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by clizzin 3y ago
This is a bigger issue than can be thoughtfully discussed in an Internet comment thread, but if you are interested, I highly recommend Amia Srinivasan's "The Conspiracy Against Men" for a thoughtful, nuanced, and comprehensiv
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by clizzin 9y ago
I find the gesture choices interesting and suggestive of future directions for interaction with wearable devices. Their help article on gestures lists the four supported gestures with GIFs. One detail worth noting: "We recommend usin
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by clizzin 10y ago
Here's another Tumblr collecting passive-aggressive opt-out messages: http://cruelestoptouts.tumblr.com/
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by clizzin 12y ago
Hi there, I'm one of the engineers who worked on AT-AT. Shapefiles are useful when we export data, but because we want to give our cartographer the ability to continually edit neighborhood boundaries, we store these as polygons in Post
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by clizzin 13y ago
Hackpad's search functionality is pretty good at ensuring that people find what they need. We do also maintain a Table of Contents pad, which serves as a central place that links to all our canonical content; this helps people find wh
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by clizzin 13y ago
Airbnb Engineering currently uses Hackpad ( https://hackpad.com ) for this purpose, and it's working very well. We previously used Google wikis and GitHub wikis, but the poor editing interface was enough of a barrier that few
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by clizzin 13y ago
Actually, package managers are core to most Linux distributions! That's been the case long before there was ever Homebrew for OS X. You should almost never have to manually install from source if you're installing anything relat
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by clizzin 14y ago
We do use a Rails engine for one of our components, but this isn't something we've explored a lot (or at least, I haven't personally; maybe some of the other Airbnb nerds will step in with their own thoughts). Even so, I don't see this as
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by clizzin 14y ago
Hey there, thanks for your interest! Our service discovery system is indeed a layer that sits between ZooKeeper and the application. But it's also pluggable -- that means that you don't have to use ZooKeeper as the system that tracks which
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Airbnb Tech Talk: Evan Priestley of Facebook - Move Fast and Break Things(airbnb.com)
54 points by clizzin 14y ago|26 comments
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by clizzin 14y ago
I'm an Airbnb engineer, so I can shed some light on this question. :) The answer is: No, being staff or a host is not a requirement to attend; the guest list just happens to show a lot of staff and hosts near the top because Airbnb engineer