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tjdetwileron Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

FYI Android apps are also in a VM now.

https://chromeos.dev/en/posts/making-android-more-secure-wit...

tjdetwileron Amazon staff might get paid 50% less because shares have fallen so much

Amazon actually tells employees that they have a "total compensation" philosophy, which means that when the value of unvested shares increases then Amazon will take that into account when issuing new grants (ex: as part of the performance review and compensation process).

For example, if Amazon thinks you should be paid $250k per year and your total comp for the next year is at $300k based on the value of your granted but not yet vested stock awards, then Amazon will not award anymore stock awards to vest in that year. This is different from most other companies that usually just give you a stock award with a standard vest schedule (ex: 25% vest over 4 years).

Amazon has justified this buy telling employees that if the stock drops below your TC target, then they'll award more shares to make you whole. So the question is are employees going to be down from their TC target, or from an inflated compensation number from during the pandemic when many employees were likely making more than their TC targets.

At least this was how it worked when I was employed at Amazon in around 2017.

tjdetwileron I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pick it again

You can still return the str reference; callers can easily do the copy if they need while allowing for zero-copy for simpler usages.

tjdetwileron TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C

With x you're just bringing a window manager that plugs into the x-server. With wayland there's no standard 'window manager' plugin to arbitrary wayland servers. So the wayland example is doing more things (lots is handled by wlroots though).

tjdetwileron Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck

It sounds like they're actually saying they see Linux as a conduit for cheating and they don't see enough upside to be worth that risk.

tjdetwileron More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts

CS tools should require some 2FA based on personal information. CS agents should not be able to access arbitrary data.

tjdetwileron Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits

git config --global core.editor <EDITOR>

tjdetwileron CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs

Rust's cargo does something similar, however it looks like they were much more conscious of git-scalability (ex: limiting the directories in a single level, only appending lines to files to make diffs small).

https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index

tjdetwileron Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B

ARM has something similar: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/jazelle....

tjdetwileron Uber leaves Kansas after lawmakers demand background checks and more insurance

Lyft (as far as I know) won't show the driver your destination until the ride is started. It's intended to save time in allowing the driver to bring up directions and not as a decision point for them to decide if they want to take the ride or not.

tjdetwileron Bidding farewell to Google Code

The email I received made me look at some long lost repositories of mine that I did while learning in school. It's always fun to be able to look back on work you did when you were less experienced.

It's unfortunate how transient the internet can be. How much information is created and lost over such a short period of time.

tjdetwileron Adopting Microservices at Netflix: Lessons for Architectural Design

All APIs have performance SLAs that are not consistent. You may have 50% of requests finish in 200ms or less, 90% finish in 300ms or less, and 99% finish in 600ms or less. You can do work to narrow the performance variation but performance is a % chance.

tjdetwileron Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace

I personally find cubes to be the worst combination of collaboration vs privacy. You still have people who will walk up to you when you're working, but the cubes really break up the space.

In my office, they have small "conference rooms" which really only have space for 2-3 people that you can reserve if you want to hide away in somewhere quite. I usually fall back to these if I need to go heads down on something.

The best part of the office is the ability to close/lock the door to prevent the annoying "walk ups" that really disrupt work.

tjdetwileron Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace

I went from private office to open floor plan when I switched jobs last. It was towards the bottom of things I cared about when I was considering the move.

Private offices are definitely nice, but I also enjoy the positives of an open office

tjdetwileron The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming

Even better, here's what I get:

http://i.imgur.com/QCyCMDH.png

tjdetwileron Google Play Game Services

As someone who only read the headline, that comment really piqued my interest.

tjdetwileron Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

Wouldn't that be impractical or impossible from a visa standpoint? That seems like a lot of H1Bs in 1 year for a single company.

tjdetwileron Kotlin, the Swift of Android

It's intended to be shorthand for:

  if (text2 != null) {
    text2.replace()
  }

Essentially they're moving support for @Nullable and @NotNull into the language and compiler.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/howto.html

tjdetwileron How to find your Uber passenger rating

Lyft provides a picture of the vehicle that will be picking you up.

tjdetwileron StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers

Have you tried IntelliJ?

tjdetwileron StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers

A singleton object doesn't need to be re-allocated.

tjdetwileron StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers

Can anyone provide context on "Heavy usage of static classes and methods, for simplicity and better performance."

Is performance _really_ an issue here?

tjdetwileron Kindle Unlimited

Perhaps, but before I had a Kindle I spent roughly $0/year on books. Now I buy 3-4 books in the $1-$5 price range a month.

tjdetwileron Kindle Unlimited

I assume it's a technical book? There are very few novels I'd pay even $10 for.

tjdetwileron Ask HN: Laptops for programming (that aren't Apple laptops)?

Can you elaborate on your opinion of the x240 (x220/x230 fan here, never used am x240)

tjdetwileron Surface Pro 3 Review

You just have to be careful you don't wedge your screen up into where the tray table folds up into.

tjdetwileron Gitjk – command to undo what you just did in git

I'm pretty sure your fetch logic is not right. First it assumes no arguments are passed. You assume origin/master (which is convention but not guaranteed) and also you assume a refspec isn't passed (in which case you need to rollback FETCH_HEAD).

tjdetwileron Show HN: Codebrag – No More Late Friday Fixes

Post-commit review

It sounds like this means post-merge code review too? After getting used to a pre-merge code review tool that does hard-gating (gerrit), I have trouble with other tools.

tjdetwileron The Tower of David – Venezuela’s “vertical slum”

Great book.

tjdetwileron Tmux 1.9 released

tmux a -d will attach and also detach all other clients.