justinhj

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by justinhj 11y ago
It was no BMW, just a Dodge. If I do buy a car again I'll definitely do more research on reliability repair and service costs. Or buy a $1000 car and consider it disposable.
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by justinhj 11y ago
Actually in the real world browsing files by access or modified time is usually quicker because the number of items is small. There may be a set of 10-20 files that I've recent opened and the one I want will be in the top 3-5 very ofte
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by justinhj 11y ago
I find modern cars are very expensive to fix and I have no interest in learning how to do it myself. I bought a car over a few years with the intention that when it is paid for I would enjoy a few more years for free. But the maintenance co
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by justinhj 11y ago
It's fairly easy to go through that kind of money depending on where you live. If you're living in SF or NY you could well be spending $4k-$5k on rent or a mortgage. Supporting a spouse and children is very expensive even before y
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by justinhj 11y ago
I'm an emacs user but I often use a GUI IDE when it makes sense. I find I'd rather use JetBrains products (PHPStorm, PyCharm and IntelliJ) even though the actual text editing part is nowhere near as powerful and efficient as my Em
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by justinhj 11y ago
I was disappointed this wasn't a re-architecture of theirs systems using communicating sequential processes.
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Maybe because VW had somewhat of a reputation for being a good quality car manufacturer that would have no need to cheat and lie about their vehicles. Whereas cheating and lying is a common perception of Wall St firms in general.
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by justinhj 11y ago
This is a very good point. I work on a team with 7 Scala developers of varied experience. When someone commits code it is reviewed. If the reviewer doesn't understand the code we will talk it over as a group and either learn the new te
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by justinhj 11y ago
You shouldn't be getting downvoted because it's interesting to hear from someone paying relatively high rent. I'm in a similar situation in that I live somewhere where buying a place is out of reach, but I have too much attac
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I don't expect public pools to be profitable anyway since they are subsidized by city taxes
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by justinhj 11y ago
Try a standing desk if you can. I find that aside from tired feet I feel a lot more energetic throughout the day and no longer get and aches in my back that I used to experience when sitting
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by justinhj 11y ago
Emacs key layout isn't arbitrary. It was optimized for a particular keyboard the original develops used. Since then the layout has changed a little but personally the keys work well for me
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by justinhj 11y ago
I can see drivers/passengers travelling together for weeks or months at a time. So you'd probably just want to quit Lyft and enter a private arrangement. Is there anything in Lyft's business model to prevent or mitigate this?
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Not everybody wants to be entertained the same way that you do. In fact I think the market has shown us that most people like simple games that they can play for a few minutes at time, that don't involve much strategy or twitch skill t
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by justinhj 11y ago
Rent is much more closely tied to median income than purchase prices. I live in Vancouver and people I know who own homes are either older people that got into the market when it was affordable, or younger couples where both have jobs and p
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by justinhj 11y ago
I was also in AI school in the 90s and I agree with you to some extent. But when you think about nature, much of the behaviour of animals is not cognitive, but instinctive and physically dependent on their structure. In other words if you c
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by justinhj 11y ago
Local salaries are driven by supply and demand. Tech workers in Vancouver are paid very well compared to other workers in the city. If all tech workers suddenly demanded 20% raises I guess it would happen, but at lowered profit margin for t
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by justinhj 11y ago
Ha. That's true but as a Londoner living in Vancouver I can tell you that for young people here moving to London would be exciting and educational compared to staying at home for the same money, so many would leave for that reason.
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by justinhj 11y ago
A few years ago I was given a programming test after an initial phone screen with a HR person. They said do it in any language, and it had a fancy framework that let you edit and test the solution before you sent it. I chose Clojure since I
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I was a long time hobby level Common Lisp and Clojure programmer when I started learning Scala. Understanding functional programming before coming to Scala definitely made it easier. That said I think Scala has a little extra learning curve
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Conciseness is optional. Sometimes a new Scala programmer will learn functional combinators and try to cram a lot of logic into one line. Breaking things up into semantically related steps and assigning each step to a val with a descriptive
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by justinhj 11y ago
I've bought a couple of books on the manning early access program and been very satisfied https://www.manning.com/meap-program
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17 months of work by a team at Lockheed Martin. It doesn't seem unreasonable.
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I wonder if the cars graphical renderings are acceptable in court
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Seconded. This is one of the best books on object oriented programming in general.
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You can't live beyond your means without help from a complicit financial body enabling you to do it
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Isn't this a chicken and egg problem? Corruption generally thrives where people are poor. In the normal course of their daily lives the government cannot save them from starving or from disease. So with no legitimate safety net you may
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by justinhj 11y ago
I have a Lenova Yoga Pro and it's great. Nice build quality, silent, touch screen. My kid found it plays latest games at medium detail.
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by justinhj 11y ago
The trashcan comments reminded me of a comment by the late Douglas Adams about how it was better not to know that the trashcan had things in it. You're tempted to empty it right away, defeating the purpose of having it there in the fir
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Steve Eisman: Don't break up the banks(mobile.nytimes.com)
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