YorkianTones

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by YorkianTones 4y ago
Are staff engineers needed? The role seems like a relatively new invention. Senior and midlevel IC engineers do the heavy lifting, principals set strategy and define architecture, EMs manage engineers, PMs manage product. I'm not clear
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by YorkianTones 6y ago
Where? Washington state has no state income tax either.
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by YorkianTones 6y ago
love this, thank you for sharing the advice
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by YorkianTones 8y ago
This. Documentation (comment blocks in code, as well as all other forms of documentation) tends to become outdated because it is not maintained in sync with every code change. Solution: write clear, simple, modular code that is self-documen
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by YorkianTones 8y ago
See also https://github.com/convoyinc/ts2gql
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by YorkianTones 8y ago
While it would be in Amazon's interest to get the federal minimum wage increased after setting their internal minimum wage at $15/hr, why is this negative? Aligning business interests with the public good is brilliant IMO and I st
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by YorkianTones 8y ago
I think the demand side for single family housing will increase in Seattle over the near future. There has been a recent boom in tech company positions and equity (especially Amazon and Microsoft, but others as well such as Tableau, Faceboo
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Welcome to Zucktown(mobile.nytimes.com)
8 points by YorkianTones 9y ago|2 comments
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by YorkianTones 9y ago
I think capitalism is much simpler: capital begets capital. Those who have capital will accumulate more capital, almost infinitely, until the capital/income ratio reaches an equilibrium who knows how high (in the absence of major corre
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by YorkianTones 9y ago
According to this article, the study found those who watch 5 or more hours of TV a day while sitting were 65% more likely to lose mobility in the period tested than those who watch < 2 hours per day, controlling for all other variables.
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by YorkianTones 9y ago
Who gets $300k comp offers? Principal engineers?
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by YorkianTones 10y ago
Have you tried ambient techno? Boards of Canada Tycho Ulrich Schnauss Fisk Industries
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
"Edith looks up from a game of solitaire and casually mentions that she actually thinks the murder was committed by the accomplice, who was never found and is not on trial. But since the defendant’s lawyer did such a poor job exonerati
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
Applause to the Zuck for the public commitment to invest 99% of his fortune in charitable causes. Providing cheap, reliable internet to underserved areas of the planet seems like an achievable goal. Much of the technology is present, and so
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
Windows has had this capability for at least 8 years with "time travel tracing" (or iDNA tracing), which produces a dump file that can be traversed back and forward in WinDBG or Visual Studio. Very useful for figuring out what cau
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
Consolidation of resources and broadness of ecosystem produces synergistic effects that advance tech. Google benefits in its pursuit of self-driving cars and drone delivery from existing investments in maps, AI, machine learning, and data c
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
As much as startups can "disrupt" by creating new businesses, big tech companies can also create entirely new products or businesses and when they attempt to do so they often succeed. Google has a good shot at eventually being suc
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
If you use contractions like don\'t inside of a string then you need to escape the apostrophe if you\'re using single quotes, which is annoying and can make the string a bit harder for humans to parse. I like the aesthetics of dou
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
https://dev.windows.com/en-US/uwp-bridges/ Sounds like a serious effort to allow you to develop native iOS apps in VS instead of xcode. You're right the motivation is heavily to minimize the cost of porting&#
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
Microsoft Research is strongly expected to have an impact on the business side of things. It just so happens that Microsoft is willing to incubate projects like Midori* that have long runways (decade+) and may completely fail. The hope is t
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
L-Theanine one of those other drugs found in green/black/white tea, and it produces a calming effect. The Japanese even put it in bubble gum.
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
Coffee also creates an energy sine wave for me, the amplitude of which is too intense. I go for matcha green tea powder in my morning shake - the effects last longer since your body is digesting a powder (it's extended-release caffeine
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
Aren't all Windows Update packages optional? This is what I see when I look at Windows update on 8.1 (I think 7 had similar options): http://imgur.com/MxRVZ94 As someone else mentioned, to support the enterprise Micros
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
Bash scripts run in Powershell. We have hundreds of bash scripts for infrastructure build/deploy/etc. and they are cross-platform. On windows we execute them in Powershell. Powershell's been around for a decade and runs on XP
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by YorkianTones 11y ago
Seattle's a beautiful place to bike but we still have a long way to go. We need to cut fatalities and accidents among bike commuters and get more bike lanes in. Luckily there are major bike paths connecting parts of the city but these
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
I like the idea of holding personal email and then bulk delivering to my inbox at specific times during the day. However, the tool recommended by the linked post, "Inbox Pause", seems to just use a toggle button and doesn't h
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
I've tried modafinil (to counteract lethargy from an antidepressant). It's a strong and long-acting stimulant, but for me there were definitely side effects (and stronger ones than from caffeine wearing off) - bruxism, jaw clenchi
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
Note that anti-anxiety meds can make you sleepy and have long-term side effects (e.g. increased risk of developing Alzheimer's). That said, they're generally very effective and can probably be taken PRN with less risk.
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
Also consider reading Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" if you're interested in philosophy (it takes effort, but rewards the reader). It characterizes modern society as emotivist. When you say: I'm overwhelmed by
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
Yep. The Metro app on Win8 has a very poor UX, but the desktop version (also available on WinRT) is fantastic. The OSX native app seems to have parity more or less with the Windows one. I use it at work and haven't had any issues.

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