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by pmikesell 8y ago
Thank you for writing this post. Whiteboard code interviews get a lot of hate on HN and I suspect that folks who have come to rely on them for part of their hiring signal have simply stopped posting. I've done a lot of lower level syst
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by pmikesell 8y ago
Ivanpah uses water, not salts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
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by pmikesell 8y ago
I mean, this is basically what happens to rock stars - so it seems an appropriate reference.
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by pmikesell 8y ago
Let's not forget about the time they blew up San Bruno: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion
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by pmikesell 8y ago
In my experience, the probability of this happening increases proportionally with the size of the company.
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by pmikesell 8y ago
I’m curious to know what you think a better way would be?
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by pmikesell 8y ago
No, that's not what this is about. Probability means this: "in X tries, how likely is it for Y to happen". The ambiguity here is this: what is the set of X? Is the set of all families with two children at least one boy, or th
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by pmikesell 8y ago
No, that is not what this says. What this says is that there is ambiguity in the description of the situation. Is the question about the probability of a second girl in the set of all families with 2 children and at least one boy, or is the
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by pmikesell 8y ago
>> Their warranty support is excellent This was not my experience at all with Alienware. I'll never buy anything from them again (yes I know they're part of Dell now)
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by pmikesell 8y ago
Thanks - this is exactly what I was looking for. They never show up in search results - some SEO would be great for them.
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by pmikesell 8y ago
Thanks for the reply. I really only use windows for video games at this point. Looks like a cool app though. Have you thought about converting it? Some of these web frameworks have higher level wimp apis now.
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by pmikesell 8y ago
I was, almost daily. It was a nice tool.
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by pmikesell 8y ago
I'd also like to echo that having a portfolio tracker would be for me a the killer feature. I have a mix of equities and mutual funds purchased at different times and different prices and I really just want to input the purchase dates
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by pmikesell 8y ago
Totally agree - and I'd like to point out that while bloomberg wants you to put you through a paywall to read money stuff (his column) on the regular, Matt Levine has maintained the ability for you to sign up and get all of them delive
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by pmikesell 9y ago
Sure, your right - I was just trying to say that something was ringing true in his statement ... people finding it too expensive to learn stuff like this, meanwhile the company trying to do it not making enough money to stay afloat.
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by pmikesell 9y ago
People are down voting you, and yes people hate Pete Thiel. At the same time I see this current thread (the one we're reading, abut TechShop running out of money ) full of people saying they would have joined but it was too expensive
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Senate’s tax reform bill removes stock option tax(recode.net)
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by pmikesell 9y ago
Oh, their ios client was plenty terrible too. I remember having to wait 5 minutes before being able to type the first message character - just watching a blank screen while my phone got hot.
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by pmikesell 9y ago
nice! Also an SR22 pilot (though I just sold mine a few months ago). Here are some other G1000 confusions I remember: - Flying down the ILS expecting to click the "go around" button on the throttle and see the missed approach cycl
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by pmikesell 9y ago
Thank you for the link to the video - this was excellent. His key critique of convnets is that (paraphrasing) all of these pooling layer (max, avg, whatever) are really a very poor way of attempting to solve what is actually a routing probl
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by pmikesell 9y ago
At that point you may as well just leave. You’re not going to talk the interviewer out of doing the interview. What I don’t understand though is this: why not just do the problem? People ask these kinds of questions to see how you solve pro
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by pmikesell 9y ago
I'm going to check it out. As an idea - could you add the ability to import transaction lists (as csv) which have been exported from google finance? Ok so I have this page up and have a new portfolio - how do I add transactions?
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by pmikesell 9y ago
http://h22168.www2.hpe.com/us/en/partners/ge-digital/index.a... Apparently they have a partnership with HPE, which is of course what Meg runs. Transitive laugh/cry.
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by pmikesell 9y ago
The thing I really enjoy about these types of things is the alternate map projections / focus points from other countries (if you click through to the NYT page). For instance, Seattle / SF are both "just up the coast" fr
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by pmikesell 9y ago
Keras uses Theano or Tensorflow as a backend, and has the same restrictions. The graph must be defined, and then computed.
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by pmikesell 9y ago
I a am a pilot. At night, after a long flight to a place you don't live at, you are desperately looking to orient yourself. They looked at the charts, saw 2 runways, and found them. It can be extremely disoritening, especially at a pla
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by pmikesell 9y ago
I had the exact same experience in SF. I really wanted to use Redfin, but it was just impossible. Every person we dealt with from Redfin was uninformed and unhelpful. Finally went to a traditional local buyers agent who did a great job, sho
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by pmikesell 10y ago
No, he or she it totally correct: > those first 8 bytes of the packet may be some authentication/verification scheme The server could verify the auth on a per packet basis and only play the sound if it matches. There's no reaso
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by pmikesell 10y ago
Back in the day, just after Napster went down, Courtney Love wrote a really great piece about what the actual economics look like being an artist under the major labels, and has some interesting insight into the imminent changes in distribu
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by pmikesell 10y ago
I used to work at that BurgerMaster when I was in high-school!

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