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by dvirsky 5y ago
Also sounds a bit like Dunning Kruger. It looks easy because people are ignorant of how hard the problem is. Many years ago I built a search engine for a very big discussion board website, which had hundreds of millions of messages. Keep in
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by dvirsky 5y ago
No go link for the lazy? :)
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Interestingly the commit history goes back 2 years and the first commit looks like it's already a somewhat working OS. All commits by one person.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
curl http://foo.com?x=1&rm -rf ~/
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by dvirsky 5y ago
> ... the ability of pawns to be queened was restricted while the original queen was still on the board, so as not to cause scandal by providing the king with more than one queen. This is awesome :)
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Statistically, white wins more than black.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
> It's orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude less energy to communicate with (including obscuring your origin, if you want) than destroy a civilization. IIRC The Dark Forest addresses this directly - saying that wiping out a ci
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by dvirsky 5y ago
That would have been a perfect device plot for Breaking Bad.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
It doesn't. It snaps some pics, sends them back and moves on.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Redis Labs are more or less doing the same.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
My favorite phrases in academic papers are "leaves a lot to be desired", and of course "towards a ...." in the title.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
For me that actually was easier - learning English mostly from TV as a kid I just pronounced can't as "kent".
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Yeah what I meant is that it just increases the possibilities of awkwardness. Piss of cake, piss process, etc.
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I'm a native Hebrew speaker. We basically have one way to say each vowel. It took practice for me (not with a coach but with some training videos etc) to even hear the different ways English speakers pronounce them, my brain just wasn&
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I started out in print journalism in the 90s, it was such a cool thing back then in my country. I switched to internet content when it just started because it was exciting, not because I foresaw any decline of journalism on the horizon. And
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Well obviously if you don't observe Sabbath you're not a _real_ Jew. /s
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by dvirsky 5y ago
Sure, there is a principle called Pikuach Nefesh ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikuach_nefesh ) (literal translation - watching over the soul) which means that anything that endangers people's lives is more import
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by dvirsky 5y ago
I would add - unless it's a very short snippet and you understand exactly what it does. My top SO answer is how to convert and IP address from string to integer representation in Python. It's one or two lines, it's perfectly
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by dvirsky 5y ago
You don't need to remember the details of a specific problem. Almost all the problems I've encountered interviewing for FAANGs were not found on such sites. You do need to remember classes of problems - graph traversal, tree trave
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Reminds me of a C++ pattern some guy I worked with years ago used to love to simplify complex if checks - using do...while(false) to create a scope you can easily break out of. e.g. bool success = false; do { if (!someCondition)
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by dvirsky 6y ago
The part about the honor walk is really great. My father was killed in a terrorist attack 18 years ago and we were able to donate his organs (he was shot in the head so was brain dead but his body was mostly fine). It was in Israel and ther
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I've done many 15+ hour flights in coach. You get used to it, plus there's sleeping pills.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
This is a really wonderful idea! Thanks, OP.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I'm not sure there's a path that's flat enough to make it practical even if everything else falls into place somehow.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Improve existing stuff, add new stuff. That can be done with backwards compatibility if you have a well defined API. I haven't looked at Gnome's API in years so I'm not sure what's its state, but one shining example for
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Actually this numbering scheme conveys to me, intuitively, that changes are more gradual and hints at backwards compatibility. If there's no major/minor/patch semantics I just assume versions are small incremental additions.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
That was a rough time. I worked at a start-up company that shut down just at the peak of the global panic. Forget rejection - even finding a company that was hiring people was hard. Everyone was freezing new hires, investors were running aw
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Audacity is an awesome project. I know a LOT of non technical people with no affinity to open source who are using it. I think a UI refresh to something modern looking will help it increase its popularity even more, I hope they find someone
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by dvirsky 6y ago
> for all we know currently there's no strong link that vaccines are going to prevent transmission, Not anymore. https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2021/3/14/22327524/pfizer-...
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I found this survey: https://www.builtinsf.com/salaries/dev-engineer/senior-softw... Average for senior engineers is around $200K, upper limit towards $300K. Why not just make it open to typing in the sum, at leas

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