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Barebones WebGL in 75 lines of code(avikdas.com)
116 points by akdas 6y ago|26 comments
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Gathering Requirements in an Interview(hiringfor.tech)
1 points by akdas 6y ago|0 comments
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Scalability concepts: zero-downtime deployments(avikdas.com)
2 points by akdas 6y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 6y ago
Thanks! I'm glad the drawings were helpful. Most of my writing can be found at my blog ( https://avikdas.com/ ), but here are some from the same dynamic programming series: - Deep-dive into the Chain Matrix Multiplicatio
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by akdas 6y ago
Plugging my own writing, but I did a deep dive on top-down vs. bottom-up dynamic programming on my blog: https://avikdas.com/2019/04/15/a-graphical-introduction-to-d... The follow-up posts go into even more d
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Hiring for the Role(hiringfor.tech)
1 points by akdas 6y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 6y ago
I've had my blog post removed from r/algorithms for self-promotion.
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Tech doesn't have professional licensing, and what it means for hiring(linkedin.com)
1 points by akdas 6y ago|0 comments
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Why you're probably not hiring the best(hiringfor.tech)
1 points by akdas 6y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 6y ago
There's one more advantage to client side analytics, though maybe you meant to cover that under "Usually easier to setup": it's the only option if you host your site on a platform like Github pages. The problem is, you d
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by akdas 6y ago
> do you train you brain to remember the key positions so that it doesn't matter what character is printed on a key? Yes. > how do you _learn_ the layout then? Using an image of the new layout, and by doing drills. If you care ab
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Speak Up(hiringfor.tech)
1 points by akdas 6y ago|0 comments
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The Power Imbalance in Hiring(hiringfor.tech)
1 points by akdas 6y ago|0 comments
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Scalability Concepts: The Reliability Queue(avikdas.com)
1 points by akdas 6y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 6y ago
That's partially because photos used to be rarer. So either the subjects were richer to have access to photos, or the subjects dressed their best when getting their photographs taken.
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by akdas 6y ago
I don't think this discussion will be productive if different people have a different set of first principles they start with. In this case, I disagree that HN works extremely well. It works well, but there's still a fair amount o
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by akdas 6y ago
As the article and comments mention, writing forces you to understand your material really well. I'll offer another perspective: it's useful to approach topics from a less knowledgeable perspective. The beginner's perspective
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by akdas 6y ago
That's exactly how I started as well: documenting a project I was doing so the information I gathered was in one place. Just yesterday, I was writing a Makefile, and I referenced my own blog post on the topic to refresh my memory. It r
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by akdas 6y ago
HN has a form of a Code of Conduct ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ), and strong moderation to remove truly bad-faith comments. These two aspects are really important to the level of discourse here. And whi
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by akdas 6y ago
It also barely touches on the harassment she encountered that caused her to withdraw from technology and her online presence. The reason that's relevant is I remember her blog fondly, and it's sad we lost someone who was so clearl
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by akdas 6y ago
This is a great point I hadn't considered. While I'm a generalist, when it comes to big company interviews, I'm definitely more on the backend side. What kinds of uncommon scenarios and edge cases have you encountered in your
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Dissecting the Front-End Interview(hiringfor.tech)
2 points by akdas 6y ago|2 comments
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A Remote Revolution? Or a Backlash?(hiringfor.tech)
1 points by akdas 6y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 6y ago
A lot of the big tech companies actually have processes around mentorship. It's one of the reasons I think working at a big tech company can be more valuable than at a small startup, especially early on in one's career. I don&#x27
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by akdas 6y ago
Absolutely, it's something I researched while writing this article (since I knew someone would bring it up :)). Ultimately, I wanted to talk about concepts more than specific technologies, so I avoided going into detail on Spanner. I d
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by akdas 6y ago
I've learned a ton working at scale, and I wanted to share some of that knowledge with others. To be honest, this is the type of knowledge I actually had to unlearn when I decided to try my hand at early-stage startups. Unfortunately,
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Scalability concepts: read-after-write consistency(avikdas.com)
3 points by akdas 6y ago|4 comments
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Why a recession is the right time to hire(hiringfor.tech)
1 points by akdas 7y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 7y ago
At the time I wrote those, I was actually surprised because I didn't see much improvement using emcc-raycast. In both implementations, you can see that I'm allocating objects/structs all over the place, so that probably bring
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by akdas 7y ago
Great demo. A couple of years ago, I wrote a Javascript implementation myself: https://github.com/avik-das/js-raycast And then, when asm.js (precursor to WebAssembly) became a thing, I rewrote it in C and compiled it t

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