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by dgreensp 9y ago
That’s me in the bottom right in the striped shirt! Congratulations Drew, I am in awe. I first met Drew at MIT, and first saw Dropbox when he was showing off what he was hacking on on his Windows laptop in a coffee shop in Cambridge at the
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Healthy, full breathing involves significant expansion of the rib cage in all directions. I wish people would remember this before spreading the advice, “breathe into your belly, not into your chest.” Your lungs are in your chest. (And co
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Well I think it’s a difference in government, whatever the culture is. The government is not polling the people to decide whether or not to act in accord with the facts according to scientific consensus, it is just doing so.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Example 1 makes this look like a very imperative language, otherwise why would you write out a “map” as an imperative loop? We are back to manually allocating an array the same size as an existing array, and having to remember to increment
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I do think Apple puts more thought and creative attention into their hardware design than anyone else, or at least that’s their image, and based on that, it’s easy to see how they have (in addition) become fashion trend-setters in the indus
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Yes, if anything, the notch seems like an obvious, but aesthetically questionable and therefore risky, move. Apple doing it, and people apparently liking it (...really?...) derisked it.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I agree, if you have a consumer product and are trying to get a place in the customer’s monthly budget for entertainment/recreation, a different set of rules probably apply. These cases probably aren’t as central to what is thought of
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by dgreensp 9y ago
You can absolutely work for yourself. Google has customers too. If you work for Google, there is you, Google, and customers. If you work for you, there is you, you, and customers. You could metaphorically think of your customers as hiri
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by dgreensp 9y ago
If a manager of some kind were to notice the Slack messages and ping someone specific to help, that would be a perfect example of the kind of management that is so sorely lacking at so many companies. Many employees are too burned, or prou
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by dgreensp 9y ago
It does seem like if your SaaS product is truly "just for fun" and does not save anyone time or make or save anyone money, or teach a skill, or otherwise help the user be more productive, then you are right. What is an example?
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by dgreensp 9y ago
As an industry forum for engineers and people developing products, this is a great place to share positive and negative opinions about technology and how it impacts product quality. That’s good conversation. Generic reactions to negativity
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by dgreensp 9y ago
The reason the causality sounds backwards is the GP is talking about secondary effects of what you are talking about — the other half of a vicious cycle. We are already a decade into neglecting native app technologies in favor of web app te
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Note that the “inheritance” can come from the father, and also happens with in vitro fertilization.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
This article is fluff/FUD when it comes to the implications about autonomous driving. “Autopilot” is a marketing term for a kind of cruise control. The article repeatedly tries to make the point that if “the best system available” do
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I was in 50-person all-hands meetings for a product at Google, and there wasn’t the time or the context for anyone to give feedback on anything. At the time I felt bad about my inability to pay attention — without my laptop out I would bar
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Yes, the original statement is totally reasonable: Ultimately, I want a profitable product to be a byproduct of my excellent engineering, not have my engineering be just a means to an end, of getting to a profitable product. In other word
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I think the author was contrasting being a “fair-weather,” unknowledgeable investor (in the stock market, or by analogy in prorjects) who buys in when things are going up and pulls out when they go down, versus being a committed, knowledgea
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Indeed, turning your hotel room or your office at work into a vehicle so that it can pick you up just seems like saving a commute by merging it with “being at your destination.” So your commute takes on properties of already being at your d
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by dgreensp 9y ago
As someone who used to be much like the asker and is now a little more like the answerer, I cannot recommend this answer enough! It is so insightful and well-put. Treat it as breadcrumbs from someone farther along on the journey of growth
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Hi Rich. On my iPhone, I get a 3-second delay between when I “swipe to go back” and when the page is usable/scrollable on the Sapper HN. When I first went to the site, via the link above, the top nav links did not seem to work reliab
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Waaaay over the top with glowing, hyperbolic language about how the X truly, truly this time “reinvents” the iPhone in a way unlike any device has ever been reinvented.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
It's not Web 2.0-era social networking, it's a kind of tech utopianism that's been around for decades. I agree that the article doesn't make a lot of sense if you never believed that the Internet was going to automatica
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by dgreensp 9y ago
If the Internet, unbeknownst to most of us, is actually supposed to bring about a uniform world culture, or world peace, or no more secrets/privacy... well, who’s to say it isn’t succeeding? You wanted your idea of utopia on your sc
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by dgreensp 9y ago
you might know that it’s usually defined by some of its features, such as: reification of functions, avoidance or banning of functions with side-effects, use of higher-order functions and so on The "function" in "functional
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by dgreensp 9y ago
If your startup idea is actually offensive to people, maybe take a step back and think about that, or just do it anyway, who cares? Since when are entrepreneurs afraid of "speaking heresies" or "toxic reactions"... from
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by dgreensp 9y ago
This article really hits home in terms of how people sometimes think about React components, and how I’d like them to think about them. I sometimes hear, from other engineers working on a complex React app, that the point of React’s compone
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by dgreensp 9y ago
This article comes to entirely the wrong conclusion, and I am very encouraged at the number of commenters pointing it out. Engineers engineer. They are highly trained professionals who are doing their job when they are figuring out how t
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Let me know where I can find a company like this! It’s obvious to me that engineering quality is precisely what engineers should be worried about — the “how” as opposed to the “what” or the “why”. Like chefs should be focused on the food.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I forgot another: I think at one point the author attributes the uproar over net neutrality to “the media.”
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Exactly. This is like listening to Trump talk about Obamacare. Oh, he agrees with the principles — more than the next guy! — but we’ve taken a massive step in the wrong direction and need to repeal it. I lost track of all the slimy rhetor

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