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by strlen 15y ago
I recall pg mentioning that he would consider four founders to be too many (although, I am not sure it's a "hard" rule).
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by strlen 15y ago
> It's hard to start with a technical ability and find a startup opportunity. That is how we decided to start Quantcast - we had a spreadsheet of business ideas that might leverage our technical backgrounds. But it's a difficult path. R
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by strlen 15y ago
> Data Size: 50GB I am sorry, to sound blunt, but that's an irrelevant data point. With a data set that fits comfortably into RAM (much less SSDs in RAID!), most any data store will work (including MySQL or Postgres). > Operation
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by strlen 15y ago
No, their government isn't full of crooks and thieves. It's far worse, the Iranian government sincerely believe that they're actually making their citizens' lives better by what they do. Material riches won't soothe them: Of all tyrann
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by strlen 15y ago
> For many idempotent operations, it seems likely the most fault-tolerant and latency-optimizing pattern is to ask multiple endpoints concurrently - take the first to respond, and discard or terminate the duplicates (and if one fails, s
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by strlen 15y ago
Edited appropriately. Please excuse my ignorance, then. I've only recent began looking at Rust, but I've been playing with Go for some time now. Will have to spend more time with Rust (if only there were more than 24 hours in a day...)
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by strlen 15y ago
I (shrug) enjoy programming in C++11 and like many concepts in it. However, there are concepts in Go and Rust that are salient and stand on their own: typeclasses in Go and Rust (concepts, unfortunately, were left out of C++11), rust making
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by strlen 15y ago
I also went to a school nobody has heard of, but haven't really had issues getting job offers straight out of school (or for that matter, an internship while a high school student). Of course, as you've said, once you have some industry exp
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City could shut down Hacker Dojo(mv-voice.com)
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by strlen 15y ago
> You are a senior software development lead at an A-list firm ... you “don’t have the opportunity to write code these days” Perhaps, we should revise the list of A-list firms to exclude those where it's impossible to advance without st
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by strlen 15y ago
How many programming languages do you use? :-) Just like we use Python, Java, Scala, etc... where each is appropriate, we also use different databases where appropriate. Each system serves a need. We also use off the shelf databases, where
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6.S184 - Zombies drink caffeinated 6.001(web.mit.edu)
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by strlen 15y ago
It's been seven years since I've taken an algorithm course, but I have a generic (assuming nothing about the input data other than it doesn't fit in a single machine's main memory and is uniformly distributed) solution in my head as well as
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by strlen 15y ago
> My guess is the vast majority of the talent Google has gotten through acquisitions would have failed miserably going through Google's traditional hiring process. I don't believe that's the case. What I've seen with talent acquisitions
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by strlen 15y ago
Just to clarify, ITA's puzzles weren't all of mathematical / algorithmic tricks variety. I did one of them just for fun 3-4 years ago: "implement a scalable multi-user chat server without using a framework like Netty/ACE/EventMachine". Unf
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by strlen 15y ago
I'm from Belarus myself, moved to United States when I was 13 with my family. Be careful though, to immigrate to the United States on an H1 (work visa), you need a university degree. I'd suggest either trying to immigrate to Europe (any EU
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by strlen 15y ago
Rather than chime in on usefulness of college for learning programming (a reductionist way to look at it), I'll take another approach. A strong CS program in a university (e.g., one of the top-20 for CS, which is actually very a different l
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by strlen 15y ago
Lot of interesting material, but I take exception to this: For example, alums of a university tend to use the same jargon, think similarly, know the same programming languages, etc.. They will communicate naturally and are
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by strlen 15y ago
Congratulations. You will enjoy what you do at Google, and if a short/easy commute is what you're after, you'll like New York.
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by strlen 15y ago
1) Don't prematurely optimize for salary, your market value increases vastly by having worked for Google. In addition, the bonus and RSUs have actual value, and you'll undoubtedly get raises if you think your initial offer was bad. 2) I'd h
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by strlen 15y ago
Honestly, this sounds horrifying. Yahoo (which everyone uses as a "poster child" of Silicon Valley company losing people) is orders of magnitude better than this in terms of projects, management, compensation and getting rid of bozos. E.g.,
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by strlen 15y ago
Definitely wouldn't use it. Even for server-side Java, there are better templating engine. I am not a web developer, so I am not fully qualified to speak, but in cases where I've needed templating, I've found Apache Velocity and Freemarket
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by strlen 15y ago
Do keep in mind that LinkedIn was founded in 2003, before many of the web frameworks were released. LinkedIn also uses a custom JSP compiler, as at the time the official implementation lacked many feature.
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by strlen 15y ago
Why did you truncate a size_t to an int?
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by strlen 15y ago
Facebook does use Java (entire Hadoop infrastructure, HBase deployments, likely more), Haskell (AST manipulation, afaik), OCaml (with a fairly interesting library for static analysis: https://github.com/facebook/pfff ), C++, and C (fairly
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by strlen 15y ago
What's really disgusting in the conversation is that there's some implicit assumption that it was _wrong_ for the Google Chef to have received $20mm. Indeed, the only thing wrong with that is that $20mm is far too little, given the Chef's c
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by strlen 15y ago
I want to work on challenging problems that have a real world impact. Right now, I personally thinking that building distributed data infrastructure is such a problem. If I were to start or join a small web/business software startup chances
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by strlen 15y ago
[ First off: I'm a committer on Project Voldemort, a Dynamo-style distributed data store ] First, Riak is excellent. I can only say positive things about it as well as the folks that work on it. Re: "store for unimportant data". I'll go bey
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by strlen 15y ago
This is completely believable, if you take into account the bonus and the RSUS. Suppose the actual salary is $130k and 30% (at least that's what I heard bonus): that already brings his salary up to $169k. Now add RSUs: over the last five ye
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by strlen 15y ago
What, if any of these, make sense to a mid-level C developer: read K&R inside and out, had a bit of code in the kernel, worked on a major "C+", i.e., "C with classes" project? The only one of these I own are "Mastering Algorithms with C

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