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by galdosdi 3y ago
> There are always exceptions to any rule This is not an everyday occurrence except for some occupations. If it happens once a month, it amortizes out to not much. When I lived there, this is when you got a cab, and the surcharge there w
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Yeah, true, great is too strong a word. But, it is great _compared_ to driving, in terms of point A to point B on time performance, other than very late at night, which is the only time you can get around faster in a car (but will likely st
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by galdosdi 3y ago
If only your job let you have a real office with a door, you'd have no problem working from the office. A lot of the benefit of WFH is just undoing the damage of open office. Not long ago Google was famous for having nap rooms (suppose
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by galdosdi 3y ago
So what else is new?
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by galdosdi 3y ago
> Staten Island and downtown What a ridiculous statement? Forgot about the free ferry? Once you get to South Ferry you have a wealth of connections, the 123 (7th ave line), 456 (Lex ave line) and NQR (Broadway line).
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Genuine answer as a former New Yorker: No. You can get in and out more easily by transit than by car already. It's a luxury. Driving in Manhattan is already expensive many ways anyhow - bridge/tunnel tolls to enter any way other t
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by galdosdi 3y ago
There are always exceptions to any rule, but the vast majority of Manhattan drivers aren't poor and the vast majority of poor people passing through Manhattan don't drive. You're thinking of some other kind of place like the
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by galdosdi 3y ago
We're talking about lower Manhattan, so in practice if they stay longer then they have to deal with alternate side parking or pay for garage parking. Or, what the hell, I don't live there anymore, so I'll give away my secret
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Well, you're right, initially Google is a great example of growing because it genuinely was a great well executed product whose time had come. I mean it was just such a fresh air to go from using Excite and asking Jeeves to just googli
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by galdosdi 3y ago
I'm OK with the headline abridgement. I don't feel it slanders the expert, since we do not see their name till after we click and after we see the full unabridged headline.
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Brush & floss your teeth. Eat healthy. Sleep enough. Exercise.
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by galdosdi 3y ago
You can see type signatures as free documentation, that unlike other documentation, is not allowed by the compiler to fall out of date. Perhaps that's the sort of thing they meant.
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by galdosdi 3y ago
1986? I am guessing even the heavy users were light -- perhaps even by an order or more of magnitude! -- compared to what today's concentrate user can easily get into with stuff bought at the state legal store. Maybe the same findings
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by galdosdi 3y ago
You did? At Google? Cool! :) And thanks! As you can guess I still very pleasantly remember when the feature hit and the spam issue got so much better. I always wonder which pieces of my code from my career I'm proud of are still runnin
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by galdosdi 3y ago
This has been common knowledge since before I was a kid in the 1990s, when the local dentist on the block would give out apples and toothbrushes instead of candy on halloween, to the disappointment of many kids. And I don't think my lo
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by galdosdi 3y ago
I hate floss, and while I dislike the little flosser picks less, they still annoy me too, but I have now discovered they sell large (8 inch long or so, similar to a toothbrush) sticks with a flosser head (replacable, extremely cheap) on the
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by galdosdi 3y ago
> Imagine you're entering a country at the airport. The border agents seize your laptop and force you to unlock it If this concerned me I would just wipe the drive and/or factory reset the device before travelling, and restore
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by galdosdi 3y ago
I actually kind of agree as I am not even a soda drinker, but that was not the point. The point is the message it sends. And it really doesn't cost that much on a per-employee basis -- I would guess some employees might consume a six p
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by galdosdi 3y ago
> 2. Read the management discussion in the 10k of a public version of the company you work YES! Management's Discussion of Risks section of 10ks is amazing, and really easy to read. I think it's nuts to work at a public company
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Are you telling me that a highly qualified coder who can create Portal 64.... will be unable to find the shortest path between two points? Not even given the chance to spend an evening or weekend skimming their old algorithms textbook befor
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Yes, I briefly considered that idea and immediately discarded it. It would only make any sense at all in industries where the cubicles were a big part of the costs and margins were thin. I'd say most industries do not match this descri
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by galdosdi 3y ago
When I was younger I never understood the old saw about mathematicians doing their best work in their 20s, or other similar observations .... I thought it was strange, since being older means you had more time to get more experience. Now af
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by galdosdi 3y ago
What you say makes some sense, but I can think of some situations that would invalidate it, and there are probably others, but this is what I can think of right now: (1) What if China were to believe the war was "winnable" eg, the
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by galdosdi 3y ago
I agree it's more the apps than the medium, but it's still ALSO about the medium. The medium enables the apps because of (1) being in your pocket (2) having notifications (3) this one isn't talked about enough -- the wonderfu
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Yes, free basic cheap commodity drinks and snacks are bare minimum for a FAANG-class employer, and every other FAANG-class employer I'm familiar with goes well above and beyond that. Even my first job out of college as a boilerroom MSP
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by galdosdi 3y ago
GOD I KNOW RIGHT. Elder millenial here, I got the luxury of a cubicle ONCE, briefly at the start of my career.... never again. Never understood Dilbert poking fun of cubicles so much till I realized what they replaced was widespread private
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by galdosdi 3y ago
> "a prisoner's dilemma scenario with astoundingly low defection rates" That could be the official slogan of any successful ruling class.
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by galdosdi 3y ago
You have to.... pay... for soda... at Apple? What the hell?
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by galdosdi 3y ago
So? Isn't losing medicaid an ACA qualifying event? Your income goes up, you lose the medicaid but now qualify for ACA. That said, in my secondhand experience across multiple states I won't name, the medicaid office probably won&#x
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Not the OP but I would guess it's not that it was unique or surprising, but that it was didactically/pedagogically nicely explained. Experienced devs might find it superfluous since they've already guessed the solution from a

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