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1 points·by Serious_Cheese·6 ปีที่แล้ว·0 comments

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Serious_Cheese
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
For anyone looking for a proof:

Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20210128202220/https://play.goog...

Now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood....
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss


  >> Bringing Tesla’s manufacturing up to Apple’s quality might just be more work than getting a chinese contractor to round up another million Uyghurs.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Not OP, but NASA is very old school and the tech stack is old, not to mention that things move slower than a turtle (so much bureaucracy) and the fear of losing funding. It's just not a great place to work for anecdotally speaking. At best, it's an ok place to work for. Oh and I forgot to mention the crazy low salaries across the board, and yearly raises that are below inflation rate.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Someone said that "winners write the history books," but how true is that today given that most developed countries are connected through the internet and information spreads as fast as the speed of light (literally).

Anything to backup your claims about Eastern Europeans living in the 80s? Anything I can read? Not trying to refute your argument, but I'm just curious to see things from their perspective.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You're right. I agree with you. Thanks for clarifying.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It's sad to see HN users just downvote something they don't agree with instead of responding to the arguments made berg.

berg, what other options do we have besides capitalism? We saw how millions of people died of starvation with communist/socialists societies.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
>“People will say, ‘I was just hungry.’ And then what do you do?”

People stealing food to survive while the super wealthy and rich becoming richer and richer[1]. What a great time to be alive.

[1](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/11/18/elon...)

EDIT: I don't particularly dislike Elon (the man has done alot of good), but he was the easiest example I could think of. Stock market is a better indicator of rich people's wealth.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Ah an excuse for me to work.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It's very hard finding high quality things that are cheap, and it's very easy finding low quality things that are expensive.

Rule of thumb is to read the 3-start (and below) reviews for anything that you're planning on buying. 4 and 5 stars are generally customers who had been paid to write those reviews.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You can choose light/dark/auto mode in your GH settings https://github.com/settings/appearance
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Is it just me or is the dark mode too dark? My eyes are having a hard time finding things.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Summary: California, working with Apple and Google released an app called "CA Notify" to contact trace COVID-19 spread. The app uses "Bluetooth to determine when two devices have been near one another for more than 15 minutes." iPhone users can activate the app by enabling "Exposure Notifications" under settings.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Then you keep interviewing until you get the ones you know. There's luck involved with everything. Luck in the sense of the right time at the right place.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
A lot of down votes, but I have yet to see a response to the valid question of "what other scalable solution do we".

Don't attack the person. Attack the argument.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
When you say "someone who can't code", what exactly do you mean by that? Does it mean that they have no idea what a for-loop is? Or that they have basic understanding of a programming language, but lack the fundamentals? And how do you define fundamentals?

The phrases "can't code" and can't pass "fizz-buzz" are loosely used. What exactly is fizz-buzz? To me, it's writing a for loop to reverse a string, but to someone else, it's implementing Dijkstra's algorithm in a 40 minute period to solve some made up problem.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Agree that the system is broken.

Not to defend the current interview system, but what other scalable solution do we have other than LeetCode type of questions? How would we be able to show that someone knows how to write code without testing them on the fundamentals of CS?

Genuinely curious.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Or at least they should be able to understand the project from a technical point of view.

One of the most frustrating things working with non-technical managers is their lack of understanding of the effort needed to accomplish a task. Oh you need to re-write an entire library from scratch, work with Joe and have it done by Wednesday (today is Monday).

Now good luck explaining and convincing them that two days is not enough.
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I got frustrated trying out different passwords, so I looked at the source code.

The username is "anne.kingston". I found the password hash, but not sure how to go back to get the password itself.

Password hash: (hashy == "3880" && saltedhashy == "2425")

The hash is computed in a loop as: `prehash += (s[i].charCodeAt() * (i+1));`

I'm not sure how to go reverse this. Maybe someone can help?

Here's a tuple of passwords tried and their hash and salthash:

(Password, Hash, Salthash)

(daniel, 8221, 2197)

(hello, 7004, 3970)

(password, 3970, 1268)

(123, 302, 4415)

(something, 4814, 2749)
Serious_Cheese
·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Looks like someone is working really hard.

/s