santaclaus

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by santaclaus 9y ago
Is there any data on what the big companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, ...) are starting software engineers at? Anecdotally, friends starting at Google out of school are getting base salary offers closer to the senior numb
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Is gaining traction in the native application space Are there any Rust-first UI frameworks rivaling something like Qt, yet?
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Darn, no benchmark against Ipopt, which in my experience still gives the best black-box performance on large, sparse quadratic problems. In my experience the commercial solvers (Gurobi, Mosek) are actually quite slow.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> I do think Chance the Rapper is an outlier Recently it seems to be the path to success as a hip hop artist, not the outlier case. Beyond Chance look at 21 Savage (who blew up before he signed to Epic), Lil Peep, hell, even Run the Jewe
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> the prototypical Northwest social norms felt isolating I dunno, I've heard this, but having lived in the Bay Area, NYC, and the Northwest (Portland, specifically), and not being a native of any, I found the Northwest to be by far
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by santaclaus 9y ago
3D printing.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Why is the robot wearing Plimsolls? Compliance and/or friction at the contact surface?
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by santaclaus 9y ago
I've never heard Philly as considered Midwest. Northeast for sure [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Delaware is considered a southern state by the Census? Weird! It seems to have more in common with the New Jersey and New York than, say, South Carolina. Is it just an arbitrary Mason Dixon thing?
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by santaclaus 9y ago
LLVM recently got support for Fortran (through Flang), so Python 2 has at least 30 years to go...
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Aren't you the guy who writes all the graphics stuff in Go too? How do you find time to do all this???
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> conservatism in the middle and south of the state You don't even have to go to the middle or south of the state. Look at the current gnashing of teeth over marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
I've seen all the O(n^2) worst case algorithms that reduce to O(n) on nearly sorted lists used, for example, in sweep and prune algorithms in computational geometry.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
That would be so awesome, but even in the tech-centric bay I still come across lots of cash only places.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
What is to stop Universities from simply setting a super low tuition for funded PhD students to work around this?
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Autonomous delivery in cities? Amazon prime now deliveries via cute dog robot.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
I've seen OpenMP-based, non-BLAS implementations beat out MKL, on Intel hardware nonetheless. We emailed the MKL folks and they just shrugged. :) Don't presume that MKL is the lower limit on performance.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
IPAs keep getting better. The current New England IPA craze is a delicious thing.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Kingkiller Chronicles Sweet, maybe we'll get book 3 on TV before in print like Game of Thrones!
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Without density you can't have these in a walkable neighborhood. It takes X number of customers to support a grocery store (or a bodega, or a restaurant, etc). If you want one nearby, you need more people in a smaller geographic area.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> So far I see a lot of advocacy for housing density but no concerns for quality of life. I see density as correlated with quality of life. I want to be able to live near work (so no car needed), with easy access to restaurants, bars, mu
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Most of the opposition to housing I've seen in the Mission has been to infill. Look at the controversy over development at the 16th street mission BART station. This would be dense housing in an urban core literally on top of public tr
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Is there any actual evidence of "winning" outside the headline? The legislation that Scott Wiener was able to recently get through the state government, for one.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Using the San Francisco example from the article, renters are 62.5% of all households [1]. [1] http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty....
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by santaclaus 9y ago
So what is the NY Times' working definition of a 'tech company' here?
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> I have never seen a horse on an interstate or highway. Take a drive through Lancaster, PA. First time I saw a horse and buggy on the highway I was kind of freaked out.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> The midwest charged forward a large share of human innovation and large tech basically says: do not bother applying. UIUC, Wisconsin, Michigan are all awesome CS programs, with tons of alums in big tech companies.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
31% of San Franciscans are car free [1]. In 2015, at least, over 50% of trips in San Francisco were made without a personal car [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_... [2] https:/
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> It's as if we mostly care about reducing the visual appearance of the problem There are real public health consequences to high concentrations of people living without proper sanitation -- see the ongoing, major hepatitis outbreak

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