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by pradn 4y ago
It's hard to take this post seriously when basic facts are off. > To support this company strategy, Google makes it really, really easy for anyone to start up a new project. The culture of “20% time” gives people permission to work
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I made a Chrome extension used by 17 people (including me). It adds fuzzy search to the main Old Javanese->English dictionary website. I assume these users are all scholars of some sort. It’s unlikely to be the biggest impact of what I’v
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Keep is my favorite Google product. It opens instantly on iOS, makes it dead easy to create notes, and has a good search feature. It's easy to access on the web since I'm always logged into my Google account anyway. I find iCloud&
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> There isn't anyone optimizing anything, let alone "prematurely" Yes, but in a slightly different way than one might think at initial read of this. Most of the performance choices for a user-facing application have been m
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This is true, though. You can write most programs with simple use of types as template rags for containers, and defining only simple templates, where you just abstract over the given type itself in a “find and replace” way (no type traits,
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There's a pervasive lack of precision in privacy discussions. There's a difference between a network request that does some computation on the server side, one that does the same but may log errors and increment counters, and one
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It's hardly "crippled". I find myself quite productive writing C++ at Google. Take a look at the style guide yourself. I think it's pragmatic. https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
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We don't have to even get to the point of extending copyright to artistic style. If using copyrighted art to train a model is found to not be fair use, the technology will no longer be above board. Companies in countries with these rul
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Yes! It was an episode from season 2! https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Binky_Barnes,_Art_Expert
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This is actually fantastic. I think we need alternatives like this for every other "algorithmic feed" website. Twitter has become unusable and toxic for me in recent years. It seems like most of the tweets are recommendations - th
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Same issue for video games: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/alan-wake-to-be-removed-from-s...
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If you're interested in news about changes in time zones and such, look at IANA's discussion board. The maintainers of the timezones DB use this forum to learn of changes around the world. https://mm.icann.org/pipe
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Looks like someone opened one :) https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info/issues/666
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Great work on vantage.sh and ec2instances.info! Quick, small fix: This instance is shown as having 0 GBs of memory, but in fact it has 0.5 GB. https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/t4g.nano
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Web browsing is a task you can throw great single-core performance at.
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In “The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece”, Joshua Ober describes the Mediterranean of the classical period as a zone of free exchange, unified by a common Greek language, a common set of commodities (olive oil, wine, grain). This promoted
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There's not really a way around network dependence when coding at Google. You're not allowed to have code copied to a laptop, unless you get special permissions. Only teams that work on client code like desktop apps are likely to
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The flip side of this is that it's hard to do anything beyond the standard library for some languages. Using PythonAnywhere is great for std-in/std-out programs, but I couldn't figure out a way to import graphics libraries an
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> I did get a little confused from how we went from Asians doing well in Michigan means the PRC is going to dominate the engineering sector. There seems to be an implication that these are connected. Its my understanding that these demog
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This is a fantastic initiative. Yotta is gamifying savings, because why not? And it's FDIC-insured so I don't have to worry about trusting money to a start-up. I think the UI-improvement over dealing with the treasury website is s
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I’ve tripped over an old iPhone, catching the cable and deforming the charging port. That made charging the phone difficult until I got a new one. Now I only use the MagSafe charger to prevent another such mishap. One more “moving part” tha
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I work at Google, and when we came back to the office, we started having all sorts of hallway conversations about well-being and pandemic stress. If we were talking during the work-from-home period, we would have raised an alarm. Each of us
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This will also make it harder to unionize. Historically, having your coworkers together in one place was a prerequisite for collective action. If call center workers are atomized, even a thin hope of that will perish.
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This is such a common confusion, someone made a handy diagram for telling apart the firms comprising the cross product of {"Black", "Bridge"} x {"rock", "water", "stone"}. https:/&#x2F
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Linked lists are popular because they are useful in teaching basic data structures and complexity analysis. They can be compared to array lists. But in real life the extra cost of allocating a node is way higher than simply copying over a b
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The voice assistants already do self—advertisement by suggesting other things you can do when you ask for simple things like the time or the weather. At best this is to help people understand what’s possible, and at worst it’s to juice enga
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At the passport control kiosks, they can just scan your face and give you an exit ticket. It was super quick, and surprising. I was able to skip talking to an immigration agent completely. They can do this because they have photos of me fro
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After seeing the beautiful new Arabic fonts in this post, I can't go back to being happy with just simple text for the web. We're still so far from the beauty of calligraphy and even old metal typefaces, with their ligatures and a
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Question for the author: do you have numbers to share about performance relative to other static site servers? Great blog by the way :)
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Yup until recently, they had no real competition in the fast food chicken sandwich game. Popeyes and McDonalds have caught up some amount, but not fully. They also don’t have waffle fries. In college, the line for the Chic Fil A was impossi

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