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by gefh 10y ago
Leaking something to the press is an entirely different class of failure than a technical screw up.
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by gefh 10y ago
Phishing, mainly.
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by gefh 10y ago
[May 2016]
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by gefh 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/1102/
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by gefh 10y ago
Where is that? do you have hardware stores that sell electrical parts? Do you need a license to buy from them? I could understand needing a license to perform work for hire but stopping people doing their own work sounds unenforceable.
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by gefh 10y ago
It's an extreme case, but that's kind of the point of Christmas, and the winter festivals it evolved from.
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by gefh 10y ago
They are shaved down on a lathe at the end, then tested for conformance. The end product looked very 'high tech'. I don't know if the method has any significant effect on internal defects relative to the safer method though.
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by gefh 10y ago
Excellent imagery choices.
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by gefh 10y ago
Alternatively, just store it naively and gzip. Or use a sparse array. Or, best, don't do anything until storage size is an actual, measured bottleneck
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by gefh 10y ago
My goog office has many trans engineers. They're very good at their jobs. I guess they might not want to work in an office designed by you, either now or at some stage in their transition. You'd be missing out on their talent.
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by gefh 10y ago
> the work required to avoid them And that's the rub, it was a _lot_ of work. It's nice to see it can be done, but few sites will have the time or inclination.
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by gefh 10y ago
Please do! I'd like to avoid cluttering my desk with too many more gadgets.
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by gefh 10y ago
Tom Wheeler has done his job just fine, and not shown any preference to his old industry. For all we know Obama made a great choice based on his character.
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by gefh 10y ago
Well, one is removing a thing, and the other is adding the same thing. QED _inconsistent_.
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by gefh 10y ago
This seems a little bit like 1) Draw two circles. 2) Draw the rest of the owl. I don't see that TDD is helping 'form' the algorithm at all. The format of the input and output, sure, but the core intellectual leap seems glosse
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by gefh 10y ago
In the short term, yes. In the longer term, they're subsidising kick starting a market that can only come down in price once the volume increases. Some good ideas need a bump through the 'chicken and egg' stage.
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by gefh 10y ago
Legit usage: #define private public #include "some old thing I need the internals of but can't change.h"
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by gefh 10y ago
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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by gefh 10y ago
I wish people would stop bringing up the trolley problem as somehow relevant to self driving cars. In any situation,a car is going to brake as hard as possible while maintaining control, and only serve if there's no way to stop and a c
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by gefh 10y ago
The graph of epipen pricing over time at the bottom of the article is jaw dropping. "Did we get in trouble yet? No? Add another 10% then". Only imaginary books on Amazon have price curves like that.
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by gefh 10y ago
Click it and you get a full page description.
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by gefh 10y ago
I had exactly the same problem with OSX - all other devices were fine but my macbook would drop packets after 30 seconds or so. Only fix seemed to be a new router. No problems since.
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by gefh 10y ago
I was hoping from the headline that this was about an exoplanet but antelope traps are interesting too...
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by gefh 10y ago
Web apps are too complicated to rely on form input changes as a stand-in for user state. Good idea about the space/enter thing, I'll file a bug.
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by gefh 10y ago
Yes, it's costly to maintain the combinatorial interactions between configurations. But 'make it a setting' has further costs- when you're supporting a customer and you can't figure out the exact state they're
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by gefh 10y ago
As a grateful recipient of 12 weeks of parental leave, I hope this is a sign of a wider competitive benefits escalation. It seems likely that increased benefits will be confined to highly in-demand industries though. But who knows, maybe Am
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by gefh 10y ago
Nearly all js at google is typed to some degree with closure compiler annotations.
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by gefh 10y ago
You're in the most heavily shaded region. Some of the areas reach most of the way around the world, so they look like a lighter circle that you're actually outside, some are smaller and look darker which you're inside, some a
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by gefh 10y ago
You could just run them on narrow strips of metal rather than bother with a wide stretch of tarmac that the wheels wouldn't be touching most of.
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by gefh 10y ago
I'm glad this guy knows so much about how search engines work. He should start one, it sounds easy! He just has to map each query to the single, unchanging answer that's the same for everybody!

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