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Over-hiring in the zero interest years. It resulted in the hiring of non-qualified personnel and of qualified personnel with no concrete plans on how to utilize them. Either is a buzz kill, especially when the chickens came home to roost with respect to results (revenues) vs ballooned valuations.

foobar502on Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing (2018)

Read the article and googled a bit - what are more example use cases for LSH behind those described?

foobar502on The Limits to Blockchain Scalability

It takes time.

foobar502on Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library

Could you elaborate on that? What aspects of using clang as opposed to gcc were so beneficial?

foobar502on Show HN: 2M fully loaded concurrent WebSockets

How would you do that?

foobar502on How do you focus while depressed?

While I guess that's besides the point, how long into the future were those goals set?

foobar502on How do you focus while depressed?

Yea, HN and FB are the two great procrastinators :)

And Thanks!

foobar502on How do you focus while depressed?

I am seeing a psychologist. I considered taking meds but decided not to due to possible long term side effects (IMO... to each his own regarding long term risk I guess)

foobar502on How do you focus while depressed?

yea, it passes, but what worries me is that it keeps returning...

foobar502on How do you focus while depressed?

Thanks mate! Appreciated :)

foobar502on How do you focus while depressed?

thanks! in the past I treated such down time as a time to regroup, but we live in a world with deadlines and sometimes rigid schedules where it's not always possible to step back.

This is not a whine... I'm with a fairly productive mindset "usually", so perhaps it doubly hurts when I can't be productive or take life by the mouthful.

foobar502on How do you focus while depressed?

very interesting... I use metal to wake up when I'm tired, but for the apathetic periods it may also be interesting. will try.

foobar502on How do you focus while depressed?

I guess this is true, but even when I keep these habits (i.e. exercise, albeit too "mechanically") (and right now admittedly I fail to do so), the lack of focus I'm talking about is not only in the sense of "what direction should I take in my life", but in the sense of me trying to read and grok something or need to do some math exercise and am unable to focus.