andrewfong

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by andrewfong 6y ago
There are functional aspects that go beyond those you consider though. For example, rounded corners are, from a functional perspective, unnecessary (and maybe even confusing! Are the corners clickable?), but it turns out there's actual
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by andrewfong 7y ago
They're generally not enforceable in California, provided you're not making use of any protected IP or what not. https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-bus...
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by andrewfong 7y ago
You want to store both local time (and timezone and/or some proxy for location if possible) and Unix / UTC / integer time. The latter is what your application relies on 99% of the time, but if, say, a given country gets rid o
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by andrewfong 7y ago
When the pay is good, feelings are important too. Consider, if you're well paid, your skill set is (probably) in high demand in the industry and getting a similarly high pay at other places is (relatively) easy. At that point, feelings
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by andrewfong 7y ago
Presumably, at some point, you'll be interviewed by someone with more up to date experience. And if you study enough to fool that person, that seems fine? It's a good sign you're capable of the job, prior experience be damned
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by andrewfong 7y ago
Honestly, I wish more companies would just tell you in advance of the interview what the specific prompt is going to be (and perhaps the evaluation criteria too). Sure, you could "cheat" by Googling the answer in advance or asking
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by andrewfong 7y ago
Uh, as much as I enjoy reading this, posting this on Reddit seems particularly unwise for job security purposes. This seems to be an ongoing incident and there's more than enough info shared to de-anonymize.
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by andrewfong 7y ago
So how should I phrase a question or concern when I _don't_ think the other party has already anticipated using sshd? It's easy for even very experienced engineers to get sucked into a solution that they don't realize is the
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by andrewfong 7y ago
Did your employer discourage all meetings or just recurring ones? I find ad-hoc meetings to be pretty useful. It's the recurring ones that drive me batty.
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by andrewfong 7y ago
Technically, you can demand an immediate response via email (and in some industries, this is quite common). It's the expectations around the channel that matter.
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by andrewfong 7y ago
The anchors might lease, but it's essentially just them mitigating their risk at the expense of WeWork though, right? If Facebook leases an entire building via WeWork rather than doing it themselves (and they definitely have the capaci
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by andrewfong 7y ago
It probably means there are many instances of this particular scenario happening, so they need an exec to make some blanket decision for all of them.
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by andrewfong 7y ago
Not the same as a wiki or a tech spec or whatever but detailed, searchable pull requests go a long way towards good documentation. And it's something any dev can match up with code with git blame. Sometimes pull requests are vague beca
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by andrewfong 7y ago
Yes. Personally at least, I've found my mistakes aren't particularly unique. But if I'm not the one making a mistaken assertion, I'm less defensive about correcting my understanding.
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by andrewfong 7y ago
> Volume changing? That's better with the touchbar. Not really. My wife has low vision. Changing the volume used to be a muscle memory sort of thing. Now it's an awkward fumbling mess, especially if she's in the middle of
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by andrewfong 7y ago
Good for Amazon. FedEx is terrible. Mini-rant: Ordered stuff online. FedEx says the package was delivered but I don’t see it. The online tracker lists the last location of the package in the city where I used to live. I assume I autofilled
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by andrewfong 7y ago
OK, what if people with money want to spend that money on political speech _without_ coordinating with the candidate? That's the Citizens United problem. There's no quid pro quo bribery, but if the NRA spends a bazillion dollars a
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Lyft vs. Uber: A Tale of Two S-1’s(benjamintseng.com)
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by andrewfong 8y ago
Do git commit hooks work for you? You and your collaborators can do whatever. The hook ensures things are converted to either tabs or spaces prior to commit. You can also set up a CI job to auto-reject any PRs that aren't tab/spac
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by andrewfong 8y ago
I'm a front-end engineer, but I'd agree that SPAs are always more complicated than a pure SSR solution: You're inherently doing more. You're probably already tracking state somewhere on the backend (e.g. in a database).
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by andrewfong 8y ago
I'm curious what percentage of costs were covered by insurance. I recently had some genetic testing done and they were pretty open that they charge one lower price if I paid out of pocket and another higher price if insurance covered i
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by andrewfong 8y ago
I would toss in one other note about OS X. Consider enabling the "Speak Selection" or highlight-to-speak option. As the name implies, it reads selected text aloud. My wife is low vision but not so much that she needs a full screen
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by andrewfong 8y ago
> If this distribution of labor operates this way in your office, however, (the 30 percent may laugh knowingly now), there’s no real solace to be taken from the ant experiment, unless you are digging a tunnel perhaps. Assuming everyone h
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by andrewfong 8y ago
Not saying this is how Google does it, but a monorepo doesn't prevent you from having multiple versions of the same dependency. Ideally, with a monorepo, you could update 99% of your sub-packages to the latest version while still leavi
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by andrewfong 8y ago
Time and cost affect this calculus though. BART has its fair share of "undesirables" but it's the fastest way to get from downtown SF to Oakland during rush hour, so people tolerate it more than they would otherwise.
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by andrewfong 9y ago
How does Cognition get investment as a law firm? My understanding was that firms can't receive investment from or share profits with non-lawyers. Or are they doing what Atrium is doing and really running two entities, a tech company an
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by andrewfong 9y ago
It depends on the complexity and dangers of the command. Git actually seems like a very poor candidate for natural language. Consider: Legal documents initially began as natural language evaluated by very effective natural language process
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by andrewfong 9y ago
My favorite semi-autonomous feature is the one where your car detects a stopped vehicle in front of you and tells you to brake.
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by andrewfong 9y ago
> (2) police departments are facing budget cuts, so enforcement probably will not increase. I would assume the opposite. Speeding tickets are a way for cash-strapped police departments to raise money (or justify their ROI to whomever con
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by andrewfong 9y ago
Reminds me of the make-your-bed advice. http://www.businessinsider.com/navy-seal-commander-explains-...

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