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by Androider 4y ago
If you haven't, please read the classic "Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You" [1] by the always fantastic Steve Yegge (who used to work at Google). As he so succinctly put it, the email follows the stand
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by Androider 4y ago
Usually it's pretty clear, e.g. you can say to yourself in the morning "If I complete X today, it will have been a good day". Yet somehow at the end of the day you will have spent all your time doing everything but X.
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by Androider 4y ago
Game Pass is a massive success, and PlayStation Now was just revamped to be more like it. How Stadia managed to be so close, yet so completely miss the biggest trend in gaming is frankly quite astonishing. I remember Google was talking up h
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by Androider 4y ago
It's usually not enough to be a bit better than what you're trying to displace, you have to be 10X better than the status quo to have any real impact. For example, SVN tried to be a better CVS, while Git came out of left field and
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by Androider 4y ago
There might be better air purifiers, but the recommended Coway purifier is really good. I've had one for 5 years, still working as well as the day I bought it. I also have a 3x more expensive high-end Alen unit, but it's not nearl
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by Androider 4y ago
In my first game, I carefully managed the interest rate to keep inflation around 2%: Your economy produced 431540 apples. Next game, I set the interest rate to -0.50% right away and left it there: Your economy produced 442411 apples. Inflat
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by Androider 4y ago
The sensors, optics and processing on any recent iPhone leaves even $200 webcams (Brio, Elgato) in the dust. If you want a better camera, you have to go with a mirrorless or DSLR hooked up to your Mac, and these setups are finicky and requi
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by Androider 4y ago
Tesla's are well known for having lots of defects right at delivery. https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/v3jkn3/update_...
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by Androider 4y ago
You couldn't do everything that Terraform does today without a local state, but perhaps that would be a good thing? Call it "Terraform strict mode". As every application developer knows, duplication of state is a primary sour
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by Androider 4y ago
For mortgages, lenders will entirely or heavily discount RSUs for income calculations. However not discouraged by that fact, some tech folks are known to instead have taken out regular non-mortgage variable rate loans with their RSUs as col
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by Androider 4y ago
Firefox 99 on Linux, the square is visible. Chrome 100 on Linux, square is not visible. None of the colors match the RGB value #0cf4c7 when using a picker :/ Gimp shows a color of that hex the same as Firefox's square. The Chrome
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by Androider 5y ago
Where is the ssh-agent reading your private key from? If from ~/.ssh/, you're just one "npm install" away from the key being exfiltrated by a compromised package. If the private key is on your Yubikey, you're a
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by Androider 5y ago
How about uBlock Origin, but for search? A crowd-sourced + manually vetted ban list at the domain level. Google is too timid and can't just permaban low quality SEO spam domains for fear of getting sued, instead they can only tweak the
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by Androider 5y ago
Right, Apple is only providing the hardware and it requires to use a (partnered) processor, like Stripe, which was the example they used in their recent announcement. Stripe coincidentally sells chargeback protection as a service https:&#x
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by Androider 5y ago
Apple and Stripe are also set to commoditize the small business Point of Sale that is Square's bread and butter. iPhones were just announced to soon accept contactless payments directly, and probably also the next iPad will include the
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by Androider 5y ago
It's 100% a culture / organization problem. Check this out. The original poster of the tweet thread being discussed here retweeted: "The bug where background audio stops playing for PWAs seems to be fixed in iOS 15.4 Beta&quo
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by Androider 5y ago
That thread has hundreds of legit replies with bugs (that are impossible to read on desktop Twitter from what I can tell). I saw a few cases of "I published an article about our challenges supporting Safari, the team reached out and th
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by Androider 5y ago
Using a shared iPad with a family is a bad experience with all kinds of Apple account issues. Other apps Netflix/Amazon/etc. thankfully provide quick user switching which makes it tolerable.
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by Androider 5y ago
For comparison, my US bill is currently 9.5c/kWh, which is 7p/kWh. Your UK price is 4x that of mine! The SpaceX office where the dish was designed is just down the road from here, so I can totally see the engineers thinking "
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by Androider 5y ago
esbuild is > 125x faster than Webpack, doing the exact same job. It's not some theoretical microbenchmark, you'll see it when converting a project from one to the other. If a software hasn't been designed with speed in min
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by Androider 5y ago
The UK has https://www.gov.uk/service-toolkit and https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
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by Androider 5y ago
I placed an order just this month from Costco, with UPS sending three separate "Shipment has left LA" notifications repeating every few days, and the "UPS 3-day delivery" ended up taking over two weeks in the end. The 4t
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by Androider 5y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
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by Androider 5y ago
Justworks was critical in bridging the 1 to 10 employee gap for our company that many other providers has. The problem is, that when you hire your first employee many providers will consider you too small to provide health benefits, even if
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by Androider 5y ago
What possible good, from the point of view of the company, would come out of stating that as the actual reason to the candidate? Companies, like Stripe, are completely ghosting candidates who did long onsite interviews largely due to percei
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by Androider 5y ago
I'm not trying to place blame, I would however like to warn readers of this board, younger ones who have grown up with social media and consider it normal to share everything they do, that a lot of companies don't think that &quot
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by Androider 5y ago
> And then she tweeted that she would be joining the company. > “A few days after that, I got a call from an executive recruiter who I had never heard from before, and she said, 'There is no easy way to say this. We have to resci
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by Androider 5y ago
Nitro SSDs appear to only be available on specific new instances types, like the just announced Im4gn and Is4gen.
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by Androider 5y ago
Literally any tech company paying US engineering salaries? Try to calculate what a bay area engineer makes hourly sometimes, then go ahead and flip that AWS cross-region data replication checkbox (and maybe make your S3 bucket immutable too
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by Androider 5y ago
AWS has both 12 months free tiers for some services, as well as pretty generous always-free offerings, like the data transfer announcement today. The 1TB/mo CloudFront traffic is now always free, as is the 100GB/mo of data per mon

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