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by mc10 4y ago
FYI: If you have more questions, the OCaml forum is very friendly and helpful: https://discuss.ocaml.org/
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by mc10 4y ago
I believe zstd does parallel compression/decompression and has some of the best efficiency ratios.[1] I’ve been replacing gzip with zstd as a general purpose compression format. [1]: Benchmarks available at http://facebook.g
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by mc10 5y ago
I would be curious to hear a response from an insider to Alon Levy's post about why American transit construction costs are so high: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...
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by mc10 5y ago
Not building enough shelters and allowing NIMBYism at local levels is public policy: https://medium.com/@josefow/new-york-decided-to-end-street-h...
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by mc10 5y ago
Many of these are absent in New York, including very visible homeless encampments, so no, these are not in “just about every big city”; many of these are specific to West Coast cities due to a failure in public policy.
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by mc10 5y ago
Collaboration is pretty difficult to retrofit onto an existing product. A collaborative text editor like Google Docs needs to be designed for that purpose in mind, and the state-of-the-art techniques (CRDTs and OT) are still undergoing acti
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by mc10 6y ago
S-expressions are super easy to parse and are fairly easy for humans to read. See e.g. using s-expressions in OCaml: https://dev.realworldocaml.org/data-serialization.html
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by mc10 6y ago
This is not a guarantee at all; if inflation is sufficiently high then you could be actively losing money holding a bond that fewer and fewer people want.
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by mc10 6y ago
I think replacement cards are explicitly not included based on some Stripe responses in this thread. My quote of the parent comment intentionally ends at “old one expires”.
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by mc10 6y ago
> This is the shady practice of charging people's new credit card when their old one expires Is this really shady? I’d personally find this behavior super convenient.
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by mc10 6y ago
Not everyone here has actively followed HN since the last time it was posted (2018). I found this post to be interesting.
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by mc10 6y ago
Take a look at https://www.levels.fyi/ , which has pretty accurate salaries for Bay Area companies.
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by mc10 6y ago
I think there are multiple hypothesized reasons, but I haven't seen any numerical figures so it's hard to confirm how impactful each is: - Anime production committees ( https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2017/05&#x2F
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by mc10 6y ago
> I’m looking for that 1% of the posts that interest me, and when I find them it’s fantastic, since it’s info I would not be able to find anywhere else. But going through the other 99% is a waste of time. Would this really help with HN a
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by mc10 6y ago
They often change the titles of their videos, sometimes multiple times. Not sure if that counts as "A/B testing" though.
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by mc10 6y ago
> Without a doubt the password manager with the best UX is 1Password. I would agree for the macOS and iOS versions but the Windows version could get some polish. The default title and menu bars still hang around, the font choice isn’t th
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by mc10 6y ago
I think Clubhouse’s community and interest-oriented spaces will probably be its key differentiating feature. Video meeting apps are generally targeted towards known audiences, while Clubhouse lets you spontaneously hop into a room with st
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by mc10 6y ago
Gotcha, thanks for the responses. Best of luck!
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by mc10 6y ago
> Once they started pulling out of expensive cities and opening offices in cheaper foreign countries, it became an uphill battle to hire anyone in the United States at all. Facebook, Google, etc. have offices around the world, but that h
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by mc10 6y ago
This looks pretty neat! I had a few questions: - Is there any way to add `perf` profiling? - Could allocation graphs be added, similar to what pprof offers (e.g. the one midway through this article https://blog.detectify.com&#x
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by mc10 6y ago
Do you have a link to the relevant comment by Dang?
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by mc10 6y ago
I don’t see how any of the points you made is a great defense of keeping nulls around. > The fact is when you're working with any data coming from any other system, the data is or will become null, somehow, some way, and your progra
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by mc10 6y ago
> Look, if it's ok to say don't buy nvidia graphics cards and expect to use Wayland, why is it not ok to say don't buy mixed DPI and expect to use X11? It’s still a hard sell when everything just works on Windows and mac
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by mc10 6y ago
The “Current Monthly Revenue” slider on your pricing page is pretty laggy on iOS Safari; is it possible to make it more responsive?
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by mc10 6y ago
> Semiconductors helps keep Taiwan from China's encroachment because it buys them protection from allies like the US and Europe, whose economies heavily rely on them. Are there any signed agreements that would enforce this? If China
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by mc10 6y ago
I think this is a bit of an oversimplification; there are places where the out-of-pocket price ends up actually cheaper than the negotiated insurance price, which is mind-boggling to me.
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by mc10 6y ago
> Meetings are for collaboration, not demos... Meetings can absolutely be used for demos. Maybe you're demoing for an audience that's large enough to not fit next to your desk. Maybe you're demoing something that you don&#
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by mc10 6y ago
> built-in card reader dies and part of my laptop is dead weight until I send the whole thing in for service. Is this a frequent occurrence for you? I have a 6 year old MBP and all of the ports still work great. I would naively guess tha
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by mc10 6y ago
I’m curious what your alternative is, given that Go famously also lacks sum types.
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by mc10 6y ago
I think this assumes a fine distinction between "domain" and "non-domain" knowledge that often doesn't exist. If you're writing a trading strategy, the technical details of how the code's executed often

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