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by bcyn 6y ago
Because the Bay Area is one of the only places where the supply of potential employees is high enough to meet the company's demand.
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by bcyn 6y ago
What about awk makes that easier than, say, a Python script?
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by bcyn 6y ago
So, I don't use awk right now. This answers "how to awk" more than "why use awk" for me (understandable given the 20 min claim). Does anyone have concrete, practical examples of use cases where awk made your life mu
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by bcyn 6y ago
Hide the API away too? You don't need to add another field to an existing API while in development, use a different endpoint altogether, to obscure the fact that it even exists. Then, part of the "keystone" can be merging it
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by bcyn 6y ago
What makes you believe campaign managers would continue advertising on FB if targeting options were removed? They might explore other advertising mediums that are more effective ROI due to targeting.
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by bcyn 7y ago
> I think users would feel incentivized to play this over any of the stupid casual online games with no positive real-life implications With all due respect, I think this is wrong. People play games that are fun, regardless of real-life
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by bcyn 7y ago
Can't you just leave the browser tab open until you're ready to come back to it? Not sure why you would need EC2 + RDP..
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by bcyn 7y ago
It's helpful because it dramatically reduces stress on employees (due to guaranteed bonus without performance review) during a turbulent time. I can't see why this is so hard to understand.
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by bcyn 7y ago
I should be more clear: I'm referring to secretly recording audio.
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by bcyn 7y ago
I can't speak for other platforms, but if you've ever developed apps for iPhone, you'd know this is pretty much impossible for FB to do.
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by bcyn 7y ago
Do you know of a source where I can read more about this (particularly about the stores disabling Apple Pay)? I'm interested in learning more. I was under the impression that any terminal that accepted contactless payments would also w
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by bcyn 7y ago
This is classic Stockholm syndrome with commutes that I see all too often. What's wrong with the commute? The fact that, if you didn't have the commute, you could do all those same things and also anything else you can think of. T
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by bcyn 7y ago
Congrats! That's amazing news!
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by bcyn 7y ago
Of course, someone who's asking "Am I pretty?" is not as receptive to feedback as someone who's asking "What can I do to be prettier?" Many people who seek feedback or reviews are in the latter camp.
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by bcyn 7y ago
Assuming you're a traditional W2 worker, yes. But many people have other income sources such that the IRS doesn't know how much you owe until you report it.
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by bcyn 7y ago
> Apply separation of concerns properly The disconnect here is the definition of "concerns." One analogy is, imagine cutting a square into stripes. You're implying that there's only one way to do so, say, cutting hori
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by bcyn 7y ago
> The biggest problem for iPads is every time there's a software update, it asks you to set a keypad password. I don't think that's true. What iOS version did they experience this on?
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by bcyn 7y ago
While it's not solely the responsibility of the programmer, most of the responsibility should fall on the programmer. It's a much more efficient system for the programmer to own UI/UX and for testing and QA to simply verify.
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by bcyn 7y ago
It's not a gimmick, it's just better user experience. Look at it through the lens of an average user rather than a power user ("power user" in the context of someone who is fluent with technical aspects of computers, not
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by bcyn 7y ago
I think he presents a line of reasoning that also helps to formalize why finding a convex hull works.
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by bcyn 7y ago
They are all coplanar, but no three points are colinear. The first sentence just means that there are at least 2 points in the set.
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by bcyn 7y ago
The article is more about user experience than English language nuances. Take one of your examples, you're much more likely to know you can "board" once you know there's a "ship." Without the ship as context fi
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by bcyn 7y ago
> a metadata rich database approach Can you ELI5 what this means? Very curious to understand ideas on alternatives to the traditional file-system abstraction.
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by bcyn 7y ago
> Shouldn't the bar for transfers be roughly the same as the bar for initial employment? As in, give the candidates a similar interview process as if they were coming outside of the company into that team? Why would a transfer be ba
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by bcyn 7y ago
Why does serverless make things a lot harder? I'd argue that the stateless nature of serverless actually makes it much, much easier to debug.
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by bcyn 7y ago
I agree it's not intuitive at first. As someone pointed out on Twitter (can't find link at the moment): A good mental model is that the second argument to useEffect defines which pieces of state that effect syncs with. useEffect((
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by bcyn 7y ago
I don't agree with the author's statement that there are only two (very involved) solutions to the pagination problem (re: section titled "React relies on the order in which Hooks are called"). It can easily be solved b
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by bcyn 7y ago
useRef was designed for this purpose: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref If you ran into something that isn't quite covered by this hook, I'm also curious! Can you write a minimal example in
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by bcyn 7y ago
> For example, this useRef / useEffect combo mystifies me even now: https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-ts-zhvuha On this particular point, the reasoning is that refs are meant for values that don't need to
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by bcyn 7y ago
> You can't create abstractions where a hook calls another hook. Not sure if I understand you correctly, but isn't this the purpose of custom hooks? You should be able to freely call hooks within other hooks.

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