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momongaon I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)

I think you can do this with a Fisher-Yates shuffle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle), right?

momongaon CodePerfect 95 – A fast IDE for Go

I wonder how much CPU this uses. An immediate mode GUI (ImGUI, which CodePerfect 95 uses) constructs the entire GUI on every frame by default.

momongaon Ask HN: Best Recipe Search Engine?

It's great until you want to cancel; they require you to call their customer support number to do so.

momongaon How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite

I wish the article detailed the performance issues with the old implementation, and why those issues necessitated a rewrite (other than "strong primitives" and "difficult to retrofit").

momongaon 1.1B Taxi Rides Using OmniSciDB and a MacBook Pro

The same blog has other benchmarks[1], one of which is SQLite[2].

[1] https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html

[2] https://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-sqlite-pa...

momongaon Show HN: Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look

Maybe it’s more of a security feature? What if phishing emails had a bogus email for the Reply-To name, E.g., “service@paypal.com <hacker@evil.com>”

momongaon Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

Thanks for providing this service and having such great communication with users!