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Iterating via reference instead of copy in C++ is a great way to get a speed up with a one character change. I.e. changing for (const MyType v : collection) to for (const MyType& v…

This view ignores that energy can have a different cost in different locations, and that fuel is convenient due to its portable nature. Converting energy into fuel may be economica…

Thank you. Those were in cash, RSUs were separate. It is definitely very high, and I feel fortunate to have gotten it. Many of my fellow interns received similar signing bonuses on…

As a new grad from CMU undergrad, every offer I had came with a sign on bonus (n=5). Size ranged from 5k at a smaller public company to 75-100k at a couple of FAANG companies, one …

>I'm a member of a protected class [...] Technically speaking, we all are, no? We all have genders, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities? Of course you probably meant that you f…

I haven't found an academic source for this, but the suggestion is that even though triggers for fires may be unrelated, the scope and intensity of the fires are intensified due to…

I spent 4 months travelling throughout Spanish South America and some of my favorite cities where I would consider being a nomad were Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Medellín, and Valpar…

I've done quite a few phone screens with coding over the past few years, and the best solution I've found is a headset. Speakerphone means that the interviewer hears every key-stro…

Not that it detracts from your point, but the best offers I've seen for FB new grad are 115k salary, 270k/4 RSUs, and 100k signing, giving ~280k first year.

Probably, one day of lecture on the material would be useless. But the weekly homework assignments force you to develop a better understanding. I frequently remember topics, assign…

@pinboard for excellent snark + tech political activism

For such a "lingua franca" the pure number of speakers is not quite as relevant as the distribution of those speakers. According to the numbers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List…

I invest using mutual funds through Vanguard. Some percentage US stock fund, some percentage US bond fund, some percentage international stock, and some percentage international bo…

It's neither. All BarZapp does is read the barcode and check that it contains reasonable information and it formatted according to the standards. Vendors have figured out proper fo…

Teslin and PVC are still big, although some states are using polycarbonate as well. Real holograms got a lot easier. IDGod (among other vendors), apart from selling IDs, also sells…

I've been interested in this topic for a while. The article was fairly good but I did have a few minor quibbles. For one, ordering from IDGod (the vendor in the story) is known to …

A Github account for someone earning $500k is probably completely empty, or barely touched. When you're getting paid that much to program, typically your attention is less focused …

Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills is the de facto reference book for most serious mountaineers

The standard advice given to incoming CS students at my university who ask how they should prepare over the summer is typically "don't do any studying at all", in the sense that it…

Using the HyperLogLog algorithm to estimate the number of unique elements in huge datasets: http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinali... Very cool algorithm used…

I have no inside information, but I've bicycled past them on occasion and felt comfortable enough. Lots of friends posting about riding in them and the experience seems to have bee…

I don't have that information, and I perhaps was a little too strong in my phrasing. Nevertheless, if you're not confident that you fall at an E5 level when joining, there's a chan…

Average salary is about $170,000, RSU grant is somewhere between $260,000 - $300,000 over 4 years. Number of datapoints on that is somewhere between 20 and 40. Do note that if you'…

How many years of experience do you have? Salary is fairly tightly banded depending on your level E3 - E6+. You can estimate level based on description here: https://www.quora.com/…

What's even cooler, is that after building this VM (for the C0 language) as a freshman, you can come back as a junior/senior and write a compiler for that language in 15-411. It's …