tmoertel

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by tmoertel 7mo ago
> "What number am I thinking of?" I don't think this is a good interview question, but I do think it is interesting as a thought exercise. I bet that perhaps 25% of candidates could actually answer the question correctly
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by tmoertel 7mo ago
That's certainly one way of interpreting what I wrote. My point was that potential employers are not blind to what you put out in the public space. If what you put out would cause a reasonable employer to have questions about your viab
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by tmoertel 7mo ago
> the first interview should be plenty screening for both parties Most good companies will interview you multiple times simply because they understand that individual interviewers can be biased. If five different people all say hire this
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by tmoertel 7mo ago
I wasn't suggesting arbitrary filtering. That's a straw-man interpretation of what I wrote. Even if a firm cargo-cult copies the screening practices of the big-tech firms, they are going to be much better at selecting good hires t
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by tmoertel 7mo ago
I'm sorry you had such a bad interviewing experience. You asked for feedback in your blog post, and since your blog doesn't allow comments, I hope you won't mind my responding here. You wrote something that I think is untrue
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by tmoertel 7mo ago
> Getting a lot of applications that don't meet your standard doesn't force you to raise you[r] bar. You still just need someone who meets your standard. I'm not sure that first sentence true. Let me play Devil's advo
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by tmoertel 7mo ago
Unless that 30-second stupid joke is what gets the audience to take your request seriously. Sometimes people will help you when you don't come across like a self-interested corporate tool.
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by tmoertel 8mo ago
> I am very anti black and yellow tubs. Would you mind sharing more about these tubs and why you are against them?
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by tmoertel 8mo ago
My favorite is the Versatackle Knot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatackle_knot
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by tmoertel 9mo ago
> When you get bullied in American public schools for being a "nerd" and liking science and math, your country doesn't exactly produce a lot of state-of-the-art STEM professionals. You get a small handful of exceptional pe
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by tmoertel 9mo ago
What changes have you noticed?
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The Fourth Power Law(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by tmoertel 9mo ago|0 comments
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by tmoertel 9mo ago
Unicomp, which inherited the IBM Model M tooling, still makes a keyboard with a trackpoint: https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Cate...
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by tmoertel 9mo ago
> There's nothing wrong with this choice [to work extra hours to get promoted]. But if there are limited slots for promotion, and that's generally always the case, the resulting competition among deserving engineers makes the e
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
What is the point you're trying to make? I claimed that Binary Provenance was important to organizations such as Google where it is important to know exactly what has gone into the artefacts that have been deployed into production. Y
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
> If it is a vulnerability stemming from libc, then every single binary has to be re-linked and redeployed, which can lead to a situation where something has been accidentally left out due to a unaccounted for artefact. The whole point o
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
You joke, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Mediaeval (Note that this font predates Donald Trump's rise.)
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
One reason is that using static binaries greatly simplifies the problem of establishing Binary Provenance, upon which security claims and many other important things rely. In environments like Google’s it's important to know that what
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I believe that the history of English language usage is replete with examples such as "X times less than" when X > 1, but similar constructions for X <= 1 do not appear with appreci
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
No, it does not conform. As I wrote earlier, I have not seen that usage for less than 100%. So 600% conforms; 50% does not. That is, expressions like "twice as slow/thin/short/..." or "2x as slow/thin&#x2F
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
Sorry, I thought that my answer to the second question was implied by my answer to the first question. To answer your question, no, it would not be pedantic to question that claim. It conforms to no common usage that I am aware of.
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
> Does that logic apply only when the claimed cut is over 100%? Yes, I’d say. It’s the same as the informal usage of “X times smaller” to describe scaling by 1/X. The idiom generally isn’t used unless X > 1. (The exception might
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
Regarding this error: > like repeating they decreased drugs price by 600% The NYT and other media outlets like to point out that this claim is mathematically impossible. However, “cut prices by 600%” is understood perfectly well by most
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
Similarly, quick select with random pivots runs in expected linear time. For a proof of this, see https://github.com/tmoertel/practice/blob/master/dailycoding...
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by tmoertel 10mo ago
> This seems like an inherently terrible way to look for a story to report. But it’s probably a great way create a story to generate clicks. The people who respond to calls like this one are going to come from the extreme end of the di
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
I think author's use of the word "the" is misleading: > You don’t need every job to choose you. You just need the one that’s the right fit. [emphasis mine] You don't need the job that's the right fit. There&#
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
I will offer a second positive but more reserved data point. It took me closer to a day to get my custom Bazzite build working. Switching over to my images using bootc failed because of what I eventually tracked down to permissions issues t
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
> If the normal process leaves things like this to "some other time", one should start by fixing the process. Adding regular fixits is how they fix the normal process. This addition recognizes that most bug fixes do not move t
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
If you are interested in writing better commit messages on your own, Google's advice makes for a good starting point: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/cl-d...
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Indiana Pi Bill(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by tmoertel 11mo ago|0 comments

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