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Zaphod's just this guy - y'know?

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    The first time I went to work here a few months ago I got out of the Lyft around 9am and two meters away a homeless man was injecting something into his veins. My office is in the …

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    Comment #18722928

    For a pinch of irony the founder is Israeli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neumann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOb_ogQJWeI tl;dw - "As of 2 years ago 98% only young entrep…

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    Comment #18478531

    I believe in this instance it is the author wanting to level up on AWK and Go. The value is learning and fun. An AWK interpreter written in Go is unlikely to be an improvement, exc…

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    Comment #17666992

    I know you can have a workspace and edit local files via Chrome, but is there really no simple way to "close the loop" and sync the devtools changes to a local file? This extension…

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    Comment #17635269

    That is actually fixed now.

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    Comment #17606758

    Ah, darn, I'm a few hours late so you will probably miss it but I wanted to ask for a long time: Sounds like a lot of stuff like this has accumulated. Your dedication to backwards …

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    Comment #17585607

    I've spent ~1 month tramping all over Cuba. This is absolutely spot on.

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    Comment #17572147

    Sometimes it feels like Groundhog Day, behold: https://medium.com/@buckhx/unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-s... tl;dr - S2 is a good library. There's also a joke in here somewhere a…

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    Comment #17548200

    Continuously the last two years, 30+ countries. :) What kind of details are you looking for? I unbox at the Apple store and: - Temporarily turn off Spotlight & Time Machine (Perman…

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    Comment #17548142

    They provided a spreadsheet on their investor relations page: https://dropbox.gcs-web.com/static-files/105a910a-1026-4056-... Losses last three years are: ~300m, ~200m, ~100m. They…

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    Comment #17547947

    I have been using 12" MacBooks since they came out because I live out of a backpack and travel a lot. I cannot find anything comparable in terms of size/weight/battery and build qu…

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    Comment #17535183

    Agreed. With that said, some none negligible chunk of the issues you linked fall into cosmetic (better error message), proposals, works as intended (docs could improve) or self inf…

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    Comment #17528798

    I'll cautiously mention: https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp It's a net/http replacement that is close to x10 in performance -- however it is not a drop in replacement and you shou…

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    Comment #17520396

    Ever been to a place with a fancy receptionist exclusively running Google Calendar in one browser tab taking up less than 35% of a HUGE iMac screen? A pretty enclosure can be worth…

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    Comment #17468601

    You actually want to "brew install pyenv" And then "pyenv install 3.7" or whatever version you're after. Multiple versions of programming languages don't require docker, containers…

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    Comment #17461561

    Your link also says: > It must be noted that around 75% of websites today are not active, but parked domains or similar. So actually more like 0.5B websites. Feels quite tiny. Seem…

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    Comment #17435650

    I think a distinction is in order between elites who pretended to be pious and the true believers they ruled over.

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    Comment #17398920

    Wellington is like a smaller (and much more windy) San Francisco. Having just finished driving 12,000km tip-to-tip, that might be the one spot that's dense enough to amount to some…

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    "The result was a system composed of many wavefronts of change: some systems were automated with Puppet, some with Terraform, some used ECS and others used straight EC2. In 2012 we…

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    Comment #17353669

    Thank you for the linked post. I'm glad to see you have hope for a positive change. Can you reconcile that with the purges in the Turkish education system after the 2016 coup? http…

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    Comment #17353034

    My pet theory is that valuation is in part derived from engineer head count. Please note that this isn't a "I could build twitter in a weekend, why do they even have so many people…

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    For some color, watch Mark Ruffalo read Eugene Debs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuGp-0G1p4M