mquander

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by mquander 9y ago
Your profile says you program as a hobby, so how can it be a mystery to you why someone might be interested in something?
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by mquander 9y ago
I'm a prospective parent wondering how to approach this for my future kids. How do you think about the categorization of "screen time" vs. non-"screen time"? Is there a reason I should be more concerned about my 6-y
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by mquander 9y ago
That doesn't seem necessarily right. College is an investment of limited size that you can more or less make once per lifetime, and the market for it is about the furthest thing from an efficient or free one you could ever think of, wi
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by mquander 9y ago
I read that one, but... there's no evidence given there that Blockstream actually has any patents on any of this, right? It's just an idea that the author invented. It looks like Blockstream said they didn't have any patents,
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by mquander 9y ago
It seems to me like this is a natural thing to happen in a political system where a large minority is sufficient to block changes, but not pursue changes that they prefer. If the minority wants to have their concerns heard, they are incenti
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by mquander 9y ago
SegWit contains copyrighted code from the privately funded company BlockStream... Despite CTO Grerg Maxwell making a "Pledge" to only use the patents "defensively" there is nothing stopping the company from trying to
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by mquander 9y ago
I don't see any evidence for the concrete claims in this comment (e.g. the copyright/patent stuff).
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by mquander 9y ago
I think I understand your perspective, thanks for these comments.
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by mquander 9y ago
As a baseline, deception is immoral. If you want to be deceptive, you should have a good reason. Your winning a zero-sum game isn't a reason anyone else should be happy about. In the football tapes example, I don't think there is
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by mquander 9y ago
I think the relevant part that distinguishes whether it's ethical is whether you are deceptively taking advantage of another party. If Uber wouldn't be willing to tell Lyft what they are doing with their API, and Lyft would stop t
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by mquander 9y ago
Can you think of a plausible architecture that would satisfy that constraint? I'm not an expert but it's not obvious to me how to do it.
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by mquander 10y ago
:-(
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by mquander 10y ago
Is that actually a majority of jobs at Google? I know something about the work that several of my friends working as SREs and SWEs do and it doesn't sound like it involves a lot of distributed systems programming. Let's say you wo
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by mquander 10y ago
Based on your description, it sounds possible they were just looking for a Levenshtein distance implementation, which is definitely in the Universal Weird Corpus of Interview Questions and for which people who prepare for interviews a ton w
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by mquander 10y ago
Why did you conclude that you failed because of that? That sounds like a pass with flying colors. Did you specifically get feedback about that segment?
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by mquander 10y ago
This is not a reasonable commentary on the law. The obvious rejoinder to your point is that the paper is printed once, and the glasses are filled many times a day. Another plausible rationale is that by creating a rule that applies to peopl
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by mquander 10y ago
Why is "base salary" a metric that you are even paying attention to as opposed to "liquid annual compensation"? The second one is the one that puts money in your pocket. I assume that anyone talking about "base sala
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by mquander 10y ago
+1 to this. Rez Infinite was close to the best few hours I have ever spent with a computer. That said, most of my coworkers didn't seem to get the same thing out of it that I did.
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by mquander 10y ago
> In fact the less you think you know about architecture the better it would be for all involved, if you were to go work at Google. Also all those things you know about makefiles and maven and ant and ansible and chef? Nobody cares. Goog
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by mquander 10y ago
This matches the experience that I've had personally with VR. Maybe if a future phone-based mobile headset with quality hardware (i.e. decent controls a la Daydream or Leap Motion and inside-out tracking) comes to exist, then the commi
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by mquander 10y ago
> how well they've cited their sources, how much other trustworthy people trust them, etc That sounds to me like a "regard to how they reached those conclusions" (maybe a regard to how they reached a subset of their conclu
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by mquander 10y ago
The GC upgrade is going to happen when they upgrade Mono, and the Mono upgrade is definitely going to happen, although I don't know if it's going to be before Unity 6. (Source: Unity people have suggested this to me.)
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by mquander 10y ago
I've programmed mostly-functional stuff for a while in a bunch of languages and I have been working on a large performance-intensive (massively multiplayer, VR, and mobile!) Unity codebase for the past year. My conclusion is that funct
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by mquander 10y ago
> I dunno, man. SF exists as a lens to say something about people...otherwise it's an engineering manual for something that doesn't exist. I don't think you're appreciating how much other people's tastes differ f
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by mquander 10y ago
I was evaluated for wavefront LASIK at the Stanford Eye Laser Center and I asked the doctor there specifically about this, because like you I wondered whether LASIK would be lower-risk than wearing contacts for the rest of my life. He said
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by mquander 10y ago
No, it isn't. They have nothing in common besides making a bet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
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by mquander 10y ago
That 4-year number is roughly consistent with both the SRE offer I got recently at Google and the SWE offer a similarly-qualified friend got, and we have no super special domain knowledge.
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by mquander 10y ago
I used Triplebyte when looking for a job recently. The advantage in it for me is that Triplebyte thought about what I said I was interested in and matched me up to a half dozen interesting small companies that I would never have found any o
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by mquander 10y ago
Thinking less of someone after reading those two comments should be in the dictionary next to "poor judgement."
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by mquander 11y ago
I interviewed as SRE four months ago and I got a very typical programmer phone screen and interview, just exactly the kinds of whiteboard CS questions you expect Google might ask. (My bigger strength is on the programming side instead of th

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