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These classes often encourage you to collaborate - with others in the class, and also with outside resources. That is: they would encourage you to go read the paper, so long as you…

Correlations. Language and framework preferences are driven heavily by the environment in which those languages are used. My hypothesis is that firms which still use Rails are like…

Actually, it ships user choice now. (You can select VS Code if you like.)

Just curious, around how long ago was this change made? Can you find web.archive.org links for a page which was changed? I'd find them useful for discussions with my peers.

Most of the finance industry is also not about profits on the time-scale of retirement savings, or about minimizing variance for every sample.

No, because it was emphatically not opt-in, nor was there an open conduit for others to provide alternatives.

the author of the site (Matt Godbolt) is in general pretty great.

Sorry for OT, are there docs for what karma requirements are for what actions?

Hi Uber employee, this is an unrelated question, do you have any thoughts on the recent Uber Visa card?

LOL.

Can you explain what your code example would be used for (instead of just plus)?

In other words, exactly what everyone who uses chips wants.

It's worth noting that in my observation their fares jump in price as the flight approaches to a higher degree than some other airlines, though not too much higher, and I still pre…

Unfortunately, they don't really have control over that. I'm sure every airline would love to decrease the hassle of flying - it would be great for business.

I'm aware of it because it's the inspiration for the message system in _A Fire Upon The Deep_ (Vernor Vinge).

Its gesture-interpretation algorithm has gotten absolutely terrible for me recently, to the point that I frequently have to type out whole messages letter by letter because it will…

If you have an SSD then defragmentation does nothing

Just do that in the task manager

Bax does reply in support to Volder's videos, which seems positive.

What domestic airlines do you fly most? Do you regularly fly business?

I'm pretty happy with Thinkpad keyboards :) Some of the more modern ones are thinner, and I haven't tried the ones on the X1 series for instance.

I meant a situation where an emergency happened outside your car and autopilot required you to take control (not without warning). Did you feel like you were more or less capable o…

I think you mean reference with & (e.g. &x == &y)

If you compare it to the same product code somewhere else, perhaps. Your parent is stating they perceive the quality at Whole Foods to be substantially better, and worth the price …

"type safe" has come to mean "statically type safe" over time in common conversation. You were downvoted because this intended usage was clear to the people who downvoted you and t…