havermeyer

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by havermeyer 9mo ago
Bank of America Unlimited Cash Rewards for the win :) My only regret is not realizing sooner that it existed since I used the Citi Double Cash card for so long.
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by havermeyer 1y ago
It makes me think of the how "I have thirst" is the literal translation from the French for "I'm thirsty."
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by havermeyer 2y ago
The Abseil time library makes time and date parsing and manipulation a lot nicer in C++: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/time
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by havermeyer 3y ago
I reviewed a CL from Hyrum at Google where he was trying to remove a `set_timeout(float)` method in favor of `set_timeout(absl::Duration)` and changed the former to delegate to the latter. It turned out that there was some special handling
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by havermeyer 3y ago
Something else to consider is compile time versus runtime validation with formatting libraries, e.g. due to passing the wrong number or type of arguments. The Abseil str_format library does compile time validation for both when possible: h
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by havermeyer 3y ago
I wish I could find the article I read a while ago on the history, but it reminds me of how "nauseous" ended up becoming synonymous with "nauseated."
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by havermeyer 3y ago
Sorry, I didn't check comments for a while. The target date funds tend to have higher management fees and yes, worse composition of stocks versus bonds compared to holding a mix yourself, IMO, based on your goals.
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by havermeyer 3y ago
FYI you may be better off using an index fund and then rebalancing into bonds or other fixed income options closer to retirement. See this article, for example. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/one-of-the-bigge
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by havermeyer 4y ago
That would also be interesting to analyze: which de facto attributes do people add because they think they're needed to pass an initial screening?
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by havermeyer 4y ago
http://archive.today/W0LzA
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The US cities with the most and fewest children(aaastateofplay.com)
1 points by havermeyer 5y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Gaming appears to be overrun by spam and pirated content(engadget.com)
3 points by havermeyer 5y ago|0 comments
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by havermeyer 5y ago
The C API for Julia also has almost no documentation. There is a getting started guide, which is great, but if you want to do anything more advanced (e.g. creating structs like in your example), you'll end up reading the source code to
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by havermeyer 5y ago
There's even a subreddit dedicated to awful taste but great execution :) https://old.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/
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by havermeyer 5y ago
Gordon is amazing, and it's almost impossible to beat him to an answer for certain types of questions :) I had the chance to meet him a few years back to talk through some new SQL features coming to BigQuery (I'm at Snowflake now)
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by havermeyer 5y ago
Axios uses this format, where they have a short summary and bullet points. Here's an example: https://www.axios.com/tropical-storm-henri-slams-new-england...
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by havermeyer 5y ago
Sharing since this sounds interesting but also like a terrible financial idea.
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Startup provides unified checking and investment account(financialchoice.com)
2 points by havermeyer 5y ago|2 comments
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by havermeyer 5y ago
I hadn't heard about this mantra before: Management's reasoning fell in line with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's early mantra, "company over country," according to the book. "As a private global company, Facebook did no
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Facebook staffers told to scrap any mention of Russia in a 2017 white paper(businessinsider.com)
3 points by havermeyer 5y ago|1 comments
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by havermeyer 5y ago
absl::StrFormat provides compile-time safety: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/format
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by havermeyer 5y ago
Did you keep in touch with any of the other students? I can't imagine that anyone came away thinking it was pleasant, but I'm curious how their thoughts on the experience compared to yours.
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by havermeyer 5y ago
I saw a lot of this when I worked at Google, both with internal-facing products and external-facing ones (software, though, not hardware). Organization A would build their own query engine, for example, but then organization B would build t
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by havermeyer 5y ago
Archive link: http://archive.today/2021.05.08-195117/https://www.nytimes.c...
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by havermeyer 7y ago
Context for anyone who missed the original thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328
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by havermeyer 7y ago
As a disclaimer, I work on the BigQuery team, but I wanted to point out that there is now support for transferring data from S3 to BigQuery: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/s3-transfer-intro
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by havermeyer 7y ago
Tables created in projects that have BI Engine enabled support streaming inserts, DML operations, etc. just like other BigQuery tables. Any queries you run using BigQuery itself incur regular query costs ( https://cloud.google.com
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by havermeyer 7y ago
Give BI Engine a try! https://cloud.google.com/bi-engine/docs/ . The model is that you pay for storage--currently free during the beta--but any queries from Data Studio don't incur costs. It was just announced
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by havermeyer 8y ago
I'm curious about the options that they'll offer initially. With the Model 3, Tesla only sold the long-range, premium version at first, which IIRC is more profitable than the basic $35k version. Maybe they'll repeat this with
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by havermeyer 8y ago
This recent article makes it sound like it can be a nightmare to get your money back, too: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/02/21/tesla-refund-and-return-...

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