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by stmw 1y ago
Fun aside - Oklo is also the name of a successful YC company that makes a passively-safe nuclear reactor - https://www.oklo.com
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by stmw 1y ago
We agree - this is why programming interviews - whiteboard, virtual or something else - are here to stay.
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by stmw 1y ago
Yes, I have used a linked list in a company setting, both in writing code and in technically leading things where understanding the behavior of linked lists vs arrays was important. But again, it's not the only criteria in these kinds
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by stmw 1y ago
So I agree with both things you said here - besides filtering those that can't code at all, you learn a lot by working through the problem with the candidate. And vice-versa. "30 minutes to bash their head against a problem"
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by stmw 1y ago
I think it paints part of a picture - obviously you shouldn't hire just based on top score in an algorithmic interview. But if I interview someone for a JOB WRITING CODE with decades of experience and they refuse to write code and can&
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by stmw 1y ago
I think we may have disagreement on what Leetcode means in this context -- but it has to be complicated and varied enough that simply memorizing the solution is not sufficient. It being interesting is a bonus for other parts of the technica
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by stmw 1y ago
You are not the only one. I've interviewed probably 1000's of engineers and it is striking how often one runs into candidates that can't code... or ones that operate at a level far below what you would expect.
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by stmw 1y ago
Here is why I think these kinds of dynamic pricing practices are bad: it may be perfectly fair and legal, but it forces a non-negligible number of humanity to waste time and/or energy to figure out if it's happening, how to work a
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Kevin Cheng – four hearts in three days, the only one that worked was artificial(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by stmw 1y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 2y ago
This is a very good read and excellent in that we hope everyone knows about these things -- how computers actually work and how efficient and simple things can be -- but some readons probably don't, and this wonderfully accessible writ
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Deep-dive dinners are the norm for tuna and swordfish, MIT oceanographers find(news.mit.edu)
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by stmw 2y ago
Great post. BTW, there is an (earlier) example of Snow Leopard in the Microsoft ecosystem -- that would be Windows XP, which similarly avoided major new subsystems and new applications built-into-the-OS, but was remarkably fast and stable f
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List of Germans Relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by stmw 2y ago|1 comments
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by stmw 2y ago
I think the real point of the article is a job of occupation (even just writing code to support analog design work), not necessarily going all the way back to the wonders of using analog computers. But that's a very cool story.. do you
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Maybe coders should learn to love analog? (2024)(planetanalog.com)
42 points by stmw 2y ago|56 comments
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by stmw 2y ago
Really? I had no ideal System76 was a rebrand..
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by stmw 2y ago
Oh, the dreaded WinModems! And other Linux-incompatible hardware. To help with this research of which hardware would work there were several dedicates sites that attempted to collect info from Linux users on which drivers to use, etc. It&#x
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by stmw 2y ago
This is a really important difference
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by stmw 2y ago
My bad, dang just pointed this out as well: Discussed at the time (of the article): The early days of Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35557848 - April 2023 (224 comments) I just came across it and
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by stmw 2y ago
Indeed, he is part of the Swedish minority in Finland... I thought everyone (on HN) already knew that?
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by stmw 2y ago
Indeed, this is really interesting question about Linux and Linus in the early days - it obviously wasn't just the price of the alternatives or the overall concept of ~Unix-on-x86 - there was something different about Linus Torvalds&#x
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The creator of DOS, Tim Paterson [video](youtube.com)
3 points by stmw 2y ago|0 comments
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The early days of Linux (2023)(lwn.net)
463 points by stmw 2y ago|136 comments
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by stmw 2y ago
Great bug story!
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by stmw 2y ago
Ref: WM Keck foundation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Myron_Keck
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First Fast Radio Burst Traced to Old, Dead, Elliptical Galaxy(keckobservatory.org)
2 points by stmw 2y ago|1 comments
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High-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool(news.mit.edu)
2 points by stmw 2y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 2y ago
This book mostly teaches things that I don't think AI can... But also -- seemingly-silly things can help build foundation for more human learning. Multiplication tables seemed to have an important role for centuries -- they don't
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by stmw 2y ago
This book is definitely the opposite of "grind leetcode", fwiw.
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by stmw 2y ago
10/10 ! :)

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