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by adpirz 8y ago
A few quick thoughts: >What the F is an iPhone XR? Is the XS "better" than the X or not? Somewhat agree about the XR, though I guess the idea is it's one less than an S, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and
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by adpirz 8y ago
> full-time freelancers now make up 28% of freelancers (up 11 points since 2014) Only a little over a quarter of those are ONLY freelancing.
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by adpirz 8y ago
It may have been on purpose (came off as a sincere mistake), but Dan Abramov forgets to bind them in this talk while giving an example. It's a very common problem, even for the authors of React itself :)
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by adpirz 8y ago
Along this note, one of the best quick tips I've heard about sales conversations is that you should be doing much more listening than talking, and always start not by talking about your product, but by asking good probing questions abo
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by adpirz 8y ago
Great YC talk about this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHAh6WKBgiE
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by adpirz 8y ago
Semantic UI - https://react.semantic-ui.com/
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by adpirz 8y ago
FTA: > Palihapitiya slammed the start-up cycle of raising funding rounds and spending money to boost user growth to attract bigger funding rounds. Hence, growth leads to funding leads to more growth leads to more funding. Another aspect
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by adpirz 8y ago
Sorry to hear that! I’ve definitely noticed a steady decline in the joy I experience with macOS with newer updates (i really miss Spaces), but it’s still head and shoulders above any experience I had with windows.
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by adpirz 8y ago
I was a PC user long ago, and I moved to mac _because_ it felt like a tool built by a master woodworker (so to speak) as both a general user and a dev. When I first got any PC, I always had to do a fresh install of the OS to clean out the a
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by adpirz 8y ago
> The 'it just works' narrative applies to Microsoft better than any other company right now, and consumers are noticing. Can anyone who's recently transitioned to a Surface from a MacBook Pro / Air testify to the val
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by adpirz 8y ago
Make sure the audio is on; Absolutely brilliant.
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by adpirz 8y ago
Definitely worth noting, but I think they felt pressured to respond because the election meddling made enough waves with the gen pop to warrant a message, I don’t see it having a lasting impact. The MAUs and DAUs are more interesting, espec
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by adpirz 8y ago
What's facebook's boiling point? My guess is they'll respond, they'll no longer use 2FA #'s for ads, the damage will have been done, and 99% of the population won't know any of it occurred. We'll repeat th
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by adpirz 8y ago
I used your product to help teach students AP Computer Science Principles a few years ago, and it was indispensable: absolutely zero hassle set up, and could just bit.ly a link to existing code to work off of. So happy for both of you! >
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by adpirz 8y ago
"iOS 12 on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad Mini 2: It’s actually faster!" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/ios-12-on-the-iphone...
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by adpirz 8y ago
A real-world answer to the problem presented here seems to be Django CMS: https://www.django-cms.org/en/
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by adpirz 8y ago
Lots of online frontend REPLs, but this one is my new fave, and I've used it for a few code interviews as well as exploring new ideas quickly. As a React dev, it's very easy to drop in a new dependency and try it out, and now they
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by adpirz 8y ago
Is derm really about prestige? Or is it about a relatively high salary with little to no on call time and mostly 9-5 hours?
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by adpirz 8y ago
The alternative is this issue came up, and they had a trade off to make with heat + noise vs cooler + quieter, and out of the gate they bet on cooler and quieter; with the backlash, they’re realizing it was the wrong bet, and fixing a “bug.
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by adpirz 8y ago
Can you explain why? And does that manifest on a daily level?
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by adpirz 8y ago
Why the U3 statistic for unemployment is far from telling the whole story: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+adult+population,+us...
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by adpirz 8y ago
OTOH, the fact that dhouston was able to convince a current MIT student and otherwise total stranger to drop out and follow him on this journey in just a few hours' conversation is telling of both his and the product's prowess.
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by adpirz 8y ago
This is fascinating, but wouldn't this be the case on older MBPs since they have ambient light sensors?
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by adpirz 8y ago
As a subscriber, I’d say this is very standard for the Economist.
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by adpirz 8y ago
Linked elsewhere in the comments, but this is an interesting read regarding the increasing gap between productivity and labor: https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d... . The interesting fact is th
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by adpirz 8y ago
See: https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d... TL;DR 3 Things, in increasing order of magnitude: - The increasing share of GDP going from labor to capital - The "terms of trade", ie, how
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by adpirz 8y ago
That’s actually the one thing I throw out immediately when I use this for precisely that reason.
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by adpirz 8y ago
My favorite opinionated boilerplate for new Django projects: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/ From the author of the great Two Scoops of Django series. https://www.twoscoopspress.com&#x2
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by adpirz 8y ago
In case you don't want to register and are curious about some metadata: Videos: 100K video clips: Size:1.8TB Info: The GPS/IMU information recorded along with the videos: Size: 3.9GB Images It has two subfolders. 1) 100K labeled k
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by adpirz 8y ago
I did the same with Chrome account profiles, and I just searched for this on Firefox. The closest you get to it is ctrl/cmd + "+" (new tab button) which will open a new tab with current container. No keyboard shortcuts to spe

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