jasondclinton

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by jasondclinton 7y ago
I was on Mastodon for more than a year and loved it: great conversation that reminded me of the hope and promise of the Internet in the late 90's. Then my instance admin went AWOL, the site crashed, and all of my data and social graph
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by jasondclinton 7y ago
Pretty much every demographer agrees that the world is on track to top out at 11 billion people due to rising standards of living, access to health care and reductions in infant mortality, electricity, specialization in agriculture, and acc
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by jasondclinton 7y ago
> I like learning Rust so far. The main thing I wonder is what kinds of projects are good to do while learning. I went from Node to Rails to Phoenix and normally I just rewrite web apps I've previously created in the language I&#x27
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by jasondclinton 7y ago
The creator of Upstart, Scott, explicitly said that he thought that systemd was better and that Debian and Ubuntu adopting it was the right decision: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/1xzfv0&#x
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
Firefox for Android allows extensions including uBlock. That's the reason that I use it on mobile: blocking all of those trackers actually improves performance.
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
Actually, former Payments Googler here. I have a pretty good idea what could have happened. I will escalate this internally. And no, it shouldn't require a Googler to fix it; something has gone wrong.
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
This hasn't been an area where Linux has had problems for more than 5 years.
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
People forget that subpixel rendering was a thing on CRT's before LCD's were around. Subpixel order is pretty universally standardized. Is there an EDID data element for pixel order?
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
It sounds like you hit the point in Linux where this is painful: mixed DPI displays with mixed display scaling. Wayland fixes that. And soon, we'll finally have fractional scaling, too. GNOME is close to delivering that. So, it's
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
Some people try that, too (and XFCE). Admittedly, they're better than a tiling window manager, but LXDE's last stable release was 2016 and it doesn't have a compositor so all of that graphics hardware in your computer special
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
That's true: some things are easier on Mac. In particular, I'd say that using software that hasn't been packaged for your distribution is much easier on Mac. However, your example of fonts is definitely not one of those areas
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
Google SWE interviewer here. You can absolutely interview in Ruby. I have it listed on my language interviewing skills page. It is harder to schedule for more obscure languages because we have to find 4 people with that language who are ava
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
You said above that you have set LNH for a T3 writing out the obvious solution to your question. The problem is that optimizing that solution comes one of two ways: 1. having seen the specific class of problem before and knowing, as you&#x2
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
I wouldn't be able to answer this question in the time allotted and would heavily discount its signal if I were on the hiring committee with this question in the candidate's packet. It tests for algorithm memorization which is not
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
Cribbing from a famous quote: this interview methodology is the worst except for all of the others. We don't know what a systemic, better interviewing system would be.
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
I kinda agree but think that you are overselling the signal generated. We have internal data that we can't discuss here that throws some doubt on the signal from whiteboard interviews of the type described above.
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
I have worked at Google for 7 years. I am a SWE and mostly agree with the parent. I am, I think objectively, a pretty good software engineer and often couldn't solve my peers interview questions in the time allotted. I try to do my par
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
Those benchmarks were run on machines with different processor clocks and different motherboard chipsets. The results are invalid.
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
The benchmark results at that link are from machines with different processor clocks. The results are invalid.
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by jasondclinton 8y ago
It seems they might have had an embargo on the audio of the aircraft fan noise: all clips of the flight have noise repressed and have talk-over audio.
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by jasondclinton 9y ago
It's largely better with Wayland because the apps can receive a previously impossible signal that they are being moved between displays with different HiDPI scaling. In GNOME 3.26, today, for example, a lot of the HiDPI pain is gone in
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by jasondclinton 9y ago
Hi there, James. I'm a software engineer at Google. I've worked with many former government and defense contractors here whom I would consider some of the best engineers. Please send me your resume (or anyone else with a similar s
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by jasondclinton 9y ago
On the way to Aspen from Denver, it's a perfectly valid route to take during warm months and isn't particularly more dangerous than any other route to Aspen for a tractor trailer. Often, when there's a bad crash on I-70, that