lfowles

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by lfowles 8y ago
Oof, I've had that experience during a technical phone screen with a different "hires only the best" company. I was asked to write (over the phone) a trivial statistical algorithm and started to describe the algorithm: "
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by lfowles 8y ago
My favorite interviews have been those that had a small project as a screener and then proceeded to have you modify and/or explain decisions regarding the project at the in-person stage.
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by lfowles 8y ago
One particular expectation when whiteboard coding for an interview is that there is little/no downtime, you must be making progress or talking about your thoughts. Incidentally, 50% of my thought process then becomes "How do I tal
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by lfowles 8y ago
And specifically Hoover Dam appears in New Vegas.
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by lfowles 8y ago
> For one, I've seen children accustomed to using touch interfaces blurring the line between physical and virtual, i.e swiping at physical objects like books, photos, even walls. I've not seen this behavior with those used to
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by lfowles 8y ago
> In my experience, shallow orgs also have a half life. They need to be purged every 18-24 months. Valve hadn't had a half life since 2007. They're surely due for another one :)
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by lfowles 8y ago
My cable provider requires calling in to downgrade services, but adding them can be done with just a click online! I've also seen it occasionally for services like eMeals.
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by lfowles 8y ago
> it can be taken from you at anytime, and interpreted in any way the company sees fit. I worked at a company with a not-unlimited vacation policy and this is roughly how shutdown periods worked anyways. You were forced to spend vacation
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by lfowles 8y ago
I actually used an Alphagrip daily at work for probably a year+. It halved my normal qwerty speed (120 wpm down to 60 wpm), but got rid of all of my wrist pain. Good exchange! I had a similar experience that I bought my first one ten years
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by lfowles 8y ago
It has to do with oils from the pizza being soaked into the cardboard.
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by lfowles 8y ago
Agreed, I dip my toes in a lot of things but would never consider putting them on my resume unless I have at least a substantial project that I can talk about in depth.
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by lfowles 8y ago
I used to have what was basically a spider trap on my website while learning Django. The truth is that every bot that found it hammered my site with tens of thousands of requests per day (even Googlebot). I don't think it stopped until
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by lfowles 8y ago
Grabbed an external HDDVD drive for the $10 actually. Even came with a handful of movies at that price!
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by lfowles 8y ago
I wouldn't risk it anymore. One time I received an ever so slightly cracked DVD from Netflix. Desperate to watch the show without waiting for a better copy to be mailed, I stuck it in the computer anyways. Ended up shattering and takin
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by lfowles 8y ago
Yep, left my job 8 months ago and had several promising interviews since but nothing has come of them. Recently decided to take time to polish games I prototyped during this period. To be quite honest I was also getting tired of essentially
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by lfowles 8y ago
Your post plus the context of Factorio brings about an interesting observation that in all of my Factorio maps, expansion/exploration happens rightwards and upwards unless constrained by geography.
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by lfowles 8y ago
A Dune reference originally :)
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by lfowles 8y ago
It's been a while since I've done this kind of CMake in anger, but I recall my main gripe with ExternalProject_Add is that it can't leverage that the external project is a CMake project and I still end up hard coding paths.
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by lfowles 8y ago
I'm still not convinced there's a good way in cmake to pull in and compile external libraries as dependencies. I know it can be done via a superproject method but that's a lot of boilerplate for something that should be strai
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by lfowles 8y ago
If you hold up two polarized sheets and rotate them, they'll get progressively darker until no light passes through when they are perpendicularly aligned. YouTube should have some videos, it was a pretty entertaining physics lab experi
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by lfowles 8y ago
Sounds to me like this is on the Life side of the work-life balance. If they were already in on Saturday doing work for a looming deadline on the other hand....
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by lfowles 8y ago
I've seen sand used as well as water.
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by lfowles 8y ago
I skimmed the comments here before reading the article and was curious what a "gore" looked like. After a seconds pause, I decided I should get on with reading the article instead of searching for "highway gore" :)
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by lfowles 9y ago
Your WoW observation reminds me a lot of my current job search experience.
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by lfowles 9y ago
I tried my best but the session timed out before I had even finished one movie.
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by lfowles 9y ago
The only luggage I've lost (temporarily!) has been carry-on which ended up being gate checked. It was explained that during handling the gate check tag came off.
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by lfowles 9y ago
FTA, a take on entry/mid/senior level distinctions I haven't heard before: "If you are the guy asking for help from people below, to your side, and above you, you’re probably an entry-level engineer. If you frequently ne
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Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 engineering firefighter(allarsblog.com)
388 points by lfowles 9y ago|115 comments
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by lfowles 9y ago
Location: Kansas, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Location dependent, strong preference to Colorado, New York, Chicago areas. Technologies: C++, Python, Linux, Git Learning: Robotics, Rust Résumé/CV: Available on website http:&#x
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by lfowles 9y ago
> Killing a PC component with static shock is more difficult than you imagine and is pretty hard to do even if you aren't taking serious precautions like using anti-static wrist straps Can confirm, got a little lazy and put spare co

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