Archive for November, 2005

The damndest thing…

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Greetings,
So, like many geeks, I’ve experimented with the blogging, content-management, etc., thing for a while. I got onto LiveJournal when I was relatively new, because most of the people I knew were on it.
Then, one day, I decided I wanted to set up a version of LiveJournal for my then work company, PayPal (now [...]

Thoughts on remote diff…

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Greetings,
I sat in my office today, listening to a phone interview in which the candidate was asked a number of simple problems, and then the harder design question:
Given two computers linked over a slow link (say dialup), each has a 1TB file, how would you determine (1) if the two are different, and (2) what [...]