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by weareconvo 13y ago
Or just "heavy flagging"... it's a little ridiculous to claim that everyone who hates Microsoft is a Google fan. Microsoft did enough to earn my eternal contempt before Google even existed.
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by weareconvo 13y ago
You are most definitely the only one. And judging from your comment history, you also like Windows 8, so rest assured that your opinions are far, far outside the mainstream.
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by weareconvo 13y ago
True, but in this case, they were, because she was blowing something up... not conducting a science experiment. Which was the point of his post.
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by weareconvo 13y ago
Okay, as much as I hate syntactic sugar... that's pretty freakin awesome.
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by weareconvo 13y ago
List comprehensions as a programming technique are incredibly useful, don't get me wrong. I am just not a fan of syntactic sugar in general. EDIT: On a more elaborate note, I think that the extreme variety of programming styles enabled by H
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by weareconvo 13y ago
Haskell person here... I personally find Haskell list comprehensions to be ridiculously ugly, and are an unnecessary bit of syntactic sugar over the List Monad.
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by weareconvo 13y ago
No, but I would like to hastily assure you that it is solely because I am a coward when it comes to NDA issues.
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by weareconvo 13y ago
Absolutely the best questions to ask in interviews, in my opinion, are open-ended questions. The problem with those, however, is that the interviewer himself has to know enough to be able to correctly judge whether the candidate's answer is
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by weareconvo 13y ago
Did interviews for 5+ years at Google... the real problem is that there's no uniformity to the hiring process. I was allowed to just make up my own questions and judge candidates based on those. And I did so. And admittedly, the questions I
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by weareconvo 13y ago
Maybe they feel that if they sue enough people, they'll earn enough money to stay afloat for another year.
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by weareconvo 13y ago
What's the full story? Why was he detained? Is he actually a terrorist? There can't possibly be absolutely no other side to this story.
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by weareconvo 13y ago
Maybe they really hate exercise.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
That's a good point, though protocol buffers aren't used for everything. There's more tightly-bound systems stuff going on, plus libraries and so forth. Which is to say, I have no idea.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
In addition to the difficulty of rewriting existing code, even when you program something new at Google, you'd be a fool not to leverage what infrastructure already exists. If you try to do that while at the same time writing the new projec
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by weareconvo 14y ago
> Do you work at Google? I did for over 5 years. While I left before the Go programming language was released, I seriously doubt they've transitioned much of the codebase to it, for one simple reason: The Google codebase is fucking mass
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Go is not some side-project started by a mid-level engineer. This is Rob Pike and Ken Thompson we're talking about. They're demi-gods, even at Google.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Maybe some bitcoins being shuffled around in the exchange?
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by weareconvo 14y ago
You guys nailed it - Mitch's joke was indeed what I was thinking of when I wrote the comment.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Quite a few of the transactions on bitcoinity are actually cached mtgox pages pulled from cloudflare, which accounts for the fake $180 fluctuations.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
I mean... where else is the data going to come from? The future?
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by weareconvo 14y ago
I didn't mean legally, I meant morally. Don't her complaints about having her work co-opted by Disney when that work co-opted Alice wholesale ring a little false to anybody else?
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by weareconvo 14y ago
And didn't she, in turn, steal the idea of Alice from Lewis Carroll?
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Maybe they were buying a news story.
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by weareconvo 14y ago
> Kobo says American startups like to develop products without the "impure" influence of monetization, "but [in China] the development of a good product isn’t even thought of in the beginning," he says. "Chinese web companies have a tot
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by weareconvo 14y ago
I can't even count the number of times I've attempted to block every variant of "w3schools".
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Right, but the great thing about a compiled language like Dart is that it can detect at compile-time which modules aren't being used and then exclude those from the js output. Except, it doesn't seem to ever do that. EDIT: Well, technically
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Okay, but um, why did minify not get rid of the module i wasn't even using?
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by weareconvo 14y ago
> You don't say if you used the 'dart2js --minify' setting I did. I'm no stranger to Closure Compiler, and even after fiddling around with ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS for an hour, those ridiculous $variables persisted. What was even weirder
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by weareconvo 14y ago
Yesterday, I rewrote one of my JS modules into Dart, and it ended up being about 10 lines of code with only two modules imported. Then I compiled it to JS, and it was over 120k. I tried for about an hour to get that down to a reasonable siz
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by weareconvo 14y ago
You mean to tell me that even in the Functional Programming world, there are still tradeoffs between memory and performance to consider?

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