havermeyer
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Comment · 10 months ago
Bank of America Unlimited Cash Rewards for the win :) My only regret is not realizing sooner that it existed since I used the Citi Double Cash card for so long.
Comment · 1 year ago
It makes me think of the how "I have thirst" is the literal translation from the French for "I'm thirsty."
Comment · 1 year ago
The Abseil time library makes time and date parsing and manipulation a lot nicer in C++: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/time
Comment · 2 years ago
I reviewed a CL from Hyrum at Google where he was trying to remove a `set_timeout(float)` method in favor of `set_timeout(absl::Duration)` and changed the former to delegate to the latter. It turned out that there was some special handling of inf/nan in the legacy API, despite no mention in the documentation, and his CL broke a number of tests. It was amusing to experience Hyrum's law so directly :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Something else to consider is compile time versus runtime validation with formatting libraries, e.g. due to passing the wrong number or type of arguments. The Abseil str_format library does compile time validation for both when possible: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/format
Comment · 3 years ago
I wish I could find the article I read a while ago on the history, but it reminds me of how "nauseous" ended up becoming synonymous with "nauseated."
Comment · 3 years ago
Sorry, I didn't check comments for a while. The target date funds tend to have higher management fees and yes, worse composition of stocks versus bonds compared to holding a mix yourself, IMO, based on your goals.
Comment · 3 years ago
FYI you may be better off using an index fund and then rebalancing into bonds or other fixed income options closer to retirement. See this article, for example.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/one-of-the-biggest-retiremen...
Comment · 3 years ago
That would also be interesting to analyze: which de facto attributes do people add because they think they're needed to pass an initial screening?
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
The C API for Julia also has almost no documentation. There is a getting started guide, which is great, but if you want to do anything more advanced (e.g. creating structs like in your example), you'll end up reading the source code to try to puzzle through which functions to use in julia.h. There's also an apparent limitation that whichever thread initializes Julia is the only one that can later eval code, which was surprising. The language itself is very cool, but it has a long way to go to be easy to embed like Python is.
Comment · 5 years ago
There's even a subreddit dedicated to awful taste but great execution :) https://old.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/
Comment · 5 years ago
Gordon is amazing, and it's almost impossible to beat him to an answer for certain types of questions :) I had the chance to meet him a few years back to talk through some new SQL features coming to BigQuery (I'm at Snowflake now). He had a lot of great insights into what could make the product better, and what he thought was missing relative to other OLAP databases.