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by dvirsky 5y ago
Looks like an incredible project, but if GUI is not working, what is the current use case for it? Command line apps are usually open source and can be compiled in either system. What are people using this for in day to day work?
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Exactly. The only scenario in which I actually reveal the optimal complexity is when they got the best solution and are still struggling to see if there's a better one. It's better if they understand that it is optimal but I don&#
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Yep, I did it a couple of times and I didn't get any credit, just got harder questions that the interviewer did not practice in a long time. You should only disclose this if you're getting the same question in the same interview r
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Me too, I had to see the emoji for it to click that it's not an Alien reference.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
IIRC in chess.com you can start as beginner/intermediate/advanced and your initial rating will be 800/1200/1600 respectively.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I've also noticed that there isn't a lot of difference. You get horrible blunders from higher rated players and lower rated players will kick your ass. I can drop or rise 200 Elo points in a couple of hours easily.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
100% is only best moves (my record is 99.8%), anything above 90 is awesome, etc. I'm not sure what 15 ACPL means, but if you tell me 95% perfect it's more intuitive to me personally. But it might be because I'm not a very goo
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by dvirsky 5y ago
The Elo distribution is really different between them. I'm hovering around 1500 on lichess Blitz and 1100 on chess.com Blitz. I would say 1000 on lichess ~= 500-600 on chess.com.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
That you're 30% far from optimal play :)
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I've read the meaning and I can tell what the numbers mean, but it's still less intuitive than percentage.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
One thing not mentioned here is the players. Chess.com is much more beginner heavy. I'm a pretty bad player, and while on lichess I'm slightly below the median, on chess.com I'm around 80th percentile. It also feels like the
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by dvirsky 5y ago
For one thing, framing your accuracy in percentage instead of the obscure "centipawn loss" makes understanding how well you played much easier. BTW I've compared their analysis on a number of games, and it seemed like lichess
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I was just thinking the other day about how in the olden days you'd discover new music by listening to the radio. There would be a bias towards DJs and shows you liked, but musical tastes would be shaped and evolve by these DJs. Now wh
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Oh, I didn't know this existed. The syntax seems to be on par with the internal one, I couldn't find any info on what's driving it.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
There is some older version that's open source, I haven't tried it and I don't know how much of today's code search is based on it. https://github.com/google/codesearch
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Are there any open source powerful code search engines out there? As a Googler the internal code search we have here is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen, it's so fast and powerful I'm amazed by it daily. Is th
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I work at Google's Mountain View office and I've been coming in for the past 6 months, around 4 times a week. Not a lot of people do, maybe 5%? (I hear it varies in other offices). I find the separation of home and work productive
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by dvirsky 5y ago
One thing that makes SO an easy target for this is that they let you download all their data and you don't even need to crawl and scrape the content from the website. Just download a dump, put it in an database, slap an HTML template o
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by dvirsky 5y ago
You have to have your headlights alignment tested every year in Israel. And being caught with badly aligned lights can lead to a ticket if a police car is on the receiving end.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
My thought was mainly "ok how can I build a ball big enough for a VR rig for myself?"
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by dvirsky 5y ago
In Israel, flashing the warning lights or hazard lights or whatever they're called when driving, means "hey car behind me, you're on high beams and blinding me, please stop". Since moving to the US I haven't found a
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by dvirsky 5y ago
While the stacked code review process at Google is pretty smooth - if you're using the default version control system, keeping your chain in sync is a nightmare. If C depends on B depends on A and you made a modification in A, there&#x
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I think that it has to do mainly with two things: 1. The overall complexity of what's possible is growing, so software is just becoming much more complex. The other is the fact that server based software has an almost zero time deploym
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Reminds me, a few years ago I went to a moderately fancy restaurant that prided itself on having an extra festive and informal atmosphere (but also really good food). The servers basically join you at the table as if they're you'r
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by dvirsky 5y ago
It's much harder with early 80s hardware (and no internet to learn this stuff) than with modern hardware. These machines were stateless beasts. You could either damage the BIOS with writing to it somehow, or fry some hardware. I suppos
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Same here, but it also reminds me, the first programming lesson in school (not on a Spectrum but on an IBM PC), our teacher told us "there's nothing you can do with code that will harm the computer in any way" (these computer
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by dvirsky 5y ago
For its time and price vs. performance, the Spectrum might have been the best personal computer ever made. It was my first machine, and I loved it so much.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I skipped a year in elementary school and had a gap year (because I was in Israel I couldn't start university because I was supposed to do mandatory military service, and had a year to wait). Man oh man, did this year suck. I had no sk
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Same here. I started with LOGO at school and it was a great teaching language and gave me a good basis (e.g. we did a ton of recursive stuff) and a passion for creating things with code.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Perhaps the new government fixed things?

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