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by nikhizzle 12y ago
Very cool, maybe I will implement the simulator when I have a chance.
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Show HN: Flight Times Sliced, Diced and Visualized (side project)(flightsphere.com)
69 points by nikhizzle 12y ago|37 comments
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by nikhizzle 12y ago
I don't have enough information to judge that, since I never made it to director level at my time at FB. One salient note is that at FB you can switch between parallel tracks whenever you like. Eg. Any director level engineer can switc
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by nikhizzle 12y ago
This is plain wrong. Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have parallel tracks for programmers and managers. You can progress all the way up to Senior VP equivalent as an engineer with no management duties. These roles include compensation equiv
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by nikhizzle 12y ago
Was in the same lab as Sage in grad school, and shared an advisor (Scott Brandt). He is super hard working, and definitely deserves this. Ceph was over 10 years of his life. Fun fact - Sage was also the founder of webring, and simultaneousl
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by nikhizzle 13y ago
An international first class ticket is often 15-20x that of an economy ticket. So give your 30%, then 20-25x is spot on.
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by nikhizzle 13y ago
Would you pay 25x an economy ticket for it?
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by nikhizzle 13y ago
Deeply poignant
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by nikhizzle 13y ago
Sorry, did not learn much from books. The only one of note is the Tom Mitchell Machine Learning Book, which already requires a basic advanced mathematics fluency. I also believe it is a little out of date. I can recommend a few professors w
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by nikhizzle 13y ago
I love it. This really appeals to me because of the all the bad ideas I had to unlearn in my 20s: - math is about numbers and arithmetic operations on them - being good at math meant you were good at arithmetic - some people (meaning me) ju
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Teletypewriter(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nikhizzle 13y ago|0 comments
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by nikhizzle 13y ago
Fascinating. Your writeup is probably the best thing I've read all year. Thanks!
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by nikhizzle 13y ago
I made the money back heating my house in the bay area in 5 months. The Nest is just much better at using energy efficiently.
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Advice from my 30 Years of Air Travel(chasethehorizon.com)
1 points by nikhizzle 13y ago|0 comments
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Satoshi One Billion(chasethehorizon.com)
2 points by nikhizzle 13y ago|0 comments
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by nikhizzle 13y ago
Looks like an example of cargo cult design to me.
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Show HN: Mortgage Calculations made simple (using d3)(mortgagebloom.com)
2 points by nikhizzle 13y ago|0 comments
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by nikhizzle 13y ago
I have what is probably a unique view here. I am a US educated Indian programmer who finished half a PhD here and got a master's degree in CS along the way at a top school. Since then I've worked at fb, apple, and yahoo. But I hav
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Show HN: The Lightest - a collection(thelightest.net)
2 points by nikhizzle 13y ago|0 comments
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Social web use in 2009 (built in d3)(n79.org)
1 points by nikhizzle 14y ago|0 comments
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Exploding self portrait done using the html5 canvas(n79.org)
1 points by nikhizzle 14y ago|0 comments
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The most exclusive iPhone app: $230,000(n79.org)
1 points by nikhizzle 14y ago|0 comments
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by nikhizzle 15y ago
int main(int argc, char argv[]) { 　struct passwd pw = getpwnam('dmr'); 　restInPeace(pw->pw_uid); 　exit(0); }
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Server-less javascript maps using HTML5 canvas(github.com)
2 points by nikhizzle 15y ago|0 comments
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Real time Twitter densities(n96.org)
2 points by nikhizzle 15y ago|0 comments