bquinlan

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by bquinlan 11y ago
I don't have time to do more detailed analysis but, from the article, "In 2052, ...Rose would be approaching her 60s." So lets assume that Rose would be exactly 60 in 2052. So she was born in 1992. According to projections (
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by bquinlan 11y ago
On Windows, installing Python involves double clicking on the installer, pressing the "Next" button until it turns into "Finish" and then pressing that. No configuration should be required. But point taken. It would be c
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by bquinlan 11y ago
Is installing Python 2.7 a huge barrier? I bet that you can download and install it in less than 60 seconds ( https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.4/ ).
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by bquinlan 11y ago
I'm the submitter and author of the interview solutions. This project was meant as a learning project for me but I think that it might be useful to others who want to understand how Rust is different from other languages.
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Common interview problems solved in Rust(github.com)
5 points by bquinlan 11y ago|2 comments
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by bquinlan 11y ago
Are you talking about the lack of improvements in webapp2 or the lack of improvements in the App Engine Python SDK in general? webapp2 was started outside of Google by Rodrigo Moraes, who has since moved on to other projects. Googlers have
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by bquinlan 11y ago
I actually agree with this remark: "In the talk.origins newsgroup someone made an offhand remark that they didn't see how anybody, no matter how klutzy their programming, could write an O(n^3) sort." The examples were all con
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by bquinlan 12y ago
I while ago I wrote a simple Brainfuck interpreter, JIT and compiler ( https://github.com/brianquinlan/brainfuck-jit ). The compiler implements the "Operation offsets" optimization as described in the article.
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by bquinlan 12y ago
A lot of the comments assume that there are only two choices: hire a local American worker or hire an immigrant. But, as the article shows, there is a third choice: hire outside of the US. Giving this third choice, I don't think that r
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by bquinlan 12y ago
I graduated in 1997 and, since then, have worked at: - 2 big companies - 2 small steady-state businesses (<100 people) - 4 startups (one as a founder) So far my best experience has been at Google, where I work now. Here are some of my re
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by bquinlan 12y ago
How are people at Google trying to screw up your life? Are you talking about the (seemingly bi-directional) hostility on Hacker News that seemed common a year ago or something more? You mentioned that you sued and won some cases for tortiou
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by bquinlan 12y ago
You should probably file your bugs here: http://bugs.python.org/ with the expectation that fixes will be backported.
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by bquinlan 12y ago
I'd like to point out that the Python standard library offers an abstraction over threads and processes that simplifies the kind of concurrent work described in the article: https://docs.python.org/dev/library&#x2F
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by bquinlan 13y ago
I actually don't mind the day-of-interviews thing because I find it fair and encourages hiring efficiency. For example, if I lose a day to do 6 interviews then the company loses 6 engineer-hours (+ time to write and assess feedback). T