lbrandy

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by lbrandy 13y ago
> work on cool projects Because of the density of "cool projects". If I move to Boise* to work at your cool company, and something happens, and it's not so cool anymore, I'm in Boise. If I'm in SF, I go next door
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by lbrandy 13y ago
I have a theory that "upvote for visibility" instead of "upvote because it interests me" is when any up-vote-down-vote arrow community crosses a line that cannot be easily uncrossed. Every "awful" subreddit is
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by lbrandy 13y ago
> Can someone help me see the other side of this? Your profile says you dropped out of college and are currently backpacking the world. Is that a waste of your intelligence? Why or why not?
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by lbrandy 13y ago
I just worked my way through learning-myself-a-haskell yesterday, so this is timely. And I agree with your criticism. The `Maybe` example is simple, and helps with drawings, but it really lacks motivation. I understand all the words, and al
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by lbrandy 13y ago
Hi. I work at facebook and do many interviews. Facebook still seems to be totally focused on code problems I would say that statement is categorically false. In fact, the article lists 4 criteria, only one of which would be "code problems
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by lbrandy 13y ago
I didn't mean to imply it wasn't ever possible. Just that the subset of things that it works great for is smaller than people wish, or believed. That "I'll write in Ruby and optimize in C when I need to" is a myth on the order of the "suffi
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by lbrandy 13y ago
Everyone always agrees with this and, in my experience, has never really tried it. It works better in theory than in practice (or, at a minimum, it works only on a small subset of the types of problems that a naive view might otherwise lead
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by lbrandy 13y ago
If we are going to blame "reddit" and "the internet", are we also blaming "the media" for the cnn false report and the nypost cover photo? I have a hard time finding the collective responsibility of "the internet" materially different from
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by lbrandy 14y ago
Tangential but awesome story: A few years back, I listed a starcraft-related project on my resume. An interviewer at VeryFamousWebCompany(tm) went totally rogue (I am assuming) and we spent a good 30 minutes discussing the most recent patch
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by lbrandy 14y ago
This is a dangerous line of thinking, useful as a counterpoint to consider, but a terrible basis for thinking about your life and career. The problem is that the worst kind of engineer is the one who thinks he is a top 5% engineer, who proc
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by lbrandy 14y ago
> As someone who has been bullied in school for actually, you know, trying to learn and take the tests I find his approach perfectly ok. You don't know what intimidation is like until you've been on the receiving end of it and a whole c
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by lbrandy 14y ago
I find your approach distasteful. And that's putting it charitably, to be honest. The idea that you would feign solidarity in a social experiment with real consequences so you could screw fellow students surreptitiously is just as bad (I wo
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by lbrandy 14y ago
I was there that day, sitting near several of the people deeply involved. I'm not really a security guy, so I was mostly a morbidly curious bystander. Early on, I saw a bunch of SeriouslyScary(tm) stuff in chat, and decided to see what was
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by lbrandy 14y ago
> I think the syntax gymnastics needed to achieve the result are quite complex for what they aim for. There's nothing technically wrong with it. It's just that choosing a function from a namespace shouldn't need a 7 line comment... It's
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by lbrandy 14y ago
Hi. Author here. > and i don't want to be that guy, Nah. Be that guy. They are all valid questions. > unless the type system (not mentioned here) I had bits in about the type system but it got cut cause, well, it was too long. It h
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by lbrandy 14y ago
Also striking is how the Russians made their money: energy, steel, metals, and... uh... "being friends with the people in power when the Soviet Union fell". It's all very late 1800s.
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by lbrandy 14y ago
Once you start to play that game, doesn't the conversation begin and end with John D. Rockefeller?
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by lbrandy 14y ago
"I don't react charitably to bad interview questions. I tend to get pretty indignant and perhaps make a mockery of it. In some ways though this can be thought of as a positive since it tends to act as a filter against me taking bad jobs."
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by lbrandy 14y ago
> "But we are so much bigger" seems to be the standard excuse for the US not looking at what other countries are doing successfully and learning from them. Except we have evidence of what happens when a much larger fraction of the econo
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by lbrandy 14y ago
> ...about just shifting from PHP to a more performant language We already shift lots of things out of PHP into more performant (c++, java, etc) languages when we are building services and/or extensions and/or other computationally inte
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by lbrandy 14y ago
There's a few where C++11 has rendered the situation far less common, or the advice not-so-good. For example, the auto_ptr one (advice should be: don't use it). Or the ones that use raw pointer data members and 'delete' in the destructor (f
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by lbrandy 14y ago
It's missing my favorite, std::(unordered_)map::operator[] map<int,int> a; cout << a[11] << endl; cout << a.size() << endl; This works fine and has well defined behavior: it will print '0'
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by lbrandy 14y ago
Once California has its results in, I'm guessing his prediction on the popular vote will make it 51/51.
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by lbrandy 14y ago
> Is it really so hard to imagine that somebody, somewhere fudged a query and accidentally ran [pseudo-SQL] "UPDATE posts SET type='status' WHERE type='private-message' AND date = 'x' TO 'y'"? Yes, it is hard to imagine, since they run
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by lbrandy 14y ago
It seems to me to just be the HN version of the "SO BRAVE" post. http://reddipedia.com/So_Brave We invent a "startup culture" archetype (and strawman) to which to ascribe things that no one actually believes and are easy to disagree with.
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by lbrandy 14y ago
That's a feature. Ada is a fairly strict language that allows for compilers to do a tremendous amount of static checks.
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by lbrandy 14y ago
If you put the word 'memorialized' into the helpcenter you are greeted with 4 results, one of which is this exact issue, and leads to this form: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=292558237463098 , A task has already been opened, in
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by lbrandy 14y ago
comedy protip: strong/hard consonants are funny. 'kodiak' is an awesome comedic word. Any punchline involving a bear could almost certainly be improved by inserting 'kodiak'. Just like you should use 'buick' when you need an arbitrary car,
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by lbrandy 14y ago
Facebook, with few exceptions, allows you to pick your team. If you really want to work on something, you can. As for your last question, I joined a year ago, and from my experience, the meritocracy is extremely alive and well. You can go f
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by lbrandy 14y ago
You are vastly overvaluing experience in a particular language or technology. None of the languages you mentioned are particularly hard for someone to pick up fairly quickly (even more so if you already know one of the others). Being a good

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