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by ender7 9y ago
Users: I like AMP pages, they're fast! HN: But the open Internet! Users: What's that? HN: Normal websites! Users: Like...the really slow ones? With all the annoying popovers? And pages that take forever to load? And for some reaso
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by ender7 9y ago
Every time I deviate from using unix milliseconds as my timestamps, I end up regretting it. If we use unix seconds, we get infinite bugs related to people forgetting to convert to millis when comparing against the current time. If we use Da
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by ender7 9y ago
Russian is a famously difficult language to speak at a fluent level. You can make yourself understood fairly easily, but the nuances of both the pronunciation and grammar are quite hard to get 100% correct. In particular, its system of decl
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by ender7 9y ago
As always, remember that even technical interviews like this one have an incredible amount of random chance built into the hiring process. This is especially true at a big company like Google (where I work and do interviews). Do they happen
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by ender7 10y ago
People responding about how they personally aren't bothered by jerks are missing the point. It's great if you have thick skin, but it's hard enough to hire quality engineers without having to stipulate that they must also b
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by ender7 10y ago
I still can't really figure out what a container is. Every time I think of a use case for one, I read something like this which says that's a terrible idea. The use-case I need solved most often is the following: Create a standalo
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by ender7 10y ago
It's very easy to declaim one or another layout system as verbose or inconsistent. Can you suggest a mainstream layout system that offers this feature in a better manner? I've used a lot of different layout frameworks over the yea
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by ender7 10y ago
(disclaimer: I work at Google) Google is a great company to work for, but there are many great companies out there. Don't close off other possibly-great opportunities because you're focused on working for a single place. Some rand
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by ender7 10y ago
To be honest, this comment is more evidence of a problem than anything else.
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by ender7 10y ago
I'm all for colonizing Mars, but is it possible to do large-scale terraforming of the surface without a magnetosphere to protect it?
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by ender7 10y ago
The first step in compilation is lexing -- converting a character stream to a stream of semantic "tokens", where a token might be "a number literal" or "the 'while' keyword" or a single character toke
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by ender7 10y ago
In this context, "programmer" and "engineer" are probably meant to be synonymous.
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by ender7 10y ago
Doctor and nurse salaries are higher in the US than in most other countries, but as a percentage of healthcare costs they're very small.
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by ender7 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by ender7 11y ago
Google has repeatedly said that they will not give preferential treatment for AMP pages. Almost every publication [1] and comment I've seen gets this wrong. According to official comment, the ranking algorithm will prioritize page sp
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by ender7 11y ago
Chrome supports multiple user accounts. I do this for my work and personal accounts. You don't have to switch between them; you can have windows from both accounts open at the same time.
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by ender7 11y ago
Please note, I am not accusing any specific person of being a government spook intent on weakening security, but I can’t help notice the parallels in this situation with what is known about how Internet standards get compromised
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by ender7 11y ago
If you naively extrapolate, ... Yes, this is definitely an appropriate time to make sweeping generalizations based solely on naive extrapolations. https://xkcd.com/605/
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by ender7 11y ago
I find the first set of pictures the most interesting, because they all display various forms of what we would think of as automation -- machines to do house cleaning, farming, barbering, grooming -- but none of them actually automate any
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by ender7 11y ago
Please read the comments you reply to: "Once the format is finalized, the next logical step would be to make a library version of it, which will be most probably get licensed under the LGPL v3+"
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by ender7 11y ago
Everyone knew what the feedback from existing extension authors would be. Asking for "feedback" that you know you're going to ignore seems more disingenuous that just admitting that you have to make a decision they don't
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by ender7 11y ago
GAAP is not an uncommon acronym in tech circles. For example, listen in to any earnings call or read any of the big tech companies' quarterly earnings press releases and you'll find references to GAAP all over the place. Quarterly
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by ender7 11y ago
Note that other game companies usually developed the actual games for LucasArts. X-Wing and TIE Fighter were developed by Totally Games and KOTOR (the first one) was developed by BioWare. Many of their adventure games (such as Day of the Te
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by ender7 11y ago
Friendly reminder: rescuing a drowning person (even a child) is incredibly dangerous if you have not been trained in how to do it. They will try to climb on top of you if they get a hold of you and unless you are an exceptionally strong s
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by ender7 11y ago
Sometimes rants like this are biting indictments of the state of things, but sometimes they're just a bit of laziness. The web is a constantly evolving platform. There used to be many things that were impossible to achieve on the web;
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by ender7 11y ago
I sympathize with your plea for us to move beyond labels, but that doesn't change the nature of this TechRaptor piece. This is a smoke screen and it is being used in the same old way to obliquely discredit an argument that a member
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by ender7 11y ago
If you, like me, or tptacek [1], were confused why this is a big deal, that's because it's not. It's common practice for online articles to be changed after they are published, especially as new information comes in. If the a
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by ender7 11y ago
You should definitely consult legal counsel before and during talking to the authorities (which you should also do). The laws surrounding CP in particular are outdated and do not fit well into the digital world. For example, simply looking
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by ender7 11y ago
I must be missing some context here, because the whole article seems to boil down to "someone I like said something I don't like :(". He spends a fantastic amount of time scolding Martin for disagreeing with him and almost no
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by ender7 11y ago
Yep. It has other features that I never use, but the media key functionality is great.

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