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by bt848 7y ago
They didn't give the two examples that are most common inside Google: Google I/O is coming up, or annual performance reviews are coming up. Strangely they also list as "not an emergency" rollbacks of clearly broken code,
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by bt848 7y ago
I'm not saying you should write code in a performance-oblivious fashion. I am saying that if you want to do something non-canonical, or you want an exception to style guide or other established guidelines, or if you write a comment in
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by bt848 7y ago
There's no reason you can't incrementally develop your change over time and then send it when it looks right. You don't need review for every edit. At Google you only need review to commit your change to the mainline reposi
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by bt848 7y ago
I'd add two things, from a decade of experience at Google: Review code in this order: protocol buffers, unit tests, headers, implementation. It's common for a new employee to be an expert on C++ or Java or whatever languages but
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by bt848 7y ago
The actual question on the Pew survey is "Homosexuality should be discouraged by society." agree/disagree. The fraction of people agreeing with this statement has fallen greatly in the last 25 years, mostly due to demographic
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by bt848 7y ago
Data on political polarization in America is really interesting. One feature of the data I find fascinating is that in 1994 many people were not "consistently liberal" because they opposed gay marriage. With the big shift toward a
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by bt848 7y ago
"Always" seems like a stretch. I just selected a random month of the google.ai blog archive and 5 of 5 were written by non-PMs.
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by bt848 7y ago
GSM phones don’t send anything at all in the first phase of registration.
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by bt848 7y ago
OK, here's another test. A common way to end up with a dead battery is to leave the lights on overnight. The lights on a car draw over 100W (standard halogen headlights and incandescent tail and marker lights). But you can leave your
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by bt848 7y ago
Get a refund. I leave a phone plugged into my car's USB port 24x7 and the car has its own GSM modem too and obviously it starts right up every time.
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by bt848 7y ago
The bit about the cell phone discharge seems pretty unlikely. A charged car battery has at least 2MJ of stored energy. GSM in its highest-power mobile station state draws 800mW. Add maybe another 150mW for the GPS, call it 1W total. The
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by bt848 7y ago
Sounds like we should all get out our old copies of Descent.
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by bt848 7y ago
Sure. I mention the 5C because it was the real budget device. On the day it was released it had internals the same as the previous year's 5, instead of those of the 5S released on the same day as the 5C. The SE, by contrast, had the
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by bt848 7y ago
The 4.87" x 2.31" x 0.30" envelope arose with the 5, a year before the 5S.
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by bt848 7y ago
When the SE was released it had the same 2GB of RAM and A9 CPU as the 6s and 6s Plus, the latter of which was "the flagship". An iPhone with better internals wasn't released until 6 months later.
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by bt848 7y ago
Yes, the hacks that Apple added to work around the fundamental usability problems of the > 4" iPhones do work, but they don't turn them into 4" phones in all respects.
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by bt848 7y ago
People don't remember that when the SE was released it was state-of-the-art. It wasn't the slow iPhone, it wasn't the cheap iPhone. That's the 5C.
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by bt848 7y ago
I don't agree. With the 4.7" screen I can't reach e.g. the P key an other keys on the right side of the keyboard with my left thumb while holding the device in my left hand. I also can't, for example, focus the URL bar
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by bt848 7y ago
How many cameras did they think the world would buy? Digital went through a rapid period of technological improvement but it has slowed. My Olympus m43 body is an amazing camera about which I have few complaints. A new camera would need to
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by bt848 7y ago
C++ is noticeably safer than C but C is still more widespread. Safety doesn't really sell.
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by bt848 7y ago
It says in bold type at the beginning "The IgushArray class fully implements std::vector interface" but it's clear it cannot provide an equivalent of std::vector::data.
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by bt848 7y ago
That doesn't have anything to do with what I'm talking about. I'm discussing data from TNC driver organizations like https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/
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by bt848 7y ago
“Unique niches” of the job market that exploit the people filling them must be regulated out of existence. Uber drivers who very carefully manage their overhead generally still earn a pittance, near minimum wage or even below it. Uber mostl
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by bt848 7y ago
Also “distracted walking “
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by bt848 7y ago
You're high. In industry C and C++ are very widespread. Go and Rust are ... not. You'll have an easier time finding a job that requires FORTRAN than one requiring Rust, and Go is only a bit more popular.
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by bt848 7y ago
I think your blog looks great. The color palette you are using for text is very pleasing.
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by bt848 7y ago
I map it to lock the screen which makes so much more sense!
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by bt848 7y ago
In the easy-to-clean category MS Natural wins easily. I never used the 4000 but my Elite (still work after more than 20 years) can be washed in the dishwasher.
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by bt848 7y ago
For decades the most prominent CR criterion for car reviews was whether a folded wheelchair would fit in the trunk.
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by bt848 7y ago
Neat. Your code actually contains the issue I was curious about. Why do you log at level ERROR? As I understand it this causes glog to synchronize the output stream after every message.

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