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by dbattaglia 7y ago
My wife and I had an apartment in Brooklyn a few years ago that we broke the lease after two months. It was a total horror show, complete w/ bedbugs and broken everything. Glad to see that landlord on the landlordwatch.com private lan
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WeWork CEO has reportedly cashed out of over $700M ahead of IPO(techcrunch.com)
2 points by dbattaglia 7y ago|0 comments
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Donald Trump Just Made Bitcoin a 2020 Election Issue(forbes.com)
2 points by dbattaglia 7y ago|0 comments
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Boeing Is a Perfect Parable for 21st-Century Capitalism(truthdig.com)
2 points by dbattaglia 7y ago|1 comments
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Bringing the best of open source to Google Cloud customers(cloud.google.com)
2 points by dbattaglia 8y ago|0 comments
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How to Reindex One Billion Documents in One Hour at SoundCloud(developers.soundcloud.com)
4 points by dbattaglia 8y ago|0 comments
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Deconstructing the Monolith at Shopify(engineering.shopify.com)
2 points by dbattaglia 8y ago|0 comments
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A ‘Creepy’ Assignment: Pay Attention to What Strangers Reveal in Public(nytimes.com)
20 points by dbattaglia 8y ago|0 comments
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
I live in NYC, in a nice one bedroom apartment, and I find those numbers mind-boggling. Not that my rent is cheap by any means but its closer to $3000 than $6000.
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Journey back to being an individual contributor(medium.com)
1 points by dbattaglia 8y ago|0 comments
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
Sorry, I don't think I made my point well here. I was trying to say how 128 discrete values is incredibly course grained for a lot of uses, but I should have mentioned that it seems to be worse for Control Change parameters than Note
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
> MIDI is an 8-bit standard And considering one of those bits is used for status, it’s effectively 7 bits worth of resolution (128 discrete values is... not great for anything but maybe western scale note pitch values).
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
I’ve had to write tree searching algorithms at multiple companies, although I usually find myself reaching for depth-first search instead. It comes up often when dealing with hierarchies (think things like company org charts for HR softwar
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
> And what books or MOOCs would you recommend for the transition? I enjoyed “Eloquent Ruby” when I needed to learn Ruby for my previous job. Highly recommend it.
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
I’ve had success with nicotine patches. For me it worked best to very slowly ween myself down to lower doses over a period of several weeks. Been cigarette free for almost 5 years now (after smoking for 17 years).
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
I’m currently at my third remote job. The first time, I was 29, newly single and I found it got old real fast. Moving back to an office environment was a major improvement for me. Fast forward 10 years, I’m married again, different living s
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
My current employer is distributed, the majority of roles are remote. https://www.elastic.co/about/careers#engineering
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
Scala. It’s something I’ve been meaning to learn for about 8+ years now. Not the most exciting language these days for a lot of people I suppose, but I’ve already learned a ton about real world functional programming.
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A Quick Comment on Bryan Cantrill’s Blog on Licensing(medium.com)
1 points by dbattaglia 8y ago|0 comments
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Google's $1B NYC investment shows it's looking past Silicon Valley for growth(cnn.com)
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
At my first full time software development job, the company I worked for had a telemarketing B2B call center. It was run by a web application that controlled the agent's phone via some ActiveX TAPI components. I modified the software
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Oracle's bad faith with security researchers led to release of Virtualbox 0-day(boingboing.net)
4 points by dbattaglia 8y ago|0 comments
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
I've created a few systems that had web code editors on them. One was a CMS based on C# MVC Razor, the users were technical themselves so editing HTML and some light C# was better for them than a WYSIWYG editor. Another was a data in
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
Has the need really skyrocketed though? Or has the use of them just become more normalized (and perhaps more convenient thanks to the internet), and less people feel the need to just "suck it up" and deal with their problems alon
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Statement on the IBM Acquisition of Red Hat(blog.ubuntu.com)
31 points by dbattaglia 8y ago|14 comments
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
Reading the OP I got the impression he was talking more about profiling by age than race. Teenagers shoplift, it’s a pretty common thing for bored suburban kids. I’m assuming he was in a predominantly white area so white teens were the most
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
Imagine some language with the following type and functions: type Person { name: String } function parsePerson(json: String): Person { ... } function usePerson(person: Person) { ... } The compiler will guarantee that usePerson wi
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
It’s still as lively as ever at night here in the east village.
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by dbattaglia 8y ago
Across the street from my apartment on 14th and 1st there is a Duane Reade and CVS literally attached to each other. It’s pretty crazy. The CVS is old and grungy, Duane Reade newer and larger (3 floors). I suspect those differences, plus po
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The Existential Void of the Pop-Up ‘Experience’(nytimes.com)
3 points by dbattaglia 8y ago|0 comments

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