billhathaway

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by billhathaway 9y ago
Have you looked at interviewing.io
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by billhathaway 9y ago
Isn't Case 1 an attack on every possible method?
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by billhathaway 9y ago
you might be interested in https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-algorithms it is illustrated and very approachable
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by billhathaway 9y ago
There are pretty massive subsidies on new Leafs now. $10k reduction by dealers as well as $7500 federal tax rebate (and potentially CA rebate if you are low income).
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by billhathaway 9y ago
Would standard postgres streaming replication do what you are looking for? https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication We use a combination of streaming replication and wal-e backups. A separate machine per
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by billhathaway 9y ago
How could the net increase in tax revenue only be $1M? At 4400 units, that would be only be $227 per unit per year. While prop 13 limits increases, for new units, they would be assessed at current value.
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by billhathaway 9y ago
There are a couple of videos of either Diego Ongaro or John Ousterhout, his faculty advisor talking about Raft. The most recent one I saw was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYp4LYbnnW8 Ben Johnson also made a cool visual
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by billhathaway 9y ago
Tesla sent out an email today. Autopilot Updates We just released the latest version of Autopilot. You can now experience Enhanced Autopilot features including Traffic-Aware Cruise Control, Autosteer, Auto Lane Change, Parallel + Perpendicu
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by billhathaway 10y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by "you can easily take extra power units with you (disposably cheap at that)." ?
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by billhathaway 10y ago
That book is excellent, love the combination of research and anecdotes.
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by billhathaway 10y ago
If you read the "Beyond Corp" doc, there are also certificates involved.
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by billhathaway 10y ago
Since each new key request creates a uuid, wouldn't someone need to store that uuid in local key/value store in order to retrieve values from this k/v? $ curl -X POST http://api.keyvalue.xyz/new/key1
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by billhathaway 10y ago
I wish AWS had both high-level and drill down status pages where it would post API success rates or the equivalent detailed information like github's status page has [0]. [0] https://status.github.com/
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by billhathaway 10y ago
Yes, Teslas manufactured since mid-October all have the hardware for full autonomy[0]. It will be interesting to see how long it takes and what technical and legal hurdles are involved. [0] https://www.tesla.com/blog/al
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by billhathaway 10y ago
The justification I heard was in case your password was leaked/hacked (and nobody knew), it wouldn't be good forever. I'm not supporting that position, just what I heard many years ago when talking with a security person.
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by billhathaway 10y ago
We had the same issue. Our 120V circuit couldn't recharge fast enough overnight to handle ~ 50 miles daily of commute/errands. We ended up getting a 240V/40AMP circuit installed for a 32AMP charger and now it charges in ~ 3
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by billhathaway 10y ago
I was really surprised that Chevy expects to make less than 30k Bolts in the first year. I wonder if that number is capped by anticipated demand, manufacturing ability, or trying to maximize number of vehicles sold with the tax credit.
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by billhathaway 10y ago
From https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes [paraphrased] All storage classes are designed for 99.999999999% durability As the previous replies to your comment mention, at that order of magnitude th
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by billhathaway 10y ago
There were some very significant[0] crypto speed improvements in the Go 1.6 releases. It would be interesting to see how well a pure go implementation would perform. [0] Russ Cox mentions a ~ 10x performance in a TLS benchmark between 1.5 a
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by billhathaway 10y ago
Remember to have automated restore testing that validates restores are successful and the data "freshness" is within a reasonable period of time, such as last updated record in a database. Lots of people only do a full test of the
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by billhathaway 10y ago
There are onhub apps for ios and Android https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6273485
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by billhathaway 10y ago
GoTime[0] is a Go oriented podcast that is high quality and has a new guest each week. They also touch on a lot of general topics about SWE that are relevant to a broader audience. [0] https://changelog.com/gotime/
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by billhathaway 10y ago
Exactly: we bought in San Jose in Sept 2011 and have seen our townhouse's value increase by approx 60% since then (which seems ridiculous to me). We really lucked out on our timing. The seller who had originally owned our home sold fo
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by billhathaway 10y ago
I took this course about a year ago and really enjoyed it. The main things I took away were: * focused and diffuse thinking - I now take short walks at work if I'm struggling with problems for a bit and often find I come up with an alt
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by billhathaway 10y ago
There is a new small thread[0] on golang-dev about someone from Intel looking into this. It would be great to see the go scheduler be more aware of NUMA characteristics. [0] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-
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by billhathaway 10y ago
Does Go's crypto/rand[0] package meet this criteria? [0] https://golang.org/src/crypto/rand/rand_linux.go
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by billhathaway 10y ago
Norway is handling their oil wealth pretty responsibly and have a huge (U.S. $873 billion) government fund based on petroleum profits[0]. This American Life ran a podcast segment on it back in 2011 which was interesting[1]. [0] https:&#x2
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by billhathaway 10y ago
Lowes does have an app with in-store maps. When you search you can see product inventory and where items are located in the store. I've used it a few times with moderate success. It only has 25 reviews on App Store with 2/5 ratin
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by billhathaway 10y ago
For customers with stronger security concerns, they could issue your service a client cert and only allow replication connections from your service's IP range that auth with certificate.
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by billhathaway 10y ago
You can also go to a business like Car Max which will give you a quote for your used vehicle which is good for 7 days. Take the quote with you when going to buy a new car. If the dealer doesn't want to match the Car Max quote as trade

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