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by tsycho 8y ago
Is the recycling of spent radioactive material a solved problem? I was under the impression that it had to be stored very carefully for very long periods of time. Unless I am wrong, why is nuclear power considered clean? Wouldn't somet
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by tsycho 8y ago
To play Devil’s Advocate: How is this different from being a market maker? I am presuming that if the customer actually made money, these guys would pay them from their own pocket. Or alternately, assuming zero or low enough transaction cos
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by tsycho 8y ago
Totally agree that generics in objective c are very bare. And that's what frustrates me the most. Apple/Lattner could have improved them, but chose not to, by focusing all their energy on Swift. "Simple" things I want fr
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by tsycho 8y ago
Meanwhile, Waymo is expanding into self-driving trucks, saw them on 101.
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by tsycho 8y ago
It's not just devops that you need to pull off a large monorepo; the other big thing is a strong testing culture. You have to be able to rely on unit tests from across the code base being a sufficient indicator of whether your commit i
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by tsycho 8y ago
I know that the actual system is currently terrible in many places, wherein the recycle and trash are mixed together and re-sorted by humans. Ignoring that for the moment... There are some practical reasons for recycle bins, or at least for
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by tsycho 8y ago
It was amusing to read John (Daring Fireball) Gruber's posts accusing Google of lying on State at I/O, and making up the demo phone calls. A simple question to ask would have been: What would Google gain by lying? And how much mor
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by tsycho 8y ago
If foo:SomeType is problematic, let’s just use foo::SomeType instead. I agree with the parent that inline types are much nicer and more intuitive than he sig based approach.
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by tsycho 8y ago
I don't know if I would be comfortable with TSA agents patting down my 5 year old daughter either; so even if you legally had a choice, it wasn't a great one :(
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by tsycho 8y ago
Hmm, maybe different people have different contracts. In our case, the 1 yr cliff was about the signing bonus, not the vesting.
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by tsycho 8y ago
Google has done this for at least 6 years now, I don't know when they started doing this. Source: Spouse works at Google
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by tsycho 9y ago
The article inconsistently uses Latner and the correct spelling, Lattner. Does no one proof-read these things?
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by tsycho 9y ago
Luke Wroblewski https://mobile.twitter.com/lukew
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by tsycho 9y ago
It's open source. Even if they abandon it, it doesn't go away. If it turns out to be good tech, others will maintain it.
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by tsycho 9y ago
I was surprised he missed another alternative, quick already fits some of the other companies under Ben's own Aggregation Theory.[1] Spotify could try to become a music label and audio itself, by expanding to lesser known artists in pa
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by tsycho 9y ago
You can't. The Green card quotas are based upon country of birth, not country of citizenship.
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by tsycho 9y ago
Google did that (actually took an even stronger stance). But if competitors don't do the same, then nothing changes and you are just ceding the market to them. To be clear, I am not advocating that companies should bow down on their pr
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by tsycho 9y ago
I wish they would just make the ad-hoc distribution mechanism actually useful, by extending the expiration to say, 1 year. This would make it easier for students/hobbyists/indies etc. to build apps for their own devices. Current
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by tsycho 9y ago
Haha, that's why I have been using a made up "mother's maiden" name for the past 5 years!
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by tsycho 9y ago
Because it is very very difficult. 1. The spouse needs to get offered a job, and have the employer file for a H1B on their behalf. 2. They can't start working until the H1B has been approved. So the employer has to be willing to hold t
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by tsycho 9y ago
Good article with actionable advice. I wonder if anyone has good templates to do something like this for technical docs for libraries.
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by tsycho 9y ago
> There are some minor caveats One of the "minor caveats" is that the app only runs on your own device for max 1 week, after which it will have to be reinstalled via Xcode. Which basically makes this useless even if all you w
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by tsycho 9y ago
Why did the guy in the car come out? Wouldn't it be safer to stay in the car as protection against things falling on your head?
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by tsycho 9y ago
My biggest problem with Airbnb is opaque pricing at the search page. They will claim a room is say $250/night, but after fees, taxes and cleaning charges, it might be $400/night. Cleaning charges in particular can vary widely. Eve
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by tsycho 9y ago
Other commenters have commented on how the data is biased/cherry picked, and Google would have a different take on the market share numbers. However, it might be more to Google's benefit to say nothing and use this as evidence of
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Google relaunches Glass for businesses(blog.x.company)
484 points by tsycho 9y ago|264 comments
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by tsycho 9y ago
Off topic, but I found it interesting that James Corey's Expanse series also has "Belters"
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by tsycho 9y ago
Google Photos "shared libraries" looks awesome!
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by tsycho 9y ago
I agree. iOS doesn't let you change the default browser or the default maps app for instance since they have a competing product.
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Swift architecture at Uber(skilled.io)
305 points by tsycho 9y ago|144 comments

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