lhorie

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by lhorie 1y ago
(mithril.js author here) As far as I can tell, the main difference is this uses proxies to trigger side effects as opposed to virtual dom diffing. Perf wise, I like that people are pushing the boundaries, but also obviously React is still v
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by lhorie 2y ago
There's many pockets in Toronto with high density of Chinese commerce, the area around Steeles east of the IBM campus is one. Pacific Mall mentioned in the article is only one of the commercial centers in the area. There's also Me
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by lhorie 3y ago
No, it's operating profit.
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by lhorie 3y ago
That's a somewhat outdated narrative to still be parroting. Uber just got included into the SP 500. One of the pre-requisites for that is being profitable on a GAAP basis.
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by lhorie 3y ago
Uber has four office buildings in SF mission bay. One was never used, the other 3 were underutilized, so employees are going to be moved/consolidated into 2. These buildings also have street-front retail lease spaces, so presumably by
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by lhorie 3y ago
Uber has several different APIs for users. A naive purist might think that's silly until you realize a rider is user, a driver is a user, a courier is a user, a restaurant owner is a user, a line cook is a user, a doctor's secreta
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by lhorie 3y ago
Adding my two cents of positivity: I love seeing language projects that implement their own compiler backends. There really aren't enough of these around. Anything that helps bridge the knowledge gap between newbies and production grad
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by lhorie 3y ago
I saw a video on YouTube recently from an independent content creator who went to look for these mythical sea nomads, and apparently what he found was that the idyllic scene of a remote tribe living off the land with highly refined but prim
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by lhorie 3y ago
JS has two top level grammars, one defaults to loose mode and the other defaults to strict mode, among other nuances. Possibly the most devious nuance is whether the spec's appendix B applies, which affects whether html comment syntax
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by lhorie 3y ago
The "boring" way is go do some sales and get clients to pay for something, then scale up as cash flow increases. That way, if it doesn't work out, at worst you just lost time instead of being half a million in the red on a bu
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by lhorie 3y ago
Small update: It's definitely not extensions, it's giving the same result on two different devices (mobile and laptop). I've narrowed it down to there being something going on w/ being logged into specific accounts. On m
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by lhorie 3y ago
I'm stumbling into this thread right after experiencing what appears to be a pretty catastrophic failure of Google's main product. As I write this, the search results for "Google stock" (among other queries) returns zero
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by lhorie 3y ago
That's a strange way to frame it. Every skill is useful in some context. As a parent, I think a more productive way to think about it is to ask whether teaching kids anything is in line with your values. For me, I'd prefer if my k
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by lhorie 3y ago
The core principle is the same. How permutations are selected, of course, affects the performance and usability of the system. Uber's[0] implementation, for example, does some more sophisticated speculation than just picking up whateve
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by lhorie 3y ago
Merge queues are, as the name implies, queues for pull requests/merges. They're kinda useless if your commit traffic is low (e.g. <10 per day), but become necessary once it grows past your daily CI time budget, roughly (which c
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by lhorie 3y ago
That's exactly right. Uber self driving was burning through the tune of billions of dollars a year when covid reduced revenue by the tune of 70%. Not exactly sustainable w/ only a few billion dollars of cash on hand. As terrible a
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by lhorie 3y ago
The backstory that seems to have been forgotten here is that self driving cars are still a money bleeding endeavor. It's why Uber sold its own self driving division and it's something Cruise has said in the past still needs to be
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by lhorie 3y ago
Big tech companies have entire departments dedicated to this sort of engineering, usually developer platform/experience/productivity, or other similar infra/platform orgs. I'm an author of an open source framework who go
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by lhorie 3y ago
I thought Uber rolled out upfront pricing some time last year, so drivers wouldn't feel compelled to be playing these games anymore.
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by lhorie 3y ago
(I'm a canadian citizen, born in South America) My two cents is US people are the ones who have an unusual take on the word "America". Outside the US, it's not very idiomatic to call the country "America", or e
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by lhorie 3y ago
> "America" refers unambiguously to the United States of America When people say "Columbus discovered America", it most certainly is referring to the entire landmass and surrounding islands (he technically landed in t
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by lhorie 3y ago
Tasmania and Frasier are islands, which would make Australia more of an archipelago, I think.
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by lhorie 3y ago
In many parts of the world, it is taught that Oceania is the continent. IMHO, saying that Australia is a continent comes with the problematic notion that its close-by neighbour New Zealand is not part of any continent, which would be weird
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by lhorie 3y ago
Oh, so you just object to the specific idiom I happened to use? Ok then. Just assume I meant to use one that doesn't trigger you but still conveys the intention I explained above. I believe I was crystal clear that I don't approve
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by lhorie 3y ago
I think your thought experiment differs from the original topic in few different ways. For one, the person you were replying to isn't the CEO. A more accurate analogy might be drawing ethical conclusions about the accountant in the com
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by lhorie 3y ago
> not about if Uber has changed Shouldn't it be though? Even without getting into the weeds of Machiavellian ethics, I think if one can argue "you helped a high momentum company do X bad thing", then it's fair game to
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by lhorie 3y ago
I mean, the latest earnings guidance was saying Uber was expecting to be GAAP profitable on an operating basis by the end of year (it already was profitable on an EBITDA basis for a while, and it was technically GAAP profitable on an overal
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by lhorie 3y ago
> you helped destroy an established industry The latest news on this is literally the opposite (Uber integrating w/ various taxi companies as their lead generation and dispatch provider) FWIW, I've talked with a number of drive
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by lhorie 3y ago
That's a pretty uncharitable interpretation and goes to show you're just here to inject your own biases into stuff you read online and make strawman/ad hominem arguments to make you feel good about yourself. Nobody is implyin
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by lhorie 3y ago
What unpaid damage control? The shitstorms are well documented at this point. You forgot the security breach cover up, the espionage, and probably a bunch of other stuff. What I "love" is people talking as if they are subject ma

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