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andonisus··on A $230k debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China
Why does it seem like you are giving him a pass for treason? Everyone has struggles. This does not give you a pass to become a spy for a hostile foreign nation and endanger the lives of your countrymen.
andonisus··on Women: Learn to Program This Summer
You are trying to verify an innate property of a person by measuring the emergent outcome of their choices. While this is a good litmus test, I do not think the answer to quantifying this acclimation toward a certain profession is something that can be measured discretely.
andonisus··on Women: Learn to Program This Summer
What if the underlying reason is that women, as a whole, are less interested in Science/Engineering than men are?
andonisus··on Amazon Pulls Books That Promote Unscientific Autism ‘Cures’
I am confused, because free speech/freedom from censorship only applies to that which is oppressed by the Government, not private companies.
andonisus··on The State of Caching in Go
This is assuming that all threads need a global view of the data. When this is not the case, it is sufficient to have many async goroutines ingest on a channel and fill their own local map, lock-free. This is our general strategy for high-performance streaming routines.
andonisus··on Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf]
Thank you for creating this resource; it is incredibly interesting. Regarding the brain teasers (and, by extension, the higher-level math involved), do you have any resources you would recommend for (re)learning the mechanics involved? I took college-level mathematics through Differential Equations and Statistics for Engineering, but I would like to refresh and enhance my skill.
andonisus··on Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
I am replying to you as an engineer at an IoT company that provides SaaS in AWS for the data our devices produce. To solve this problem, we transmit our data in a proprietary "raw" binary format that then gets parsed into a protobuf. All data for a given UTC day is appended to this protobuf file and hosted in S3. Retrieving data requires downloading the protobuf file from S3, unmarshalling the protobuf, and finding the entry you care about.
andonisus··on Facebook Screwed Us All
What good does blame serve? If there is only moral blame -- as opposed to legal blame -- then the only recourse is at the individual level. Accordingly, I no longer use Facebook (or Instagram).
andonisus··on Facebook Screwed Us All
This is why I also said "to this best of their ability". This includes such methods as relying on a trusted source.
andonisus··on Facebook Screwed Us All
I firmly believe it is the individual's responsibility to determine the veracity of the information they consume, to the best of their ability. If the platform of information isn't Facebook, it's some other medium of communication. Why should Facebook be responsible for the content its users post, assuming the content is legal? Then again, some will argue that we should make "Fake News", "Inflammatory Opinions", and "Hate Speech" illegal, but I do not believe any governments should be interested in policing the speech of its peoples. I say this as an American, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
andonisus··on America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
Surely there must be some sort of test to measure applicants, though?
andonisus··on Faster hash joiner with vectorized execution
It was a pleasant surprise to see the code base written in Go!
andonisus··on US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
This is interesting. Did they give specific reasons for voting Nay (or abstaining)? Is it because it would not pass the Senate regardless?
andonisus··on Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize
Shame for you telling other people how they should feel.
andonisus··on I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
Can you give a concrete example of when you actually use BFS to solve this?

For me, it always goes like this:

* Am I iterating over a list multiple times?

* Am I iterating over a list and comparing it to some elements in another list?

Turn one of them into a map and continue. It's pretty simple.

andonisus··on Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals
The concerns you raise are true in corner cases, but the general use case should be good enough. Your solution also seems to require mounting one of your devices at the entryway of every room for which you wish to monitor occupancy. Seems like it could be costly, especially if doing so requires wiring power up to it.
andonisus··on Tech Choices I Regret at Spectrum
Was using node over another language/ecosystem a baked-in requirement?
andonisus··on Airbnb and security camera disclosure
At the risk of sounding condescending, what you did was a crime and potentially makes you liable under the CFAA. Probably, no one in law enforcement would care, but I would not advise doing this in the future.
andonisus··on Study: Bias Drops Dramatically for Sexual Orientation and Race – But Not Weight
My guess would be because those in the former camp (sexual or racial minority) have been actively persecuted and deprived of life and liberty.
andonisus··on ‘A Minefield’: How Scholars Who Don’t Drink Navigate the Conference Social Scene
It's not the the concerns are imaginary, it's that they are inconsequential. Everyone will have an opinion about everything they interact with; this is the human experience. You can't control the fact that others will form opinions about you and your actions, but you can control how you react regarding this.
andonisus··on ‘A Minefield’: How Scholars Who Don’t Drink Navigate the Conference Social Scene
The article speaks about feeling judged, not actually being judged. I am quite certain that no one at these conferences (or at social networking events of any kind which involved alcohol) cares if someone is abstaining from alcohol.
andonisus··on ‘A Minefield’: How Scholars Who Don’t Drink Navigate the Conference Social Scene
The question remains: how is this a big deal? So what if she thinks people are judging her. Acknowledge it, ignore it, and move on with your time. We cannot seek to universally police the behavior of others, but we can control our own reactions to it. If she is uncomfortable with answering questions about why she doesn't wish to drink, she can just respond that she doesn't want to. It really does seem that simple to me.
andonisus··on ‘A Minefield’: How Scholars Who Don’t Drink Navigate the Conference Social Scene
Even if someone were to shame you, what's to stop you from ignoring them? So what if other people have opinions about your behavior; just acknowledge them and move on.
andonisus··on A Philosopher Redefining Equality
Is the decline in intelligence with respect to CO2 correlation or causation? Obviously, we should make real efforts to protect our air quality, as we all benefit from this. And we should make efforts to prevent people from polluting the air to their benefit (creating capital or profit from some action which pollutes the air -- an action which otherwise would be unprofitable if we were to make it illegal).
andonisus··on A Philosopher Redefining Equality
Then I would have to reevaluate my position!
andonisus··on A Philosopher Redefining Equality
I believe the fundamental difference between paying for air versus food, education, medical care is that air is abundantly free. Someone could try to charge you for it, but you could just open your lungs and consume all of the air which they haven't bottled.

Food requires land, plants, and animals. It requires labor. It requires you to either produce it yourself or interact with someone who does. Air does not.

andonisus··on Twitter’s Kafka adoption story
We us NATS (and STAN) for real-time IoT metrics and reporting with a high cardinality of subscriptions. The throughput from a single NATS box is very nice (we currently send 100K+ messages/sec using a single EC2 instance running NATS).
andonisus··on Participate in the 2018 Go User Survey
Happy to have filled out the survey. We use Go daily at my company; it powers all of our microservices.
andonisus··on How We Found a Missing Scala Class
Great article. I had been hunting down a similar issue in Java 8 with maven dependencies. I was getting the same error, but confirmed that the dependent jars were correctly included on the classpath. I eventually gave up and decided to take a different programming approach that did not include these missing classes, but I think I will revisit it to see if a class loader is getting closed somehow.
andonisus··on GDPR for side-projects? Blocking all EU traffic with Nginx in 3 simple steps
Maybe they don't want to spend time doing it manually...?
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