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by edw 7y ago
Triplebyte is doing the dating app equivalent of criminal background checks. It abjectly failed to find a match for me (despite passing the programming eval with flying colors) because none of the matches resulted in any sparks, to use the
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by edw 7y ago
Canon, Android.
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by edw 7y ago
The argument over whether C was fast enough to obviate the need to write in assembly raged across the pages of Dr Dobb's Journal and Byte Magazine well into the mid '80s.
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by edw 7y ago
In my experience people arguing for data lakes talk a lot about some unspecified future benefit. Companies typically want to learn things about their interactions with their customers that allow them to make more money, and thus GA or its e
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by edw 7y ago
"Google Analytics" is, as I understand the original context, shorthand for "something simple, cheap, and immediately useful." Feel free to substitute Mixpanel or some Show-HN-Google-Analytics-replacement Docker image or
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by edw 7y ago
Google Analytics is associated with gleaning useful, actionable insights from your users' behavior on your web sites and in your apps, which was what the guy who sold you on the concept of a data lake was promising.
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by edw 7y ago
Job requirements are often inflated to scare away people without the ambition, egomania, and/or self confidence that the writer of the description desires. The business/management job description equivalent of this is "MBA fr
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by edw 7y ago
Based on my experience, the problem may be that man pages are often not where one learns how to use a tool. I still remember from long, long ago when I told a greybeard that I was trying to learn sed by reading the man page. He replied, &qu
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by edw 7y ago
The industry isn't moving towards this. The IP agreements I signed at start-ups in 1994, 1998, 1999, and so on all had functionally identical terms . And more, like the duty to in good faith pursue patents whenever merited and assis
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by edw 7y ago
Another thing good lawyers generally tell their clients is not to litigate and try to work things out. This seems like a great example where there seems to be goodwill on both sides and appeals to fairness and decency and reasonableness mig
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by edw 7y ago
Totally. The business model seems similar to Yelp's: "You got yourself some negative reviews there. A lot of them seem totally bogus; we'd love to help you curate you presence here."
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by edw 7y ago
Klout for Workgroups®
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by edw 7y ago
The data on Glassdoor is abysmal. I was looking up several engineering job titles in the local area (NYC) to compare them to the sorts of salaries we had needed to offer to land good candidates. The quoted numbers were consistently 60-70% o
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by edw 7y ago
Perversely, a well-timed DNS record update and cache expiry could make a URL not-equal to another URL made from the same string of characters.
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by edw 7y ago
I take no position on the enforceability or the wisdom of the case. That said… It seems completely reasonable to me that there will be ARM-based desktops and laptops from Apple in the next five years and that they plan to offer them in hard
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by edw 7y ago
Assuming for a moment that there's no fraud with this company, this is a great example of how you can quickly go broke selling a popular product. If the payment terms, product delivery logistics pipeline, etc. are more protracted than
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by edw 7y ago
I encourage folks to read Einstein and Infield's _The Evolution of Physics_ and decide for themselves whether the comment above makes sense.
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by edw 7y ago
Intuitive appeal is overrated. Aristotelian physics (motion derives from continuous application of force) was intuitive to a lot of people for a very long time. And then Galileo came along.
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I have no idea whether there are any regulations in the US regarding this, but nearly every chain store that sells grocery products also lists prices normalized to some product-relevant unit. These prices are on the shelves, directly next t
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by edw 7y ago
I advocated saying please and thank you, so I obviously believe that the more often one utters the phrases, independent of any context, the better human being one is? Not everyone is relentlessly virtue signaling or karma whoring, whether i
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by edw 7y ago
At the risk of being serious for a moment, saying "please" and "thank you" are two of the lowest effort, highest reward, and plainly decent things you can do as a human.
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by edw 7y ago
Walking around my neighborhood in NYC, I wonder how human life expectancy got beyond thirty-five years before the arrival of CBD based on the claims being made in shop windows and on sandwich boards obstructing sidewalk traffic.
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by edw 7y ago
You're splitting hairs and all but disagreeing with yourself in your own comment. Notice that I did not say "deprecated." The React Way is to not obsolete working code. Component functions are preferred and better and recomme
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by edw 7y ago
I am totally with you regarding React: I've been distracted from my current SwiftUI project writing a React "teaser" version because it's so much easier to make progress in React, in large part thanks to the strong docum
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by edw 7y ago
You are wrong. Go into the documentation viewer in Xcode and click on any page of SwiftUI documentation. SDK support is listed thusly: iOS 13.0+ Beta macOS 10.15+ Beta tvOS 13.0+ Beta watchOS 6.0+ Beta Mac Catalyst 13.0+ Beta
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by edw 7y ago
Nowhere in the comments thus far has anyone pointed out that SwiftUI — the framework in TFA's crosshairs — is in beta. I've written a relatively large amount of SwiftUI code and I get the impression that the design is still in flu
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by edw 7y ago
Indigenous Americans, Netherlands, GB, the US, … and then? And when? Ich bin ein New Yorker.
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by edw 7y ago
As I read about strings-as-lists, I tried to maintain sight of one of the premises of PG's exercise -- that the language is climbing a ladder of abstractions in the non-machine realm. The reality of 2019 is that strings are not random
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by edw 7y ago
Thanks for the introduction to Spiral Dynamics; it's an interesting way of thinking about how people think about the world. Of course, in the hands of the sort of people who think rotational development programs are a boffo idea, it is
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by edw 7y ago
"Just as most smoking prevention advertising is proven to increase smoking might many pro innovation programs prevent innovation?" Back in the spring of 2007 I was dating a woman who worked for a mature Silicon Valley tech company

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