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Over the last two years, I’ve helped 100+ engineers prepare for interviews in tech companies. Last year, I also volunteered to conduct mock…

lambda-coding-round-evaluator is a Serverless application to automate coding round submission and evaluation. It helps you get rid of emails and easily filter out bad candidates. Yay! - GitHub - xe...

EventSource convenience wrapper. Contribute to bjarneo/instantly development by creating an account on GitHub.

Keep the devs happy, or Microsoft and Google will catch you

Define and maintain a state machine within an object-oriented software system.

There is no higher God in Silicon Valley than growth. No sacrifice too big for its craving altar. As long as you keep your curve exponential, all your sins will be forgotten at the exit. It’s throu…

Tech helped Fake Markets took over Free Markets without media or politicians even noticing.

Flash flood prediction using machine learning has proven capable in the U.S. and Europe; we're now bringing it to East Africa.

Illustration by Nate Otto In 1989, Deborah Maris Lader had recently moved to Chicago and was looking for a studio where she could make prints and meet other artists. She couldn’t find a place like …

Logobook is a growing catalog of "the finest logos, symbols & trademarks" in the world. The 5000+ logos are divided into groups like letters & numbers, shapes, animals, objects, and nature and are ext

Markets don’t solve all our problems, but they sometimes produce remarkably efficient systems for producing and distributing goods, and the internet traded on that promise with marketplaces l…

For Co.Design, Periscopic compared patent ownership between Apple and Google, which ends up providing a good idea of company structure.

A simple dialog can turn opinions into plans (or perhaps, into less tightly held opinions). We ask, "and then what happens?" Flesh it out. Tell us step by step. The more detail the better…

Have you ever tried to navigate complex data structures within Ansible playbooks using awkward looping constructs and convoluted map filters? It might be easier to munge the data structure into a more appropriate format first and then use the munged data in subsequent tasks. Wondering how to do it?

With a new generation of Xeon processors coming out later this year from Intel and AMD trying to get back in the game with its own X86 server chips – they

Most commodity processors support single-precision IEEE 754 floating-point numbers. Though they are ubiquitous, they are often misunderstood. One of my readers left a comment suggesting that picking an integer in [0,232) at random and dividing it by 232, was equivalent to picking a number at random in [0,1). I am not assuming that the reader … Continue reading How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]?

Utilities and regulators are not typically known for innovation. Instead, they tend to focus their efforts and attention on reliability and cost effectiveness. So, when Rob Powelson, new president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) kicked off his first national m

It’s not all roses in the world of Node.js. In fact, more than just about every other platform I’ve used, it can feel like a precarious mountain path with a long cliff below. Yes, it features some...

There are several different types of career concepts. Discover the philosophy behind it and how you can make them an asset.

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