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by kenhwang 7y ago
How about selling Tumblr to where its community has seem to gone? Twitter. Gives Twitter a long format and a better platform for content.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Hard buttons pretty much a hard requirement for me on a car. Thankfully they still exist and will probably continue to exist. The trend towards touchscreen everything is already starting to reverse.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I was really hoping for a flute imitation on a guitar cause I'm really curious how that would be done. But it seems like he's just doing imitations of other string instruments excluding the piano.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Haven't heard much from Helix since 2017, and it does appear to be inactive since. The limitation to only Strings, Integers, Floats, and Booleans made it pretty hard to use in practice given how Array/Hash/Object-centric Ruby
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by kenhwang 8y ago
C and Rust have been trading blows on the language benchmark games for a while now which dictates the algorithm used. From my experience, it's relatively easy to accidentally write fast Rust, but incredibly hard to write fast C. https
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I would imagine current versions would only give the newer, actively developed languages a boost like Rust, Nim, Crystal, and Go. Java and C I don't see improving moving much.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Ordered by realtime, fastest to slowest for those like me who got annoyed by the scrolling up and down trying to compare: Rust (1.13.0-nightly) 1m32.392s Nim (0.14.2) 1m53.320s C
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by kenhwang 8y ago
What's probably more interesting is how similar .net, scala, and python are in query performance. Not sure if that can be attributed to great python performance, or really bad scala/.net performance.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I definitely see Ruby as Perl's spiritual successor. I would say it's one of the few languages other than Perl that can be considered "write optimized". Ruby makes it very very easy to just write code that just works. Ju
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Nothing quite highlights the fragmentation of Python more than 3 different Python versions being called out across 4 repos.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
At least those can be blocked with adblockers.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Yes! I hate the notifications prompt showing up on the landing page of a website. I definitely support the browser blocking nuisances until there's user interaction, things such as: sound, videos, popups, and request for permissions.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
That's my thought as well. There's a bunch of street signs that constantly get stolen when I'm at, and those are nowhere near as beautiful or novel as these manhole covers.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
We have a running joke that we run macroservices, which is really just a 4 way split of our monolith once the team grew large enough.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
CTCI-style questions on a whiteboard without any interaction from the interviewer is definitely a big red flag. Most of our whiteboard questions are solvable with simple if-statements, loops, and basic data structures; boxes and arrows are
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by kenhwang 8y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I wouldn't want to work at a company that doesn't value whiteboarding or doesn't know how to conduct a whiteboard interview. Whiteboards are excellent tools for conveying abstract ideas
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Taiwan had to introduce cost-sharing for pharmaceuticals because of abuse of the system. I truly because cost-sharing is necessary to keep total costs reasonable and unnecessary visits down. Plus, it offers a minor incentive to actually be
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by kenhwang 8y ago
The story behind Porsche, Toyota, and how the Boxster came to be is pretty fascinating: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/car-design/a28621/a... If you look at CR's most reliable brands, it's
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Well, boredom and to commemorate the 911's 50th birthday.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
My Porsche and my mom's Acura can both do OTA updates, though they both require user acknowledgement to install. Honestly, nothing coming OTA should be urgent enough that it can't wait until the yearly service.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Broke my waterpump. Lots of trouble usually serious.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Doesn't explain the Porsche tie with Toyota unless you're suggesting Porsche drivers are more like Toyota drivers than BMW.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Every Acura and just about every Honda North America buys is made in USA now. But yes, their latest 1.5T engine has a tendency to grenade itself in cold weather or frequent short trips.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Bloomberg reporting can barely be called reporting. It's half-assed regurgitated content that's often inaccurate these days.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
You're conflating cost of ownership with frequency of issues (reliability). The Germans don't break often, but when they do, it'll cost a bunch. American cars break continuously, but it's cheap and easy to fix.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
This article seems to be written using results from a J.D. Power report. J.D. Power's methodology is commonly known to be extremely flawed in that they weigh all "issues" equally. So an engine failure is the same severity as
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I would love an unified matchers syntax. After dealing with ivy matchers, I very much prefer the npm/bundler/cargo style matchers, but would love them to all be exactly the same.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Edison pretty much charges 2-3x more for peak usage, 30% more for "off-peak", and 20% less for sleeping hours compared to LADWP depending on tier. So they made a bunch more money since people don't just suddenly shift all the
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I believe most of Edison moved over to smart meters, and they're the biggest provider in SoCal. LADWP is rolling it out at a snail's pace.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Just about every modern car comes with knock sensors and computer controlled knock prevention mechanisms that will compensate for lower octane, especially on high strung, direct injected, twin-turbo cars like a BMW M3. The only real downsid

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