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by pfedor 18y ago
From my experience interviewing Software Engineer candidates at Google (most of them for positions at Google Zurich actually) 1. It is not true that you will be hired for a junior position no matter what your previous experience. It is true
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by pfedor 18y ago
OK, so you're a physicist, and you know that, when the dust settles and the true theory whatever-it-may-be is found, it's going to have multiple worlds in it, rather than violatin
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by pfedor 18y ago
Looking up a word in a dictionary is only part of what a spellchecker does. The other part is offering suggestions. This one is still not easy, especially if you want it to give reasonable suggestions for all languages. For example, the alg
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by pfedor 18y ago
Why is Google Code Search missing from the list?
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Take the ChipWits Challenge!(joshburker.blogspot.com)
2 points by pfedor 18y ago|0 comments
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by pfedor 18y ago
I realize it's not the main point of this question, but I don't get the Set Godin's idea. If more people were telecommuting, then the in-person interaction would become more scarce, therefore more demanded, so the expectations for the quali
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by pfedor 18y ago
Yes. One of the original Unix guys.
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by pfedor 18y ago
I lived in Amsterdam for half a year ten years ago. It's very walkable and beautiful. You walk the streets and people smile at you. It's a happy place. I think the message is something like, "Be happy." Also, I believe it's the only country
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by pfedor 18y ago
Anything by Greg Egan. It is a science fiction author who actually has a very good understanding of science (he's published articles in a scientific journal about quantum gravity) and makes non-trivial use of it in his plots. Plus, he's a c
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by pfedor 18y ago
Old but good: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/07/why-you-need-degree-to-w...
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by pfedor 18y ago
The difference is, if companies started using the filters you suggest, then the candidates would soon catch up and everyone would have a programming blog and have read Cliff's notes for "Atlas Shrugged." So it's not, as they say, an evolut
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by pfedor 18y ago
Many good candidates could be put off by such test. More importantly, even if they agree to your test and send you some code, you need an engineer's time to evaluate the code sample, and if you're going to invest engineer's time you might a
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by pfedor 18y ago
+1 for Aquamacs. Two years ago I tried several options, here are the screenshots if you care: Aquamacs: http://www.mogiel.net/~pfedor/emacs/1.png Regular emacs, using mac's native UI with the pretties font I tried (and I tried quite a few
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OpenSSL vulnerability(linuxsecurity.com)
1 points by pfedor 18y ago|0 comments
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by pfedor 18y ago
Or maybe J.G. Crowther was also fond of diversity. BTW the most important woman in the history of science was Emmy Noether. Her theorem is central to Classical Mechanics and very important also in Quantum Field Theory.
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by pfedor 18y ago
A few years ago, Paul Graham wrote: "When you find something you can't say, what do you do with it? My advice is, don't say it." This essay makes me wonder if he chose not to follow his own advice. If he did, I wonder if it will do him mu
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Anti-spammer convicted for performing queries to the spammer's DNS server(spamsuite.com)
2 points by pfedor 18y ago|0 comments
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by pfedor 19y ago
I don't really use Facebook so I may not really appreciate the problem, but I don't think you can call messages from people you actually know and sent specifically to you "spam", for any reasonable definition of spam.
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by pfedor 19y ago
As far as I remember it appeared on the front page of Paul Graham's site around the time "What you can't say" was first published.
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by pfedor 19y ago
John Carmack.
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by pfedor 19y ago
Google paid him for doing this.
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by pfedor 19y ago
I find such comparisons misleading. The differences between natural languages are not at all the same thing as the differences between programming languages. All natural languages have the same expressive power, or at least very close. The
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by pfedor 19y ago
I know one guy who got an offer from Google but chose to stay in CERN, so obviously he must like it. On the other hand, some of the stories he tells are not very reassuring. For example, someone recently decided that CERN would be a Microso
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C-jump: computer programming board game(c-jump.com)
3 points by pfedor 19y ago|0 comments
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by pfedor 19y ago
It depends on what you mean by "fail". If it means "drop out before getting a PhD", then you are surely right. But that's not how most people who enter PhD programs in sciences define success. They want a tenure track position afterwards (p
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by pfedor 19y ago
http://zunger.livejournal.com/160426.html "The non-technical version is that it makes for a great news story and all, but this is the sort of idea that most high-energy physicists come up with sometime during grad school, think about for
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by pfedor 19y ago
san diego really sucks if you don't have a car. As opposed to the Silicon Valley??
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by pfedor 19y ago
Not directly related to the article, but let me mention a patch for Quake II my brother wrote a while ago, which creates another kind of 3D illusion using red-blue glasses: http://www.jfedor.org/red-blue-quake2/
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by pfedor 19y ago
An ideal solution, although I'm not saying it's easy to get it right, would be to measure the weight of the story based on what portion of clicks are long term clicks, i.e., clicks after which people spend considerable amount of time (presu
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by pfedor 19y ago
I think he was referring to garbage collecting. Not that it makes this statement any more justified or anything.

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