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by hangonhn 7y ago
Someone who used to be a Googler once told me: "A group of great engineers lead by a terrible manager will never succeed but a team of mediocre engineers lead by a great manager just might." I don't think anyone doubts Google
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by hangonhn 7y ago
I've entertained very similar ideas myself. It's one of those things I often revisit -- wondering if I had made the right career choice. I love being an engineer and have been very lucky in being financially rewarded for doing som
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by hangonhn 7y ago
I think it just means it's unnecessary. Just disarm the warhead (or inert it) and shut off the torpedo like they describe in the article. The donating part is pointless.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Where can I find out more about this?
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by hangonhn 7y ago
You also need to warm and humidify the air because ventilators are inserted past the part of your respiratory system that does that.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Thank you!!! Its relationship to regex is actually precisely the part that piqued my interest.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
FSM is something I've always been curious about but I can't seem to find any good intro on. Does anyone have a good recommendations? I sort of don't want one tied to a specific language but rather one that helps me understand
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by hangonhn 7y ago
You should read up on what Chiang's strategy. He knew that Japan can no way take China quickly enough and that Japan was still too weak to defeat a major Western power. He realized where Japan had won in China in the past was because C
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by hangonhn 7y ago
But that's not a problem unique to China. Historically people from stronger/wealthier nations have underestimated others in poorer nations, especially when the poorer country is on the defense. Mongols vs. Vietnam, UK vs. Maori, J
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by hangonhn 7y ago
BTW the portraits near the end were painted by a Jesuit priest in the court of Qianlong named Giuseppe Castiglione. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Castiglione_(Jesuit_p... His works is a blending of both Europe
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Yeah that's a fair point for sure and I've seen examples of those too. However, even then some well resourced parents will still clear a path for these children to get into selective schools as the recent college admissions scanda
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Did anyone else notice John Ousterhout's name pop up in the article? He's the same person who created RAFT and the first implementation of log structured file system, among other things. That's one hell of a career. https:&#
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by hangonhn 7y ago
These advantages are more subtle than even that. I was shamed by some older fellow alums when I told people that my parents had hired someone to go over my application and essays. Their stance was that my parents gave me an unfair advantage
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by hangonhn 7y ago
How does that compare with Radix sort? Isn't Radix O(kn)? I guess Skyline would be better if the number of unique elements are low?
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by hangonhn 7y ago
The US only has capacity for 30ish days... but at US consumption rates.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Not sure anyone has used them or evaluated them before, but their literature used to go around claiming 100% uptime, which I found absurd. Unless someone has a plan for every conceivable threat (nuclear bomb, asteroid hitting the earth), no
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by hangonhn 7y ago
I don't know if this is still true but according to an article I read a few days ago, the US has the lowest testing rate of any affected country. Experiences of other countries seem to suggest that high testing rate may mitigate the ne
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by hangonhn 7y ago
It has already happened. My parents live in China and my mom was raving about how quickly they built that hospital in Wuhan and what a great leader they have. I told her Stanford is a really great hospital. shrug
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Damn. That actually would be a better way of talking about compensation. It would seriously deflate some of the SV compensations and make other locations look more attractive.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
A fair point! I guess I was trying to use F-15 and other aircraft that were decried as bad by critics early on but later turned out to be successes.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
It's interesting you categorize both A-10 and F-15 in the good bucket because the same group of people responsible for the A-10 (F-16 and F/A-18) were very against the F-15. The F-16 and F/A-18 were actually spun up in oppos
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Did they know they were on her team?
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by hangonhn 7y ago
The heat and humidity are there but Houston and Dallas aren't as conservative as you might imagine. I used to live in Dallas and have a ton of friends in Houston who are liberals or at least centrists. I would say give people a chance
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by hangonhn 7y ago
This is sort of one of the metrics James Fallows outlined in his book, "China Airborne". In order to build a competitive airliner, it requires integration of so many discipline: metallurgy, software, aeronautics, engineering, etc.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Failed entrepreneur, perhaps, but one hell of an entertaining writer and storyteller while throwing in bits of wisdoms. I also came away with one insight at the end. I'm going to sign up for the news letter.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Yeah this problem recently popped up for me. I have to reboot my damn phone! I'm always bewildered when Bluetooth fails to work reliably. This isn't specific to Apple -- my car sometimes have the same problem. BT just seems like a
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by hangonhn 7y ago
My mistake. It has the most torque when it first starts spinning.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
It's more efficient than an induction motor. An induction motor has the most torque when it's at rest but then generates its own resistance as it spins up and so loses efficiency. In the dual motor setup, Tesla use both types to g
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Yeah the smart money has really gone into batteries because that's where all the "secret" sauce is. Induction motors are pretty well known at this point. There are companies working on better motors but the expected ROI is ra
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Fellow DS alum? I still rate DS as among the hardest things I've done (although partly because I was too inexperienced to know how to pace/schedule my work correctly). Everything that followed felt so easy afterwards. Sophomore to

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