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by d23 11y ago
This is the problem. You can't argue a user into accepting that their experience is better. You have a whole swath of people saying maps has gotten significantly more cumbersome over the last few years. Telling the user they are wro
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by d23 11y ago
Here's a few more: randomly zooming out to full-earth view, changing the area of my search after I've already zoomed in, crashing all the time on mobile, randomly giving me results halfway across the earth, randomly changing my de
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by d23 11y ago
> So yeah - telling people to "just stop using facebook" is akin to telling smokers to "just stop smoking", and will net the same results. I have no problem with that. Want to not have the damaging effects of smoking
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by d23 11y ago
And if they do follow too many standards, it's a red flag. Or if they follow a mix of standards and non-standards. Big red flag there. If the person is wearing nice shoes, definitely a red flag. But you don't want them to be
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by d23 11y ago
Jinja is great as a templating language. I find yaml by itself to be clean and readable. Cram all of it in to the same soup, mix in the global variables, and it quickly turns into a nightmare. It takes what's already a problem in a
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by d23 11y ago
I know it's a tangent, but I'm actually blown away by the quality of the website itself. They've managed to use modern techniques like header background video and fading in of navigation elements in a way that is classy and
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by d23 11y ago
> Of course, if this really is such a revolutionary advance, why go to Kickstarter to bring it to market? Why not traditional investors. The obvious benefit being that you don't actually have to give Kickstarter "investors&quot
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by d23 11y ago
It could have been a lot worse. People on here seem to confuse being polite with corporate speak. Yes, he could have summed it up in a single sentence: "I'm firing 336 people." It would also have been a hell of a lot more
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by d23 11y ago
Someone really has to get a simple proof of concept application made that any dummy can understand and run on their own. I'm a developer that bought ethereum, and even after reading their materials after the launch I couldn't be
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by d23 11y ago
I agree, but there's enough weird shit going on here that it's still a worthwhile "article". For me, the `mixing numerical types`, `Operator precedence?`, `extend vs +=`, `Indexing with floats`, `all and emptiness`, and
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by d23 11y ago
He linked a TON of projects that have been shut down. The logic of your message seems to be "they only shut down things that aren't popular, therefore you should feel fine using this really niche product that will never expand be
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by d23 11y ago
It's funny, because I'd consider your comment 90% noise. You took 3 paragraphs to say nothing more than "I hate noise." You did a good job at making yourself sound superior though. It sounds like your ideal commenting
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by d23 11y ago
> By 2:37am PDT, the error rate in customer requests to DynamoDB had risen far beyond any level experienced in the last 3 years, finally stabilizing at approximately 55%. Yeah, a small green-i should cover it.
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by d23 11y ago
Yeah, it's a nice middle-ground curse word. "Fuck" is a little too string, and "damn" just doesn't have the same light-heated sound to it. I'd guess "shit" usually is a bit self-deprecating too
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by d23 11y ago
Just a nitpick, but the poem wouldn't make much sense if the first line was "first they came for me" :-)
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by d23 11y ago
Here's an easier to remember one if you're interested, without the warning at the top :) http://git-scms.com/
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by d23 11y ago
> I'd use PyPy which would've done wonders for responsiveness on the existing product and adopt containers for deployment. That's an easy claim to make, but you don't know whether their stack would actually get much i
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by d23 11y ago
Well said. Less on your point specifically, but I find this article to be such a trite argument. "Here's a list of things I think are garbage. People still want them though, and I think that's stupid! Here's a list o
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by d23 11y ago
> Pay for the publication/article, don't pay for it, but why should anyone's opinion about paywall's dictate link etiquette/form, etc. Because it directly affects this community. It's a link aggregator sit
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Yes, they just droned a hacker(blog.erratasec.com)
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by d23 11y ago
I don't usually find their interfaces ugly per se; if anything I find they've made sacrifices in the user experience for the sake of making things prettier. I can't count the times Google Maps inexplicably zooms out to show m
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by d23 11y ago
> A tweaked logo won't affect Google's outcome one iota. Ah, but it will. When you're a company like Google, with hundreds of millions of users a day, it's only a matter of time that something like an outdated logo w
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by d23 11y ago
I recently learned about /mute, which is a godsend. It lets me keep those channels open that I'm interested in, but lets me avoid getting a little red circle in my taskbar every time a message appears in them. I keep 80% of my S
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by d23 11y ago
Not exactly "no walled garden" then if the output can't be managed by anything but the original program.
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by d23 11y ago
Peoples' motivations for doing things are never cut and dry. Yes, an amount of ego may have snuck in there, but they may have also genuinely thought they were doing a Good Deed.
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by d23 11y ago
Awesome article and idea. Would it be unreasonable to try to reverse or update the actual code on the hardware to get it to send a request to an arbitrary server instead? I'd love to team with a hardware person to cut out the layer of
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by d23 11y ago
In fact, this is my favorite meaning of the word hack. It's turned into essentially a synonym for "programmer" as far as I can tell, but I always liked this classic definition of getting a thing to something other than what
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by d23 11y ago
It would be helpful for this entire conversation if we could get a data-driven answer for the question of how the work environment is at Amazon. Someone mentioned them having one of the lowest retention times for developers in the industry
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by d23 11y ago
A friend of mine was an intern for a candidate that was on the national stage for the presidential election in 2012. This was a couple years before the election. He said all of the candidate's time was fundraising. The person was
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by d23 11y ago
> For people who've never used Tinder, it's basically nothing like this, and it's not just my own experience or the way I use it - I've never seen any of my friends use it like the people in this article describe. Sam

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