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by phillco 7y ago
This is very well written. They get in, they tell the story, they get out.
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by phillco 8y ago
> You will True > And the company that will bring it to you? AT&T Less true
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by phillco 8y ago
Riven did have a couple of annoying "click until you get it" spots (the pitch-black tunnel in the boiler room, for example), but yeah, the puzzles were much more organic.
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Beyond Open Offices: The New Fog Creek Headquarters(medium.com)
15 points by phillco 8y ago|5 comments
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by phillco 8y ago
Well, we don't know if he got the job :)
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by phillco 9y ago
I was disappointed to find out the screenshot is not a GIF.
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by phillco 9y ago
> At the distance that the editors sit from a 27” display, there is simply little or no difference between the look of the 27” LED display and the 27” iMac Retina screens. Eh?
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by phillco 9y ago
pbpaste | bash -c? :D
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by phillco 9y ago
I find fish to be a more pleasant scripting languge personally, but bash scripts are the lingua franca everywhere I've worked. It's easier just to learn bash.
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by phillco 9y ago
Anecdotally, being able to commit anywhere, without needing a branch name, is one of the biggest conceptual differences when we teach new hires Mercurial at Facebook.
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Dropbox Paper: Emojis and Exformation(blogs.dropbox.com)
2 points by phillco 9y ago|0 comments
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Design – Dropbox(dropbox.com)
2 points by phillco 9y ago|0 comments
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by phillco 9y ago
Fish does this for missing files (though not invalid subcommands): https://fishshell.com/
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by phillco 9y ago
> Some people get it immediately, others never will. Member of the second camp reporting in. The default toString() behavior of java.util.Date threw me off for a very, very long time.
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by phillco 10y ago
Agree with the sibling comment -- you can achieve a good portfolio allocation with 3-4 ETFs. What Wealthfront and Betterment do is pick these funds for you, then charge you 0.25% year over year for the privilege of maintaining them. It&#x27
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by phillco 10y ago
It's so weird to think that Twitter used to be insignificant enough that a random software engineer could just tweet to the NY Time's social media account at will, without going through all the hoops of a social media team. Kudos
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Google expansion coming to Mountain View headquarters(sf.curbed.com)
1 points by phillco 10y ago|0 comments
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by phillco 10y ago
Strongly reminds me of this classic Onion video: http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-should-the-governm...
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by phillco 10y ago
Interesting -- didn't Google use to be super strict on the languages/runtimes they use in production? Did they make an exception for ITA?
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Introducing Our New CTO, Aditya Agarwal(blogs.dropbox.com)
6 points by phillco 10y ago|0 comments
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by phillco 11y ago
My favorite thing about Civ is that its creator has kept control over it, and continues to evolve it. We'll probably be enjoying a new Civ in 2026. The charm is that it's the same game in many respects — parts evolve, but the core
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Virgin America Street View(virginamerica.com)
1 points by phillco 11y ago|0 comments
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by phillco 11y ago
Interesting that they default QuickEdit mode to on now. In Windows 2000 (supposedly), they had to roll a hotfix because some well-meaning engineer made the same change without thinking of backwards compatibility. [2] Kinda shows how times h
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by phillco 11y ago
Is there a reason why Tesla events happen at night?
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by phillco 12y ago
Particularly, the two-dimensional map layout (no room-over-room) is much easier to make maps for.
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Onboarding New Hires with Trello(medium.com)
3 points by phillco 12y ago|0 comments
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by phillco 13y ago
Dropbox is actually > 600 now. (Source: dropbox.com/about)
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by phillco 13y ago
Not to mention, scanning many thousands of books manually.
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by phillco 14y ago
Here's a page on their website that lets you figure out what goes into the $500/month figure: http://www.teslamotors.com/true-cost-of-ownership Parts are a little surprising (e.g. it assumes your time is worth $100/hour).
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by phillco 14y ago
I like this one (discovered via Civilization ): "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford

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