quantumofalpha

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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
3% currency fluctuation in a month is high, but it's more of a random fluke. In the long term I'd expect the trend to be mostly interest rate diff - around 2% per year for EUR/USD. You should be a lot more concerned about the
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
What does that even mean? Putting it upside down? But that's just the exact same graph, so a no-op operation? Come to think of it, I wrote a plenty of no-op methods in my career...
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Chance of winning is under 2% for almost all countries and it's not particularly fast - apply in November, learn in May whether you can immigrate from September. Regular H1B would be both faster and offer a better chance of winning.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Then they can get that EB-5, not you.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
The bar for extraordinary abilities is high. Read up on visa guidelines, consult with some immigration lawyers to see if you stand a chance. Founding a company doesn't open any extra immigration paths as far as I know. Except for EB-5
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Depends. No quick and easy ways without some catches/prerequisites. Do you have extraordinary academic/artistic/business abilities? That might get you EB-1, EB-2 NIW, O-* visa types. $900k to "invest" at near zero r
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
There is a bird with four - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13027132
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
US work visas are too difficult to get. Hopefully with H1B switching next year to wage levels from pure lottery it'll get better. > health care is expensive, but wouldn't a high salary offset that anyway? It is expensive if you
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
With random database keys I would think they can just be generated at random by any frontend server running anywhere. Ultimately, a request to insert that key would come to the database - which is the centralized gatekeeper in this design a
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
> You seem to know about their architecture. What do they do now? Random 64-bit primary keys in mysql for newer videos. These may sometimes collide but then I suppose you could have the database reject insert and retry with a different
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Youtube video ids used to be just base64 of a 3DES-encrypted mysql's primary key, a sequential 64-bit int - collisions are of zero concern there. By birthday paradox it's about as good as 128-bit UUID generated without using a cen
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
> By "scalable" I assume you mean "centralized". Yes, at scale it has to be. Google has hundreds of terabytes of data in their monorepo, you can't check out it all! Historically centralized used to be the norm -
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Nothing hacked about it. They rewrote it completely, keeping just the interface for compatibility. Perforce scales very well but still has a single server at its core - at some point no matter how much money google threw at that machine (i
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
That's a non-issue for scalable version control systems they use - perforce and now its in-house replacement (piper). Gamedev companies LOVE perforce because it scales, they keep game assets in it and those can be huge.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
AWS is ridiculously expensively at their scale, both for storage and egress. But the choice is not only between that and building a staffed on-premise storage facility. You can compromise at a middle ground - rent a bunch of VPS/manage
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Steaming pile of rubbish. I fetched £300k+ offers from several relatively well-known London HFTs. For a regular SWE IC role at the bottom of firm hierarchy, not a quant, so I'm sure far from best paid at each of them. Not a single on
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Conditionally-off blocks of code under #ifdefs are challenging for it, yes - it runs a proper C++ compiler on your code and won't get to see code in those blocks without the right defines. Don't blindly apply its suggestions - tes
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
iwyu is Google's project originally. It has worked for them for more than a decade on their ginormous monorepo. Sometimes it gets some things wrong, so you have these escape hatches to control it: https://github.com/inc
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
No product-market fit. Your target audience (FOSS enthusiasts?) does NOT like paying for software.
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Buzzcuts are trivial: buy a hair trimmer, set guard to whatever length you want and go. Maybe a bit tricky to finish the back of your head, ensuring uniform cut there. I'm using a corded USB webcam to check the progress as I'm cut
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
What a way to celebrate 50 years of FTP https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc114
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
> Being a self taught software developer who has been programming since I was 12, I had no idea how to reverse a binary tree. I fail to see the link between the premise and conclusion here. I'm also largely self taught and been pro
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Pretty known phenomenon "Colorizing with neural networks traditionally produce dull colors as the model minimize its loss by producing average colors that end up in the brown area" ( https://wandb.ai/site/artic
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Get out of your bubble. There's a whole world outside of Bay Area/NYC, where $150-200k/y is still a batshit crazy amount of money and $1M can last you happily ever after, even with kids. Accumulating $1-2M NW is totally withi
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
UK actually has something they call point system for work visas, but it is nearly a joke, pointless bureaucracy. Job on shortage occupation (SWE), 25k+ salary (a pittance in London) and certified knowledge of some basic English is all you n
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Find a job, get hired, spend the necessary time in the country and enjoy your new first world PR/passport. Works for most countries even at 40+, no? Point-based immigration systems don't matter when you've got a job waiting f
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
> What is the return-time between a ping (or similar) from the BBC to you and back? If it's over a certain number of microseconds, you're 'no longer in Kansas, Toto'. High latency can be legitimately expected over mob
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
You can't spoof IP and yet hope to receive a reply back at your (or your VPN server's) current IP. That's just not how networking works. You need to brush up on TCP/IP fundamentals. Even spoofing for unidirectional commu
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
I suppose they detecting that you're using a VPN and equate that fact with you being a non-UK user. The same databases that allow you to resolve geoip location typically also would get you ASN for free and then you can try to filter ou
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by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Agree on pay, especially after taxes. But immigrant hate isn't quite true. At least it depends where you go, e.g. Berlin is extremely multicultural and tolerant. But your experience in a small farmer village may be different.

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