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by kevan 10y ago
There's a big difference between looking out for yourself and denying financial aid because of a discrepancy of less than a dollar. Intent matters, and it's hard to argue that someone is trying to fleece you for $1 at a time.
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by kevan 10y ago
>He suggested I open with something along the lines of "merge two sorted lists". We (my team at Amazon) don't start with a softball, but we try to make sure every question can be down-leveled if someone is struggling. My c
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by kevan 10y ago
DFS is my favorite, but if you let it run long enough it might crash your browser tab.
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by kevan 10y ago
Related: A few friends and I built a similar visualization for pathfinding algorithms with OSM data for an AI class: http://www.kevanahlquist.com/osm_pathfinding/ It shows how nodes are explored on the map with differe
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by kevan 10y ago
Clarifying because I was confused at first: this is the React/Node.js tech stack that the website is built on, not the ecommerce platform that drives it.
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by kevan 10y ago
I'd guess plenty of people are in a situation where they're not miserable at the current company but they would like to get paid more.
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by kevan 10y ago
At 50x designed max load bad queries would be one of the easier problems to solve. We design systems all the time that have hard scaling limits, and it's only a problem when you operate the system past those limits. e.g. I wrote a serv
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by kevan 10y ago
Once we have a taste of what's possible it's really hard to accept that the status quo is good enough. With Prime Now I can get a lot of things ordered, shipped, and delivered within 2 hours, with live updates when the delivery pe
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by kevan 10y ago
Because the current van and truck experience for me is a tracking update at 6am saying "Your package is out for delivery" and then it actually gets delivered sometime in the next 12 hours. As a customer that's a crappy experi
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by kevan 10y ago
>At this point it's almost more expensive for me to continue updating than it would be to just fork the library and maintain the upgrades myself. I got burned by this in my last big project, we resigned ourselves to never upgrading
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by kevan 10y ago
I'm a big fan of using chat as the real-time incident log even when we're all in the same room. It's trivial to generate a timeline of events for the postmortem and there's a lot of info you can extract from the log duri
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by kevan 10y ago
I'm not with Google but the SRE book has a whole chapter on this (Ch. 3 Embracing Risk). For most services you don't need reliability quite as high as you'd think. There's a background error rate caused by networks and d
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by kevan 10y ago
>do you think top CS grads from CMU, UIUC, Purdue, etc. want to stay in the midwest after graduating? Without some real surveys it's hard to make conclusive statements, but these are the top reasons I hear for why people don't
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by kevan 10y ago
The desktop clients are built on Electron [1]. I've been using it for about 3 weeks and there's been a few times where performance issues were noticeable but not bad enough for me to start digging in the code to find the issue. Ov
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by kevan 10y ago
I really hope this drives a new wave of experimentation and development in shell interaction. Text as the lowest common denominator will never go away but having more powerful constructs available will be great for a lot of use cases.
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by kevan 10y ago
I'm aware that people can say whatever they want and took it with a big pile of salt, just wanted to give another piece of anecdata.
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by kevan 10y ago
>When I brought this up to one recruiter a few years ago, they basically acknowledged the reputation and their intent to improve. I recently interviewed, one of the interviewers actually brought up the NYT article and said that the retai
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by kevan 10y ago
Which is a perfectly valid choice in many cases. I plan to drive my car for as long as possible and into the ground before I get another one. As long as I know the eventual replacement cost is coming and budget for it it can be a good choic
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by kevan 10y ago
Theoretically autonomous cars will decrease congestion through better driving patterns and maybe coordinating with each other, meaning we could support a lot more traffic with the infrastructure we already have.
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by kevan 10y ago
None anymore, my new contract explicitly disallows side ventures. But about a year ago a friend and I built a screenshot-sharing service when CloudApp raised their prices. It's basically a dock app that watches for new screenshots and
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by kevan 10y ago
Most web developers probably don't, but neither do most native application developers. In any area there's a subset that cares a lot [1] but for most apps getting the business model right is more effective than squeezing out a few
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by kevan 10y ago
>Is the presumption that founders and investors are not trying to screw employees? I think the presumption is that all parties act in their own self-interest. For some founders that means compensating employees with equity, for others th
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by kevan 10y ago
I'm not at all an expert in this area but to me this sounds like a similar concept as Rust-esque ownership, at least internally in the runtime. If the runtime knows that an object wasn't shared by its goroutine owner and the owner
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by kevan 10y ago
A concern with a lot of performing arts is that there's a lot less freedom for experimentation. Take comedians for example. In the old days you could try out new jokes with the crowd at a show and if you went to far or something floppe
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by kevan 10y ago
I'm a little disappointed that "automagically" wasn't recognized.
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by kevan 10y ago
We're using a variant of Airbnb's config, it disallows `var` in favor of `let` or `const`. We're a Java shop and people get tripped up by hoisting issues pretty often.
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by kevan 10y ago
I'm about halfway through migrating a ~30kloc ES5 codebase to ES6 with a transpiler (Babel), linter (ESLint), and fast test suite (Mocha) [1]. Once all files are going through the transpiler I'll probably add TypeScript or Flow. W
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by kevan 10y ago
The biggest one for me: It regularly takes 10+ seconds for the app to load and connect to the thermostat. When it's faster for me to get up and walk to the thermostat than to use the app from another room that's an issue. Another
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by kevan 10y ago
>I've been sorely disappointed over the last 2 years I bought a thermostat about a year ago and I've been disappointed too. The marketing I read and a couple people I knew that worked there implied that new features were in the
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by kevan 10y ago
>The only thing that a well written unit test should accomplish is to make sure that a requirement is implemented correctly. A common side effect of writing these tests is discovering missing or conflicting cases. A recent example for me

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