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by jpollock 5y ago
Or that Google Maps is primarily developed in Australia for a worldwide market.
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by jpollock 5y ago
Any options you have, there will be someone around interested. Personally, I will find value in all of them!
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Ask HN: Which developers should I follow?
9 points by jpollock 5y ago|6 comments
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by jpollock 5y ago
If we change the code, getting rid of if statements, it's easier to see what happens by removing if's. I've changed BucketReduction to be a pair, and fixed the strange behavior on error. Swapping "fromBurst" and &qu
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by jpollock 5y ago
I had a lot of trouble reading that code. I kept getting distracted by the comments and missed the code. The code seems pretty self-explanatory. I have some changes I would make, but they really depend on performance vs depth (modulo the bu
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by jpollock 5y ago
edit: found information about emergency authorisation Here's the bill under discussion [1] : This article states that it brings in new warrants, and makes no mention of "without a judge's warrant" [2]. Perhaps the origin
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by jpollock 5y ago
Once you have evidence the treatment works, it becomes unethical to not offer it to the control group. This happens in a lot of medical trials. In this specific situation, they would have been condemning through a choice to not treat, a fra
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by jpollock 5y ago
Whenever someone's used my email address, I've used password recovery and taken ownership of the account. It's amazing the number of systems which don't verify email before giving out an account. I've taken control
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by jpollock 5y ago
My anecdote is the impact that GitLab's hiring in New Zealand is having on applicant's salary expectations. https://nz.linkedin.com/jobs/gitlab-jobs?position=1&pageNum=...
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by jpollock 5y ago
They pay top-end for the local market. However, if a competitor comes in paying Bay Area salaries for remote work, that can be a lot higher than local wages.
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by jpollock 5y ago
Depending on the market's rules, farmer's market vendors are buying their produce from the same place the grocery stores are: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/farmers-markets-lies-market... https:/
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by jpollock 5y ago
The article specifically mentions competition from New Zealand lamb and talks about food miles. Food miles are not necessarily a good comparison for total carbon footprint. UK lamb production is very energy intensive. From the paper's
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by jpollock 5y ago
I miss being able to tell if I'm interrupting a coworker's state of flow or not with a quick message. When everyone's in the office, I can _see_ when they get back to their desk and haven't gotten into anything again. I
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by jpollock 5y ago
Doesn't this mean that, other than the pilots, everyone who got a ride on a shuttle wouldn't get their wings?
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by jpollock 5y ago
Probably different safety requirements if they are there as a "tourist".
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by jpollock 5y ago
It's a business, it benefits the shareholders. Virgin Galactic believes there is a market for tourism packages to space at $250,000 per seat.
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by jpollock 5y ago
Except, 1 billion isn't typically considered _big_ to even perform full scan searches. It's only big if it's expensive to search all of them, and that problem is very easily parallelizable. Which makes it a $$->time equati
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by jpollock 5y ago
What makes 1 billion rows a large search space? What makes 150 billion rows incomprehensibly large? With a molecular weight of 500 we're talking something on the order of terabytes of data (for 1b molecules)? It certainly sounds like a
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by jpollock 5y ago
If people haven't been changing jobs in the past year, and a typical tech turnover is 15%, we can probably expect a lot of turnover this year. It's going to be an interesting amount of churn.
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by jpollock 5y ago
Graduated pricing for water will have the same effect it has on electricity. People will be able to optimize the price they pay by making a capital expenditure, bringing them below cost recovery and starving the network of revenue. In elect
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by jpollock 5y ago
It's not just communicating between the US and Hong Kong, it's all the transit traffic. If there is a high capacity, low cost link between the US and Hong Kong, traffic to other Asian countries will then transit Hong Kong. At that
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by jpollock 5y ago
Seated climbs are faster with a lower heartrate. https://youtu.be/4zvP4DQgwQE?t=568
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by jpollock 5y ago
Floor Area Ratio regulations are pretty standard rules. However, rules like these are "zoning/planning" and are usually set by the city or county, not the state. The county shifting to Idaho is likely to have no effect on tha
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by jpollock 5y ago
That's probably a problem on billion year scales. I wonder what the annual loss would be.
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by jpollock 5y ago
Yes, productivity increased in the short term. However, this was due to heroic efforts on the part of the teams. I know I worked crazy-ass hours last year. This was needed to cover for the rest of the team who were on 50% hours (or less if
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by jpollock 5y ago
Pretty cool. I was hoping to see a swim lane diagram? Could you add that as a feature? Then I can share it with some business analysts who love that kind of thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swim_lane
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by jpollock 5y ago
Roku wants to be an app store, and it wants a cut of both the subscription fee and the ad inventory: "Roku's standard terms for partner channels include 20% of subscription fees and 30% of ad inventory" For services that bund
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by jpollock 5y ago
It looks like almost 50% of the plot is taken up by wheel rut? Is that typical?
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In NZ, pine trees are an invasive pest. https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/weeds/commo...
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by jpollock 5y ago
In the UK, there's an aspirational kitchen stove brand - AGA, which are intended to run 24/7. I understand it takes a fair bit of experimentation to learn how to cook on one. :) https://www.agaliving.com/products&#

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