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by bgirard 3y ago
You can negotiate that with them either ahead of time in an agreement, or when they are able to commit more time. It should be in both your interest to negotiate that in good faith if the startup is doing well.
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by bgirard 3y ago
You have to look beyond the interest rate. If you have a 2.5% rate, your mortgage will inflate away while you could be earning 8-12% returns. If your mortgage rate is 6%, your marginal tax rate is 50% and you're earning 4-8% returns af
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by bgirard 3y ago
It's really cool to see the Firefox Profiler UI reused in new projects. I'm biased having worked on it, but it's a very powerful visualization tool for complex multi-threaded performance data.
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by bgirard 3y ago
Would the company give you a raise to afford a bigger house? No, that's a you problem. Should you take an inflation adjusted pay cut to help the company improve their share price and delay your career growth by up to a year? No, that&#
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by bgirard 3y ago
It sounds to me like they pre-paid $968,000 and the prepayment has ben exhausted. I found this confusing as well.
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by bgirard 3y ago
> better off Better off as in expected/average case. Good point, but only marginally better in the worse case.
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by bgirard 3y ago
If the factor in one direction is large enough then a linear search becomes more efficient. Say you have 20 commits remaining and the factor is 1,000x more costly to make it easier to picture. You're better off doing a linear search wh
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by bgirard 3y ago
That's a good rule of thumb, thank you!
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by bgirard 3y ago
There's lot of accepted sorting algorithms [1]. I'm sure we can come up with novel new algorithms, even if they're not optimal. Like Wikipedia mentions, they all fall within some small number of higher level categories (eg. P
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by bgirard 3y ago
Wow, I had to check the math and with my assumptions it does in fact take >2 hours of minimum wage labor to power a CFL for 1 year ($7.25/hr, 0.14$ KWh). It's much higher than I expected. I had the notion that turning off CFLs
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by bgirard 3y ago
Yes, I'm not discounting the results. I think it's a very interesting approach. I just think the language is important here. If you ask a CS class turn in their own quick sort implementation, you have n implementations of 1 algori
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by bgirard 3y ago
The title implies it found an entirely new algorithmic approach to sorting (like quick sort) which would have been a fantastic discovery. But it feels a lot like micro-optimizing the control flow and codegen.
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by bgirard 3y ago
That's a good idea, although the numbers could use some tweaking.
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by bgirard 3y ago
You have to recognize the incentive of developers working for a large company: I can either 1) pay for it out of my own pocket, 2) expense it monthly which after wasting time in expense reports basically goes back to 1 where I pay for it my
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by bgirard 3y ago
A more realistic answer is that the cost of maintaining the OS is probably high and the benefits of doing so are low with no direct revenue. Ideally devices maintenance guarantees would be factored into procurement decisions and skew the tr
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by bgirard 3y ago
Here's an old but related post for what Facebook does: https://engineering.fb.com/2010/06/04/web/bigpipe-pipelining... It's evolved since the full migrate to a react app but the high level conc
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by bgirard 3y ago
> So this kind of optimization is not very useful. It's absolutely useful. If you wait for the HTML page to load, to fetch the script, to start the react app, to have the react app make the rest/graphql calls your perf will be
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by bgirard 3y ago
Yes, but when you're signing a mortgage with potential prepayment penalties and you're afraid that you might not live there for say 5 years, your lender will use the 'port' option to reassure you. I suspect that's t
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by bgirard 3y ago
I was told that my Canadian mortgage could be 'ported' like this, although I haven't had to look into it. From my experience Canadian mortgages have less fees up front at closing compared to US mortgages but typically they sw
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by bgirard 3y ago
There's several issues with this: * I work with too many people to reasonably instruct them of this preference and expect them to follow it. * The definition of urgent is highly subjective. What's urgent to one person isn't t
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by bgirard 3y ago
> Put non-meetings on the calendar I'd love to do that. But once you throw in real meetings, no meetings days, PTOs, time zones it becomes difficult to schedule a work meeting because now there's no overlapping block of time wh
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by bgirard 3y ago
> and will not be rectified under the "just train it more bro" refrain of AI evangelicals. You made a good point up until then but this kind of remark incredibly condescending and dismissive of other people's viewpoint. It
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by bgirard 3y ago
This is why I'm particularly proud of my contributions to (web) standards. There's a good chance that they'll be my longest lasting contribution.
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by bgirard 3y ago
I wish I could ask Netfix/recommendation engines to strike stories matching a certain story profile. In particular I rarely enjoy a story about point 4. I like watching something without spoilers so avoiding 'Weird things happen,
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by bgirard 3y ago
I totally agree. I think if we got better at holding organizations liable for their failure they would be a stronger incentive for them to weight responsible behavior more appropriately. I think this would be greatly improve our society.
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by bgirard 3y ago
I find it very frustrating that the 'continue watching'/'watch again' sections are often in a different spot. And my last show will be in one or the other section depending on if my last viewing included the last ep
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by bgirard 3y ago
Agreed. This is the 'No true Scotsman' fallacy.
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by bgirard 3y ago
At least the pop-up windows had a consistent way to close them and you could use keyboard shortcut. Now I have to think about the right way to close each custom popup.
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by bgirard 4y ago
> When Shane Legg and I launched DeepMind back in 2010, many people thought general AI was a farfetched science fiction technology that was decades away from being a reality. Well it was at least a decade away.
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by bgirard 4y ago
I was holding a considerable sum for several months while putting offers on a house. TD Bank started contacting me proactively to sell me awful 'wealth management' services as soon as the wire hit my bank account. I asked if they

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