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by nevir 8y ago
The headline is also, probably in reality: "A small subset of Google wants...'
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by nevir 8y ago
Many of them don't have the options that you do.
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In a lot of cases, I see variations of this when there was not enough up front thought put into the design (before writing code). Slight tangent, but a good way to tackle that is to outline what you want to do (sketch the API you're go
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10 year support contract is certainly a good chunk of that
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> they just want to be recognized for having suggested the problem In a business setting, I find that this case is often more of the variety of "they are suggesting the problem, and are implying/expecting someone else to solve
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It helps to ask "what is most likely to change about the code I am testing?" when writing unit tests. Try to avoid testing those things, and instead focus on testing the code's behavior (quack)
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Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment
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by nevir 8y ago
I remember hearing that Google's main critique with yubikeys is that the newer keys' firmware is no longer open source (and thus, no longer independently verifiable). And that was, apparently, a primary motivation for breaking awa
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Announcing Apollo Server 2(blog.apollographql.com)
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> the cost of keeping them must be at least 50 million per year. There's a high likelihood that at least some of their work will be of value to the company—or, if everything pans out, they get a fancy new platform. The real motiva
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by nevir 8y ago
They can't be removed from disk, but can be fully disabled
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by nevir 8y ago
As someone that worked at Amazon a long time ago—back when AWS was just getting started—can confirm (historically). Publicly there were a myriad of AWS services; internally all we could use was S3 (for many years), if we were lucky. AWS bei
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Open offices are as bad as they seem–they reduce face-to-face time by 70%(arstechnica.com)
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Or for publishing all packages
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The challenge here is that you cannot just go with signed commits—it would also need to authenticate a specific user/org, repository, etc. (Anyone can sign a commit) Similarly, however that whitelist of identities is specified becomes
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by nevir 8y ago
HTML is purely declarative. Each HTML document describes what it wants to have rendered, but does not describe how it should be rendered.
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Yeah, sorry, Perl is probably a bad example (I was really thinking of Mason, and even then it's a bad example). Pulled that from the list!
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This argument is less about specific technologies, and more about patterns and practices. For example: web UI started as declarative (HTML -> PHP), and then transitioned towards more imperative (jQuery, Backbone, Angular), and is now mov
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by nevir 8y ago
The military is going to deploy deep learning on their drones, with or without Google's help. I'd rather have more people working on the problem than fewer. More scrutiny should, at least, improve the work and reduce errors in the
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by nevir 8y ago
and iPhone X navigation is eerily similar to WebOS' cards paradigm. Everyone copies everyone.
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by nevir 8y ago
npm has eroded so much of my trust that I am hesitant to switch back to it (from yarn) any time soon. I've tried npm out every few months (since npm 3), and have consistently run into infuriating bugs or unexpected behaviors. Much of i
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by nevir 9y ago
Also see https://github.com/othiym23/node-continuation-local-storage
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When the primary thing you're evaluated for is "impact", it's a wonder that Googlers bother to maintain any existing products at all. (Plenty do out of love for the product/customers/etc, but man it's soul
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On the flip side, JG is an awesome hire for any company
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WebAssembly is not a silver bullet, and is intended for lower level code than I think you expect. There's little to no interop with the front-end world as we know it (aka the DOM), and any briding to it is still quite expensive. You&#
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by nevir 9y ago
Re: sibling comment - they moved to a single lidar on the roof with their new vehicles. It has a ~3 meter blindspot around the car
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They're also a category where security is inherently a user-visible feature of their products (and as such, it _should_ be easier to justify security engineers)
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Dan Lewis, CEO of Convoy, on the Future of Freight(player.fm)
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Right, but that legacy isn't a great reason to hate on what Dart is now

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