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No-code environments are “Duck Programming:” https://raganwald.com/2012/01/08/duck-programming.html I’m much more interested in how they manage all the software engineering _around_ the low code than I am in
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Very true, but if you want to ask a question and only get an answer to your question, that’s StackOverflow, where moderators are there to ensure that questions and answers don’t become conversations. On a less-structured forum like this, th
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I don’t disagree with you, but he made the quote in the context of explaining why he was trying to make a game about indirectly creating outcomes, which in the major revision went multi-polar so that countries had their own tensions between
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Up to you entirely, but for most of the things on Hacker News, the answer to any one question is not very interesting, but the process of answering that question is very interesting. OG Game Developer Chris Crawford, when discussing the des
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Me too! My mother sent me to an enriched program on Saturdays, and one of the “classes” they had was called “Queries and Theories” after a very interesting game. That class introduced me to Mathematical Recreations, Raymond Smullyan, and co
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A velvet glove around what you just said is that it’s like you are a product owner, and the lawyer is a pure engineer. They are the expert in implementing the business outcomes you want, but you and only you know all the context required to
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The fact that we ask this question leads us to asking, “Who is the best person to answer the question of whether it’s a good idea to file the documents yourself, and if so, how things are likely to go over the next ___ years of litigation?”
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Pay yourself and expense it back is usually an SMB strategy for keeping costs down by offloading work onto employees. It’s not just your time that’s wasted, but all the work to organize expense reports, make sure you used the right codes, &
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Of course we do. I’m just explaining why such a place might have many, many more programmers and other employees than we would guess are needed judging by our experience out at the periphery of their business.
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All true, but I’m not comparing a business-class hotel to a B&B, I’m comparing one kind of hotel to another. All the major chains have offerings in both markets I describe: 1. Hotels that appeal to guests who pay their own way, and; 2.
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Consider this metaphor: You go on vacation. You stay at a hotel, not a “B&B.” Your vacation, your money, so you find a place close to the things you want to see, with plenty of free amenities like free continental breakfast and free WiF
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You’re the manager, and you know an infinite number of guests are checking in tomorrow. how many receptionists do you schedule to be on duty when they arrive?
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Some where in the mythical “Business 101” course is the lesson that you can either find a customer and figure out what they need (customer-focus), or find a need and figure out which customers have that need (product-focus). This dynamic is
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The idea of a mesh network is not what concerns most people. It’s the idea that devices from Amazon connect to it automatically and can do whatever they want with it. The canonical anti-example is this: You buy a smart TV, but don’t give it
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Quit != leave the workforce. Maybe they now have remote work options, or having tasted a year without a brutal commute, they take jobs paying less, but closer to their homes.
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The consensus in civilized countries is that US healthcare is a disaster. If you want to brush all that off as “propaganda,” fine, that’s your business. But I don’t watch TV. I do things like read HN. Where I recall an essay on the front pa
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> Those who say it's not a lot are disconnected from the way that most people in the country and the world live. I live in Canada. I earn much less than USD $375K/yr. But can we agree that I am very connected with how people li
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Worth noting that unless you’re personally selling advertising (which only a few people can do), ads are subject to a fee as well, by the broker/network. You don’t collect 100% of the money paid by the advertiser. What you avoid with
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That had a literal meaning at one point, but then it got diluted. Newspapers were published several times a day when I was a child, so the late edition would have things that happened in the afternoon. If something very big happened, they w
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I cannot speak for other jurisdictions, but Canada defines something called a “Reporting Entity,” and if you qualify as such, you absolutely have reporting requirements: https://www.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca/reporting-declaration
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As we speak, the Attorneys for Manhattan and the State of New York are investigating a high net-worth individual for allegedly engaging in clever ways to avoid taxes and other regulations using activities that are legal when engaged by them
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Amazon partners with Tile to take on Apple AirTags(cnbc.com)
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Hey, late reply. I agree with your general point, and would add that the highest logical/precise human-readable text is more likely to be specs, e.g. RFCs, ISOs. A Technical Manual would need more attention to the human experience than
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Not only is everyone different, but we have different needs at different times. My partner and I use shared audio infrequently, but when we need it, we need it. Our use case is watching something together in bed while the kids are going to
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On second review, you’re right. They have allowed you to rip your own music to lossless for more than 15 years, but I only just found out that when using iTunes Match, they cheat and only store a high-resolution but lossy version on their s
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Perhaps Apple TV doesn’t have an H1 or W1 chip? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple-designed_processors
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You can still “buy” albums digitally from Apple, and they are lossless, as they have been for almost-ever. The caveat being that you need a device capable of decoding ALAC files.
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And yet, we say that “programs are written for people to read.” Writing for people to read is not “very logical and very precise.” It’s “very expressive,” and sometimes, although the part the compiler reads is correct, the thing the human i
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My partner and I had GPS trackers on our MTBs almost a decade ago, with cellular data just as you describe. Our doubled as rear lights, but the same company sold another model that could be hidden inside the frame, amd a thid model designed
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I have a house. It has a front lawn. If I set up guest chairs on my front lawn and invite the world to sit on those chairs and give their opinion, it’s still opinion being broadcast from my lawn with my endorsement implied by the fact that

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