kdowns

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by kdowns 1mo ago
I made it to a third round interview at anthropic in 2024 and they had me build a web crawler as their programming test. Part way through I started on making it respect robots.txt and I could immediately tell they were no longer interested
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by kdowns 3y ago
Don't think that's quite right. `float` has 4 bytes, and `double` has 8. The `decimal` type has 16 bytes and does all it's arithmetic in base 10. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/
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by kdowns 3y ago
When my grandfather finished his ROTC program for the army core of engineers him and one other classmate got assigned to go to France to rebuild destroyed bridges. I asked him once what his other classmates ended up doing and he had told me
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by kdowns 3y ago
A one time administration fee for account creations would make most of these spam tactics unprofitable. People are probably too used to having everything for free online (paid for by ads) for anyone to try this right now.
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by kdowns 3y ago
Currency conversions are a transaction not an operation, the conversion rate fluctuates constantly and typically involves fees and involve tax liabilities. For a money type I’d go so far as to want it to either disallow or throw an exceptio
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by kdowns 6y ago
There is also the issue of fraud. Click/Stream farms are already soaking up the artists pool of revenue, and this change would incentivize it more. Justin Bieber recently asked his fans to go to sleep with his new song on repeat, and I
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by kdowns 6y ago
I'm very happy seeing this trend. I live in the midwest, away from the tech hubs so my options for work have always been very limited here. The standard advice is to move to one of the coasts to advance your career but I have friends a
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by kdowns 7y ago
Refactoring I don't know but you can keep all your logic for some task inside a microchip then create input and output handles to hide the inner workings. Then you can publish that microchip as a element for other people to use in thei
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by kdowns 8y ago
I'm really not surprised. The most interesting thing about your business shouldn't be your choice in data-store.