drdrey

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   by drdrey 9y ago

   The book mastering Bitcoin is available for free on github, it is really well made. I also secong the Princeton course (available on YouTube).
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   by drdrey 9y ago

   I must say I am pleasantly surprised by the straightforward, no BS language
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   by drdrey 9y ago

   https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2018/01/02/meet-the-c...
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   by drdrey 9y ago

   The crazy part is how much XRP is concentrated in the company and its founders: > XRP, being issued by a company, is less decentralized than many other cryptocurrencies. For instance, Ripple itself holds 61.3 billion XRP, including 55 bi
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   by drdrey 9y ago

   Doesn't each tab run in a separate process?
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   Canaries in Practice(dreynaud.fail)

   2 points by drdrey 9y ago|0 comments
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   by drdrey 9y ago

   I didn't get Markov chains until now. Thanks OP!
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   by drdrey 9y ago

   No more push notifications
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   by drdrey 9y ago

   > more people are working to get into the top 1% I don't think that's how the top 1% works
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    > two years of internships, one year as a full time employee 2 years of internships? Is that a thing in some industries? Sure seems crazy to me
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    Some tools that can help: * break the hard problem into smaller problems (e.g. "make a car that drives itself" would really benefit from considering smaller components) * reframe the problem. Sometimes changing the perspective on
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    I think the condensed format is great, but the initial disclaimer makes it sound like it was assembled in a vacuum from open sources. For a post like this with a very specific focus it might make sense to reach out to a couple Netflix engin
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    Netflix is particularly open about how it works. There are some confidential bits, but most of the infrastructure projects are not considered proprietary. (I work at Netflix)
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    To avoid silos?
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    Also: https://www.topic.com/life-inside-the-rvs-of-silicon-valley
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    I don't disagree -- but why do we value reading books so much over watching TV? Aren't you consuming stories passively in both cases? (let's say reading Harry Potter vs watching Harry Potter)
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    Anecdotally, 6-yo is only exposed to commercials when we stay in hotels and she finds them insufferable.
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    No offense but you sound like my aunt who would tell me all the time that video games would make me stupid. But I wouldn't be working in tech today if it wasn't for my passion for video games. (note: I also limit screen time for m
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    You really don't see a difference between linear tv programming with 25% ads and on-demand ad-free streaming?
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    There is some evidence that having to stand all day is bad for you: https://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/standing-all-day-...
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    Probably not what OP meant, but mining pools are a way to address that. You team up with N other miners, and if one of them finds a solution then the reward is divided among the pool based on the work that was contributed
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    Ask HN: Do you reply to recruiter emails?

    24 points by drdrey 9y ago|24 comments
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    Interesting, thanks for jumping in! I'd be happy to revise my judgment when I see the new product in action
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    I was working on LLVM (C++ compiler) for 3 years and Java server backends the other 3 years. Those were the main products, with a side of Python, Groovy, Bash and JavaScript. In all fairness, I suspect LLVM uses linked lists internally for
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    OP here, the test was definitely in HackerRank's library, not something custom. I went through the exercise as we were evaluating HackerRank internally, not as a candidate (important context I should probably have mentioned in the post
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    > Special kudos to the guys who are able to solve a problem -with a perfectly optimized solution- in less time than it would take to actually read it =D oh my
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    Thanks for the detailed feedback! Here is what I mean by "necessarily contrived IO": in a more realistic setting, we might have to answer a question like "what host returns the most 500s?" coming in an email or on a supp
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    What you're saying is true -- but at the same time it is a bit awkward that there are things you need to work on for interviews only. For instance, I have never had to use linked lists in an actual dev job (~6y experience), but they co
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    I honestly think this is just going with the easy solution. Doing interviews correctly is hard and time consuming, so the easiest thing is just to do what everyvody else is doing, and that's some form of algorithm problem on a whiteboa
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    by drdrey 9y ago

    Hi, OP here. Good point about the lack of interaction with people at the company, I did not consider that. I'm not familiar with interviewing.io, what's the hook?