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msdf still suffers from detail loss at large sizes, which this method doesn't have.

A wave of manic energy in December had me put together a long deck called "HarfBuzz at 20! " , celebrating 20 years of HarfBuzz. I designed the deck to be presented at the #WebEngi…

I have a puzzle for the hacker in you: The font HarfBust.ttf is an offshoot of Anton Regular, with a twist: - On software using HarfBuzz (as far back as you go, back to the 2000s) …

Thank you for the question. Rasterization is not my specialty. There definitely is still immense amount of research going into rasterizing fonts and 2D graphics on the GPU efficien…

We’re the maintainers of HarfBuzz, the open-source text shaping engine used by browsers, operating systems, and applications to render all text, including supporting scripts like A…

Browser zoom works fine for me. Does it not for you?

Hi. As mentioned, I'll expand on my motivations in a future paper. -behdad

Like it or not for hiring purposes it does.

How does that work with new grads?

Assuming that the dictionary is arbitrary as well, just comparing the string to the strings in the dictionary (or hashing it) it takes O(n), regardless of the data-structure you us…

That is a correct solution. The one I was talking about would stop after just trying "The" and "reis".

My bad. The dictionary should be {"the", "there", "is"}.

Imagine the string "there is", and the dictionary {"the", "there", "is"}.

I beg to differ, this is exactly the opposite of a manhole problem, which I tried to explain, which I clearly failed.

My mid-mark would be where someone could write the code for the brute-force answer for both parts but couldn't get the memoize / dynamic-programming solution. That would be where I…

You'd be surprised.. but we're trying to distinguish between someone who can code simple algorithms versus one who can't.

Typically candidates are scored on a scale. And there are multiple interviews. The final hire / no-hire is decided based on the scores and written feedback from all interviews.

It is true that many companies, Google included, have added area-specific questions including some for frontend webdev if I remember correctly.

As someone who actually uses algorithms and data-structures in their job, I disagree.

Thanks. That's definitely an interesting question. How does it do with new grads? How do you grade people on that on a numerical scale? Curious.