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xhp was honestly pretty nice - it was something watching the rapid codemods transform the language. There was also ComponentKit, which was used heavily in fbobjc: https://github.co…

Nice explainer: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/03/the-cartoon-guide-to-perps Perps are extremely fun, and not great for your financial health in general. Very addictive PvP game tho…

If you haven’t heard of the Kia boys over here in the states, it’s definitely something. This vid is…a bit controversial but the Kia boys are definitely a thing in Milwaukee: https…

War of Art. Solid book; picked it up after seeing this passage on HN hehe

I was thinking of getting one but considering the price point, there are far too many stories of broken devices and slow/non-existent support: https://www.reddit.com/r/OP1users/com…

historically, LEO have been fairly aggressive on the road to Burning Man...i think i've had a "close call" the past several years. for example, last year when i was driving from Re…

was at a startup where the split was 72.5/10/10 (eng)/7.5 (me) when we got into an incubator; investors tried to convince the ceo that we should do an even split iirc, but he felt …

when i was working at fb, i specifically got a s7 as a work phone to use with gear vr to dogfood and i found the phone-insertion experience to be rather annoying. it was so annoyin…

why didn't you buy last week? the price is never too high to buy, and never too low to sell. if you really believe it will go up, why not buy when you think the chart looks good an…

at UIUC, there's a project in the systems class (CS241) that is exactly this. there's a leaderboard with projects and how it compares to the system malloc for a variety of metrics …

sometime in the future, Apple will begin releasing swift-only APIs. it's unclear that one should "drop everything", but swift usage will only increase in the future. in addition, a…

There's actually a UIUC alum center in SF - http://www.sfbayillini.org/ . The last estimate I heard was that there are somewhere around 40,000-50,000 UIUC graduates in the Bay Area…

They based this on an interestingly small amount of data. The 5,318 Google employees, for example, is a pretty small fraction of the 49,829 employees they had in Q1 of 2014.

What's it been like wearing it in public? Any interesting interactions with curious people? Any vocal hatred directed your way? I noticed you live in Virginia, so I'm especially cu…

Here's a nice tutorial that runs through of some of Macaw's features: https://medium.com/p/aeb72baf1755

There's a live call right about this right now: http://www.shareholder.com/visitors/event/build3/stage/stage...

I still find the pressure to work on side projects in your free time difficult to come to terms with. There's often discussion about how if you don't like what you're doing, then y…

It's a reference to Hank Scorpio from The Simpsons, a character who was simultaneously the perfect boss and an evil genius. http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Hank_Scorpio

This sounds very similar to something that Hideo Kojima mentioned wanting to do for a PC game: "So maybe when you put it [the game] in your disk drive and you're playing for about …

Regarding returning things without a receipt: Once upon a time, it used to be possible to get Bing points by playing a bunch of stupid games on Club Bing - you could accumulate at …

It is EXTREMELY difficult to get money into BTC-E. You have to go through multiple currency exchangers which each take a cut of the action. It takes a lot of time and is annoying a…

There's a big rally going on. It found support around 68 a week ago and it's been steadily climbing since.