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by nilkn 8y ago
I do think your analysis here is a bit shallow. - Scala is not an easy language to learn unless you just use it as a "better Java" with syntactic sugar, in which case it cannot be considered to be in the same class as Haskell. The
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by nilkn 8y ago
What's the "correct" level of diversity, out of curiosity? The US is ~75% phenotypically white (including white Americans with Hispanic or Latin heritage) and about ~62% white of European descent.
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by nilkn 8y ago
Inbox users have had all of this and more since 2014, though. And even if Gmail has some of these features the interface is not nearly as natural for using them.
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by nilkn 8y ago
One fairly universal current I've observed though is a dislike for strong artificial lighting, particularly overhead lighting. I can work very productively in an abundance of natural light or in a basically dark room lit only by the gl
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by nilkn 8y ago
Instead of trying to create a fancy standing/sitting desk workflow, I've personally tried to just take more breaks throughout the day. Unless the weather's terrible, even a brief five minute walk does wonders. It's also
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by nilkn 8y ago
I learned Haskell from the "Gentle Introduction" (which isn't so gentle), then writing programs, reading documentation, and reading online discussions and threads. https://www.haskell.org/tutorial/
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by nilkn 8y ago
You can easily push the 1080 Ti to its limit with 4K or 21:9 1440p (3440x1440). It's an incredible card, but it only feels overpowered at 1080p or maybe 16:9 1440p.
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by nilkn 8y ago
Generally yes, although there are certain games that an old CPU would definitely choke on. It’s a bit disingenuous to say the upgrade cycle is dead and then to spend more money on upgrading the GPU than the total value of everything else co
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by nilkn 8y ago
Something no one really talks about is the difficulty of just charging an electric car for anyone who isn't a homeowner. That's a nontrivial question -- and possibly a dealbreaker -- for millions of apartment dwellers.
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by nilkn 8y ago
Pretty interesting point. One thing that pops out to me is scale, not just of output from these systems but also input into them. For instance, newspaper, radio, and TV all reached unprecedented numbers of people, but they didn't bring
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by nilkn 8y ago
I am advancing the notion that there may be a threshold beyond which sites like Twitter are in practice precisely digital public townsquares. I am aware of what the laws are right now -- we are discussing here a hypothetical change of prece
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by nilkn 8y ago
I appreciate your viewpoint, but this is largely not a response to anything in my post, just a restatement of your previous post.
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by nilkn 8y ago
I think this is a more nuanced topic than you're giving it credit for. While free speech does not classically apply to corporate enterprises like Facebook, as society shifts into the digital world the nature of communication itself shi
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by nilkn 8y ago
I do believe that code review culture ends up being a reflection of general company culture. In a healthy culture, visibility tends to spread the positive part of what's observable, whereas in a toxic culture visibility tends to spread
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by nilkn 8y ago
Code reviews are generally public and visible to the entire team and often even to other teams. While it's true that the reviewee may not be able to distinguish the two cases being considered, there may be other developers on the team
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by nilkn 8y ago
I think their motivation still matters quite a bit. Just because someone has 20+ years of experience doesn't mean they're actually leveraging any of that for their review. If they're nitpicking something unimportant and they&
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by nilkn 8y ago
I imagine this perspective is quite rare. Apple's VP of Inclusion and Diversity had to deliver a formal apology after the following similar remark: "And I’ve often told people a story– there can be 12 white blue-eyed blonde men in
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by nilkn 8y ago
I was just thinking this, but it seems his departure from Cruise coincided with the GM acquisition, and the transition to Uber from Otto probably happened because Uber acquired Otto. The primary job changes then are from Tesla to Otto and n
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by nilkn 8y ago
There's both a Best Buy and Microcenter near me (I feel very fortunate about this). I always buy from one of those two when I can instead of Amazon. It's always preferable to not deal with shipping at all, especially considering r
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by nilkn 8y ago
I disagree on this point. I've been using the new form factor with the large trackpads since initial launch in 2016 and the large trackpads are amazing, and I don't seem to have any issues with palm interaction. Anything smaller j
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by nilkn 8y ago
Labeling in general is incredibly problematic in Google Maps. It's amazing to me that I can do a search for restaurants, hover over a shopping strip that I know has 5 restaurants, and only one of them shows up no matter how far I zoom
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by nilkn 8y ago
I also prefer it over Google Maps when I'm in an area where I know Apple's data is good enough. I simply find the UI simpler, easier to use, far less cluttered, and downright faster. Apple Maps is buttery smooth whereas sometimes
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by nilkn 8y ago
You've jumped all the way to trying to micromanage your boss, which is inherently a politically explosive undertaking, but where you actually should be is just asking much more straightforward questions: why don't they want you to
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by nilkn 8y ago
There are a variety of private jet subscription offerings popping up, including Surfair: https://www.surfair.com/us/membership-pricing/ That one is only $2k/month for unlimited trips between a few locations i
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by nilkn 8y ago
This is exactly what I'm expecting too. It's more practical than replacing the entire keyboard, and it would allow them to maintain their current strategy of avoiding touchscreens on the screen itself.
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by nilkn 8y ago
When feedback is continuous and healthy throughout the year, I think the review itself acts just as an amplifier. It lets you really praise someone officially in a big way for good work. If someone has been seriously troublesome, it should
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by nilkn 8y ago
It could be that the industry is off-putting to certain groups of people. You're certainly right that this is a possibility. However, it could also be that some people actually just aren't all that interested in certain careers. A
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by nilkn 8y ago
It seems like that could easily mean that certain groups are just less interested in certain types of work, no?
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by nilkn 8y ago
We pay very well for the area. We are not in Silicon Valley, but I know some of our salaries are higher than those of my friends who are at Google's MV campus.
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by nilkn 8y ago
Potentially interesting data point: the company I'm at right now has been pretty successful for over a decade and has, to my knowledge, never once asked a dynamic programming question in an interview for any candidate in that entire ti

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