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by exdsq 4y ago
100%, I’d do the same if I had children and honestly try to do the same for myself. It’s the only console that keeps gaming simple and fun - no achievements, less cosmetic driven games, etc…
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by exdsq 4y ago
I was being recruited for L6 as a privacy engineer until I took another offer a fortnight ago, fwiw. No freezes there that I’m aware of.
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by exdsq 4y ago
I would say it is. The OP is right that there are many things in life that we don't know for sure, and that it can be liberating to realize that we don't have to have all the answers. However, the idea that ignorance is a virtue i
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by exdsq 4y ago
This is a fun wikipedia article on perverse incentives where you aim for something you want and it has the opposite outcome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
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by exdsq 4y ago
Are you suggesting we’re not entering a recession?
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by exdsq 4y ago
Remember Coinbase is a YC company and they just received that email about ‘surviving’.
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by exdsq 4y ago
This is my goal. I'm currently in the Bay Area but hope to move back to the UK and have a decent sized farm (maybe tickle my tech interests by focusing on hydroponics/aquaponics) to feed my family and then sell the extras at a loc
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by exdsq 4y ago
For context, Coinbase said they'd not rescind offers. They're not rescinding offers. https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/v3tmk9/these_comp... https://www.reddit.com/r&#x2
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Reddit post – Anger at Coinbase rescinding offers after saying they wouldn't(old.reddit.com)
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by exdsq 4y ago
Oh I know, I just mean that this is so edge engineering most can only look in awe (those are multiple very cool but complex subjects)
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by exdsq 4y ago
Meta: this is the highest I’ve seen something voted on the front page with 0 comments. Maybe ‘High-throughput’, ‘Formal Methods’, ‘Fuzzing’, and ‘LLVM’ is enough buzzwords to get everyone’s partial attention but not enough to really read!
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by exdsq 4y ago
That’s true of the US but ignores the fact only 3 countries in the world don’t have written constitutions - the UK, New Zealand, and Israel. I’m not being sarcastic when I say a lot of this is managed in the form of strange old traditions t
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by exdsq 4y ago
Do you know how many countries have unwritten constitutions? Hint: it’s the same number of countries that will use the Metric system after Boris has his way. (Answer is 3, albeit they’re different sets apart from the UK)
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by exdsq 4y ago
We don’t have a written constitution, so if you remove all the pomp and tradition it’s highly likely some things do actually go wrong as people forget they’re meant to happen.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Princeton have a MOOC where you build a basic blockchain from scratch, maybe on EDx. I recommend that course but can’t find it on my phone right now!
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by exdsq 4y ago
I’ve enjoyed the challenges of learning about distributed systems, consensus, formal methods… Whatever one might say about crypto in general, blockchain projects can let you work on some things that are fairly hard to find otherwise.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Hahahaha how are people thinking you’re serious!
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by exdsq 4y ago
uLisp was too large for a small flight computer I made for a hobbyist rocket - I wanted to use it but had such little RAM I had to go down to C. I think I could have ran lisp-to-c to generate from uLisp which I’ll try on my next project.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Should have used that money to trade several of the same brand of NFTs to build the trading volume up :P
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by exdsq 4y ago
I doubt he thought it was illegal
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by exdsq 4y ago
Oh after a decade sure. I was just interviewing with Meta for > $500k TC so totally believe it. I meant immediately after a PhD.
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by exdsq 4y ago
> nonprofit startup striving to give every human on earth a dollar a day of income Just to clarify, this is $7.5B a day. In ten years you’d need to give out > $27T. You’re talking about being valued at 2.5% of the world economy.
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by exdsq 4y ago
I misread the OP as a suggestion it was stable before Azure and is no longer stable on Azure as a general Anti-Microsoft comment. Yes, you’re right.
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by exdsq 4y ago
I could have sworn it was more, but fair enough! I do heavily optimize CI to reduce minutes though, with easy access to local tests (and git hooks to enforce these) and more thorough tests ran nightly on merged branches.
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by exdsq 4y ago
It is for most startups, but not megacorp which has the money anyway. I’ve never gotten close to hitting the CI minutes cap in companies < 100 engineers.
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by exdsq 4y ago
I’m not convinced their constant outages is related to Azure itself, as Azure is very stable. It could be a change of internal staff.
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by exdsq 4y ago
Actually it was literally a hard leetcode question! The other 3 were 2 medium and 1 easy. I can work out easy and medium leetcode answers from first principles in an interview setting, usually. I can't with hard ones tbh. But ultimatel
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by exdsq 4y ago
I'm sure it's simple if you know it! But having not taking an algorithm class before, and having completed three other Algorithm questions within the 90 min total allotted time, I crashed pretty hard. I solved it afterwards when I
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by exdsq 4y ago
This isn't totally crazy but it's only if you stretch the facts enough. An RSE at Oxford will earn 32k GBP, like a postdoc. In theory, that person could be so good they could get the highest starting salary possible at a Tier 1 pa
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by exdsq 4y ago
This isn't completely true. My wife is a postdoc at a medical lab at Stanford and there's a big drive to push good software practices - containerisation, tests, documentation, etc... and a good friend who's a postdoc in medic

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