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nicioan
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nicioan
4y ago
nit: type actually originates from the Greek word τύπος https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/τύπος (Google definition‘s origin based on oxford dict also confirms that).
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nicioan
5y ago
Long time Murakami fun here, have read all his books and recently re-read the Rat Trilogy (Wild Sing + Pinball, A Wild Sheep Chase, Dance Dance Dance). I agree that there is indeed repetitiveness in his most recent work but I still find a l
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nicioan
5y ago
100% this. It's not only about oneself. For young and healthy people, vaccination is primarily for helping and protecting others.
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nicioan
5y ago
I second that statement. I know at least two people who failed their viva in the UK and ended up getting an MPhil instead of a PhD. In both cases the candidates were told by their advisor not to go with the defense but they decided to go fo
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nicioan
5y ago
Great write up! Reminded me of the "The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company" [0] and the HN discussion [1]. [0] https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behin... [1] https:&#
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nicioan
6y ago
TIL, thanks!
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nicioan
6y ago
100% this! The work life balance section in particular was an eye opener. I’m sure the Waze employees that were part of the acquisition have a _completely_ different perspective, and I bet they‘ve been much better off after the acquisition.
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nicioan
6y ago
Excellent article, thank you! I really like the analysis and profiling part of the evaluation. I also have some experience in I/O performance in linux -- we measured 30GiB/s in a pcie Gen3 box (shameless plug[0]). I have one quest
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nicioan
6y ago
Let’s take a moment and express solidarity towards the fellow engineers that are currently working like crazy under a lot of stress to fix this.
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6y ago
Funny how status.slack.com has reported Incidents and Outages for a while now, but still the "Uptime for the current quarter" is reported at 100% on the bottom right of the status table.
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nicioan
6y ago
wow, this blowed up. GOOD
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nicioan
6y ago
Reminded me of Doug Lea‘a classic reference on memory allocation http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
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7y ago
Don’t you have to juxtapose that with the abo % in the population? According to Wikipedia(only showing +, avg, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_distribution_by_c... ) that’s: O:38.67% A:27.42% B:22.02% AB:5.88