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by umbs 9y ago
LWN has an enterprise subscription model (I think). I work for Hewlett Packard and login using corporate account. The enterprise model is not well advertised/known. Just saying so if someone here wants to get their company to subscribe
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by umbs 9y ago
Slightly related: NPR's Planet Money ran a show called "Spreadsheets" that gives brief history of Spreadsheets. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/17/528807590/epis... Th
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by umbs 9y ago
Technically, this question is perhaps solved long back, but still. At a very high level, how is this implemented? I assume following is happening: 1) Camera is connected to our home WiFi and streams video to a server on Amazon cloud, tied t
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by umbs 9y ago
"A 2016 study by economists and Uber data experts found that when Uber alerted passengers that fares had doubled - part of Uber's older "surge pricing" scheme - ride purchases immediately fell by about 40 percent."
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by umbs 9y ago
I can attest to OPs observation. Earlier in the day, I left detailed reasons for Ericsson's decline and laying off 25000 people. Main observation is: Networking is getting commoditized. I too have spent whole career writing C code and
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by umbs 9y ago
I worked for Ericsson for 8 years in San Jose office. All your observations are accurate. I can't say about Ericsson's wireless products, but from IP networking, here are few more things: 1) Market & Competition: As mentioned
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by umbs 9y ago
For past 2 years, I have interacted with Directors a bit more and following stood out among the Directors I like. 1) Clarity in vision and ability to articulate it to the team is very important. 2) Engineers will zone out if you sprinkle sa
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by umbs 9y ago
If whiteboarding is not for you, this list was on HN few weeks back. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards CircleCI is in there too.
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by umbs 9y ago
Well said. This knowledge is "out of the way" and with effort can be gained. I work in networking industry (as software dev). Think Juniper, Cisco, Brocade etc. This industry needs only C devs.
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by umbs 9y ago
Genuine question. How does one acquire (and retain) this depth of knowledge. I work on low-level system software (C programming). Having good understanding of build system (make, cmake), dependencies and shared library knowledge is highly d
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by umbs 10y ago
I don't think the H1-B abuse is straightforward. IMO, many institutions (private and government) are deeply entangled in this. 1. There are many poor universities promising MS degrees in CS (here in California, there's Silicon Val
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by umbs 10y ago
This is very valuable advise. Caffeine has a half life of 6 hours. It takes a long time to completely get rid off from body. It plays critical role is preventing quality sleep (even if you go to bed on time). Following podcast on Caffeine b
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by umbs 10y ago
In recent past (6 months or so), I spoke to few people who were hired by AmaFaceGooSoft companies. The rigor and hours that people are putting to get in to these (or similar) companies is astounding. There are numerous startup training peop
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by umbs 10y ago
Unfortunately, the tool linked from that page (it's archived) can't be downloaded.
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by umbs 10y ago
"1080p @ 60 Hz = 1920x1080x60x3 => ~370 MB/sec of raw data." I apologize if this is trivial. What does 1920 in above equation represent?
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by umbs 10y ago
IMO, this is a very clear summary of major MOOCs available for us today. I have taken courses on all the above MOOC offerings and completed courses to varying degrees. For a Software professional, the rigor in increasing order is: Udemy, Ud
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by umbs 10y ago
I did not actually get a job, but reached out to 3 companies (Robinhood.io, Intel and can't recall third one) and all of them responded. Robinhood.io (it was 3-4 years back). Got a coding challenge on HackerRank. I did horribly and o
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by umbs 10y ago
I used Latex extensively in Univ for thesis and publishing papers. Since then, I forgot that knowledge and am having hard time picking it up. However, I briefly used www.sharelatex.com, is a web GUI (or WYSIWYG) type approach to Latex. It&#
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by umbs 10y ago
Like with any BigCo, there are always bad apples (recruiters) and things slip through cracks. But compared to other similar sized companies, Google is quite focused on improving their interview processes. You can find lots of resources onli
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by umbs 10y ago
A recent thread on similar question, but for developers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651
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ITMO's How to Win Coding Competition Online Course Starting Today(courses.edx.org)
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by umbs 10y ago
From my experience, I agree with this. I interviewed at Google in 2014. I prepared extensively. However, I bombed the interview. The interviewers genuinely wanted to see how I think. I am not brightest guy around and couldn't provide g
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by umbs 10y ago
A quick glance indicates your tutorial is the right one for me. I'll follow it and update my personal site this weekend and perhaps provide you feedback?
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by umbs 10y ago
Since your goal is to clear interview at Google (or companies with similar interview style), I would recommend straight up interview preparation. I have recently found "Elements of Programming Interviews" [1]. For people with 5+ y
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by umbs 10y ago
"Autobiography of a Yogi" [1] - If you grew up with people doing Yoga and Meditation, or at least were exposed to these topics for some time, this book is a great window in that world. It is from a person who brought Meditation an
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by umbs 10y ago
"LWN articles are paywalled" It is paywalled for a short period (2 weeks??). After that, everyone can read their articles for free.
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by umbs 10y ago
In my case, there is lot of inefficiencies. I can easily cut down on few things (a) I spend time browsing emails while lying down (easily eats 30 mins per night). (b) No meetups in evenings. (c) Excuse from business meetings after a certai
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by umbs 10y ago
Agree with all three, but #2 for me has now become the very important due an incident last week. I pulled an all nighter and next day rear ended a vehicle near a traffic signal because I dozed off for a second. The impact was minimal and no
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by umbs 10y ago
I do not have reference handy, but recently read (on HN itself, I guess) that there is lot of interest among programmers living in "limited-opportunity" places in India to work on Bug Bounty programs. Obviously, one reason is tim
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by umbs 10y ago
I viewed classes from all three mentioned above and found Prof Sedwick's classes to be very structured and to my style/liking. Prof. Roughgarden is "free flowing" and may require fast thinking to follow him. Prof Demaine

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