smiths1999

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by smiths1999 5y ago
Maybe they are getting tired of arrogant older programmers assuming they cannot possibly be wrong. God forbid a 25 year old might actually have a good idea (and I am far removed from my 20s). Maybe having S3 redundancy wasn't the most
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by smiths1999 5y ago
Many people (myself included) that get PhDs simply love learning. Solving problems is important but for some there is this inner drive to need to learn and master everything. It doesn't preclude solving problems, but it's the acqu
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by smiths1999 5y ago
In my experience, people that cheat in games like this typically do it to get an edge over everyone else in the lobby. It's not the cheating itself they enjoy but the winning. If everyone in the lobby has the same advantage I doubt the
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by smiths1999 5y ago
Or they changed their mind (which they are entitled to do).
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by smiths1999 5y ago
I disagree. Studying algorithms and data structures is not at all like memorizing integral solution formulas. People who are good at these types of problems generally do the same steps: 1. What is the class of problem I am dealing with? (e.
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by smiths1999 5y ago
I always thought "serverless" referred to AWS Lambda style services. Recently I saw it used to refer to cloud computing. Is this a common interpretation? It really took me by surprise.
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by smiths1999 5y ago
I teach at the university level and this is what I have done with my exams. Everything is open book and in my experience there is no difference in the average exam score between open book online and closed (or open) book in person. It is al
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by smiths1999 6y ago
It wasn't clear to me that the other comments were starting from "know how to code," which is why I made my comment. If OP spends time honing their coding abilities then by all means learning more about git is a great plan. I
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by smiths1999 6y ago
Hmm - that is surprising since I specifically mention I work in industry (and have for quite some time). It sounds from your post like you may do front-end work. I work primarily on distributed systems for machine learning, so I can't
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by smiths1999 6y ago
I'm sure many will come down hard on my comment and disagree. But speaking as someone who teaches at a university and also works in industry and is involved in hiring, I don't think becoming an expert in git is worth your time. At
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by smiths1999 6y ago
Integrating rg and fzf into vim changed my programming life. I find that combo pretty incredible and something I haven't found in IntelliJ. I usually find myself switching back to my shell and then back to IntelliJ.
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by smiths1999 6y ago
I am not a "TLA+ promoter" but think it is a very valuable tool for anyone building distributed systems. The value of TLA+ is that it forces you to carefully consider your algorithm, which is certainly important if the algorithm i
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by smiths1999 6y ago
Doesn't blaze build remotely via citc? I thought files were loaded locally for editing but built remotely.
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by smiths1999 6y ago
I don't disagree, but this goes both ways (and I typically only see one side of this argument put forward). They also allow the person who designed the types to make the types so complex that the average user cannot understand what is
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by smiths1999 6y ago
Well I was actually thinking of quickselect, but regardless I was too quick to post. Quickselect is O(n) average time (as you pointed out).
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by smiths1999 6y ago
They are probably thinking of simply going through the list and tracking the top 3. This gives you linear time but as you noted you can go faster with quickselect (edit: I originally mistakenly wrote selection sort despite thinking of quick
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by smiths1999 7y ago
This has happened to me several times, albeit at a much smaller scale. I fire up a few GPU instances for training neural networks and when I got to shut the instances down I forget that you always need to refresh the instance page before te
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by smiths1999 7y ago
I expect the 13" will eventually move to a 14" similar to the 15 -> 16 change.
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by smiths1999 7y ago
These are all legitimate issues and would certainly have me looking for another job, but I think to say these "instill fear" trivializes truly fearful situations. Being an immigrant using a coyote to cross the border into the US s
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by smiths1999 7y ago
I really like this but I wish they included some performance numbers. How does training and inference speed compare to TensorFlow or PyTorch?
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by smiths1999 7y ago
But the search revenue comes from ads. Or are you merely pointing out that search ad revenue is the largest piece of total ad revenue? To be honest, I don't understand how everyone can remember the "quality" of their Google s
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by smiths1999 7y ago
Yes - the comment you are replying to is making the point that revenue may be $500,000 (extrapolated) but if server costs are $1,000,000 then the app is losing money, not making money. I see this trend quite frequently, only mentioning reve
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by smiths1999 7y ago
I think it's reasonable for a company to react as if they are currently breaking a law even if they are unsure. I'm not saying this is what IEEE did, but in general if leadership thinks a certain activity _may_ possibly be breakin
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by smiths1999 8y ago
I have a 3rd gen Lenovo Carbon X1 and absolutely love it. I am coming from a late 2016 MBP touchbar which I can't stand to use anymore because of the keyboard issues (which I encountered twice, my mom has encountered, and my brother in
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by smiths1999 8y ago
I have had this issue, my mom has had the issue, and so has my brother in law. I ended up buying a used X1 Carbon on ebay and throwing Ubuntu on it. It will probably be a long time before I buy a MBP as my main dev machine after this fiasco
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by smiths1999 9y ago
Sure if the company gives a long assignment that takes several hours or more, that is reasonable. But I do not expect to be compensated for an hour long assessment/assignment - that seems ridiculous. If a candidate asked for compensati
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by smiths1999 9y ago
I find this attitude frustrating. It seems like a constant on sites like reddit and HN is a strong disdain for the algorithmic question style technical interview. Some companies take note and switch up the interview process and ask real wor