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by gaogao 7y ago
In my opinion, it's hit the inflection point at Facebook. The new shiny, Libra, is written mostly in Rust.
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by gaogao 7y ago
Razer gaming keyboard drivers spin up a webserver for controlling the chroma, which I've always found scary. (Using the much more reasonable community open source drivers that don't do that.)
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by gaogao 7y ago
> This Thursday I'm invited to a privacy roundtable with Facebook Legal and Privacy Policy teams On 5, I would hazard that it's those teams. Of course, the buck stops at zuck.
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by gaogao 7y ago
Strange. I'm just going to read the markdown instead, https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/commit/d7214...
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by gaogao 7y ago
Just that page seems to be down right now.
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by gaogao 7y ago
Running a betting pool on cloud service outage root causes would be fairly fun. I'm going to guess load balancer cascading failures.
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by gaogao 7y ago
At my current place, that manifests as just linking to a Google Doc in a chat thread and moving the writing over there.
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by gaogao 7y ago
Could you give an example of something with this decentralization quality as you described?
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by gaogao 7y ago
It's an interesting article, but also feels like peak buzzword with use-case 1 essentially being "machine learning in the cloud using blockchain and big data"
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by gaogao 7y ago
If you recognize that racial supremacy goes hand-in-hand with the imperialistic expansionism of Nazi Germany and Japan, I think it's fairly apt descriptor of one of the major causes of the war.
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by gaogao 7y ago
Eh, the baby is probably enough of a transformative work to be covered under fair use.
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by gaogao 7y ago
Both the Rust Programming Language Community Server and the Rust Programming Language server are pretty nice.
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A final proposal for Rust await syntax(boats.gitlab.io)
352 points by gaogao 7y ago|261 comments
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by gaogao 7y ago
The policy is up to 90 days to fully delete all user data, stated here https://www.facebook.com/help/359046244166395/
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by gaogao 7y ago
Mark mentioned the work on using formal methods for tracking user data usage and storage in his keynote. This is a project I'm working on, so it's nice to see it out there.
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by gaogao 8y ago
I stand corrected, as what I had mentioned was only necessary given lack of hardware support for scrolling. Good catch.
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by gaogao 8y ago
The smooth scrolling is pretty hard. One of my favorite bits of Masters of Doom about id Software was when they hacked a port of Super Mario Bros 3 to the PC, but as history can tell, Nintendo didn't bite on that one. https:/&#x2
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by gaogao 8y ago
Sharing a press release is absolutely not insider information. I don't know what you're getting at.
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by gaogao 8y ago
From another report, >> Mobile advertising revenue – Mobile advertising revenue represented approximately 91% of advertising revenue for the first quarter of 2018, up from approximately 85% of advertising revenue in the first quarter
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by gaogao 8y ago
Facebook makes its money from selling ads. You can see this in its revenue report, https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/... Of course, these ads are highly targeted using all sorts of person
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by gaogao 8y ago
>> apples to apples comparison I really enjoy this in the context of comparing to Apple
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by gaogao 8y ago
It probably happened because someone used Zuck's id, 4, as an id in a test (because people happen to do that all the time), which then ended up mistakenly deleting the old posts.
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by gaogao 8y ago
Uber has a fairly solid 4% cashback on restraunts, plus some high percentages on hotels and online shopping.
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by gaogao 8y ago
For my dad, a psychiatrist, running a private practice netted him around $400,000 yearly.
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by gaogao 8y ago
If the constants aren't too big, this might find use in signal processing.
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by gaogao 8y ago
The US is a good market to start in. Large, most people speak a common language (English), tons of people on the internet. Additionally, many of these internet companies are formed from the ashes and exiles of older companies in the US. Val
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by gaogao 8y ago
Yes
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by gaogao 8y ago
You can actually use Python as a configuration file pretty well, if you need more complicated logic and macros. Otherwise, sticking to a toml or ini file is my preference.
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by gaogao 8y ago
Her article on Juul is one of my favorites.
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by gaogao 8y ago
Speaking of chess like games, have you tried Enter the Breach yet? It has similar deterministic features.

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