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Over the past few years, I’ve interviewed with a dozen or so companies and have completed ~50 or so individual algorithm problems. I’m frequently given feedback that I did a great job at the algorithms problem. In this post, I’m going to share how exactly I approach algorithm problems. Thought Process A guiding…
The Mosquito Bucket of Death is a safe and environmentally sound way to rid your yard of mosquitoes. Here's how you make them.
Google is going down the drain. That isn't to say they aren't fantastically successful. They are. I still use their products, mostly becau...
I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out — it could be you!
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I’ve lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I’ve voted in every presidential election since 1992, but I
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed Chinese artificial sun, has achieved over 100 million degrees electron temperature in the core plasma in its 2018 four-month-long experiment campaign.
Looking at cloud storage providers? B2 is 3x-30x cheaper than all of the other cloud storage providers including, Amazon S3, Azure, and Google.
This article was adapted from a Google Tech on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT epis...
Ceph is an open source distributed storage system designed to evolve with data.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
We're excited to announce the first General Availability release of Bazel, an open source build system designed to support a wide variety of programming languages and platforms.
My TJS model maps professional relationships across seven states, from zero-sum competition to toxic enmeshment, and why collaboration is the peak.
Today, I found this email from Google in my inbox: We routinely review items in the Chrome Web Store for compliance with our Program policies to ensure a safe and trusted experience for our users. We recently found that your item, “Google search link fix,” with ID: cekfddagaicikmgoheekchngpadahmlf, did not comply with…
We replaced expensive sandboxes with ChromaFs, a virtual filesystem over Chroma, to give our docs AI assistant the ability to explore documentation like a developer would.
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I first met Ian Murdock gathered around a table at some bar, somewhere, after some conference in the late 1990s. Progeny Linux Systems' founding was soon to be announced, and Ian had invited a group from the Debian BoF along to hear about “something interesting”; the post-BoF meetup was actually a briefing on his…
How do you design good abstractions? By using abstractions that already exist.
According to European data protection law every individual has the right to get a copy of all personal data a company holds about him (right to access). This law is applicable to Facebook too. Every user with a residence outside of the US and Canada has a contract with “Facebook Ireland Limited”, based in Dublin…
We’re thrilled to announce Ruby Shield, a partnership between Ruby Central and Shopify that underscores our shared commitment to security work. This partnership will allow Ruby Central to focus more on security and general Ruby and Rails infrastructure development and maintenance. Ruby Central operates rubygems.org…
How to draw high fidelity graphics when all you have is an x and y coordinate.
I’m going to describe a way to put together a world-class continuous deployment infrastructure for your side-project without spending any money. With continuous deployment every code commit is tested against …
A basic introduction to USB for people that don't need to know what happens on the wire
I don’t know about you, but nothing gets me going in the morning quite like a good old fashioned programming language rant. It stirs the blood to see someone skewer one of those “blub” languages the plebians use, muddling through their day with it between furtive visits to StackOverflow.
