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by hintymad 2y ago
In a way software engineers should feel relieved a bit that we can not mass produce well trained software engineers yet, even for entry-level roles. Of course, there are many exceptional individuals who benefited from code camps, but I&#x27
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by hintymad 2y ago
> Not to be too pessimistic here, but why are we talking about things like this I also think that we merely got a very well compressed knowledge base, therefore we are far from super intelligence, and so-called safety sounds more Orwelli
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by hintymad 2y ago
> It's disheartening to witness the US embracing protectionism for high-tech The US is embracing protectionism because we lost the manufacturing advantage. We lost the advantage because we outsourced our manufacturing to China with
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by hintymad 2y ago
We can ban DJI all we want, but our military or the US itself is declining nonetheless if we don't solve our manufacturing problem like we still produce those lame suicidal drones rogue1 that has inferior spec to DJI Mavic 3 yet charge
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by hintymad 2y ago
I'm not sure "In Rust" serve any marketing value. A product's success rarely has to do with the use of a programming language, if not at all. I understand the arguments made by Paul Graham on the effectiveness of program
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by hintymad 2y ago
The problem with Leetcode-style test nowadays is that there's too much cramming. Otherwise, leetcode-style interview has certain correlation with one's geekiness and raw talent. Just this week my team solved a long-tail performanc
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by hintymad 2y ago
Would seafood like shrimp have too much cholesterols?
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by hintymad 2y ago
For 2000 kcal of net calories, it is recommended that up to 35% of the calories come from protein, which translates to about 175g of protein. That's the upper bound, but the theory is that one maintains this level of protein while keep
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by hintymad 2y ago
How should we handle supplement like whey protein powders? It would be a hell lot of egg whites or chickens breast to eat to get 175g of protein intake a day.
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> 1/5: 50 mins work + 10 mins breaks per hour. Working 5/6 of the time. Hard This is what school classes do? Not sure if that can be called hard.
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by hintymad 2y ago
Speaking of parallel computing, any book or series of books that can help an engineer learn parallel program and go from zero to hero? Ideally the books will cover both intuition, in-depth details, and theories. Something like The Art of Mu
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by hintymad 2y ago
Will bacterias evolve themselves to become xylitol-resistant? That's the same reason I'm hesitant to use xylitol or the like to treat stuffy nose.
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The trend will continue. A company will be crazy to trust that IBM would give them fair-priced high quality support.
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by hintymad 2y ago
Maybe this is yet another wake-up call to startups: wrapping up another company's APIs to offer convenience or incremental improvement is not a via business model. If your wrapper turns out to be successful, the company that provides t
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by hintymad 2y ago
This is because Google has grown to be one of the most bureaucratic companies in industry, and it is the bureaucrats who have the utmost power in such companies. Naturally, it is engineers who are let go and bureaucrats who stay during a la
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by hintymad 2y ago
Maybe Google employees should really ask why it's okay not to launch a major product in the past 10 years, why it is okay to have their Gemini blatantly censor users, why it is okay that most of the E6+ engineers are either in the meet
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by hintymad 2y ago
And even for Google, leetcode has become noise because people simply cram the questions. When Microsoft started to use leetcode-style interviews, there were no interview site. So, people who aced the interviews were either naturally talente
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by hintymad 2y ago
Yup. And 3) is particularly interesting. Lots of companies actually need to hire people who can get things done and who can build user-friendly software, yet they thought they needed to hire people who could turn any O(N^2) algorithms into
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The past decade is the golden age for software developers, so we had lots of options. I was wondering if we will still have so much freedom as the market has increasingly become the buyer's one.
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All fair points, and I agree with you on rigorous experiments. For now we are talking about only intuitions.
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Well, I guess the example is more confusing than clarifying. I used that for a case of pushing the envelope. When Facebook needed a better solution for their feeds, they invented Reactive, and I was saying that one would need to know compil
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by hintymad 2y ago
> The thesis is not that these exercises are representative of work but rather predictive of performance. Well said. Just like in college, calculus (not analysis) and organic chemistry are used as filter courses. Of course, why the two c
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Personally I think such questions have three values: - Future proof. Unless I work for an outsourcing company, sooner or later I will want to push the envelope, or so I hope I do. And to push the envelop, one needs good CS fundamentals (may
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by hintymad 2y ago
Assuming that a company does not look for candidates who are naturally good at ICPC-type of questions or geniuses who can come up with amazing algorithms in a matter of minutes, there is actually a different way to do coding interview: just
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by hintymad 2y ago
This is a really tough problem to solve. If the company has amazing leaders, the leaders can correctly judge the depth of the problem and its impact, therefore rewarding the problem solver properly. Unfortunately promotion is really a tool
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Confluent launched Freight Clusters that cut price by 90%(twitter.com)
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So Kafka brokers write data directly to S3. I wonder how that will impact the companies like WarpStream and BufStream.
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A trajectory question: have we have definitive answer to why the US now has so many obese people when before 70s not so many (or I just got the wrong impression from poor sampling of videos)? It's not like the US didn't have enoug
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> I can see where someone with their pulse on international politics might read into Trisolaris vs Earth being some sort of a proxy for China vs USA. Yeah. Viewing The Three-Body Problem merely as a metaphor for China-US relations shows
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by hintymad 3y ago
> It’s amazing that 54% of adults in the United States have a literacy below 6th grade level I wonder if this issue is due to the overall spread of academic abilities, or if it's because progressive education systems focus more on c

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