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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I think a big part of it is something the article touches on: Jeff is an extrovert, Sanjay is an introvert. Jeff is the much more visible of the two; the one who people are more likely to have heard speak personally or to have dealt with. I
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
For a slightly more modern occurrence of something similar, the actress Marilu Henner also has total, perfect recall: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilu_Henner
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I consider this a positive. If I ask Google not to save my data, I don't want them to save my data, not pick and choose where they should be saving it.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Depends on the book. For example, Joy of Cooking is pretty standard American and Italian/French-by-way-of-America fare (unsurprisingly, since it was first published in the US in 1931), while How To Cook Everything has a much wider remi
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
The Times actually did a great writeup on this exact thing recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/us/politics/george-soros-...
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I dunno, I love Philly, but “good” isn’t exactly the word I’d pick to describe SEPTA.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Someone suggesting re-writing the Linux kernel in nodejs may be a strong contender for Peak HN
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I’d imagine the hollowing-out of local IRL communities is a major contributor. Fifty years ago you would have gotten companionship and (what at the time passed for) emotional support from your church, or the local rotary club, or similar. W
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Yes but "rights" are legally defined, not just 'well I feel like I have a right to this'. Employees dating their subordinates is not a protected class, so "and probably not because they fall in love with each other
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
While the specifics are new, the issue of churn and waste in advertising very much isn't. John Wanamaker famous quote, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half" is from the 1900
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I had no idea that existed and it is a game-changer. Thank you!
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Because in the United States the regulated term is Professional Engineer (or PE), ‘engineer’ is entirely unregulated.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Yep. Before AdWords, Google’s monetization strategy was fairly hand-wavy and hinged around licensing the tech to be a search provider for other websites. Once they realized how much money could be made by putting ads on searches, the rest i
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Landlords can take tax write-offs for empty properties, so they’re incentivized to sit on empty storefronts until the perfect long-term lease comes along rather than rent to a less ideal shorter-term tenant.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I’ve been at Google about as long as you, and I’ve heard folks say some variation of this since the day I started. Personally, while there may be political or spiritual changes further up the ladder I’ve noticed no real change in my day-to-
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
I think I’ve seen this in hotel gyms pretty much everywhere I’ve travelled, including Europe and Russia.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Of course, the one thing that all of those countries have in common is universal healthcare. "Treat addiction as a disease and prescribe heroin for it" doesn't really work so well when the overwhelming majority of addicts mos
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Facebook's NY office is also significantly, disproportionally smaller than Google's. Google's NY office is the largest outside of California and is in many ways a second heart of the company, it really doesn't feel like
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
This can be good when companies and incentive structures are set up to reward it. The entire concept at the core of SRE is "if you have skilled engineers do your ops work, they'll automate as much as possible, freeing up their tim
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
A quick side note - NYU is private (and generally seen as elite at the undergrad level, with the price tag to match), not a state university. The state schools in New York are the SUNY (State University of New York) system outside of the ci
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
This would be a violation of Google’s anti-moonlighting clause, so only take this advice if you’re willing to lose your job at Google over it.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
This is a common misconception, but the prohibition against using electronics on Shabbat has nothing to do with fire; it has to do with completing a circuit since "completing a construction" is one of the 39 specifically banned ac
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
How much are you eating? I used to have similar troubles with recovery until I realized that I just wasn’t eating nearly enough to train at the volume I was. For me, adding two cups of Greek yogurt and a protein shake every day (so roughly
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
The snake story deserves to be up there with Hopper's moth in the annals of CS history
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Usually the fine print will say that these are expected video qualities based on the downstream bandwidth provided, not that they're literally charging you for each specific quality.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Not the OP, but for iOS developers I've asked: "What's one thing you would change about Objective-C (this was pre-Swift), and what's one thing you would change about Cocoa [the framework that iOS apps are developed with]
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
The American Budweiser is different than the original Czech Budweiser sold in the rest of the world (a much better beer, which is distributed as "Czechvar" in the US for trademark reasons); the only connection it has to the Czech
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Unfortunately, modern American capitalism has stripped from 99% of college students the ability to worry about "society's cultural vitality". It's easy to talk a big game about the choices you make and 'a forsaken w
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This is a Ross Douthat piece; the man never met a concept he couldn't tie in to the supposed cultural decline of the West, however tenuously. I wish I had realized it was him before I read the article and saved myself a click.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Seriously? I also live in Brooklyn and commute by subway (the C, specifically), and when it works it’s great... which is maybe 60% of the time.

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