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by returningfory2 3y ago
I feel this a general phenomenon on HN. Someone living in a specific European country will describe a specific good thing about their country (or even just their local area), and then extrapolate to the entire European Union.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Also they don’t list the 2022 iPhone SE with the lowest storage space (64GB) in that table. they’re “stingy”, but not stingy enough to consider the entry level model? Overall I find this article incoherent.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
The math doesn’t check out? My iPhone SE is $430 new, so as soon as you’ve bought two of these throwaway phones you’re over 10%? Making this comment to push back on the idea that somehow iPhones are insanely expensive; the SE is not.
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by returningfory2 3y ago
Yeah I personally found the second half of the book much more interesting! My strategy was to read the first half of the book casually, but then actually implement the second half (in Rust, like the article here).
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by returningfory2 4y ago
Would you call South Asian laborers who are temporarily working in construction in Dubai expats? Seems to fit your definition exactly.
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by returningfory2 4y ago
Employee options have a 10 year limit, and given the age of the company some employees were going to lose their options if they don't exercise. But to exercise you need to pay, in cash, the strike price plus taxes. I believe this found
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by returningfory2 4y ago
In general, I think people need to think more critically about this "1 job for life" culture of the past. A lot of the supposed benefits of this former corporate culture (like a company-linked pension, or a system where your emplo
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by returningfory2 4y ago
A complementary idea is to reuse the vector of strings across different calls to `tokenize`. The main loop in the code is of the form: { std::vector<std::string> tokens = tokenize(line); // do work with
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by returningfory2 4y ago
One of the awesome things about Rust is how easy it is to build Rust projects. Looking at the readme, it's a simple `cargo run` to compile and run the project. Versus CPython where you have to worry about Makefiles and configuration an
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by returningfory2 4y ago
So glad to see someone pointing out this phenomenon!
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by returningfory2 4y ago
> Does it though? I think "the industry" has pretty much come around on C being unsafe, and generally not a great choice of language for new projects. If you look at some of the Rust threads on HN right now [0], you find many c
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by returningfory2 4y ago
I feel like all the examples you give are actually counter examples to the thesis that Google will decline? Like, those are all examples of companies which failed to adapt to some new reality. This announcement is Google seeing AI as the ne
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by returningfory2 4y ago
All of the comments so far have talked about mechanical things (researching investment vehicles, what percentage to save, etc), but in my experience to move beyond a paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle the biggest change you need to make is psyc
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by returningfory2 4y ago
> increasingly vote avoidant society Turnout for presidential elections has been increasing in the US in the last decades. Also 70 percent is great turnout when compared with other countries.
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by returningfory2 4y ago
The data in this article is simply wrong. Alphabet didn't layoff 10,000 people in November, or announce such a layoff. Looks like it's recycling some low-quality speculative layoff articles and presenting them as facts.
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by returningfory2 4y ago
> I'd also highlight that many professions, e.g. those that have shift work, are nowhere near as lax. We have two groups of people - tech workers who have a generally great working environment, and shift workers who do not. The idea
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by returningfory2 4y ago
Yes - my reading of that post is that Waze was a toxic place to work, and the author is annoyed because Google is not. > Having trouble scheduling meetings because [...] "I’m taking a personal day" drove me crazy. Yikes.
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by returningfory2 4y ago
I think the point of the article is the other way around: when starting from a language like C that doesn't have bound checking, moving to Rust will involve adding bounds checks and then an argument will be made that this will regress
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by returningfory2 4y ago
I feel this plan is really poor use of Rikers Island. Green energy installations can be done anywhere. Being in the middle of New York City (sort of) Rikers has amazing potential as a public park - something like Governors Island 2.
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by returningfory2 4y ago
> ... but can also see its appeal for someone that's not as confident over the minutia. I think this is mischaracterization of why people choose Rust (and FWIW it comes across as condescending). People choose Rust over C++ partially
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by returningfory2 4y ago
This is a common response to this issue, but I think there is a logical flaw in it. Employers don't know ahead of time which employees will leave and which will stay. In order to improve their employee retention, employers have to pay
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by returningfory2 4y ago
Makes sense, thank you!
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by returningfory2 4y ago
There is a quota for employment-based green cards (typically 140k/year). The number of applicants that apply each year is larger than the quota. So every year the total number of people who have applied but cannot be approved due to th
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by returningfory2 4y ago
I think this sounds theoretically reasonable, but in reality it's not like this: - The cost of sponsoring someone for a green card ($50k?) is low compared to engineering salaries. - Many companies like Google have great retention and t
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by returningfory2 4y ago
Genuine question: what does FANGish mean?
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by returningfory2 4y ago
This was exactly my experience growing up in Ireland, and was the primary reason I immigrated to the US after college.
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by returningfory2 4y ago
> There is still only one implementation that defines what the language actually is, and that is Google's protoc. From the article, it seems this is not true anymore? > We've built the [new Buf proto] compiler within the buf
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by returningfory2 4y ago
In the neighborhood of New York City I live in, buying a 2 bedroom apartment requires you to have a higher yearly income than $250k (~= £200k). The simple desires of (a) wanting space for family and (b) wanting to live in a specific place,
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by returningfory2 4y ago
This is a children's passport; an adult Irish passport is basically the same price as an adult US passport. Given my experience growing up in Ireland, I would guess that the Irish government is subsidizing passports for children.
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by returningfory2 4y ago
> I ran benchmarks [...] matching the regex Ben.*H over 100 concatenated repeats of the King James Bible. Is there a concern with these kinds of micro-benchmarks, where you repeatedly do the same small operation (matching the same regex)

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