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by Fishkins 12y ago
The picture Negitivefrags posted shows a similar setup currently in use in New Zealand (although it's a permanent merge instead of temporary construction) http://i.imgur.com/AtaDOGX.jpg
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I second this. For a long time I was just using basic Alfred and had ClipMenu installed separately. A couple weeks ago I bought the Power Pack, and its clipboard manager is way better than ClipMenu.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
When hiring, I agree that aptitude is probably a better signal than experience. However, I also think aptitude is much harder to assess during an interview. It's pretty easy to look at someone's work history, github, and ask them
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by Fishkins 12y ago
> I have multiple friends at different mid-size startups who replaced backbone with react They all replaced backbone with react? I haven't really used either, but I thought a lot of people used backbone and react together, since the
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Just a nitpick, but applying a command to the whole file can be done faster with ggg?G That also has the benefit of working with plain vi, since vi doesn't support visual mode. I didn't know about the rot13 command. I probably won
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by Fishkins 12y ago
f.lux doesn't reduce overall brightness, it reduces the blue end of the spectrum. This makes the screen warmer, and is supposed to be good later at night since blue light specifically is what triggers production of the chemicals that k
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by Fishkins 12y ago
With Emacs in Evil mode, :%s/foo/bar/ also shows you the potential replacements as you type.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Till my senior year of HS, I thought math was easy, but not very interesting. This was basically for the reason you describe -- there's one obvious right answer, and a set of steps you can mechanically apply to reliably get there. When
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by Fishkins 12y ago
To be fair, the (real or perceived) opportunities for women and minorities at major tech companies like Google could very well influence the majors college students choose to pursue. If I were an 18 y.o. woman who read news articles or talk
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I'm not sure this would be very useful if you're only looking at people who successfully got a job in that field. Let's assume software devs make the comparable salaries regardless of education. It could still be true[0] that
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by Fishkins 12y ago
We didn't move, but we've always been on SoftLayer using a bare-metal Postgres machine and it has gone well.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Why do you say that? It seems clear to me it is. Do you disagree that A being caused by B usually means A and B correlated[0]? That's all that's necessary to say correlation is evidence for causation. 0: I know there are some exce
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How and why bicycle deaths happen in the US(vox.com)
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I think what that must mean is: Players 1, 2, and 3 have the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best hand, respectively. During betting, player 1 folds. Neither player 2 nor 3 fold and eventually show their hands. Thus player 2 wins not by having the best h
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I think that's a great idea.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
In one of the Reactive Programming Scala class on Coursera, one of the teachers said types only need to satisfy 2 of the 3 Monad laws to be useful in for comprehensions (similar to do blocks in Haskell), so it didn't actually matter wh
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I definitely dislike the blurred answers scheme. I think I even had Quora blocked from my searches when that was possible (without a plugin). Sometimes, though, they look like the only hit likely to provide useful info to a question I'
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Because the submitter added ?share=1 to the link edit: I personally use https://github.com/sindresorhus/quora-unblocker in Chrome to do this for me so I don't have to think about it. I also made https:/&#x2
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Mostly good advice. I'm surprised he talked about Joda Time and Java 8 without mentioning Joda Time is (essentially) included in Java 8.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I don't necessarily see a problem with Util classes, either. He didn't really say why they're bad. Actually, I guess he didn't describe why we should do most of the things he recommended, but I agree with most of the o
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by Fishkins 12y ago
As someone who both walks and bikes a lot (currently in NYC): Bikes often run lights when they shouldn't, and that's dangerous and shitty. But even more often than that, pedestrians stride out into the intersection against the lig
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I totally agree with this. In the US (and probably most other countries) bike laws and infrastructure at at best an afterthought shoehorned into the existing automobile/pedestrian setup. Lots of cyclists are reckless and inconsiderate,
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I knew about it pretty much from the beginning, but I still never minimize anything since it's a pain to have to remember which windows I minimized and therefor need to also press Option for. Of course more often then not I'll use
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I agree with core days instead of core hours. The commute can be a big deal. My team at work has de facto core days Tue through Thur, with most people working from home Mon and Fri. I think it's pretty close to an ideal situation.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I thought about that, but I like undefined better. Part of the reason is NaN is of type number[0], and I think a number makes less as a return value for a conditional statement than a general non-value (e.g. undefined or null). Also, if som
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Yeah, SQL's handling of nulls tripped me up a couple times while I was getting used to the language.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I agree it really doesn't make sense to say two NaNs are definitely equal, but it doesn't seem necessarily true that they aren't equal, either. Semantically, I would say NaN == NaN should return undefined (assuming JS here).
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by Fishkins 12y ago
I'd amend that to be "is definitely NSFW," and also the least funny.
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by Fishkins 12y ago
Slug, unsurprisingly, wouldn't be very high [0]. I've always felt like nearly every rapper he's associated with is great, but he's kind of mediocre. I don't see any data on Busdriver, but I imagine he'd fare be
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by Fishkins 12y ago
MF DOOM is on the list. He's above average, but well below Aes or most of Wu-Tang. I've listened to a fair number of rappers, and I was pretty confident Aes would be at the top of this list. I agree it would be cool to see a list

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