mic47

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by mic47 2y ago
Nice. Been waiting for this release to try it out.
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by mic47 3y ago
The problem is the argument over those 10%.
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by mic47 4y ago
> at least talk to a few This is more like how to get unrepresentative sample 101. Maybe they did and concluded it's fine to remove only to find out that general opinion is different.
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by mic47 4y ago
To me this looks like better plan. Instead of unpredictable mechanism on when the messages disappear from you history, it's now predictable and you can act according to it.
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by mic47 4y ago
Thanks. Did that.
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by mic47 4y ago
I already run queries against this dataset on weekly basis . If this is bug I prefer it to be fixed over engineering resource intensive workaround it.
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What happened to bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full?
4 points by mic47 4y ago|6 comments
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by mic47 4y ago
And it makes git diff pretty.
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by mic47 4y ago
IIRC php/hack had it before jsx existed: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction https://github.com/phplang/xhp
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by mic47 5y ago
I've used python typing heavily at work and was really useful to detect bugs and helped with developement. > as evidenced by only 15% of repos passing mypy That is no evidence. Of course, if you don't have mypy in CI (or pre-co
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by mic47 5y ago
There is (or was) feature between online services including facebook, github and others where you could link your accounts for recovery purposes.
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by mic47 5y ago
well, my Facebook is mostly that, with exception of hobby groups, local-ish groups and few meme pages (all of those are my choices). Only thing that is not my choice are ads, though those are relatively benign (but I actively hide uninteres
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by mic47 5y ago
Couldn't agree more.
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by mic47 5y ago
Probably not...
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by mic47 5y ago
But for wast majority of pull request branches, people are not checking them out. And if so, they are not modifying it, so dropping local branch and checking fresh one is 20s additional work. Additionally, technically speaking --force does
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by mic47 5y ago
First, never use --force, but use --force-with-lease -- this will fail to push in case someone make remote changes. Useful if you are collaborating on branches (or develop from more than 1 computers). > It can't pause when a conflic
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by mic47 6y ago
Depends on how her/his skills apply to such company / role. I.e. at FB, you could be E7 by just technical work, but you had to be really good and be able to pick important problems and solve them (say that you are able to design a
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by mic47 6y ago
I worked for FB (left in 2018), and you are right. He started as E4, which means that he was not new grad (new grads starts as E3). So he was either phd, or had industry experience before. His first year: "Because of the 3 launches and
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by mic47 6y ago
Depends on how you provide feedback. If you get it back from the recruiter, there will be information loss. If it's written by engineers, or given you by engineer (or eng manager, who understand the feedback) personally, it end up much
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by mic47 6y ago
They will not cut ads off. They will try to consolidate ads and use ad budget more efficiently. Most likely, google, facebook ads are more likely more effective than non-targeted ads like TV, so while total ads budget goes down, targeted ad
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by mic47 6y ago
Yes. I imagine, we would have hashtags, and algorithmic hashtags (in case your uncle stops using #rightWingConsiracy hashtab because everybody is filtering it?) and ability to filter by hashtags (with ability to selectively pick whether yo
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by mic47 6y ago
But corporations are illiterate. People in corporations don't.
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by mic47 6y ago
> Twitter understands this and has begun restricting amplification in various ways. What twitter did?
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by mic47 6y ago
> I'd like to point out that this is a 180 from Zuckerberg's "arbiter of truth" position from before the advertiser boycotts Not necessarily. You can hold both views and be consistent. Lot of people accuse Facebook th
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by mic47 6y ago
But you were able to be productive on those projects with git, even if you didn't use it optimally, or to full extend, right?
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by mic47 6y ago
> Git is so pervasive in software development that I think you will be at a disadvantage if you give up on it. I would call BS on this. Yes, git is pervarsive, but if you learn alternative tool (mercurial, perforce, even svn), you will
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by mic47 6y ago
> Statically-typed languages can guarantee to get this right 100% of the time. No they don't. They usually provide escape hatches for things typesystem does not cover, so there are cases where typechecker will just trust that you kn
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by mic47 6y ago
> Functions allow shared state, they don't isolate errors. So why not use Haskell (or other pure language)? It's pure, so functions don't share state. And you don't have to replace function call with network call.
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by mic47 6y ago
If you are starting from scratch (again), you can make good monolith too, since you already know a lot about the problem you are solving.
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by mic47 6y ago
I have similar setup (infinite history, remember directory, shell session, ...), and then ctrl-r runs fzf that find the command first in this session, then in the same directory, then in the rest. I already hinted about that setup here: ht

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