March 2012
0 posts
Two Recent Interview Questions →
ollieoblivious:
varlogme:
I did a second round interview with Twitter recently and the two technical questions I was asked are pretty interesting. The first I solved rather quickly but the second took a bit more time (and a hint).
Question 1:
Given a binary tree with elements of type int determine if the…
For question 1 I would have made a crawler for the tree, incrementing along the nodes...
February 2012
7 posts
Two Recent Interview Questions
varlogme:
I did a second round interview with Twitter recently and the two technical questions I was asked are pretty interesting. The first I solved rather quickly but the second took a bit more time (and a hint).
Question 1:
Given a binary tree with elements of type int determine if the tree is mirrored.
Below is an example of a mirrored tree:
1
3 3
4 5 5 4
...
Smash the Stack →
varlogme:
Really awesome wargame resource. Will definitely be hitting this up when I have time to browse through reverse engineering stuff.
/var/log/me: Card Game →
varlogme:
Here’s an interesting question recently posed by my friend Lee.
Imagine there is a theoretical game:
There are 9 cards, numbered 1-9, lying face up on a table in front of two players. Each player takes turns picking up one card from the table. A player wins if they collect any three cards whose…
New Development Blog - /var/log/me →
I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time, I just created a new development log. I’ll be posting all my hacking/coding relating stuff on there, check it out if you’re interested! In the future this will be on itsachen.com v2.0.
January 2012
10 posts
Megaupload Down
Today Megaupload was shut down by the U.S. Justice Department on charges of copyright infringement. While pirated materials are often hosted on the site, Megaupload does not condone piracy and always complies with DMCA’s and removes flagged material.
The indictment was returned in Virginia, where Megaupload servers were found to have pirated content.
The scariest part of this is the...
How Software Is Made →
Faith in Humanity
Today when I was getting sushi with a friend I accidentally left my car headlights on. Upon returning I came upon the grave realization that my car’s battery was dead.
Three people went out of their way to help us get the car started, including a dad whose family was meeting people at a restaurant, a dad buying groceries with his daughter, and two teenagers in a pickup.
People are so nice.
Is Your Son A Computer Hacker? →
December 2011
9 posts
Facebook HQ
I’ve only been here for 10 minutes and I love it here. I want to work here. So bad.
November 2011
6 posts
mygardenstate replied to your link: DC++ Shuts Down, Citing Legal Liability Concerns
with all due respect, the goddamn Daily Sun has to publish the news. That’s called being honest. Covering up or ignoring something inconvenient, even to most of the people that work at the paper, is borderline undemocratic.
The Daily Sun can publish whatever it wants, but this sort of publicity is what...
DC++ Shuts Down, Citing Legal Liability Concerns →
Goddammit Daily Sun.
There are some things that do not deserve publicity, not matter how good a news story it would make.
If Cornell students still want the convenience of a file-sharing service in the long run, people need to realize that publicity only attracts attention, which could result in horrible, horrible things.
VC uses jwz's name to sell a con →
Ah VC’s. I used to want to be a VC.
It sounded great when I first heard of the concept. You give money to startups and watch them succeed!
Man was I wrong.
3 Day Startup was the first time I could interact face to face with VC’s. Our startup had an awesome idea, the Facebook developers who came from California loved it, but the VC’s didn’t. Why? No direct profitability....
I Want My Hat Back (TF2 Version)
froggy-fran:
This took me all day and I regret nothing.
Enjoy.
October 2011
7 posts
“((lambda (x) (requiescat-in-pace x)) ‘john-mccarthy)”
– via (via fooyeahcode)
Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and UNIX, dead at 70
Dennis Ritchie, the R in K&R, has passed away. K&R was the first programming book I ever attempted to read. Imagine a world without C and UNIX. I hope his death will receive the proper media attention it deserves.
Viewing Hidden Files on Mac
Kinda bored, thought I would write up a fun tidbit you OS X users could find handy.
How do you view hidden files on a Mac? A quick Google search comes up with the following terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
Thats way annoying though. Quick and easy solution? Put the commands in a bash script (each followed by a killall Finder) for a super quick way...
September 2011
9 posts
Team Training...
Six hours of taekwondo training today.
That means six hours of pain, sweat and tears. Six hours of getting kicked in the head and kicking people in the face. Almost 4000 calories burned.
And then theres the 72 hours of pain starting tomorrow.
But it feels so good.
As Sab says, theres infinite paths to failure, but only one to victory.
True Story: Quick Response to Wall Street... →
riningear:
itsachen:
Wall Street, while symbolic, is no proper place to protest.
What remains today is mainly the NYSE, most i-banks reside in different areas of Manhattan (besides Deutsche Bank). Wall Street today is mainly high-end retail, some small businesses and eateries (and a HUGE Duane Reade).
You…
Their being on Wall Street of all places is mostly symbolic. I’m sure a lot of...
Quick Response to Wall Street "Occupation".
Wall Street, while symbolic, is no proper place to protest.
What remains today is mainly the NYSE, most i-banks reside in different areas of Manhattan (besides Deutsche Bank). Wall Street today is mainly high-end retail, some small businesses and eateries (and a HUGE Duane Reade).
You misinformed self-entitled kiddies need to stop and realize that all you’re doing is impeding the movement...
“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
– Aldous Huxley
itsachen.com v1.0 →
Hastily thrown together in anticipation for career fair.
August 2011
12 posts
