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by dvirsky 4y ago
Nice. A few years ago I designed a query language to do aggregations in RediSearch, and it's quite similar in its structure. https://redis.io/docs/stack/search/reference/aggregations/
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by dvirsky 4y ago
Someone wrote once about how Wall Street people started behaving like the slick image projected of them in movies in the 80s, namely of Michael Douglas; before that they were more like the "boring accountant" type.
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by dvirsky 4y ago
I had a great track record that was out in the open, actually displaying vast knowledge of algorithms and data structures and exactly the stuff that's being asked in those interviews. FAANG interviewers did not care one bit about it. T
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by dvirsky 4y ago
I don't know if this is just the start of a bigger thing, but this is nothing like 2008 for sure; in 2000 I was around but didn't work in tech directly so it affected me less. 2008 was a complete panic, people thought it was liter
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by dvirsky 4y ago
Yes, my point is it will hold, but it won't hold 50M users, and if you take off you'll be scrambling to rewrite it from scratch. So a flexible architecture that is simple but can scale (as an architecture) might be a better choice
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by dvirsky 4y ago
I was just reading the Wiki page for Bogota yesterday and was like "damn, that city has my favorite kind of weather and it barely changes". Is it a good place to live in otherwise?
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by dvirsky 4y ago
There is another aspect to this - if you're working on a startup that will scale, if successful - not to FAANG scale, but let's say many millions of DAUs and thousands of QPS on the servers - you also want to build some kind of fu
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by dvirsky 4y ago
One thing that could make this less problematic - make levels hidden. Another more radical approach - get rid of levels completely. Increase pay significantly, similar to a promo if someone is doing good consistently, don't if they&#x2
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by dvirsky 4y ago
Former Googler (until a couple of months ago). I've never seen anything like it, but maybe I just didn't use "bad" words in code? There were presubmit checks for typos and such. Also, IIRC I asked people in code/des
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by dvirsky 5y ago
It really depends on the context and situation. One example off the top of my mind - I was working from some coffee shop, at the table next to me another geek was also coding. He seemed to be working on something interesting. After a couple
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Also, most of these examples in the articles are input boxes that spit out links :/
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by dvirsky 5y ago
> I expect the number of cars on the road to go way up This could also play out totally opposite to that - think cheaper on demand rides, no need to park near your work if your car can just go do something else, etc. This might play out
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by dvirsky 5y ago
In what way is it different than other hosted redis solutions? Also, the sizing suggests it's a single replica, IIRC most other hosted redis platform support clusters.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I wouldn't want to watch something like that, I want to watch the original film. Then again I also never watch dubbed movies/tv, I prefer reading subtitles.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
That hurt.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Most of the world is not the US. And fast charging of ~1 hour or even 25 minutes is an inconvenience that would make people choose a non EV.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
> you can charge it at home Most people in most big cities don't have private parking they can equip with a charger, and they struggle to even find parking at all. You'd have to make every single parking space in a big city a c
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Search was on my list, as a former Googler I used both the external and internal search all the time.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
> You can tell which parts Amazon dogfoods! Same for Google. Everything that's in use by Googlers is pretty dope - calendar, video conferencing, docs, search obviously, maps, etc. Everything that's not - less so.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
That's why disk indexes usually use B-trees.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I learned math in elementary school in a similar method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods While I don't remember the colors or anything, I still visualize addition like this I think.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I guess you're just trolling, so have a nice life.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Xoogler here, from what I've seen, SWEs converting to PMs did it because it was what they were interested in it, unrelated to their skill, and it's not trivial at all. IIRC (never done it myself but seen a couple of people who did
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I would have done most of this in a different way, but looking at how this guy solved all those problems made me really stop and think about how I approach problems, and I actually think he did it in a more elegant way that I would have.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
But the equivalent analogy to Wordle in this case would be not implementing the letter check or not hiding the correct answer until you figure it out. That mechanism exists.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Sure, what I meant is that even if you delete your cookies you'll play the same round.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I'm old enough to remember when Google didn't have user accounts.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
The code design is also very elegant in its simplicity. You have two static lists of words in the JS code - known words, and a smaller, random pre-shuffled list of words the game will select from. The selection is done on the client, by dat
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I think the tension between how successful he is and how awkward he is, _is_ a key part of his charisma.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
What are some command line tools that aren't available natively on Linux? I'm not trying to dismiss or be negative, just really curious.

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