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by fizwhiz 7y ago
That was pure cringe.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
OT: Do people really enjoy reading information like this sprinkled over multiple tweets? Is it so that the can granularly react to a specific segment of information?
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
These are the kind of insightful comments I come to HN for! What a stark contrast against another comment lamenting that men get overly competitive/nerdy about their hobbies thus engaging in "mentrification" or whatever tf th
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Good god those linked articles ought to keep anyone busy for months
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
> Except for the crypto mining bot I load into your browser, and which subsequently writes itself to your MBR or UEFI partition Guess I won't be clicking on the link now.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Dylos AQM is the gold standard. It's pricey though and has an old school interface (no fancy UI, IoT or "AI").
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
> SF comes close It most certainly does not. SF is a simulacrum of a proper city, but it's sadly the "best" of what's available in the bay area.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
reddit transplants would be guess.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Isn't hijacking a DB as a "distributed" message queue a pretty well trodden path? Enterprises have been doing this for decades.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
what t-shirt?
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Off-topic: but as someone who's not officially type 2 diabetic but would like to be proactive about measuring their sugar level (I've had my A1c at pre-diabetes levels in the past), what options do I have to secure a CGM? I'v
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Thanks for sharing that; it certainly put a smile on my face :)
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
What's the end-target state that you have in mind? Serious question.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Here's the one that's been in use at Google for many years: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
You're conflating Google Brain with Deepmind. Tensorflow was decidedly not an "acquihire".
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
One of his most familiar contributions is the coining of Big/Little endian. RIP.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Yo that twitter account is gold I haven't cringed and laughed this hard in weeks
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Citation needed
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Guns, Germs and Steel anyone?
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
ACM just got the HN hug of death
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
This initiative (Byteboard) is a part of a small incubator/accelerator that Google runs called "Area120". Think of it as a small startup being run separately within the company. It's unclear whether Google itself will ad
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Google alumni != Google SWE.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Ah, I haven't taken Part II of the course. Probably not a bad idea to start :)
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Wasn't the first assignment about detecting percolation using the union find datastructure? IIRC, sedgwick's class doesn't cover dynamic programming directly at all.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Great share! Also surprisingly reflective for a 2008 JM.
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
Google doesn't generally care about near-IPO companies unless they're decacorns (and still apply a discount to the competing offer's equity). Google comp only lags behind Netflix for: a) Non-staff levels b) Candidates that do
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
If someone is hired on your team that's allegedly under-qualified (at the time of hire) and isn't able to earn their stripes at work (despite being given the opportunity to do so over a long enough time horizon) then they have no
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
I'm afraid it isn't. Your comment seems to imply that if the evidence were to be collected it would not be in favor of the "diversity hires" thus perpetuating sexism in the workplace. If this isn't the case, could y
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by fizwhiz 7y ago
> if you require it as a standard of evidence for acknowledging the existence of sexism you will fulfill the function of protecting and perpetuating sexism. Whoa, what are you insinuating here?

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