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by sho 9y ago
These kinds of surveys are notoriously unreliable. There is no way for the interviewer to verify, no penalty for the participant lying, and you're talking to a complete stranger over the phone, further reducing the barrier for lying. T
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by sho 9y ago
> In Australia [..] it is not a great experience I am certain that almost all the issues you experienced are due to the chain from the plane to your house - mainly customs, who are the laziest, most incompetent stereotypical govt employe
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by sho 9y ago
The Amazon supply chain is fantastic indeed. And the end-user experience can be astounding. I'm in Singapore and am thinking about ordering a standing desk from the USA. Delivery is free in 7-9 days. The desk cost $200. At any other c
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Ask HN: Who's the best standalone DNS provider in 2018?
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by sho 9y ago
mtr aka mytraceroute. Available on homebrew if you're on osx
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by sho 9y ago
Interesting, mine is bad too. From singtel: Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. 192.168.1.254 0.0% 75 1.3 1.6 1.1 14
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by sho 9y ago
Well thank you but actually you are right. Pilots are NOT paid rest. Per regulation they can work 1000 hours per year and they will ensure this is fully utilised. Airlines cannot just hire and not use pilots or, of course, they will jump sh
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by sho 9y ago
> A 747 fits about 400 passengers and only needs 2 pilots It needs many more than that. Depending on the workload it could be 10 or more per plane. Consider a daily shuttle between LAX-NRT, a 11h40m flight. This will usually require 3 pi
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by sho 9y ago
> I guess that's why we're sitting in different camps. Indeed, doesn't mean I don't want to hear the other side's point of view though! Open source is not going to save them. They have one main problem - how to t
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by sho 9y ago
If this didn't convince you that VCs are, in fact, not smarter than you, nothing will. I actually had a bit of respect for a16z before this. Well, not anymore. "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" - the hard thing is going to b
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by sho 9y ago
> I’m pretty sure that the Golem team is doing something right I'm not at all convinced that the golem team have any particular insight to solve this obvious and common problem that everyone else doesn't have. And frankly I thi
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by sho 9y ago
How is their problem substantially different from this project? Apart of course from the overheard and complexity caused by trying to force what should probably just be a centralised service into a blockchain. Don't get me wrong, I thi
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by sho 9y ago
Saw a panel with the golem people just last night, and sure enough this question came up. The short answer is that they don't have a solution yet and IMO their thinking was no more advanced than what I'm seeing on this thread.
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by sho 9y ago
> many Vietnamese went to the US [..] they can see firsthand the benefits of living in the US This applies to many countries. Why does it specifically influence Vietnamese perceptions more? > Vietnamese are fiercely capitalistic This
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by sho 9y ago
Well, exactly. Their motivations are independence, security and self-determination - exactly what one might expect and qualities I'm sure most Americans would understand. Like most Powers, China doesn't have friends, it has intere
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by sho 9y ago
> Webpack 4 has been in beta for a while Perhaps the naming is sending the wrong message? "Beta" sounds incomplete and subject to change; I certainly don't make a habit of introducing betas to serious projects unless there
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by sho 9y ago
> the creator of Webpack, "Sokra," made $44,164 off of Webpack development in 2017 While I certainly welcome this new trend I wouldn't exactly call sub-45k "hefty". That's far below what the author could pre
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by sho 9y ago
It's all over the literature too. Hell, half of Three Body Problem, the darling of a few years ago, is actually about the Cultural Revolution. No spoilers but suffice to say that the poisoned seeds sown during the ruinous waste of the
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by sho 9y ago
> No wonder why China is fiercely anti-American What gives you this idea? I don't think Chinese policy is particularly anti-American. Sure, they're not a lap-dog like Japan, but I don't see their policy being informed by a
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by sho 9y ago
> try visiting Little Saigon on Bolsa Avenue in Orange Country > If you want to get assaulted [..] try bringing Vietnam's current flag and parade it around What a bizarre argument. Of course you're going to find pro-USA sent
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by sho 9y ago
> It's my last attempt. It's ok. Not everybody needs to understand everything. I asked you direct questions and you have answered none of them. Yes I am aware of what a blockchain is, to the finest detail. There is no need to r
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by sho 9y ago
Right. Can you give me an exact, explicit, description of exactly how use of blockchain would have prevented (eg) the oft-cited melamine milk poisoning scandal in China? > It's basically by-passing a lot of bureaucracy That bureaucr
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by sho 9y ago
> If you agree to a deal you must be getting some benefit out of it, right? Well I suppose they get to enjoy the benefit of not simply going out of business. The sharecropper working the land for his fief lord gets "some benefit&quo
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by sho 9y ago
> Compliance systems are another use case. E.G: make a public database of all plane inspections or food products origin. I feel like a broken record when I point out yet again that this is a technical non-solution to a human problem. The
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by sho 9y ago
> A great practical application are the CryptoKitties I am not sure if that is supposed to be sarcasm or not.
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by sho 9y ago
OK, agreed that's not the trivia I was talking about. Although honestly it sounds like you dodged a bullet, if anything your experience is even more ridiculous. Does this company make a habit of writing programs on whiteboards without
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by sho 9y ago
Well fair enough but I don't see the two qualities as being all that related. "Oh my god, production is down! Quick, someone tell me, from memory, the solution to the N Queens problem!!"
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by sho 9y ago
And it's ridiculous IMO. Any interview question that can be answered completely with 20 seconds of googling is useless. I've encountered a couple of these "obscure programming trivia" type questions before and each time
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by sho 9y ago
Good point! But in the other direction, don't forget that even those there's less "pixels" than expected from the sensor, there will be more than 10 bits per channel, typically 12 or 14. I shouldn't have said it&#x2
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by sho 9y ago
RAW format doesn't just mean an uncompressed image like a PNG. It's a direct readout from the sensor with minimal processing. It can be substantially larger than you'd expect just based on the resolution * bits per pixel.

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