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by yonran 12y ago
What? I just looked it up[1]. The common core math standard looks very readable and reasonable, and it’s not even very big (93 pages). Is there anything in particular that you found confusing, inappropriate, or overly prescriptive? For exam
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by yonran 13y ago
You may be right that supporters of Prop 8 wished to deny those benefits (hospital visit rights, joint custody, tax bracket, community property), but Prop 8 itself did none of the above. Gays (but not straight couples, at least until age 62
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by yonran 13y ago
In the counterfactual world in which Eric Schmidt were aware that the no-poach agreements might be violating antitrust laws, I doubt that the outcome between Apple and Google would have been any different. Google and Apple had a friendly bu
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by yonran 13y ago
The collusion allegations sound serious, but I believe the pando.com article has a couple misunderstandings and is overly sensationalist: 1. It is not illegal for a company to have its own “Do Not Cold Call” list. If you know that poaching
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by yonran 13y ago
There’s also the Chrome extension autocomplete=on from a Chromium author: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autocomplete-on/ec...
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by yonran 13y ago
Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen Haber made a similar point in a recent EconTalk interview discussing their book Fragile by Design. When the US government wants to promote a populist cause (college, home ownership, farms), it is easier to
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by yonran 13y ago
The months and days of week are 0-indexed. The dates of month are 1-indexed. Same as javascriopt. You always have to be careful with this API, but it helps to remember that they return an index in an array for the items that have a name in
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by yonran 13y ago
I believe local extensions will be disallowed on stable and beta channel on Windows, according to the blog post. I think this means that on the stable channel on Windows, there will no longer be a “Developer mode” in chrome://ex
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by yonran 13y ago
This master’s thesis does provide some evidence that shuttle stops are correlated with localized rent increases. This is a survey rather than an experiment; there’s no way to tell whether the shuttle lines caused rent increases, or whether
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by yonran 13y ago
Yes, it can be difficult to change a library used by everyone, because you need to get a code review and commit the change before merge conflicts start piling up. But you do it all in one commit; you don’t do refactoring in a branch as far
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by yonran 13y ago
Ideally, to make a breaking API change, you change the function and all the references within a single commit. Since this repository is only used for statically compiled programs, there is no need to keep the old API anymore. For protocols
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by yonran 13y ago
You’re right, there are disadvantages to a single codebase and builds at trunk. You pick up regressions, and it is difficult for your team to develop on its own while holding everything else constant. But I don’t think the speed of receivin
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by yonran 13y ago
I worked at Google (in a team using Perforce) and now work at a different company that uses multiple interdependent projects using Maven. Using a single monolithic codebase along with a build tool that statically builds everything at trunk
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by yonran 13y ago
I think the article has some good points, but he should spend more time discussing what circumstances you can block when waiting for a result, and how to balance too much blocking against too many asynchronous states. I think his focus on “
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by yonran 13y ago
Sounds like a clean solution, and very similar to smartcard authentication[1]. It improves on smartcards by showing which application is attempting to authenticate. It improves on Google Authenticator by allowing faster authentication in th
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by yonran 13y ago
Oddly, the researchers’ Summary of Project Findings ( http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/website/IGE/Executive%2... ) says that on average, the religious correlation is the opposite: “Finally, some of the str
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by yonran 13y ago
The problem isn’t that the car isn’t worth the book value. As the article stated, you can only deduct the price that the car gets at auction. The problem is that you deduct the gross auction price rather than the net amount that the charity
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by yonran 14y ago
TypeScript is what Google Closure Compiler should have been; Closure’s static typing is similar but is much more tedious (you need to type 16 characters just to declare an int! https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-c..
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by yonran 14y ago
“I mean, who really switches on the option to make it die on unset variables?” I thought rachelbythebay has worked at Google, whose internal Bash style guide recommends these settings: set -o nounset # (aka set -u) abort on undefin
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by yonran 14y ago
Also the Feynman lectures on physics. It’s a shame that they went through the effort to put it online only to release it in an inaccessible format. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.HTML
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by yonran 14y ago
By the way, for me, the reason that I really prefer a single-page version of any wall of text article is that I can select all and make the TTS read it aloud while I do something else. Although you did explain how to get the single-page
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by yonran 14y ago
Great work! I made a similar extension a few months ago but only for Craigslist ( https://github.com/yonran/craigslist-shortcuts ), but it’s great that your one works on many different websites. I still prefer simply focusing the link inste
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by yonran 14y ago
Previous discussions of earlier versions of the bill: in March: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3688267 , and in May: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4010297 Current bill text: http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1251-13
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by yonran 14y ago
According to the CSS 2.1 spec, “Concatenating the four numbers a-b-c-d (in a number system with a large base) gives the specificity.” Base-256 is the obvious way to encode each digit efficiently, and I suppose all browsers that do this are
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by yonran 14y ago
Actual announcement: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/08/know-traffic-to-s... How do people actually use the traffic layer on Google Maps? It’s not obvious how a red highway compares to a green side street. And how stale are the da
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by yonran 14y ago
To reduce the risk of inconvenience, Google should really put an indicator on gmail that tells how many days left until the next authentication and allows you to renew the lease early to avoid having to pull out your phone at random. I only
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by yonran 14y ago
Seems like this is thanks to the open applications rule of the 700MHz spectrum auction, Block C[1], that Google lobbied to include and then bid to ensure that it would apply. That spectrum was bought by Verizon for the contiguous 48 states.
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by yonran 14y ago
This story resonates with me. My mother is bipolar. Growing up she would be fine for a year, then gradually become more active and paranoid and spendthrift, then be hospitalized for several months, and then start the cycle over. In 2008, sh
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by yonran 14y ago
This is basically how people use git-svn, because svn only understands rebase and not merge. I'm a lone git-svn user in a svn workplace, and I've been satisfied following this basic workflow. I have my configuration differences, personal ch
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by yonran 14y ago
Here's Dan Bornstein's talk at Google I/O 2008 about the dex format and the original Dalvik interpreter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptjedOZEXPM I'm not sure how useful it is in comparing the Dalvik JIT to MonoTouch though.

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