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I'm not totally sure how a blockchain works so please correct me if im wrong - for a hard fork to happen in Ethereum or Bitcoin, the majority of users have to "agree" by switching …

yeah. adding to this, a great proof that uses new techniques can also generate whole new areas of math to explore or solve other seemingly unrelated problems.

They mentioned using hadoop for file storage - perhaps they are just using HDFS and not MapReduce. Otherwise, Spark is relatively new, so they might have some older infra/jobs in H…

Awesome post, thank you so much! I'll get started on the crawler soon :)

Hello, I've been interested in concurrency for a while now and I've been picking up bits and pieces by stumbling across great posts/videos once in a while or working with them at m…

Its both. Now news is mostly consumed online, and everyone is competing for eyeballs. I think technology exacerbates the problem - earlier a newspaper could have a bunch of eyeball…

Thats a great process. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get rid of the phone screen, even assuming you have some github and contacts? Just ask the recruiter?

Agreed! If we did nothing to correct inequalities in society, the biggest and strongest would rule over all - so yes we must have our own values and stick to them. And with AI, we …

Yeah, i don't really know enough to argue that. You're probably right about the convictions. I just think we need to be able to TALK about these issues, so that when a real expert …

IMO, no one wants to acknowledge simple facts for fear of retribution/being labelled racist, instead we keep dancing around this issue forever getting more and more ridiculous. Als…

This also doesn't mention the horrible inflexibility of the H-1B once you have it. Once on an H-1B, you literally have ZERO days of unemployment between jobs. If you are fired, lai…

I'm curious - what do people use now to find jobs? I'm still relying pretty heavily on LinkedIn for recruiters to contact me.

this is cool, ive been burned by trying to move a virtualenv before and discovering everything broke. is it possible to merge this into virtualenv? i think it would be much easier …

Consuming "probiotics" is a very similar idea to this. It promotes exactly this kind of food - yogurts, kefir etc.

Hey Josh, i have one question - how do the rules about disclosing salary change when you're talking to an external recruiter (from an agency)? I don't quite understand who's "side"…

If you are only thinking about it, yes. If you want to take a decision based on the thought process, you have to pick a side at one point, knowing that it might not be the right si…

I've recently become really interested in the details of programming languages, type systems, optimizations and compilers in general. Seems like a fascinating subject, with a lot o…

I like it! I have similar opinions on static vs. dynamic, Java vs Python or PLs in general - too many judgements are based on shallow first impressions or ease of getting started t…

It sounds like you like knowing how the whole thing works, end-to-end. At big companies with so much pre-existing code & infra, thats not really possible. Maybe a startup would be …

I think this is a great idea, let the H1B prices be freely controlled by market, and let companies buy/sell H1Bs among themselves. People have mentioned that this makes things more…

>What's old is new again I suppose. The browser, in general, feels like a giant step forward. I wish, though, that some ecosystem had evolved where Javascript wasn't the sole suppo…

interesting to compare FBs responses with psychology's basic emotions - FB 6 basic emotions - angry, sad, wow, haha, yay, and love Humintell's 7 basic emotions - anger, sadness, su…

Shimano may not have been a good guy, but its kind of weird how its framed as the evil man exploiting the poor, vulnerable women, rather than a consensual act between 2 people.

I have recently started working at a company with a massive python codebase. I'm finding it really hard to understand what is going on because of the lack of types. I don't know wh…

Most languages compile the source to an AST, so I would say the AST is one level of abstraction below source code. Then, text and graphical languages could be equally powerful if e…