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Comment · 7 days ago
This reminds me that I still haven't watched `part 2` of a very nice video from 3Blue1Brown - "Compression is Intelligence". YouTube suggestions, definitely failed me with this one.
Comment · 1 month ago
Reminds me of: "The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life." Paul Murphy.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I've read somewhere that white noise is similar to what they hear while they are inside their Mom, so this puts them into a familiar environment, which makes them calm.
Comment · 6 years ago
For me the big issue with DST is the stress to the organism it's causing at every transition from winter to summer time. So I was wondering instead of picking between Winter and Summer time, can't we make the transition less stresfull? I.e. instead of shifting the time by 1 hour twice a year, shift it by 15 minutes 8 times in a year? Maybe this way the organism won't feel it so much?
Comment · 6 years ago
As someone who experience this very often I can't say that Firefox is becoming unresponsive, you can still scroll up/down, change tabs, etc.. but the all pages are glitched similar (even worse) to the screenshots.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
I guess because on Newspapers, Radio and TV you cannot target a specific group of people. Yes, someone can argue that you can target a specific Newspaper, Radio or TV which may have a specific group of people, but I think its not the same.
Comment · 7 years ago
> It also states one line before

I know and I believe there is a purpose to be exactly after that line. Writing only simple code is not enough. If you write everything in a simple manner your code will most likely be complicated, that's exactly why you have next - complex is better than complicated.

I see this feature the same way as comprehensions, scary and complex at first, but once you learn it you would wish anyone would use it.

Comment · 7 years ago
Well the zen of python also states:

- Complex is better than complicated.

Using the walrus operator makes the code more complex, but less complicated.

Comment · 8 years ago
I'm pretty sure that even if that thing costs a million, your salary will not increase.
Comment · 8 years ago
Great article, so no unit testing? I knew it!
Comment · 9 years ago
Are you saying that Facebook employees are not motivated to work? Or that now after he has been hired, he is not adding any value anymore?

Facebook is a multi-billion dollar startup and its created by the people working there. So it may not be my favorite company, but I give respect to that, and the people working there.

I can't say what's the skillset to be an effective engineer at a large company, but I do believe that it must be a SUBSET of the skillset required to create a successful startup.

Comment · 9 years ago
>> The cost of failing to hire a good engineer is small

I'm not so sure about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Koum

"In September 2007 Koum and Acton left Yahoo and took a year off, traveling around South America and playing ultimate frisbee. Both applied, and failed, to work at Facebook."

"On February 9, 2014 Zuckerberg asked Koum to have dinner at his home, and formally proposed Koum a deal to join the Facebook board - 10 days later Facebook announced it was acquiring WhatsApp for US$19 Billion USD."

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