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by crzwdjk 10y ago
It's worse than that: not only are there plenty of competitors to Uber (especially on a local scale), but in a way, Uber sowed the seeds of its own destruction. Before Uber, all the regulations around the taxis business were a pretty h
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Plus, how else are you going to pay Delicious' AWS bill if you actually succeed in buying it?
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Absolutely. One thing that I've noticed personally (and that studies confirm) is that the distance I am willing to walk depends a great deal on what walking is like: whether it's interesting, safe, etc. Parking lots are thus a dou
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
It doesn't help that most cities outside Manhattan have parking requirements and often quite high ones, to the point where the parking for an office building takes up as much floor space as the offices themselves. And since elevators c
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
That has more to do with what happened after the war: America was doing quite well and had piles of money to spend on roads and cars and suburban houses, while most of Europe was pretty devastated and had to spend everything just on rebuild
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
One thing that the article doesn't mention but was still an important factor in the streetcars' demise: the need to replace the capital stock. Things like tracks and trains don't last forever, and eventually you have to repla
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
If people who work in SF could also live in SF, wouldn't that reduce the demand for taking BART across the bay? Yes, that's oversimplifying things a bit, but the principle seems sound.
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
My laptop is armv7 linux, and not being able to run rustc on it has been annoying. Well, I did find some binary of some old version somewhere, but it's of limited usefulness since it's old, and it didn't come with cargo, whic
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
They're generally operating on the assumption that there's some amount of setup that you do initially, maybe the first time you try to call methods on your magic ORM object, that will set up the inheritance for that class and inje
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
> you could even put the process to sleep until pending I/O is completed and have it take up no CPU during this time. Instead what people do is burn CPU cycles in select/poll loops That's what select() does though: you giv
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
As someone who's had to do a few take home tests as well as coding with someone looking over my shoulder, I am definitely not a fan of the latter. I prefer to sit down and think about a problem, maybe even read it and let it sit in my
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
> Also, rich people can just buy an old Victorian and modernize the inside, converting a non-luxury housing unit into a luxury one. Oh, it's worse than that: they can buy an old Victorian full of apartments and convert several non
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
If anything, the load on transportation would actually go down. One of the big problems in Silicon Valley is that many of the cities (Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino) are adding tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of housing units. W
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
NVIDIA does produces drivers for FreeBSD[1]. I don't know if they're considered "good" or not, but they definitely aim to have the same features and quality as on Linux. [1] http://www.nvidia.com/object&#
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
On Linux at least, NVIDIA's drivers do support some acceleration for glyph rendering and other 2D operations through the X RENDER extension. It's not really going to help with SVG rendering, but it's great for boxes, triangle
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
> C and C++ projects have been empirically observed to have orders of magnitude more memory safety problems than projects written in other languages do. Note that this includes projects in languages that are themselves written in C or C
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
I don't know, I personally consider an all-day onsite interview to be a bigger waste of my time. With two or four hours spent on a take-home test, those can be any time during the day, probably time that I would have been wasting anywa
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
This is really tricky to get right: it's kind of like the problems you get with threads, except with the added bonus that you can't even wait on a lock, because the lock might be held by the thread that got interrupted. The easies
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
Long blocking syscalls will return with EINTR when a signal is received, at which point the interpreter should be checking the signal flag. The real problem with this scheme is if you call into some long-running C extension code, in which c
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
Why do you think that's the case? A typical company is hiring at least one person per month, and depending on the size of the company, probably many more. Plus, if people keep telling them the numbers, they can get a pretty good idea o
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
Hey, just give it a bit of time. If the government is really that eager to keep printing ever more money, the toilet paper problem might solve itself.
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
And what do you think is the advantage of Cambridge over Troy? At least in part, it's the fact that it's where people who go to MIT live. And once they graduate from MIT, there are plenty of companies just across the street waitin
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
Right, and there's a reason for that: a decline in housing prices would be seen as a disaster, because so many people have so much of their wealth tied up in home equity. Of course, it doesn't have to be that way: if you happen to
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
Another thing that would be helpful to most people is fixing the affordable housing issue. The problem is that lots of people are deeply invested in making housing increasingly less affordable (alternatively phrasing as "improving home
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
Among other things, taxis in the US are generally regulated at the municipal level, which is fine enough if you're in NYC, but somewhere like the Bay Area where there are dozens of small cities with crazy borders, you have to remember
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
In a democracy, they end up being so, because those are the people who get to vote. One solution is to move some of the planning functions one level up in the government, so people in the Central Valley also get a say in deciding whether SF
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
Unfortunately, property tax law in California does the exact opposite. The tax can't be higher than 1% of the assessed value of the house, and that assessment can't go up by more than 2% every year as long as the house isn't
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
This is equally the case in most other US cities, most especially the expensive ones, but even including the likes of Chicago. It's kind of baffling: a four bedroom house with one kitchen and four roommates is perfectly fine per the zo
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
Fortunately, there's an easy workaround for the ever-increasing land rents, which should work even in places like the SF Bay Area: you can just have a group of people pool their resources to pay for a given plot of land, usually in the
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by crzwdjk 11y ago
Last I checked, they pretty much don't recover from page faults, they just abort whatever "program" you're trying to run, so you can't really use the MMU for clever things like demand paging. But that's not the

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