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Yes! Thank you very kindly sir!

Does anyone remember this short story written in the style of Hemingway talking about fighting against bugs and drinking mochas? I want to say it was written by an engineer from Mi…

The answer is you build a team that builds tools to make optimization easier for everyone in the engineering organization. One individual team can't optimize every application, but…

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How long you wait for an H1B is dependent on the country you are from because of USCIS imposed per year limits per country. See: https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country-limit

This Mill guy is the gift that keeps on giving. With any luck he’ll still be around to explain how the soon-to-be-released Mill 1.0 cpu would have avoided the year 2038 problem.

I believe something similar (maybe exactly that) was suggested later on in the thread.

From the article: > (Disclosure: I used to work at Goldman designing derivatives, not apps. Also I have a Marcus savings account.)

Yeah VSS can be quite misleading, =p

Can you actually spend Bitcoin in physical stores outside of the Bay Area? Bitcoin just seems like an investment vehicle/security rather than a currency. How many people actually u…

But it isn't progressive, right? An individual in CA who makes 50k gets less in Federal funding to projects that would benefit them, than if that same individual moved to another s…

Oh boy, I really want to hear how you think the "Free Market" solves this problem. Remember kids: If it's broken, apply Free Market liberally to the affected areas.

Only on fucking Hacker News. Jesus Fucking Christ. My family failed me, that is why I am not Steve Jobs.

@falcolas -- I think you mean machine code not bytecode. And w.r.t. Mercurial afaik the project's hot paths are all written in Cython extensions, and there's ongoing work to improv…