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by com2kid 11mo ago
A 3 bedroom townhome in Seattle (actually Redmond WA, more expensive!) when I graduated was 350k, and that was already an inflated housing bubble price. My starting salary was 85k at Microsoft. If 20k people move to a city each year and the
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by com2kid 11mo ago
If construction had kept up with demand salary wouldn't have skyrocketed and the overall cost of living would be lower. High salaries that exist just to pay for high house prices hurt everyone.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
If all the workers are off shore, no need to keep HR state side. If all the high earners are off shore, may as well sell to them with an off shore sales team. Don't need local marketers if the market isn't local anymore.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
The regressive housing policies on the west coast are going to completely destroy our international competitiveness. Salaries for tech are 2x what they should be just due to housing costs. Seattle used to be where bay area companies relocat
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by com2kid 11mo ago
No one wants to, but that is how many consumers decide on what to buy. It is especially how early adopters tuned into the review scene for their favorite products decide what to buy.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
First movers do sometimes win, Netflix, Uber, Amazon. Also VCs have to invest their funds in something! :D The key is matching innovation with timing. History is filled with great ideas done decades, or even a century, too early.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Apple is the often sung master of this. Jobs waited for the right time for mobile and tablets. Apple also waited for smart watches as well. Same goes for Car Play. They seemed to have ran out of patience waiting for AR/VR.0 There was a
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I call it the first mover disadvantage! (I was there first hand to witness it again and again!) Bill Gates is terrifyingly smart. He sees trends decades ahead. But knowing something is coming (smart TVs) does you no good without timing. You
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I once worked for a leader who wanted to be like Jobs, complete with the black shirts. So anyways, going into a design review I (UI dev lead) had warned early on that the new design was bad. I said it was going to be bad. Listed why it was
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I've worked in consumer electronics, batteries are built in because reviewers will endlessly trash a product that is just 1mm thicker than anything apple puts out, and they fawn over apple because the products are so thin. If anyone re
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Microsoft used to have one of the best media players around! Windows used to have built in streaming support from device to device. You could load up music on your personal PC and play it on your home theater through your Xbox360! Windows M
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Bad actors in the mobile space have ruined so many potential good uses of smartphones due to the restrictions that have had to be put into place. Do I want random f2p mobile games broadcasting my personal info 24/7 as a never killable
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by com2kid 11mo ago
You can throw a keepass vault on OneDrive or Dropbox and it works just fine everywhere. Not fiddly at all except Linux and OneDrive support.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
There are limits to corporate donations and lobbying, which is why the price of lobbying seems so low (see the linked blog post in the comments here!) SuperPACs get around that, but there is a chance a large company like Inuit isn't ag
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by com2kid 11mo ago
> It will not work, part of compensation is being hired as lobbyist after you "retire" from public office. So either go fund me will do the same or it will fail. This is a bit reductive. Not everyone member of Congress goes to
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Yeah the last CLI app I used was actually a TUI. It routed std out and std err from scripts and programs it'd call out to into separate windows. It had animations and effects and a help system built in. It also had theming support bec
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Discovery on mp3.com was horrible, I basically had to browse a list of artists by poorly defined genres. Back then not as many genre labels existed and tagging wasn't quite a thing so much as now since the #tag syntax hadn't been
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by com2kid 11mo ago
> Let's say that you visit a government office for a driving license. Should you pay a bribe to the official? We formalized it! It is called an application fee, and it is set high enough so they the government employee doesn't
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Lobbyists aren't the problem. They are doing what they are paid to do. If you donate to a large charity, there is a good chance some of that $ goes to lobbying, as it should. (Presumably you want the issues goy care about to be fixed!)
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I am surprised no one has started a go fund me to make a fund just to bribe politicians to fix tax filing. It would be cost effective VS paying for tax prep!
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I'm aware.... That is exactly what I am complaining about. I guess some people like it, but just, ick.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
There is one Album I lost ages ago and I haven't been able to find - Celestial Visions Halls of Gold, sadly it also isn't in this dump. :(
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by com2kid 11mo ago
There is a near 5 star restaurant in Duvall Washington called Flavor Bistro. If you ever find yourself in Duvall for whatever reason, go eat there! The chef is super nice and the food is amazing. Random lolwtfbbq quality restaurants are som
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Bandcamp doesn't have the same sort of community structure. It has discoverability now but it isn't really a place that I go to discover new music or explore genres. (Actually after a decade+ of using Bandcamp I just discovered th
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by com2kid 11mo ago
The only issue with writing a CLI in Node is ecosystem. The CLI libraries for Node are (or were last time I checked) inspired by React. Not a paradigm that is fun to write in, and if I'm making a CLI tool it is because I am bored and w
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I am, yeah. There is no guarantee that the site would have survived, but abandoning it's original indie artists user base to chase psuedo-piracy $$ was ridiculous. Counter point is that given its insane valuation, something mass market
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by com2kid 11mo ago
The owner of mp3.com fucked over countless indie artists to send a pointless message to the RIAA. It was shitty of him and another single source for self published indie music never came about again. I found countless artists on mp3.com, wa
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by com2kid 11mo ago
That is nice and all, but it is one of many libraries that solves a problem that shouldn't exist . The TS compiler should either have an option to pop out JSON schema from TS types or have a well defined plugin system to allow that to
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Actually after having written a complex CLI in Node, I think I would've been better off learning Go and writing in that. Sometimes tools are worth learning!
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The funny thing is all the python people will tell you how great FastAPI is and how much of an improvement it is over what came before. FastAPI does have a few benefits over express, auto enforcing json schemas on endpoints is huge, vs the

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