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by ctvo 3y ago
> I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. Great. Now you can pay 3 dollars for no ads on Prime Video if you want it too. Did this simple take have to be embedded in so mu
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by ctvo 3y ago
> outside of the US tech bubble, $100m lasts plenty long for 100 people, even with overheads. Outside where? The EU? Plenty long... like 5 years? 150K per employee on average with overhead (additional benefits, tax contributions, health
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by ctvo 3y ago
Because it actually catches issues. Your unit tests are never good enough. Your integration tests won't match your production environment. Your canaries only test the happy path. If your goal is full CI/CD, some changes will mak
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by ctvo 3y ago
Or just read the article before you comment?
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by ctvo 3y ago
> Average without median is a recipe for misperception > The average monthly rent in July was $5,588, up 9% over last year and marking a new record. Median rent, at $4,400 per month, also hit a new record, along with price per square
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by ctvo 3y ago
Been in the industry a long time. It’s not a common phrase. It’s weirdly violent. At most “someone to yell at”. A throat to choke? What the fuck.
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by ctvo 3y ago
> Try filing a bug with any of the big three cloud vendors when you're on their free plan. A host being down for 3 days isn’t a bug. And you can contact AWS support, even on the free plan, and get a reply. Try it yourself. The great
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by ctvo 3y ago
I wouldn’t put AWS and Fly in the same sentence. AWS is magnitudes more reliable, with better support.
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by ctvo 3y ago
This is orthogonal to the original point. Passing around your checking account number isn’t that big of a security risk. We do it now and banks have built guard rails in place because we do it now.
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by ctvo 3y ago
Or it costs time and resources to meet EU regulations and they launched in other marketplaces first while they work on complying, and verifying their compliance with the laws? This isn't uncommon for new products, and there doesn'
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by ctvo 3y ago
... where do you think the alt text gets stored?
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by ctvo 3y ago
The fact the market offers a $5,000 car doesn't mean a $25,000 car is an expensive car. We can stop going in circles. You think it's expensive, but it's not an order of magnitude more expensive, like your example cites. Other
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by ctvo 3y ago
Types (interface contracts) are already easily sharable with an IDL and code generation. There's no need to stick to a common programming language to share types. I'm highly skeptical of code sharing for other scenarios, and rarel
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by ctvo 3y ago
I'm much more interested in your product, and wouldn't have known about it otherwise. Is there a way to be notified when you actually allow public access? Happy to pay for the final product.
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by ctvo 3y ago
It’s pretty bad. I can’t imagine paying for it. “Impressed” by it, in what way?
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by ctvo 3y ago
The very first thing I do when these projects pop up: is there a top level package.json in the repo? Pass.
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by ctvo 3y ago
I’m giving it a chance. I just need the academics, security, tech, and finance folks to migrate over. I’ll start the virtuous cycle by using it so they see a viable alternative to Twitter. I understand Meta isn’t amazing. I’m looking for Tw
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by ctvo 3y ago
I'm missing the not quite part here? The studios wanted to utilize fighter jets and other military grade hardware for their movie, I assume to make it more realistic, and in return they help market the US military as more kind, profess
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by ctvo 3y ago
Of course there are films that celebrate a made up, white washed version of America's history, like say, Mel Gibson's The Patriot, but America was never censored and not released movies critical of its own history. It's not a
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by ctvo 3y ago
If it's so insulting, stop subjecting yourself to it. Let me guess, white boarding is even more insulting, because don't they understand a developer of your experience can't be bothered to prepare for it? No one owes you anyt
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by ctvo 3y ago
What a poor take. Tyson talks about science, and works to popularize it. The better analogy here would be after a space shuttle accident they ask a former NASA astronaut for their opinion and to share their own personal experience traveling
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by ctvo 3y ago
> Public transport seats or even chairs that were used by many, many people over the years are just yuck. Same with door handles (i so hate the Americanbones - you can't use your elbow or wrist to push them!), public transport, hand
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by ctvo 3y ago
> But how those SDK events gets translated into UI control movement is obviously going to be dependent on each developer. And I suspect the variance in quality will be much greater than with iOS given everything is in 3D. Why is the vari
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by ctvo 3y ago
I wrote the original comment, and I (obviously) agree. It's cringe, and could have been written without these additions. It reminds me of the Tiger mom articles popularized with Amy Chua's work. - Tiger parenting: https:/&#x
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by ctvo 3y ago
> For my older son this ability has translated into what seems like a stunning effortlessness when it comes to his music lessons. He finds it easy to sit down at his instrument and improvise in any key. He composes beautiful music. He ha
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by ctvo 3y ago
> But to say society is making success impossible is simply untrue - I see so much opportunity and so many upcoming people all the time. It's not impossible. It's harder than it was 20-50 years ago. Real wage growth has stagnat
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by ctvo 3y ago
> Or maybe just be a victim forever but I don’t think that’s a good outcome. Alternatively, recognize that you have two anecdotes of people succeeding. It doesn't mean there aren't systemic issues, and people can both strive to
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by ctvo 3y ago
> So I'm not sure Hitler ranking highly is in bad faith. I think they may be ranking Hitler the artist or Hitler the leader surely. It can't possibly be the more simple explanation of the internet being full of trolls who think
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by ctvo 3y ago
Maybe? I know a lot of highly educated, successful women who wouldn't date Kevin Durant, for example. The idea of a rich man child trolling on burner accounts regardless of their high profile doesn't exactly drive them crazy. Repl
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by ctvo 3y ago
I can only assume, because it was unstated, and I didn't dive into the citations, but it looked like successful, educated women's preferences orbited around stability, and long term potential, rather than access to luxurious thing

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