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by Itaxpica 9y ago
All copyright on work done on my laptop belongs to me, and only me. You can 'rent' it by paying me my wage but as soon as I leave, all code on it is mine and I'm taking it with me for future 'reference'. Don't
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
It's the second-biggest in the city's history after the GM building in 2008, which went for 2.8 billion ( https://nypost.com/2018/02/06/the-history-behind-googles-mas... ). The current record for a si
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
Current Googler: in my experience that's still the case; generally if I ask a team for something that's on their roadmap but they won't have the resources to get to for another few quarters or longer, they're thrilled to
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
Google Calendar is the only one I’ve ever allowed, or would allow. It’s beyond user-hostile, it’s a pretty strong signal of a low-quality site at this point.
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
I know several people who successfully signed up, got their card, and have used it to see plenty of movies. (This is in NYC, it may be different by region)
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
Right-on-red is illegal in New York City, except at intersections where it's specifically marked as allowed (which are rare, and usually have turn lights or other features to make it safer). Unprotected left turn, though, yeah.
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
A comparable English expression is “the perfect is the enemy of the good”, which I think every software engineer should have engraved on to their monitors as a reminder.
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
Nope. The "liability" in the name refers to personal liability, and it's 'limited' in relation to the greater personal liability present in a partnership or sole proprietorship. An LLC's liability structure is
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
There's a site called Radiooooo that does pretty much exactly that. http://www.radiooooo.com
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by Itaxpica 9y ago
This article is from 2013. Google has banned these types of ads from its network (and started blocking sites that serve them) since then, as was discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032270
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by Itaxpica 10y ago
The timing on this, the day before Easter is great: if you live in the US and have an Italian bakery anywhere near you, go in and get yourself a 'pizza rustica'. It's an Italian-American pie made of sausages, cheeses, and egg
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by Itaxpica 10y ago
For what it's worth, this article is probably better titled "the Italian-American Bakery Explained"; over the last century and a half Italian-American culture has evolved in to something with roots in, but distinct and differ
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by Itaxpica 10y ago
I also once won a NASA-related hackathon (SpaceApps Philly), and my prize was a flight suit, but TBH that's honestly kinda cooler than cash.
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by Itaxpica 10y ago
Even just focusing on the pressure cooking aspect, it turns out you can pressure cook all sorts of things you might not expect until you own one. For example, I've made incredible cheesecake in my Instant Pot.
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by Itaxpica 10y ago
Because that's not what that sentence means. Jargon in academia is definitely overused, but in this case the terminology they're using has specific meanings, that this is meant to communicate to people within the field, that are l
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by Itaxpica 10y ago
Product Area (so Ads, Cloud, Search, etc).
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by Itaxpica 10y ago
In theory basically anything software related is possible, and I've never heard of a legitimately suggested 20% project being rejected, but these days its most common for people to 20% building a feature that interests them for another
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by Itaxpica 10y ago
Those are the primary, general four languages, but other languages are used as necessary for specific domains (e.g. Javascript, Objective-C/Swift), they're just not guaranteed to get the same level of internal tooling and infrastr
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by Itaxpica 10y ago
This (like a lot of things at Google) varies wildly across PA and even among managers within a PA. All my managers so far have been extremely supportive of 20% time, and I've personally worked on three different 20% projects over my la
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by Itaxpica 11y ago
I definitely agree, but Monument Valley only costs $4. The DLC is another $2. I'm totally OK with the length considering how inexpensive it is.
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by Itaxpica 11y ago
Ok, here's 5 non-freemium iOS games that I would put up with every game you listed (and this is speaking as someone who loves a lot of the old gameboy games): Threes, Year Walk, Device 6, Monument Valley, You Must Build A Boat I could
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by Itaxpica 11y ago
Hulu Plus recently added an option where you can pay a bit extra (like two bucks a month) to make it ad free. It makes it a way more pleasant experience.
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http://www.tableflip.club/
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by Itaxpica 11y ago
I've started and stopped my own response to this article about a half dozen times, but this post gets to the crux of it very well. I've worked in a research lab studying the neuroscience of autism (via MRI and FMRI, even), and thi
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by Itaxpica 11y ago
Very cool! I thought it was interesting that you're getting good, usable data despite using untrained tasters - have you ever experimented with using some kind of calibrated tasters, like BJCP judges or something? Do you think it would
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by Itaxpica 11y ago
> The only language that is successful purely because of the backing of a large company is Swift. Rust and Go seem to fall pretty firmly in to that category as well.
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by Itaxpica 11y ago
OnHub seems to have a bunch of features which the cloud connection enables that are helpful, but not vital. For some people, having those features isn't worth the potential for additional complexity, and potential vector for privacy or
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by Itaxpica 11y ago
Vague? It seems to me like they're pretty clear about exactly what data they're collecting and why, and how to disable that collection: https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6279845
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Proto A/B Testing was Patented in 1996 (1996)(google.com)
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by Itaxpica 14y ago
I do like the idea a lot, but maybe have an optional comment box to add why the voter liked/disliked it? There are a few photos I saw where I thought "this would be a great outfit were it not for X"

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