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by masto 9y ago
Disclaimer: manager at Google. You make an interesting point, and I'd like to suggest an alternative lens to view it from, as a thought experiment. Let's say company X values work that benefits company X, and that's why they
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by masto 9y ago
I'm not an expert in window functions and I don't know what's idiomatic. I think explicitly specifying ROWS UNBOUNDED PRECEDING makes it do the right thing, but as you noted regarding ORDER BY, this is making people type a lo
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by masto 9y ago
My family came down with the flu right before I was scheduled to return from a business trip and turn around two days later to spend two weeks out of the country. We took as many precautions as possible to avoid spreading it to me (frequent
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by masto 9y ago
Q1: It's not apparently from the way the schema is shown whether "name" is a unique key. The suggested SQL will produce incorrect results in the case of a duplicate name as the window framing defaults to RANGE UNBOUNDED PRECE
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by masto 9y ago
My feedback after answering the first question: 1. Q0's success messages says "Group by and Having are commonly used aggregate functions". This terminology is incorrect. SUM() is an aggregate function. GROUP BY and HAVING are
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by masto 9y ago
I'm not particularly interested in the money, but I am worried that features I want to use will be restricted to partners.
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by masto 9y ago
I think the word is sociopath. He's not necessarily malicious, he just doesn't seem to empathize with other people, they're just autonomous NPCs to him.
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by masto 9y ago
There's an obvious strategy here to make an infinite amount of money!
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by masto 9y ago
Google is a big company, and there is a lot of variance between teams. I don't think this is a great generalization. I have only worked in one small area, but my intuition is that if you end up doing something that's very much a p
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by masto 9y ago
The canonical “engineer studies the problem of being fat and works on it like any other problem” story is The Hacker’s Diet by John Walker. There’s no secret formula necessary, just eat less. I found it very inspirational (and effective).
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by masto 9y ago
It’s supposed to be a deal where the building owner gets a variance on zoning restrictions if they promise to maintain a public space. But the reality is that a lot of them are inaccessible and there’s no enforcement. http://goth
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by masto 9y ago
My hero, John Walker, built this thing in 1996: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
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by masto 9y ago
I'm a bit surprised at the "personalized attention" from the attacker: that a human on the other end takes time to poke around individual machines, recognize the developer, and tailor a source code theft + ransom campaign to
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by masto 10y ago
Relevant username, I see.
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by masto 10y ago
http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dpu/transportation-network-comp... Last page. License suspended in the past 7 years. I just finished dealing with threatening letters from the DMV telling me that my license was s
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by masto 10y ago
I'm in the US (suburbs near NYC) and over the past 12 months we've used 15714 kWh. 5 bedroom house built in the 1950s. With all my electronic toys, our love of air conditioning in the unbearable NY summers, and the tendency for no
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by masto 10y ago
If you had literally the same questions, worded the same, there's something horribly broken (or you got the same broken recruiter). I think you're remembering similar questions (e.g. they asked the one about the potato) but the de
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by masto 10y ago
I'm not going to go into specifics (I like my job and want to keep it), but the versions of these questions quoted in the blog, especially where the questions seem stupid and wrong, are not on accurate representation of actual SRE pres
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by masto 12y ago
The bug has been fixed: https://twitter.com/ficus/status/565234296294625280
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by masto 12y ago
I'd be much more concerned about the microphone than the webcam.
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by masto 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that's a load of bullshit.
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by masto 12y ago
Many of us who read Hacker News are employed in the technology industry and have a particular interest in reliability and availability of computer systems. It's not interesting that people can't post their personality quizzes, bu
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by masto 12y ago
I also lost 50 pounds with simple calorie counting after being inspired by John Walker's book "The Hacker's Diet" (freely available online).
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by masto 13y ago
I bought the Logic 16 a couple of years ago and it's a neat piece of hardware, but the software is really basic and stagnant. I'm jealous of the triggering and overall UI something like Oscium provides ( http://vimeo.co
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by masto 13y ago
I guess this is not intended to be your "main" repository? Something about the idea of deploying on push to master seems off to me. I have been thinking about doing this myself, but it would either be a special release branch or
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by masto 13y ago
I once worked on a project that came to our company after BAH screwed it up. Ten years and $12.5M of the $13M budget had been spent, mostly on first-class travel, five star hotels, and meetings. They literally had built nothing in all tha
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by masto 13y ago
There are several brands of dry-erase paint on the market. Where I work, it's on the conference room walls. They need to be repainted periodically as especially the red markers leave a residue behind that gradually builds up. And there's
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by masto 13y ago
I'm glad to see a women's magazine that's finally standing up against gender stereotypes. From the sidebar: what's hot right now 4 No-Heat Hairstyles to Try Sports-Inspired Style 12 Vacation-Wear Prints 14 Dresses for Every Typ
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by masto 13y ago
Sorry, this turned out not to be a simple yes/no. I thought I would explain, as a hiring manager, what goes through my head: > 28 years old with a Finance Degree from a non-Ivy league school Don't care. > Spent the last two years l
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by masto 13y ago
The differences he's looking at are digital breadcrumbs left behind by editing software. It's not so much an analysis of the photo as it is of the JPEG file. JPEG is lossy, and repeatedly saving the same image changes the data in a predic

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