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New comment by ethbr0 in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

ethbr0 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:21:41 +0000

Not this time!

But for every candidate that could answer, I think so.

New comment by ethbr0 in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

ethbr0 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:20:09 +0000

I've also had good luck asking about a project they were on that went off the rails and what they'd do differently next time around.

You can tell pretty quickly how involved they were and if they were thinking through solutions vs just doing as told.

New comment by ethbr0 in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

ethbr0 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:16:36 +0000

That's why I try to ask open-ended questions. Get to a solution. Might not be my solution, but at least get me there.

How do you run candidate interviews?

New comment by ethbr0 in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

ethbr0 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:59:40 +0000

My high water mark was the basics... and then the candidate drawing an analogy between char as primitive and char-array-based-strings as object oriented classes that offered additional functionality on top of chars.

New comment by ethbr0 in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

ethbr0 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:54:40 +0000

Customer-facing implementation engineer, more or less.

New comment by ethbr0 in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

ethbr0 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:49:54 +0000

It's a grab bag, tell-me-something-interesting icebreaker question. I'm looking for some evidence of the fact that you can differentiate the two in some meaningful way.

Not intended to be a gotcha question! Just a quick test of basic CS knowledge to get the candidate comfortable.

New comment by ethbr0 in "My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story"

ethbr0 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:26:30 +0000

I interviewed a guy the other day.

CS degree.

"I have a proven track record of building and leading amazing engineering teams."

"Okay. What's the difference between a character and a string?"

*crickets*

We all have our specialities, but jesus ¢@&#ing christ: if you're interviewing for an engineering role, of any sort, you should be able to answer basic questions.

New comment by ethbr0 in "Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes"

ethbr0 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:32:35 +0000

tl;dr - Output nuclear fusion power, plasma volume, and magnetic field strength scale differently with reactor size increases

In detail, I'll let someone smarter than me in nuclear physics explain: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/175830/nuclear-f...

New comment by ethbr0 in "An automatic shiny hunter for any Pokémon game"

ethbr0 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:16:38 +0000

The wrinkle about "modern Game Genie" is that when the original debuted, there were no microtransactions.

Now, hastening grind runs directly counter to most(?) game revenue models.

Interesting times!

New comment by ethbr0 in "What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers"

ethbr0 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:09:20 +0000

Indeed. My mental rule of thumb is to assume that if we're at the point of a legal argument then bridges have already been burned and neither party is inclined to do any favors to the other. Ergo, the legal language is the only language that one can depend on.

New comment by ethbr0 in "Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy"

ethbr0 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:06:40 +0000

Stupid question that I've always been curious about, driving around.

Can an old C-band (large) satellite dish be used for transmitting as well as receiving?

If so, would there be any benefit to doing so, versus smaller/K* dish dimensions?

Know this is a basic question, but RF isn't my field.

New comment by ethbr0 in "What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers"

ethbr0 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:08:20 +0000

People say lawyers are assholes, but they don't think about why lawyers are assholes.

It's a lawyer's job to imagine the worst future outcomes and guard against them in the present.

Everybody focuses on "It's crazy you put that clause in there that was never needed," but few folks appreciate "Thank god we included that clause just in case."

Which isn't to opine there's a right or wrong, only multiple parties each negotiating (skillfully or poorly) in their own interests.

If you're a developer and don't want your code to slide into corporate controlled ownership... well, there are licenses for that.

https://github.com/readme/guides/open-source-licensing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/how-to-choose-an-ope...

New comment by ethbr0 in "Google starts the GA rollout of its Privacy Sandbox APIs (Chrome 115)"

ethbr0 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:19:36 +0000

This happened a few week ago, but I didn't see any discussion on here.

Google shipped the newest iteration of FLoC in Chrome 115 in July.

Direct Google blog link (HN marks duped) https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-115/#topics-...

Google starts the GA rollout of its Privacy Sandbox APIs (Chrome 115)

ethbr0 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:18:15 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/google-starts-the-ga-rollout-of-its-privacy-sandbox-apis-to-all-chrome-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077257

Points: 2

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New comment by ethbr0 in "CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking"

ethbr0 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:04:17 +0000

I can only tolerate modern YouTube at 1.5 or 2x playback speed. Principally because speaking slower to stretch video length has become endemic.

New comment by ethbr0 in "Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years"

ethbr0 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:17:28 +0000

The gallery has an excellent video of an R/P FLIP... flip. Complete with suitable ONR/SIO music.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FLIP_turns_50.ogv

New comment by ethbr0 in "Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years"

ethbr0 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:09:24 +0000

Oof, those are some gnarly waves. Wave structure as a surfed experience is my favorite part so far: there are so many wave nuances I never noticed before.

New comment by ethbr0 in "Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years"

ethbr0 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:59:09 +0000

Things funding for atomic warfare has given us:

   - Nuclear power
   - Access to Earth orbit
   - GPS
   - Mapping of the world's oceans
   - Miniaturized circuits
   - The Internet
   - Interstate road systems
   - Hubble Space Telescope
   - Earth observation satellites

For such a horrible technology, humanity seems to have made out okay.

New comment by ethbr0 in "Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years"

ethbr0 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:49:56 +0000

As someone who recently started surfing, I understand the cultural timing a lot more now.

Good surfing requires pretty particular types of waves. Which in turn requires particular wind. Even at good locations, these are transient conditions that can appear and disappear at the whim of nature (even over the course of an hour).

Ergo, surf's up = drop things that don't need to be done ASAP

They'll be there later. Good waves probably won't.

New comment by ethbr0 in "Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols"

ethbr0 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:25:33 +0000

The fact that this appears to be mobile-targeted suggests the intent -- restrict free information flow to the masses.