jwatte

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by jwatte 10y ago
Chief architect. Director of engineering. VP of engineering.
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Thinking more about this, it's also possible that the candidate failed on understanding what the screener wanted, and giving it to him. If the question was "what signal does kill command send by default" and the candidate hea
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The scalability of PHP is great, because each request is fully independent. This is like the Amazon lambda model. You /have/ to put your state in some storage back end, network attached RAM or such. This is a scalability best prac
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Delivering enough value to users, faster and cheaper than the competition, wins. The language you use pay second- and third order dividends, but most battles are fought and won on first order. I'm a C++ developer, have shipped Java and
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There is some truth to the saying that some people don't have ten years experience, they have two years of experience five times in a row. Learning to use wireshark or tcpdump is a power tool that does show whether you got more experie
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It is true that gwan.com is (still) down.
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Anyone asking a question should be qualified to interpret the answers in context. If they don't, use a multiple choice quiz or something instead. These questions/answers are just ludicrously out of sync.
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You know what they say: Facts have a well known liberal bias!
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Everybody works on master, with feature flags! Yes! Also, if you have proper dependency injection for testing and developer sandboxes, that's the right layer to vary your back end. If statements only needed when setting up the dependen
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We've done our own hosting for twelve years now; hundreds of physical servers in a co-lo. We do continuous deployment (have for basically ever) and multiple identical shards with horizontal balancing, so there's almost no "sp
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This will change as soon as researchers and repairers have more political money than media producers!
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Please send them my way!
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Yes. And if I'm expecting to hire a senior developer, I quite naturally don't want the person with that experience, because that's not an actual senior developer.
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For a fresh recruit, lack of experience is expected and will be trained away. Nobody who is looking for fresh/junior developers ought to expect anything else. But most needs aren't filled by a junior developer. It is absolutely th
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Twitter, Facebook, Google, and a bunch of other previous startups do have value. Also more, like Electronic Arts, Oracle, Intel, Salesforce, Apple, ... It's just that the 1000:1 ratio between startup and final enterprise is brutal!
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There is visionary tech in SF. And for each vision, there are 100 me-too venture capital chasers going nowhere while strip mining the common good.
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We all emit information constantly by just existing. The only equilibrium is complete transparency. Which, if it was universal, would be a great outcome!
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Except if they create social connections that last, because social connections are a better predictor of success than raw academics.
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Note that design patents are totally different from method patents. If there is a physical/method reason to infringe a design patent to achieve functionality (say, "not eat through pants pocket cloth") then a design patent ca
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"Justice"
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If you believe that patents, in general, are more good than bad, because they coax trade secrets out into the open after an amount of time, then they are just as valid for inventive software as for i inventive hardware/chemistry/b
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Another option when upgrading something fundamental is to run a dark service on a fork of real time load for a bit, to make sure it can take it. Given they were in ECC and only had two storage servers, that seems like something I'd lik
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18k operations "per minute?" You can do that on MS Access. Why use MongoDB at all then? We do thousands of transactions per second on mysql with innodb and SSDs.
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Police work is much less dangerous than many civilian jobs, yet the police are paid to assume risk. I think the balance is off, and society as a whole is suffering, because civilians who generally are nonviolent are much less capable of tak
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It will take a collapse of the moneyed politics, probably through bloody revolution, for this to change at this point.
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Now consider that whether you end up born in an industrialized country into circumstances that will let you become a CEO in the first place requires a lot of luck...
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SD vs HD is largely a solved problem in academia -- the key phrase is "resolution independence." Also, some robustness to cropping, scaling, and flipping is desired in robust fingerprinting systems.
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For small programs, dynamic, runtime tag checked languages as pioneered by LISP are great environments! (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Smalltalk, PHP, ...) For large programs, making the computer instantly tell you where you remembered wrong is
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Yes, the ODROID is interesting, too. If I want raw performance, I actually want some form of the Jetson. Even adding a Teensy3 over USB or serial for the cases where I really need bit twiddling, the RPi3+Teensy3 system came out ahead for me
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I have measured performance for my compute heavy use case. Four cores with Neon are way higher performance. (The Rpi1 was slower, but the BBBW is up against the Pi3, and previous ones against Pi2.)

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