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Second this. Internal referral is the most reliable way to get in the door in my experience.

My interview performance actually got better once I stopped overdressing. I got more offers wearing a grey hoodie and jeans. And this was at big tech (not just startups).

Actually the same person is maintaining Bitcoin. Satoshi is Adam Back, co-founder and CEO of Blockstream.

The FIU bridge is truss bridge, not a cable-stayed bridge, see this NTSB update [1]. The bridge collapsed because it relied on a single truss with no backup to support the weight i…

> didn't the wholepoint of using Bitcoin is that there is a public ledger for every move? There is a public ledger for every public move. If you move money within your own organiza…

A 5-10% drop in a single day on the SPX would probably cause a panic. This happens on a regular basis with BTC.

BTC trades like an accelerated stock market. Instead of crashing every few decades, it "crashes" every few months.

> without copyleft we might not have the fertile collaboration of projects such as Linux, git Why would this be the case? FreeBSD and SVN were developed without copyleft. GPL is no…

There's a lot of talk here about TCP vs UDP vs SCTP vs x protocol. It's important to keep in mind that this is all optimization. Don't lose sight of the big picture. On one RTS we …

http://horizon.io/ While Firebase is proprietary, you can export your database as JSON and import into RethinkDB.

Yep. The WHATWG recommends just using the term URL instead of URI. > Standardize on the term URL. URI and IRI are just confusing. In practice a single algorithm is used for both so…

The biggest thing for me is that you can use secure WebSockets (wss://) without having to setup TLS on your origin server. This greatly improves the ability to establish WebSocket …

> Code defensively, and don't get fancy unless you need to. You're not just complying with the language spec, you are communicating your intent to the other developers who will rea…

Check out the different switch sounds ( http://techreport.com/review/23405/rosewill-rk-9000-series-m... ) before you buy a mechanical keyboard, each switch type has a distinct soun…

> I purposefully create passwords with caps lock on, what then? I think he means doing it on the server, i.e. checking the password as-is, if that doesn't work, then check it with …

Does removing the runtime have any effect on the current effort to get Rust working on Emscripten?

I agree, there aren't that many problems in IP compared to the www stack. Imagine if we had bytecode instead of Javascript, the web would be years ahead in terms of being able to c…

> Mistake or not, allowing all pointer types to be `nil` seems like simplification from things like option types. How do you see nil as adding complexity? Whenever you have null in…

Go still has some unecessary sources of complexity, for example: 1. It uses null (the billion-dollar mistake) to indicate optional values. A better designed language uses an option…

I've filed the issue here: https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/issues/detail?id=3892