jkaptur

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by jkaptur 3y ago
> There are two types of people: Those who think VR will change the world—and those who haven’t tried it yet. > > It’s an old saying, sure, maybe even a little cliché. And yes, there are skeptics out there—but we’d argue they just
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by jkaptur 3y ago
A comic that puts this perfectly: https://tapas.io/episode/923459
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Oh, interesting! The fact that "abc"[1] doesn't work is a great sign, since my contention is that "the character at index i" is not a well-defined concept.
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The logical next step here is to realize that if you want to be truly internationalized, pretty much every single method of the string class in your favorite language is an antipattern and should be used with extreme caution. Seriously!
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Sure, everyone wants to be "WeChat for the rest of the world", but even WeChat hasn't really made progress in pulling it off.
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This person is in trouble for intensifying exactly the issues you're describing: "The report ... identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) a
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Do you publish the points themselves at the top? I'm mystified by the popular desire to have an LLM "expand" their writing. Can't you just publish what you wanted to say?
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I learned yesterday that the term of art for what you're describing is "urban doom loop".
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I mean, one easy way I prove it is by showing up on time to meetings because I don't have to scramble between two conference rooms. That's just to start.
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Yeah, it's a little bit fun. Definitely something I'd do once every few years.
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Subtle distinctions in font weight or italic-ness? Variable fonts give a lot of options.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Definitely an interesting hypothesis! I bet it's also true that people who are car-dependent are more likely to have houses (with home offices, yards, space, quiet, chosen partners instead of roommates, and so on). You could test the r
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I agree - I did a fair amount of SAT tutoring, and there's no question in my mind that preparation improves performance. However, all preparation is basically the same - take a practice test and see what you need to improve, then learn
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by jkaptur 3y ago
True most of the time, but interestingly enough, this is not the case in China (even pre-COVID). The Tsinghua University gate had serious guards - you absolutely could not proceed onto campus without the proper authorization.
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Clear naming is important, and types help with that. "RequestWithoutId" is clunky, but it is easy to explain to an (interested!) business-side person that you have "external requests" (from the outside world) that you
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by jkaptur 3y ago
(I don't know Flutter well, so I'm a bit commenting from my armchair, sorry). In my experience, Android and iOS provide lower-level accessibility APIs that assume you're going to be making your own controls, while the web sta
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Did you hire people who did poorly on the system design interview and then measure their job performance? Or did you just determine that "passing with flying colors" didn't really improve job performance vs. "just scrapi
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by jkaptur 4y ago
Just from pop culture, I can come up with a counterexample: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/reality-show-cast-membe... I'm not saying you're wrong in the aggregate, but can't you make a better
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by jkaptur 4y ago
I love that the typos ("OFTHE", "WESTERN DIGITALON") are in the original too.
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by jkaptur 4y ago
It looks like the author found this line using manual inspection, but it seems possible to automate the search: https://github.com/BradleyWood/Longest-Line-In-Polygon/blob/... . It might even be sufficiently f
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by jkaptur 4y ago
To directly address one of your examples (but offer no further comment): Bill Clinton once said "We know how much the Internet has changed America, and we are already an open society. Imagine how much it could change China. Now there&#
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by jkaptur 4y ago
From TFA: > Financial aid, in the form of grants, scholarships, loans and work-study programs, closes the gap for many. From https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/it-costs-78200-to-go-to-harv... : > About 55%
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by jkaptur 4y ago
Clearly a Mario-style "cha-ching" sound would be really annoying, but Excel's cursor is animated, Sheets slides tabs around when you reorder the sheet tabs at the bottom, there are all sorts of hover states and previews, the
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by jkaptur 4y ago
Does anyone know if her star earrings are a reference to her rank? Or is it just a coincidence?
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We know.
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Definition of a reasonable paradigm: millions of developers can successfully use it to build software systems used by billions. Windows, iOS, Android, Photoshop, Excel, Chrome - these are complex products that use object-oriented programmin
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Do you? They're natural language, right?
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The Chinese shot down a number of U2s as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat_Squadron You can see one of them at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, but it's in pretty rough shap
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by jkaptur 4y ago
Great essay. Maybe another thing to note is that in industry we often don't need the singular best answer, but one that is "close" or "good". In fact, sometimes this is a requirement - like a sudoku solver that ca
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by jkaptur 4y ago
Just to give a different, concrete, perspective (and push a hot button HN issue), I've spent a fair amount of time working on extremely large web applications, and by far the #1 "WTF WTF WTF" thing that new hires say is &qu

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