personamb

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by personamb 7y ago
I'm pretty surprised, and a little disappointed by, this addition. The FB board is already a who's who of "Silicon Valley Standard Perspectives". As Facebook's biggest challenges continue to be about the unexpected
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by personamb 8y ago
Not common at all. I was an eng at FB when the "View as" feature was being built. I wasn't involved in the project at all, and my memory is hazy (this was probably 7 years ago by now), but I remember people being like "w
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by personamb 9y ago
Hi Wilhem! I'm no VC, but I have made a few investments in companies, independently. I'll give you my immediate impressions. It's a very cute project! Nice animations. How does it work? My understanding is that you have a pri
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by personamb 14y ago
I believe in the rough benchmarks of ~4 hours of work a day. I also believe that people are widely scattered around that mark. I've been doing an experiment where I print out my work day in 5 minute increments, with three tick boxes next to
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by personamb 14y ago
Sorry, I phrased that poorly. I meant that I, personally, based off of my own biases, was expecting it - not that it should be obvious to everybody based on global factors. In fact, I meant to communicate more that I am pleased to have my o
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by personamb 14y ago
I'm not super familiar with codeeval, but it seems like (from the sample puzzles on the homepage) the puzzles are pretty standard engineering interview questions. That is, they are often short algorithms, which bias towards using scripting
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by personamb 17y ago
Actually, if you search for "Tiananmen" you do still get filtered results. Searching "Tianamen" (note the missing "n") is not filtered, though. I wonder if this was a purposeful loophole in Google's filtering, or an engineering mistake. ht
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by personamb 17y ago
I don't know much about what it's like to hire an independent contractor (i.e. how much oversight and control is typically practiced), but is it really possible that Microsoft wouldn't have noticed how blatant the ripoff was before pushing
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by personamb 17y ago
2 minutes later, it's there. This is a very obscure phrase that no one else ever uses. ... hackerne.ws/item?id=973578 - 1 minute ago
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The Story Behind Skifree(ski.ihoc.net)
1 points by personamb 17y ago|0 comments
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by personamb 17y ago
Sorta forgot about this thread, but hopefully ou see this. K is super-great at vector operations; element-wise addition between two lists of equal length, for example; more powerfully, mapping lists to functions. The DB stuff we were doing
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by personamb 17y ago
I worked at a K shop last summer, and when I was learning the language, I tried using sensible variable names. I was told in no uncertain terms that, when you write K, local variables should be one letter, globals should be two, and functio
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by personamb 17y ago
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by personamb 17y ago
It seems like there's a lot of different applications, finger commands, pen commands, etc. If Microsoft can come with some kind of consistency across the different use cases, this could actually be a worthy piece of hardware...