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by organicfigs 6y ago
This is pretty engaging, thank you!
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by organicfigs 6y ago
Nice work! If I wanted to learn how to build VMs, how would I start? My experience is in backend development/distributed systems in Java and Go (so assume I know nothing outside of an introductory OS course)
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Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more(cnbc.com)
606 points by organicfigs 6y ago|558 comments
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by organicfigs 6y ago
Oh my god this book is amazing! Thank you
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by organicfigs 6y ago
Someone needs to write a book about breaking into writing software like RocksDB, HSE, etc. Years ago I found myself wanting to learn more however going from 0 to 1 felt impossible. Graduated from a T3 school in CS so understanding the conce
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by organicfigs 6y ago
About to start med school, I looked around in the tech industry and never found a role model and found that distressing. I never met a single person in 10 years in the industry and said "I aspire to problem-solve like him/her&quot
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Yelp lays off 1k employees and furloughs 1,100 more(techcrunch.com)
3 points by organicfigs 7y ago|1 comments
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by organicfigs 7y ago
One of my best memories in college was going through wedge product, differential forms and connections, and its application in the derivation of Maxwell's equations. When going through it, I always assumed someone came in and wrote tho
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by organicfigs 7y ago
I'm getting jealous. After a career on the software side of communications (r&d in ble and 4g) I left for the healthcare industry for many reasons but mainly driven by the fact the projects were so monotone. Had I been able to appl
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by organicfigs 7y ago
I'm not a doctor (yet) but I believe quinine has immunosuppressant effects so you don't want to take it preemptively, only when you have your own immune system in overdrive.
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by organicfigs 7y ago
Thank you, made my March a little better :)
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by organicfigs 7y ago
Awesome! I can't wait to dig through this, I've been wanting to contribute to the linux kernel for over 2 years but no one on the linux mailing lists seemed interested in helping a newbie (so much for kernel newbies). Thanks for p
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by organicfigs 7y ago
Unfortunately, that article isn't surprising at all
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by organicfigs 7y ago
On a side note, I met the founder of Genius (then called RapGenius) at the first hackMIT. It's been 7 years but I still remember him insulting multiple people and being embarrassingly immature.
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by organicfigs 7y ago
I've had a career about half of yours (where does the time go?) and this has been my experience as well. I would have loved to contribute to at least half a dozen projects in the last couple of years.
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by organicfigs 7y ago
After being a subscriber to hn for the last decade, a post I'm affected enough by to create an account. After wanting to contribute to open source projects for my entire career (I've previously worked at FAANGs and am a technical