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by B-Con 7y ago
You're over-thinking it. GMail's market pretense is large. The number of edge cases like this in the entire world combined is a rounding error to them. It would likely be easier to fix problems to minimize bug reports and keep com
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by B-Con 8y ago
Oh, they're reading very old texts then. That wasn't the time frame I thought of when it said "classic".
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by B-Con 8y ago
I definitely had one too. TBH it's dated pretty well. Still a cool asthetic.
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by B-Con 8y ago
> Era names typically come from Chinese classical texts, and are usually only revealed when one emperor has died and another has taken the Chrysanthemum Throne. Chinese? I'm guessing that's a typo. Not only would Japanese obvio
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by B-Con 8y ago
The face that it can be used as a social signal doesn't mean it is exclusively used so. > Online courses (and before that, public libraries) rendered institutions of higher learning unnecessary for, you know, learning. But the ide
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by B-Con 8y ago
Right, it's more commentary on how much of our society is built around ignoring life's pressures.
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by B-Con 8y ago
Not severe, but every so often I am reminded of the big picture of life. So many industries, economies, societies, nations, etc, have been upended throughout, leaving large numbers of well-meaning relatively prepared people in ruin. I'
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by B-Con 8y ago
The fine arts are great, after you've put food on the table and a roof over your head. Most people are much happier to have stable employment than esoteric knowledge. The economy and society are better for it too. School's primary
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by B-Con 8y ago
I completely agree. As another comment pointed out, the price comparison is poor. What changed is the value of the phone and what people are willing to spend. When phones got good enough many were willing to replace a traditional computer w
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by B-Con 8y ago
A lot of these kinds of systems are decentralized. It's not a magic bullet.
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by B-Con 8y ago
"killed" implies it ceased to exist, so I think it's misleading to include rebrandings or relaunches where functionality gets folded into another product. At a glance... * Nexus wasn't killed, it was re branded into Pixe
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by B-Con 8y ago
When I interviewed for SRE at Google, they'd had a non-trivial cross product outage days before. Good conversation starter, but I couldn't get many details out of them.
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by B-Con 8y ago
They already had built it. Google Videos (was that it's name?) was a thing and I remember it being turned down not too far from the YT acquisition.
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by B-Con 8y ago
Nobody said he did. Turns out people are very happy to reward results. No one needs to do everything them self.
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by B-Con 8y ago
Not the first time he's been unable to get a Visa in time for a big conference: https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2013/10/shamir/
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by B-Con 8y ago
Some of these are ambiguous without the function signature. calc? hypot?
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by B-Con 8y ago
Conversely, there are a lot of really good plumbers, they just don't know it. There's a reason why they didn't be come a plumber. There's a reason why they didn't become a programmer. I think this thread greatly ove
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by B-Con 8y ago
I don't like the word "efficient" in contexts like this, I prefer "effective". Yes, some people are simply 100x more effective than others.
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by B-Con 8y ago
We're in an age where it's scary to lose access to an e-mail addresses or phone number are at the top of that list. I don't mean to change it, I mean to lose access to it. If you change it, find a way to hold onto access to t
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by B-Con 8y ago
> In his influential 2011 book The Lean Startup, Eric Ries advises companies entering a new market to develop a "minimum viable product"—the simplest product good enough to attract paying customers. This strategy allows a compa
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by B-Con 8y ago
A lot of the article focuses on DMs sent from eventually deleted/suspend accounts being accessible from the receiving account. When you send a message to another account, it's in their account now. Of course it's not going to
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by B-Con 8y ago
Arch Linux's approach is similar. The only version of the OS that is blessed is the current version. Every package install should come with a full system update. Package downgrades aren't supported. In the case of an irreconcilabl
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by B-Con 8y ago
Yes, for sure. I have done this before, but I'm long overdue for another. I have to make it a conscious dedicated effort, otherwise I'm too lenient and I don't trim nearly as much as I ought. I've done the same thing wit
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by B-Con 8y ago
I have so many queues of stuff I want to get to. I feel guilty how little of it I consume. Sometimes just looking at my backlog is somewhat anxiety inducing. I have 245 videos in my YouTube "Watch Later" queue. (Turns out some par
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by B-Con 8y ago
> I don't disagree with the rest of your thesis, but this seems off by an order of magnitude. They would have to conduct 4 interviews every working day to reach even 1000 interviews. Counting the time needed to write feedback for ev
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by B-Con 8y ago
What's the difference? If it's desirable to reserve the right to disallow third-party frontends, why push the burden onto them (and everyone else) enforcing it through technical measures?
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by B-Con 8y ago
Monopoly rent implies (near) monopolies, which Facebook is not. What's more, this is a conversation around individual users. Facebook's economic rent is paid by their customers, which are advertisers and not the subject of this co
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by B-Con 8y ago
This expresses a worried thought I've had in the back of my mind for a while. Power interviewers do a lot of interviews. They can do them in their sleep and crank them out like an assembly line. But assembly lines aren't nuanced,
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by B-Con 8y ago
> I imagine that people don't like to talk about them because of how powerful they are. And so all this talk about the 1% is actually a very useful smokescreen for the <0.01%. No joke. Who's the actual 1%? In my personal exp
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by B-Con 8y ago
Facebook is a product, not a monopoly.

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