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Re:A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:44AM (#23499704)
There was a very old post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7649025, lots of ways to abuse Facebook network.
Re:Dynamic Programming for Technical Interviews
on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:51AM (#19400203)
> I'd like to believe that's true, but I've spent quite a lot of time trying to explain pointers and recursion to people and either they get it right away or practically never.
Have you thought about may be you don't understand pointers and just think you do ? May be you should not start teaching and explaining about pointers before you understand it well. If you can't pin-point why your students don't understand and just say they won't understand at all (may be weak math background or something else), then I'm sorry you lack the knowledge to teach or use pointers.
Re:Dynamic Programming for Technical Interviews
on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:36AM (#19400055)
Your reference to Joel and how you rely so much on your intuition tells me that you tend to have "I'm better than other" type of feeling just because you understand DP. This is the exact toxic I would want to avoid in the workplace. Same with Joel's reference, I'm shocked that he thinks understanding pointers is not a skill (may be I should interview him on pointer arithmetic and see just how good he is). My experience has been that these interviewers who say they are so good in DP, pointers, recursion and throw this aura of 'false negative' and know it all show true colors after the interview. They make wrong decisions on when to optimize, are clueless about scale and distributed systems, can't write complex sql, just don't know how to turn on little knobs to solve the problem so write huge unnecessary code. All this is probably because they never thought more than DP/recursion (which I would avoid at any cost in my code base).
Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @10:31AM (#16811428)
Thanks. But I could not find the link anywhere, can anyone even get here from Facebook page: https://imgur.com/1ijzgqV
Re:Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @10:27AM (#16811377)
Q. Can the users completely delete their data ?
Zuckerberg: Yes, there are two options. First to deactivate because students and want to suspend and come back because they want to study for exam. Second option is users can totally delete all their data.
Where is the second option anyone from Facebook ? There is only an option to delete the account after you DIE, not an option to delete it when you are alive.
So many lies.
How do you hire engineers who are bad at interviewing?
How do you identify engineers who are extremly good when they work with headphones on in a semi-alone environment but bad at interviewing because they are surrounded by people watching them code and trying to get into their brains ?
Re:Finding a $5,000 Google Maps XSS by fiddling with Protobuf
on Thursday March 09, 2017 @11:14AM (#13830232)
Awesome find and write up. Wondering why you did not get the full $7500 for this
https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/inde...
How come accounts.google.com more severe than others for XSS ?
Re:I spent three months working full time to get a job
on Sunday March 05, 2017 @12:36PM (#13797163)
Whiteboards are bad for writing programs. Think about how often you write programs on whiteboard, it's mostly for diagrams and system flow not to write for and while loops for hard problems. My thinking pattern is different when I write program I tend to write the skeleton first and then fill it out. Writing on whiteboard although I know the solution I'm just spending time writing which sucks (may be because the only thing I write is a cheque once a month and I'm not used to writing for years). Now if it were typing, within the same span of time I can write two or three programs find mistakes and solve everything. Hence I find coding on computer much better than whiteboard and these days I refuse interviewing on whiteboards and say so to anyone who wants to hire me.
Edit: It's ironic how the so called cutting-edge tech companies can't afford a keyboard, mouse, laptop and a projector which would make things way better. I even had a case where the interviewer changed the question with 5 min. to spare , I explained the solution he said it would work and then told me to write it. I was just erasing and pointing arrows because I did not have space etc. So easy to forget that while typing you just hit enter and get a new line. Draw on white board, write on computer; that's how it should be.
Why are so many companies using Node.js?
I've seen it being used in quite a number of places now (specially startups) and I don't get why people use it over other stacks which might be easier to maintain and code. Here are couple of things that comes to mind- Most startups have inexperienced people writing async code (which is hard) and make too many mistakes- The reason Javascript is used in frontend let's use it for backend (even...
Re:Ask HN: Should I hire someone to do a code review?
on Friday January 27, 2017 @02:20AM (#13498292)
I think you will be wasting your money and setting up a bad culture. How many rounds of review are you going to ? After the first round will you hire another one to do more rounds ? Although the product works, it seems you seem to want 100% bullet proof product which will not be possible. Just make sure your product works and when you start making money hire a team and not freelancers to do your code review and manage the product.
Best resources to learn browser hacking, sandbox escape and reverse engineering?
Please provide good references where one can learn:- Finding memory leaks in browser- Escaping sandbox and ASLR- ROP (Rerturn oriented programming)- Writing Shell Code
How to make 1M easily?
