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New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours"

Serious_Cheese — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 01:44:11 +0000

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....

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Elon Musk: During the darkest days […] I reached out to Tim Cook"

Serious_Cheese — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:08:43 +0000

  >> 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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class"

Serious_Cheese — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 22:11:21 +0000

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.

Earnest

Serious_Cheese — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 00:55:04 +0000

Article URL: http://www.paulgraham.com/earnest.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25450960

Points: 1

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New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course"

Serious_Cheese — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:19:43 +0000

This is amazing. Thank you for sharing.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "More Americans are shoplifting food"

Serious_Cheese — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:53:14 +0000

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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "More Americans are shoplifting food"

Serious_Cheese — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:47:44 +0000

You're right. I agree with you. Thanks for clarifying.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "More Americans are shoplifting food"

Serious_Cheese — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:19:57 +0000

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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "More Americans are shoplifting food"

Serious_Cheese — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:14:40 +0000

>“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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Major Reddit Outage"

Serious_Cheese — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:07:38 +0000

Ah an excuse for me to work.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Ask HN: Things that are high quality yet cheap?"

Serious_Cheese — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:06:33 +0000

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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "GitHub Gets Dark Mode"

Serious_Cheese — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:39:51 +0000

You can choose light/dark/auto mode in your GH settings https://github.com/settings/appearance

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "GitHub Dark Mode"

Serious_Cheese — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:39:17 +0000

Is it just me or is the dark mode too dark? My eyes are having a hard time finding things.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "California’s new contact-tracing app: What you need to know"

Serious_Cheese — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:31:51 +0000

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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews"

Serious_Cheese — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 01:31:50 +0000

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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews"

Serious_Cheese — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 22:00:13 +0000

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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews"

Serious_Cheese — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:48:39 +0000

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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews"

Serious_Cheese — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 20:53:48 +0000

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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)"

Serious_Cheese — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:20:04 +0000

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.

New comment by Serious_Cheese in "Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room"

Serious_Cheese — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:57:03 +0000

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)