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by charliebwrites 3y ago
Until dating apps explicitly measure success in terms of matches made and users deleting the app at all levels of their business, the quality of their products will suffer If a product team is incentivized to bring in revenue over creating
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
The last two companies I’ve worked for have had their documentation on GitHub to have PRs made against and I can say first hand how powerful it is to allow users to catch old documentation and just push a change It makes the lives of Tech W
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
Can somebody explain to me why centering a div is such a challenge to have an easy implementation for? It seems like Browser makers, Languages creators, and developers all have a pretty strong incentive to solve such a fundamental, basic pr
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
I’m not saying this is where we are now, but eventually when self driving cars are sufficiently advanced, they should be able to drive drunk people home without needing them to provide input (and probably best to forbid them from doing so a
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
Read the question first, then read the passage
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
Many tech companies have lists of cities or regions that correspond to pay bands, usually broken into 3 or 4 different tiers. If you feel they’re arbitrary, How would you define the tiers?
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Ask HN: What percent of your new hires are coming from Tier 2/3 Cities?
2 points by charliebwrites 3y ago|5 comments
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
Is anyone keeping track of the layoffs that have happened so far? Seems like there’s been quite a few lately, would be cool to see them all in one place, tracked over time
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
I have a friend who grew up in Irkutsk, Russia where, while quite a bit colder, ICE cars had to be run all night, because if they stopped running they would never start again. All machines have a failure rate at a certain (lack of) temperat
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
Interesting, so we’ve shown it’s possible to _sweat_ out micro plastics in a sauna?
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
So what do we do about them? Is there any way to remove microplastics from a person/animal once already ingested? What technology if any is being worked on to help alleviate this?
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Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?
326 points by charliebwrites 3y ago|131 comments
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Ask HN: What are you reading currently?
2 points by charliebwrites 3y ago|0 comments
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by charliebwrites 3y ago
The best way I've found to get people to visit is to put your blog posts out on platforms where potential readers might be. Hacker News is great for any kind of tech related post, and any similar-ish type content. LinkedIn if you have
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If Instagram cared about your health, they'd let you disable the Explore Page(medium.com)
5 points by charliebwrites 3y ago|0 comments
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Why Reddit Will Win(medium.com)
7 points by charliebwrites 3y ago|4 comments
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Cloudflare Queues: Now with Consumer Concurrency and Explicit Acknowledgement(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by charliebwrites 3y ago|0 comments
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by charliebwrites 4y ago
Good catch, fixed
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by charliebwrites 4y ago
Hey HN! And welcome to a hill I'm willing to die on. I've been teaching myself basic HTML/JS/CSS to begin my webdev journey and this is the first project I've put together. It was recommended to me to make a project
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Skyrim on Mac When?(skyrimonmacwhen.com)
59 points by charliebwrites 4y ago|74 comments
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by charliebwrites 4y ago
If anyone’s interested, I tackled the other end of this problem (building a tolerance) in a blog post a few months ago: https://medium.com/@TestingInProd/building-a-caffeine-tolera...
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by charliebwrites 5y ago
Expect to not get much of any response! I finally bit the bullet and started writing a blog [1] following my experiences in tech, and some tips I picked up along the way. I was so worried I’d get cancelled or have to deal with trolls or oth
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by charliebwrites 5y ago
I actually recently wrote a blog post[1] about the opposite experience of Building a caffeine tolerance vs quitting. So to tackle this from the other way around, I can tell you that before I started drinking coffee, I had more creative ener
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Want Radical Innovation? Throw a High Stakes Hackathon(medium.com)
3 points by charliebwrites 5y ago|0 comments
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To Encourage Bone Marrow Donation, Offer Donors Genetic Testing(medium.com)
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Without Social Media, Where Is Your Life?(medium.com)
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