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by arnvald 6y ago
> An automatic upgrade within 7 days that triples in price is sleazy, there's no two ways to look at it There are two ways to look at it. I use a tool that reports errors in my web app. After one of releases we started receiving a l
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12 ways to call a method in Ruby(notonlycode.org)
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A term "scale-up" has been recently gaining traction and I believe it's more accurate and better distinguishes companies at different stages of growth. Still, "start-up" became so popular it lost its original meanin
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Not really, at least not in a sense that different products and stores compete. When I buy a phone I can choose from multiple models, then once I choose a model I can choose a store where I want to buy it. These 2 examples are competitive.
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Oh, that reminded me of my "two lines" moment. Years ago I was writing software for some university project, and one feature took me a few days to figure out and implement, and when I checked the diff I realized that "all&quo
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It seems that most of the above either offer some features for free or offer in-app purchases: * Spotify offers free tier * Kindle doesn't require buying books, technically you can use it to read documents that you send to your free ac
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by arnvald 6y ago
For me the first step was to remove the mobile Facebook app. I used to scroll mindlessly while traveling and commuting, and once I didn't have the app on my phone, my time on FB dropped by like 80%. I also found it refreshing and I fel
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by arnvald 6y ago
I can't find the numbers right now, maybe someone else has them, but if I remember correctly, 2 examples - interracial marriage in late 1960s and same-sex marriage in 2010s - show that support for these kind of relationships grew much
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Maybe 100k tweets by people who are checked manually? I'm sure there are millions of tweets send every day.
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Yeah, an array essentially becomes an associative array. For example in another language I could do something like: if (!empty($filteredArray)) { print($filteredArray[0] } But in PHP I need to remember that after every array_filter,
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by arnvald 6y ago
> Developers hate PHP because you are more likely to get errors with a language that allows so much freedom. Ruby gives you much more freedom than PHP. You can reopen classes, you can use any kind of object as a key in an associative
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Hi! Initially I had the same impression and my team had a hard time convincing me to give it a try. Since then I really started enjoying Notion though. So, what is notion? I'd call it a flexible on-line data organizer. Notion gives you
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by arnvald 7y ago
I think the suing part is not about the $36k, rather it's to give a message that they won't tolerate it (otherwise other people who signed similar agreements might feel empowered to speak up as well).
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wouldn't any(q[:3]) (the 4th sentence) return true even if 2 or 3 of the above were correct? If I understand correctly, it should be true if exactly one of the above is correct, not at least one. Although, I'm probably wrong, sinc
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by arnvald 7y ago
Man, the comments here are depressing. So much cynicism in one place. Workers protests have been successful in the past (guess why you work 8h a day and have 2-day weekends?). I don't see why you criticise the employees that try to mak
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by arnvald 7y ago
I think that's a typo and they mean a trip from Beijing to Guangzhou
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The point is to show that with 95% for every 1 person saying "no" you have 19 people saying "yes". With 99% for every 1 person saying "no" you have 99 people saying "yes". The common denominator is on
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Next Uber? Impressive growth, but their expenses grow at the same pace (they consistently need to spend ~$2 to earn $1). WeWork's locations are wonderful, but if they want to start making money, they need to start charging more or lowe
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by arnvald 7y ago
How common is it to have data cap on cable internet? I lived in a few countries in the last 10 years and have never experienced it. Is US the exception here or other countries also have such limits?
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You'd be surprised. When I interview developers in their early 20s, they say Microsoft is great because they created Typescript and VS Code, and now they'll make web devs' lives easier by embracing Chromium. I once interviewe
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Banks offer sign-up bonus in order to bring more customers and they hope that after a year these customers will stay and start paying annual fee and keep using the card. I'm sure Apple feels they will get huge interest in their card ev
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by arnvald 7y ago
Uhm, this whole article is essentially "we built a product on top of Gmail, look how awesome it is", doesn't really explain why email is better than Slack or other apps. EDIT: it seems the title of submission was changed (pre
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Maybe the player themselves wanted to referred to using neutral pronoun? Maybe they didn't want to reveal their gender? I don't see why this is a problem and triggers such reaction
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Someone in the tech industry decides to build such product for the lawmakers. These people in the tech industry know how this software is being used and they continue supporting it. Yes, lawmakers are responsible for it, too. But let&#x
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While I do not know your exact situation, I find such attitude a bit selfish. Yes, you've got other shit to do, but guess what, writing good code is part of the shit to be done. I consider working code being a minimum standard. Code ca
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I believe we just all assume that passport here really means the citizenship.
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The "mobility score" is just a number of countries you can visit without visa. But that's a poor indication of what passport you'd like to own. For example, Singapore is 4th on the list, 166 countries. But in order to li
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Yes, there is a keyboard replacement program for all models with new keyboard: https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...
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> Hire people with fundamental skills, not framework or technology skills I think this is the most important advice for employers. Companies often hire people that have experience in as many tools in their current stack as possible. Few
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by arnvald 7y ago
The 2018 keyboard does feel better than the previous ones, however it's still not very reliable. I need to take my 2018 mbpro to replace the keyboard next week (same issue, one button is registered twice from time to time)

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