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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
I've noticed this regarding companies I've worked at too. When it involves any knowledge that wouldn't be available to the public, people on HN spout plausible-sounding theories as though they're fact, but they actually
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
Lux perpetua luceat ei. I studied with Reggie during several of the summer sessions in Rome starting in 1998, and dedicated my edition+translation of a 16th-century treatise to him. He really transformed Latin into a living language for tho
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
Nothing new, engineered, or special about it, that's a bog-standard Dutch accent.
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
When I was a kid I absolutely preferred Sierra's adventure games, especially the King's Quest series. They were so much more sincere and aesthetic, while the Lucasarts ones were more cartoony and full of corny jokes that broke the
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
"Episerver" is basically private equity right? Optimizely took ~$200M in funding, and Episerver was traded between PE firms in 2018 for $1.1B. Doesn't sound like a great outcome for Optimizely employees...
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
Over the years that I published (in a humanities field), I was astonished by the rapid decline in copy editing quality at even top publishers like Oxford University Press. They stopped budgeting for specialists, and started contracting out
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
Not without increasing capacity of professors, TAs, and administrators, and then the facilities to support all that new staff. Campus facilities for students is only one part of the cost structure.
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
Yeah, aggregate service stats are a good start but can get very noisy (e.g. highly skewed by errors uncorrelated with broad user impact). This is an article that provides a nice intro to user-based monitoring approaches, which i'll bet
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by tdumitrescu 6y ago
I agree with your frustrations around this limitation and think file watchers should do their best to support arbitrary file addition/removal in directories. That being said, the races do matter when you edit with "mammal speed&qu
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
This used to be my ringtone back in the days before everything went on vibrate. Got a lot of pained expressions from people!
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
What a weird polemic. "With Google WebComponents here we mean the use of CustomElements and Shadow DOM, especially when used in combination, and in dynamically created document structures (e.g. using module loading/unloading and&#
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
Here's what isaacs writes in the NPM blog post ( https://blog.npmjs.org/post/612764866888007680/next-phase-mo... ). It doesn't seem like anyone on the NPM team did great financially from this: "I have
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
I don't know about it feeling empty and strangely hollow. I've sung in plenty of very large cathedral spaces, and even when they're packed with people they're still immensely resonant, sometimes to the detriment of the m
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
I sang on this CD. The NPR piece linked here appears to be based on a segment we did a few years later for Pop-Up Magazine in Oakland. An interesting technological tidbit that they didn't mention is the use of contact mics for recreati
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
Yes, we have a Selenium-based UI test suite at Mixpanel that's overall quite stable and runs all tests across several browsers. It tests strictly the front-end code, with API calls stubbed out, which is the biggest factor in maintainin
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
A used but modern Mini Cooper is not that expensive. In 2012 I bought a 2008 with 20K miles on it for $15K, and it's been a super reliable car, real joy to drive. I also have a 1967 Pontiac, and THAT thing is enormous. There were a lot
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
Erm... wasn't that South Park episode explicitly about San Francisco, not Hollywood?
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
Yugo = you go on foot
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
In general, don't send out cold applications. Use the internet tools at your disposal and find someone inside each company that you're interested in, whether it's an in-house technical recruiter, engineering manager, or even
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
> Github took a $50M Series A on a valuation of $500M; VCs owned 10% of the company, and the 3 founders + employees split the remaining 90% of its $7.5B acquisition. They raised another $250M in 2015. Still a lot less funding than they u
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
))<>(( (back and forth, forever)
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
For those in the Bay Area, a pretty great local spot is The Junction, out in the wilderness between San Jose and...Livermore. Take 130 east out of SJ over some pretty rustic and gorgeous hill country, past the observatory, and eventually yo
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
Why are digital downloads not similarly 'forever'? Do WAVs and MP3s have DRM capabilities? Asking legitimately - for any new vinyl that I buy I use the download codes that come with albums rather than ripping them manually, as it&
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
At least he plows it back into his industry... "Since 2013, Mr. Neumann has bought four homes in and around New York City and last year paid $21 million for a 13,000-square-foot house in the Bay Area with a guitar-shaped room."
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
Followup by the same author, "I spent all of my millions. This is what I learned": https://hackernoon.com/i-spent-all-of-my-millions-this-is-wh...
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
Absolutely. I'm always a bit anxious because I haven't digitized most of my records (i.e. made backups of the music at least) but I can't imagine getting rid of the physical objects even once I have. It was such a huge part o
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
My HS in central NJ had neither windows in the classrooms, nor WALLS. It was designed like a giant open office bullpen thing and classes were supposed to congregate in vaguely defined areas. By the time I got there in the early 90s, they ha
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
When I started learning more languages as an adult, I found that the biggest accelerator for me personally was likewise to read novels, even if they were way beyond my nominal skill level. The first 50-100 pages would be slow grinding, look
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by tdumitrescu 7y ago
FWIW the server in question is really simple. It has since been ported to Golang, which has become one of Mixpanel's primary languages (alongside Python and JS/TS).
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by tdumitrescu 8y ago
> Some people are taking classic cars and converting them to electric power This is one of my dreams! I own an awesome 67 Pontiac wagon which is a lot of fun, but after decades of riding in modern vehicles you just can't help notici

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