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by blutoot 11mo ago
This is incredible - have to try this - thank you :)
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by blutoot 11mo ago
Yes - I had similar thoughts when I saw the word "startup" used alongside something so far-out (same 'critique" should apply to Fei-Fei Li's World Labs - https://www.worldlabs.ai ). These are VC-funded re
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by blutoot 11mo ago
A 1000 yes! I can't sleep deprive mgself any longer and ironically midnight-to-6am is when I seem to be able do most of my quality work (including grinding problem after problem from leetcode) only to feel like shit in the morning.
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by blutoot 11mo ago
The fear of failure also comes from the concept of "cool-off". I recently failed a coding challenge in Zoox only to find out after the rejection that the cool-off period is 2 years!! I would have never applied to Zoox had I known
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by blutoot 11mo ago
I am indeed learning a lot more about Python through my leetcode exercises. E.g. (this might sound lame to many) but I had never used the defaultdict type or the @lru_cacbe decorator up until I started doing leetcode.
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by blutoot 11mo ago
Wanted to respond to a few comments about why motivation has been an issue for me up until this point. It is an issue simply because leetcode grinding makes me feel like all my 10+ years of commitment to my previous employer (often foolishl
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Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?
96 points by blutoot 11mo ago|111 comments
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by blutoot 11mo ago
These are the types that want academic freedom in a cut-throat industry setup and conversely never fit into academia because their profiles and growth ambitions far exceed what an academic research lab can afford (barring some marquee names
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by blutoot 11mo ago
Since the cat is out of the bag (i.e. there's no stopping of LLM-generated code / PR / issues now that vibe-coding is fairly universally accessible), the only thing in our (especially those who are custodians of software sys
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by blutoot 1y ago
I’m afraid, focusing on privacy is a bit shortsighted because what we need to judge is whether this thing has legs to disrupt the whole concept of internet browsing, and and what it means for monetizing web traffic. And more importantly, ar
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by blutoot 1y ago
Why is most of the AI-tooling industry still stuck on this "bring your own key" model?
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by blutoot 12y ago
So when you're the CEO of this group do you tell your board "I'd like to own everything that falls under consumer-facing e-commerce"? I am thinking in cases like this the vision is to plain make as much money as possible
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by blutoot 12y ago
I actually commend BuzzFeed for having unabashedly liberal social viewpoints. So maybe through listicles and what not, it can help push for more openness in our society to heterogeneity.
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by blutoot 12y ago
"I decided to put €10,000 of my own money, just to see some of the ideas I’m nurturing could fly." Maybe you wanna edit your comment now?
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by blutoot 12y ago
Is Alibaba equivalent to Proctor & Gamble? If so, what is the vision of Jack Ma? I'm still not sure how one articulates a vision for such a conglomerate.
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by blutoot 12y ago
This maybe a bit off-topic but I fail to understand why the top 2 textbooks on Distributed Computing - Tanenbaum and Coulouris - don't have a dedicated section on Consensus Algorithms. I learned distributed computing from Tanenbaum and
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by blutoot 12y ago
"Having recent wage and salary income in the same industry as the non-employer business has a large and positive impact on the likelihood of transit- ing to being a non-employer business." - isn't this capturing the typical S
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by blutoot 12y ago
I wonder if US would attract more quality students for the undergrad programs from around the world if it adopted a blind standardized test approach like JEE in India. SAT/ACT aren't comparable to those tests. Anytime you involve
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by blutoot 12y ago
It doesn't work for me - I've tried. Self-control works really well for me when the task at hand is really interesting and I want to give my everything to it. I don't know about you but so far those tasks haven't come to
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by blutoot 12y ago
Instead of disabling the browser completely it would probably be more prudent to use a white-list of websites which the iPhone allows as well: Restriction -> Websites -> Specific Websites Only
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by blutoot 12y ago
I used Do Not Disturb a lot during the peak hours of my dissertation writing. It was pretty helpful. That of course means I would miss new emails and phone calls but those could be responded to later
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by blutoot 12y ago
You know what would make my life really distraction-free? Ban Hacker News on every device I have access to for a prolonged period :)
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by blutoot 12y ago
The fact that Linus didn't take offense to the criticism of his abrasive nature shows that he expects it to be a two-way street. He really does have a thick skin.
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by blutoot 12y ago
I am really heartened by his push for consumer-facing simplicity of the OS which, by his account, the distros have not helped in achieving. I didn't expect that from him given that he operates at a much fundamental level of computing.
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by blutoot 12y ago
I know what his title will be - Chief Benchmarking Officer - CBO...
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by blutoot 12y ago
haha... he's headed to the company that'll make the iWatch ;) http://recode.net/2014/08/31/veteran-tech-journalist-anand-s...
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by blutoot 12y ago
How many average joe's carry an American Express? They need Visa/Mastercard and some well-known retailers to make this work from the get-go.
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by blutoot 12y ago
I wish he retired after the review of the iWatch? :-/
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by blutoot 12y ago
Can Machine Learning (or NLP) ever help in estimating effort based on expected lines of code where the model would be trained upon similar applications/files that already exist? If so, is anyone researching this in academia or in any
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by blutoot 12y ago
What is the tolerance level for naps in silicon valley companies (both big and small)? Does it depend on the role/position? Wouldn't they rather have all their employees down mugs of coffee instead of taking even a quick nap?

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