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by peri 12y ago
For most applications where you want these, I've found that skip lists give you most of the performance advantages you want at a far lower complexity to implement and debug. Yeah, it's a probabilistic algorithm, but if you know th
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by peri 12y ago
Software security is an engineering problem. If your threat model includes the attacker knowing how you generate your passwords (and it probably should for most companies — insiders and disgruntled staff are a big risk), this scheme may not
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by peri 12y ago
If I were to find issues, would you prefer bug reports via github issues or some other mechanism?
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by peri 12y ago
This isn't hard data, but amongst my friends in the South Bay it seems to be about 1 year unless there's real promise of upside in the startup. It's just hard to keep talented people if the company seems to be foundering in t
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by peri 12y ago
The NetBSD is also a great starting point for people who want to port to weird architectures. It's simple and a little old fashioned, but it's in the sweet spot for most bootstrappable C compilers for memory-constrained devices. T
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by peri 12y ago
You need to talk to a lawyer about this. There are plenty of good lawyers out there who will give you a short consultation without costing you much. There's unfortunately not enough detail here for good advice to come from HN and you&#
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by peri 12y ago
All of the best leads I've had as an independent developer have come from folks I met briefly at networking events or on other contracts. As a rather introverted person, it's hard for me to go to a lot of these, but going to ones
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by peri 12y ago
Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (US, Japan, many Francophone locales) Technologies: C++, Ruby, Python, Rust, JavaScript, PHP, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, all sorts of automation tools Résumé/CV:
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by peri 12y ago
Disclaimer for those who don't know: please please please do not run this code against hosts or on networks you do not 100% control or have permission to exceed authorized access on. Your school or workplace will not find this kind of
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by peri 12y ago
I wish I had a better answer than "I make one up as needed", but I have more of a filking ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music ) background than any actual musical training.
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by peri 12y ago
Thanks so much! I only got a brief overview of Chinese poetry in school, so getting to appreciate more is really awesome.
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by peri 12y ago
Do you mind sharing the original author's name? It sounds gorgeous, but I can only read Japanese, so I'm not sure if I'm just completely wrong in getting the images from the Chinese.
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by peri 12y ago
Parsimony.
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by peri 12y ago
Ah, we were thinking of the same one. It's worth noting that his brother, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James , wrote some of the most lyrical philosophy and psychology works of the late 19th century.
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by peri 12y ago
Is this the same (American) Henry James that I think of as a novelist?
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by peri 12y ago
Do you have any particular poems, or collections that you would suggest?
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by peri 12y ago
And one poet I never appreciated when introduced to her, but love now: Edna St. Vincent Millay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay Renaissance and Other Poems is full of just staggering work: http:&#x
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by peri 12y ago
Eliot is amazing; folks who love his work do themselves a disservice, however, if they aren't also reading Ezra Pound ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound ) for a very different perspective on most of the sam
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by peri 12y ago
This is (arguably) a better book than GEB ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach ) for the literature-minded folks out there. I can't recommend it enough.
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by peri 12y ago
This is a great one, and one that often comes up when I tutor students. It's even better if you can teach it as a sing-along.
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by peri 12y ago
As somebody who studied lit, this is an impossible question to answer, so I'll just link to my favorite John Donne ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne ) poem from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by peri 12y ago
Thanks for this comment. I think that we'd find each other in strident agreement, which is why I typically only go to smaller or more academically inclined conferences these days. That said: a lot of us have constructed our identities
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by peri 12y ago
I've posted about my personal experiences and how I've personally discouraged all sorts of contributors by ignorance in the past here on HN. For example, I re-submitted recently this blog post on a back and forth that I had with a
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by peri 12y ago
Hi, I don't know your gender either, but I know lots of F/OSS developers whose names and legally represented genders have changed, even in projects I've committed to. There's a fairly big mix of attribution errors availa
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by peri 12y ago
> Ironically, you are probably a better bet for a lot of employers than that average young single male because you value stability. You're not gonna jump ship because you want a foosball table or expect to have lunch catered every d
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by peri 12y ago
This matches my experience at Columbia completely. I felt completely out of place and estranged outside of a few geek-interest clubs. I'm lucky I found those — coming from public school, even a really good one, the culture shock was ov
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by peri 12y ago
In US law, at least, there is a large distinction between public school administrators searching a particular student and large-scale searching of students, even if the search only pertains to publicly available information. You can see the
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by peri 12y ago
A corollary to this is to make sure you leave gracefully if you feel you must leave. You may be the lead developer on this project, but you probably have lots of projects ahead of you. I made the mistake early in my career of burning some b
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by peri 12y ago
There are lots of ways to make people feel good while keeping pay, benefits, and professional relationships professional. Not knowing where OP is from or where their company operates, I'd give them wide deference in terms of ensuring t
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by peri 12y ago
I hope for the best for you with this. In my experience, the mixed results are part of the process. Think of it more as R&D costs rather than "loss" per se, and it may be easier for you (and your investors) to think about. Man

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