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One thing that I've seen implemented to prevent that is to have the pay bands for level N and N+1 overlap. So in the time that you're doing "next level" work, you're expecting to b…

Shameless plug, but I wrote some blog posts because I had a lot of the same questions. In my case, I wanted to learn the WebGL APIs, so I wrote two posts: * https://avikdas.com/202…

I was thinking the same thing. Usually, you'd want to write the new code to a page that you mark as read and write, then switch that page to read and execute. This becomes tricky i…

To expand on this: the "unit" here represents the number of possible values that can be returned. The confusion is probably because "empty" can mean two things: - What's inside the…

The Birth and Death of Javascript. One of my favorites! https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

I recommend reading the previous 3 parts too, plus I'm looking forward to the next parts. I love that it goes into details and very clearly explains the problems and solutions, at …

A while ago, I created an interactive explanation of the different parts of a minimal ELF file: https://scratchpad.avikdas.com/elf-explanation/elf-explanati... I wrote this page fo…

I started on two resources on different topics. One day, I want you invest a good amount of time into building them out. https://cstheory.avikdas.com/ https://nesdev.avikdas.com/

Thank you! My passion is teaching, and I created interactive visualizations for a CS theory class I taught: https://cstheory.avikdas.com/ If you're interested in collaborating for …

Thank you! That means a lot to me

Thanks for the feedback. I replied in a sibling comment about how I made it. For the bug, feel free to email me at avik at avikdas dot com if you'd like. The behavior I verified ju…

I wrote it all by hand :) Lately, I've been using Svelte for interactive visualizations (see my post on using a tool called Astro with Svelte: https://avikdas.com/2023/12/30/intera…

Writing an ELF file by hand is something I did recently: https://github.com/avik-das/garlic/blob/master/recursive/elf... To explain the format to myself and others, I also created …

All things considered, the GBA is a pretty powerful machine. Running an ARM processor is helpful too, as high-level language compilers that output high-quality ARM code are common.…

I absolutely love the "What's In A GIF" series. It's what inspired me to write my own GIF decoder while learning Erlang at the same time: https://github.com/avik-das/giferly The fi…

https://avikdas.com A few of my posts on dynamic programming got a fair bit of traction here on HN. I haven't posted in a while, but after a busy few years, I have some posts lined…

I haven't written in a while, but the first year I started blogging, I set a goal to write at least one article each month for a year. I reflected on it after the 12 months. The hi…

> This clearly solves the halting problem (we assumed the existence of halt as the first step of our proof by contradiction). Implementing the halting problem using addition does n…

Adding to this, if you imagine the audience is _you_, then you might feel motivated to write the article you _wished_ you had before embarking on your project. That audience falls …

This is a great example of intent vs. impact. Regardless of the intent, the impact was negative. Recognizing how their actions impact the candidate is a huge part of interviewing, …

What's so interesting about this experience it hits so many of the points I've been complaining about in my writing about hiring in the tech industry[0]: - Giving trick questions t…