michel-slm

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by michel-slm 10y ago
Except that Google, Facebook, Cisco would gladly sponsor you for green card - if they're gaming the system they would surely try to string you along until you've used up your H1B renewal before doing that?
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by michel-slm 10y ago
As a Guardian supporting member, I'm forwarding this directly to their editorial complaints. There are other publications that deserve my money if the Guardian refuses to stop being sensationalist.
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by michel-slm 10y ago
How did Facebook bow to China? AFAICT we are still blocked there. Disclaimer: I work for FB, this is my personal opinion
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by michel-slm 10y ago
I did Ada 95 back in college. Was really nice for embedded programming -- the built-in concurrency primitives are astounding, and it feels like a much safer systems programming language than C/C++
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by michel-slm 10y ago
That's my experience with the 6P. The first few months, I used it as a phablet and didn't put a SIM card in, and battery usage was fine. Then I moved to the US, activated Project Fi on it, and battery life is horrible -- I suspect
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by michel-slm 10y ago
The patent retaliation is more broad than the provision in the Apache license though, which basically only revoke the patent grants for a specific work if you sue over patent infringement in the same work. http://en.swpat.org&#x2
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by michel-slm 10y ago
Can't wait for Flatpak or Snappy to make end-user binary distribution a breeze
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by michel-slm 10y ago
When Bill Frist was Senate majority leader, despite his training as a medical doctor he didn't exactly use that competence in the Terri Schiavo case. Congress is inevitably political, the problem is how to provide unbiased expert advi
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by michel-slm 10y ago
I'm coming to that conclusion too, at least in locations with easy access to Apple Stores. Moving back to the US so my next laptop will be a Mac; here in Indonesia the third party service centers are a joke (for most repairs they would
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by michel-slm 10y ago
For me, using Chrome on Android, Twitter's mobile interface displays an error page whenever I try to attach a photo. Apart from that it's quite nice.
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by michel-slm 10y ago
You don't, I've been using Truedialer happily. Now, on the iOS side, it's a different story since Apple doesn't allow third party dialer apps yet
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by michel-slm 10y ago
I do that, and then use GNU Stow to manage the symlinks. That way I only need to add a single directory to PATH and to library paths
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by michel-slm 10y ago
Schema on read, as opposed to schema on write, as it says in the excellent "Designing Data Intensive Applications" book ... nightmarish to deal with.
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by michel-slm 10y ago
I think what he means is, startups can't deal with the uncertainty and lead times the current H-1B system imposes. Large companies just project how many openings they would have in October next year, hire appropriately, and park them i
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by michel-slm 10y ago
Interesting, Asana does that too. And I would rather not use their app...
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by michel-slm 10y ago
I hope this gets better uptake than Clojure's Core.typed -- for instance, see CircleCI's experience with it https://circleci.com/blog/why-were-no-longer-using-core-type... (though it seems the issues are gett
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by michel-slm 10y ago
Paul is that you?
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by michel-slm 11y ago
yeah, Flemish giant rabbits only seem to get to about half that length - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_Giant_rabbit
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by michel-slm 11y ago
First paragraph is factually incorrect already, lumping Lisp (prefix) with Forth (postfix) ...
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by michel-slm 11y ago
Thanks for that; been meaning to try CLJS+Reagent for a side project and the external testimony helps.
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by michel-slm 11y ago
That rebuttal's use of WordPress as an example of PHP done right is not very convincing... Also, Facebook and Wikipedia uses HHVM instead of standard PHP
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by michel-slm 11y ago
That applies to trademarks, not copyrights IIRC.
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by michel-slm 11y ago
Yikes. Being on call is fine but it really ought to a) be spelled out in advance and b) be rotated among several people so you don't end up wasting more than a weekend a month, tops. Of course, I know people who theoretically are on sa
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by michel-slm 11y ago
I'm a dabbler with both Scala and Kotlin, and haven't really used Scala much for the past couple of years, but IMHO Scala's implicit definitions makes it hard to reason about what's going on behind the scenes, and I thin
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by michel-slm 11y ago
As someone who has taken an advanced OS class that involves implementing portions of such an educational / teaching OS, I also perceive "educational" to mean "for learning OS dev". The other side of the spectrum for
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by michel-slm 11y ago
Singularity was later extended by the joint MS-MSR project Midori, which sadly was discontinued last year. Apparently some features are being incorporated into C#. Joe Duffy is blogging about his experience: http://joeduffyblog.c
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by michel-slm 11y ago
I guess the reasoning is switching to a modal editor takes more to get used to than switching to another non-modal one. Though you can get Emacs key bindings for Vim, surely?
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by michel-slm 11y ago
Using Mongo certainly didn't help, we're in the same situation ourselves and having various regrets over different aspects of it... What do you use to interface with SQL on the Scala side? Squeryl?
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by michel-slm 11y ago
Using xz for Linux builds of your software might make sense though, or would do so in the future. Recent releases of Fedora and RHEL already uses xz to compress their RPM packages. Debian/Ubuntu dpkg supports compressing with xz too --
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by michel-slm 11y ago
RIP Prismatic. Got into it from the Clojure community, and hoping they do well in their next endeavor -- and their libraries remain maintained esp. prismatic/schema !

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