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by akdas 7y ago
I hadn't heard about CUIDs, but based on the Github repo [1], I see they fall into two of the categories I presented: - A large range. It looks like CUIDs support a short version, but the README calls out the short version should only
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Scalability concepts: distributed ID generation(avikdas.com)
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Show HN: Weekly newsletter all about tech hiring
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A tree-based introduction to backtracking(avikdas.com)
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by akdas 7y ago
This is a topic I wrote about recently[0]. The fundamental problem is that these big companies are so afraid of hiring a bad candidate (a false positive) that they are willing to put up with a ton of smart people who fail their interviews (
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False Positives and False Negatives(hiringfor.tech)
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by akdas 7y ago
Absolutely! The feed will be available at https://hiringfor.tech/feed.xml when I start publish content (probably next week).
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by akdas 7y ago
1. Trying to make hiring in tech a better experience by sharing my knowledge and experience with both job seekers and those doing the hiring. The really hard part about this is influencing some change in how hiring is done, because I strong
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by akdas 7y ago
I don't have access to the logs when I deploy to Github Pages. Github Pages is really convenient for me for many reasons, but no access to the logs is the main downside when it comes to analytics.
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Reflecting on Twelve Months of Writing(avikdas.com)
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by akdas 7y ago
Thanks! You're absolutely right about not being upfront about being GNU Make-specific. I edited the post to mention it, and I also edited the follow-up post to say the same.
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by akdas 7y ago
I have the same setting, but vim automatically sets `noexpandtab` when editing a file named Makefile. I don't have any explicit setting to do that, nor any Makefile-related plugin.
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by akdas 7y ago
I'm a big fan of understanding the tools in our ecosystem, whether or not we use those tools directly. Make is one such tool that I initially used by copying other people's Makefiles, tweaking little bits and pieces to suit my nee
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Makefiles from the Ground Up(avikdas.com)
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What I learned as a software engineer at a data science conference(avikdas.com)
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by akdas 7y ago
> Your "just let them talk for 5 minutes", is another person's "wait until they're receptive to feedback." The way I'd put it is "just let them talk for 5 minutes" is another person's &qu
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An interview with a male mentor, talking about men's health(linkedin.com)
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by akdas 7y ago
It sounds you may already know this, but for those who don't: malls were originally designed to be small cities. The inventor of the shopping mall, Victor Gruen, envisioned a structure with housing, medical centers, post offices, in ad
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by akdas 7y ago
> his leadership qualities depend only on his ability to lead a group towards a goal, which he was doing swell at It sounds like his behavior was alienating people who would have been willing to work toward that shared goal, but were ins
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by akdas 7y ago
Maybe I'm reading the GP's anecdote incorrectly, but the behavior in question seemed like targeted harassment, not just "a bit of adult off-color talk".
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by akdas 7y ago
> The best is defined as the optimum person to complete the required task. What about long-term potential? Someone may solve the current task well, but will they grow in skill in order to take on larger challenges? Someone who can grow i
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by akdas 7y ago
> And if you're still being asked where you graduated from 5+ years into your career ... something might be wrong. Have you really nothing better to show? Sometimes, the fact that someone didn't go to a top-name school limited
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by akdas 7y ago
The problem is how to measure that skill. For example, I've known very skilled individuals who switched over to my industry later in life. They neither had past experience, nor strong technical abilities when I first met them. But what
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by akdas 7y ago
That's a good point, and I'm sure that's true for many people. Interestingly, for me personally, my interview skills increased as a result of interviewing others, as I understood what interviewers were looking for. The big pr
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by akdas 7y ago
> when I hire someone who isn’t fresh out of college, I only care about experience / interview skills / references If everyone who _did_ hire fresh college grads gave preference only to those coming from exclusive schools, only
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Practical computer science: connected components in a graph(avikdas.com)
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by akdas 7y ago
I must have missed the real-time adaptation of seam carving, so thanks for bringing it to my attention! I'll certainly take a look at it.
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by akdas 7y ago
In the first paper, the authors discuss what happens if you take the lowest energy pixel from each seam. The problem is that visual coherence is not maintained, because there is no connection between the removed pixel. What you're talk
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by akdas 7y ago
You're absolutely right that RGB differences are not very meaningful to humans. I chose to stick with the easiest approach for educational purposes, but I'd love to hear if anyone tries out a different color difference function. N
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by akdas 7y ago
I'm using dynamic programming, but I'm still computing seams from scratch on each "frame" (each time I resize the image). Dynamic programming is useful for solving the seam finding problem on each frame, but it's an

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