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by wting 6y ago
Company policy cannot overrule laws, but it is not illegal to put it in a contract. Companies put in things they can't enforce because it has the same effect of discouraging certain behaviors. A company's policy cannot prohibit em
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by wting 6y ago
FYI the new website is down ( http://new.reddit.com ) but the old website is still up ( http://old.reddit.com ). As others have stated, http://status.reddit.com will display uptime stats.
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by wting 6y ago
For those that use vim, gundo.vim visualizes the "undo-tree" and allows you to preview / jump to any revision: https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim
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by wting 6y ago
Excel has been dryly noted as the most popular functional programming language before: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3033912/functional-languag... In Excel you can't modify existing state in a cell, but o
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by wting 6y ago
Due Diligence
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by wting 6y ago
I was a professional poker player for ~5 years, and my wife—who has a much lower risk tolerance—asked that I never share variance with her since it causes quite a bit of anxiety. My daily numbers were in tens of thousands range rather than
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by wting 6y ago
>ECC is recommended but many people, myself included, have run many stable years without ECC. zfs requires ECC[0][1], do not skimp on this. I ran many zfs pools for >8 years without issues until silent memory corruption happened to me
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by wting 7y ago
If you're looking for an off the shelf solution, I turned an old Android phone into a baby monitor for keeping track of crying when I'm on the other side of the house. There's plenty of baby monitoring apps that do anomalous
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by wting 7y ago
I'm thankful for Hacker News and its community. I am successful largely in part because of the community and its discourse. I was introduced to the growth mentality when browsing this site back in 2010, and astonished by how open and h
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by wting 8y ago
I believe grandparent was referring to proactive raises. Reactive counter offer raises typically don't work because the employee's mind has been made up to leave. Compensation is usually only part of why someone decided to leave.
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by wting 8y ago
I fixed this problem for myself by automatically pulling down changes in the background upon opening a new terminal. Since checking on every terminal open is unnecessary, I check on a probabilistic basis based on how often the backing git r
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by wting 8y ago
Time based SLOs definitely have their limitations, but in this instance isn't it fairly easy to redefine the SLO in terms of requests rather than time?
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by wting 8y ago
>A lack of typing puts an upper bound on the complexity of the code that effectively limits the line-count and relegates the language to 'glue' status. I disagree. I work(ed) at two of the more famous Python shops: Yelp and Red
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by wting 8y ago
This causes issues when working with large data sets or running expensive operations, which is an advantage of modifying a single step independently from the rest.
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by wting 8y ago
How do non-engineers update documentation?
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by wting 9y ago
Reddit | Senior Rust Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, FULL-TIME We are porting Reddit-flavored Markdown parser from C to Rust and need someone to lead this project. This project will impact millions of users and pages. You should be c
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by wting 10y ago
10x is a measure of impact relative to others. From that definition, I have no doubt it exists. There's a couple ways to find 10x'ers: # A person that does things no one else can. A problem requires calculating taxes for an invoic
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by wting 10y ago
Japan has portable, artificial white noise makers for bathroom privacy. They're called otohime, or "sound princess." - video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0eqo6jU9gc - example gadget: http://ww
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by wting 11y ago
>> he's come upon difficult issues that would be avoided had he had a more comprehensive education . > he's come upon difficult issues that would be avoided had he had more experience . I vehemently disagree with this.
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by wting 11y ago
Rust used to have @ and ~ sigils* but they were removed for legibility reasons and difficulty typing on European keyboards. * For heap and owner pointers respectively.
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by wting 11y ago
Kinda late but I want to point out these snippets have different behaviors: if A and B: .. elif B: .. vs if A and B: .. elif A and not B: .. I prefer flattening because enumeration mak
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by wting 11y ago
Neither are abandoned, I think both projects are in a relatively stable state. Both projects also have the same basic functionality but different priorities. z aims to be dependency free and simplistic while autojump requires Python 2.6+ bu
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by wting 11y ago
CPython the implementation has a GIL; Python the language does not. Plenty of other implementations (PyPy, Jython, Cython) avoid having a GIL or have options to disable it. > If you wanted extreme performance Python is a lousy choice in
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by wting 11y ago
Here's a listing of Google H1B's base salary: http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=GOOGLE&job=SOFTWARE+ENGINEE... Keep in mind that equity makes up a relatively high percentage of a Googlers' compensation. Sa
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by wting 11y ago
Go is one of the few gc'ed languages that supports static linking[0]. As a result it can solve the same problems as Java / Python / etc but makes distribution significantly easier. [0] There's a whole bunch (Haskell, OCa
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by wting 11y ago
You become the goto guy / domain expert over enough things that most of your time is spent being interrupted or in meetings instead of building stuff.
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by wting 11y ago
Unfortunately Taylor does something similar with concert photographers (grants Taylor unlimited usage with a large scope, severely restricts photographers' usage): https://junction10.wordpress.com/2015/06/21&#
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OCaml 4.03 will, “if all goes well”, support multicore(sympa.inria.fr)
185 points by wting 11y ago|113 comments
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by wting 11y ago
Similar to Conway's Law: > Organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. — M. Conway
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by wting 11y ago
Unused variables have nothing to do with memory safety. At most they'll take up some stack or heap space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety Memory safety is enforced in Go via best practices–like C and C

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