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by karterk 11y ago
But when you do need generics and use templates, you are forced to write lots of code in .h files. There is very little you can do in that case to speed up build times, without resorting to devious things like PIMPL.
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The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car(bloomberg.com)
2 points by karterk 11y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 11y ago
While I don't know the details of this offer, I would strongly advise you to give it a pass. Such a paycut will rarely compensate you fairly even if your start-up ends up being a moderate success (~200 M exit). Unless this company alre
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by karterk 11y ago
I agree, but unfortunately that's not how it works. All founders believe that they can succeed. Every VC believes that their investment is going to become the next billion dollar company, etc. Ideally, options are the icing on cake, bu
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by karterk 11y ago
You have to look at the 0.2% in relation to the salary that they offer. And, many companies do allow you to negotiate the salary vs options trade-off.
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by karterk 11y ago
The period (typically just 30-90 days) for exercising the options is the most unfair of the lot. Most of my friends who left, say, after 3-years, simply were not in a place to exercise their options because of the financial implications. Pe
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by karterk 11y ago
Awesome :) Thanks, I learned a new trick today.
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by karterk 11y ago
How did you find your first 10 customers? How about the first 100? That's always the hardest part when you start something.
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Sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere to create carbon nanofibers(gizmag.com)
2 points by karterk 11y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 11y ago
Implementing all-pairs similarity search on a few hundred million records. Naively approached, the complexity of this is O(N^2), so had to come up with novel ways to make it finish in a reasonable amount of time and with limited resources.
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by karterk 11y ago
Then, why Golang? Are there other things that make this duplication worth?
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by karterk 11y ago
You would never know unless you started exploring. Stars have nothing to do with revenue - it's purely a function of how much value you can add to the enterprise. Basically, you have to demonstrate quantitatively that you can charge $X
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by karterk 11y ago
Interesting - what candidates do you recruit using Craigslist?
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by karterk 12y ago
I don't follow you - can you elaborate?
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by karterk 12y ago
In another thread, you had mentioned that "I don't think we'd use this design again". Curious to hear how you would design such a system differently, without using a LSM tree approach that's popular these days?
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My framework for generating great interview problems(codassium.com)
1 points by karterk 12y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 12y ago
I started along the same path 12 years ago, so I can share my experience. * I started with PHP. My suggestion today is to start with Django (Rails is fine too, but Django has less magic and so things are lot more explicit) * Bootstrapping o
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The forgotten comma operator(codassium.com)
5 points by karterk 12y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 12y ago
Internet Archive: http://archive.org/ My bookmarks are filled with dead pages - Internet Archive is a very challenging, but important project.
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by karterk 12y ago
Every company is different. Generally, in a smaller high-performance startup/company, you will tend to work more closely with everyone, but that does not mean there is no place for code reviews. In fact, in a smaller team, the bus fact
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by karterk 12y ago
The most difficult thing is going to be getting to 10K active users :) These days RAM is cheap and SSD storage is also widely available. For a very long time, one of my side projects with 50K users was hosted in a EC2 small instance. With t
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Analyzing YC14 companies' hosting decisions(codassium.com)
12 points by karterk 12y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 12y ago
A lot more people who write books talk about their experience than those who run a niche profitable SaaS app for obvious reasons (competitive advantage). In my experience, it's much easier to have a stable recurring revenue from a SaaS
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by karterk 12y ago
One restriction is that random insertion into the bitmap is a O(N) operation. You typically expect to construct the bitmap in a sequential fashion and once constructed, treat it as immutable.
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by karterk 12y ago
We use EWAH (another compressed bitset from Daniel Lemire) heavily at work to store inverted indices in a compressed form. Apart from lowering the memory foot print (vs storing sorted integers), AND/OR operations are much faster when y
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Ask HN: Managed bare-metal hosting recommendation
10 points by karterk 12y ago|11 comments
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by karterk 12y ago
The reality is quite complex. The problem in most developing countries is the actual distribution of food, rather than the price of food. Apart from infrastructure issues, there is also widespread corruption and hoarding.
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by karterk 12y ago
I don't have a job offer for you, but I hope you are getting professional help for your depression. It's a terrible disease, so don't let it sneak up on you. There is a freelance hiring thread [1] on HN that's posted eve
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by karterk 12y ago
IANAL You should first talk to your HR about how your company treats side projects. In some companies, any work that you do automatically belongs to the company (even if the work is done during weekends). This also depends on your local law
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by karterk 12y ago
HBase will fit nicely for this use case. Columns can be versioned: http://hbase.apache.org/book/versions.html

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