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by niccaluim 11y ago
I'm surprised there's no mention of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center. IIRC this is exactly why they made it.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
He's pulling the app because he doesn't want to be the arbiter of what's acceptable advertising and what's not, not because he thinks ad blocking is bad in and of itself.
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Nor have they decried ten-foot-tall lizard men, but then there aren't any national stories about ten-foot-tall lizard men in Texas right now, are there? The President commented on this, fer chrissakes. I think a few remarks from Texa
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Wow, what's with all the hate here? This is adorable.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
The rewrite was from Ruby to Scala, though far more importantly, it was a re-architecting . And there are zero regrets. Without it, Twitter wouldn't exist anymore.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Disclosing to everyone would do away with the issues raised by the article. If everyone knew everyone's salary, there would be no underwater price-fixing scheme, and disclosing to recruiters would do no harm to you and your colleagues&
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Yes! And same--the THINK IDEs spoiled me.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Did anyone else notice that the bearded guy in the video is from the Coin promo?
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by niccaluim 11y ago
In my day we wrote Pascal in 9-point Geneva and we liked it! ;)
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Oh my yes, this is very nice indeed. Probably the first real advancement I've seen in programming fonts in decades.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Here's a real sample of most of the messages women get on dating sites: hi [that's the whole message] u r so beautiful [again, the whole message] hey babe do u want a real man i will treat yuou lik a lady This represents the vast
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by niccaluim 11y ago
She had documentation proving that her license had been reinstated. A record of the registration would be available on the officer's computer. And they shouldn't have been pulled over in the first place.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
For the past five years Twitter engineering has been focused on two things: rebuilding the infrastructure and building an ad platform. They nailed both of these. But unfortunately that left little time for product engineering. Add in the re
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by niccaluim 11y ago
"Support a wife"? That's precious.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Agreed, I found this page hopelessly meandering and confused. The way continuations were explained to me is that they are "the rest of the program," which isn't much better, and it took me a while to wrap my head around them.
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by niccaluim 11y ago
Having gone back and forth between statically and dynamically typed languages a few times now, I have to say that this comment sums it up for me: "expressing and enforcing invariants in the program itself is so helpful that it’s just l
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by niccaluim 11y ago
I don't think your example has much to do with typing. The types of foo and fooo can be inferred from the return types of bar and baz, so in a language that supports type inference (e.g. Scala), no annotations are necessary. As for whe
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by niccaluim 11y ago
The world's first artificial neural network with a drinking problem :)
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by niccaluim 11y ago
His list of arguments for using ad blockers left out what I imagine is the #1 reason, which is "you're filling my eyeballs with garbage."
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I believe this criticism is answered here: "Of course, such thinking, endorsed by no one beyond the world of technology, would be of limited force. But the technologist worldview has become widely influential." No one's liste
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by niccaluim 11y ago
I'm surprised* there's no mention of Objective-C's behavior when passing messages to nil. Nothing blows up; the message either returns 0 or an empty struct, depending on its return type. In actual practice this can sometimes