Hacker News: gargarplex

New comment by gargarplex in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

gargarplex — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 05:58:26 +0000

This hacker agiles.

New comment by gargarplex in "Ask HN: How to validate a startup idea whilst employed?"

gargarplex — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 02:29:26 +0000

https://www.saastr.com/planning-to-do-a-saas-start-up-dont-f...

Chrome 0day is being exploited now for CVE-2022-1096; update immediately

gargarplex — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:45:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2022/03/26/google-confirms-emergency-security-update-for-32-billion-chrome-users-attacks-underway/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30813779

Points: 265

# Comments: 145

New comment by gargarplex in "I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing"

gargarplex — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:13:28 +0000

Makes a huge difference when considering the tax implications.

SF's first tiny home village for homeless people is open. Each home costs $15k

gargarplex — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/San-Francisco-s-first-tiny-cabin-village-for-16984540.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660599

Points: 15

# Comments: 2

New comment by gargarplex in "An Investigation of the Facts Behind Columbia's U.S. News Ranking"

gargarplex — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 04:16:33 +0000

Maybe rankings should be organized through preferences of applicants admitted to several schools.

New comment by gargarplex in "Show HN: DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)"

gargarplex — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 15:41:17 +0000

I guess blogs that are linked-to in non-killed HN comments should probably be crawled a bit. Have you considered using social user karma (this could be a 1-10 score uniquely calculated for users of each of HN, Twitter, Reddit as long as it's built in a modular way) as a weight in a PageRank style schema?

Here's how I am going to evaluate your search engine. Yesterday I searched Google for "get dynamodb table row count" and found this URL, https://bobbyhadz.com/blog/aws-dynamodb-count-items, which provides a terrible recommendation involving a full table scan.

With DontBeEvil, I didn't find the correct answer, to use the describe-table API.

If you really plan to dedicate a year to this, I would strongly encourage you to re-post again as soon as you have a strong update. Right now this has potential to provide value but really does not. So update us when you have confidence that you might be providing value! But we think you're on to a great opportunity.

New comment by gargarplex in "Ask HN: What can I do with 48GB of RAM?"

gargarplex — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 14:21:51 +0000

This is the kind of blog post that just ignites a passion for serious software engineering.

New comment by gargarplex in "Ask HN: What can I do with 48GB of RAM?"

gargarplex — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:35:30 +0000

Can you please describe an example of where an application might be memory bandwidth bound, and what engineering techniques might be used to circumvent this restriction?

New comment by gargarplex in "Ask HN: What can I do with 48GB of RAM?"

gargarplex — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:34:06 +0000

Whoa. Super interesting! Maybe even useful for compiling during development ... develop in workspace, use unison to copy over to the ramdisk, then do all builds from the ramdisk dir?

Would you agree with this article's recommendations regarding ramdisk setup? https://www.linuxbabe.com/command-line/create-ramdisk-linux There seems to be controversy in the comments as to whether tmpfs is a proper ramdisk - although no clear tutorial as to a better method. Interested to learn more!

New comment by gargarplex in "Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week"

gargarplex — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 03:40:57 +0000

I am mostly concerned about the mutations coming out of the Omicron contagion than the Omicron variant itself.

New comment by gargarplex in "Ask HN: How to know if you should stop doing startups?"

gargarplex — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:15:41 +0000

You are clearly modestly competent at entrepreneurship and to the point where it's worth pursuing because of the high opportunity cost. I think it would be wise to take some time as a salaried employee while identifying and correcting the gaps in your skillset.

New comment by gargarplex in "Attorney General orders unregistered crypto lending platforms to exit NY"

gargarplex — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 19:57:35 +0000

Let's say I'm a NY resident with a Nexo account. What happens to my assets?

New comment by gargarplex in "Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office"

gargarplex — Sat, 15 May 2021 16:23:16 +0000

The same office shared by Hamas military intelligence.

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1393565656621137920?s=20

New comment by gargarplex in "Node.js 16 Available Now"

gargarplex — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 19:46:57 +0000

I have written a native C++ module to speed up JSON parsing and manipulation by a factor of 10x+

New comment by gargarplex in "A professor declined a $60K research award from Google"

gargarplex — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:34:36 +0000

If it helps him attract grad students, the ROI is better than $60k

New comment by gargarplex in "8 year girl found a way to avoid online lesson by exploiting Zoom password block"

gargarplex — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:36:15 +0000

> willing-to-experiment-by-pushing-all-the-buttons

This is a great way of putting it and something I haven't thought of before. Mostly, I have been guarding my 2yo from pushing-all-the-buttons because I'm scared of her breaking something expensive (air purifier) or hurting herself (elevator). But I want to foster this sense of creative exploration.

She has taken a lot of interest in my Macbook (lots of keys to press, and she sees me using it) but zero interest in the cheapo tablet I bought her.

Any advice?

New comment by gargarplex in "5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up"

gargarplex — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 11:38:30 +0000

Strong +1 to this. I passed the FAANG interview after solving 100 leetcodes, mostly medium.

Being able to show up and do the work is table stakes –– and yes, I actually write efficient algorithms in my day-to-day because we process massive amounts of data. But the algos I write were invented 50, 60 years ago. My leetcode study process was to look up the solution and then memorize it through rote practice. Why reinvent the wheel? I'm not trying to win a Turing prize here.

But your intellectual mettle and day to day happiness in the company is tested by your ability to deal with people.

New comment by gargarplex in "5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up"

gargarplex — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 11:32:54 +0000

Zuckerberg wasn't a mediocre programmer. He was an accomplished programmer who had shipped industry-level code by the time he was in high school. Adam D'Angelo was a USACO gold medalist.

https://xkcd.com/386/

New comment by gargarplex in "I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel"

gargarplex — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:54:52 +0000

I macro agree with your point about leverage although I'd like a bit more insight here...

"You can give them a hint as to what it is, to vouch for the legitimacy of your finding, but Facebook has one of the better-resourced security teams in the industry, and they're just going to find it themselves and shut it down without paying you anything."

Wouldn't that cost Facebook much more than $7,000?