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by cwp 6y ago
Yup. Couldn't read much of the article, but this is me. I was in SF because employers demanded it, because investors demanded it. Now my company is not only allowing Bay Area employees to leave the state, but hiring remotely. Hell yeah
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by cwp 6y ago
Lots of little things that suggest Shor is so deep into politics he can't remember what a regular person is like. For example: The single biggest way that highly educated people who follow politics closely are different from eve
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by cwp 6y ago
Wow. This guy is a really strange combination of brilliant and clueless.
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by cwp 6y ago
Is it really that hard to believe that iOS users do more searches than Android users?
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by cwp 6y ago
Npm is very buggy for local dependencies - eg in a monorepo that contains node modules. That might be fixed in npm 7, but I doubt it. OTOH, yarn handles this just fine.
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by cwp 6y ago
If you're writing a compiler, sure, a hand-written parser is probably better than a generated parser. However, I'd also make the related claim that we should be much more ready to write formal parsers for other use cases. Far too
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by cwp 6y ago
From the author's follow-up article [1]: How is this possible? Some of my planner colleagues will say it is density, but I've long rejected that simplistic explanation. There is a lot more to it than a simple division probl
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by cwp 6y ago
The problem with nuclear is that people are afraid of it. If we had spent the last 40 years trying to make it cheaper instead of trying to prevent accidents, it wouldn't be so expensive.
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by cwp 6y ago
Clear violation of Betteridge's law.
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by cwp 6y ago
I did a lot of work in Smalltalk earlier in my career, and it's still the best toolset I've ever used. On one hand, yes, having the method as the unit of code is great. You just avoid all sorts of editing and versioning of non-sem
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by cwp 6y ago
You could embed images using data: URLs. There are size limits in some browsers, particularly older ones, but you can manage some pretty high-resolution images under the limits in a modern browser.
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by cwp 6y ago
Yup, Google Maps has better data. But, on my no-longer-bleeding-edge iPhone, the turn-by-turn directions suck. It's constantly telling me to turn onto a street I just passed, or rerouting to find a way to get me back to the street that
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by cwp 6y ago
Or even just stop lobbying the city to make it illegal to build houses.
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by cwp 6y ago
Uh, you know that Apple makes iOS too, right?
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by cwp 6y ago
Temporal is just the namespace. It has classes called DateTime, Date, Time, TimeZone, Duration etc.
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by cwp 6y ago
Funny you should use the word "rational" here.
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by cwp 6y ago
This is fascinating. It's a New York take on the Bay Area take on New York. It's the Media take on the Tech take on Media. It's illuminating, and frustrating. I keep looking for some reflection, some attempt to learn somethin
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by cwp 6y ago
I used the non-twin version, and recommend it to all my friends when they become parents. It changed our lives. Having a well-rested child makes a world of difference.
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by cwp 6y ago
Nothing about this is convenient. Letting a baby cry and not providing comfort is emotionally shattering. Spending hours trying get a baby to sleep without abandoning them is exhausting. Caring for a sleep deprived baby is exhausting, physi
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by cwp 6y ago
No. We know people want this. Many existing customers joined the wait list to try it, and a few employees are using a ludicrously inadequate alpha version. We might get the details wrong, but somebody is going to make a killing with this
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by cwp 6y ago
Both non-competes and unions prevent competition in the labour market. Being against both is completely reasonable.
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by cwp 6y ago
Trying not to get too excited, but damn, I've wanted to see this brought to life for so long.
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by cwp 6y ago
I've had good results embedding a query language into the "query" component of URLs for RESTful GET requests. So something like: https://example.com/messages?posted-2020-01-01/content~Bob would comp
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by cwp 6y ago
No, just the clip that Lou showed at the talk.
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by cwp 6y ago
Yeah, I was at that talk. A little out there, but pretty awesome.
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by cwp 6y ago
Yes! What's interesting about Gibson's vision is that he assumed connectivity would be hard, but VR would be easy. It's a world of payphones, fax machines, and "simstim" where you can receive someone else's sen
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by cwp 7y ago
Tell you what: you give me time and money, and I'll work on this program. Keep giving me time and money until I tell you I've succeeded.
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by cwp 7y ago
In the case of the article, you are correct. I have a slightly different case where I'm wrapping scikit-learn model. We're NOT just calling another service and waiting for a response, we're doing computation, in Python. So th
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by cwp 7y ago
Sigh. Yes. I have been there and done that (more or less) and it sucks. The root problem is that data scientists really want to use Python for machine learning, but wrapping a Python model in a service that uses CPU and memory efficiently i
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by cwp 7y ago
So... this thing gives full read/write/ddl access to production data ...via Slack? That is a security nightmare. Hard pass.

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