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by adgar 14y ago
> wonder what changed since then (DropBox? Evernote? ...) You're on the wrong track. What's changed since then is GDrive - what do you think all those involved were doing in the last 4 years?
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by adgar 14y ago
> In short, for all the talk about 'not enough women in tech', all I can say is that they're out there, and they're awesome. Hell, half the men I know in tech can't get as much as she does. Your comment was excellent until you took the
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by adgar 14y ago
You seem to have an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of Google's product design, well beyond that of an average software engineer at Google like myself. I'm curious how you came to be in possession of such insight, since it apparent
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by adgar 14y ago
This is more like a "how to revert to 2006 GMail" list. I mean, he even goes out of his way to turn off Priority Inbox and important markers. That has nothing to do with the redesign - it's just turning off year+ old features, which is what
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by adgar 14y ago
Hunter S. Thompson is the only one who had it right. > Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly
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by adgar 14y ago
The easiest example of this can be seen in one of his comments upthread: > (pg): Sort of. More like working very hard till you achieve financial independence, after which you can do whatever you want. You don't have to stop working; you
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by adgar 15y ago
> It's also dirt cheap to live here compared to somewhere else. A 2-3 bedroom apartment for downtown in the heart of everything will run less than 2k if you find a good spot. As an NYC resident who lives in Chelsea, I wept when I read t
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by adgar 15y ago
He's a notorious anti-Google troll on Reddit. He adds "Google" to "Go" so that his negative posts will be associated with both Google and Go.
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by adgar 15y ago
It was the words-not-numbers that did it for me.
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by adgar 15y ago
> This third one makes using longjmp for exceptions almost untenable in real life code. No, it's pretty simple. Postgres does it with something called regions: your code essentially becomes transaction-based, where resources that need c
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by adgar 15y ago
In fairness, that's not the whole story. When I sauna, I'm not doing anything remotely strenuous. I'm sitting around naked and not feeling the slightest stress. These guys were working in an emergency situation - clothed - and doing physica
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by adgar 15y ago
Javascript uses ieee 754 for all numbers. News at eleven.
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by adgar 15y ago
Actually, the GP is talking about somehow building a startup based on... form widgets. He specifically said a "(subscription) service" - which would invariably require server-side support for these apparently startup-backed form fields.
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by adgar 15y ago
> nyone know why Google doesn't show the referrer if you're logged in and it's organic result, but they do show it if they click on Adwords? Disclaimer: I'm a google engineer but don't know the answer at all and am just making a complet
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by adgar 15y ago
Then it should say so, not suggest any rereading is being done and that it's just kernel plus memcpy.
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by adgar 15y ago
> hopefully one of the .NET protocol buffer implementations will work correctly with the one I imagine exists for Go That's one of the primary points of protocol buffers ;-)
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by adgar 15y ago
I'm a bit concerned about at least one measurement: Read 16-byte file 100000 iterations 2.1s for 100k reads 21219.3ns per read This appears to be testing... the filesystem cache? It's certainly not seeking on a rotational disk, "SSD" isn't
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by adgar 15y ago
> They've enforced style by mandating committers hook a linter into a git pre-commit hook Style-related presubmit hooks are a part of every project at Google. Plus readability requirements, etc - style is kept pretty damn consistent. &#
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by adgar 15y ago
> In the space I work in - enterprise applications integrating large, disparate systems where you have zero control over interfaces and data formats but somehow need to get everything talking together nicely, generics are invaluable in
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by adgar 15y ago
But apparently you consider "no generics" a deal-breaker without seeing why generics haven't been added yet, and why it isn't an issue for the many developers writing real-world production Go code.
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by adgar 15y ago
It seems you deleted your comment asking why you were downvoted. Here's why you were downvoted: > Way more than 5 minutes. Where are generics or do I have to learn some new construct? Wait a minute, is this thing object oriented or what
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by adgar 15y ago
Having both := and = goes back a long, long, long way. Go isn't even the 100th language to differentiate them.
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by adgar 15y ago
And their titles fuel plenty of outraged drive-by upvotes by those who don't even click through.
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by adgar 15y ago
Google Code Search does not (and never did) search the entirety of the web. Its index is orders of magnitude smaller.
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by adgar 15y ago
I figured most folks knew that Google doesn't support arbitrary punctuation/strings. Do any search engines? I tried bing and duckduckgo and got nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the quality folks would love to be able to support searchi
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by adgar 15y ago
I'm in Sydney right now, logged into my main account, and [est time] gives highly relevant results for Eastern Standard Time. I get the same results in an incognito window. In fact, for every query you gave, I have the same results, though
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by adgar 15y ago
If possible, could you provide example queries with poor results? The quality teams are always looking to improve results, and examples of queries with poor results are the quickest way to improvement. Or, at the very least, could you narro
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by adgar 15y ago
Yeah, every starbucks I've been to in Manhattan does this in the morning and lunch hours. It's damn efficient considering.
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by adgar 15y ago
It's a brilliantly cool idea... but I'm just trying to imagine the gender dynamic on that ship, and I can't come up with a way it could be very healthy.
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by adgar 15y ago
> The FAQ was reallly difficult to gauge the overall direction that Posterous is headed. Given the effort that goes into carefully negotiating the acquisition process, you can be sure that this lack of clarity is not an accident.

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