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by aristus 13y ago
Hi, author here -- the article focuses on "code prep" because that's something you can brush up in a short-ish period of time. You can't become a nicer or more thoughtful person quickly, so on those parts of our criteria we take people as t
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by aristus 13y ago
You may be right, but all I know is my own experience. The query parser example is real; I had to do something like that recently in order to more deeply analyze some performance bugs.
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by aristus 13y ago
(Author of the post) Consider this: In any job you're going to do "normal" stuff the majority of the time. The other times, you have to pull out A-level work. It's not 24x7, but when the time comes you have to be able to do it, eg writing a
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by aristus 13y ago
So.... you're saying that it's a bad idea to trust what people say about businesses on the internet, because it's often outdated and lacking detail? What does Yelp do again? I forget.
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by aristus 13y ago
Being non-black, non-latino, and non-poor probably helps lifetime earnings, too.
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by aristus 14y ago
How do you measure performance? I'm interested specifically in where & how you instrument, and how you collect the data.
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by aristus 14y ago
You have good instincts here, but 1) In very large systems there are many many load balancers 2) Server "spikes" (eg swapping) can happen very suddenly, so distributing health info is a hard problem 3) Determining a priori which requests ar
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by aristus 14y ago
I'm not talking about polling. Presumably the server's response packets flow back through the webserver, unless they are doing DSR. You can piggyback data on that channel in a way that's transparent to the customer.
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by aristus 14y ago
I have working knowledge of a couple of large routing systems (Yahoo, Facebook) and built a few smaller ones. In general, state is the enemy of scale . You want large systems to be simpler and less stateful, not more stateful and "intellig
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by aristus 14y ago
That does change things. Debt restructuring is a bit like musical chairs. If there was truly no group left to haircut, to avoid default this had to be done. On the other hand, that €10B euro could have come from somewhere outside the countr
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by aristus 14y ago
The banks, not the govt. But the bailout as structured tends to conflate the two, which is part of the problem. Also it directly hurts retirees in country while protecting rich foreigners (eg, holders of Cypriot bank bonds). It's WTF from s
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by aristus 14y ago
No. Just Facebook profile ids, which happen to start at 4 (Zuck). I can only assume that it took him three tries to get the account creation code right. :) All objects accessible by the Graph API have numeric IDs. The old mysql ids for user
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by aristus 14y ago
If you'll forgive the self-quote: "If I had to pick a major disagreement between the present world and the past, it would be the importance of invisible amounts of mass and energy, be they trace chemicals or transistors. Moreover we tend to
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by aristus 14y ago
Sure, if someone commits treason and then surrenders nicely, put them on trial. But if they are shooting at you, what are your options? The technical crime of treason being committed by some percentage of people in an opposing army seems to
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by aristus 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that travelling to another country and joining an army currently at war with the US makes you fair game. In fact: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1481
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by aristus 14y ago
Lincoln and Grant suspended habeus corpus for this reason. Leaving aside the preliminaries, once the shooting started the government had an armed insurrection within their borders. Article 1, section 9: "The privilege of the writ of habeas
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by aristus 14y ago
One does not simply fly into Mordor!
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by aristus 14y ago
Deals that large usually come with a "breakup fee" on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars, precisely for this reason.
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by aristus 14y ago
A programmer walks into a bar and orders 1.00000000001000000...897175 root beers. The bartender says, "I'll have to charge you extra; that's a root beer float". And the programmer says, "In that case, make it a double".
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by aristus 14y ago
If the bond requirement becomes daily volume times 50 states, they are boned.
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by aristus 14y ago
www.facebook.com/whitehat/report/ First hit when you Google for [facebook report vulnerability]
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by aristus 14y ago
Bingo. Reading and writing used to be a separate profession as well.
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by aristus 14y ago
I've talked to experienced recruiters and hiring managers about this. The interesting thing is that the content of the email actually doesn't matter much at all. Personalization, mentioning mutual contacts, etc helps but not a lot. The sing
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by aristus 14y ago
They used certified mail for an extortion scam? Oh, man. Mail fraud is bad news. Might even qualify for RICO prosecution.
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by aristus 14y ago
I do (much lower scale) affiliate links and book reviews, mostly for the data, rather than the money. But my conversion rate is something like 23%. With a good niche and qualified traffic (eg most traffic coming from people genuinely linkin
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by aristus 14y ago
I do perf work at Facebook, and over time I've become more and more convinced that the most crucial metric is the width of the latency histogram. Narrowing your latency band --even if it makes the average case worse -- makes so many system
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by aristus 14y ago
Because career advancement requires publication in peer-reviewed, quality journals in a relevant field. The people at the top aren't generally keen to delegitimize the reason they are at the top. :) It's hard to fight that battle on top of
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by aristus 14y ago
Hmm. The article I wrote for them does not appear when searching for my name. Finding it again through Google, it looks like they lost the images that went with it. :( http://alistapart.com/article/accent-folding-for-auto-comple...
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by aristus 14y ago
It's mostly automated, as far as I can tell. I've seen the same book ranked top ten in both fiction and non-fiction.
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by aristus 14y ago
They don't have a lot of choice. Prime interest rates have been near zero for over ten years. It's got to give at some point. Inflation-protected bonds have been bidding at both negative rates and 10% markup for a very long time, too -- lot

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