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by rrdharan 9y ago
There's a fun talk (given by Googler Greg Estern) on the history of 111 8th Ave here, for anyone more curious about the building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVx59XOZtSA
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Interesting, I had no idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
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by rrdharan 9y ago
I have spaces in my AppleID password. Four of them in fact.
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by rrdharan 9y ago
You can't always add a few more servers. For example, let's say you have a per-request processing budget of 100ms. The efficiency of the generated code for your language of choice effectively limits the amount of (non-concurrent,
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by rrdharan 9y ago
50 Cent begs to differ: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16930010/50-cent-rich-bit...
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by rrdharan 9y ago
An Audi RS6 used to park regularly in the commercial loading area right outside my old apartment in Gramercy (17th and Irving). It never got ticketed because it had “volunteer ambulance service” license plates. Which apparently are a thing
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Fascinating - I grew up in Ontario in the 80s where we had the ICONs at school which were also, I just learned, 80186-based: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys_ICON
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by rrdharan 9y ago
However, you're only taxed on RSUs if they are actually released to you. It's possible to have RSU awards that vest without them being released to the employee. This means that (unlike exercised options) you can't sell them o
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by rrdharan 9y ago
> For those employees that did exercise their underwater options, one small silver lining is they can write those losses off on future tax returns. Note this only applies to NQSOs not ISOs - since the gain in the ISO case is taxes as AMT
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Given that he self identifies as “often a dick” this doesn’t seem too surprising: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
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by rrdharan 9y ago
As others have pointed out, it's much more likely that the folks filing the lawsuit chose the timing of their filing to coincide with the predicted IPO to maximize PR exposure and increase the pressure for a quick settlement.
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by rrdharan 9y ago
I'm curious what you are referring to re: the DLC concept? Did you mean this thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service Seems like that was discontinued a long time ago (2011) so was wondering if t
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by rrdharan 9y ago
I was thinking it was https://www.blinkfitness.com at first and assuming Amazon had gotten into the gym business for whatever reason because scale/logistics/something something. I was already imagining the breathless b
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by rrdharan 9y ago
You can DIY. It's really not that bad. I replaced the battery twice on my iPhone 6. The first time took me maybe 40 minutes, the second time went faster since I knew how to do it. https://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhon
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by rrdharan 9y ago
TechCrunch and Gizmodo just picked up the story: https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/mozillas-mr-robot-promo-ba... https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-slipped-a-mr-robot-promo-plugin-... Also AFAIK the
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Exactly why I moved to NYC after 10 years in the Mission. It’s an elegant way to avoid dominant cliques, tribalism, etc. of which I already had my fill. No one can truly own or define the Culture or the Right Way to live in New York, it’s s
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by rrdharan 9y ago
They have Amazon WorkDocs and Amazon WorkMail. I've never seen them in the wild though...
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Ironically Linux has had so many long standing versions of this exact vulnerability (screensaver issues leading to various forms of terrible disclosure) that it's not even really interesting to talk about them. I'd send you to the
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Not the OP you responded to but there's an important distinction between "well-understood problem" and "solved problem" and I believe this specific choice of words was deliberate.
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by rrdharan 9y ago
... and Time Warner wrote down AOL by $45B. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1043702683178461304
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by rrdharan 9y ago
This seems like a natural and useful feature, although it'll be interesting to see how projects use these versus the "long drawn out discussions embedded in a pull request" pattern that shows up in a lot of existing active pr
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by rrdharan 9y ago
It's kind of funny to think that in the west we're only ever likely to match the punctuality of Japanese humans by replacing our humans with Japanese robots.
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Note that only the older agilekeychain format is well documented. AFAIK there aren't any well known public CLI tools kicking around that can read the opvault format, though it shouldn't be that hard: https://discussio
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Agree with the other commenter that this still seems overly optimistic, but also I think as stated your math is off and it’d be 20k/year?
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by rrdharan 9y ago
I'm not the person who wrote that but I think you're misinterpreting the statement. I believe user addicted was trying to say is that companies are attempting to treat a large portion of compensation paid out to employees as someh
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by rrdharan 9y ago
People do it in Brooklyn all the time. Sometimes not even from the leftmost lane :).
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Explosion of interest in machine learning and data science and decent Python-based tools for those fields.
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by rrdharan 9y ago
... again. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opteron https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K6
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by rrdharan 9y ago
In theory the OSS-nature of CockroachDB helps with that part.
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by rrdharan 9y ago
Many reasonable people seem to believe that the backlash and horror inm response to the US government killing of Arthur Andersen and the subsequent job losses were what led to the later toothless reactions by the DoJ to subsequent corporate

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