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by pyb 5y ago
I have read and recommend Andy Tanenbaum's book on operating systems. He's also written a book on networking and one on distributed systems.
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by pyb 5y ago
A couple of years ago, Pinterest had hacked Google's SEO so completely that they polluted even my non-image search results. Fortunately this is no longer the case.
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by pyb 5y ago
+1, does the new generation match or exceed GPT-3 in terms of relevance ? Is there a way for a non-AI-researcher to understand how the benchmarks measure this ? Bigger does not mean better.
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by pyb 5y ago
I know of some credible developers who were struggling to get access, so YMMV
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by pyb 5y ago
There are quite a few open-source X11 implementations, but they are either much more basic, or targeting historical platforms.
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by pyb 5y ago
Seeking Work New : HELPING YOUR TEAM SUPPORT EARLY-CAREER HIRES The problem: Your team is currently too busy to support your early-career (aka "junior") engineers. At the moment, you can't quite provide new recruits with th
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What to Learn(danluu.com)
374 points by pyb 5y ago|111 comments
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by pyb 5y ago
Where it would make sense, I am interested in consulting with companies on this problem. I'd be pairing with your junior developer full-time to help them onboard more comfortably. Please reach out if that sounds interesting.
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Reflections on a decade of coding: Speed matters(scattered-thoughts.net)
1 points by pyb 5y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 5y ago
I don't know the other two, but Parisi is definitely a star in his field.
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Reflections on a decade of coding: Things unlearned(scattered-thoughts.net)
5 points by pyb 5y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 5y ago
Sounds like the kind of M.O. that should be common in theory, but maybe not so much in practice... Are the best startups really funded by FAANG engineers initially?
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by pyb 5y ago
SpaceX is "it" this year
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by pyb 5y ago
I am not 100% sure that the author wrote this title. It is much more dramatic than the article.
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by pyb 5y ago
No, it means that what happens to you is completely jurisdiction-dependent.
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by pyb 5y ago
This is the frontier of knowledge. By definition, things that theoretical physicists themselves barely understand. For instance, this physicist reportedly "Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox". If true (I presu
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by pyb 5y ago
IME: More and more sites don't even load in Firefox any more... Including Slack.
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by pyb 5y ago
Dacia Logan ?
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by pyb 5y ago
Very cool and impressive. Here is another person who had a fab at home at some point : http://www.microfab.co.uk They were building not microchips but STJ sensors.
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by pyb 5y ago
You may find further comments here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9903503 ("Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-American Movies")
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by pyb 5y ago
"We will offer candidates in this program reasonable accommodations like extended interview time, providing questions in advance, or conducting the interview in writing in a Google Doc rather than verbally on a call." These would
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by pyb 5y ago
Clojure/Clojurescript is the most fun to use, but a nightmare to setup IME.
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by pyb 5y ago
How much of the dev shortage is due to excessive gatekeeping? The average interviewing process has become very burdensome these days. Not sure it translates in a higher quality of hires wrt the past.
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Deep Tech Deficit: Why more aren't starting technically ambitious companies(notes.michaeldempsey.me)
1 points by pyb 5y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 5y ago
Were they not closed to non-US people?
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by pyb 5y ago
This is inaccurate for VAT.
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by pyb 5y ago
Nor is it in France.
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by pyb 5y ago
OP meant that ironically...
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Stealing Ur Website(prospect.org)
3 points by pyb 5y ago|0 comments
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by pyb 5y ago
But do you find the article to be very high quality?

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