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FYI Android apps are also in a VM now. https://chromeos.dev/en/posts/making-android-more-secure-wit...

Amazon actually tells employees that they have a "total compensation" philosophy, which means that when the value of unvested shares increases then Amazon will take that into accou…

You can still return the str reference; callers can easily do the copy if they need while allowing for zero-copy for simpler usages.

With x you're just bringing a window manager that plugs into the x-server. With wayland there's no standard 'window manager' plugin to arbitrary wayland servers. So the wayland exa…

It sounds like they're actually saying they see Linux as a conduit for cheating and they don't see enough upside to be worth that risk.

CS tools should require some 2FA based on personal information. CS agents should not be able to access arbitrary data.

git config --global core.editor

Rust's cargo does something similar, however it looks like they were much more conscious of git-scalability (ex: limiting the directories in a single level, only appending lines to…

ARM has something similar: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/jazelle....

Lyft (as far as I know) won't show the driver your destination until the ride is started. It's intended to save time in allowing the driver to bring up directions and not as a deci…

The email I received made me look at some long lost repositories of mine that I did while learning in school. It's always fun to be able to look back on work you did when you were …

All APIs have performance SLAs that are not consistent. You may have 50% of requests finish in 200ms or less, 90% finish in 300ms or less, and 99% finish in 600ms or less. You can …

I personally find cubes to be the worst combination of collaboration vs privacy. You still have people who will walk up to you when you're working, but the cubes really break up th…

I went from private office to open floor plan when I switched jobs last. It was towards the bottom of things I cared about when I was considering the move. Private offices are defi…

Even better, here's what I get: http://i.imgur.com/QCyCMDH.png

As someone who only read the headline, that comment really piqued my interest.

Wouldn't that be impractical or impossible from a visa standpoint? That seems like a lot of H1Bs in 1 year for a single company.

It's intended to be shorthand for: if (text2 != null) { text2.replace() } Essentially they're moving support for @Nullable and @NotNull into the language and compiler. https://www.…

Lyft provides a picture of the vehicle that will be picking you up.

Have you tried IntelliJ?

A singleton object doesn't need to be re-allocated.

Can anyone provide context on "Heavy usage of static classes and methods, for simplicity and better performance." Is performance _really_ an issue here?

Perhaps, but before I had a Kindle I spent roughly $0/year on books. Now I buy 3-4 books in the $1-$5 price range a month.

I assume it's a technical book? There are very few novels I'd pay even $10 for.

Can you elaborate on your opinion of the x240 (x220/x230 fan here, never used am x240)