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by mbell 8y ago
> => Platforms that use AIs often get biased by tiny groups of hyper-active users. I don't doubt this but it's unclear to me how this is much different this is than many other systems. I think there are a _lot_ of systems th
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by mbell 8y ago
It hasn't required jailbreaking for a long time.
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by mbell 8y ago
> I think developers should be able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store if they want, just like on macOS and Android, but Apple is allowed to have this much control because the iPhone doesn't represent the majority of
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by mbell 8y ago
Depends on the database / disk setup. For Mongo you should probably do an fsync/lock prior to taking the snapshot then release it, this will ensure the data on disk is in a consistent state. I don't think this is technically
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by mbell 8y ago
I think you overestimate how deep investors dig. I did find this from a few years ago which contains a bunch of rather fuzzy language: https://www.adweek.com/digital/monthly-active-users-definiti... My interpretation o
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by mbell 8y ago
I am curious what 'used' means. e.g. Does logging into a third party service via facebook login count as 'used' since you technically hit their servers?
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by mbell 8y ago
IMO the critical thing needed to stop JS bloat is a decent standard library. The _vast_ majority of code on an average site tends to be the same thing implemented 45 times because the stdlib in Javascript is anemic. The current process of a
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by mbell 8y ago
I'm a bit unclear on your question. I'm assuming a technical person with relevant knowledge performs the technical interview, if that is what you mean.
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by mbell 8y ago
> Are you hiring sales reps or engineers? Why are you asking for an engineer to sell you on their past project(s)? I don't ask them to sell me, I ask them to dive into the technical issues they faced and how they solved them. It tel
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by mbell 8y ago
I haven't experienced this, not if you are digging into detail on how they solved previous issues. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I've never dug into detail and had coding be the problem. If you leave the conversat
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by mbell 8y ago
> Strongest possible disagree. There are people who can talk all the way down to the point where they're basically dictating code to you, who nevertheless cannot deliver on a real project. There's a difference between knowing,
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by mbell 8y ago
> What happens to every candidate who gets flustered by the questioning and seems to bow out earlier than their technical depth? I'm not sure I get this question - I'm not talking about a white-boarding exercise. I'm just
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by mbell 8y ago
> Bullshit. Sounding credible in technical interviews is a skill, not the same skill as actually being a good programmer, and might even (statistically, in the large) be close to orthogonal to it. I don't agree with this. I think th
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by mbell 8y ago
The title doesn't seem to match up with the article. The point seems to be that IQ is good at predicting intellectual deficits at the low end but bad at predicting 'success' above that; further it indicates that IQ is mis-use
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by mbell 8y ago
This has been a solved problem for years in some frameworks, e.g. all the major image upload handling libraries in Rails have this built in an it's very easy to use. There are also plenty of webpack plugins for static assets: https:&#
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by mbell 8y ago
Patents are weird: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3450219A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US10131374B1/en EDIT: 1906 - https://patents.google.com/patent/U
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by mbell 8y ago
They are most likely only looking at the RAM used but the 'Discord' process, which is just the native launcher code and OS hooks (on MacOS here, may be different on other OSes). The electron processes are called 'Discord Help
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by mbell 8y ago
Pretty much. The big dish on the voyagers is the comms antenna, not a science instrument.
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by mbell 8y ago
> he retracted the CC despite the fact that it actually turned out that there is a (non-zero) CC Dark Energy being the CC is just _one possible explanation_, it hasn't been tested.
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by mbell 8y ago
Maybe? We don't know, also Einstein wasn't a fan: > Einstein originally introduced the concept in 1917 [2] to counterbalance the effects of gravity and achieve a static universe, a notion which was the accepted view at the time
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by mbell 8y ago
I'm not a physicist, just an interested bystander but some of these arguments don't seem to hold water to me: > There’s a more general point to be made here. The primary reason that we use dark matter and dark energy to explain
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by mbell 8y ago
> What about DynamoDB? From what I recall DynamoDB is a somewhat hacky API layer over a bunch of MySQL clusters. I'm not sure anyone would, or should, attempt to use a non-managed version of it.
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by mbell 8y ago
> if only there was one universal audio port they both could use CTIA or OMTP?
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by mbell 8y ago
Ruby has smalltalk style objects.
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by mbell 8y ago
Some napkin math: It looks like mouse/rat weight varies widely, I'm going to be lazy and just pick 400g and from what I can tell, that also means about 400cm^2 body volume. Ultimately all that matters is the density though, which
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by mbell 8y ago
Javascript/web performance on Android is universally bad but truly awful on the low end. A Moto G5 pulls ~14 on speedometer 2.0 which puts it in line with an iPhone 5/5s (5-6 year old devices). An iPhone XS scores around 123 in th
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by mbell 8y ago
Apple doesn't release the details but Anandtech estimates A12 has 13 execution ports ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re... ). I'm guessing the numbers for 6 ALU ports are more a
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by mbell 8y ago
Anyone know why we aren't seeing Intel/AMD go the 'ultra-wide' route that we've seen in ARM processors? (Apple's in particular) e.g. we've seen Apple's A12 processor expand ALU's from 4->6 and
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by mbell 8y ago
> Mystery might be also in the nuance of turbo vs base frequency draw. So even if you design for TDP as the "max thermal dissipation" you might get only base frequency performance. That is really what is happening. If you have
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by mbell 8y ago
It has 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports, you don't really need to upgrade the internal storage when you plug in as much storage as you want and not pay much if any performance penalty.

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