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by tylerhou 7y ago
As of ES5 010 must be parsed as 8 if you pass in a radix of 0.
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by tylerhou 7y ago
> Numpy and Scipy are, I'm going to bet, mostly C. You'd be surprised; About 25% of SciPy (much of the numerical computing portions) are in FORTRAN. It turns out that decades of compiler/numerical computing research has ma
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by tylerhou 7y ago
Not sure if this is serious, but if it is, I assume it's because the -o suffix has a masculine connotation in Spanish but not Latin/English (where Afro comes from).
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by tylerhou 7y ago
I think it is more commonly used among younger people. For example, here is the 50th anniversary celebration for the Afro-Latinx Society at my high school: https://www.exonians.exeter.edu/s/1682/index.aspx?sid=1682
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by tylerhou 7y ago
> At the end of the day, revenue-per-share is pretty indifferent to age, race, or gender. Except, as the article shows, diversity often does increase revenue share. Flamin' hot cheetos were invented by a Mexican immigrant who real
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by tylerhou 7y ago
I don’t think 1100 tickets is enough to cover all combinations of 4 numbers, but I don’t know the original lottery number range so I’m not sure.
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by tylerhou 7y ago
But which set of tickets do you buy?
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by tylerhou 7y ago
> Better to discuss position attained by some age I know a SWE at Google who is <20 and does not have a degree. So it certainly is possible, and it implies that you don't need 10+ years of experience to break into FAANG without
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by tylerhou 7y ago
Yes, WSJ too
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by tylerhou 7y ago
It’s fine in the sense that a fighter jet can glide for quite a while and even land without engines. If that’s not possible, the pilot can steer it to crash in a remote area and the pilot can escape.
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by tylerhou 7y ago
TBH the linked update is a pretty accurate summary of the postmortem in my opinion.
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by tylerhou 7y ago
Bots might be smart enough to uncheck that from the label; maybe text near the top of the form that says “please uncheck the checkbox near the submit button”?
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by tylerhou 7y ago
You could go on the level of Apple - hardware security chip with presigned bootloader + a chain of trust to boot the OS, and the private key stored in a secure enclave. Then generate a cert for every second of video or so and embed it into
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by tylerhou 7y ago
The compiler is smart enough to deduce lifetimes — that’s why it can throw a compile error — but fixing them (auto-keeping temporaries) might introduce extra memory consumption/leaks that the programmer did not intend. Requiring the
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by tylerhou 7y ago
I mean, it's not just a theory -- Tile uses BLE to track devices around a city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tile_(company) > The application can locate Tiles beyond the 100-foot Bluetooth range, using "c
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by tylerhou 7y ago
> It kinda costs you, actually, you just don't see it. Except not: see Matt Levine's explanation: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-16/carl-i... The conclusion: > So by sellin
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by tylerhou 7y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02818 Disclaimer: I work at Google.
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by tylerhou 7y ago
And even for CPU bound programs, if your CPU is running non-Python code (e.g. numpy functions that call to FORTRAN/C) then CPython threads still work.
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by tylerhou 7y ago
> After hours of combing through frames of the memory profiler and seeing only highly concurrent framework calls the only solution was to paginate the particular content. 99% of the users never had this issue but it was 1-2 customers who
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by tylerhou 7y ago
> In my experience, as your app grows, the amount of time you spend on dom reconciliation becomes negligible compared to your own business logic. In this case, having a framework like React (especially with concurrent mode) will really h
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by tylerhou 7y ago
From the paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-... > We rely on Shamir’s t-out-of-n Secret Sharing [50], which allows a user to split a secret s into n shares, such that any t shares can be u
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by tylerhou 7y ago
Sorry -- I misremembered the story. But as another commenter notes, it's routine for women to not know they are pregnant [0]. So my claim is not "absurd", and I don't feel any need to "reflect" on my actions. T
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by tylerhou 7y ago
Why do you assume that retail companies are not looking at data already? Target was (in)famously able to predict that a teenager was pregnant before she herself knew based on her shopping habits. It's entirely possible that retail co
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by tylerhou 7y ago
IIRC not tax/dependency status; in order to be free from parents’ income you need to be above 24, emancipated from your parents, a ward of the court, etc.. source: https://www.fastweb.com/financial-aid/articles&#x2
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by tylerhou 7y ago
I'm really uncertain about a huge JavaScript runtime on mobile -- seems like an energy waste/slow code. Dart's AOT story the Cupertino wrappers for iOS in Flutter really excite me. Disclaimer: I work for Google; all opinions
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by tylerhou 7y ago
> s/Fuschia/Fuchsia/ And also it hints that you don't know what are you writing about. Is this necessary? Also, you definitely shouldn't be throwing stones while living in a glass house. s/mobiles/mobil
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by tylerhou 7y ago
https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services Around the same time as Microsoft. So it might have been a regional internet outage. Here is screenshot for posterity: https://i.imgur.com/dHnD6BO
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by tylerhou 7y ago
AWS was also down for a bit
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by tylerhou 8y ago
> Our research showed (not surprisingly) that, no matter what kind of organization we studied, everybody wanted to work with the lovable star, and nobody wanted to work with the incompetent jerk. Things got a lot more interesting, though
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by tylerhou 8y ago
Last time I checked, many tech billionaires did not take huge risks. Zuck and Gates were already at Harvard, and they could always return there if FB/Microsoft failed (with upper-middle class families to fund their education). Page and

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