djtango

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by djtango 2y ago
Yes - a thousand yeses. I once got asked "what was a life changing company/product" and my answer was WhatsApp - to slightly bemused looks. WhatsApp connected the world for free. Obviously they weren't the first to try b
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I feel your pain - one minute you're reading some messages or a note and the next you're locked out of slack with faded screens and infinite spinnies. Apparently we must be very niche amongst their user base because these kinds of
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I doubt I'll ever work with a place that uses Telegram but yes its clear that resilient message delivery is a solved problem nowadays but Slack is still hopeless at the one most important key feature of its product. Now that WhatsApp a
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by djtango 2y ago
Yes - name and shame. Slack is INFURIATING on intermittent connectivity. That is simply not good enough for a product who's primary value is communication. Anyone who has tried to use Slack: - in the countryside with patchy connection
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Is this also true for PRK?
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This sounds great thanks for the reco
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2011 style is quite kiddy. Comparing 1999 and 2011 is like a study of pre and post "moe" styles of anime. 1999 feels a lot less juvenile IMO. Although I did watch it when I was barely a teenager...
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He's tweeting again - we probably get a chapter dump in the summer. Succession War arc is wild
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People do talk about it, but not enough - Hunter x Hunter. While the 2011 version is longer, the 1999 has some really great moments
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Isn't that why Heroku exists?
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Yes - my response was to the rejection that rules are to be broken. I have worked there fully remote jobs and the ones that did it best fully leaned into being remote. There is no hard or fast rule, I've been in a team social where I w
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by djtango 2y ago
Remote is extreme and is still not the norm. It is easier to baseline on things optimised for remote then relax than try to shoehorn in person into remote which is then doomed to fail. I worked for a company that was headquartered in London
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While names reveal intention I do find it easier to reason about code when everything has one letter variables. If I'm trying to think about an algorithm or just some complex logic, the shorter the names, the easier I can manipulate th
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by djtango 2y ago
Can you run Linux on this yoga tab?
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Europe also is not a single language territory. China and the US have so much more of an advantage when the TAM for the single spoken language is so massive by default. In Europe you have to navigate a bunch of different languages, cultures
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Thanks for this - I think there's something to also be said about too many people failing once and not trying again. This could be for any number of reasons: 1. burnout 2. life circumstances (dependents like kids, parents or others) 3.
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by djtango 2y ago
Is Android Chrome the same Chromium engine as desktop? I don't know much about the mobile browser internals.
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I recently got a couple of dodgy emails with an invoice.pdf or equivalent. Never seen that type of email before, I thought it prudent not to open the PDF Wonder if it was related...
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Could you help me explore your view a bit more? Parent's advice is about favouring team and striving to be an enabler/multiplier rather than sweating over individual perfection of craft. It's a fairly common conclusion that s
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by djtango 2y ago
If you make a billion, a 1% saving is 10 million. You can hire and fund a lot of activity with 10 million. If you make 1 million, 10k isn't going to go very far towards paying devs to save you 1%
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by djtango 2y ago
I have always been fascinated by bare foot running. I think in a city I have less interest because all it takes is one tiny shard of glass to get a nasty infection but how do you handle stuff like pebbles etc?
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I think there's a bit of both... At some point YouTube transcends what it was originally - the internet in video from - and becomes something more. It then exists in the space of "TV" or general distraction. It becomes a hous
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Your anecdotal experience mirrors mine too. Could just be some selection bias but it is really uncanny...
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Who knew that the sentient life we were looking for were beneath our feet in our deep blue oceans rather than up above the stars.
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So they put 5 beavers there? Do they not suffer from incest or will they add more later?
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by djtango 2y ago
Probably because it was run by mathematicians who I assume have no love for managing lots of people. Combine that with how most the company spend all their time thinking about making money and that's probably why the company never succ
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Yes and I was chiming in about how its chemistry is really quite unique which leads to its role in money. Cu and Ag are far more prone to oxidation. Its thanks to the relativistic effects that gold is so much more oxidation resistant. But t
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by djtango 2y ago
Thanks for replying - appreciate you taking the time to engage. I have no doubt that there is a lot of hardcore maths in economics - I remember learning Koopmans Theorem only to discover he moved over to economics. Just as there is a lot of
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I am going to sound like a luddite, I know, but I find that we underestimate the touchy-feely ideas when economics is so much squishier than physics or biology. collecting data about atoms from spectrometers just doesn't have the same
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Yes - exactly this. Gold is nature's money. Every other asset wishes it was told but it's gold's chemistry that makes it a good store of value for exactly what you said. The relative cost to purify and reshape/melt etc i

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