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yeah, we called that data mining, decision systems, and whatnot... mapreduce was as fresh and hot as the Paul Graham's essays book... folks were using Java over python, due to some…

Yeah, no - quite a chunk of IMO problems are planar and 3d geometry, and you don't really do that at university level (exception: specializing in high school maths didactics)

The cheat code is to substitute it with something like rollerblading. But you'll need to practice it ~3x longer each time, and aint' nobody on HN got time for that.

It is 'incredibly efficient' because it is incredibly good at predicting clicks, conversions, or even conversion values. Which in turn makes it efficient. Sure, there is something …

Yeah, but this convenience goes well beyond the "one payment button". If you order food directly, you won't have the delivery tracking on the map. Even within the app, if the resta…

Yeah it's kind of a different standard There is a section 2.1.3 "Online platform studies versus lift tests" in the article. For the marketing tools purpose, you can use either (or …

It is computer science folk-lore. Pretty sure I read about it in some popular computer magazine in 90's.

In my humble experience some time between 2006-8 and 2013. Unless they hid it that well from us interns. It's not the only thing that changed. Good thing, my manager joined Google …

The values of G1 and G2 are computed by a complex algorithm, however, that algorithm is agnostic of the position of the ad in the auction. Unlike the constant factors (1+a) and (1+…

No, project Bernanke wasn't about that. At that time, the exchange was a second-price auction, and all parties could submit up to two bids (presumably, the top two bids from their …

You could make it a dating sim. Less drama than in the "Wild Hunt" movie, please. Generally speaking, we have all kind of LARPs in the sword-and-sorcery scene - battle LARPS - no s…

When I was in FAANG I picked up Skyrim modding as a hobby, and this year I'm working on monetizing it, in style.

can't speak for others, but BCID is this thingy: maybe your team has some petabytes quota in the datacenter, but as a software engineer, you no longer can test your number-crunchin…

These are product-oriented tech companies, while the contracting pertains to e.g. custom software development. What follows is that these companies have enough revenue to afford FA…

Before I understood recursion, to solve Hanoi towers I looked back at the earlier positions of the output buffer

Creating videogames can be nerd sniping, too

As someone who moves out of Bay Area back to home country and looks forward to spice up early retirement with small-time gamedev, I find the economics of indie development not that…

But it's not a thesis of Die Deutschen Wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken nach dem Krieg, it's just a quote, and it does not support that "most of the knowledge lost in the war in tod…

Well, if it is any help, the guy who made this forum once published a book with a collection of his essays. Various topics, including how to become a rich person, in what ways grad…

Bill Lewis, I presume, called it more or less like that https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0310016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpI8hIgOyko Soon later, "debugging backwards in time" morph…

Try reverse image search for a cartoon from DeviantArt, 99% links in the results redirect you to unrelated pr0n sitez. We're talking that kind of spam

They don't need to win IMO, they need to get a gold medal. I got a gold medal at IMO solving 4 out of 6 problems I don't want to speculate, but it's not inconceivable that this wil…