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by nevir 3y ago
The description is glorious: --- A Brainfuck interpreter written in PostScript This program aims at being accurate, readable and minimal.
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by nevir 3y ago
FWIW, that's typically the structure that Amazon is looking for in an interview (though, some interviewers are better/worse than others) - start with the super inefficient solution, solve it pretty quickly - point out performance
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by nevir 3y ago
These days, batching DOM updates doesn't give you as big of a win as it did in the past (browser tech has improved, browser engines do more batching under the covers, etc). Also web components tend to use more modern layers of the web
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by nevir 3y ago
Oh, hell, totally didn't think of that. Ugh
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by nevir 3y ago
My navel-gazing take (as a very early Convoy person): It is really hard to get the kind of exponential efficiency gains in this space that a 'blitzscale'-focused startup needs in order to really succeed. Trucking is an industry
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by nevir 3y ago
C̶O̶B̶R̶A̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶d̶a̶t̶o̶r̶y̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶ ̶l̶a̶i̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶a̶y̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶i̶t̶ …if the company still exists (see comments above and below)
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Big layoffs coming at Convoy, a logistics startup backed by Bezos and Gates(axios.com)
24 points by nevir 3y ago|3 comments
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by nevir 3y ago
More or less identical to integer ids - they're stored and referenced as a 16-byte integer. Unless you're manually storing them as strings... (Not ideal, but most dbs are pretty good at dealing with that too)
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Neural net that can decode heard audio from patients' brain activity(news.berkeley.edu)
1 points by nevir 3y ago|0 comments
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by nevir 3y ago
It really all boils down to cognitive load: Can the average dev keep all of the variable states & side effects of the function in your head as they read through it? Great! Linear may be a good fit. Or does one need to jump up and down i
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by nevir 3y ago
Good luck migrating every single client in the real world (unless you are willing to disable old clients & force an upgrade if they get too old)
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by nevir 3y ago
With an API, you can often create facades and other patterns to avoid having to migrate the underlying data
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by nevir 3y ago
But those thousands of dollars are effectively subsidized by every one making a credit card purchase (e.g. merchant fees) - and not everyone being able/savvy enough to utilize them well Consider how much cheaper things might be across
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by nevir 3y ago
To us in the industry this is pretty obvious—but it's surprising to folks outside of tech.
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All About USB-C: Example Circuits(hackaday.com)
109 points by nevir 3y ago|21 comments
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by nevir 3y ago
Tree cover has a pretty big impact on people's lives, especially in hot climates.
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by nevir 3y ago
I think the real source of friction is from setting a project up to be debuggable ...and keeping that configuration current. It's a lot easier for single binary projects (like games) than multi- multi- target projects (web frontend, ba
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Twitter to Drop Bird Logo in Favor of an “X”(axios.com)
4 points by nevir 3y ago|7 comments
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by nevir 3y ago
Can you actually do that?
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by nevir 3y ago
As poorly received as the SimCity remake was—it has really left a lasting mark on the look and feel of city builders (it's nice to see that continue!)
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by nevir 3y ago
So pleasing
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by nevir 3y ago
Pretty confident this is human-generated. Its definitely the author's usual writing style
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by nevir 3y ago
I do think that this is going to make it a LOT more difficult for people to build up the kind of experience that folks like you have. The barrier to entry to the role just got a lot lower, but the barrier to gaining enough experience to bec
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by nevir 4y ago
The main cost is maintaining high test coverage so that you can be confident in your automation
85.
by nevir 4y ago
Home Depot has an exclusively agreement with em
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by nevir 4y ago
...and if they demonstrate less risky behavior, their stock should (hopefully) become valuable again.
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by nevir 4y ago
Turns out Electron is SUPER SECURE
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by nevir 4y ago
AC was such a fantastic game and community - props to all you at Turbine that worked on it. So many great memories for me!
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by nevir 4y ago
Google already as its Knowledge Graph - which is a pretty huge set of (semi) structured data about a bunch of things out there: (totally speculative) If Bard were to form queries against knowledge graph, and then summarize the results, it c
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by nevir 4y ago
Really wish that frugality wasn't used in so many perverted and hypocritical ways (internally, mainly)

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