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by valbaca 4y ago
They must've meant Layer 7 / Application Layer. There is no Layer 8 in OSI model (unless they're talking about a different model)
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by valbaca 4y ago
> there's no way to do a "cracking the system design interview" the way you can with coding problems I'd disagree: - System Design Interview – An insider's guide: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/
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by valbaca 4y ago
Rust has Option which you opt-into for cases like the one you describe. What's special is that it's not like Go/Java/JS/etc where *every* pointer/reference can be null, so you have to constantly be on guard for
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by valbaca 4y ago
This is the "The Rust Book": https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ Affectionally known as "the book"
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by valbaca 4y ago
(This just happened last week) Name & Shame: Storm two dot com recruitment I recently interviewed with a startup. The tech and mission aligned great with my interests. I interviewed with them and it was a beautiful fit. I was super happ
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by valbaca 4y ago
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.
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by valbaca 4y ago
Sounds like you want GWT then? https://www.gwtproject.org/
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by valbaca 4y ago
> 1. At some level of software complexity, programmers MUST start to organize data into composite objects. They have to do this because working outside of well-defined problem domains is a recipe for buggy software and spaghetti code. Ri
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by valbaca 4y ago
The book linked at the bottom is a treasure trove of bitwise fun: "Hackers Delight" https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Henry-Warren/dp/0...
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by valbaca 4y ago
Sounds like it. Other alternatives: - general paranoia - Persecutory delusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion - Victim playing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_playing
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by valbaca 4y ago
macOS, iTerm, Menlo Menlo isn't the perfect font, but it's good enough and I wasted way too much time trying to find the perfect font. So to force myself from fiddling with fonts, I just stick with Menlo (This is also the same rea
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by valbaca 4y ago
Someone had fun in the Abstract for one of the papers: "To obtain bullet-proof evidence for a true reactive advantage, we investigated willed and reactive movements during a cooperative interaction of two participants." HAR HAR &q
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by valbaca 4y ago
Who wrote this??
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by valbaca 4y ago
from what I can tell, the NodeJS server was a trivial example of the customer's server, not their implementation. they take in docker containers
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by valbaca 4y ago
less "cheatsheet" and more just general notes for languages and vim and such: https://github.com/valbaca/notes
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by valbaca 4y ago
tldr is one of the best things to happen to the command line
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by valbaca 4y ago
Simple: React Native
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by valbaca 4y ago
Honestly I love the “Saved by the Bell” high neon colors. Just tired of the same website templates used by every single startup.
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by valbaca 4y ago
Can't wait to end my next system design with "just buy more servers. scaling isn't really that hard."
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by valbaca 4y ago
That's exactly how I frame my technical interviews as well. I only pick questions which I could tie to an actual, real-world problem that we've had. A couple for example: 1. Given a set of number ranges (e.g. [1..3, 4..5, 9..20, 2
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by valbaca 4y ago
> Strange. EcmaScript/JavaScript kind of adds like 5-6 features every year. Python. C on the other hand is great. Those languages have also been around long enough for the new language features to "cool down". Rust was als
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by valbaca 4y ago
Whether to pass in a single dict/object/map/assoc-list or individually separated arguments is a tale as old as LISP (JS has some FP roots if you squint hard enough) and most LISPs (and JS has started doing this as well) mitig
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by valbaca 4y ago
JS Bounceback is configured specifically for HN and lobster
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by valbaca 4y ago
Interesting how Clojure takes the complete opposite approach by simply making dicts immutable. https://chasemerick.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/choosingtype...
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by valbaca 4y ago
100% agreed. The "What is up everybody..." and "...and I'll see you...in the next course" bookends get so tiresome
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by valbaca 4y ago
I can assure you there absolutely are. When you need to handle billions of requests a day (like a worldwide seller must), then it works.
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by valbaca 4y ago
> I like Deno in principle, but I'd love to see how Slack, Github and Netlify are using it. Slack: "Run on Slack" Netlify: "Netlify Edge Functions" They're both listed in the Showcase: https://den
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by valbaca 4y ago
I'm very much in the same boat. I'm in my mid-30s. Been doing Java for 10 years. I'm finally catching my stride and feeling like I'm really mastering it and suddenly we're building services with Typescript because w
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by valbaca 4y ago
Post the salary range. It's 2022, you can't just say "Benefits and salary are good " That is absolutely meaningless. You're wanting ~6hrs investment (30 call, 1hr interview, and 4hr+ assignment) for an offer? NO tha
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by valbaca 4y ago
Fantastically put and exactly the same experience I've had. They're entirely preying on the "talking about money is taboo" that exists in our culture and it only ever benefits them. We have to all collectively (or throug

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