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victorhugo31337on U.S. Accuses Tech Firm of Bias Against Asian Software Engineers

"When an engineer is reviewing another engineer's code.." I agree--but society doesn;t operate like this most of the time. I've been in places where an Engineer's opinions carries little weight on who gets hired.

victorhugo31337on U.S. Accuses Tech Firm of Bias Against Asian Software Engineers

I did not mean to offend or generalize--there are many people of the same race around the world that dislike each other. I believe everyone is inherently racist--it might be an evolutionary trait (Terror Management Theory comes to mind where the thought of death cause certain people to become subconsciously sectarian), but it doesn;t suit us very well anymore in modern society.

victorhugo31337on U.S. Accuses Tech Firm of Bias Against Asian Software Engineers

No comeback--just my personal comment. You guys don't have to agree. My original point is that I wasn't surprised regarding the hiring practices at Palantir.

victorhugo31337on U.S. Accuses Tech Firm of Bias Against Asian Software Engineers

Not surprising. Rich white people want to stick together and give opportunities to other rich white people in their own circle. It's the same for Asian people in Silicon Valley as well--I don't think it's fair to single out one particular race for this type of behavior. Racism seems to be a human characteristic--whether it's in prison or tech firms, racism is pervasive. It would be more interesting and very much more innovative if SV where a true meritocracy.

victorhugo31337on KDE 2 Screenshots (2000-2002)

Great times! I remember Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Not RHEL-7.2) with KDE installed circa 2001.

victorhugo31337on Why is Hacker News behaving in such an unfair way?

It's a conspiracy.

victorhugo31337on [dead]

Leave the poor guy alone :-( it's not his e-mail account.

victorhugo31337on Linux debugging tools you'll love

AFAIK ss was not meant to be a complete replacement of netstat. The ss utility (part of iproute2) uses netlink to monitor sockets only. The netstat utility (part of net-tools) uses old school ioctls to do things like manage routing tables, multicast membership, interface stats...long story short, iproute2 replaces net-tools.

victorhugo31337on Assume only 10% of the current software will be relevant after 10 years

TCP/IP/Ethernet

victorhugo31337on Poll: Is “-3” a whole number?

Pragmatically I believe you are correct. I think negative whole numbers and zero are also a subset of "whole numbers" along with positive whole numbers.

victorhugo31337on Poll: Is “-3” a whole number?

Whole number: "a number without fractions; an integer."

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

    int num = -3;

    fprintf(stdout, "%d\n", num);

return 0;

}

Some people say whole numbers are not negative, while other people say zero is also not a whole number.

victorhugo31337on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool

Seems over-engineered in my opinion. Why not use a simple shell script for mount dependencies and autofs for auto-mounting? Having a service manager job queue to mount a file system is a bit much.

victorhugo31337on [dead]

Cost of living in the Bay Area is ridiculous.

victorhugo31337on China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech

"red flag"...I see what you did there.. nice.

victorhugo31337on Ask HN: Big software teams, how do you manage your computers?

Typically I've seen teams have a set of build-machines that use NIS/LDAP to authenticate and authorize users, but also auto-mounts an NFS home-share on something like a NetApp filer when a user logins. Developers have their own laptops and ssh/XForward to build machines.

victorhugo31337on Elon Musk Says He's Working on Another Secret 'Masterplan'

I'm thinkin of a masterplan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6aAFkP0BGU

victorhugo31337on [dead]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb

victorhugo31337on Nothing but radio silence from DigitalOcean while 38k sites remain down

Isn't the cloud awesome?

victorhugo31337on 72% in U.S. say driving must be preserved

Many people in the technology industry suffer from living in a bubble. Yes, self-driving cars are the future, but people will NEVER give up driving if they have a choice. This is true especially for Americans, where having the freedom to drive where you please is ingrained in the public psyche.

victorhugo31337on Ask HN: Should I learn how to program, or come up with an idea first?

If you're only interested in programming because of entrepreneurial ideas, you will be a crap programmer.

victorhugo31337on Ask HN: On giving up?

Sounds like you're suffering from "imposter syndrome". If you've made it to chapter 7, keep going! I'm certain most people wouldn't have made it to chapter 3.

victorhugo31337on Does Silicon Valley have a racism problem?

Yes, next question.

victorhugo31337on Prima donna engineers

Jimmy Wales, lol.

victorhugo31337on Ask HN: Do you get a high when you watch a video of Elon Musk, Feynman etc?

Please don't lump Elon Musk with Richard Feynman. Musk isn't fit to carry Feynman's shoes.

victorhugo31337on Why does everyone here seem to dislike C++?

Expressing yourself in languages like Python is much easier than C++. You'll be able to concentrate more on solving the problem at hand than dealing with the language.

I highly recommend these two short books:

https://www.amazon.com/Treading-Python-Beginning-Programming...

http://www.amazon.com/Treading-Python-2-Intermediate/dp/1490...

victorhugo31337on Ask HN: How to learn C in 2016?

What's the rush?

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Learning C is difficult because you need to know how the machine actually works. Trust me, there are no shortcuts. The year can be 2036, learning C will be the same.

With that said, these books are excellent:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Brian-W-Kernighan...

http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp...

http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Plus-6th-Developers-Library/dp/...

victorhugo31337on Russian Programmers Are Pretty Good

I never understood programming competitions. To me, programming is more of an art form or a craft than something you do competitively.

victorhugo31337on The Tao of Programming

Excellent programming wisdom.

victorhugo31337on BCHS Stack - BSD, C, Httpd, SQLite

"It's a hipster-free, open source software stack for web applications." :-D