davidsawyer

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by davidsawyer 7y ago
Yeah, transparent emoji backgrounds are crucial.
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by davidsawyer 7y ago
> College needs to be a business decision on the part of the individual. As much as I agree, can we just step back and think about how much pressure is put on these 17, 18, 19 year olds? Parents, counselors, and other adults have to do
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by davidsawyer 7y ago
> The beatings will continue until moral improves. And until morale improves, as well!
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Another similar approach is to see what crazy process they're trying to jam into Excel or Google Sheets, and then you can build a more tailored app for that process, ideally if other businesses could benefit from it. Edit: I should&#x2
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Gas stations do that at a very regular cadence: daily. Visa and Mastercard change prices much less often than that, so this take is a little too apples-and-oranges for me.
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Do you have any good extension recommendations for VS Cocde as it relates to PHP development?
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Speaking as someone who moved from a company that heavily leaned on an ORM to a company that is using jOOQ (a thin Java wrapper around SQL) for everything, not being able to use an ORM is pretty painful. I greatly miss the nice, clean ORM e
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Yeah, I think that's the right way to do it. You don't really want to add entire domains that your extension does nothing with yet. Though in hindsight, I should have just found all the Airbnb subdomains, TLDs, etc. up front becau
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Yeah, I agree it's definitely a good security practice of Chrome. On the developer side of this, though, it definitely can lose you a lot of users pretty quickly if you add new permissions at any point, so I think it's important t
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Wow, that's absolutely insane. How did people think that was a good idea?
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
I'll toss mine out there as well: https://www.david-sawyer.com Written from scratch. Just wanted to keep it simple and straightforward. It runs on a $5/month DO box.
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
And if you're told something "increased by 150%", for example, make sure it really is 150% and not just 50%.
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Needs a hit counter!
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Here's a great video that covers "AI winters" for those who are curious: https://vimeo.com/170189199
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Reminds me a lot of massive email validation regex: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Doctor pay doesn't tend to grow all that much over the course of one's career. Their specialty is the #1 determining factor of pay, hands down. https://blog.doximity.com/articles/doximity-2018-physician-c...
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by davidsawyer 8y ago
Maybe this is what is being referenced: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-San-Francisco-apart... Though, I don't think this is "rent control" in the NYC sense of the term where rents are kept way under
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by davidsawyer 9y ago
Starter Story looks like a great site! Love the metrics on this post: https://www.starterstory.com/blog/how-i-hustled-my-way-from-...
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by davidsawyer 9y ago
"Just another put another if statement in there, you know, just in case." -Anonymous
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Show HN: Extension that shows the real nightly price of Airbnb stays AFTER fees
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by davidsawyer 9y ago
I would argue that is it still in everyone's best interest to curb sprawl. Taxpayers are still paying for highways and infrastructure to go out into suburbs where we could instead be spending it in a more efficient manner: in an urban
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by davidsawyer 9y ago
I own AirPods and Jaybird X3s, and the sound quality of AirPods crushes that of the Jaybirds. I completely switched over to AirPods a few months ago and have never looked back.
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by davidsawyer 9y ago
Hey, you may want to remove the word "young" from your job description, as it could be perceived as discrimination on the basis of age.
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by davidsawyer 9y ago
The contrast of the text of those articles is absolutely abysmal.
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by davidsawyer 9y ago
Yeah, as I Georgia resident, I will gladly accept that we "misspell" a word that really has two acceptable spellings. FWIW, I'm a fan of spelling it "gray". It just feels slightly more American for some reason.
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by davidsawyer 10y ago
What about the iPad Mini 4? That's still currently in their offering.
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by davidsawyer 10y ago
Same
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by davidsawyer 10y ago
From the website: >you can listen for 5 hours on a single charge
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by davidsawyer 10y ago
8 days uptime, 237GB written, 10GB read Pretty heavy usage, though.
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by davidsawyer 10y ago
I'm curious to hear from anyone with a Groovy background that has worked with Kotlin as well.

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