woud420

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by woud420 7d ago
+1 on all of this, it is similar to the pattern I see emerging as well. For example I have open-sourced (let's be honest, it's just my personal tooling of taste) a repo on gh to try and formalize these things. I'd rather not
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by woud420 7d ago
Yes, that's my point :)
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by woud420 9d ago
It's not just a stored prompt, you can attach re-useable scripts to them to offer more determinism. ex: a script that validates that a PR follows exactly the template you want, with a max of N lines per entry. The more determinism you
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by woud420 23d ago
That's your experience and it's valid. For me documentation AND comments have been useful on occasion. The core thing that I agree with is that comments (or docs) can get stale and not follow what is actually being executed. The w
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by woud420 23d ago
Code can "lie" too. ```auto a = 65535 + 1``` will give you a different answer depending on the architecture. You can then decide.. oh don't use auto or don't use c++ or whatever and have standards... like the standard yo
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by woud420 23d ago
A comment is just a summary of the code in an abstraction that's easier to follow. Let's say you have a simple function which would produce an almost as large comment, yes obviously useless. If the function is large enough, yeah s
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by woud420 5mo ago
tl;dr : https://charlielabs.ai/how-it-works/ and https://docs.charlielabs.ai/daemons to get started, look at https://docs.charlielabs.ai/installation , but essentially 1) signup with yo
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by woud420 7y ago
Just to be clear, that salary is prevailing wage which is usually lower than the actual salary you're getting (does not include RSUs or stock on top of that). In my case the difference was about 30 to 40% lower.
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by woud420 7y ago
>To be able to even consider to move there I would need a salary bump of 3x-5x. No way this will ever happen. You'd be surprised. Granted it was over a period of 4 years, but I did hit that 5x.
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by woud420 7y ago
You mean this C++ code? std::vector<std::pair<std::string, int>> s; s.push_back({"a", 1}); s.push_back({"b", 2}); s.push_back({"c", 3}); I mean let's compare apples to apples here.
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by woud420 7y ago
I'm unsure as how you would identify people across apps using cookies but.. okay.
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Amazon Is Acquiring Sizmek Ad Server and Sizmek DCO(advertising.amazon.com)
1 points by woud420 7y ago|0 comments
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by woud420 7y ago
Considering that Mobile is about 50% of web traffic and that cookies are not very useful on mobile as well as ITP, I would say fingerprinting has been a very practical in building user profiles.
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by woud420 7y ago
Yes RVO is one case where the compiler will do it automatically. I think copy initialization of an object will have the same will apply copy elision as well to result in the same performance, but I'm not entirely sure.
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Toronto tech: why Canada is attracting the ‘best’ people(ft.com)
1 points by woud420 8y ago|2 comments
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by woud420 8y ago
>complaints about lines for the men's room after lunch? Spoiler alert: (non-contract) employees of big tech companies encounter those too. Interestingly enough, that's one of my biggest complaint working @ Bloomberg.
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by woud420 8y ago
I did mean insincere :). Thanks
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by woud420 8y ago
While I agree that some Makefiles are terrible, I disagree that make is absolutely horrendous. It's sort of what you do with it; it's a copy paste garbled mess, of course it'll be terrible but you can make the same argument
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by woud420 8y ago
Interesting! I only knew of one person back then but I guess they started building a team under him. I mean it does make sense, Montreal has plenty of AdTech talent.
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by woud420 8y ago
That's a very important point. I moved from Montreal to NYC a couple of years back and one thing I definitively miss is the food scene. Not that NYC is bad by any metric but Montreal just has an amazing food scene.
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by woud420 8y ago
I don't think AppNexus has offices in Montreal, just a few remote people. But besides that the list is spot on.
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by woud420 8y ago
Without getting in the history of the parent poster, he's not wrong. H1B is a temporary (non-immigrant) visa which allows dual intent. Yes, most people on dual intent visas eventually petition for a green card but I think it's unf
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by woud420 8y ago
I wasn't clear enough and I apologize. You can use cookies but they will only be within the context of a singular app's browser. For example, suppose that you use two web browsers on your Desktop, Chrome and Firefox. If you visi
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by woud420 8y ago
Considering you cannot use cookies for mobile traffic, it's understandable that most firms are moving away from it. Fingerprinting and device IDs have been common for a few years and I don't think it will go away any time soon.
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by woud420 9y ago
I mean it's not fair to add property taxes if you're not gonna do the same but you do have a valid point. It's way different if you're in Alberta (flat provincial tax) vs NY than for example Quebec (biggest tax burden in
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by woud420 9y ago
Yup. I'm also canadian that also moved down the US. That describes my experience perfectly. While rent also easily tripled (from Montreal to NYC) I can say I now manage to save what I'd make gross in Canada, with a better quality
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by woud420 9y ago
They haven't for most cases but to be fair, even if the publisher would respect DNT, it doesn't mean that the ad-server at the end of the line or any of the other partners will.
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by woud420 9y ago
1) Advertising 2) A lot. Publishers relying on clickbait to generate money. Advertisers creating invasive ads with autoplay sound and video. Ignoring do-not-track requests as part of the industry (even if some technology providers respect D
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by woud420 10y ago
Just a note, looking at the way most companies I've been involved with handle RF testing, it still feels like some electrical engineering is at a premature stage also. Testing a transistor is the equivalent of testing an if statement.
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by woud420 10y ago
Being from Quebec and working in Manhattan, I figure I can have some input on this. In Quebec, at income X, my effective tax rate was around 34%, which includes federal and provincial rates. I did have a private plan at work although I don&

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