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by seangrogg 5y ago
I'd imagine in this case it's more a matter of liquidity. It's one thing to say you have a million dollars to your name. The difference is that one person has to sell everything they own to command that value while someone el
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by seangrogg 5y ago
That's actually super cool; I wish I had more reasons to reach for Rust on a regular basis but this is definitely something I'll keep in mind should I ever get the opportunity to use Rust in any capacity.
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by seangrogg 5y ago
I do think it's a bit telling that we have a lot of automated software that exists to help us style our code, but there doesn't seem to be nearly as much investment in documenting code. Simple things like a linter that yells at yo
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by seangrogg 6y ago
#Mind
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by seangrogg 6y ago
> In the meantime, the computers still work business hours and take off weekends for some reason. They're just making sure they can avoid needing to pay their computers overtime when they get worker's rights. /s
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by seangrogg 6y ago
WebRTC datagrams could be used for this purpose, however it would likely add a lot of annoying complexity to the back end (dealing with STUN/TURN).
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by seangrogg 6y ago
While I imagine it could easily be nitpicked in some fashion, it could be the case that automation values/milestones/something were used to determine the total amount to be distributed evenly among citizens (rather than an arbitra
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by seangrogg 6y ago
Anecdotally, I wanted to leave the city for a long time but not lose the pay. While I have no statistics at my disposal, I've also seen a non-trivial number of HNers who shared a similar view (though I likely have cognitive biases towa
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by seangrogg 6y ago
I can confirm that the seeming majority of application-layer code written at Google is Java (with Go being a relatively small contributor by way of comparison). That said, I shudder at the thought of Java being any larger than it is, much l
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by seangrogg 6y ago
I want to preface this with the fact that I do think that the Wichita swatting incident was a heinous crime and that those involved (both the hoaxers and the intended victim) were truly despicable people each in their own way. That said, at
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by seangrogg 6y ago
There's evidence of academic stress leading to suicide. Does that infer a causal link between academia and violence?
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by seangrogg 6y ago
To take this even further, with the increasing popularity of games, if violent video games were linked to violence itself we should theoretically see pronounced numbers of streaming personalities (at least those involved in competitive game
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by seangrogg 6y ago
Having formerly worked on 20% projects at Google and now working at a small company, I'd say that 20% time can be valuable at any size. For smaller companies it's easy to essentially always have feature work which means never real
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by seangrogg 6y ago
I can agree with this. Previously (at Google, Sunnyvale) I was paying $1,700 for my share of a 2x2 apartment with a one-way commute of 20 minutes during odd hours to over an hour during peak hours. This gave me a desk in an open floor plan
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by seangrogg 6y ago
What is protection/affection from one perspective can be captivity from another.
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by seangrogg 6y ago
Because taking a drink from a bottle is perhaps a bit more crowd-friendly than opening a can of sardines when you're at a grocery store, hospital, gym, etc.
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by seangrogg 6y ago
Marginal tax rate (which is specified) is at least how much you'd owe on every dollar of income after. Average tax rate is how much tax you actually paid against income.
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by seangrogg 6y ago
I feel like vehicles personal vehicles will be considered a societal-engineering blunder when we have personal teleportation available as an alternative.
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by seangrogg 6y ago
I do feel that this is a multifaceted problem. On one hand, yes, end-user expectations have gone up. Back in the early naughts it was perfectly fine to wait ~8 seconds for an image to load block by block, kicking around the layout and conte
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by seangrogg 6y ago
Came here to say just this. While I'm glad to see that research is finally culminating in investment and assembly we shouldn't be committing to this project just because people put time and effort into it.
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by seangrogg 6y ago
You have the wrong take-away if you think the performance points were what I was actually focused on. The HN community largely rails against the use of JS anywhere, even if not using JS would make things much more difficult. Therefore, it&#
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by seangrogg 6y ago
Gotcha. Thanks for taking the time to look! It does seem like it was made to be easy to visually parse but it still feels like the delimiter choice has been something of historical baggage (to the point where just changing the delimiter its
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by seangrogg 6y ago
It is rather ironic that the chief complaints about JS are how it makes things bloated and unresponsive, yet this is 100x the size of http://www.play-minesweeper.com and the time to interactivity is recognizable by comparison. T
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by seangrogg 6y ago
Wait, seriously? Interesting. Can you link me to something that demonstrates that was intended rather than a quirk of the simple format? I always thought it was chosen since it was a seemingly sensible delimiter at first glance and then you
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by seangrogg 6y ago
By then they'll wonder how we did anything useful online in under 8 petabytes, given their state of affairs now involves all sites registered within the multiverse-DNS to include mandated state surveillance payloads. And because ads.
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by seangrogg 6y ago
You don't get promoted for removing actions. And now to drink away that depressing thought.
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by seangrogg 6y ago
While I share the sentiment that tech workers would likely leave tech hubs that doesn't mean they'd do it for homes in the country. There are plenty of other cities to choose from whose values may resonate stronger with them than
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by seangrogg 6y ago
Anecdotal, but I was actively looking to get out of FAANG for a fully WFH position and managed to get one. About a month and a half later - with my lease coming due - I left San Jose. No need to pay the exorbitant rent and taxes and get pea
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by seangrogg 6y ago
But requires a lot of mucking around with STUN/TURN/ICE, which is far less desirable than just "send UDP packets to a browser".
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by seangrogg 6y ago
Ex-googler here: While the "blessed languages" still exist in a way, it's mostly about not really needing to explain the language choice when considering/pitching a project. Choosing a different language (such as Haskell

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