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by drgath 13y ago
He never said it -does- transit data, and is just implying that it -can-.
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by drgath 13y ago
They don't need to actually convict him, only accuse him so he can be locked up indefinitely.
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by drgath 13y ago
For what?
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by drgath 13y ago
Why should governments even have medical records of its citizens?
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by drgath 13y ago
> Google still ask puzzles: they just don't ask brainteasers. Isn't the only difference between "brainteasers", "puzzles", and real engineering challenges, just the usefulness of the result? I get what you a
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by drgath 13y ago
From the article > "On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time" That implies Google has some data to back it up, whether they themselves previously asked those types of questions, or they derive
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by drgath 13y ago
As a Yahoo, I can say a lot has changed in that regard during the last year.
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by drgath 13y ago
I get the sense that the OP's work hours are actually what he likes and is comfortable with.
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by drgath 13y ago
Yup, exactly. I've been at Y! for almost 4 years and when I started I was absolutely a workaholic, but over the last 3 years I've transitioned into having a much healthier (and happier) balance. You can certainly work as much as
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by drgath 13y ago
Thanks for the FYI. I'd consider swapping the order and list the offline method first, since that's the more common approach people take (I'd hope), and it's easier to grok at a glance.
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by drgath 13y ago
"Pre-process" isn't quite accurate. To me that implies processing before serving, but it appears JSX is processed in the browser by a transpiler weighing in at 300k (uncompressed). http://fb.me/JSXTransformer-0.3.0.js
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by drgath 13y ago
> What would anybody be buying? The brand? And a viable competitor to YouTube's new paid subscription service. UGC was the big thing in video since YouTube launched, but the real revenue generator could be paid subscriptions, and that m
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by drgath 13y ago
> At this point in time, Yahoo does not have the public perception that they are a cool company to work for, especially for engineers. That's the thing, it's all public perception and not based in reality. I've worked at Y! for ~4 year
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by drgath 13y ago
Flickr has an estimated 87 million users [1], and Instagram has 100 million. Note sure what your definition of "second rate" is (quality or quantity?) but Flickr is much better quality than Instagram, especially after the recent update. R
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by drgath 13y ago
> Go to any online community related to investing Such as blogs dedicated to investing, like 247wallst.com, analyzing data from comScore? Here's another investment blog discussing which one is "better" (see comments), http://www.ritho
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by drgath 13y ago
I'm sorry, but that's a load of pretentious BS. Y! Finance has all the same data and has 15x the traffic of Google Finance, for good reason. Source: http://247wallst.com/2012/04/24/will-google-dump-google-fina...
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by drgath 13y ago
> after Yahoo attacked them with patents last year While that statement is true, worth noting that the Y! CEO who did attack Facebook was fired shortly after and one of Marissa's first moves was to make amends with Facebook.
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by drgath 13y ago
Flickr is dead? Not quite. There's a Flickr press event in NYC happening later this afternoon (5 EST), so expect some announcements. Live stream @ http://screen.yahoo.com/yahoo-event-155000760.html
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by drgath 13y ago
54 million people die each year (150k / day) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate
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by drgath 13y ago
> The iOS app, which is one of said attempts, is outright awful It has a 4.5 out of 5 star rating in iTunes.
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by drgath 13y ago
> The performance is substantially different. The dispatch table is ~75% slower (in chrome). Of course those are, they're doing very different things in that test case. Your first case is just returning a value, and the second is execu
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by drgath 13y ago
By calling it an investment, you misunderstand the purpose of Kickstarter.
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by drgath 14y ago
> I don't remember the knee-jerk response to the Oklahoma City bombing. nor the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, which may almost mirror this in terms of venue, injuries, & deaths. But, I think the fear is that we're now in a
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by drgath 14y ago
> Yahoo already isn’t at the top of any “most desirable places to work” list. Yahoo ranked #8 on this list. http://www.businessinsider.com/best-employers-in-america-201...
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by drgath 14y ago
I think a combination of something like TinyXHR ( https://gist.github.com/shimondoodkin/4706967 ) and querySelectorAll would suffice for many simple use-cases on modern browsers.
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by drgath 14y ago
Just create the AMA on http://reddit.com/r/hackernews and link to it from here. It keeps Reddit over on Reddit, but still provides interesting content for HN to link to.
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by drgath 14y ago
With free.
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by drgath 14y ago
> If your listener depends on knowing the state of the triggering code, it is a sign your events are too granular. That isn't practical debugging. If I'm debugging an event that was fired and I don't know why, or the payload doesn't ma
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by drgath 14y ago
> "We’ve been working on this for a long time, and we were getting closer to it." That to me implies it's been in the works for longer than Cook has been in charge.
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YUI 3.7.3 released - Adds support for Windows 8 native app development(yuiblog.com)
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