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by ativzzz 3y ago
> but it gets better Parents say this, but looking at their lives and talking to them, it doesn't. I think you just get used to it, or develop a sort of stockholm syndrome. Maybe you sleep a little better so it's easier to ment
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I think there's never been a better time to be a JS developer. JS is now everywhere. It runs on browsers, it runs on servers, it runs on mobile devices. You can use it as a scripting language if you really hate python and ruby. You can
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I'm a new parent this year and I was not mentally prepared for it (lol is anyone?) For a few months, I regretted my decision to have kids almost constantly. It gnawed on me. Then I stumbled upon the regretfulparents subreddit. Seeing t
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I don't disagree with you - I'm just pointing out that when profit margins decrease, prices increase and the customer ends up paying for it in "free market" conditions, there should be players who can compete by not incr
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Not that it's dying at all - it just makes it more expensive for them to do literally anything. That cost ultimately trickles down to the consumer. The entire US healthcare industry contributes to this. It's extremely regulated, u
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Is this one of those cases where it ends up causing death by regulation? Take the pharmaceutical industry in the US. One reason it's so expensive for them to operate is the massive amount of rules and regulations that surround their wo
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The game congressmen are playing is getting re-elected. They don't care about > the economic health of the entire country and likely the rest of the world Our political system in the US is set up in such a way that those who acquire
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You and I both know that if we raise more money, we will spend more money. There is no situation when the U.S. makes more money without immediately increasing spending
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Is this where all the crypto enthusiasts migrated to?
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Support includes things like "I paid and my account doesn't work". In addition, you simply can't provide a good service without support. Being able to answer questions like "I'm trying to do X with your tool, h
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> Frankly, I think if people won't hire because of a post like this, then the interviewers are the one contributing to the problem. Totally disagree. For the vast majority of software dev jobs (like 98% of them), you just want someo
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A former company I worked for started having a larger Indian userbase. We experimented with supporting them more and it would be similar to what you said - significantly lower prices for them. We chose to mostly ignore the Indian userbase a
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This is like the musician problem. There are so many people willing to play for pretty much nothing or for free that it's very hard for the average musician to make money. On the consumer side, why should you always pay for music when
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How would your users find out about a new feature on a page that's tucked away into a menu without one of these?
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> And now it seems that a new behavior has been identified—"phubbing," or "phone snubbing"—in which people cut off conversations with others in their vicinity as they talk or text on their phone. I don't think we
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Just like we've tried in the past again and again and again... and a few thousand years later here we are and we will keep trying :)
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Once they do that, they become the ruling class and the elites. Then their children are no longer working class, and are now the enemies.
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People go to Harvard not for the excellence of the education, which I'm sure is good but is pretty much equivalent to top state public schools, but for the network and the signaling. Network - one of the best things you can do is put a
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Another big impact of Uber/Lyft was safety of getting around in poorer foreign countries, particularly ones where you don't speak the language. It's much more safe and consistent to take an Uber at night in Colombia as a fore
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It just depends if you hire more designers or PMs. Doing designs is a lot of work, but so is talking to customers and developing high level product strategy - talking internally about what needs to be done. If your designers are doing the
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Give humans in a room together a vat of cocaine water and that vat will be quickly drained lol Doing drugs in isolation is a coping mechanism, doing drugs with others is social bonding
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It certainly can work in VR - it just has to be done differently. Everything that's viewable in a scene should be interesting in some way. Something similar to Sleep No More[0] - it's some modernist Shakespeare's Macbeth but
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Whenever I've faced this problem (usually converting legacy JS to TS), it's because the original code was structured in a complex or unique way. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but for most code, refactoring it to make it simpler
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That's the thing - what I like about reddit is that every single community is right there. I don't need to figure out a new complex system. It's a megaforum with every single subniche you can think of, without having to go to
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> Anyone can do it, at nearly any age with any body type This is 100% false. I trained for about 3 years and the number of people that had to drop BJJ or stop training for periods of time due to injuries was high, including myself. It&#
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They probably have an internal KPI of increasing the number of mobile installs, and these patterns probably work to increase that number
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> I am wondering why there isn't design diversity Because it doesn't serve much practical purpose. Uniquely designed websites take much more effort (and cash for companies) to create, and they look cool, but they are much harde
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> in Russia I don't know your circumstances, but if you're still living there I have some ideas about how you're feeling (my family moved from there when I was a kid) > But know it's just seems like an ordinary wor
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I was in a similar boat as you - I decided to get a masters degree in CS from Georgia Tech (online part time program) to shore up some of the things I didn't know since I was a bootcamp/self-taught full stack web dev. Now that I&#
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Because every single person with a computer, including smartphones in the world with internet has access to a JS app via a web browser

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