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The mythical expert programmer... Everyone has a cognitive limit on what they can keep track of/in working memory. Once your codebase exceeds that limit (in # of files, lines of co…

Not taking surge pricing into account probably plays a large role in explaining this article's findings. Another thing to note in his section with self driving cars: the pool of ca…

He means after you've paid your credit card bill with the included charges on it.

An article I found interesting on the potential evolutionary roots of depression: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=depressions...

Yes, the email system could be better. But for something that was designed decades ago it works surprisingly well. Should somebody try to do some smart parsing of failure notificat…

(Disclosure: FB employee, but nowhere near the photos/locations teams, just personal experience) In all likelihood, there's no magic. Its just comparing 'dumb' manual album labels …

Other fb employee here. One of the other annoyances we had (I think its addressed in the note?) is that until now the interpreter (on our dev machines) and the compiler (hphpc in p…

While I agree with you, I think the article was talking about the nontechnical consumers, the ones who don't understand what mhz and gigabytes mean, they just want a computer that …

Except the differences aren't subtle at all. In laptops, choosing between brands can mean a major change in build quality/durability. The difference between 4gb and 8gb of ram? Hug…

"This almost sounds like a spiritual leader declaring a jihad on Android as his dying wish" What the hell? Beyond the fact that this is one small part of a book (not the same as hi…

Correct. I thought that was in my profile info (it wasn't has since been updated). That said, I was going out of my way to make my comment as general purpose as possible (I think e…

So, I'm going to make a statement that I think is important for anyone reading anything on the internet. WHAT IS THE PROOF! (also known as 'consider the author', 'read the article'…

afaik, facebook does not use flash cookies. In the initial blog post that caused the cookie uproar, I thought he mentioned that? Otherwise maybe it was somewhere else I read it.

Source? That doesnt sound like an unreasonable number, but I'm dubious of articles like this (site I've never been to before, obvious bias, lack of source).

That may be true, but even if it is, it isn't sharing this activity with your friends, that would be facebook doing exactly what google does with their analytics platform/js. I don…

Couldn't agree more. Its been the use of XHP and looking at the ... contraption HPHP is that started me thinking about this in the first place.

I had a friend mention this to me before I wrote this, and it does seem pretty neat. That said, I think it's big shortcoming to me (havent spent much time with it, spent ~10 minute…

Perhaps? It's unclear that a JIT with type inference will give you better performance than compiling (especially if you were to do profile guided optimization) (sidethought: not su…

Right on. I'm not sure I'd go so far as wanting the language to be as strict/typesafe as those (also calling Haskell an ML derivative is kind of funny, but I know what you mean)

So, like I said in the post (but perhaps didn't make clear enough) is that there are plenty of options for when scaling isn't too much of an issue. But you take a look at Twitter (…