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Using AI to predict workout difficulty and performance(kangax.substack.com)
2 points by kangax 1y ago|0 comments
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by kangax 5y ago
In my experience, it depends on the company. At Facebook, 90% of my peers were younger than me (I was 30). At LinkedIn, right now, many of my peers are around the same age or older than me (I'm 35). I imagine in places like Microsoft o
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by kangax 5y ago
I agree with this and was wondering the same thing. Would love to see randomized studies comparing a) control, b) sauna c) exercise d) sauna + exercise. On the other hand, anecdotally, lots of Russian weighlifters swear by sauna benefits an
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by kangax 6y ago
Wondering the same thing. I learned about DeFi recently and am now curious to learn more about smart contracts, the underlying code and everything surrounding it.
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by kangax 6y ago
Go to the gym! With a bit of commute it could fill up to 2 hours of your day and have a plethora of benefits. Once you get into the whole "getting better than yesterday" thing, it's exciting to go train every day and improve
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by kangax 6y ago
That's crazy, I'm so sorry you haven't regained your senses the way they were. My friend is experiencing exactly the same results many months after having Covid. Doctor prescribed steroids for him which made it better for a b
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by kangax 6y ago
We tried doing this at Facebook few years ago but decided not to bother due to an insignificant effect on user metrics like TTI (time to interaction), FCP (first content paint), etc. 14KB is nothing when you're shipping 1MB+ of JS and
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Moscow deploys facial recognition for coronavirus quarantine(reuters.com)
2 points by kangax 6y ago|0 comments
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Zoom monitors activity on your computer(twitter.com)
405 points by kangax 6y ago|139 comments
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by kangax 7y ago
We should probably amalgamate this with the one we have at https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/
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by kangax 7y ago
ReasonML is a good transition from JS to something like OCaml
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by kangax 8y ago
Yep. Both are stage-1 proposals: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-optional-chaining https://github.com/tc39/proposal-nullish-coalescing Recently started using optional chaining in our codebase (vi
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Porting 140K lines of code to Flow(engineering.wework.com)
15 points by kangax 8y ago|1 comments
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by kangax 8y ago
This is much needed. The extension has been broken for our team for a couple months now. No clear resolution. The Flow suggestions in an editor are basically unusable right now.
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by kangax 8y ago
I think that was the motivation of https://js.foundation
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by kangax 8y ago
I was on an infra so the "product" was improving both developer experience and user experience. Thing is — as a senior engineer, you're encouraged to do work that spans across multiple teams. The self-review would include all
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by kangax 8y ago
I was E6 at Facebook for 1.5 years. Left due to a combination of not finding the right team/project and constant pressure to work on something impactful rather than fixing existing issues I cared about. This seems to be a common issue
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by kangax 8y ago
I agree that TS increases barrier to entry for contributors. However, it's very different from Coffeescript. It offers better program correctness via types whereas CS was mostly sugar. Libraries that (properly) use Flow/TS are les
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by kangax 8y ago
This is such an underrated comment. I love this style of code reviews and it's the one I've experienced best discussions with. It goes in line with assuming that you, as a reviewer, don't know what the intentions/rationa
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by kangax 8y ago
I'm wondering why homelessness is not as large in NYC? The prices here are as high as in SF. Is it due to the slower rate of a price increase? Colder weather?
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by kangax 8y ago
As mixmastamyk said, it's exactly the same as the gym (I work out ~5 days a week too and I started from being the least athletic person in school/college). I hear people say — I'm already 30 and starting to exercise is too la
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by kangax 8y ago
Nice breakdown. I would add that money comes with responsibility and it's the money/responsibilities ratio that really matters. I was at a top-tier tech company (the one that's getting all the heat lately) for 2 years in a se
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by kangax 10y ago
I'm at FB office in NYC and I agree with your points. MPK always has that more chill vibe and is less dense/quieter. The NY office has gotten much better though. Many engineers are now on 15th floor which has no distractions like
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Improving CSS quality at Facebook(code.facebook.com)
13 points by kangax 10y ago|0 comments
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JavaScript quiz, ES6 edition(perfectionkills.com)
8 points by kangax 11y ago|0 comments
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CoffeeScript 1.9.2 is out(coffeescript.org)
2 points by kangax 11y ago|0 comments
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by kangax 11y ago
Also https://github.com/h5bp/lazyweb-requests
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by kangax 11y ago
Great idea! We need the same for ES6/7/etc. — http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
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by kangax 11y ago
Yep, I've been down that road — http://fabricjs.com/test/misc/itext.html :)
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by kangax 11y ago
Unfortunately not possible since the editor is part of a browser extension and is activated on any page with textarea/contenteditable. Text could change at any time by other scripts, and the only way to intercept those changes is via M

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