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by insertion 10y ago
I've wondered why partisanship doesn't exist to nearly the same extent in business and consumer behavior. This explains a lot.
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by insertion 10y ago
Two reasons: 1. You'll come across it and apply for a job at Google. 2. You'll have a positive interaction with the Google brand. A big part of this: it's something people want to share. Without that element, it would only ev
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by insertion 11y ago
I would like to see a language use decimal by default. Under the hood, it could use floating point for certain types of calculations where less precision is required. If I want to know the answer to 0.2 + 0.1, chances are I want the answer
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by insertion 11y ago
I find it highly unlikely this was a coordinated PR stunt. If revealed, this would damage the reputation of both parties, particularly Taylor. On a risk-adjusted basis, it’s not worth it for such established players to do this sort of thing
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by insertion 11y ago
The article ends like this: "As Cowen puts it, 'what are humans still good for?'" For the most part, programmers program better than programs. It's amazing to think about the possibilities as this statement becomes
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by insertion 12y ago
This doesn't seem right to me: > 3) How do you determine which devices and OS versions we should test on? > This should generally be an easy question for the candidate. Good candidates will point to app analytics as the best meas
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by insertion 12y ago
Being reflexively cynical can be just as harmful. The problem for Yahoo is that, at the moment, the critical articles are very dense in facts. Take a look at things like this for an example: http://www.forbes.com/sites/
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by insertion 12y ago
This is possibly the most source-friendly piece of tech journalism I've read in a while. I don't think there is a single point in that piece that would make Yahoo PR the least bit uncomfortable. Credit where it's due, the art
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Tail-call optimization added to 6to5 compiler(github.com)
117 points by insertion 12y ago|31 comments
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by insertion 12y ago
Looking at the release as a whole, I'd be fascinated to hear what features have taken the most time and effort? What turned out to be much harder than expected?
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by insertion 12y ago
I noticed that PyPy does not show any real speed improvement over CPython in these benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ If you filter by Python, you can compare some results running on both CPython and P
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by insertion 12y ago
This looks pretty elegant, but it's a shame that Elixir uses the Ruby-style multi-line code blocks with do end. Looking at those code examples, 'end' take up around 25% of the lines with code. Does anyone know if they conside
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by insertion 12y ago
As someone who is more familiar with OOP, I would love to see examples/hear more alternative approaches to organising code. Let's say that you want to design a CRUD app, but you're not going to use OOP. What are some of the w
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by insertion 12y ago
Why a countdown? Probably because they're launching a watch. Wait and see. My guess is they hint at the why during the event, probably in the opening minute or so. They will also probably use time-based headlines in the slides.
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by insertion 12y ago
That doesn't make sense. Not unless the introduction of the tablet caused people to buy PCs and laptops. There might be some dynamics between the two, but it doesn't relate to the age of the tablet being equal to the average lifet
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[Python-ideas] Optional static typing(mail.python.org)
3 points by insertion 12y ago|0 comments
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by insertion 12y ago
I'm a happy Backblaze customer, but I've noticed it typically uses around 240MB of memory. Is this normal? Why is it so high?
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by insertion 12y ago
The story is sourced to “people with knowledge of the matter.” In the same piece Google goes own the record saying “over here in our darkroom, we’re always developing new ways for people to snap, share and say cheese.” It reads almost like
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AngularJS vs. Ember(eviltrout.com)
2 points by insertion 12y ago|0 comments
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by insertion 12y ago
Let’s spend a minute to think about political language. Do we want to “ban Internet fast lanes” or “ban Internet slow lanes?” I suspect that most would favor the latter.