tomlu

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by tomlu 7y ago
Is there a better option to reach beginner-intermediate level? I am going to have to learn French from scratch in about a month and I'm finding the prospect daunting.
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by tomlu 7y ago
Github is probably past the stage of premature optimization. Presume (for argument's sake) that we accept the premise that foreign keys do not scale. Then the question is whether there exists some sort of realistic migration strategy o
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by tomlu 7y ago
It might vary by state? CA DMV around the Bay Area is horrible, but New York is quite pleasant.
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by tomlu 7y ago
Every feature controls one "dimension" of a language, and can be freely combined with other features that control other "dimensions" without worrying about how they interact. I am quoting the word "dimension",
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by tomlu 7y ago
Don't you guys (which is definitely Facebook) use some sort of extensions that makes it not the same as a vanilla Mercurial repository?
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by tomlu 7y ago
Ruby isn't an approved language at Google, I haven't heard it being talked about almost at all. Python gets some dislike, and there are a few significant projects trying to get off it. As a blanket statement I don't think dyn
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by tomlu 7y ago
File a bug with a repro? Chances are it'll get fixed if your benchmark is good.
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by tomlu 7y ago
As a counterpoint I have contacted Google Fi support four times and was very happy with the level of service. Though it's possible that all the issues I had was within the scope of the first line of defence, and if you outside of that
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by tomlu 7y ago
This is probably the hardest setting, yet most people seemed to have no trouble getting 8/8.
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by tomlu 7y ago
I have met Fabien a few times at work, he is a lovely human being. I don't want to be too presumptuous and speak for him, but I don't think he cares about making a profit from this. He just likes to write and wants people to read
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by tomlu 8y ago
I have Australian citizenship, but fortunately I live abroad so I would just refuse. Good luck with that extradition numbnuts :)
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by tomlu 8y ago
If you double the size of pointers (64 bit, up from 32 bit) then your program will take up more heap. This is especially significant for languages where everything is a heap allocation.
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by tomlu 8y ago
You definitely do not want that. Vetted science should not go through a pipeline of what amounts to a low brow popularity contest. Hacker news might be somewhat better than reddit in this respect, but there's no way you want to subject
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by tomlu 8y ago
Fair points overall, except: > The stack-based C API is not comfortable to use. What is so uncomfortable about it? I think it's absolutely fantastic. There's nothing you can't do with it, and if you really want a heavyweig
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by tomlu 8y ago
But that's kind of my point. This is substantively different and is pretty serious. And no, I haven't seen any particularly unreasonable comments in this thread.
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by tomlu 8y ago
The suggestion from the link is that some people involved didn't fully understand what they were working on. And obviously they weren't able to keep word spreading in this case. But obviously a number of people must have known. I
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by tomlu 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google. I also think that there is an anti-Google bias on hacker news, holding Google to a standard not applied to others and taking any excuse to roll out the same old tired rants in response to almost any Google pos
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by tomlu 8y ago
I feel people confuse being blunt with being rude. "This patch is crap. Stupid this silly that, and how many times have I said you can't break userland." vs. "I won't accept this patch as-is, or possibly at all. It
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by tomlu 9y ago
Yeah, what gives? "We encrypted childporn.mpg with the password 'supersecure123', and once encrypted the file hash came out the same as one of the files. But we have no idea what his password is!"
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by tomlu 9y ago
> Is it still possible to reproduce everything accurately? Sound is linear, so yes. Any signal can be represented correctly as a sum of frequencies. > wouldn't higher bit depth increase the fidelity in the range the audio does fi
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by tomlu 9y ago
All my keys are on alpha keys, so pretty close to the home row. No worse that typing letters. As an aside, I developed my "snap" layout using a genetic algorithm run over the corpus of my programming career, then shifted around fo
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by tomlu 9y ago
Why do you need both snap and pop? I use something similar, but get by perfectly well with only one layer for all programming symbols. Seems your life would be a little easier if you didn't have to surrender another two keys for your p
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by tomlu 9y ago
Well there are situations where intrusive list pointers don't work well. If you don't control the class, then you simply can't put pointers in it. If most objects aren't ever in a list (eg. a million objects but only t
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by tomlu 10y ago
It should cost them employment talent, which should be a factor against them versus other employers with less toxic work cultures, all else being equal.
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by tomlu 10y ago
It's not really about adding up time saved, it's about staying in the flow. I think you can probably achieve that by being really good at almost any editor, but vim probably does it a little better than most and it has the advanta
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by tomlu 10y ago
I find this a bit defeatist. Estimating software projects is definitely possible, especially for less novel projects, and high-effort estimates will have higher fidelity than low-effort estimates. Few projects are truly novel. You can'
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by tomlu 10y ago
I work there. They've expanded a lot. If my reckoning is right Google occupies 8/15 floors completely, and occupy fractions of a couple more floors.
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by tomlu 10y ago
I'd guess there's a difference in kind that people get excited about. The fighter jet AI technique is hard-coded to a very specific problem domain, and could only be reproduced in a different problem domain by doing it from scratc
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by tomlu 10y ago
It's 2 spaces for everything here, even python. I don't like it and don't think I'll ever get used to it, like you say 2 is too little.
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by tomlu 10y ago
Super interesting, but the audio level is too quiet for my laptop even with everything set to max. Can it be downloaded from anywhere?

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