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by romanhn 3y ago
It would be interesting to know how quickly an unprotected computer would succumb to a virus these days. The only sources I found are quite old - from 2005[0] (20 minutes) and 2007[1] (8 seconds!). [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news
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by romanhn 3y ago
Pretty sure it's this: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0240539/ Has a Wikipedia page with the full movie embedded! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_Sensation
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by romanhn 3y ago
I'm continuously fascinated by the caliber of people on HN. David Graeber had an account as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgraeber
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by romanhn 3y ago
I built a React SSR app on Vite using Vike ( https://vike.dev ), it worked well enough for my simple needs. Best part was I was able to easily reuse a bunch of components from the primary React SPA app that lives side-by-side in t
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by romanhn 3y ago
You can do this by either hitting the favorite link or simply upvoting. History of both is retained in your profile (difference being that favorites are publicly visible).
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This is incorrect, they absolutely do Leetcode and Leetcode is full of questions cribbed from FAANGs.
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I'm working on https://rolepad.com - a platform for managing your job search (rather than searching for jobs directly).
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Presumably their role is not to sit in meetings all week and there are actual expectations of delivery. If you just shrug your shoulders and tell your manager nothing got done again because too many people booked meetings with you - don&#x2
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FB employees used to be able to help with these types of requests, but unfortunately some time ago they changed their policy and an employee may only help their relatives or close friends, and must personally vouch on their behalf (this was
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Interesting to see this here right after finishing six of his novels. My takeaway is that Egan clearly is a talented scientist, a man of unique ideas, and not a very good writer. The books are an excuse to go into scientific minutiae, with
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by romanhn 3y ago
I glanced at the two links you shared and I wouldn't call those architectures boring, in fact they're quite involved. "I personally can't even answer with confidence what a single reasonably fat server can handle" -
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HN is built on Arc, a dialect of Lisp and runs on a single box. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379
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Foundation series is my favorite. Read the Robot and then the Empire series by Asimov which are all set in the same universe as Foundation. Not as good, but there will be some pleasant surprises. Dune and sequels by Frank Herbert are the ne
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by romanhn 3y ago
Base62 is fantastic for URL-friendly encoding. I use GUIDs for primary keys in my web app, and encode them for frontend consumption using Base62. Looks much neater and doesn't cause issues like Base64 extra characters might.
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by romanhn 3y ago
Worked at a company that used this pattern about 15 years ago. We had a homebuilt ORM that codegen'ed these stored procs. If I recall, stored procedures were faster than straight up SQL at one point, but that hasn't been true for
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by romanhn 3y ago
"Why would anyone hand code a website?" - a FrontPage user in the 90s
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PagerDuty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758653
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Microsoft's anti-Linux Matrix spoof(youtube.com)
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This was shown during the 2003 Comdex trade show. Sadly, the full version has never been released. Hilarious look at Microsoft's attitudes at that time towards open source. There are a bunch of other spoofs they made, but this one stuc
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I was using it for my project because the workflows required access to VPC resources (the database, etc). It worked... ok. There would be times when the runner didn't start, or parallel runs would not work, felt a bit random. Possibly
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How is inheritance baggage? If you don't need it, don't use it. Not sure I understand the aversion to OOP.
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I wouldn't worry about it. There are tons of reasons for lack of response that are more likely than this kind of backchannelling, i.e. the tough job market, and end of year (new reqs likely to open in January). And fear of legal conseq
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The first and last step for so many projects :)
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"Still practicing" is as good an answer as any
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Continuing to hack on https://rolepad.com , a free job application tracking app. Currently working on the employer side to allow greater visibility into application status for both parties and hopefully lead to less ghosting.
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Another favorite bug investigation of you're into this sort of thing: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/the-discovery-of-apache-zooke...
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Depends on perspective I suppose. Lots of people in Russia, for instance, feel this way about Gorbachev. Putin even denied him a state funeral.
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At the risk of sounding like a broken record, but "use what you already know" is almost always the right answer for these types of questions (especially since I didn't see "learn new tech" on the list of priorities)
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We must have seen different movies, because this one didn't showcase any of his genius. Instead, they opted to show an unambitious little man (not talking about his height) whose fortunes are pushed forward by others rather than himsel
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I agree with you as far as inactive accounts go, but these TOS terms are typically targeting accounts that are in violation of some rules. Did you experience this or are you worried it might happen? I've usually been notified way in ad

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