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Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:15PM (#49542685)
Using API billing would be a bummer because, as far as I know, there's no way to set up a spend cap or pre-pay the API key, correct?
This is absolutely amazing, the fact that you can click on text and it takes you immediately to the part of the audio where that text is being said is great.

I wish the video was shown as well, but other than that, excellent work!

Thanks for recommending this, I just browsed some files online and it's looking indeed amazing.

P.S. It's now easy to check a repo file by replace .com with .dev: https://github.dev/desktop/desktop

Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @06:48PM (#34904831)
Google Graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @06:47PM (#34904826)
I believe they do help, but certainly hiring doesn't seem to be a priority for them at the moment.

It's strange that they decided to discontinue the entire competition instead of just cancelling this year's one, though.

Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @06:46PM (#34904801)
They did, indeed, lay off the group in charge of organizing these competitions (or at least the Google Code Jam Program Manager).

https://twitter.com/jonathanirvings/status/16220755214872084...

The $5 wrench: https://xkcd.com/538/ You would still be vulnerable to a $10 wrench though, so don't use this.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023) on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:14AM (#34627617)
Hey Tomas, I just send an email with my application, but I've got "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)". Is the email posted correct?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023) on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:19PM (#34616037)
Location: Rosario, Argentina

Remote: Yes! (EST/PST timezones OK)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Typescript, React/Svelte + Redux, Python, PHP, C++, interested in Rust, SQL.

Résumé/CV: overview at https://github.com/mredigonda

Email: [email protected]

I'm a Software Engineer from Argentina, strongly experienced in algorithms and data structures (from programming competitions like IOI and ICPC), and web development in general.

I'm open to chat in general about your company to see if there is a good match. In the worst case, having an extra connection is always beneficial for both.

Re:Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @08:55AM (#33894339)
Indeed this overflows too! Still don't have the rights here to edit or delete the comment, sorry for the confusion! It needs a couple of extra conditions: x and y need to be uint, and y needs to be >= x (you can swap them if they are not).
Re:Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:35AM (#33893236)
You can also do x + (y - x) / 2 (starting point + distance halved), that doesn't overflow, is easy to remember, and the compiler would probably optimize it further.
Re:Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:33AM (#33893224)
Because the division is truncated twice, which increases the error. Take x=y=1, or x=y=3 for example.
Re:Ask HN: How to Ask a Question Properly? on Friday May 27, 2022 @06:29PM (#31535655)
You just did it, and it was perfectly well-received by the community.

You approached a topic you are interested in, without causing any problem or offending anyone, and the question was not misunderstood.

Using this evidence, chances are you are already _sufficiently good_ at asking questions properly.

Re:Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see? on Sunday May 22, 2022 @04:43PM (#31472553)
This video [0] is from February 2012, but as far as I know this tool is not yet implemented (or at least it is not widely used).

Basically as you are writing a function, you can write sample input for it, and it tells you the intermediate value of each variable inside this function, which lets you reason about the code, makes it trivial to know you've done something wrong, and would make developing a much more interactive experience overall.

In my experience, this is done by hand when writing a function, but a tool like this would make it automatic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII