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My favorite coding question to give candidates(carloarg02.medium.com)
138 points by davidst 3y ago|222 comments
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by davidst 3y ago
I don't think you're missing anything. Years ago, I made the same observation, and ran a test to compare independent hash functions vs salting. It showed no difference. I would be interested if someone here has a different opinion
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by davidst 4y ago
This memory goes back almost thirty years. In 1993, most products still shipped on floppy disks, and costs were increasing as products grew in size. Shrinking a popular product by even one disk could save over a million dollars. Publishers
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by davidst 4y ago
I was responsible for the Turbo C (later Borland C/C++) run-time library in the late 80s and early 90s. Tanj Bennett created our original 8087 floating point emulator. It was real mode, 16-bit code, that kept an 80-bit float in five 16
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by davidst 4y ago
You are right! This is why I appreciate HN so much. I don't see how to edit my comment but thank you for the correction.
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by davidst 4y ago
This is a great interview question I don't want to be 'that guy' by picking at what may be a detail but there is another response to look for from a candidate. We should think very carefully about adding a multiplication comm
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by davidst 5y ago
David Stafford here. Microsoft has the rights to publish it with Windows. My former Cinematronics co-founders (Mike Sandige, Kevin Gliner) and I would be happy to help it return, gratis.
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The Fish Is Driving Again(techcrunch.com)
4 points by davidst 5y ago|1 comments
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Chinese scientists develop AI ‘prosecutor’ that can press its own charges(scmp.com)
8 points by davidst 5y ago|0 comments
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by davidst 5y ago
The rights belong to Electronic Arts today. They acquired Maxis who had acquired us (Cinematronics.) Microsoft may still have rights to continue publishing a version with the Windows operating system. Microsoft, if you're reading this,
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by davidst 5y ago
Thanks! There were a couple of interviews with gaming magazines years ago. They would be hard to find today and didn't cover the topics you mentioned. Mike, Kevin, and I, really need to get together to tell the story some day.
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by davidst 5y ago
I am one of the original authors of Space Cadet pinball (along with Mike Sandige, lead programmer, and Kevin Gliner, producer and designer.) It is surprising and gratifying to see interest is still alive for our old game. And I can't h
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Mathematician Finds Easier Way to Solve Quadratic Equations (2020)(popularmechanics.com)
10 points by davidst 5y ago|4 comments
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We applied for a job with a ransomware gang(cybernews.com)
2 points by davidst 5y ago|0 comments
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Way Beyond AlphaZero: Berkeley and Google Robotics and Machine Learning(zdnet.com)
3 points by davidst 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidst 6y ago
I remember this, Dave. I was confident I had the fastest possible algorithm and you proved me wrong. It was a humbling experience but it forced me to throw out my assumptions and start over. It taught me to assume there was always a faster
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What AlphaGo Can Teach Us About How People Learn(wired.com)
2 points by davidst 6y ago|0 comments
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AMD’s first 7nm Ryzen 4000 desktop chips bring the fight to Intel(theverge.com)
2 points by davidst 6y ago|0 comments
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The Dimming of GE’s Bold Digital Dreams(wsj.com)
3 points by davidst 6y ago|0 comments
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New San Francisco Office Could Curb 'Reckless' Rollouts of Emerging Tech(kqed.org)
2 points by davidst 7y ago|0 comments
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US military equipped with tiny spy drones(zdnet.com)
4 points by davidst 8y ago|3 comments
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He built a face recognition gadget to notify him when his cat wants inside(businessinsider.com)
1 points by davidst 9y ago|0 comments
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Researchers watch images people see, decoded from brain scans in near-real-time(kurzweilai.net)
5 points by davidst 9y ago|0 comments
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In Defense of the Amazon Fire Phone(techcrunch.com)
2 points by davidst 9y ago|0 comments
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China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown(reuters.com)
138 points by davidst 9y ago|94 comments
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by davidst 9y ago
The article makes a good point but I wonder if it is an incomplete explanation. What would happen if Linus Torvalds walked away and there was no single leader to guide (or "dictate", depending on your point of view) its developmen
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The Turing Tumble lets you and your kids build real mechanical computers(techcrunch.com)
226 points by davidst 9y ago|54 comments
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AlphaGo vs. AlphaGo: self play games(deepmind.com)
1 points by davidst 9y ago|0 comments
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The crossover between car simulations and autonomous vehicles(venturebeat.com)
22 points by davidst 9y ago|4 comments
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Someone hacked Amazon’s Alexa into one of those singing fish(techcrunch.com)
4 points by davidst 10y ago|2 comments

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