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by grimlck 13y ago
As a former couchsurfing host, i implore you, couchsurfing is great, but do couchsurfing because you want to meet new people and have cultural interactions. Do NOT use couchsurfing just to save money - that might be a nice side effect, but
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by grimlck 13y ago
If your suit isn't comfortable, then you are wearing the wrong size and should get it tailored.
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by grimlck 14y ago
One way to solve it is to make people pass a quick programming test before they can buy a ticket
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by grimlck 14y ago
I really wish reddit had a better interface to see the questions and Bill's answers all at once without scrolling through random comments. Why hasn't reddit's AMA been surpassed by a dedicated AMA site with a user interface designed for AMA
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by grimlck 14y ago
Beware that nesting tickets to circumvent minimum stay requirements is almost certainly against fare rules. For example, http://www.aa.com/i18nForward.do?p=/customerService/customer... American specifically prohibits the practices commonl
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by grimlck 14y ago
I'm sure there are just as many occasions where European custom officers are friendly and efficient and fix mistakes. But I can assure you that this story happens with US customs as well - if they think you are there to work in the country
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by grimlck 14y ago
So you can't merge changes on the fork back to the main database? Without the ability to merge, shouldn't it just be called 'copying'
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by grimlck 14y ago
That is not the case in the UK.
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by grimlck 14y ago
Competition in the browser space is a great thing - it is the reason there is so much progress in the field. Remember when IE was the only browser worth worrying about? Wasn't development so easy because IE was the only browser you had to
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by grimlck 14y ago
Color is the pets.com of the current bubble
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by grimlck 14y ago
And that is better than the X in pure javascript posts, with X being something which was impressive 10 years ago in other languages
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by grimlck 14y ago
Isn't this just a symptom of san francisco proper being much smaller than new york city? A more fair comparision is comparing San Francisco to Manhattan.
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by grimlck 14y ago
If the shares are worth $38 at grant, you are paying taxes based on the $38 value if you do an 83b. if the stock price goes up, you are golden, as you started your long-term capital gains clock earlier. But what if the stock price goes down
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by grimlck 14y ago
What that shows is how hard twitter's revenue problem really is. To justify a $10 billion valuation on the public markets (not the bubble of SV), they'd need to pull in $500 million of earnings. (Google's P/E is 19, let's assume something
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by grimlck 14y ago
nice introduction, but it seems to be missing some really important concepts - generational GC - concurrent GC, the parts of GC which can be concurrent (which depends on your algorithm), and the tradeoffs needed to let your program run conc
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by grimlck 14y ago
Wow, Svalbard, with a population of 2932 has not just one but two cables!
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by grimlck 14y ago
That will stress it a bit, but to really torture it, see if it accepts 2012 June 30 23:59:60
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by grimlck 14y ago
Instead of comparing '20 smarty JQuery guys' with '200 average Java programmers', how about comparing '20 average JQuery programmers' with '20 average Java programmers'? Or comparing '20 smart JQuery guys' with '20 smart Java programmers'.
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by grimlck 15y ago
Storing everything in UTC is a huge improvement, but is still an imperfect solution because the Tz database changes over time. Suppose you are writing a appointment tracking system, and, at some point before the olson tz database has been u
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by grimlck 15y ago
Version number does matter because they can't seem to create a stable add-on API, and therefore version increment == add-on breakage.
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by grimlck 15y ago
The xorl instruction uses fewer bytes than the mov. (The movl instruction encoding has the bytes needed for a 32 bit constant, while the xorl instruction encoding would not)
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by grimlck 15y ago
It actually seems like Dart didn't reuse anything in GWT, other than 'lessons learned' - if it did, it would have the GWT compiler's dead code elimination, optimizations, dev mode, story of your compile, code splitting, etc. I'm guessing it
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by grimlck 15y ago
It sounds like he moved from Canada initially, which implies he is a Canadian citizen who can always move back and get universal health care if his health becomes a concern
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by grimlck 15y ago
The incorporation of bignums is interesting - i'm curious how does that works when compiling to javascript (where double is the only numeric type) does that mean all integer math is emulated? Long emulation is slow enough in GWT, but you
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by grimlck 15y ago
http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/msg/37bf75... has a list - just eyeballing it, it seems like about half of the major javascript apps from google are GWT. (the other half would likely be closure)
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by grimlck 15y ago
Are the events in english or in dutch?
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by grimlck 15y ago
Why isn't the 'single maintainer problem' a concern with other programming languages? What language DOESN'T have a single organization leading its development? Even worse, some projects (incl. coffeescript) seem to be controlled by just a
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by grimlck 15y ago
Am i the only one that went online shopping for the items mentioned after reading the article? :)
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by grimlck 15y ago
I like to compare hating java to hating SUVs - they may be used inappropriately most of the time, but there are scenarios where they are the best tool. In the enterprise, you need a language that can support - multi-million line code bases
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by grimlck 15y ago
I would actually go even further, and say that unless your equity is comparable to that of the founders, you absolutely should not be working for free.

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