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by pianoben 7y ago
It's not entirely unreasonable on its face; physical fulfillment is a complicated business domain. You might have services dealing with suppliers, customers, delivery vendors, regulatory compliance, payments, sales taxes, so on, so fo
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by pianoben 7y ago
This is the most content-free disclosure I've seen in a long, long time. Things I'd love to have seen: 1. attack vector 2. time when attack was detected 3. time attack was mitigated 4. scope of impact There isn't even a sing
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by pianoben 7y ago
So, accessing shared mutable state from many threads at once is dangerous. It's hard to lay the blame for this on Go - it's true in most languages I know of. I suppose one ought to guard such maps with a RW lock, or a `sync.Map`
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by pianoben 7y ago
This feels related to "The Dress", somehow (is it blue and black, or white and gold?). Do these separate illusions share a common cause (high/low contrast colors juxtaposed)?
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by pianoben 7y ago
I still lament the demise of Rdio - it truly did have the best UX of all the streaming players. How unfortunate that they couldn't make the business work! Just about all of the gripes in TFA were non-issues or avoided with thoughtful
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by pianoben 7y ago
Eh, sorry, when you clicked "agree" you agreed to give up your right to collective action in favor of confidential arbitration that is _totally_ more fair than those nasty old courts.
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by pianoben 7y ago
Your link (to an obviously-anti-union think-tank) describes government overreach much more than it describes typical activity. Without knowing more details of the situation, the most glaring problem here is that the State of Illinois assert
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by pianoben 7y ago
I'd like to plug my preferred solution to the crappy new keyboards - get the Anne Pro 2, a compact mechanical keyboard that speaks Bluetooth or USB-C. It nearly the same footprint as the built-in keyboard (ergo doesn't take up mu
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by pianoben 7y ago
Rent, healthcare, etc. Some have 401k accounts, if they are lucky, otherwise you have IRAs which have an annual contribution limit of $6000, IIRC (am not an expert and am likely wrong on that point). Pensions are unavailable and housing i
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by pianoben 7y ago
Well... better get started now, then!
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by pianoben 7y ago
Two thoughts come to my mind. One, this article and the project it covers will be good negotiating leverage against Microsoft's fee increases. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up winning back lower license fees and sticking wi
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by pianoben 7y ago
I'm aware of some Rust in the Azure IoT gateway, but that's more due to the desires of the specific team lead than to any organizational drive toward Rust. (he's the author of Actix, among other things)
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by pianoben 7y ago
More compelling to me are the Icelandic "lax" and the extinct Chinese pronunciation. although... if the language "Tocharian B" is extinct, how can we know its pronunciation? There must be a way, but I can't fathom
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by pianoben 7y ago
Unsurprising, given the close relationship between Yiddish and German, and the fact that the English "lox" is literally the Yiddish word.
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by pianoben 7y ago
Congratulations to the BuildXL team! Domino, incidentally, was/is the internal for BuildXL; there are a few papers published where the system is described under that name. I had the privilege to see it gradually rolled out in the Off
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by pianoben 8y ago
Fantastic advice! I especially concur with your first bullet point - working to make my boss successful has _always_ paid dividends in the ways you describe.
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by pianoben 8y ago
Agreed. The _only_ times I've ever been justified in implementing this pattern have been when doing compiler work. Someone else up-thread mentioned what I think is the key requirement making visitors worthwhile is non-trivial tree tra
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by pianoben 8y ago
At least as of November 2018 (when I left), everything you said was still true. However! CodeFlow was also integrated into VSTS, whose review tooling is very much inspired by CodeFlow. Reviewers could use their web browser or the client a
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by pianoben 8y ago
(former Microsoft employee here) CodeFlow's workflow was nice, but everything else about it was _awful_. Capturing iterations, comments, threads, etc was the good stuff. The UI - eye-bleeding and amateurish. Network operations - ter
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by pianoben 8y ago
My take is that there is a civic, if not legal, obligation to participate in our democracy. The speech in question is working to suppress the mechanism by which we influence our own society. That it's an effort by a private party, an
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by pianoben 8y ago
I'm astonished to hear this said so openly. Whom is a representative democracy supposed to represent - only educated, upper-class, "quality" folks? We rightly consigned that idea to the dust bin, along with poll taxes, liter
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by pianoben 8y ago
I have such a strong feeling of deja vu right now - didn't they shut down once before already, and sell off their fleet? Is this their second shutdown?
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by pianoben 8y ago
This is why I'm so happy about Bazel lately! It cleanly solves a number of tooling pain points for me: - Cross-platform builds mostly "just work" - Package management, while not painless, is a tractable problem. You can tea
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by pianoben 8y ago
Ah, that's the difference then! I'm starting from Brisbane and ending in Sunnyvale, usually leaving around 8:30. I'll try 7:30 next time!
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by pianoben 8y ago
My personal experience of driving south from ~San Francisco down to Sunnyvale along 101 in the mornings is that it takes me around 1.2 hours, on average. I'm not sure what traffic maps have to say about it, but every time I drive down
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by pianoben 8y ago
c++14. I hit limits in clang relating to the depth of computation it will perform at compile-time, and those limits differ from gcc's and msvc's, so I switched. What do you mean by "mixing 11 and 14"?
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by pianoben 8y ago
MSVC supports the Clang front-end, but its optimizer and backend are absolutely not deprecated, as far as I can tell (Microsoft employee here, opinions are my own, no private info disclosed here, etc).
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by pianoben 8y ago
IMO this kind of lookup table is best computed externally, e.g. by a python script, and included as a literal `constexpr std::array` or something. I was recently trying to do something very similar with constexpr lookups, and threw in the
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by pianoben 8y ago
I often see this used informally as shorthand for "on the order of", which is another way people say "approximately".
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by pianoben 8y ago
It's a telling indictment of the current state of intellectual-property regulation that public-domain activists consider a 100-year copyright to be a "victory". It's hard to imagine that this term won't be extended

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