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by cmollis 8y ago
Only saw Sean Parker in a meeting once (and I don’t believe I was ever introduced) so, difficult to comment on that. My sense is that he was more involved at the beginning of the service. I got involved around the time Bertelsmann made the
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by cmollis 8y ago
Napster. Worked there in 2000 and 2001. It was surreal (at least for me) to work at a place that was always in the news at the time. I can understand how employees at Faang must feel at times. Not a total distraction but it’s there. Nap
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by cmollis 8y ago
completely agree. It's been done to me (at Google), and I'm guilty of this myself. I tend to ask a bunch of obscure questions about topics that ultimately have nothing to do with the daily job. I gloss over the banality of what
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by cmollis 8y ago
That’s incredible.
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by cmollis 8y ago
After graduating in 1990, I was hired by an oil company to work on their internal expert systems group (yes the whole AI thing happened in the early 90s too.. except without all the linear algebra which would have made it useful). After 6
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by cmollis 8y ago
+1
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by cmollis 9y ago
So it’s....Mac OS X?
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by cmollis 9y ago
cool.. I didn't realize that move meant memcpy.. does this operation destroy the original object?
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by cmollis 9y ago
Promise.all vs sequential awaits is a good tip but Only if the results of the awaits are independent (obvious). I see that all the time. It’s easier to see how inefficient that is when you’re chaining .then().. await hides that and gives t
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by cmollis 9y ago
does Rust basically have the same 'move' semantics as C++ ?
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by cmollis 9y ago
+1
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by cmollis 9y ago
Talking your book...
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by cmollis 9y ago
I use Sencha ExtJS every day.. (now v.6). We still have a few applications with it but have recommended that my clients move to React (for new development). I have heard a lot of complaints over the years about Ext's complexity and I
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by cmollis 9y ago
there is 'flow'.. which means you're jamming on some code..everything is working and you're making incredible progress quickly. Developer feels a euphoric sense of amazing accomplishment, which is the opposite of the typ
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by cmollis 9y ago
verifying the control and transfer of funds is a huge expensive process with investment banking. There are entire companies that specialize in this type of thing.. for example, the one (and only) fintech application I've ever built wa
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by cmollis 9y ago
PipelineDB is great..and the guys are super helpful.. influxdb has something similar, and now so does AWS Kinesis (with their Kinesis Analytics product).
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by cmollis 9y ago
right.. pensions invest in bonds and insurance products (=slow steady returns... allegedly). Crypto (which I do invest in), is a highly volatile and speculative instrument which may gain or lose value quickly. It's not the type of th
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by cmollis 9y ago
python3, asyncio/aiohttp (maybe rxpy), postgres
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by cmollis 9y ago
A math elective called 'quality control and reliability'. Sounded super boring but I absolutely loved it. It was fascinating to see math in a business-y useful context.
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by cmollis 9y ago
it was a lot harder.. I used to go the book stores (remember those?) with a pad and paper and copy down pieces of code that i needed, or, even worse ;) I would actually buy the book. I recently just threw away a bunch of old programming bo
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by cmollis 9y ago
shameless plug for my brother's VR startup: http://www.patchworkvr.com (also in real estate/architecture). Think of it as matterport, only with cheaper commodity cameras.
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by cmollis 10y ago
(sorry YOU said it much better.. )
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by cmollis 10y ago
can be said about C++ (or any language). But he (the author) said it much better.
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by cmollis 10y ago
So true.. and this is a great interviewing technique. I basically ask one question during an interview: what was the hardest problem you ever had to solve? It may sound stupid at first glance, but it gives you insight into not only the b
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by cmollis 10y ago
Agree.. it does sharpen your mind, and also forces you to be more self-disciplined. You basically shift priorities away from things you might have done when you were younger (like drinking, dating, golf, etc), to playing with them, reading
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by cmollis 10y ago
oh, and I seem to get charged 3.75 per month... with no interest.. and I have to get to a certain amount before I can invest it... which is stupid.
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by cmollis 10y ago
..and how is lively different again? Mind you, I think that HSA's are great.. and most likely, with the Trump administration, you'll be able to put even more pre-tax money into them... I have an HSA (with a branded card).. and it
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by cmollis 10y ago
My experience hiring at (YouTube.. at the google campus), was similar to the original post. 3 phone screens (which I must have done ok on), and then they flew me out to CA. I went through the interview process.. got tripped up on the &#x2
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by cmollis 10y ago
I had never understood how imaginary numbers had any bearing on physics (probably because I'd never been taught). But lately I've thinking about how all mathematics must have some natural physical equivalent or relation. E.g. how
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by cmollis 10y ago
To be perfectly frank, it would be fine with me, as I'm basically paying what amounts to a tax anyway. At least it would be explicitly stated as such, instead of this 'bait-and-switch' bullshit foisted upon us here in the US.

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