mrcrassic

> C99 allows variable declarations anywhere

I actually like declaring my variables at the top. To me, this seems more readable than searching for declaration statements throughout the code.

Why should I not do this?

Do you have data to support this? I too live in Brooklyn and have found the opposite to be true.

> By early 2015, I had an overwhelming impression that Google is a much sloppier technology than I ever imagined.

After working there, I can definitely agree with this. Their engineering chops are pretty high but not only are there tons of bugs with their products (though complexity can cause that), but they also have very poor documentation for everything, so if you run into an awesome bug, your likeliness for finding an obvious solution without having to pnig the team responsible is about as reliable as a coin toss.

That's actually terrible advice, in my opinion. Raising a family is REALLY hard work that requires a lot of time and dedication out of you. It also restricts what you can and can't do; quitting jobs that you hate or moving somewhere to seize an opportunity become astronomically difficult with a family.

Families are important, but why limit your potential early?

this is amazing.

Sounds like Morgan Stanley

I worked for Two Sigma for about a year. They've been on a hiring spree for years, and I understood why: they're trying to build Amazon-level technology for just them.

Excellent company to work for; highly recommend them!

It is also a very good way to stagnate under fear of trying something new

It's excellent until you realize that you're paying WAY more for every click than you would with AdWords and that their reach is only limited to Yelp and doesn't do THAT much to boost your presence. My mom was considering it for her daycare business but I argued against it for this reason and many other small businesses that have dealt with them concluded the same thing.

Word. My Qy8 IEMs from some no-name Chinese electronics company were $25 shipped and sound just as good as Jaybirds! I was shocked that they've gotten this good now.

Linus's comments make a lot of sense but the fact of the matter is this: a number is a number is a number. If I run the same "flawed" benchmark suite on last year's iPhone 5, it will tell me that, yes, its CPU is indeed slower than that of a 6S. The tests might not holistically represent real-world usage but they output just enough data to tell me quantitatively how much better one phone performs over another in a vacuum.

The "real" benchmark; actually running automation on a cross section of phones against a few popular apps, would probably be a more useful test. But Anandtrch and their cohorts don't seem to agree.

PowerShell + Set-PSReadline = awesome terminal!

The Echo is awesome; my girlfriend and I have had it for the last few months and LOVE being able to just play music by telling it to play. It's also an AMAZING bluetooth speaker; seriously, it's so fucking loud and on point. It's worth every penny.

This looks incredibly, incredibly useful. These guys are going to go FAR with this. I just pre-ordered one. Can't wait!

I met a TSA airport agent a few months ago and, naturally, asked him exactly this. Apparently, the TSA purposely does not release accurate statistics as a security measure and that he and his colleagues have definitely stopped a lot of potential, but minor, scenarios from happening.

I could be wrong and uneducated about this, of course.

> As a dark-skinned man who oftentimes sports a beard, I'm treated like a terrorist every single time I walk through security. To them, I'm a second-class citizen - no question about it.

As another (very) dark-skinned man who has also donned something close to a beard, I've noticed that (a) I've been treated the same as everyone else at all of the major hubs and (b) Everyone else gets treated like cattle.

Same for when I've travelled with my family, and my Mom and Dad are dark.

I've definitely had my fair share of stupid racists (okay, maybe less than my fair share; I got lucky somehow); going through airport security hasn't been it.

Maybe it's a regional thing?

I think one of the best and clearest examples of a useful monad is the Error monad in OCaml (and Haskell, I think). Error is a type that can return two different things depending on the result of a computation. One could use exceptions for this sort of thing, but this is much, much cheaper.

Some people find it hard because they are not interested enough to really take the time to understand it.

Others just don't have the mind for it, like how some don't have the body to dance or play sports at a professional level.

There are, indeed, some concepts that come naturally to only a handful of people (kernel development is hard for me; interesting, but hard), but I think the fundamentals are pretty easy to grasp for most of the mainstream languages.

Some concepts are just plain

You don't need that much memory if you're setting up a simple IMAP server; you could probably do it on a super cheap instance on AWS, Rackspace or similar.

I am failing to see what the big stink is about "giving up one's privacy" when using "the cloud." Yes, there are some shady providers that might put their hands in the cookie jar at their convenience. That sucks. Google isn't one of those providers, though. What advantage would they gain from reading people's mail at a whim?

Regardless, one's privacy is already compromised the moment they sign up for Internet service; that information can be made available to the right people after one subpoena.

$50 for only THREE 9's? NO THANKS. :p

It sucks that they've removed the free version; it's definitely a step up from managing multiple individual gmail accounts or creating a shared account of some sort. (I use one for one of the side jobs I do; it's a pain in the ass.)

However, $50/year for premium is really friggin good, considering that the cheapest alternative is $10/mo ($100/yr) for hosted Exchange 2010 alone.

Not to be rude, but most apps on the Play Store are going to run slow with those specs, especially if it's running on a more current version of Android than it was designed for. My G2 used to be blazing fast when it came out two years ago. I wouldn't even dare attempt running anything on that thing now.

Personally, I've found Google's Apps to work the best and look the best...on modern devices.

My screen's resolution is 1200x1920, which is, apparently, not big enough to run this...?

Second to this, I don't recommend using the built-in script editor. It's slow as all hell and not that helpful when learning how to write your first scripts. Instead, I recommend the Script Editor that comes with PowerGUI. It has IntelliSense (sort of), which is kind of a crutch in the beginning but displays the sheer amount of power Powershell has.

Personally, I'd just pay $10/month or whatever and spin up a cheap VM on Rackspace, EC2 or similar with 256MB of RAM and a few gigs of disk storage. A simple web server really doesn't need a full on server (or desktop, even).

It's a bit different if you're expecting said site to get 100K+ views per day or is going to host some big database, but even then I'd probably run it in the cloud to save on bandwidth costs.

True, but if you really wanted to go MS, you can just find a student willing to download and host it for you elsewhere..

It should be noted that the INFO code does not work on most OEM customised builds (HTC, Samsung, LG et. al.)

If you do more functional programming, it will become second-hand to you.

I posted this on the blog:

I worked remotely frequently at my last job (which I left a few months back, so the experiences are still pretty fresh). I discovered that being in the right environment is absolutely key…and absolutely non-static. I did some of my best work on the bus to the coffee shop (and in those same coffee shops as well). Conversely, I’ve hardly been able to work while at home because of the lack of noise (weird, I know.).

White noise and chatter helped me think, and fending off the distractions was pretty easy because I was in a zone where I was most productive.

Nice reference to the Pomodoro Technique; I’ve, unknowingly, done variations of this technique and it works really, really well. It’s exactly like exercising.

"his summer, hackers destroyed my entire digital life in the span of an hour. My Apple, Twitter, and Gmail passwords were all robust—seven, 10, and 19 characters, respectively, all alphanumeric, * some with symbols thrown in as well—but the three accounts were linked, *"

Emphasis mine. Enough said. Passwords are still pretty secure; two-factor authentication makes it even more so.