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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Is it really? Maybe it depends on your market, but I've been able to do it... pretty much every time over the last 12 years. You apply to a bunch of places over ~2 weeks, then try to get the slow ones to speed up and/or the fast
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
> Even if it was less than what they would have paid, why should you care if you are happy This is a weird argument. It seems like you're saying "these scenarios are fine even if they lose you money." I would argue that &
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
> It is also a basic human right not to be condemned without legal due process No it's not. It's a basic human right not to be formally condemned by a government or government-like body without legal due process. It's not
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Historically, it seems like "arguing publicly, getting public outcry, and getting the notice of someone higher up the chain" is pretty much the only way to effectively appeal these sorts of decisions at Google. I don't know
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
I once got quite into https://www.swarmsim.com/#/ It's about as barebones as you can get - it's literally just "numbers go up" with a few simple names attached to them. It turns out that even that
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
That's a pretty good question. Ideally you're measuring "paid us money" as conversion, and that was the case for the anecdote I had in mind in the above post: we had a checkout screen with a decent price tag at the en
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
I hate those too. On the other hand, I've been adjacent to the decision to add them before. You're under a lot of pressure to increase conversion in your onboarding funnel, so you test out moving your email capture up a bit in yo
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
People do like to blame this on JS, but it's been true as long as I've been writing software. "Don't build on unmaintained libraries" was a lesson I learned hard in Ruby, long before the javascript ecosystem was a
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Ruby's metaprogramming allows you to create really nice, ergonomic abstractions. I can write `has_one :posts` in a User model class in Rails and a ton of useful functionality pops into existence. On the other hand, that deep magic
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
That's an interesting thesis: that everyone will want to use their own chatbot (gpt-powered Siri or Alexa) instead. I suppose it's possible, but I suspect the author overestimates how much of a positive relationship most people
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Well, I can't speak for most people, but one thing I've been doing is using this modeling as feedback into my budget. 1. Track my current expenses (I use https://lunchmoney.app/ , but a spreadsheet works fine). Lo
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Interesting that this seems to have started around Spring 2021 when posts + votes started tailing off, followed by traffic starting to decline around spring of 2022. I can think of a few theories that I don't think hold water: 1. The r
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
I can't really think of much to add, honestly! Iirc the last time I was using it heavily, the only issue I was having trouble with was modeling drawdowns of existing funds. It kept drawing down my wife's account to build up mine.
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Oh hey, it's you again! I discovered projectionlab (formerly projectfi) on HN a while back and have been loving it. Every other "retirement calculator" I found was a dozen text fields and a simple output graph or two - Proje
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
I never had a proper console when it first came out, but I recently played through all three (there are relatively recent remastered editions) at my wife's insistence. They are, indeed, quite good. I really enjoyed the storylines and
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
I feel that this article convincingly makes the case that women are vastly underrepresented in songwriting of top hits. That said, I feel like I have little to no insight into how songwriting works as an industry. Who chooses songwriters f
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
That's what immediately sprang to mind when wk_end mentioned slogging. I was never a serious player, but played through it a number of times and that was always my least favorite section. So repetitive, and the river maps often inclu
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
For what it's worth, my own anecdata is the opposite. My neighborhood (alamo square / wester addition) is rife with Cruise cars and I usually pass 2-3 every night while walking my dog for 30 minutes. They've been, without f
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
I think the trend is starting to turn. I visit the Great American Beer Festival nearly every year, and there was definitely a period where everyone was all-in on relatively extreme beers: ipas, sours, bourbon-barrel aged stouts. Last year,
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
At small scales, a rule of thumb is that it's harder to brew beers with lighter/subtler flavors. You can hide a lot of minor brewing mistakes behind an IPA or a heavy stout. Not so much with something like a pilsner.
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Probably an interesting business challenge. I could see a few options: 1. Add the ability to buy credits. Hurts the "community" aspect, but gets around that problem and acts as a revenue stream. 2. "Joe Smith is a new host!
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
This has the feel of a site someone set up to gauge interest based on signups, rather than something that actually exists. I've never been quite sure how I feel about those: smart product testing or disingenuous bait-and-switch?
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
https://kevinkuchta.com/ - mostly silly projects that try to combine humor and "that shouldn't be possible" technical hacks.
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Beats me? I was on vacation there 4 years ago. :)
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
This is pretty neat! Although I find myself relying far more on triangulation via the distances than I do the images.
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
I hacked this whole thing together in a cafe in Paris over a couple days. It's not exactly what you'd call "scalable" ;). Given that it keeps a long-running streaming http connection to every client, it'd be expens
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Haha, thanks, Nick. :)
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Yeah, the original inspiration for this was a tweet where the poster was using that behavior to leak cursor position (by having a big grid of divs with hover-over css classes with background images)!
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Because not everyone has the same needs and preferences as you: - Some people like to cook. I ran into a guy on a recent vacation to Lyon (one of the best cities for restaurants in the world) who was in a rental house because he wanted t
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by fishtoaster 3y ago
Yeah, "hold off funding announcements until we've got something else we want to push into the news" was a pretty common thing in my experience as well. I'm somewhat sympathetic to both the press and the readers here - th

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