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by alexc05 10y ago
This is great! I just picked up the famous algorithms textbook (CLRS) and have been reading through (I'm just past the introduction and am moving in to chapters 1 - 3 (basing my schedule on the readings in this course) I figure if I fo
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by alexc05 10y ago
Quite possibly not the sames ones who voted?
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by alexc05 10y ago
Vice is really terrible nowadays. It was edgy and cool when I was in university (>15 years ago) but it has really shifted in recent years. If I were to speculate, I'd say it was probably related to the "founder split" tha
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by alexc05 10y ago
OK ... I'm kinda sold on the added value of Emoji in comments. Wasn't aware that VSCODE had the ability to insert them.
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by alexc05 10y ago
Perhaps surprisingly, that's mostly a wash. Canadian federal tax is 33% over 200k USA is 33% over 189K Ontario taxes 11.16% up to 500k California 9.3% up to 250k ... Ok so realistically 2% in taxes :). Maybe that's not a total was
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by alexc05 10y ago
Great to hear you can go without a car in SF I'm a 20 minute walk to work in Toronto with a large grocery store across the street from home. Basically everything can be done on foot. Add in a bike and a nice transit system and no-car
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by alexc05 10y ago
I'm shoes & a bike... Which is how I got away with claiming $0 on that, but yeah, I'd go so far as to concede a metro-pass could be required for some. Personally, it's a 20 minute walk to work at Yonge & bloor ... So
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by alexc05 10y ago
and Sudbury has the world's largest nickel... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nickel It doesn't really follow that they're going to be more successful because of it. World's largest is a bit irr
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by alexc05 10y ago
No, we'd keep you healthy if you showed up... I lived abroad for 5 years and bought 3 months of blue cross (medical insurance) when I got back, then I was straight back onto the taxpayers' dime. (Which, to be fair, I'm one of
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by alexc05 10y ago
Yeah, the pay here in Toronto is much lower, even when you account for cost of living vs. San Fran. One consideration that offsets that is medical insurance. If your health care is not fully covered by your employer. I ran some numbers once
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by alexc05 10y ago
I did read the whole article (and found it fascinating) but don't feel that either of those things equate to "demanding loyalty" Encouraging employees to interview elsewhere seems to be the exact opposite of demanding loyalty
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by alexc05 10y ago
That's a jaw dropping amount.
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by alexc05 10y ago
> The contrast painted here is astounding. It demands > so much loyalty from the employee, and in return, offers no > loyalty whatsoever from the employer. I disagree. Netflix clearly says "interview elsewhere" and demand
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by alexc05 10y ago
Oh! I did something a little like this with a leapmotion for a hackathon once. https://github.com/AlexChesser/SpacePiano There was also some on page visualization (basically copy and pasted from mr-doob) We managed t
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by alexc05 10y ago
I just noticed this in the blog / release notes: >Comparing files > We have added a new API command that allows you > to use the diff-editor on two arbitrary resources > like so: > commands.execute
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by alexc05 10y ago
> Just press Ctrl+` and it will show up. WOW! this is awesome!
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by alexc05 10y ago
Not really, the title of the BLOG uses 'bullshit', but the post as it appears on backser-news reads 'privilege' (at least via this link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11802664 , it appeared on my fr
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by alexc05 10y ago
This seems like a bad idea (gut check). Won't the availability of public money for private housing help to drive prices up? Everything I see seems to indicate that the price of housing expands to fill the amount of money available. Che
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by alexc05 10y ago
I disagree - "does this kid work hard?" is actually a super valuable question to have answered. Remember all those startup articles that say "ideas are worthless" and "implementation is everything"? School is a
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by alexc05 10y ago
yup. that's exactly what it is... though you might be taking the wrong lesson from it. The lesson I took was "work hard, dummy" not "it's unfair that school is so dumb that it doesn't reward smart lazy people f
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by alexc05 10y ago
Unfortunately there's the drawback brought on by standardized testing and "evidence based" grading systems. As a teacher in the united kingdom, I do not actually do the marking myself. I gather and estimate the evidence of th
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by alexc05 10y ago
I worked for 5 years as a high school teacher. In my observation, the "smartest kid in class" could be left in the dust by a "dumb kid" who decided to work hard. I use quotes because it does raise the question of who is
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by alexc05 10y ago
I wonder if Google altering their SEO rating to test for "page jank" would impact this. Remember the adage "you get what you measure" well, for a while Google has been awarding time to document ready (or some such) as th
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by alexc05 10y ago
Not sure sabotaging is fair. "Skewing" seems far more accurate. Sabotaging gives the impression that there is a cabal of men actively attempting to drag down the scores of shows, while the data does not reveal that. The data appea
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by alexc05 10y ago
Oh! I didn't get that far. Thanks for pointing that out. From a "best practices" point of view it was a good choice that they at least started with a thought to potential customer reaction. I do wish they'd left it in. O
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by alexc05 10y ago
> "We're doing this via a flag so that we can control this behavior should there be sufficient outcry." I love that they decided to do this. I think the justification for taking it away is really good. I also think that t
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by alexc05 10y ago
I remember having a bug once in (I think) IE8 where I had a comma after the last element an an array (like the 'greatarray' shown in this article. The browser didn't accept a comma after the last element in an array and IIRC
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by alexc05 10y ago
I really don't want to come off as super negative here ... but am I the only one who finds this one UGLY ? Compare to some of the other devices from previous years, and competitors: https://www.google.ca/search?q=googl
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by alexc05 10y ago
a mounted volume and possibly using dotnet-watch within the actual container may be an effective choice, but at the lat time I was working with it, "dnx watch" was broken in docker files with Glenn C's last comment being some
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by alexc05 10y ago
IIRC freebsd was a community port https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/793 . Or possibly netbsd https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/pull/4504/files Those version may requ

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