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mlex commented on Show HN: A map that tells you if a NYC cafe has WiFi, a restroom, and an outlet   octobrain.one/maps/908lqY... · Posted by u/asimova
MarcusE1W · 2 years ago
A stupid question from a non native English speaker. What’s an outlet with regards to a Café?
mlex · 2 years ago
Power outlets so you can charge your laptop/phone.
mlex commented on The Peking Duck Exemption   culinarycrush.biz/all/pek... · Posted by u/Cenk
crumpled · 3 years ago
Kirishima Japan has a regional dish: Chicken Sashimi

Personally, I'm not brave enough.

mlex · 3 years ago
Had this once in Osaka, definitely had food poisoning the next few days.

I mostly blame myself for thinking it would be a good idea. It did taste pretty good though.

mlex commented on Avoiding homework with code and getting caught   alistair.blog/mochip... · Posted by u/aabbccsmith
rcfox · 3 years ago
When I was in university, I scraped an internal job postings site for students to find internships. The site was terrible- each job description would load in a pop-up window controlled by Javascript, and loading a second description would override the first. It was also really slow and had limited filtering. My version could load job descriptions in new tabs, presented the table on a single page, and you could mark jobs that you weren't interested in or had already applied to.

The university didn't take kindly to that. They accused me of trying to take down the co-op system and threatened to sue me for copyright infringement. Since I linked into their system for job descriptions, I was able to show that the data I actually had (company, title, location) wasn't creative work and therefore not copyrightable. I also had some friends in the university faculty and staff who spoke up for me, since I had reported security vulnerabilities in the past, indicating that I wasn't acting with malicious intent. In the end, I just had to take a business ethics course, which I probably would have taken anyway.

mlex · 3 years ago
JobMine Plus?
mlex commented on Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto   techbomb.ca/canadian-busi... · Posted by u/thunderbong
birger · 3 years ago
So is there an actual picture of the building and workspaces? I was hoping to see what a modern office looks like according to Microsoft.
mlex · 3 years ago
Searching on Google Maps, it looks like the "HQ" is located inside Toronto-Dominion Centre, which is an office complex downtown, nothing too exciting to look at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre

I'm sure if they had their own facade to show off they'd have a photo in the article.

mlex commented on Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto   techbomb.ca/canadian-busi... · Posted by u/thunderbong
mcpherrinm · 3 years ago
Not many Toronto datapoints on levels.fyi for Microsoft, but it looks like their median Canadian comp is $146k cad for data points in the last year. Which is probably enough to afford living in Toronto. The higher end (90th percentile) is $262k cad, which is definitely enough. However, that is lower than you’d probably get in Redmond, though I’m not sure by how much exactly.
mlex · 3 years ago
That p90 number (equivalent to 204k USD) looks like some typical SDE2 TCs in Redmond:

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Microsoft/salaries/Software-E...

mlex commented on Preview, the Mac app people forget about   fourth-wall.co.uk/post/10... · Posted by u/curiousBadger
nicoburns · 3 years ago
Apparently "Apple’s Core Graphics framework uses the PDF format for its internal vector graphics presentation."

https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2020/apple-and-pdf-history/

mlex · 3 years ago
Speaking as an iOS developer, we use PDF files to represent our vector icon assets in the app.

I thought it was a bit odd of a choice on the platform vs SVG which seems more popular (and which the Android devs on our team use), but CoreGraphics using it internally ties the whole picture together.

mlex commented on Practical advises on recommendation systems in production   arkid.substack.com/p/reco... · Posted by u/Arkid
rlanday · 3 years ago
You want a “dumb sorted list” of every video on YouTube?
mlex · 3 years ago
The better analogy on the YouTube side is the chronological subscribed channels feed: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

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