cactus2093

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by cactus2093 4y ago
Huh, it doesn't work for me with MacOS system settings set to Dark Mode, even though that does usually work in the browser for sites like google that support dark mode.
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Interesting, I really disagree. I do agree the page is refreshing compared to a lot of the internet these days, just because it has no ads and no glitchy, laggy SPA animations or slow loading times. But it's pretty extreme to pretend t
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by cactus2093 4y ago
I shudder to think at the wake of destruction left behind by all these freelancers that come in, implement a brand new service in their own language of choice without much regard to the tooling and ecosystem that the rest of the company is
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by cactus2093 5y ago
I am also suspicious of this flow, it too feels very un-optimized. I think it has existed since back in the days where you had to buy software in a box to install off of a cd-rom. I think they even frame it as this add-on software will come
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by cactus2093 5y ago
I honestly don't understand their strategy with Final Cut and Logic Pro. These apps can't make very much money, they are a suspiciously good value and they never upsell you on anything. Logic Pro cost like $300 over a decade ago,
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Is this a real problem? The hiring market for engineers is really hot, and if anything tech really over-indexes on technical/coding interview questions and under-indexes on past experience and having a formal degree. If you can reliabl
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by cactus2093 5y ago
This is the unintuitive thing about growth stage companies and just the scale that internet companies can achieve today. They might already have a million users who are happy with how it works and would rather that the UI didn't change
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Spoiler alert: we mostly are. Engineers with 5 YOE are making $500k+ a year at these companies because they are generating much more than that in revenues and profits for the companies. Airbnb is worth $110B. It's not all blinking curs
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by cactus2093 5y ago
150x on your investment in 9 years is more than "a little money".
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by cactus2093 5y ago
I've always wondered about that, that's interesting. Apple definitely makes it look like this is the expected use case in the WWDC demos and stuff but I can't imagine every employee is happy to give their employer access to t
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by cactus2093 5y ago
oh I have a totally different reaction to that line, and I thought this was where you were going at first. Which is: Apple is really not a business-user focused company. Windows-based PCs have long dominated the business world. And as someo
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Retool is one of them https://retool.com/
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by cactus2093 5y ago
You're just casually glossing over the fact that the server-rendered + jquery approach was already a distributed system, just with less explicit boundaries and more ad-hoc patterns for managing and updating that state. It all just depe
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by cactus2093 5y ago
That's an interesting perspective, although I definitely have a negative gut reaction to that "where it should be" comment. It's so nice having a separation of concerns where that the backend doesn't deal with any v
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by cactus2093 5y ago
I feel like Helvetica is essentially Universal Sans, but thanks to licensing fees we've been forced to re-invent that wheel over and over. > But if you're even average at it, you're only annoying people and they will toler
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by cactus2093 5y ago
It's not like a lack of sanctions would change their behavior either though, maybe nothing we do will change their behavior. In that case they can do less damage to the rest of the world if they are poor and cut off than if they are ri
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by cactus2093 5y ago
So you are simultaneously arguing that most people are irresponsibly spending their money instead of saving for retirement, and also that it's impossible for them to save more for retirement? Then your example is a manager who epitomiz
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by cactus2093 5y ago
> But if there is no DQ in the area, why operate the machine? Why operate the grill or fryer? To sell food and make money. Instead of selling someone a meal for $7 McDonalds can sell them a meal + a mcflurry for $10. Why wouldn't th
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by cactus2093 5y ago
At the very smallest scale for a solo developer or a team of just a couple of people it can be a good option. Once the team grows to even 5 or 10 engineers, I'm not a big fan. The model of encouraging anybody to do a git push to send t
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by cactus2093 5y ago
What do you mean by modern? My understanding is that the rise of index funds has been the biggest trend in this space over the past 20-30 years. Riskier bets like individual stock picking, or "experts" that con others with dubious
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by cactus2093 5y ago
It's funny that you picked a thermostat as an example, because in my experience the old pre-wifi Honeywell thermostats that many new apartment buildings had for the last 10-20 years (and most hotels still have today) were the pinnacle
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Have to say I disagree about the Ember mug. It's a little bit like the warmer setting on a diner coffee pot, the coffee will stay warm a long time but won't necessarily stay fresh. And if you drink your coffee with milk the Ember
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Completely different part of the stack. UPS delivers the end product from a warehouse to the customer's house. But first the company selling that product had to get thousands of units of the product from the manufacturing facility to i
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by cactus2093 5y ago
> It’s a well-written piece about the importance of direct experience and not rushing through spoken lectures alone. Where this has been incredibly clear to me personally is with any sort of activity that has an easily measurable skill l
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Apple and Amazon generally haven't paid as high as FB, Google, and Netflix in total comp either though. Of course in hindsight the stock gains in the past 5 years if you worked at either company have still made you extraordinarily well
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by cactus2093 5y ago
I think the author invited this though. Half the article is a well thought out discussion of important problems. There is some nuanced thinking about markets and capitalism that addressed both the pros and cons. But the article started and
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by cactus2093 5y ago
It's been 10 years, meanwhile everyone is hyping up how awesome and fast-moving the "web3" space is and how all the best developers have left their day jobs and are building for it. What's taking so long?
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Is moving away from Calculus in high school such a bad idea? I took AP Calculus in high school and studied physics in undergrad so I've done a lot of calculus, but it honestly seems like a pretty niche subject when I think about it. It
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Credit cards are in a great position to get into this market since they can use your existing line of credit and don't require a new credit check in order to give you a loan. The Apple credit card is a great example, where now you can
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Turned into? This has been the expectation in the US going back at least 60 years, that you buy a house as an investment. On the one hand it is fundamentally incompatible with making housing affordable and having "housing as a human ri

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