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by gspetr 9y ago
Can you explain how you kept the algorithms/data structures knowledge in your head fresh enough to pass Google interview on the spot? Were you a fresh grad?
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by gspetr 9y ago
How about Theseans? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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by gspetr 10y ago
Was Dirk Nowitzki[0] the owner or at least a board member? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Nowitzki
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by gspetr 10y ago
Great work. I'm curious about the algorithm for bans, once you're done with the project I hope that you will disclose it.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Professional Go players also thought Go was impenetrable to AI because of a vastly larger search space than chess. They too were humbled by AlphaGo last year.
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Russian, has always seemed compact Russian here, I can assure you it decidedly is anything but compact. It frequently annoys me how verbose some things in it are compared to English. Brevity is the soul of wit.
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by gspetr 10y ago
In the spirit of trading anecdotes: I'm Russian and I read and write an order of magnitude more in English than I do in Russian. Naturally, speaking is a different matter.
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by gspetr 10y ago
If one wants to learn to reverse engineer software what choice is there but to learn assembly?
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by gspetr 10y ago
I believe this is exactly the kind of thing that will be resolved by the tools the market provides. If they wanted volunteers to fly the next flight instead of this, they should have offered more than $400. Kind of like an auction: $500, $6
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by gspetr 10y ago
Check Ministry of Testing story on IH.
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by gspetr 10y ago
It will be adopted in Russia. I have an acquaintance who's working on deep packet inspection for Rostelekom and he tells me it should be ready within the next 2 years.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Nuclear is over. Regardless if you're for it or against. It just is, at least in democratic countries. After Fukushima it is political suicide to promote nuclear. The politicians will not vote for it. You'd need supreme political
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by gspetr 10y ago
You may want to look into this “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13344318
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by gspetr 10y ago
> I don't think we want to live in a world where software is produced by homogeneous groups developers of the same age, race, and gender. Do you own any Chinese or Japanese products? Not necessarily software ones. You almost certain
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by gspetr 10y ago
Forgot the crucial point. * Rampant spying in Microsoft's products is at an all time high. And it's not going anywhere.
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by gspetr 10y ago
> The evidence suggests that this guy is a creep whose Gorean fantasies are linked to regressive views of women in the real world. Allowing such a person to have a significant contributory, let alone leadership, role in an open source co
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by gspetr 10y ago
I don't think it logically follows that you should not kill anyone if you do not believe your own life to be precious. For example, someone in a truly blind rage might go ahead and recklessly kill someone with complete and total disreg
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by gspetr 10y ago
> If by 'objectively' you mean 'extremely subjective to the human experience' What other experience other than human experience is out there?
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by gspetr 10y ago
I don't think you can make that argument. I don't see how it follows that if you don't see human life as precious you should kill yourself. We can go deeper and ask: Why is life precious? You, me and everyone else got their l
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by gspetr 10y ago
Things are getting worse every day here, consider these: http://www.rferl.org/a/russia-activist-convicted-reposting-r... http://www.rferl.org/a/russia-supreme-court-review-convictio...
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by gspetr 10y ago
Sweden has a clear religious bias: a muslim imam can[1] be anti-gay, while a christian pastor cannot[2]. [1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-23/sweden-hate-speech-... [2] http://www.christianheadl
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by gspetr 10y ago
Exciting news, but this just rubbed me the wrong way: > Do you have fond memories of LAN parties and dial-up connections, or have you heard stories of the good old days? Very arrogant, coming from the company that killed the LAN parties
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by gspetr 10y ago
That used to be the case, but now the onus is on you to prove that it is still so. React is 4 years old. Vue is 3 years old.
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by gspetr 10y ago
> There is more state, lot's of shared entities and unit tests are expensive to write and maintain. Good point, but only to an extent: Unit tests boilerplate in dynamic languages that is redundant with static typing is only a (minor
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by gspetr 10y ago
We have quite a bit of people here on HN making over £100k in London. I wouldn't say UK is "particularly awful".
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by gspetr 10y ago
They've come a long way since the 1930s: https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ib...
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by gspetr 10y ago
> That's the only explanation that makes sense. It does not have to make sense, could simply be a case of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor IBM could be a place where you just might encounter
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by gspetr 10y ago
> 1- What's the essence of private property when the working robots can already fulfill all the needs of the humanity ? Who owns the robots? That's the trillion dollar question. > 2- What's the essence of political powe
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by gspetr 10y ago
Last time I seriously considered giving ASM a go, I checked Randall Hyde's [author of this developer's kit] books on Amazon and the majority of reviewers had the following problem with it - it has neither Microsoft's nor AT&a
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by gspetr 10y ago
He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

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