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by alacombe 9y ago
> In addition, some cars such as the Nissan Leaf have a feature that locks the brakes at full power when there is a sudden control shift from accelerator to brakes, meaning that if you stomp on the brakes and then reduce pressure, the ca
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by alacombe 9y ago
If I'm not mistaken, P.Eng are merely needed the rubber stamping, not to do the grunt work. I doubt they'll go through all the specs, re-run all the simulations, and verify all the parameters. Also, where is your P.Eng be any usef
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by alacombe 9y ago
As somebody else pointed out, what is the ratio of total miles driven in metro Phoenix over fatalities ?
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by alacombe 9y ago
There has been historically more than one brainstorm happening on the LKML. Check the archives...
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by alacombe 9y ago
Don't forget about tech giants to design what is probably a multi-million dollar system which allowed him to speak/move. That was sure good marketing from Intel... https://www.wired.com/2015/01/intel-gave
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by alacombe 9y ago
The author claims that the rules described, "extending" the standard C++, are enforcing memory corruption, and it is this author described subset that is still unsafe, not C++ in general. Think about english vs. americanized engli
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by alacombe 9y ago
TL;DR; use smart pointers, RAII semantic and STL containers/iterators. Though, I'd have a few criticism... > Rules to ensure memory safety These "rules" only protect you against object's lifetime issues, not over
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by alacombe 9y ago
On the other side, it saved us from bad hires that would have been difficult to fire otherwise.
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by alacombe 9y ago
we're probably not at the same pay-grade / level of specialization.
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by alacombe 9y ago
Most of the candidate of my past job who passed the initial non-technical interview with my former manager, over 2 years, that was probably a dozen people, leading to 3 hires.
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by alacombe 9y ago
It was definitively the "technical interview with a non-technical manager", and yes, I do agree with you, but it's difficult to judge companies beforehand.
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by alacombe 9y ago
1) give a 3 day coding challenge to gauge the candidate real potential, and 2) hire fast, fire fast.
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by alacombe 9y ago
> (raspy voice) "Wanna play a game? You have 45 minutes to parse this html in assembly using only half a keyboard. Otherwise... you will not be able to feed your family. From us, at least." Don't forget about interrupting
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by alacombe 9y ago
s/engineers/managers/... Who probably ended up there to limit their collateral damage to the company, ie. followed the Peter principle.
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by alacombe 9y ago
> It wasn't really 'trivia'. It was several hours of difficult problem solving without reference material, given access only to a whiteboard and a judge Even more irrelevant with today's access to Google, StackOverflo
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by alacombe 9y ago
"Pressure cooker situations" are different than being asked to be an expert in IGBT transformer, have state of the art metallurgy knowledges, and have the flexibility of an olympic gymnast... for a welder position.
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by alacombe 9y ago
> Questions are often under specified for exactly this reason: to test ability to ask questions when necessary. Unless you deviate from the script the [incompetent] interviewer expect, in which case, you are toasted.
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by alacombe 9y ago
> Perhaps it's time to just repeal it and possibly confiscate guns across the board. Get ready for a civil war then, because the US country side will not let the cities get their guns.
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by alacombe 9y ago
> I was always under the impression that the thing that makes western society great is that everyone is supposed to be equal. What makes the Western societies great revolve more around "equality of opportunity" than "equal
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by alacombe 9y ago
Argument could by made as to whether or not power dynamic is directly linked to biological sex (in general) at the biological level.
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by alacombe 9y ago
Exactly, this is generally going to happen before 25 years old, when the frontal cortex is not yet fully developed. Which is another pattern: most are below 25 years of age.
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by alacombe 9y ago
> We will probably never understand why any one young man decides to end the lives of others. [...] Actually, there is a very easy answer and precisely why men join armed forces, or a biker's club / gang / ISIS: power. [an
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by alacombe 9y ago
And then, real question from another recent experience: "here's our network, optimize it" ... without any insight on any existing problem to solve, nor details about constraints or requirements.
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by alacombe 9y ago
> One way to think about it is: A programmer's job is not writing code. Yet, interview revolves around: implement a link-list/LIFO algorithm.
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by alacombe 9y ago
welcome to the club :-/
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by alacombe 9y ago
If tech interviewer were trades interviewers, it would go somewhere along those lines: For a welder position: - "So, you are a welder." - "Yes." - "Good, so tell me how an IGBT transformer works." - "I don
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Ask HN: What happened to Soekris Engineering?
7 points by alacombe 9y ago|2 comments
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by alacombe 9y ago
Trying to foresee the future... Could we expect Intel to fix the design flaw^Wfeature so that future server appliance (but also desktop) can run without KPTI while still not being affected by Meltdown ? If so, what timeline could we expect
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by alacombe 9y ago
This is not a security report, this is PR. Among other things, it implies, without explicitly naming them, that AMD, ARM and OS vendors are being directly affected while most information out there point out it's merely an Intel issue.
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by alacombe 9y ago
> Also, if this bug lets the kernel leak data to user processes, would it also not be the case that different processes would leak data to each other? If that is true, then it seems that just isolating the kernel wouldn't be enough.

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