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by pcl 12y ago
This was published in November, weeks before the big shake-up at the New Republic [1]. It will be interesting to see whether or not the new New Republic will publish articles that go into an issue with this much depth and consideration. [1]
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by pcl 12y ago
That comment was an example provided by someone noticing a described behavior, not a recommendation by the author.
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by pcl 12y ago
Agreed; the way the numbers work out today, the advantages are minimal. The story looks like it might be a bit different with 4k on the horizon, though.
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by pcl 12y ago
In my experience, it's gone more like this: Find an awesome candidate for a position. He's on an H1B. Learn that he can only be hired into a position that can't be filled by a permanent resident, but can be filled by him. Cre
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by pcl 12y ago
Yes, SVC's sweet spot is more geared towards real-time than pre-cacheable streams. SVC stands for "scalable video coding", and generally behaves in at least one of two dimensions: temporal or spatial. Temporal SVC is pretty m
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by pcl 12y ago
it's likely to be relatively clean of patents and may enable a cross-everything royalty free implementation. But time will tell how MPEG LA will feel about that. So that's the thing. I'm all for royalty-free encoders, but t
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by pcl 12y ago
Dot size is used frequently, but I haven't seen many static visualizations that plot the series multiple times using cues (in this case, dot size and opacity) to indicate the data relationship. I see it all the time in animation form,
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by pcl 12y ago
That's a great way to visualize a third dimension on a two-axis graph. Now I'm thinking about how to do that in d3...
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by pcl 12y ago
Meanwhile, this would have been a great way to share commit hooks.
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by pcl 12y ago
(The Java approach.) Box everything implicitly. Boxing and generics are orthogonal concepts. Also: does auto-boxing even make sense in Go? Between the fact that Go is statically compiled and that there isn't an int / java.lang.I
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by pcl 12y ago
I don't think the math works out that way. If I have 10 options in a company that has 100 shares outstanding (including my options for the sake of easy math), then the reverse-split will take this to 5 options out of 50 total. Now, ima
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by pcl 12y ago
How does that screw the employees? The S-1 linked from the article talks about absolute dollars to be raised, not share count. The employee-held shares should just now have twice the value that they had before the consolidation. Am I missin
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by pcl 12y ago
Transferring an H1b is really not that hard to do. We did it for less than $15k or so and a few weeks of back-and-forth at my last startup. Don't be put off by the process.
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by pcl 12y ago
Second, given a performance problem, observability is of the utmost importance I couldn't agree with this more. Understanding where time is being spent and where pools etc. are being consumed is critical in these sorts of exercises.
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by pcl 12y ago
If you wouldn't mind sharing your dot files, I'd love to take a look and see what's new.
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BatteryBox: Massive update – design changes, feature additions and shipping info(blog.getbatterybox.com)
18 points by pcl 12y ago|24 comments
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by pcl 12y ago
With a diode matrix, is it possible to distinguish multiple simultaneous key presses? And if not, how do you handle modifier keys? Looking at your photo, it would seem that they're wired into the matrix in the same fashion as the rest
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by pcl 12y ago
Thanks; good to know. Here's a link to the original discussion thread on the Go newsgroup from July: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/ZTD1qtpru...
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by pcl 12y ago
the author commits the generated files to the source repository, so that they are available to clients that use go get Treating generated files as primary source is a disaster waiting to happen. Someone will end up just doing a quick edit
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by pcl 12y ago
Many health insurance plans have a yearly cap on how much you pay out of pocket. So you might pay 20% up to a few thousand dollars, and then get 100% coverage after that.
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by pcl 12y ago
Creating indexes at the stage of creating a DB structure makes no sense. Not because it's a premature optimization, but because indexes make the queries execute faster. When a software architect creates a schema he doesn't know w
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Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone’s Price to 99 Cents(nytimes.com)
61 points by pcl 12y ago|47 comments
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by pcl 12y ago
Note that on Mac and Windows, at least, you can trivially do this remapping. I do it on all my computers. On a Mac, the keyboard preference pane in system prefs has a "modifier keys" section, which is bizarrely separately configur
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by pcl 12y ago
The first thing I thought of when I saw the naming was the Macintosh Plus. Maybe next year we'll see the iPhone ][!
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by pcl 12y ago
In some places (including much of the US, I believe), you can be arrested for drunk driving even if you're not in the driver's seat. Here's some info on California's laws [1]. The idea is that you are in the car and capa
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by pcl 12y ago
It'd be interesting to add some sort of source IP filtering as well. I'm behind a VPN, so I'm on a private subnet. I'd rather chat with others on the same subnet within my company than anyone who happens to be in the sam
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by pcl 12y ago
Today? Not at all, unless you have some connections at Microsoft Research. But it would seem to be just the thing to address some of the concerns in the Windows section of the OP.
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by pcl 12y ago
For Windows, we throw out some of our principles... I hope that they saw the Drawbridge announcement[0] and discussion[1]. [0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/ [1] https:/&#x2F
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by pcl 12y ago
Cisco's firewall blocks it too. Funny stuff.
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by pcl 12y ago
If you have the free cash to tie up in an ESPP, I generally think they are worth doing. They usually let you buy shares at a 15% or so discount of the lower of the price on the vesting date, or the price on the initial offer date. This is t

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