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Do you have a source on this? Even one about the market in general? I wasn't aware of this practice before now.

Monomorphisation is the name of the technique of producing a different version of the code for each set of type parameters that are used in the program. C++ and Rust use monomorphi…

The burden of proof that facebook can see months into the future would be on the poster. No evidence is needed to simply disbelieve this.

>We take the data we get and process it for later use What data do you collect/use to make the music?

Do you have any science to back those claims up? What are you basing it on?

My first thought was Lumosity [1]. I'd love for these claims to be real, but I'm just not willing to believe claims like these until I see a significant result in a randomized cont…

Do you have a suggestion for a replacement for "monad"? It's always been such an opaque term to me, even as I began to get a grasp of it.

Professional ethics of software engineering is definitely something we're going to have to grapple with more and more. Another aspect is being asked to use Dark Patterns in a UI or…

Tip: include the text "San Francisco" or "SF" instead of "s.f.", it makes searching for your post more obvious.

I think you're on the right track. The way I remember it: the product was still overwhelmingly better than everything else. Missing copy&paste was an "oh well" compared to owning a…

You shouldn't expect quantum computers to bring a "free-lunch" speedup the way that clock-speed increases did for such a long time.

I would define the term "high-level language" to mean that it's possible to write programs in the language without needing to worry about the specific hardware that the program is …

You have a typo in "Francisco"

You have a typo in "Francisco"

>has been in iOS since forever Granular permissions have only been in iOS since version 6.0, which came out 3 years ago. The first version of iOS was 8 years ago. For a feature tha…

You should become skeptical of languages that compile to C. I can't get into the details because I don't know them very well, but take a look a pcwalton's comment history for a fai…

Why? Because their applicant pool is too small? Or because the cost of doing that many interviews is so steep? Or something else? I intuitively had the exact opposite reaction: mos…

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I'd guess that most are in the SF office, but I didn't know that had 29 other offices until 5 seconds ago.

Wifi is not too slow for RAWs. I backed-up my entire library to the cloud over wifi. I would bet most people don't need to transfer their files on a fast enough timescale that wifi…

I don't know, at this rate, in 9 days he'll need agreement from everyone in the world!

In the spec [1], they published the dictionary used in hexadecimal form. Can someone explain why there are so many 6's in the data? For comparison here's a chart of hex character a…

Small communities become smaller when certain people share similar interests. -Tarblog

Maybe, but there's strong evidence (from the field of macroeconomics) that allowing people to just receive money (rather than payments in kind) makes them even better off. Although…

Would you mind posting more information about your experience? I'm interested.