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Bank of America Unlimited Cash Rewards for the win :) My only regret is not realizing sooner that it existed since I used the Citi Double Cash card for so long.

It makes me think of the how "I have thirst" is the literal translation from the French for "I'm thirsty."

The Abseil time library makes time and date parsing and manipulation a lot nicer in C++: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/time

I reviewed a CL from Hyrum at Google where he was trying to remove a `set_timeout(float)` method in favor of `set_timeout(absl::Duration)` and changed the former to delegate to the…

Something else to consider is compile time versus runtime validation with formatting libraries, e.g. due to passing the wrong number or type of arguments. The Abseil str_format lib…

I wish I could find the article I read a while ago on the history, but it reminds me of how "nauseous" ended up becoming synonymous with "nauseated."

Sorry, I didn't check comments for a while. The target date funds tend to have higher management fees and yes, worse composition of stocks versus bonds compared to holding a mix yo…

FYI you may be better off using an index fund and then rebalancing into bonds or other fixed income options closer to retirement. See this article, for example. https://www.cnbc.co…

That would also be interesting to analyze: which de facto attributes do people add because they think they're needed to pass an initial screening?

http://archive.today/W0LzA

The C API for Julia also has almost no documentation. There is a getting started guide, which is great, but if you want to do anything more advanced (e.g. creating structs like in …

There's even a subreddit dedicated to awful taste but great execution :) https://old.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/

Gordon is amazing, and it's almost impossible to beat him to an answer for certain types of questions :) I had the chance to meet him a few years back to talk through some new SQL …

Axios uses this format, where they have a short summary and bullet points. Here's an example: https://www.axios.com/tropical-storm-henri-slams-new-england...

Sharing since this sounds interesting but also like a terrible financial idea.

I hadn't heard about this mantra before: Management's reasoning fell in line with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's early mantra, "company over country," according to the book. "As a private g…

absl::StrFormat provides compile-time safety: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/format

Did you keep in touch with any of the other students? I can't imagine that anyone came away thinking it was pleasant, but I'm curious how their thoughts on the experience compared …

I saw a lot of this when I worked at Google, both with internal-facing products and external-facing ones (software, though, not hardware). Organization A would build their own quer…

Archive link: http://archive.today/2021.05.08-195117/https://www.nytimes.c...