nialo

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by nialo 10y ago
I haven't tried this, but https://github.com/ketchupsalt/debugger might be of interest to you. More generally, it's not actually sandboxed inside a web browser, you can interact with system through REST-ish A
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by nialo 10y ago
Out of curiosity: what's the difference between an error stack and a stack trace?
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by nialo 10y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes, but prefer onsite Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: Clojure, Lisp, Python Résumé/CV: Some things I've written: https://github.com/bcoburn3/forex and https://
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by nialo 10y ago
The opportunity cost of not working for three years is huge, maybe more than the tuition at a non-top end university.
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by nialo 10y ago
Maybe not the most elegant solution, but it could be worse: I wrote all the data to a csv file and then imported into Excel for analysis.
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by nialo 10y ago
For me personally, as someone who has finished all the existing levels, just skipping the resume screen is actually a big value add (at least in principle, assuming they get the recruiting side worked out). I also really enjoyed writing th
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by nialo 10y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes, but prefer onsite Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: Clojure, Lisp, Python Résumé/CV: Some things I've written: https://github.com/bcoburn3/forex and https:/&#x2F
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by nialo 10y ago
Do you know if there exist tools that take a binary and a source code file and attempt to automatically compare the control flow graphs? I imagine I won't ever get to it, but that sounds like an interesting problem to try to work on.
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by nialo 10y ago
No interviews yet, but I did just write a response to an email asking about interest in a specific company. The impression I get is that people have gotten and will get interviews through this, but that the amount of time each one takes is
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by nialo 10y ago
I've finished Stockfighter, and wrote a clone of the official stock exchange server. You can find that here: https://github.com/bcoburn3/forex I'm looking for work as a programmer in NYC, my email address is
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by nialo 11y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes, but prefer onsite Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: Clojure, Lisp, Python Résumé/CV: Some things I've written: https://github.com/bcoburn3/forex and https:/&#x
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by nialo 11y ago
Could you expand on the balls-into-bins argument here? It's not quite obvious to me, but I'd really like to understand.
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by nialo 11y ago
(I'd send this in email, but I can't find one in your profile) What company are you talking about hiring for? I'm looking for work as a programmer, and I'd prefer to apply to places with a hiring process like this. You
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by nialo 11y ago
I'd rather spend 8 hours programming than burn a full day on 5 whiteboard interviews the way Google does. More generally, I think the target should be to make the work sample test take a similar amount of time to the in person intervie
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by nialo 11y ago
I think you have to hit every permutation, at least for AES, because AES is reversible. In particular, if there were some 0 <= y < 2^128 such that AES_k(x) != y for all 0 <= x < 2^128, then there must also be some z such that tw
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by nialo 11y ago
Why isn't this faster than the "standard" loop based version? The disclaimer at the start says it's not, but I would have thought that 4 64bit math operations would be much faster than a loop with 8 steps and comparison
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by nialo 11y ago
An important point about racing cars is how completely their performance is determined by the rules of the series. Hybrids dominating says more about the details of the rules than about hybrids.
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by nialo 11y ago
Look at the weather report, if [high, expected, min] temperature below X degrees, suggest pants. Simple!
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by nialo 11y ago
I think the key point is that they don't want the top 10% or 1% or .1%, they want as many people as possible above some particular skill level. The client is just as happy if that happens to be 50% of players or whatever. They don&#x2
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by nialo 11y ago
I think a good example is the last level (Hollywood) from www.microcorruption.com, which has self modifying code and is set up such that the actual execution jumps into the middle of what the disassembler thinks are actual instructions. Re
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by nialo 11y ago
I work with 1000-1200C resistance furnaces, and my understanding is that the internal connection between the heating element and the power leads is both crimped and welded. It is probably a niche application, and welding and soldering aren
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by nialo 11y ago
Why pen/paper and not some sort of computer? Even coding in Notepad seems better to me than paper, and can't be that hard to set up for an interview. (I think a longer work sample test on the candidates own time is probably still
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by nialo 11y ago
I'm looking for work as a programmer, and I think I understand the throttle question and approximately what a solution would look like, although I would need research to actually write one. Debounce sounds easy though. I'd love
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by nialo 11y ago
I work as a mechanical engineer designing CVD (chemical vapor deposition) equipment for research applications. Some of my systems are designed to grow carbon nanotubes, although admittedly not at the purity or wafer size that would be requ
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by nialo 11y ago
SHA-512 allows a length extension attack that SHA-512/256 does not. Some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack http://cryptopals.com/sets/4/challenges/29/
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by nialo 11y ago
Is there a written description of the protocol used between the client and server anywhere?
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by nialo 12y ago
This is actually a straightforward question to answer, I think: By conservation of momentum, the center of gravity of the entire ISS + astronaut system needs to stay on the same path before and after your wall bounce. So, the momentum chan
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by nialo 12y ago
The parens are the single point of truth, the indentation is just for display and is (almost entirely) mechanically generated.
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by nialo 12y ago
I work as a mechanical engineer, and that involves only slightly less trying things until they work than programming. Where else would one getting precise understanding, anyway?
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by nialo 12y ago
We try very hard to do better, but even know this is the normal state of all manufactured products everywhere. One other problem is that mechanical design documents don't have good places for "why is this this way" type comm

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