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FYI you can do cut in Mac. Do Cmd-C to copy and the Cmd-Option-V to cut-paste. For whatever reason, Windows has cut attached to selecting the file, but Mac has it attached to pasti…

Why is a judge asking a witness questions? Isn't that normally either the prosecutor or defense counsels' job?

To be clear, Linux kernel patches from good UMN researchers and students are rare. We have plenty of great people at the University of Minnesota, they just don't work on the Linux …

Why would Jupiter give off radiation?

Could you name it please? Thanks

Could you clarify what you mean by "don't abstract idioms?"

Up to the team. I've "interviewed" for 4 internal transfers there, and I've had: - Three 1hr interviews, coding/system design/behavioral - Portfolio review - Talk to senior enginee…

He got degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton. I have no idea how competent he is, but I think you can assume at least equal to the average college g…

One thing I learned in interview training about unconscious bias. "No one thinks they're immune to bias, but no one thinks in the moment that they're making a biased decision."

I don't think you would need to track each container individually (as another commenter said, consumers will probably keep an extra of each item for buffer). The subscription/order…

Even worse, at some big companies, recruiters will ignore direct referrals and ask you to submit the resume internally through their req system. But then resumes get lost anyway. G…

This is something I learned recently, but some people who get lucky and find a good manager will just follow them around for a while. At least at Amazon, having a great manager is …

That doesn't sound accurate. Anecdata, but in my current org in Amazon Retail I think about 1 in 15 engineers browse HN daily. When I was in AWS it was around 1 in 3. Why do you th…

Good find, thanks!

Very cool project, I'm trying it out, but this is an unrelated question: what is that Vim colorscheme in your screenshot? Do you have a link?

There was a large (but informal) survey done on /r/haskell (one of the largest Haskell communities) last month about "Why Haskell sucks". The results were collated into a presentat…

Yeah, and that's why you squash all the intermediate commits first. If all your commits on master are useful and meaningful individually, bisect works great.

Some sites only use Flash like Crunchyroll or Quia for DRM purposes (and lack of technical chops)

An Erlang process isn't really equivalent to a Java thread. A Java thread maps to a native thread, whereas an Erlang process is entirely in userspace. Erlang processes are basicall…

Did you switch that up? Learn You a Haskell is excellent for beginners. The intermediate space is the gap.

I think you should learn Rust, because there are actually things there that you can't learn about in other languages. 1. How to manually manage memory more safely with aid from a b…

Um, that was sarcasm right? You might want to add a /s then.

Cheers! Let's make 2016 even better!

Forbes doesn't even work with an adblocker for the last couple weeks. If you want to hear about the actual settlement, here's a ReCode article: http://recode.net/2015/12/30/apple-t…

I'm not a d3 dev, but from what I've heard is that the current d3.min.js is v3, the current standard. The various small modules that are coming out are v4, and are meant to entirel…