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by wrsh07 7y ago
I'm not going to downvote you but this is pretty joyless Just because the writing is not up to your standards doesn't mean the kid wasn't astonished when they realized you could put a function in a function. Kids love meta st
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I don't think this is a particularly interesting take. Google's utility c++ library isn't that different from eg underscore.js (or lodash) Google uses some boost code and plenty of other external libraries (I can't speak
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by wrsh07 7y ago
> Gmail was a success from the beginning Interestingly, I don't think that was obvious from inside the company. Maybe some day this will be declassified by one of the early PMs or engineers, it's a great story.
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by wrsh07 7y ago
I had this same fear as I left Google, but it turns out that a great ide (eg anything by jetbrains) can take you quite far. It's a different work flow, but you simply don't need cs/ when your code base is orders of magnitude
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by wrsh07 7y ago
I really want to see this used as an opportunity - not like "how can we recoup our losses by doubling the number of ads shown per game," rather "what cool things can we do with drones or cameras or mics or any other element o
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by wrsh07 7y ago
I would love to see teachers take a page out of programming twitch streamers book and get proper live streaming setups I don't know that twitch is the best platform (honestly, it might be! It's used for this every day at a much la
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This is often the case for many companies acquiring the marginal customer, because the ones for whom it is a good fit will find it first (very cheap to acquire - they're looking for you). Then there are customers who only need a trial
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by wrsh07 7y ago
I've been working on a legacy internal python system that suffers from most of the complaints here (and in the excellent COST paper Rachel links at the bottom). The problems alluded to are, yes, solvable in python. But they also seem e
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Startup Option Value Calculator(valuation.vc)
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by wrsh07 7y ago
This is an excellent mental trick and I would love to be able to configure gradually increasing latencies as I sit on the internet for an extended duration
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by wrsh07 7y ago
I think it's also worth noting that requiring an ordering is preventing a performance optimization This doesn't impact most high level python code, and an OrderedDict is a very reasonable default. But there's a reason why Goo
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by wrsh07 7y ago
Is that true of nuclear winter or a major impact event? Wouldn't either of those render the Earth temporarily uninhabitable? Is the argument that it would be easy enough to build on Earth places to survive such events rather than going
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by wrsh07 7y ago
This advice seems fine but not great for salary negotiation. In general, because of the information asymmetry and extreme advantage the employer has over the employee, accepting a weak offer can mean leaving over 30% on the table, and that
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by wrsh07 7y ago
I'm honestly quite confused why they can't revert to a "dumb" speaker mode and then provide a proprietary Chromecast equivalent that only works with their speakers that can be trivially replaced This would mean that if y
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by wrsh07 7y ago
If you somehow don't think there will be accountability for an individual employee who misuses PII, we are living in two very different worlds. You must understand that even a single employee doing this is such a breech of brand trus
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by wrsh07 7y ago
I'm much more concerned about executive accountability than I am about individual employee accountability at a company with as much political power as, say, Google. Unions are a way of balancing executive power. (I don't think the
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by wrsh07 7y ago
+1, Google suggests doing this as well: https://abseil.io/tips/112 > So in general, if both push_back() and emplace_back() would work with the same arguments, you should prefer push_back(), and likewise for insert()
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by wrsh07 7y ago
This is true, but GamePass makes this somewhat interesting. It's sort of like Netflix buying a high production value show that serves a limited audience. People with GamePass will get to try it, and people in the niche might get GamePa
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by wrsh07 7y ago
See "past tasks": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICFP_Programming_Contest
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by wrsh07 7y ago
The parent I'm responding to is trying to suggest that giving entities more powerful than yourself (eg better funded) doesn't help them. That's obviously bs, and that's what I was responding to.
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Easy counter example: cockroach labs & Amazon Why did cockroach decide on their new business license?
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This seems especially problematic given that many residential users don't know when something is taking significantly more data. Eg my sister was surprised by how much of her quota was used by her Amazon fire stick
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by wrsh07 8y ago
Honestly, for most people, an effective model is to think of it like a sport. It's something people obsess over, can impact their emotions and otherwise is pretty harmless
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by wrsh07 8y ago
One of these things is not like the other Astrology outbreaks are not a concern of mine Even when the moon is in retrograde
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by wrsh07 8y ago
I think it removes a lot of the friction of launching single page apps. It does more than that, but that's an easy pitch from my perspective.
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by wrsh07 8y ago
Sorry,I didn't see this until now. Thanks for the response! I had misread your second point, thinking "housing crisis" was about prices being too high. For tech companies: a huge number of major tech cos have offices in NYC.
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by wrsh07 8y ago
It's very weird to me that a team of researchers who are credibly doing good work and are making an effort to clearly explain their research garners such suspicion. Are you similarly skeptical of Deepmind, Distill, or Two Minute Papers
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by wrsh07 8y ago
This is a little ridiculous. 1) Subway: yes, it needs major infrastructure investments. It isn't crumbling - isn't that a little melodramatic? 2) I call BS. Housing prices in most neighborhoods in NYC have deceased over the past y
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by wrsh07 8y ago
It's a bit ridiculous to call people who downvoted an incorrect and unjustified statement "anti science" If the original post had contained the link yours does, that would be one thing entirely. Instead, neither post invites
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by wrsh07 8y ago
A few points: If you don't want to deal with begin/end, there are lots of utility libraries, and there's not much reason to standardize it. For example, here is Google's wrapper library (disclosure: my employer) that tak

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