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by tgma 3y ago
That comparison seems quite cherry picked. Unlikely that it is generalizable. In my tests with Mojo, it doesn’t seem to behave like Python at all so far. Once they add the dynamism necessary we can see where they land. I’m still optimistic
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by tgma 3y ago
Somehow BYD is the product of free market in a way that GM isn’t? I think that’s a ridiculous characterization for any Chinese company operating at scale.
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by tgma 3y ago
This is not a question that warrants much abstract analysis. Only relevant if you have simultaneous offers or work at one of the companies and get an offer at the other and are faced with the concrete numbers and a choice. Me personally wou
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by tgma 3y ago
Definitely more than 10 years behind Google and probably going to stay shit for foreseeable future based on their hiring patterns and pay. Apple routinely claims they can underpay new hires compared to Google and Facebook and they have to a
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by tgma 3y ago
This. I am actually super interested and positive about Mojo but I can't take the title seriously. Not even close. As is, it is basically a yet another new (completely distinct language from Python) that looks and feels kind of like
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by tgma 4y ago
Swift already imported Python code in a similar fashion. Feels like this is a more Pythonic syntax for Swift and likely carries over all the underlying goodness. [FWIW, folks waiting for this should also look at Cython, which is different,
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by tgma 4y ago
Anecdotally, even in Tesla heavy Northern California supercharger wait times are often zero or close to zero unless you consistently hit the peak times. I don’t know if you have stats or bad first hand experience or simply generalizing repo
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by tgma 4y ago
Specifically the author is talking about a non-Tesla EV, one that had the known defect of lack of a proper charging infrastructure at point of purchase. Nothing to see here. [Talking about Teslas and “EVs” as if they are the same category
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by tgma 4y ago
No defending of DRM but to claim advertisement is net negative for a society is quite a stretch. Ask a small business who gets economic opportunity.
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by tgma 4y ago
This is a perplexing attitude that’s common in our field. Somehow the field at large is creating the best teacher, doctor, entertainer, communication tools, and makes it available to everyone for low cost and some think they are less import
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by tgma 4y ago
Once they get an actual MSFT offer with comparably peanuts in $$$ they'll no longer think the same :) Not to mention imagining having to write design docs in web based Microsoft Word.
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by tgma 4y ago
LRU Cache
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by tgma 4y ago
I’d posit that a UWaterloo grad who landed a job at Google is close to maximally likely to end up working on something like that [acknowledging that in absolute terms relatively few college grads do so.]
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by tgma 4y ago
> rather than by using robust canned implementations And who is supposed to implement the robust canned implementation ?
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by tgma 4y ago
I did not mean to imply you in particular did not watch it. The way this observation often gets quoted is extremely misleading (often intentionally so, as the first piece without the second is much more sensationalistic) and needs an explic
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by tgma 4y ago
If you watch the Peter Norvig link you shared on YouTube he actually interprets the phenomenon quite clearly: the statistic reported is only true for the subsample of people who get hired and absolutely not true for the general candidate
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by tgma 4y ago
> it is also not positively correlated Do you seriously think that claim is true? That coin toss predicts software engineering ability as well as leetcode? I don’t think any reasonable person can take this seriously.
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by tgma 4y ago
Pretty much every good programmer I know, senior or not, will have no problem solving this unless they have a particularly bad day or brain fart; at worst, they may take slightly more time remembering/reinventing aspects of a trie to w
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by tgma 4y ago
Actually there was a period when they dropped Mac altogether and called it "OS X" (Mountain Lion era)
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by tgma 4y ago
Has assets? Sure. Has liabilities?
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by tgma 4y ago
It really isn't though. Sure, at some level of abstraction, someone, somewhere, will have to pay for it, but this is clearly distinct from one's capacity as a taxpayer. All banks, however, benefit from the trust in banking system
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by tgma 4y ago
US historically was much more into "unlimited" plans vs pay-per-use was/is more of a common thing in poorer countries. That may explain the prevalence of SMS in the US.
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by tgma 4y ago
I wonder how much patent licensing from ASML, Applied Materials, and Lam Research contribute to the cost even if you want to have a go at it alone.
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by tgma 4y ago
It can be distinguished via its client IP and port.
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by tgma 4y ago
Separate socket; does not mean a separate [server] port.
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by tgma 4y ago
It’s good to put a number out for people who don’t know: I estimate ~500/month for the employer portion for an individual coverage. Whether that’s considered “God awful” or “peanuts” is dependent on one’s situation but most probably fo
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by tgma 4y ago
People keep talking about this as if it is preACA. With COBRA you can keep your health insurance for a while and you can get similar plans from the exchanges. It shouldn’t be a huge deal considering the severance frequently also includes so
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by tgma 4y ago
Xoomies?
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by tgma 4y ago
Presumably they could be used. The point is it is not a direct dealership business. I am not even sure if the used parts are fed from primarily from the trade-in pipeline (as opposed to AppleCare/warranties). I’m totally speculating h
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by tgma 4y ago
Apple refurbished is not even close to selling used by say an eBay seller. They basically remanufacture the product outer components and batteries.

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