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Fascinating. Haven't heard of these despite coding for 30 years. Probably because I started with Pascal.
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Been reading HN compulsively since 2009 or so. About ten years of Slashdot before then. HN is still my first go-to when I grab my phone, haven't noticed any changes in interest.
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I've accidentally dropped the key at the same time as slamming down the trunk. The key happened to fall into the groove that the trunk goes in, and the close button got pressed by the closing trunk. This was a fun one to explain to the
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Not alone, though the part that really got me was the volume - the vessel was still filled to the brim with 5 liters of liquid. Amazing job with sealing. I assume the glass composition of the urn helped prevent any adsorption.
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Personally, the Mona Lisa was entirely unimpressive in person. A rather small painting surrounded by a throng of tourists taking selfies with it. I did as well, of course.
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Once upon a time I had to track down an issue where very rarely, with no discernible pattern the web app would produce garbled PDFs. We would restart all servers, everything would be fine for a month or two, then random bad output. Turned o
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They're not wrong though? 10% is more late cofounder territory, you won't find anyone giving up so much equity for an early employee.
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At 10 employees the company is still incredibly risky. With this scheme you'll never grow past that size.
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Leetcode is not a means to learning best practices or going deep on some topic. It is a means to passing algorithmic interviews. Almost no leetcode "practitioners" will ever encounter the type of problems that require novel algori
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Hey, thanks for remembering! It's been slow-going, but I'm getting close to finishing the employer-side pre-MVP (table-stakes functionality that I can build upon later). For now pushing in the direction of improving upon the commu
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I really like the one I found for the job tracking platform I'm building: https://rolepad.com . Short, memorable and descriptive. In the past I owned the domain name matching my last name, but never ended up setting up email
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I assume they're referring to Section 174 changes. Here's a primer: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174
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Best part of Napster was searching for that one song you were interested in, and then looking through all of that user's shared files. It was an amazing discovery mechanism which I missed dearly with all the subsequent P2P apps. Spotif
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Very similar tech stack here, with all the same motivations. Biggest differences are I'm using RDS for the database and have a slightly different approach for serverless compute. I started out with Lambda, but the cold start times were
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I'm sorry to hear about this. Hiring manager perspective here. First of all, no, it's not a common practice to train on bad candidates specifically. I have never heard of this and it doesn't make sense to me. Given how many c
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Android Chrome here. Everything is as it has always been, perfectly usable.
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Not the earliest by any means, I joined the Internet (or, "surfed the information superhighway" as it were) in early '96. A few things come to mind: - Accessing web pages (specifically www.idsoftware.com) using listservs that
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You can absolutely host the entirety of your React code on a CDN - in fact, that's the preferred way of doing it. Node is used locally to generate the static resources needed by your app. There is also the server-side rendering approac
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So sad to hear about this. I remember his holiday help posts, they were very inspiring. A loss for the community, both here and at large.
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Looks like a Starlink launch is the most likely candidate: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-6-62
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Depends on what "something" is. When I was at FB, they were very clear that you can request account help internally only for your immediate family (and maybe closest friends, I forget) - you are, in essence, vouching for them with
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by romanhn 2y ago
Another vote for The Power Broker. A fascinating, if daunting, book.
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No argument here, it definitely required some effort. I'm also listening to the plays in audiobook format, which presents its own unique challenges (e.g. deciphering which character is speaking).
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I read a lot of history, but many of the books are quite dry. A rare exception were the books by Dan Jones I recently read, on medieval England (The Plantagenets, The Wars Of Roses). I learned a bunch and sincerely enjoyed the process. His
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Found an interview with him from November 2023 ( https://runet.news/interview/50112 ). His name is Pavel Sannikov, is in his 30s, from Belarus. He's been working on it since 2018, entirely solo. Apparently spends 3-
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AI co-pilot for coding interviews(ultracode.ai)
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Not my product, but interesting enough to share. It's clearly intended to cheat on technical interviews. Interviewing is getting more broken by the hour.
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Memorizing a large amount of Greek and Latin word roots was my superpower when I was studying for the SATs. I could decipher a large chunk of words even if I've never seen them before.
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I used .NET for about ten years since v1.1. After an almost ten-year break I'm developing with it once again, and finding the ecosystem much improved and even more of a pleasure. Wouldn't bet against .NET and C# given the evolutio
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I assume the Corp Dev person will walk you through what the process will look like. Don't know much about the sales/bizdev world, guessing that's the area that'll make the most sense. CTO will likely be interviewing for

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