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by bern4444 3y ago
Maybe the years and amounts were chosen this way but at 7% you double your money every 10 years (for those who don't know too, percentages are reversible so at 10% you double your money every 7 years...) You have 15 doubles between 188
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by bern4444 3y ago
It seem that as a society we are coming to realize that enabling anyone to do anything on their own and at anytime isn't the best of ideas. Verifiability and authenticity matter and are valuable. Amazon has long had a problem of fake r
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by bern4444 3y ago
Its up to the state then to ensure they create an environment that attracts these recently graduated students! Listen to what these post graduate students want - for those who are moving a city like NYC or Boston they are probably enjoying
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by bern4444 3y ago
So the pension funds are suing Fox because Fox got sued and lost the case which was bad for investors - Fox had to pay out a ton of money negatively impacting investment returns. I don't think this is going anywhere - Caveat Emptor. Th
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by bern4444 3y ago
That response seems a bit nonsensical... yeah they made the commitment and set a date. And then they stuck to it. I'd rather a company make and honor commitments, than never commit to anything or break them whenever they feel like it.
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by bern4444 3y ago
Apple promised in 2012 that it would support lightning for 10 years - yes the EU helped push them to USB-C but they had a good reason for not doing so before 2022. And it kinda worked out perfectly, in the 11th year they switched, right aft
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by bern4444 3y ago
One quality I have found that works well for me (but can be hard especially in the moment) is to respond with compassion. Someone is annoyed at work and an argument is getting heated? Try responding with compassion to deescalate and prod a
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by bern4444 3y ago
Every shareholder got their money at the buyout price: $54.20 per share.
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by bern4444 3y ago
https://archive.is/ugX8j
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by bern4444 3y ago
It amuses me that there is so much criticism of the modern web - but a modern app is massively larger. The dropbox app is 237.7 MB - that's so much more insane to me. Of course that app size does include all the assets - images, icons,
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by bern4444 3y ago
Put the projects on your resume along with the associated impact. In interviews you'll be asked about them. If you're not mention them or refer to them in your answers to other questions! Discuss your approach to the design of tho
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by bern4444 3y ago
When google shut down stadia they refunded everyones purchase.
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by bern4444 3y ago
What if you only want 1 piece of toast and not two? Will it still automatically go down?
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by bern4444 3y ago
> The whole institution of Congress and everything from its apportionment to its salaries are determined by the Constitution. Congress decides how much to pay themselves in Salary. They can pass bills to raise or lower it. They could als
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by bern4444 3y ago
I've always thought the opposite. When I pay for something with cash I remember it far more strongly than when I pay with card. I pay with a card all the time and the action is the same no matter the price. I tap it and move on. With c
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by bern4444 3y ago
This is why like tabs over spaces. I like a tab to be equivalent to 4 spaces. But my coworker may prefer a tab to be 2 spaces. Another may prefer 6 etc. Tabs let each individual render the code to their liking while keeping everything in sy
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by bern4444 3y ago
Once you get to the point of something working, the business is going to move on ahead without giving your team any time to go back to refine and improve. Bug fixes will be given some time but telling management/business, we need 2 mon
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by bern4444 3y ago
I used to use YNAB which was very helpful in learning and getting comfortable with budgets. I now use monarch money[0] which has a much broader focus and offers better investment tracking, forecasting etc. They have a cash flow view which i
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by bern4444 3y ago
Some of this is possible in the type system like a range: From stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39494689/is-it-possible-... type Enumerate<N extends number, Acc extends number[] = []>
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by bern4444 3y ago
Arguments to the doSomeWork can be carried through to someCleanupFn as can any return values from doSomeWork. If doSomeWork returns all the pieces that need to be cleaned up by someCleanupFn (or those pieces are part of the original argumen
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by bern4444 3y ago
I can't help but think this is a clunkier than necessary. With function composition and the try/finally approach described we can get the same thing: const doSomeWork = () => { // some computation here.
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by bern4444 3y ago
For those in NYC - The Met has an exhibit on now of Van Goghs Cypresses paintings[0] I highly recommend going if you are in NYC. This exhibit includes Starry Night (which is on loan from the MOMA, also in NY) along with many others. For any
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by bern4444 3y ago
Some people like to save and invest instead of spending every single cent they have. We'd be a much more stable society if the majority of the population wasn't one paycheck away from being financially ruined. 37% of Americans don
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by bern4444 3y ago
I don't know, I've been very close to the money a couple of times in my albeit short career so far (on the subscription/sign up team/on a team where we know exactly how much money we make to the dollar every month and we
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by bern4444 3y ago
Is it not mind blowing that someone who doesn't know how to code or at least doesn't write code professionally is able to still produce something valuable that improves their daily life through code? We spend so much time building
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by bern4444 3y ago
> I mean imagine if people start to use this to replace excel. Shudder Or what if this has the same effect that excel did - give everyone access to a tool that dramatically improves efficiency and capability. What used to take someone a
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by bern4444 3y ago
Speed matters when the thing being built is isolated. If you're building a new feature/product whatever, and the business views that both as a standalone feature, but also as a stepping stone to support another product or feature
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by bern4444 3y ago
An iPhone SE is 429. Cheaper than the original iPhone ($600) and far more powerful. That's not even accounting for inflation which would make the original iPhone ~$850 today. An iPhone 14 starts at $800... so really the price has decre
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by bern4444 3y ago
it should have been named stop cause you have to stop at every function call to check for an error.
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by bern4444 3y ago
It is not infinitely recursive. It supports nested structures as you show but only up to a predefined depth. IE: fragment CategoriesRecursive on Category { subcategories { ...SubcategoryFields subcategories {

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