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by thisisnotatest 1y ago
> The problem is that it's hard to be an informed dollar-voter in this environment of deliberate obfuscation. Spending hours wading through reviews, product descriptions, and so on, just to buy one thing, effectively increases your
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by thisisnotatest 4y ago
To quote the book by Google software engineers, “Software engineering is programming integrated over time”. Programming is writing code at one snapshot in time. Software engineering is mapping that code backwards and forwards through time,
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by thisisnotatest 4y ago
Check out "Uber is a bezzle" by Cory Doctorow. His allegation is this scheme: 1. Early VC funds are used to subsidize Uber rides at a loss to Uber. 2. The deep discounts made Uber attractive to drivers and customers. 3. Uber'
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by thisisnotatest 4y ago
Dropbox storage is the lead example in TFA ;-)
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by thisisnotatest 4y ago
A helpful little heuristic that always stuck with me from a Stanford lecture by Andrew Ng was, "log N is less than 30 for all N".
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by thisisnotatest 5y ago
I feel your pain. Two workarounds when Google gets it wrong are to put the term in quotation marks, or to enable Verbatim mode in the toolbelt. (I know various people have come up with ways to add "Google Verbatim" as a search eng
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by thisisnotatest 5y ago
Yes, I think you'd call it a Red Queen Problem: “Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” -Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
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by thisisnotatest 5y ago
I'm no political philosopher, but I'd say, for example, the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution says the government's purpose is to “promote the general welfare." Phenomena like bank runs harm the general welfare, so the g
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by thisisnotatest 5y ago
This is correct. In this query, the '*' is being disregarded. Then, I assume, more people on the internet discuss 48 and 6 in the context of long division than in the context of multiplication.
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by thisisnotatest 6y ago
I see what you're saying -- money isn't useful until it's spent. But I think the argument is that a wealthy person doesn't put that extra 98% of their money under a mattress, they invest it. Now they have passive income
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by thisisnotatest 6y ago
"If they can only work five hours a day" I appreciate the sentiment, but five hours?! That's your example of an acceptable low level of performance for someone working from home with a child with no possibility of childcare?
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Tech Workers Backing Candidates Looking to Break Up Their Employers(bloomberg.com)
190 points by thisisnotatest 7y ago|278 comments
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by thisisnotatest 7y ago
I'm surprised that you're surprised. Even ignoring Blizzard game players who don't follow the news, and ignoring (presumably Chinese) players that actually support the Chinese government over the Hong Kong protest movement, s
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by thisisnotatest 7y ago
There are key differences between building more highways and building more dense housing. I suspect induced demand is more of an effect with highways than housing. People can change their driving habits from day to day more easily than they
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by thisisnotatest 7y ago
For what it's worth, when I do coding interviews, I really don't care if the candidate calls the function at() or get() or find(), whatever that particular library in that particular language actually has, as long as their usage o
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by thisisnotatest 10y ago
Yes, I'm eager to risk my life on self-driving car failures; it would be a tremendous step up from risking my life on human drivers (including myself!) as I do on a daily basis. I'm also a biker. In 2013, 4,735 pedestrians and 743
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by thisisnotatest 11y ago
From the article: UPDATE (2/7/2016, 4:33 p.m.): Google tells us that the website was flagged by another user as spam. After Google manually reviewed the site and found this was not the case, they put it back online.
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by thisisnotatest 11y ago
Google doesn't penalize competitors in search rankings!
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by thisisnotatest 11y ago
I thought they chose the name to fit their inclusive, inviting target with the console. "Wii Play Sports" -- yes we do!
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by thisisnotatest 11y ago
const is type-incompatible like this: Suppose you want to write a function that returns all the nodes in a tree that satisfy some property. In C++ you have to define two different versions (or use templates to make the compiler clone it for
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by thisisnotatest 12y ago
It's the ever-reliable Lewis's Law: "Comments on any article about feminism justify feminism."
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by thisisnotatest 12y ago
The keyboard shortcut that I found is Control-Shift-M to open a box around the profile, down-enter to select "Switch person", then Tab-(Tab-)enter to select the other account. Anyone know if there's a shorter shortcut?
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by thisisnotatest 12y ago
Sam is right about "the wildly-out-of-control housing costs, which is probably the biggest weakness here right now". FYI, some Mountain View tech workers volunteer for an organization called MV Voters for Housing Diversity. See wh
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by thisisnotatest 12y ago
Maybe most people who were vocal about the change were mad, while the rest of us happily used it. I do remember how jarring the change felt, but it quickly become obvious what a new and useful experience it was.
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by thisisnotatest 12y ago
> Facilitating P2P debt may help make debt cheaper by crowdsourcing the "overhead" of evaluating creditors. I believe there's a site that does this but can't recall the name. I'm not sure if it's what you&#x
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by thisisnotatest 12y ago
I hear you. How to indicate to the user that we don't think there are any good matches for their query is something we debate and experiment with in search quality at Google. FYI, the + prefix operator was deprecated a few years ago. T
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by thisisnotatest 12y ago
I'm an engineer at Google who worked on the query parser code in 2009 and 2010. I can assure you that at no point around then did punctuation like square brackets get used, inside or outside quotation marks. The results changing from r
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
You're simply wrong. It is in Google's long-term financial interest to continue to provide objective, trustworthy search results. For a non-Google example of something similar, see the recent story of Apple CEO Tim Cook challengin
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
For what it's worth, I think it's totally reasonable to ask a software engineer candidate to implement a binary sort, even if the candidate has to derive the particulars of the algorithm from first principles. If the candidate can
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
As a member of Google's algorithmic search quality team, I wish I could take that bet against you. :-)

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