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by nickm12 9y ago
1. No, you are not entitled to the final reward (almost certainly). Maybe your employment contract is different than other companies I have heard of, but this ought to be just like any other bonus (referral bonus, holiday bonus, etc.). When
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by nickm12 9y ago
CoffeeScript has some nice feature, especially as compared to ES5, but I always found it a tad too clever. The fact that {} are optional in a bunch of places makes it very difficult for me to parse mentally. Other weird coffeescript quirk:
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by nickm12 9y ago
This is a click-bait headline coupled with a terrible analysis. I don't even know what "bug density" is because the author doesn't define it, but I assume it is some count of bugs divided by lines of code. It doesn'
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by nickm12 9y ago
OP's point was that the failing of the Trashcan Mac Pro was that it was non-modular design that user's couldn't upgrade and (apparently) Apple couldn't refresh. Maybe there is the thermal envelope in this design to suppo
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by nickm12 10y ago
This isn't the first security vulnerability caused by optimizing compilers assuming programs don't exhibit undefined behavior and it won't be the last. Some relevant literature: https://people.csail.mit.edu/ni
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by nickm12 10y ago
I think the part that you're running afoul of is where it says: "new apps presenting new questions may result in new rules at any time." Good luck to you, but it's Apple's sandbox and your product appears to thwart
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by nickm12 10y ago
Some folks might find it interesting that Thomas Massie is an MIT alum, former entrepreneur, and junkyard wars competitor. http://news.mit.edu/2002/two-teams-mit-battle-it-out-tvs-jun...
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by nickm12 10y ago
No. See Smarx's comment. Every Dropbox account can have 2FA.
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by nickm12 10y ago
> Also, you can't argue Chris isn't technical. Is this a typo? As a programmer, I wish I was as technical as Chris Lattner's used kleenex.
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by nickm12 10y ago
Python 2 to Python 3 is a semantic change, which is why it has been so slow going for some codebases.
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by nickm12 10y ago
This is a sensationalist title thrown onto a rehash of the real article, which can be found here: https://www.propublica.org/article/amazon-says-it-puts-custo...
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by nickm12 10y ago
Keean Schupke has started to explore the Elements of Programming in Rust. See: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5330 I know Alexander Stepanov personally, and Paul McJones through him, and they are both interested i
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by nickm12 10y ago
I'm surprised at the enthusiasm for really long functions here. I find my experience is just the opposite—I find it much more difficult to read code written that way than when the different sections are broken up into smaller function
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by nickm12 10y ago
In other news, water is wet. Seriously, what is the news here? Anyone remotely paying attention would know that these apps would not fly on the iOS App Store, satire or not. If you don't like that, then you shouldn't develop for i
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by nickm12 10y ago
I think it's a shame to teach kids to program on a platform as closed as iOS. A 12 year old I know wrote an app as a birthday gift for his grandfather who lived overseas. The app was simple and displayed the grandfather's age with
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by nickm12 10y ago
I don't understand your example. The API provider has to determine the contract and decide whether out-of-bounds crops are supported or not. If they are supported, then an out-of-bounds panic is a bug in the API. If they are not suppo
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by nickm12 10y ago
You have it reversed. The advantage of the median (50th percentile) is that a few outliers at the high end won't skew the data. To move the median, you have to move half of the distribution.
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by nickm12 11y ago
RSUs, both at Dropbox and Amazon. And yes, you're right that RSUs are better than options for that reason.
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by nickm12 11y ago
I'm a Dropbox employee. Yeah, it's not fun to see your valuation go down when equity is part of your compensation. But I was previously an Amazon employee (also compensated in equity) and got to watch the stock value change on a d
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by nickm12 11y ago
...and the formula that is given as an example of π's importance has a tau in it.
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by nickm12 11y ago
Alexander Stepanov (co-author of the C++ standard template library) has been teaching a class at A9 on important works of civilization. The focus is on the most influential works---that is, the works that were read and influenced the develo
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by nickm12 11y ago
> 95% statistical significance means, we got this number from a procedure that 95% of the time produces the right thing The original post is incorrect about the probabilistic interpretation of the 95% confidence interface, but this inter
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by nickm12 11y ago
+1 Well said. This is correct and the original post is wrong.
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by nickm12 11y ago
Agreed! Not every thesis is great, but most research isn't great either. Good students write good theses and I've found many with whole chapters on important topics that are just glossed over in the research papers.
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by nickm12 11y ago
As everyone else said, the correct answer here is very situational. Adding dependencies to your program should not be taken lightly. Rewriting something that you can get in "a few lines of code" from an existing framework should
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by nickm12 12y ago
I understood the point, but it doesn't make sense in the context of the article. The difference between GPL and BSD-licensed software is in how you can use the source. Neither web applications or native applications depend on the sour
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by nickm12 12y ago
Gruber gets this one wrong. Native apps are part of the internet, but they are not part of the Web. The Web is what you browse with a web browser. To be part of the web, you need to support hyperlinks both incoming and outgoing. Yes, the
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by nickm12 12y ago
I wonder if there is an intentional difference between "You can imagine that many of us want it to be open source" and "As you can imagine, many of us want it to be open source".
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In fact, Amazon doesn't even sell the iPhone 5c.
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by nickm12 12y ago
This article implies that it is Amazon that is changing the prices. Many people don't understand this, but Amazon is a marketplace where sellers compete to sell products. There are currently ~120 sellers with offers to sell a new iPho

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