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by lchengify 11y ago
So it's totally possible, my Eclipse journey ended about 3 years ago and I've never looked back. Also for the past 2 years I haven't been coding much java, mainly python django / javascript. And I will say the tooling f
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by lchengify 11y ago
So it's never been the SSDs for me, it's always been paging / memory consumption. When I run Eclipse / JetBrains I set the XmX flags super high on the JVM to compensate, but it still always felt slower. Basically I&#x27
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by lchengify 11y ago
I have a love / hate relationship with Eclipse. On one hand it's everything I've always wanted development to be: Technically correct, free, pluggable and open source. On the other hand I've upgraded my computer 8 time
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by lchengify 11y ago
Related NYTimes article from earlier this year [1] [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/travel/26nicaragua-cover.h...
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by lchengify 11y ago
Currently we're using JumpCloud, prior to that we used OneLogin before they had a ton of outages. Would love to switch to you guys, since integrating with Google Apps as an LDAP/RADIUS server is our one-and-only use case. Question
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by lchengify 12y ago
This is really a powerful product, and it shows the wisdom and work in Amazon's product/market research. Outside of the world of startups and young companies who "grew up" in the world of cloud-based solutions, there is
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by lchengify 12y ago
Thank you very much for posting this, I found it very informative. For those of you who don't want to watch the whole thing, here are a few changes to aircraft that came about because of this study: - Distance between bulkheads (cleara
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by lchengify 12y ago
Related conversation about his PhD General Exam at Princeton, which I believe he took when he was 19: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2771031 A direct link to the notes: http://web.math.princeton.edu/ge
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by lchengify 12y ago
Re: Zach's COBRA question. For those who don't know, COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) is a law passed in 1985 [1] that compels companies to offer "continuing health insurance" to employees that leav
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by lchengify 12y ago
> How should I value my time? Under-pricing my work cost me a lot during my freelancing days, so I'll comment on that directly here. The best advice I got was from my uncle who worked in the tech industry in the 80's, which is
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by lchengify 12y ago
For anyone who hasn't seen it, I would highly recommend it. It's basically a modern day Twilight Zone. As some of the other comments have pointed out, episodes 1 and 2 are good but not great. There's a review on AV Club [1]
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by lchengify 12y ago
My first manager at Google (and the first in my career) had 2 young kids, around 5 and 7 respectively. He left the office every day at 6:30 sharp and, like clockwork, would answer emails and code reviews starting at 10. Eventually we learn
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by lchengify 12y ago
I would actually go farther and say we should merge the current K-12 into 11 years instead of 13, and make every student complete an associate degree by the age of 18. The current system of K-12, especially in the US, has always been way to
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by lchengify 12y ago
Any plan to offer this as a service? Wouldn't have a use for the printer itself, but the electronics-in-cavity printing technique alone could be useful for prototyping devices that would otherwise require a lot of manual assembly.
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by lchengify 12y ago
> At 48Hz, you’re going to pull out more details at 48Hz from the scene than at 24Hz, both in terms of motion and spatial detail. It’s going to be more than 2x the information than you’d expect just from doubling the spatial frequency, b
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by lchengify 12y ago
The Packard Plant caught my interest so I looked it up [1]. Most of the plant is structurally sound: Renovations started in October to turn it into a mixed use art / manufacturing facility [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by lchengify 12y ago
This. One of the most useful classes I took in undergrad was implementing a scheduler and an I-node disk. Nothing shows you all the ways fork() can fail like having to implement it. Every system call can fail, even if it doesn't do
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by lchengify 12y ago
> However, double entry accounting gives us an audit trail because it tracks how assets are moved between accounts. Ah, makes sense. My understanding of double-entry comes from history rather finance. I read a few articles on Italian h
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by lchengify 12y ago
I use double-entry bookkeeping as a metaphor when pitching software testing. It's particularly helpful with non-technical audiences who have backgrounds in law, finance, or accounting. You write software tests for the same reason you
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by lchengify 12y ago
Mind if I ask which model? I had a chromebook 3 years ago and found it too slow to do anything beyond basic usage, and especially not software development. I have however heard good things about the Pixel.
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by lchengify 12y ago
While I was working in the Google Apps group a few years ago, we would bring in groups of teachers for focus groups and feedback on upcoming features for Apps. My biggest takeway from those meetings was that educators have a really hard j
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by lchengify 12y ago
I was shocked to hear this so I did some research. As it turns out, it has a lot to do with foreign subsidies, similar to solar power. Apparently up until 1981, the US had the Construction differential subsidy program [1][2] that subsided
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by lchengify 12y ago
I wrote pharma software for a few years focusing on small molecule drug discovery, and did academic research on structural based drug discovery of allosterics. Different companies do it differently, but the customers I had went through a se
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by lchengify 12y ago
Unfortunately the TIME article is now behind a paywall. However I read it back in February and for those of you with a subscription, I highly recommend reading it. Having worked at Google I can tell you I have infinite respect for the qual
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by lchengify 12y ago
Reminds me of the low-orbit satellite network in Society of the Mind. IIRC, the protagonist wanted a internet-connected TV product with a small antenna. The only way to do it was to create a satellite network where the satellites were so c
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by lchengify 12y ago
The counterbalance is that Google offers free plans after install for "Basic Speeds". IIRC they also threw in free internet for municipal buildings such as libraries. Nothing Verizon, Comcast, or Time Warner offers compares to 5
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by lchengify 12y ago
I wonder if they will implement a "off the record" feature similar to Google Chat. Even if the company has access to private chats, some legal departments recommend their employees not use chats or emails for certain corresponden
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by lchengify 13y ago
The windows EC2 machines are also designed for web traffic (IIS servers). I suspect these machines will still get traffic but not at the volume of a web server.
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by lchengify 14y ago
This might be an effective solution to the "no cellphones in class" rule. Probably the most important factor is still letting emergency bands through. Does anyone know if 911 calls go through normal cellphone channels, or if that's a dedica
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by lchengify 14y ago
A single shuttle mission used to cost ~450MM per mission [1]. By comparison this is a bargain. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program#Budget

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