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Clipp | Sr Back-end Tech Lead | NYC | https://getclipp.com Clipp’s vision is to digitize the food supply chain, starting with the $325 billion U.S. food ingredient distribution ind…

Great insights about improving the rust compiler performance! What else would you do to speed it up?

There's one quote that I see people refer to quite often: > William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! > Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great roa…

Short patent lifetimes. Long enough for you to get out and establish yourself in the market, but short enough that it wouldn't kill a competitor to wait a bit. It would also dramat…

I still think asm is essential to know. And I'm not even an old fart. Knowing assembly makes it far easier to rationalize about what my C programs are doing, how things will perfor…

Allow any email address. I'm at mcmaster, which has a mcmaster.ca address. I don't think it's possible to match on email address to allow all schools, so just ask for the school th…

Answer: It's far easier to talk to someone over a beer when you're in the same building as them. Or to pop up at their office unplanned with a question. Or to work on a project wit…

Yes, I'm familiar. I was playing with double meanings ;-)

Minitrue? You mean Minimal Truth?

Then don't do web-apps. There's nothing wrong with starting doing GUI apps with PyGame or something

It might be a good read if it actually talked about what happened in the book. However, it didn't.

Does everything have to turn a profit? No. Does everything that you're trying to earn a living off of, pay bills with, and hire employees with have to turn a profit? Hell yes. If y…

As four bars wrapped in a poster, with pins (or glue) to put it together, perhaps?

At least on this site, it sounds like any startup would be preferred to any established company including google. Although that really does seem to be mostly the tone of this site.…

I remember this design from my childhood. (Well, a variation of it). Dropping the tail and tearing elevators/ailerons into the back of it turns it into an awesome stunt plane, one …

It seems that when you're asked for a plane, you're expected to create a plane, not a wad of paper. Presumably, this was during a unit on areodynamics, and the idea was to demonstr…

On Linux, left+right click emulate a middle click, at least if you only have two buttons.

With RSA private keys, users don't see or manipulate them directly (usually). With a private-key based security system, most users would go "Huh? what's a private key?" if you aske…

They can and do, for the most part. iPhone knockoffs are a dime a dozen, for the most part, although Apple has design patents to keep them from looking too close to they original.

Or maybe they were aware of it in the good old times too, and they think it was crap then too? I have no patience for working on lame assignments, and my marks suffer, but I still …

If you can determine an upper bound on n, then your algorithm is technically O(1), and you don't have to worry about scaling. If you want to be able to handle any value of n, and e…