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by ashelmire 7y ago
Does the existence of other financial firms make Goldman Sachs worth any less? I don't think it does. We're used to winner-take-all when it comes to these unicorns, but I'm not convinced it will stay that way. With many of th
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> I think at one time the advice to “play the numbers game” was correct for online job apps. Not anymore. Are you sure about that? Most of the posts I see from devs who just got well-paying jobs show them applying to 20+ companies. Usual
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> Imagine that an author passes away between handing the manuscript to a publisher and the first printing hitting store shelves. Why not ~20 years of rights to it like patents? Does the family really deserve to enjoy sole rights to someo
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> But if you created a massive piece of work that did wonderfully well, would you deem it fair you family gets nothing, whilst if you'd have survived, they'd share in your success? No. This is the heart of the problem with the
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by ashelmire 7y ago
I guess some consider those of us building programs that actually do something useful for a business purpose to be "fake programmers".
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by ashelmire 7y ago
As a senior dev: it will take years of experience and constant learning to get to this point, but it is attainable. You don't have to be a master of each part of the stack and each tech within it - you just need to be able to do enough
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by ashelmire 7y ago
If you mean "the only way to USE it on Mac" is to install an app, I don't think that's true. At least, I've never done it. I use the browser extensions exclusively. Go to the extension store for your browser (exampl
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Click plus, click password, fill in fields. That's not too difficult, is it? Although that "click password" step wasn't needed before the recent update. I imagine the typical user is just doing that and using the search
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by ashelmire 7y ago
> Since they moved to a dedicated app instead of just a plugin on Mac, it is borderline unusable for me. What do you mean? They still have browser extensions for all major browsers.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Really? I find this hard to believe, as a dev and internet user. Facebook, instagram, etc have far worse interfaces. You add the extension, easily add/generate/create/autofill your login info. It's usually as simple as c
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Except that the potato paradox doesn’t apply here. What the business cares about is total signups and revenue, not the variation in rate of signups. The potato paradox only applies if you’re talking about the rate of misses, which, while in
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by ashelmire 7y ago
That’s not how this works though. The same number of people are landing on your site. You aren’t getting 80 more signups as suggested.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Does this just affect gig companies? What about other major tech companies that use thousands of contractors? What happens when they are contracted through an intermediary company?
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Oh, huh. Thanks for the info, might open up the watch for me.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
That's nice, but I already pay for spotify and use it on my non-Apple devices. Does Apple Music let me stream any song in their library?
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Exactly. We want the watch instead of the phone, not in addition to. And I’d like them both to use the same account and number. Why don’t these companies get it? They’ll probably shut down the divisions and say “nobody wanted wearables” des
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Only reason I don’t have an Apple Watch is because you can’t stream Spotify over cellular, you need to have your phone with you. What’s the point? I want to go for a run and stream music with just the watch to my Bluetooth headphones. I don
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Express is not a framework. It's a library that just lets you set up routes, and a pretty minimal one at that. Calling express a framework would be like calling the routes.rb file in Rails a framework - it's not. It's a small
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Seems totally reasonable. “cors - today is going to be bleak” as the first search of the day resonates with me on a deep level. Our field is incredibly complex, and some parts of it we just like to not think about too much.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Paying hundreds of thousands to restore 158 backed up machines would be absurd. Surely a week of work for those 158 employees isn't worth that. They've gotta put a financial analyst on these issues, and not leave it up to panickin
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Awesome. Wattenberger's blog is also really good (from a cursory glance). Really impressive stuff, can't wait to read it all.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
That might be the most optimal solution, but I wouldn't take it as a given. You may have less individuals getting things delivered, but then you're giving up prime real estate and causing more decentralization of population, which
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by ashelmire 7y ago
Why not create a dotfiles repo instead and keep it on GitHub? That’s what I do.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
I think a contributing problem is the inadequate features of mobile browsers. It's harder to get to the pages you want to - harder to set multiple pages to launch on start; manage open windows; quickly navigate to apps you use without
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by ashelmire 7y ago
That's definitely not true. McDonald's and Burger King were both markedly worse in my experience. A shame in-n-out isn't abroad, and haven't found a Taco Bell or Wendy's yet. Not that I would really go out of my way
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by ashelmire 7y ago
That isn't the heart of the issue. The issue is US products being produced in China and sold in the US. We import > 500 billion from China and export under 130 billion to China.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
There are probably a few ways the president could do it unilaterally, legally: 1) Raise tariffs to absurd levels (like, 10000% tax on anything from China). 2) Some sort of national defense justification. He could probably put all employees,
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by ashelmire 7y ago
So let’s get what you’re saying: the will of the people is reflected in the person who got less votes winning, because of archaic rules created by ancient oligarchs? That is cognitive dissonance of the highest order.
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by ashelmire 7y ago
What exactly are you asserting? I get that you're reiterating the Trump talking point about "Deep State" nonsense, but the majority of people in this nation have voted for Democratic candidates in the last several elections,
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by ashelmire 7y ago
I don't think it's a tech crash at all. Sure, we've got companies being propped up by VCs that are doomed to fail (Uber, etc), but the fundamentals of other big tech companies are sound. They have customers, they sell product

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