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by benced 4y ago
Some of this just sounds like normal gripes about dating - men don’t want to settle and women have high standards for settling is a dynamic as old as time - but some things like COVID reducing organic social interaction seem to be a permane
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by benced 4y ago
Elon turning a $8 subscription into a culture war artifact doesn’t invalidate the idea of a subscribing for legitimacy altogether.
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by benced 4y ago
Especially for Bensenville
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by benced 4y ago
Allowing a dominant OS to foist a bad browser on all of us is not a good way to prevent a dominant internet search company from potentially foisting a bad browser on all of us.
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by benced 4y ago
I would bet that upwards of 90% of people on this thread outright block ads.
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by benced 4y ago
Be interested in folks thoughts on the footnote. I’m assuming he’s wrong about the motive/conspiracy but right that DF links underperform on HN. Why would that be? > It sounds a bit conspirational, but for many years now it’s seemed
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by benced 4y ago
I have a 2019 iPhone (11 Pro!) and the scrolling is perfect. Battery about to die though.
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by benced 4y ago
Being correct is extremely overrated, it’s better to allocate that time to doing more things or fully internalizing information you already know (I.e. how everyone knows it’s better to take chances than not but basically everyone is at leas
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by benced 4y ago
Software engineering is a high prestige job. Rightly or wrongly, most female dominated jobs are not.
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by benced 4y ago
As someone who doesn’t know rails at all, what’s the innovation here? Surely Rails has had Dockerfiles written for it before?
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by benced 4y ago
It’s interesting that we spent decades arguing against corporate IP control because it reduces the intellectual freedom of the human race but now that the corpus of data comes from everyday people instead of big companies (a direct effect o
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by benced 4y ago
I’d point out that most companies - including their closest analogue, Walmart - don’t do this. Amazon is reverting to the corporate norm.
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by benced 4y ago
Also goodreads integration is pretty great
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by benced 4y ago
Seems like the issue is CDMX’s government (which I’d note tends to be on the left of Mexican politics) is keeping fares down. I get why, it’s an appealing policy and raising fares would actually hurt people (in a way that a 25 cent hike in
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by benced 4y ago
I have a strong personal and moral conviction in favor of money-laundering so I’m pretty happy big banks are getting out of the crypto space.
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by benced 4y ago
This is generally false. Amazon has lost money in North America every quarter this year as part of a pandemic hangover (they over invested in warehouses). Prior to Q4 2021, their North American segment was profitable.
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by benced 4y ago
The idea that they can change the terms from the contract you signed is ridiculous. I don’t mind a liability cap for the banks but changing that under you? Insane.
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by benced 4y ago
You have to trust a CI provider almost as much as your production host. Circle has not earned the same trust as organizations like AWS.
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by benced 4y ago
It’s not the counting, it’s that you’ve now given them charge of a physical asset they have to pay to secure and transport.
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by benced 4y ago
This person has been recommending LastPass for years and now cares about the cryptographic specifics of far more trustworthy companies?
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by benced 4y ago
To be clear, I don’t think you can blame these software engineers. Management has decided the average value of a tech lead to them is about 175K and they are getting that quality of engineer. I think their current tech issues suggest that t
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by benced 4y ago
It’s ridiculous to suggest that compensation isn’t correlated with quality. There are many exceptions but it’s a good rule of thumb in the absence of additional information. It also just passes the sniff test - try comparing the Southwest A
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by benced 4y ago
Something worth pointing out here is that according to levels.fyi, a tech lead there who has worked for 20 years has a TC of 174K. It’s unlikely their technical talent would be up to what you propose which is related to the apparent decisio
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by benced 4y ago
Seattle has one https://www.adasbooks.com/content/store
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by benced 4y ago
I’m always skeptical of turnaround stories that claim to be all about the love of the product or whatever. I’m sure that works sometimes - Apple in the aughts obviously - but realistically running a public company is a more hard nosed ende
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by benced 4y ago
I don’t think it’s crazy for Twitter to ban stuff like this. The damning part is just that it explicitly goes against the stuff Musk has repeatedly said!
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by benced 4y ago
What a crazy world we live in where someone can license their code and someone else can use the code under the terms of that license.
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by benced 4y ago
“I like it” seems to be the only justification left for dark mode. Luckily, that’s a perfectly legitimate justification.
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by benced 4y ago
I had one and quite liked it (gen 6 I think?). One caveat is that my E key broke and I swapped it. However, I noted the date and from the relative frequency of how often E is used (most common letter) vs A (second most common letter), I was
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by benced 4y ago
For most engineers, you’ll have a handful of times in your career when the compiler or runtime really is the problem. The rest of the time it’s like 95% your fault and 5% the library’s fault.

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