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I'm pretty surprised, and a little disappointed by, this addition. The FB board is already a who's who of "Silicon Valley Standard Perspectives". As Facebook's biggest challenges c…

Not common at all. I was an eng at FB when the "View as" feature was being built. I wasn't involved in the project at all, and my memory is hazy (this was probably 7 years ago by n…

Hi Wilhem! I'm no VC, but I have made a few investments in companies, independently. I'll give you my immediate impressions. It's a very cute project! Nice animations. How does it …

I believe in the rough benchmarks of ~4 hours of work a day. I also believe that people are widely scattered around that mark. I've been doing an experiment where I print out my wo…

Sorry, I phrased that poorly. I meant that I, personally, based off of my own biases, was expecting it - not that it should be obvious to everybody based on global factors. In fact…

I'm not super familiar with codeeval, but it seems like (from the sample puzzles on the homepage) the puzzles are pretty standard engineering interview questions. That is, they are…

Actually, if you search for "Tiananmen" you do still get filtered results. Searching "Tianamen" (note the missing "n") is not filtered, though. I wonder if this was a purposeful lo…

I don't know much about what it's like to hire an independent contractor (i.e. how much oversight and control is typically practiced), but is it really possible that Microsoft woul…

2 minutes later, it's there. This is a very obscure phrase that no one else ever uses. ... hackerne.ws/item?id=973578 - 1 minute ago

Sorta forgot about this thread, but hopefully ou see this. K is super-great at vector operations; element-wise addition between two lists of equal length, for example; more powerfu…

I worked at a K shop last summer, and when I was learning the language, I tried using sensible variable names. I was told in no uncertain terms that, when you write K, local variab…

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It seems like there's a lot of different applications, finger commands, pen commands, etc. If Microsoft can come with some kind of consistency across the different use cases, this …