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by fridek 11y ago
Coursera has a great course on discrete optimization [1] where I have learned and used or-tools. They are rather nice, but the documentation is half done (basically code is the best documentation) and some interfaces are not compatible with
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by fridek 11y ago
Quoting https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=500922#c... The significance of this depends on whether you're running Google Chrome (the official distribution) or Chromium. Now, you've
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by fridek 11y ago
This is spinning out of control. Regardless of whether the hotword detection is enabled by default or not (it's not), arguing that loading a module may harm your privacy is just plain nonsense. Most of software is loaded as one big, bi
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by fridek 11y ago
I never said it should be more complex. It, however, should be also structured somehow. There is a persistence layer, models, collections, services reasoning about them and pipelines aggregating and rendering things. Well written JavaScript
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by fridek 11y ago
The best thing that happened to me as a JavaScript developer was being exposed to other languages. Especially the not-so-fancy Java and C++, really opened my mind about structuring code and planning for a long-term project. Knowing JavaScri
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by fridek 11y ago
Because: * it's not what I want - I prefer to deliver it for free and do not plan for it to become any source of income, just to not have costs scaling with popularity * I don't need to sell it - I'm reasonably wealthy, with
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by fridek 11y ago
Actually I have no idea. Never made any money from ads, but $1k/month sounds like the kind of money I could use to improve/market the game I'm working on. There is also another question with the same roots - how much money do
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by fridek 11y ago
Honest question - what business model for free content do you see other than ads? I understand all the privacy and distraction issues related, but increasingly many news sites I read feature only paid content. I suppose it's connected
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by fridek 11y ago
One of my all-time favorite quotes on browsers, from http://blog.tojicode.com/2013/08/holistic-webgl.html "Have you actually seen how people use web browsers? Honestly it's kind of horrifying. It's
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by fridek 11y ago
The same quote is often attributed to Napoleon and probably suits the army well. There is also a world of a difference between enthusiastic and hard-working. I'd say being energetic falls into the same bucket as being smart (lets call
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by fridek 11y ago
There is more worth in a dumb but hard-working person, than in a smart and lazy one. Too many people strive to be the smartest around but few try to work hard and consistently. I can't be a judge of how smart you are, but being hard-wo
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by fridek 11y ago
Well, for this very reason an open space office should have enough conference rooms for everybody. I dread the moment when I will need to "walk through the door" to speak with a manager. That's intimidating and discourages pe
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by fridek 11y ago
At home nothing prevents me from not working and I often don't. The difference is, at home you can spend your time with a book, cooking, with kids or spouse - which all is refreshing and in general will improve your performance once yo
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by fridek 11y ago
Everybody needs a balance between productive alone time and creative brainstorming time. Most companies I've seen achieve this with an open space and plenty of WFH for all employees. Basically we meet 2-3 times a week to organize and s
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Open Salaries: How(blog.lunarlogic.io)
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by fridek 11y ago
Sure they are, but they employ mostly the same techniques. The implementation may differ, but the ideas remain the same, at least to the extent where well organized code optimized for one engine is unlikely to be slow in another.
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by fridek 11y ago
That is simply not true. To write fast JS you need to understand the basics of the engine, like what a hidden class is, what exactly garbage collector does, how to keep your methods monomorphic or how types work in arrays. I was stunned whe
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by fridek 11y ago
Waiting for all one-time async operations to finish is not unfeasible. Async loops (like pinging server for possible updates) is a tad harder.
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by fridek 12y ago
That's Google, so probably quarterly review scores.
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by fridek 12y ago
That's not a surprise really. A typical competition may be won by a programmer scoring 90/100 on four out of five tasks and 20/100 on the last one. Such performance at work would likely result in a quick termination.
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by fridek 12y ago
This is Angular 1.x course because Angular 2 is nowhere near stability. It also won't be for another few years - that's how long it takes to build an ecosystem of packages around anything. I'd say apart from people wanting to
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by fridek 12y ago
The same question about JS. Closure Compiler never made much sense for me without blaze.
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by fridek 12y ago
If you want to spend some time helping people, please consider https://hackpledge.org/
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by fridek 12y ago
It's a great and well written book already. I'm not sure how can you benefit from annotating it any further. It's important to accept that some books are aimed at a certain level and for people not quite there yet better alte
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Google opens its first ever store in London(cnbc.com)
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Huawei Watch(consumer.huawei.com)
129 points by fridek 12y ago|151 comments
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by fridek 12y ago
Three paragraphs of fun, then one of Google moaning, one of jQuery and another of Google. I'm not sure if the one about MS was supposed to be offensive or not. I'd say this summarizes JavaScript community these days quite accurate
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Nodeperf – like a profiler but actually useful in improving performance(github.com)
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by fridek 12y ago
I refer simply to getting angry at the whole company for action of a subset of employees. That's so common today and makes me think I don't ever want to own or work for a large, multi-project company. I do agree it's by no me
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by fridek 12y ago
This is your second submission of it after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8838578 I agree this may haven't been resolved nicely, but hidden extrapolation from a few employees to the whole company is not cool on y

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