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by jsolson 11y ago
I'm actually pretty happy with the Tesla system, and it DOES ask you to hold the wheel in sharp turns, faded lane markings, etc. It complains loudly if you ignore it. It's miles from full autonomy, of course, but for what it does
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by jsolson 11y ago
Keeping transactions categorized in Mint easily takes me a couple hours per month. Many restaurants/bars/online shops have terrible metadata for their transactions, in my experience. I typically have ~300 txn/month between my
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by jsolson 11y ago
I've read your post history. It's fairly clear that you're either a troll or have a serious axe to grind. What you have said here is simply not true. I know MANY people who maintain an extremely solid work life balance and ar
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by jsolson 11y ago
I work with a few of ex-Midori folks, all of whom are fantastic engineers, most of whom would not have been senior enough to have been shepherded off for being super senior.
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by jsolson 11y ago
Yup, sorry, I hadn't read all of the details before I commented. I've mostly deleted my original as it didn't apply. When I jumped on HN on my ride home I saw this and was a weeee bit over-eager to be helpful.
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by jsolson 11y ago
Upon further consideration, I've deleted the bulk of this comment. Rough summary of what I had here: I'm an engineer on GCE (in particular I built our current virtio-net device and a small fraction of the other fiddly bits that si
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by jsolson 11y ago
Improving YouTube thumbnails can be a huge usability win Consider a series of lectures or DIY videos with a common setting. Pulling out a frame that captures something unique about the video (be it the DIY item being worked on in close-up
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What I particularly love is that you didn't actually read the rest of the bullets in the ToS, and you completely ignored my citation of the Kindle app which I intentionally provided as an existence proof.
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You have the choice, as a developer, to not use the IAP functionality of the Play store. You can do your own credit card processing and order/subscription management. Apple forbids this. You are required to use their IAP features and p
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by jsolson 11y ago
They only charge the tax if you use Play's IAP feature. On Android there is no requirement that you do so (see the Kindle App debacle -- it includes a store on Android but not on iOS). Apple does not allow purchases within apps that d
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by jsolson 11y ago
The difference is that Google allows you to sign up for things in apps without using the Play store IAP integration. Apple does not. This is why you cannot buy Kindle books from the Kindle app on iOS, you must go to Amazon's site on
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by jsolson 11y ago
The IP probing is an interesting methodology, although it would not work for GCE as VM IPs are entirely virtualized[0]. That said, the methodology's biggest flaws (even with AWS as I see it) are that they don't know the machine-co
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by jsolson 11y ago
> Four-year-old DigitalOcean now has more host computers in its cloud (almost 200,000) than any other company but Amazon (which has about twice that), says researcher Netcraft. As someone who works on an IaaS offering, I'm really cu
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by jsolson 11y ago
I'm a C++ developer at Google; I've been writing software "professionally"[0] for about 16 years, including a fair chunk of C, but no C++ until I reached Google. So, arguably I started in a position where commenting on c
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by jsolson 11y ago
Well, for build take a look at bazel, although attach it to a cluster of machines that can all read from Piper.
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by jsolson 11y ago
Google mostly works at HEAD. Very little is versioned, and branches are almost unheard of. In general you change the much depended on library and all of its consumers (probably over time in multiple changes, but you can do it in one go
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by jsolson 11y ago
It is not saying that. FTA: > There are limitations this system. Potvin says certain highly sensitive code—stuff akin to the Google’s PageRank search algorithm—resides in separate repositories only available to specific employees. The va
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by jsolson 11y ago
There may be Mercurial plans for the future, but to date I've never encountered it at Google. Lots of people use git, though, including folks outside of Chrome and Android who are working against Piper.
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by jsolson 11y ago
> I've been on teams where the majority of the team appear to spend about 6 hours a day actually in the office, and don't appear to be working (although of course they may be thinking/reading/learning) more than that.
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by jsolson 11y ago
Indeed. I read that line and actually laughed out loud. On my team people regularly arrive in the office any time between 7am and 12pm. The notion that anyone in a modern software development job would care about the specific hours someone
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by jsolson 11y ago
Sure. Businesses (in the US, anyway) pay tax on their profits, not their revenue. Profit is revenue minus expenses. Advertising is an expense, just like all of the other expenses that go into successfully bringing a product to market (resea
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by jsolson 11y ago
I love this idea :) I'll track down some Cloud Console product folks and ask if it's feasible.
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by jsolson 11y ago
What would be ideal for you here? I can't guarantee anything (I'm an engineer on GCE, but not even really customer facing unless you count the PCI devices exposed to your VM), but if it's something simple like getting an e-ma
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by jsolson 11y ago
Indeed! However, many uses of Spanner are what I would call native. It should be possible to separate out the two.
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by jsolson 11y ago
It would be interesting to know how much data Google stores in traditional RDBMS versus NoSQL stores (BigTable, Spanner[0], etc.). I could probably track down this number, but then I expect I wouldn't be able to talk about it after, so
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by jsolson 11y ago
Possibly as or more importantly, you can pick only what you need. A huge fraction of the food produced today is simply thrown away.
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by jsolson 11y ago
Vyvanse (amphetamine family, along with Adderall, but different time release characteristics), at a fairly low dose. Tried Concerta which is in the same family as Ritalin first, but it made me jittery with little other effect even at a high
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by jsolson 11y ago
As an adult who was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and had teachers, professors, family, and friends suggest I seek treatment for it over the course of about 20 years, I respectfully disagree. I started into treatment in adulthood (this yea
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by jsolson 11y ago
> There are absolutely a lot of things at Amazon that range from less than ideal to outright sleazy, as you rightly point out. I was just saying that if you promise 3 years for a 401k vest and some people can do it in 2, that specificall
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by jsolson 11y ago
I did not know that. So the options are either 100% vested at match time (which is what I have now) or a three-year cliff? In that case I suppose you could argue Amazon is just trying for the most liberal interpretation of the law; bully fo

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