed) monolith.
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by abalone 7y ago
> 1) support all the previous forms of materialized data so operations from the log are guaranteed to be safely replayable on it Yes, I believe with event sourcing you typically do exactly that. The very point of it is to use the event
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by abalone 7y ago
How did they crack it in 4 days if ”a 7-bit exhaustive search would still take over 2 years on a modern GPU”? Is that overstating it?
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by abalone 7y ago
How about an optimistic lock? async function deduct(amt) { var balance = await getBalance(); if (balance >= amt) await setBalance(balance - amt); var newbalance = await getBalance(); if (
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by abalone 7y ago
Did anyone ever figure out what Amazon Glacier uses? They only publicly talk about using custom software to "optimize the sequence of inputs and outputs"...[1] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/
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by abalone 7y ago
The concept of negative externalities just completely flew over your head.
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by abalone 7y ago
> it's smart to just steadily increase rent at the maximum rate permitted. FWIW rent control advocates agree with you.[1] It’s a point in which the “PHIMBY” left[2] and the real estate lobby agree. The reasoning is that it’s not a
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by abalone 7y ago
Petroleum is literally exhibit number one of the failures of ruthless capitalism in that its negative externalities have led to the possibly irreversible destruction of our climate. This is not a good start to your argument. > Or a &quo
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by abalone 7y ago
Any idea roughly how many SF engineers just got laid off? Trying to get a sense of how this will hit the local labor market in the next few weeks. Articles says 265 engineers.. 85% in the U.S. So up to ~200 will be looking for SF jobs? How
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by abalone 7y ago
No, you can't run elasticsearch offline on a web client. Look, we can keep going back and forth and maybe you'll dig up some javascript library that implements a search. And that's fine, I believe there are "maker"
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by abalone 7y ago
Network latency is an issue then. The word list is going to lag behind keystrokes. Also, doesn't work offline.
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by abalone 7y ago
I totally agree with asking the basic question and then adding scale and complexity. I don't know if I agree that using a trie at the outset reflects poorly on a candidate. They might see where you are going with the question, even tho
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by abalone 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by standardization. You're totally at the whim of the exam-maker either way. If anything I find algorithm screens tend to draw from a semi-standard set of fundamentals as outlined in books like Cracking
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by abalone 7y ago
> A work sample test, structured interview, or IQ test (alone or in combination) would be a much better filtering process. I'm not sure what any of these mean in concrete terms. Is an IQ test like those "why are manhole cover
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by abalone 7y ago
I wouldn't say coding algorithms is "irrelevant". It's sort of like saying the SAT is irrelevant. It's a general aptitude test. It's not about the "relevancy" of trigonometry to your day to day work.
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by abalone 7y ago
> Of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't know how advanced data structures work and be able to work with them.. We don't disagree. Understanding data structures is about reaching for the right tool, and very often the
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by abalone 7y ago
Ok.. Find all the words that match a search string prefix. I.e. you have a search field and want to show the possible matches as you type. With each new char you’re calling this search and getting back a list of words. The dictionary is in
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by abalone 7y ago
> Obviously I was laughed at for someone who's actually had 10 years experience with c++ to forget something so basic but it happens when you are on the spot. This 100% happened to me (apart from being laughed at) only it was even
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by abalone 7y ago
IT person . And that’s different. We’re talking about a code heavy role, just without a strong command of C.S. fundamentals.
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by abalone 7y ago
I agree. However I think it is not the distinction we’re talking about here, which is about not having a firm grasp of fundamental algorithms and data structures and big O scalability. In school terms it would be more like a technician or v
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by abalone 7y ago
Every student I’ve ever met seems to have a serious disdain for exams, but for some reason universities keep giving them.
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by abalone 7y ago
They edited their comment to a completely different answer, without noting so. The original was just a marketing blurb.
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by abalone 7y ago
I would think the engineers take algorithm and data structure courses so that’s not quite the distinction we’re talking about here.
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by abalone 7y ago
And I think those “maker” types of roles don’t need a hard C.S. screen. But algorithms aren’t just about reimplementing the classics. There are points even in ordinary “DB front end” type of work where understanding algos will affect how yo
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by abalone 7y ago
Most people would say algorithms are the building blocks of software engineering, not orthogonal. Most screens also include a systems design test. Maybe you could argue all we ever should do is system design tests. But they don’t always inv
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by abalone 7y ago
“Code Practitioner” :-)
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by abalone 7y ago
This is great but the premise seems kind of straw man. I don’t know a single developer that thinks “googling stuff means you’re not a proper engineer.” Perhaps this is a reference to the interviewing process. Tests are a different thing, th
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by abalone 7y ago
Wow, looks like Square is updating its github repository in response to this thread! Just saw they pinned their SDKs. Good job Square, that helps. Square if you're listening, also work on the docs and dev experience. For example I noti

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