jephir
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Comment · 6 years ago
Second this. Internal referral is the most reliable way to get in the door in my experience.
Comment · 6 years ago
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).
Comment · 6 years ago
Actually the same person is maintaining Bitcoin. Satoshi is Adam Back, co-founder and CEO of Blockstream.
Comment · 8 years ago
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 if it failed. This created a single point of failure where the collapse of any member (diagonal segment) would collapse the entire bridge.
There is no indication that ACB contributed to this collapse, rather, this was a faulty design that would have also posed a risk using traditional construction techniques.
Comment · 9 years ago
> 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 organization there is no publicly visible effect.
Comment · 9 years ago
A 5-10% drop in a single day on the SPX would probably cause a panic. This happens on a regular basis with BTC.
Comment · 9 years ago
BTC trades like an accelerated stock market. Instead of crashing every few decades, it "crashes" every few months.
Comment · 9 years ago
> 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 not necessary to get people to contribute to open source.
Comment · 10 years ago
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 ended up just serializing world state over a TCP socket. If you can get away with the brute force approach then just do it. Don't optimize until you have a measurable performance problem.
Comment · 10 years ago
http://horizon.io/
While Firebase is proprietary, you can export your database as JSON and import into RethinkDB.
Comment · 10 years ago
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 keeping them distinct is not helping anyone. URL also easily wins the search result popularity contest.
Comment · 10 years ago
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 connections across proxies.