tedkalaw

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by tedkalaw 3y ago
xhp was honestly pretty nice - it was something watching the rapid codemods transform the language. There was also ComponentKit, which was used heavily in fbobjc: https://github.com/facebook/componentkit
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by tedkalaw 3y ago
Nice explainer: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/03/the-cartoon-guide-to-perps Perps are extremely fun, and not great for your financial health in general. Very addictive PvP game though.
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by tedkalaw 3y ago
If you haven’t heard of the Kia boys over here in the states, it’s definitely something. This vid is…a bit controversial but the Kia boys are definitely a thing in Milwaukee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbTrLyqL_nw
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Large Pokemon Factory Theft Comes to Light, but Probably Didn’t Impact Fans(pokebeach.com)
1 points by tedkalaw 3y ago|0 comments
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by tedkalaw 6y ago
War of Art. Solid book; picked it up after seeing this passage on HN hehe
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by tedkalaw 7y ago
I was thinking of getting one but considering the price point, there are far too many stories of broken devices and slow/non-existent support: https://www.reddit.com/r/OP1users/comments/bpxuyl/second
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by tedkalaw 8y ago
historically, LEO have been fairly aggressive on the road to Burning Man...i think i've had a "close call" the past several years. for example, last year when i was driving from Reno to Black Rock City, i went through a well-
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Statement on Police Activity on the Road to Black Rock City(journal.burningman.org)
36 points by tedkalaw 8y ago|8 comments
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by tedkalaw 8y ago
was at a startup where the split was 72.5/10/10 (eng)/7.5 (me) when we got into an incubator; investors tried to convince the ceo that we should do an even split iirc, but he felt the business was built up enough that the equ
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by tedkalaw 9y ago
when i was working at fb, i specifically got a s7 as a work phone to use with gear vr to dogfood and i found the phone-insertion experience to be rather annoying. it was so annoying, in fact, that i would just leave my s7 in the gear vr an
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by tedkalaw 9y ago
why didn't you buy last week? the price is never too high to buy, and never too low to sell. if you really believe it will go up, why not buy when you think the chart looks good and move your stops up as it increases? your position siz
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by tedkalaw 10y ago
at UIUC, there's a project in the systems class (CS241) that is exactly this. there's a leaderboard with projects and how it compares to the system malloc for a variety of metrics this is definitely one of the best projects i ever
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by tedkalaw 11y ago
sometime in the future, Apple will begin releasing swift-only APIs. it's unclear that one should "drop everything", but swift usage will only increase in the future. in addition, as a company, it will become difficult to hire
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by tedkalaw 12y ago
There's actually a UIUC alum center in SF - http://www.sfbayillini.org/ . The last estimate I heard was that there are somewhere around 40,000-50,000 UIUC graduates in the Bay Area. I grew up in Chicago, graduated from
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by tedkalaw 12y ago
They based this on an interestingly small amount of data. The 5,318 Google employees, for example, is a pretty small fraction of the 49,829 employees they had in Q1 of 2014.
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by tedkalaw 12y ago
What's it been like wearing it in public? Any interesting interactions with curious people? Any vocal hatred directed your way? I noticed you live in Virginia, so I'm especially curious!
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by tedkalaw 12y ago
Here's a nice tutorial that runs through of some of Macaw's features: https://medium.com/p/aeb72baf1755
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by tedkalaw 12y ago
There's a live call right about this right now: http://www.shareholder.com/visitors/event/build3/stage/stage...
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by tedkalaw 13y ago
I still find the pressure to work on side projects in your free time difficult to come to terms with. There's often discussion about how if you don't like what you're doing, then you should find a new job - and easily, if you
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by tedkalaw 13y ago
It's a reference to Hank Scorpio from The Simpsons, a character who was simultaneously the perfect boss and an evil genius. http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Hank_Scorpio
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by tedkalaw 13y ago
This sounds very similar to something that Hideo Kojima mentioned wanting to do for a PC game: "So maybe when you put it [the game] in your disk drive and you're playing for about fifteen minutes, the heat from the disk drive inte
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by tedkalaw 13y ago
Regarding returning things without a receipt: Once upon a time, it used to be possible to get Bing points by playing a bunch of stupid games on Club Bing - you could accumulate at most 1000 per day, unless there was some sort of modifier (l
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by tedkalaw 13y ago
It is EXTREMELY difficult to get money into BTC-E. You have to go through multiple currency exchangers which each take a cut of the action. It takes a lot of time and is annoying as hell.
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by tedkalaw 13y ago
There's a big rally going on. It found support around 68 a week ago and it's been steadily climbing since.
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by tedkalaw 13y ago
What communities are best for discussing mathematics when learning? As Jeremy describes in another post ( http://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers-... ), it's really difficult to learn math without talking to other people
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Coinbase Database leak(pastebin.com)
3 points by tedkalaw 13y ago|1 comments
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by tedkalaw 14y ago
It sucks. A lot. I planned on dropping out two years in and ended up having to go back to school because my parents couldn't afford the loan payments at the time - and they wouldn't have to pay while I was in school (which they wanted me to
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by tedkalaw 14y ago
One of the top three classes I took at my university (next to "Algorithms" and "Data Structures") was "Introduction to Drawing." It's changed the way I look at aesthetic beauty. I would have had a hard time motivating myself to have that ex
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by tedkalaw 14y ago
I planned on dropping out and found myself back at school - we had on path to profitability and California costs a lot more than Illinois. When my parents started getting collection letters from my university and we were running out of mone
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by tedkalaw 14y ago
Congrats Remind101 and ClassDojo! It's cool to see ImagineK12 teams up there :)

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