davidgay

35 ms·

361.
by davidgay 8y ago
In fact, someone does gather this data, though in hours per year, not per week. And, surprise(?): hours worked has been dropping since the 1970, not rising. https://data.oecd.org/chart/5skA https://data.oecd
362.
by davidgay 8y ago
And some universities hire tenure-track faculty whose primary responsibility is teaching. See "Teaching Professor" on this list: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Lists/list.html?_ga=2... It would b
363.
by davidgay 8y ago
Refreshes are not only on promotion.
364.
by davidgay 8y ago
> In the small business dominated world of 40 years ago trust was a fundamental economic asset. A bad seller would immediately get a bad reputation and it would be known around the community. Sorry, this is bogus. Salesmen for electronic
365.
by davidgay 8y ago
> This was something the Swiss experimented with a few years back. Not altogether happily, I seem to recall, but I am hazy. The people voted (constitutional amendment) to limit free movement. The EU said "hmm, no", so they basi
366.
by davidgay 8y ago
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_franche_du_pays_de_Gex There was a custom's border inside France from 1815[0] to 2008, with different treatment for imports/exports from Switzerland to the small part of Fra
367.
by davidgay 8y ago
> If the government were to start taxing people on the value of their assets you can be quite sure that within a year or so most rich people would have their assets in a form that makes it much harder to value them. Switzerland, which te
368.
by davidgay 8y ago
Growing up, it was sometimes hard to know which part of the woods was in France and which in Switzerland. So yes, I have been there, a few hundred times. You, clearly haven't been to those places I listed or you wouldn't have made
369.
by davidgay 8y ago
> The consensus is generally that the Bay Area doesn't have very good food What? Exhibit A: http://www.berkeleybowl.com/ Exhibit B: http://cheeseboardcollective.coop/ [exhibits C through Z on demand
370.
by davidgay 8y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the pre-industrial-revolution world's attitude to trade secrets. "Learning a process inside and out, and reproducing it elsewhere" was not allowed, at least for high-value processes. An ex
371.
by davidgay 8y ago
> I fundamentally disagree with this statement. At top tech companies, I have come across enough mediocre hires who prepared enough for a technical interview to get "in" the company, but are otherwise doing very mundane work or
372.
by davidgay 8y ago
> However, because of how corporations work, once you've demonstrated proficiency at "junior level work" you move up to the next big challenge. Yes, that sounds pejorative, but coding is not hard compared to the next level
373.
by davidgay 8y ago
First, that article also lists someone forced to abandon their vehicle. And, for more detail: https://localwiki.org/oakland/Oakland_Firestorm_1991 - "Over half of the fatalities were in automobiles that were burne
374.
by davidgay 8y ago
> As to the US, no-one has ever died in traffic save for one single example I found in one canyon fire in California where a police cruiser assisting with evacuations crashed into a tree and blocked the road http://articles.la
375.
by davidgay 8y ago
Re firefighters: my understanding is that local fire departments from all over the state send assistance to large fires, see, e.g., https://abc30.com/local-fire-departments-assisting-in-wildfi... I'm confused by "
376.
by davidgay 8y ago
> Anecdotally I've heard that we need a lot less fire fighting these days because fires don't spread the same way anymore. Hmm. In California? No. [Ok, the bit about "spread[ing] the same way" may be relevant, but not
377.
by davidgay 8y ago
> They even mention IBM being about to enter the market They're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr - a (very much failed) "home computer market" entry. (The IBM PC is 1981, this artic
378.
by davidgay 8y ago
The point was not to design the "nicest" way of adding safe arrays to C, but a way that captures existing uses and preserves binary compatibility, including preserving memory layouts. For instance: uint16_t count; uint16
379.
by davidgay 8y ago
I still think that the Deputy's project (from UC Berkeley) approach ( https://barnowl.org/research/pubs/07-hotos-linux.pdf ) is the most practical for adding bounds checks to existing C code. Basically annota
380.
by davidgay 8y ago
> Or Sublime Text, from launch, opening a 1MB text file, modify 10 chars at the beginning, save, and exit. Edit: NVM, it's written in C++ It doesn't use a "gap"? Or some other appropriate text-editing data structure?
381.
by davidgay 8y ago
There is no silver bullet. Actors are overrated. Either you assume that any message may get lost, and you have to deal with failure, which is always painful. Or you assume the sender and receiver share a failure domain, and you're in
382.
by davidgay 8y ago
One could easily think that taxes in California are too high, but that in the place one moved to they are too low (assuming they are substantially lower than California of course). So I'm not convinced there's an inconsistency. P
383.
by davidgay 8y ago
You need some better examples (your examples all appear expressible in Java): > - Functions which are polymorphic in their return type, so that what they do is determined by what type the caller wants them to return You'll have to b
384.
by davidgay 8y ago
IIUC, the EU does not allow that (no separate trade treaties fur individual EU members).
385.
by davidgay 8y ago
https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/season-17-18/opera/Parsifal And for Wagner in another non-German speaking country: https://www.operasofia.bg/en/component/k2/item/download&#x
386.
by davidgay 8y ago
Datastore was initially designed for use from App Engine, i.e., an easy start, no management, automatic scaling environment ("serverless" to use the current in-vogue term). I would view the Firestore API as a further extension (th
387.
by davidgay 8y ago
It's worth noting that Cloud Datastore's follow-on, Cloud Firestore, does provide strong consistency, and includes a "Datastore mode" that supports the Datastore API. Firestore is currently in beta, but once it's GA
388.
by davidgay 8y ago
Calvinists get plentifully referenced in general circles when you grow up in Geneva ;)
389.
by davidgay 8y ago
Well for Martina Hingis that's not too surprising: - Czech parents (and lived there till ~7) - moved to (German-part of) Switzerland: the local language is Swiss German, but school is in German (i.e., everyone speaks both of those) - e
390.
by davidgay 8y ago
Birthday party. Candles.

More ›