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by brlewis 7y ago
I do. This is my 2nd Nexus 5X from craigslist, but when this one dies I plan on replacing it with a Pixel 3a.
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by brlewis 7y ago
> We have had similar, but not as bad, reactions to other low end device we use for testing Let me guess -- Nexus 5X? I use one as my primary phone, and the slowness is noticeable but usually tolerable.
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by brlewis 7y ago
First use of "exponential growth" in the article was OK. I don't think the second use was. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20866372
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by brlewis 7y ago
OK yes there's a reasonable use of the term early in the article that I overlooked. It was the "streetcars and bicycles" section where it grated on me.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Overall I liked this article. It describes an interesting though simple core principle. I have three criticisms: 1. The article is scientific enough that using "grew exponentially" in the colloquial sense of just "grew a lot&
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by brlewis 7y ago
That seems weird to me, that a contract would redefine a term that already has a legal meaning, but there are weird things in law.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Sorry, I should have specified: This is in the United States. Here "inventions" is specifically patentable stuff. See https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/general-inform...
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by brlewis 7y ago
> "assignment of all inventions", related and unrelated to the company, done on or off company time and even done using personal equipment This is such a big grab, I don't understand why they limit to inventions. Shouldn&#
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by brlewis 7y ago
I keep email notifications completely turned off, and only turn on app notifications for a few select apps.
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by brlewis 7y ago
As a long-time 3/4-stack developer, learning CSS better.
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by brlewis 7y ago
What do those entry-level programmers want to make? They should start with something suitable for that, even if it's harder to learn. A motivated novice will do better at learning hard things than an unmotivated one will at learning ea
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by brlewis 7y ago
> How do we choose the right tool? We choose the right tool the same way a painter chooses among oil paint, watercolor, etc. Step back and look at the subject, and think how well each type of paint would represent it. Also consider one
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by brlewis 7y ago
There's a historical reason why classes are used a lot for models. It's up to you to decide if this reason applies to your project or organization. A few years ago there was a dilemma between ES6 and TypeScript. A lot of JS develo
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by brlewis 7y ago
Such verification would enable a market for selling votes.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Until the U.S. catches up to Brazil on this front, there's plenty of reason for people to think paper is safer.
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by brlewis 7y ago
> A higher number of cameras just barely correlates with a higher safety index and lower crime index. That makes an impressive case for cameras. I would have expected a negative correlation. People put up more cameras where there are mor
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by brlewis 7y ago
Yes, you recall correctly. https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/general-inform... The key word is not and , but or . “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling”
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by brlewis 7y ago
I'm excited to see this problem being tackled. As I said previously, the biggest obstacle to reducing greenhouse gases isn't a political party. It's commuting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325660
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by brlewis 7y ago
Where I work we already have people doing this, so I don't have to. If your project doesn't tie directly to revenue it surely has KPIs which would be affected by performance.
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by brlewis 7y ago
This is acknowledged at the end of the article, in a section called "Performance is an ethical consideration, now what?"
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by brlewis 7y ago
> The difference is that the company is not paying (and therefore not tracking costs) for client code, so it has less incentive to fix things. The incentive is there whether the company recognizes it or not. A price your customers pay ma
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by brlewis 7y ago
> OK, you go to your boss and tell him that because of the marketing team's scripts the app takes twice as long to load. Your boss on other hand says: "Who cares? This is how we make money". What company do you work for th
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by brlewis 7y ago
Should these tactical details be deleted, or were they already public?
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by brlewis 7y ago
>the watch is just a way for your phone to distract you more frequently I use a smartwatch and as a result my phone stays in my pocket a lot more.
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by brlewis 7y ago
The main complex task that's being addressed is making JavaScript that runs on a variety of browsers, not just the latest Firefox. I'm afraid I don't know what you have in mind as far as syntactic sugar that makes things hard
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by brlewis 7y ago
There are tools like create-react-app that configure complicated build pipelines for you, and there's parcel, a simple common-case build pipeline.
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by brlewis 7y ago
> So who are African nations going to exploit? Each other? Robots
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by brlewis 7y ago
The answer is one of two possibilities: either make the IDE a little dumber and stop highlighting uncaught exceptions, or make the IDE a lot smarter and make it highlight when you catch an exception but don't do anything useful with it
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by brlewis 7y ago
You've presented a concise and valid set of statements that argue that a 100 P/E ratio might be expensive, but don't justify calling it insanely expensive.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Price/Sales is 4.01, lower than GOOG, FB or MSFT. They are going for growth, not profit. No valuation metric is perfect, but P/E is particularly useless for this company.

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