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by muglug 4y ago
I'm guessing you haven't worked at a big valley tech company. But this may be your chance!
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by muglug 4y ago
Hiring new engineers while the CEO is busy boiling some of its engineers alive is notoriously difficult. Plus, interviewing takes engineering time, since you need existing engineers to conduct those interviews. Engineers who are being asked
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by muglug 4y ago
Even with the hiring freezes across Silicon Valley, good engineers will right now be trying to leave Twitter in droves. The stress of all this will have an additive effect, and make a salary cut more bearable if they have to change jobs. In
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by muglug 4y ago
$ allows the engine and humans alike to distinguish between constants and local variables. I don’t see PHP ever losing that character (and Hack, a derivative of PHP that has many many syntax changes, isn’t in any hurry either).
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by muglug 4y ago
PHP 8.0 was released 2 years ago. PHP 8.2 is due to be released next month.
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by muglug 4y ago
> having a mechanism that provides detailed logs—including the POST bodies passed to the API—is invaluable. He includes a caveat later to avoid logging PII, but this should have a flashing red warning sign attached.
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by muglug 4y ago
Fame can have a long half-life — Billy Joel still regularly sells out stadiums, and he's 40 years on from his peak cultural relevancy. There's no denying Kanye's words still have an impact, but his star is dimmer than it once
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by muglug 4y ago
When was the last time you heard a new Kanye West track on the radio? Or saw someone famous wearing his clothes?
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by muglug 4y ago
> there was a notion These are weasel words. The antivax movement among progressive west-coast parents in the US has been covered frequently in the national media e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/us&
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by muglug 4y ago
What's happening to Kanye is a lesson to us all. He's 15 years past his peak cultural relevancy, and desperately wants to claw some of it back — but not by releasing great records or designing clothes that everybody wants to wear.
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by muglug 4y ago
The article is written by Sebastian Junger, an author and documentary-maker who co-directed Restrepo with Tim Hetherington. He also used to own a bar in Manhattan called The Half King. When Hetherington was killed in 2011, The Half King was
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by muglug 4y ago
FWIW the original Segway cost 10x more than the Quest, but the important figure (from an ecosystem perspective) in both cases is their actual usage numbers. Most Quest headsets get used a bunch in the first month, but their owners lose inte
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by muglug 4y ago
> can’t judge it on a 1 year scale. Facebook wants us to, though. This isn’t a lab demo that they’re showing us — it’s meant to be a product you can use today.
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by muglug 4y ago
3rd-person video games can be fun — I really enjoyed playing Lucky's tale back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLantPfNRIY , but first-person games don't map half as well.
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by muglug 4y ago
Yeah that's a really great comparison! Video calls are great for transatlantic calls with family and friends I haven't seen in ages, and a good VR version of that might be even better, but I likely wouldn't use it more than a
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by muglug 4y ago
I know that VR is compelling, and FB's VR headsets succeed in providing some level of immersion, but I don't think people will go from remote-working-with-Zoom to remote-working-with-headset, because it's a trade the most are
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by muglug 4y ago
Remember that the UK also has a private healthcare system — everyone pays for the public option, but if you have a lot of money you can get expensive care. The thing is that British people pretty much uniformally reject private healthcare,
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by muglug 4y ago
Yeah, and in that comment he only mentions the existence of focus planes, not hard-edge occlusion (which elsewhere Guttag says is essentially physically impossible)
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by muglug 4y ago
That doesn't match up with what people who know about optics think is possible: https://kguttag.com/2021/10/28/magic-leap-2-pt-3-soft-edge-o...
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by muglug 4y ago
> But we shouldn’t shame people for shooting for the moon and landing on earth Sure, but in this case they were telling the public that they'd reach the moon soon, even though they were just building a new sort of plane.
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by muglug 4y ago
I’ll never be able to get over the insanely fake promotional video for the original Magic Leap that demonstrated background occlusion, and not the ghostly overlayed image that the headset actually delivered. The project was presumably shrou
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by muglug 4y ago
I think Elon is a shit person, and deserves tons of scrutiny, but this line of attack is not really true. It's hard to square the idea that he inherited all that money with his life in Canada as a student, where by all accounts he was
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by muglug 4y ago
> I have a really hard time working for someone who isn't technical, regardless of their role. In both cases — technical manager and non-technical manager — the engineering culture at the organisation ultimately determines whether t
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by muglug 4y ago
Here's an article from 2020 about the New York Philharmonic: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition... Blind auditions are probably not going away anytime soon. The ugly t
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by muglug 4y ago
It is great! I work at Slack, where we've been testing that functionality for a while, and I use it for one-on-ones with remote colleagues. Huddles become like Zoom calls, but with much more context.
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Why does a librarian own MetaFilter?(publicinfrastructure.org)
108 points by muglug 4y ago|42 comments
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by muglug 4y ago
The best financial decision I ever made was to sell my shares after vesting. I realised that even if I believed in the long-term business model of the company, having a significant portion of my money tied up with a single stock was not a g
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by muglug 4y ago
> we're finally about to break away from the shackles of PoW and the crypto skeptics are silent. One very popular cryptocurrency is making the switch. That still leaves Bitcoin, with double the trading volume, and most of the other
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by muglug 4y ago
That error message likely comes from mod_include, and they didn't change the default error message: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_include.html#SSIEr...
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by muglug 4y ago
There were many people posting links about hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin and discussing efficacy in the presence of scant information. Also lots of discussions around R0 etc.

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