Canadians working for US company remotely?
How many of you are in Canada but working for US company remotely ? If possible, please include- How much are you making ?- How did you find the company ?- Name of the company.
Re:Ask HN: Software Developers – Do you like your job?
on Sunday November 27, 2016 @06:30PM (#13052278)
Early 30s. Was 8 when I was writing ruby, 7 when using Rails, now Node.js it is 1.
Ask HN: Are you working paid part-time while still having a full-time job?
I am wondering how many of you work part-time 10-20 hr freelancing or building other's MVP while still having a full-time job. Did you have to sign any agreement to the full-time employer for this ?
Re:Ask HN: New MacBook?
on Thursday September 08, 2016 @02:20PM (#12455658)
That was released earlier this year. Nothing new there.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
on Sunday September 04, 2016 @12:44AM (#12422770)
https://remoteok.io/remote-jobs/10036-remote-platform-engine...
This was posted over a year ago. I wonder how many they hired.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
on Sunday September 04, 2016 @12:42AM (#12422759)
Job post is a marketing gig for them. I don't think they go through the resume or hire anyone, just keep posting the same jobs over several months.
Re:Google Intrusion Detection Problems
on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @07:28AM (#12351212)
Sheldon would have never agreed to release a system with flawed design.
Re:Ask HN: Failed interview, feeling unemployable and depressed – what...
on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @01:10AM (#12349811)
I disagree. What do you see so different in that blog post ? OP is struggling with interview puzzles not concepts of data structure, common algorithms. I think it is far too easy to devise a problem that even most current interviewers would fail. I'm saying this after being hired and seeing the level of knowledge most interviewers possess.
Re:Google Intrusion Detection Problems
on Monday August 22, 2016 @05:08PM (#12339461)
Google, said to have very high hiring bar, yet I've seen more than a few times now that their product lines are sub-par. I'm sure the explanation they give is that we are very big and we can ignore the 1% corner cases and have the mentality that "we are so big we don't really care about smaller parts of the internet".
Also, the hypocrisy in using very logical questions to hire people but not sticking to similar logic in the product line is laughable.
Re:Stories and Tips: Interviews with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Others
on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @07:18AM (#12296666)
> If you're reviewing 20 peoples' code per week, when would you have had time to code out your algorithms?
You work on system design, databases, high availability and making sure large clusters don't fall and are able to talk to each other. None of the above require "algorithms". Also, it's hilarious how every company are asking the Google and FB questions now. And, you rarely get a SQL or database questions. I've had to work with colleagues who think they know everything just because they answer the algorithm question and can't do a simple "group by".
Re:How often do you see nepotism/ethnic bias in Software industry?
on Thursday August 11, 2016 @03:37PM (#12271034)
Also, they don't give any feedback on interview and claim that they provide "equal opportunity" regardless of race, ethnicity.
Re:How often do you see nepotism/ethnic bias in Software industry?
on Thursday August 11, 2016 @03:34PM (#12271017)
I should've clarified better. I am talking about cases where visa is a non-issue.
How often do you see nepotism/ethnic bias in Software industry?
Starting to see quite a trend these days. People being denied of jobs not because of their skills but they are not of the same ethnicity from that of manager/interviewer. Apparently, being from the same country is a huge push in getting that job.Not sure if this information is relayed all the way up to the CEO but the trend is definitely there mostly in managers/Sr. Engineers playing...
Are hiring ads just a marketing gig for the company?
I've been keeping track and noticing hiring ads for a while now and have been sending my resume to quite a few companies lately. Some of them get back to me but there are many who never bother to reply. And these ads are lingering around for months. If they are not going to hire why advertise.It all makes to think they are merely doing this for the marketing purpose of their company, product...
Re:Serverless Architectures
on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:10PM (#12119306)
I truly hope that people stop misleading the mass with buzz words. We already have too many of them being used for clickbait.
I don't get why a simple client-server architecture would not suffice the "serverless". Software engineering and architecture design used to be cool in the past with useful design patterns. Now it's full of tricks/buzz words that promise the users of silver bullets that help them to manage code and servers. In reality, no such silver bullet exist and such tricks/architecture fail every day. I've noticed that martinfowler.com is one such place that seems to provide such empty promise of a silver bullet!
Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:11PM (#12101998)
Losing the email would be a disaster since the decentralized web is now relying on a centralized email system.
Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a developer to write better code?
on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:36AM (#12006592)
Don't try to use every feature of a language.
A two-liner is sometimes more efficient and readable than a one-liner.