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by elgenie 9y ago
In an ever-growing number of places, the value of years of knowing "the fucking streets" is dwarfed by something like Waze: a GPS app with real-time traffic information and real-time crowd-sourced versions of that street knowledge
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by elgenie 9y ago
Is he admitting to anything that's against the law as opposed to unethical?
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by elgenie 9y ago
In practice, "people will vote against those who take away public benefits they receive" is probably more accurate in the US.
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by elgenie 9y ago
CSS adds tons of value in sports subreddits. It's used to display stuff like the league standings and details on the day's game.
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by elgenie 9y ago
Try to maneuver him to where there's a whiteboard and write things down as he's talking through them: if he's reading cues, he'll slow down so that your visible note-taking keeps pace. If that doesn't work, get him
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by elgenie 9y ago
Having a high signal-to-noise ratio is (obviously) also critical to communicating successfully about code / technical issues. Talking for the sake of talking or waxing poetic about the understood 5% of the problem at the expense of the
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by elgenie 9y ago
Not being able to successfully and clearly communicate their thought process about a simple problem one-on-one is a bad signal for being able to communicate clearly about a difficult problem in a group setting or being a useful sounding boa
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by elgenie 9y ago
I listened to that podcast, and I think the money quote is this one: > Russ Roberts: […] I do think it's--instead of getting a very highly tailored and expensive suit, now you have to know exactly how to match your tee-shirt with yo
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by elgenie 9y ago
Assuming that employers don't pay for commuting is a bit much. More stressed / sleep-deprived / commuting-fatigued employees are less effective at their jobs and, crucially, for the cases in which someone commutes while still
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by elgenie 9y ago
The first python snippet was meant to be identical to the Go one and the Go one is the one from the article. > With Python, you can write the exact same code that asks for the same mental gymnastics. The second Python snippet would idi
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by elgenie 9y ago
Code is meant to be read and incidentally to be executed. Code also should be read more often than it's written. With allegedly idiomatic Go: b := 0 for _, r := range results { j, k := r[0], r[1] if !k || j %
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by elgenie 9y ago
What the code in the article is doing is: Given an iterable of pairs, sum the first elements of the pairs for which the first element of the pair is odd and the second element is truthy. What the code you're suggesting does is, to be p
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by elgenie 9y ago
Yeah, it can certainly be inlined or optimized away with various compiler options. However, as you might surmise, debugging without stack frames becomes rather difficult as functions corresponding to source code disappear into a goo of asse
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by elgenie 9y ago
The title is significantly more ambitious than the content. I think "Go: I have found my Blub" would be more accurate.
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by elgenie 9y ago
A function is being called, so it gets a stack frame at the start of the call and that stack frame goes away when it returns. rbp points to the base of the current stack frame ( r egister b ase p ointer) and rsp points to the top
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by elgenie 9y ago
Says the article: "The company didn’t name the employees who were let go. Some of the people fired were senior executives, according to the person." Note that firing senior employees also doesn't imply that scapegoating isn&#
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by elgenie 9y ago
That's not a particularly good thing from Wall St's perspective. Snap's path to monetization runs through celebrities, influencers and businesses.
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by elgenie 9y ago
Profits are revenue minus expenses. In a company ruled by the model Buffet describes, "[c]orporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds" means that expensive boondoggles shall arise to stop any pesk
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by elgenie 10y ago
The result of a free market is that the better products will always win out. Then if the firms behind those products are well-run, they will use the dominant market position their products have granted them to try to raise barriers to entry
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by elgenie 10y ago
Someone who reads the title and thinks "Hmm, this new article sounds like that Mozilla security engineer's article from a few years ago" would still appreciate the date tag.
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by elgenie 10y ago
Right, there's no individual to scapegoat, so the entire "The Economist" institution puts a portion of their credibility on the line with each article they publish.
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by elgenie 10y ago
Fifty Cent got a minority stake in Glaceau instead of a payment for endorsing their Vitamin Water. When Glaceau sold to Coca-Cola, that equity was worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million.
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by elgenie 10y ago
Firefox went to an evergreen browser model and keeps an ESR around for people that don't want to upgrade. But that's at version 45 at the moment. Firefox 33 is a three year old point release intended for eight weeks of operation,
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by elgenie 10y ago
That's just begging the question. OK, so you've found a buyer; what's the buyer to do to turn Twitter around?
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by elgenie 10y ago
It's hard to see when the numbers are small and can be ascribed to one-off cases for quite some time if the blindness is willful enough. Let's say that the org started with 10 women out of 40, then two left the company for higher
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by elgenie 10y ago
$ uber time '123 anywhere st' No API key found. Please create one using the instructions at <site> and call 'uber set-key <key>' $ uber set-key <key> # writes <key> to a file in
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by elgenie 10y ago
> To me, the business of software development is way too complex to apply a simple "no jerks" policy. Brilliant jerks are often to be found at the beating heart of successful software. That's what you replied to with &quot
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by elgenie 10y ago
> Brilliant jerks are often to be found at the beating heart of successful software. Survivorship bias doesn't render this an ineffective argument against the simple "no jerks" policy argued for in the article. The content
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by elgenie 10y ago
The thesis being argued here isn't supported by the poor anecdata. > Every time one of us would post our code for review, he would slaughter it. Where a normal review would often contain a handful of comments and suggestions, he wou
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by elgenie 10y ago
Dallas-FTW, Kansas City, Minneapolis, and Chicago look to be pretty darn close to that wind power belt.

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