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It's a little strange to me that otherwise experienced people feel the need to "study" for Google interviews. To me, this seems less like they're selecting for good engineers and m…

Also the point the commenter thinks they're original in making is the main point of the actual article.

The article goes on to mention that it likely developed gradually over several generations. The first kids with the mutation would have never been taught recursive language by adul…

Haven't log-based file systems been a thing for a while now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system

I think they're talking about your machine's memory, not human memory.

He does measure the ambient temperature in the article. Happens around 60 degrees Fahrenheit, so well over freezing.

Shareholders care what the company they have invested in spends its money on.

Most people do not have the resources to lobby for that sort of tax system. Amazon, and other corporations, do.

It seems that every few years a new backend language comes to the forefront and becomes a popular for greenfield projects or rewrites. First people moved from PHP to Ruby, then Nod…

Isn't the code on GitHub?

I use Karabiner https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ and then used one of the Caps lock modifiers in https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/complex_modifications/#caps_l...

It was almost life-changing when I figured out how to do that on both my work Macbook and my home Linux machine. As another evil mode user I second what you said

I wish I could take a class on early film history. It's fascinating to see how people figured out all these techniques, tricks, rules, and conventions in the first few decades of m…

What do you mean by the "Gell Mann" test?

Not quite mammals but mammal-like reptiles. They're related to mammals but not our direct ancestors, more like aunts and uncles in the evolutionary family tree.

Yep definitely true. I meant that the original author of Gilgamesh would have lived at a time when certain Sanskrit names may have been heard of in Mesopotamia.

Gilgamesh was written ~2000 years after PIE's theorized origins. It actually lines up well with the Rigveda, one of the oldest surviving Vedic Sanskrit texts.

That was one of their grievances, yes. What's your opinion on the others on the list?

I added my home and work addresses to my phone's dictionary under the shortcuts "hm" and "wrk". In some ways this is even faster since I don't have to rely on the maps UI to insert…

> and applying what I learned This is a big part of it. This sort of improves with practice, but can also decay from lack of use. For me, I've found that regularly putting myself i…

Is it still high after factoring in paying for your own insurance and tax?

Really refreshing to see someone say they might do the same thing if the tables were turned. It's easy to judge others shortcomings in what we know, but there's probably plenty of …

You saw what they did there eh?