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What is your definition of "huge diffs"? For me, the process of reading some library documentation, reading existing code, and producing, say, 50-100 lines of quality code to require enough concentration that it's hard to foc
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"Being able to easily start a design discussion with 4 or 5 engineers" means "easily break 4 or 5 engineers out of their flow" along with "easily create a distraction for the other 15 engineers within earshot of the
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The efficiency gain with open offices is that, for high-growth companies -- or ones that are uncertain about their long-term size, it's pretty easy to shuffle furniture around to squeeze in more people. When walls and doors get involve
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I'm sure someone more qualified to than me is floating around here. From what I heard at CMU then, the GPS data in '04 was a couple feet off, and everyone was driving a few feet off the road as a result. I imagine the key takeaway
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That doesn't matter. Roth vs. Traditional is purely a bet on current vs. future tax rates. P = principal, T_0 = current tax rate, T_t = Tax rate at retirement (t years in the future). r = rate of return between tim
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It's getting there, with the evolution of sharesheets + iCloud Drive. I've been meaning to play around with a 4g iPad + cloud boxes for webdev and analytics workflow.
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I'm thinking it's more likely that MacBooks (and probably Macs) are killed off altogether (or merged into iPads). I think we're about 2 iOS iterations away from the iPad being a complete Macbook replacement (and we're th
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Restaurants are starting to get it. I've been to a handful of places in the past couple years where I left thinking "somebody gave a shit!" (which is really all it takes) -- Places that come to mind are Vetri, Osteria, and Za
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It's more than that though. "Citrus" was a flavor that roasters were trying to bring out, which is fine (and interesting). However, what happened with hoppiness in IPAs happened with acidity in American espresso. As roasters&
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This wasn't a push to use the lightning port -- it was a push for accessory makers to ask "First, can we make this wireless?". Lightning isn't really long for this world, either -- (not sure if it goes in 2 or 4 years, b
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Well, with alcohol, we tried (and largely for the reasons you mentioned). On net, the effects caused by the abolition of alcohol (and probably other drugs) were arguably worse than the effects caused by its existence. In particular, demand
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"I have no idea why" seems like a good place to start doing some research. In short (and as mentioned elsewhere in this thread), "the soap you choose to buy" may affect the ecosystem we live in. In particular, the bacter
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As a consumer, you're not going to get around it. But what you can do is quarantine it to a specific area within your application. I find dependencies to be a very natural place to divide up an application -- at the very least, to cons
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Lists are lists, and I have no issues there. It's dicts as objects (often nested) where things to get hairy. I often see folks end up relying on internal implementation details of other libraries, or other data sources, and things can
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With dynamic languages (certainly Python, Ruby, and JS), there's a definite lack of nudge from the tooling to translate from "interchange" format into an internal "smart" format (procedural code + everything is a ha
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Correct me if I'm wrong (I've never held a gun), but from my gun-owning friends, the first words I've generally heard regarding guns are "Don't point the working end at anything you don't intend to put a hole i
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Worth noting regarding Barcelona is that this is, to a great extent, retrofitting a concept that already exists within the city to "new" parts. In Ciutat Vella, there are a few "outer" thoroughfares, with the inner stree
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The virtue of not caring: Lessons from the unnamed generation(medium.com)
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(American here, but pen-and-paper snob). I literally was walking through my apartment as I was reading this, looked over at the (Rhodia) notepad on my counter, and thought "hmm, looks about right". I'd imagine Rhodia is prett
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Everyone owes it to themselves to test the market once a year. You don't have to take the offer, but the extent to which you consider yourself guilty for doing so is the extent to which your current employer is screwing you. If your cu
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The biggest thing Tesla has done is design cars to be electric first. A ton of compromises have to be made to stick a gas engine (and a gas tank) in a car. A purpose-built electric car is, in several ways, capable of surpassing a gas-powere
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I almost always find the most interesting people I work with aren't the ones who are "nerds for nerds sake". I was at CMU SCS, but the two best engineers I know from undergrad studied Philosophy and Political Science. I'
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Long-term, where does using something like this make sense vs. Mesos?
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This is... the biggest thing that scares me about the assorted 3-letter-acronyms -- Not that they're spying on you or me (because most of us are irrelevant), but that they may have material on those with control of budgets and bombs.
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The path isn't that hard, especially during a Presidential election year: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/jobs-and-internships/ (or whoever your candidate of choice is). I worked the Obama campaign in '12. It
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The introductory Scala Coursera teaches this style -- and to a large extent, writing code in this style is a significant reason why Martin Odersky created Scala. For me, it's a definite "accent" that I have when I write code
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In my case, when doing group work multiple Chinese students submitted things copy-pasted from Wikipedia. I turned them in. No sanctions. I barely value the paper my degrees are printed on as a result, and I'm hesitant to hire from CMU
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The problem is it might be good enough for Kernighan and Ritchie, but it's not good enough for Chávez and Çelik (or, well, most of the world). The A in ASCII stands for "American" -- and it gives a good indication of where yo
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I'm waiting for the editor with a layout engine that doesn't assume monospace -- the tooling is a bigger problem than anything else for variable-width fonts.
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At least for Springsteen's current tour, this is almost the case (modulo a couple of days). I think livedownloads.com is the backing entity.

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