Akash khoslaventures

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

Attributions:

Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions.

Julia Evans' blog post "Questions I'm asking in interviews".

Thanks to @bmastenbrook, @marcprecipice, @danluu, @kelseyinnis, @zmagg, @graue, and @ircolle for awesome question suggestions (per Julia).

"Useless" questions vs concrete questions

Bitcoin provides Broadcast in a model where it's not clear otherwise how to get it.

Most distributed systems network models assume there is some kind of pre-established authenticated communication channel among a fixed set of participants, for example a PKI. Bitcoin is meant to work in a weaker model where there is no such assumption. Instead Bitcoin relies on a non-standard assumption about the allocation of computational resources - ignoring incentives for now, the assumption is that honest parties contribute more power in total than the adversary.

Some pre-established communication channel must still be assumed, just not an authenticated one. When formalizing Bitcoin things, I usually call it a "synchronous message diffusion" channel. Any honest party can publish a message, and that message is delivered to every other honest party within some time bound. A party that receives a message does not learn the identity of the sender (this essentially makes Sybil attacks possible). Additionally, the advers

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Introduction to Convex Optimization MITOCW by Prof. Stephen Boyd
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Channels Are Not Enough

... or Why Pipelining Is Not That Easy

Golang Concurrency Patterns for brave and smart.

By @kachayev

	# Copied from http://ttaportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/7-Reallocation-using-LVM.pdf

	##
	## Showing the problem: need to reallocate 32GB from /dev/mapper/pve-data to /dev/mapper/pve-root
	##

	df -h
	# Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
	# /dev/mapper/pve-root 37G 37G 0 100% /
	# tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw

	"""
	gmaxwell's proof-of-storage
	https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=310323.0
	"""
	import random
	from bisect import bisect_left

	H = lambda v: (hash(("1",v)), hash(("2",v)))

	def setup(k, seed):

	use list::Node;

	mod list {
	use std::mem;

	#[derive(Show)]
	pub struct Node<T> {
	pub data: T,
	prev: Option<Box<Node<T>>>,
	next: Option<Box<Node<T>>>