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> Under the agreement, all articles with a UC corresponding author published in more than 2,700 of Springer Nature’s journals will be open access by default, with the UC Libraries paying a portion of the open access fee on behalf of all
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Instacart valued at $14B in latest funding round(reuters.com)
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Ironic, then, that poverty greatly hampers the ability to follow nos. 1 and 2. Full-time employment increasingly requires a college education, which not only requires high school, but is increasingly expensive as well. I've known seve
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You know you _say_ that, but during that timespan their annual net income rose from $5B to $22B, and global revenue for the same timespan from $28B to $86B. Eighty-six billion dollars. Can you really call them an also-ran, or Ballmer an u
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It's a _tradeoff_. The thought is that the unmitigated death-toll of COVID-19 will be _worse_ for the economy (and by quite a lot) than sheltering in place for 6-12 months.
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As it turns out, this is more or less what ninja does: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/blob/master/src/disk_in...
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by pianoben 6y ago
Black Friday is a good time. This past November I picked up a ThinkStation p720 for like 60% off. Not sure whether laptops are discounted to the same extent, but it's worth investigating. At any time of year, see if you are eligible
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Another "incredible journey" comes to a close. What a solid and useful product Keybase was! I'm ashamed that I didn't see this coming. Now I have to find a replacement that isn't compromised.
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When I was 27, I picked up and moved from the Midwest out to San Francisco kind of on a lark. I didn't know anyone, and despite having a CS education it was from a no-name school and I had basically zero relevant experience. I had an
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Sure, but that's not what the GP was talking about. They directly stated that those who joined would forever be "second-class citizens", which simply isn't factual.
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I'd encourage you to actually attend a synagogue service, or even just have a chat with a real-life Jewish person, before exposing yourself to ridicule as you have here. In my life as a Jewish person, I've never _once_ hear a rabb
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In fact, the _have_ transitioned to ARM, way back around the time of the first Surface tablet. Windows and Office have been running on ARM since at least, what, 2012?
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I'm sorry to have terrified you. Here's what I mean by that, and what I think should change. Companies boast of record profits, buy back stock constantly, and pay next to nothing in taxes. Meanwhile, even with the ACA Americans
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I will never argue that the founders are not acting wisely - they've got no moral imperative to go public. As you say, there's far cheaper capital on offer. Rather, it's a systemic failing. They would pay an undeniable cos
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Credit where credit due - that's better than most private companies I've heard about. Even so, that's a low bar to clear. Ideally, my employer shouldn't even have a say in my decision to sell or hold my equity once I&#
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Jeez, just go public already! You've had employees waiting for nigh on a decade to realize the value of what they've built, but instead it appears that those gains are just going to VCs (and whoever is privileged enough to take m
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by pianoben 7y ago
I was an early Scalyr user circa 2014 or so, and have used Splunk at various gigs before and after. My current company is not a Scalyr customer and that makes me pretty sad - even back then, they were snappy and responsive in ways that Spl
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by pianoben 7y ago
This reminds me of a road trip I took with a girlfriend in 2010 or so. We drove south out of St. Louis, MO, going nowhere in particular, and ended up near the Arkansas border. I could have sworn I was dreaming, but nearby there was a bona
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What a thorough and valuable comment. This is really valuable stuff - thanks for sharing your experience!
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I think you are over-estimating the quality of their software engineering. Maybe ten years ago I would have believed this, but with each macOS release the litany of unforced errors just continues to grow. The advantage Apple derives from
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by pianoben 7y ago
That's true! This is one of those instances of parallel evolution. The MSO construct predates even Boost's `enable_shared_from_this`, as I recall. FWIW when I was there, new code was encouraged to use STL smart pointers where p
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The thing I was thinking of when I said "some ideas just went off in a different direction from the STL" is called a Swarm, and it's here: https://github.com/microsoft/Mso/blob/master/libs&
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Oh hey, I just discovered that MS open-sourced the lowest levels of the Office codebase, including the stuff I talked about. The most common shared pointer type is actually the inscrutibly-named `TCntPtr`, but the file that covers most of
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by pianoben 7y ago
I spent a small amount of time at Microsoft working in the legacy Office codebase. It is kind of a parallel universe to normal C++ - lots of ideas in it predate their STL equivalents, and some have yet to make it to the outside world. Som
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by pianoben 7y ago
Depending on the employer and the side-project, using the same account for both could _in theory_ bolster a (ridiculous, absurd) ownership claim over your work, for example. Stranger things have happened. More pragmatically, I've been
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by pianoben 7y ago
Nice article! The only thing I'd add is that you can extend this to multiple GitHub identities, too, via SSH configs: https://www.bendb.com/blog/ssh-with-multiple-github-accounts... I've been using variation
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> [The] brouhaha now is a deliberate attempt to crash economy to prevent Trump's reelection. That's an incredible claim on its face. I'd suggest that you have the burden of truth here.
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Ah yes, operating systems - file that under "I forget what else". Like I said, I feel that I overpaid for that education. The degree itself has paid for itself many times over, but I needed to learn basically everything important
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My CS program (class of 2007) was mostly c++. There was one semester of Java, but it was optional. We learned fundamentals, discrete math, symbolic logic, and also "databases" (read: MS Access), object-oriented design, and I forg
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That's rather pointed, but also matches just about every system-design interview I've ever given to an Uber engineer. Next time, I want to ask them how they keep track of all those services! edit : replaced an incorrectly-used id

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