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by iam 15y ago
Hired a phisher? Thought they were hiring someone who was making wallhacks or aimbots or anything like that. That would've made much more sense. Put a guy like that into security!
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by iam 15y ago
That's definitely the problem, compiler optimizations are easily O(N^2) on the # of operations in a function, so rather than taking forever to compile they'll turn off optimization if it takes too long. Ask yourself, do you even need a func
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by iam 15y ago
I submitted my resume to Google and filled out their top X language survey, but never even so much got back an email from them after waiting for over a month. Oh well, there's plenty of other companies who were happy to talk to me.
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by iam 15y ago
But will they have enough money to buy a mobile network after all this is said and done? Would be pretty interesting to see them buy someone like Sprint.
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by iam 15y ago
Looks like he's biting his lip in the left video, but not in the right video. I thought it was supposed to be identical except for contrast?
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by iam 15y ago
Feeling the pressure from LLVM? It's programmed almost entirely in C++.
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by iam 15y ago
Monkey patching is pretty common for when you want to override or get on-change notifications for interfaces that don't support it. For example, have header files for functions? Want to know when they're called? Monkey patch it in! Also, fr
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by iam 15y ago
Precisely. This optimization is possible because according to ANSI C, a variable is allowed to point to an address anywhere within an object, or at most one (sizeof) past an object. Anything else is undefined behavior (what they refer to as
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by iam 15y ago
Sounds like he not only predicted the stock price, but shot well past it!
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by iam 15y ago
I interpreted that as the new people don't need to sit by themselves in the corner since they would get invited to lunch from day 1. It could definitely get lonely if a new person starts and they don't develop a regular lunch routine with a
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by iam 15y ago
If only thrift had some sort of signal/event support :(.
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by iam 15y ago
Netflix has a long way to go before their quality is even as good as the "HD" channels on a Cable network.
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by iam 15y ago
Good luck, last time I tried nested lambdas in VC10 they weren't able to capture local variables from any context except the immediate outer context. This makes doing something like e.g. map(map(...)) extremely annoying. Javascript (nor doe
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by iam 15y ago
Right, as you said the technical question is unnecessary if they've already looked at the code. Which would be pretty hard unless the candidate kept his/her code up somewhere (linked from the resume) or had former coworkers essentially vouc
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by iam 15y ago
Lets look at the "Ideal interview" examples, it doesn't look like any of those involved asking technical questions (e.g. coding on the whiteboard)? The trouble is that unless someone is highly referred from a technical coworker you trust, i
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by iam 16y ago
I don't profess to know much about security, but unless TrueCrypt does block-level encryption, AND dropbox does block-level syncing, wouldn't this scheme work out really poorly for storing large TrueCrypt volumes?
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by iam 16y ago
This is gold, I wish I read this before my last interview!
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by iam 16y ago
It's hard to foresee which parts of the framework will need optimizing, it's not like they go and build a website with stackoverflow level of performance requirements as part of the development process.
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by iam 16y ago
To be fair, binary search is pretty simple. It's not like he was asked to code max-flow (e.g. Ford-Fulkerson) off the top of his head. The problem I'm sure, was being rusty at C, not the algorithm implementation. I make all kinds of silly m
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by iam 16y ago
Google's loss is some other company's gain. Apply to places like Facebook or Microsoft or Amazon instead. Or in your case The New York Times. Personally I was in between jobs recently, so I sent Google my resume using their online applicati
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by iam 16y ago
I believe this is called Identical COMDAT Folding in VC++
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by iam 16y ago
I think they make different iPhone apps (like a Groups and Calendar management app), click through the links on top. Wouldn't have guessed that from the blog post though.
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by iam 16y ago
I think this is actually really old, it's been around since the early LLVM versions. Still, it's definitely the best way to get exposed to writing optimizations using LLVM. Writing optimization passes ends up being really self-contained too
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by iam 16y ago
Everyone certainly does not get their own office. The way it works is that people are given offices sorted by their seniority (years at Microsoft, not your pay grade). So it goes: * 2 people in a non-windowed office * 1 person in a non-wind
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by iam 16y ago
Spot on. Excellent advice for those who think they have what it takes, but aren't sure how to best express it. I think this advice applies to a full-time job as well (at least for the first few years). And remember, once you have at least o
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by iam 16y ago
Kinect didn't win best device? How disappointing, since it was the only actually novel thing on there.
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by iam 16y ago
Reviewing code by writing your comments inline with the diffs is definitely the way to go. I'm averaging one code review a day (about 200+ lines of code) lately and it would take me several times longer if I had to do it in person or even w
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by iam 16y ago
I was confused a while till I saw you talking about Moses Schönfinkel. From everything I've seen people usually refer to those as SK combinators not SC combinators.
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by iam 16y ago
Nothing like posting a picture of the y-combinator on a ycombinator.com site :)
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by iam 16y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about the "killed or injured" bit under obsession. Every couple of weeks, I get into the zone while driving my car. For this the situation needs to be just right, i.e. the road can't be empty, but it can't be full of

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