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by cjpearson 1y ago
I remember it being pretty good circa 2012 or so. The API docs generally told me what I needed to know and there were some helpful in-depth technical notes. Did they lose something in the redesign or Swift migration?
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by cjpearson 1y ago
Not all non-profits are doomed. It's natural that the biggest companies will be the ones who have growth and profit as their primary goal. But there are still plenty of mission-focused technology non-profits out there. Many of which ha
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by cjpearson 1y ago
The protestors were not a very vocal minority, but representative of the majority opinion. At the time well over 80% of Germans wanted an end to nuclear power. (Although now following the Ukraine invasion and rising energy costs the opposit
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by cjpearson 1y ago
Perhaps we're reading gp's comment differently. I don't think he's telling your friend she should be wearing this Vacheron Constantin (or any luxury watch) instead of her Apple watch. He's rather defending its achie
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by cjpearson 1y ago
I wouldn't say that's the opposite conclusion. Plenty of people have switched from mechanical or quartz watches to Apple watches for their daily wear. But a decade from now the watches in the jewelry drawer will have retained thei
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by cjpearson 1y ago
It's simply a description of the style of the watch. Just as most people wearing a bomber jacket aren't flying B-52s, and most trench coat wearers aren't fighting in trenches, most dive watch wearers aren't diving. They
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by cjpearson 1y ago
While there were certainly many Nazi sympathizers, one should not extrapolate the desire to stay out of the war as widespread support for Germany. Popular opinion was generally against the third reich. In 1936 there was an ultimately unsucc
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by cjpearson 2y ago
For what it's worth Gumroad left VC land several years ago. https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting
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by cjpearson 2y ago
It's all additive so each new feature does indeed add complexity, but my impression is that it's often the older features and all their quirks which are the most difficult to implement. Adding a few math functions is much easier t
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by cjpearson 2y ago
One of Matt Levine's common refrains is "Insider trading is not about fairness, it is about theft." There are always market participants with different levels of information. The problem occurs when you misappropriate confide
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Yes, it is largely a fiction. For private universities (the ones typically with the high sticker prices) 16% paid the full amount in 2019-2020. For public schools the number is 26%. [0] [0] https://www.brookings.edu/articles
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by cjpearson 2y ago
The sticker price arms race will continue until the incentives change. Having an absurdly high listed tuition price is simply effective advertising, even if almost nobody actually pays that price. Surely the most expensive colleges must be
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Bond is the embodiment of white male privilege. (I suppose you could add handsome and straight privilege as well.) A well-dressed, handsome, white male with an abundance of confidence can easily gain access to many places without a second g
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Never Say Never Again probably shouldn't be used as an example of "the franchise". It wasn't produced by Eon or the Broccoli family as someone else owned the rights to that particular story.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Bond doesn't really have a deep canon. They long ago moved on from the source material, and the first 20 movies were connected only in the loosest sense. For Craig's movies they tried to make a cross-movie continuity, but it didn&
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Props to Bloomberg for contributing too. I've noticed that they have sponsored the development of CSS Grid and other features in Chromium.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
And a soccer player runs 1/20th of what a marathoner does. Kipchoge would smoke Messi in a long-distance race. And I don't think Messi would get a hit off of Gerrit Cole, or have a snowball's chance in hell of stopping JJ Wat
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by cjpearson 2y ago
No love for _The Spy Who Loved Me_? Maybe Dalton isn't your favorite Bond, but his entries are at least par for the course rather than a serious plunge. I'd agree that the last 25 years has given us a lot of duds and _Casino Royal
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Along with cost, the biggest issue is still local opposition, right? Is there any plan to solve that?
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by cjpearson 2y ago
I'm not a parent, but I see why someone might want to always know exactly where there child is and invest in anything which might improve their safety. On the other hand, raising children without GPS surveillance seemed to work pretty
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by cjpearson 2y ago
The comparison is a great example of the "show don't tell" cliche that English teachers love.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Most people use the "suite of related products" definition of monorepo, but some companies like Google and Meta have a single company-wide repository. It's unfortunate that the two distinct strategies have the same name.
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by cjpearson 2y ago
It's an easy way to increase the user count and claim growth. Since the link is to StackExchange, it may be relevant that they are now dealing with a huge spike in users who do not actively participate and probably unintentionally crea
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Most competitions will only allow runners to use publicly available shoes. The idea being that if you want the best shoes you still need to spend a couple hundred dollars, but you don't need the research team or megacorp to make a cust
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Any high level athlete wills try to optimize their equipment and baseball is no exception here. They've tweaked sizes, weight and wood types in bats to try and gain a performance advantage. Maple bats were non-existent until the late 9
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by cjpearson 2y ago
I don't like ads either, but what is the alternative? Since content costs money to produce and host, there must be a revenue source somewhere. Is the solution paywalls? Personally, I'm fine paying for some ad-free content. But Moz
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by cjpearson 2y ago
You could compose a message using multiple words in the text. It does mean your vocabulary is limited and jargon terms may not be available, but with some cleverness you can probably get your message across. If the exact spelling of a messa
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Thanks for sharing! I'm seconding the "incredibly fun" comment, but I would keep the occasional big numbers. It probably took me an hour to finish the game and I wouldn't want to slow it down further. The little extra bi
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by cjpearson 2y ago
Blocking ads only works because just a small percentage of users block ads. It's a free-rider situation and someone has to pay. If everyone blocks ads then sites will either counter ad blockers or if that's not possible, implement
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by cjpearson 2y ago
They are not subsidizing the browser, but the content you consume through the browser. Firefox is free and will always be free.

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