kwillets

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by kwillets 8y ago
Many of these kids simply have never been through a boom/bust cycle, and they don't realize that the team/culture stuff doesn't make them layoff-proof, or that layoffs even exist.
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by kwillets 8y ago
Setting up a VPC brought back a nostalgic feeling of manually setting up subnets and routes on unix boxes.
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by kwillets 8y ago
I grew up in Silicon Valley, and I realized at an early age that it has no culture.
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by kwillets 8y ago
Have you looked at Sensor Tower?
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by kwillets 8y ago
>In the Big Data world, we didn’t see much talk about columnar data until Google’s Dremel paper in 2010 Try 2005: http://db.csail.mit.edu/projects/cstore/#papers We had a very large Vertica installation up in 2
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by kwillets 8y ago
The last team I worked with seemed to be going that way. I'm an old-school database engineer, and RoR had a familiar feel as I was learning it, since it got a lot of the database interface right, but my manager was a blame-the-tools t
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by kwillets 8y ago
I'm at best an intermediate-level rubyist, but I was quite surprised when more experienced people didn't recognize that operator after I started using it. It seems like one of the most significant upgrades. I got really into it a
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by kwillets 8y ago
This is hilarious. SQL has had parameter binding for most of its history; SQL injection is just a recent effect of people no longer caring about parse or serialization overhead. You can go back 20+ years and find similar rants to this; I r
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by kwillets 8y ago
It's fascinating that people think like this. Prices went up, so supply and demand don't work, and it's "speculators" that are to blame.
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by kwillets 8y ago
You can buy Hovenia Dulcis tea at any convenience store in Korea, or at most Korean markets in the States. The studies do seem to show that it works for hangovers. http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/ite
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by kwillets 8y ago
What's the front end? I've been thinking of building something similar, but I'm bad at front-end tech.
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by kwillets 8y ago
I remember something similar with MySpace -- Facebook reaped users from the top down (social class-wise), and MySpace seemed to retain the less-privileged.
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by kwillets 8y ago
California: 2870. (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the empl
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by kwillets 8y ago
I actually have separate implementations of an algorithm with and without templates; the template one is for benchmarking with different combinations of options; the non-template one is for readability, and it's only about 60 lines.
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by kwillets 8y ago
Try these string keys: { i * "a" : i = 1 to n } (also great for breaking string sorts)
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by kwillets 8y ago
I think it was mainly Google. In the 90's companies didn't have time for all the drama; for instance in 1998 I went to four interviews in one day. These were typically 1-2 sessions with the hiring manager and a tech lead. The co
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by kwillets 8y ago
There are actually a few different parts to the code, and they work somewhat independently. The first is to classify each byte by type, using the highest 4-5 bits. The types are: ASCII continuation initial byte of: 2 3 4-byt
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by kwillets 8y ago
The counts are actually to find the length of the following continuation bytes, and mark them to look for overlaps or underlaps between the end of one code point and the next.
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by kwillets 8y ago
It checks overlongs. It's not too hard -- a few bits in the first byte, and a few in the second for some lengths.
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by kwillets 8y ago
Unless you're the lead dog, the view never changes.
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by kwillets 8y ago
It can be, although I think the root cause is simply the 6-round sudden-death interviews. Social conformity is a major factor there no matter how you slice it.
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by kwillets 8y ago
I've been finding research topics for a while, but I don't really know how. I read some research and sometimes work on high-level things, and sometimes I fiddle with low-level toy problems (one of my hobbies lately has been writi
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by kwillets 8y ago
>If it's cheaper they could charge less, You definitely misunderstand cloud pricing.
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by kwillets 8y ago
I'm thinking of writing a book about tower-under-desk computing. It's surprisingly common.
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by kwillets 8y ago
Next installment: "Running FFmpeg on a tower under my desk for 1% the cost of AWS Lambda". Is there any effort to on-prem lambda stuff yet? I know it's a moving target, but I wouldn't recommend getting into cloud stuff
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by kwillets 8y ago
It looks like the youtube download has to complete before ffmpeg can start; is there a way to start processing the head while the tail is still being written? This problem comes up a lot with storage blobs. The bigger they are the worse it
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by kwillets 8y ago
This is a podcast, so I'll summarize what I remember: 1. They have IP blocks in China, Russia, and a satellite link through Lebanon. Since only .1% of the population has internet access, traffic shows what elites are doing. 2. They
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by kwillets 8y ago
Yep, 205/2048 = .10009.. This is something I'm actually using, as I'm serializing small int's (0-99). For those it all fits in 16 bits.
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A View into Pyongyang's Digital Life(directory.libsyn.com)
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I've seen this and others, but they're brittle. Terminating that count loop for any other reason, for example, will break it. There's another one for reversing bytes in an integer, but I ended up hard-coding the intrinsic du

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