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That's true now, but it doesn't have to be. Before the retina MacBook Pro, the MacBook Pro used to be one of the easiest laptops to service. Opening it up, it was very easy to acce…

I moved straight from an SE to a iPhone X - it's substantially larger. https://phonesized.com/compare/#632,900

Two things: 1) proto buffers intentionally don't allow null values; values that aren't set will return a default value 2) gRPC uses proto3, which does not distinguish between a fie…

The parent commenter is referring to the Half Dome permitting system. There's no limit on people entering the park daily (which is why it's so incredibly crowded). They do cap the …

(Also a Googler, not GP commenter. Speaking just for me.) Yes, I have. Generally this was a case where the candidate had a good grasp on an approach to the question by the end of t…

As of iOS 12 Safari does this automatically when you use the share sheet.

State sales taxes can't really be compared to a VAT. A VAT gets collected at each step along the way from raw materials to final product; sales tax is only collected at final sale.…

I like mountain climbing, skiing, rock climbing, sea kayaking, hiking, snowshoeing, backpacking, mountain biking. Many of these things are only possible near mountains. I live in B…

Sort of. Google apps give you the choice to open in Safari or Chrome. Not sure if they allow you to pick a different browser besides those two.

I see where you're coming from on some points, such as complex character sets and caching. But runtime and spacetime complexity are basic concepts which should be taught in any res…

Important to note that at this point they're only reading one bit at a time from kernel memory, but it could probably be changed to read more--exactly how many branches it could co…

I have for a class - external keyboard is a must, but as long as you're comfortable in vim, it's not a bad way to go.

It's interesting to read someone else thinking that - I am about to graduate with my CS / Engineering degree, and I've tried to take classes which benefit from university instructi…

I haven't personally taken organic chemistry, but several of my friends who have taken both organic chemistry and algorithms have said that algorithms is by far the harder of the t…

Visual studio. I've heard that its design is beautiful and I think I'd learn a lot reading it.

Blender is another excellent example of this.