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nevir··on Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
Take a look at operational transforms as another great solution to this sort of problem. Many collaborative editors rely on them (Google docs, etc)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

nevir··on Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
It's pretty difficult for anyone else to seriously enter the marketplace
nevir··on Economics of Minecraft
Awesome! Glad you're enjoying it so far
nevir··on Economics of Minecraft
+1 to that. The devs have also hammered out many of the core systems and are focusing a lot on balancing - which means lots of changes to watch & speculate how they'll effect the economy
nevir··on Economics of Minecraft
If that scratches your itch, take a look at Boundless (playboundless.com). Though it's still pretty early, and the player base is tiny, the economy is pretty interesting
nevir··on AI will replace coders by 2040, warn academics
Good! We should be working to automate ourselves away, along with everything else. It's what we do.
nevir··on Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
Ditto taxes.

I moved to California in 2014. In 2016, I got a letter saying I owed back taxes (state) for 2012 on an estimated income. Took quite some time to clean that one up :-/

nevir··on Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level
To get the real picture, though, you really also need to include total compensation (e.g. avg bonuses, shares, 401k benefits). The actual numbers are quite a bit higher, I bet. Particularly for more established companies.
nevir··on Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
> So how does one draw the lines between bad luck, reasonable security problems, everyday poor performance, civil liability, and criminal negligence?

By analyzing how they prepared for the inevitable attack (mitigation), as well as how they respond to it after the fact.

nevir··on An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine
It's a chip that your motherboard manufacturer hardwired in (e.g. part of the chipset). Firmware updates need to go through the efi/bios they set up
nevir··on Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS
No questions - just a huge thanks for doing this!
nevir··on Tesla Semi
Vast majority have far fewer than 10 trucks.
nevir··on What is a Source Map
Pretty much all the native ones. When you're debugging c/c++/etc, you're relying on source maps (via dwarf/elf/etc)
nevir··on Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids
Current state of the world.
nevir··on Google Releases Colaboratory
They can release a version that supports 2.7 much sooner
nevir··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
Your fingers don't have as far to travel, and there's no seeking involved (hand doesn't move)
nevir··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
The numpad is a considerably faster input method, and it can be performed one handed. For a point of sale system, this is critical: the clerk can juggle an item while typing the phone number (or price, or whatever)
nevir··on Chrome breaks the Web
Firefox (and IE) did the same thing for autocomplete=off, with the same rationale.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956906

nevir··on DSLR-Quality Photos on Mobile Devices with Deep Convolutional Network
Consider a future where you don't have to configure your camera before shooting, and instead do all the configuration after
nevir··on US blacklists 17 firms from applying H1-B
It's often hard to split work between countries effectively (especially in large corporations). A lot of the larger & more impactful projects tend to be done at a home base - for political or logistical reasons.

Speaking from experience at Amazon & Google.

nevir··on US blacklists 17 firms from applying H1-B
Yes, there's a shortage of qualified software developers, at least.
nevir··on So you want to write a type checker (2014)
Design decisions like this are part of what makes TypeScript much more enjoyable to work in than other JS type systems (e.g. Closure, Flow).

TS tends to make pragmatic tradeoffs between sound typing, and the way JS developers tend to architect code. I'm glad they do.

nevir··on GraphQL Fragments Are the Best Match for UI Components
Consider using conditional fields using the @include or @skip directives
nevir··on Apollo Client 2.0
Congrats to the Apollo team! A ton of work went into this
nevir··on Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
They still scan email for product features. Travel receipts for things like "my flights" & Google Now, etc
nevir··on Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
Search doesn't really need ML to be effective
nevir··on Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime
Shared memory & low overhead sharing of expensive objects is probably the primary reason to use Napa
nevir··on Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime
V8 doesn't support (real) forking, unfortunately
nevir··on If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint
Agreed. You can be sure that whomever was involved with the bug will probably never make that mistake again.
nevir··on Due Diligence Report on Otto and Anthony Levandowski
There's also several options for purely online editing (devving on a Chromebook isn't bad)
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