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by foooorsyth 2y ago
AOL was an incredibly successful business. Nothing lasts forever.
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
“Win the lottery” doesn’t really work in tech. So many mid career engineers are deca-millionaires with 15-20 years of grants and refreshers. They’re working because they enjoy the work. Even at “regular” companies that don’t have hockey sti
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
>you should be L7 The distribution of the ladder is logarithmic. Most never make L6. L5 is often terminal level IC without any “up or out” obligations. Lots of people spend a long time at L5 and retire.
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Meh. I wouldn’t take any amount of money for 90 months in prison. Not sure if cooperators in financial crimes are considered “snitches” but I’m sure it doesn’t help. No thanks.
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
What’s wrong with Lufthansa? It’s the only international business class I’ve ever flown. Had good experiences compared most domestic airlines in the US.
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Yeah, this page is quite clear: https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/encoding/ Nothing mystical about it
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Touch ID is so drastically superior to Face ID in so many common “iPad scenarios”, eg. laying in bed with face partially obscured. I don’t understand Apple’s intense internal focus on FaceID only. FaceID with TouchID as an option when a dev
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
I read the article, thanks. It makes the claims that (1) a string of a specific form (a hash) could be misused (eg. someone might call toUpper on it) or (2) passed in incorrect order to a function that takes multiple strings. Named paramete
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Really ugly way to avoid something already solved by named parameters and/or namespacing
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
> Ultimately Congress should have written the law more carefully Insane framing of “we know the spirit of the law but we are going to do everything we can to skirt it”. >The FBI’s job is only to investigate to the maximum extent of th
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Doesn’t really solve the cost of living problem being in coastal CA :)
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
The Carolinas, near the Blue Ridge Mountains where it is also pretty. Not quite the Sierras but it’ll do
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
You don’t have to retire there, but it turns out that the Bay Area has one of the most pleasant climates in the entire world for humans and it is coupled with some of the most stunningly beautiful and varied terrain in the world. It’s har
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Vehicle rental periods are inherently time constrained. If you’re on a business trip or vacation the last thing you want to be doing is waiting for your vehicle to charge. And, you inherently also often do not have access to private chargin
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Thieves will begin to expect it to be there some of the time, after sufficient police/vigilante response. And perhaps it will be hard to find. Hence, deterrence. Cars are stolen far less often than they would be otherwise partially due
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
It’s a massive deterrence. LoJack has been in business since 1986 for a reason. Also, the attitude of “don’t go and get your stuff back yourself, it’s not safe” is just castrated cowardice and only emboldens thieves. Thieves should be afrai
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
AirTags are not better in one very important way: they don't prevent theft. They will notify thieves that they are hidden in a valuable item that they are stealing if the thief carries an iPhone. Tile has a feature where you can submit
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
Because nobody’s really paying attention. “LGTM!”
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
People buy Apple products because they don’t have that crap. What are you talking about? If there’s one company that DOESN’T bloat your computing device with worthless junk from third parties, it’s Apple.
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
Uh, yeah they did. Many people thought at that time that DOJ was overstepping. Many still do. In hindsight, Microsoft’s behavior at the time seems like small potatoes compared to the ecosystem protection that occurs today.
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
In addition to all of those things, it also burned your battery like crazy. Jobs was very public about his annoyance with Flash’s battery drain.
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
What a ridiculous comment. He’s running a business, not a charity. He’s already determined that this offering will be useful to customers. He’s asking for insights on what to charge. Nothing wrong with that.
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
Doesn’t seem like luck if he actually finished his projects. Every undergrad has a github full of half finished projects. Seeing professional contributions to a widely used project is a completely different story.
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
As a non-landlord, it seems quite odd that landlords and property managers can’t “collude” on rent pricing. If I were to have a rental property and a management company for it to be hands off, I’d probably want to defer rent setting to the
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
It’s all subjects — not just economics and finance. Journalists don’t know what they’re talking about, but they’ll confidently act as if they do.
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
Is there any evidence that more people are attempting to live alone now than in the past (in the US)? Genuine question -- don't know the trend national trend.
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
It's a good thing for me for Ferrari to sell me a car for $1 -- doesn't mean that's what should be brought into reality by regulators.
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
A lot of founders see it as a good thing -- not everyone wants to stay in the game. Some want a big liquidity event after 10 years of grind and a sale to a large competing company typically yields the biggest windfall.
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
You don’t need thousands of apps. People don’t use thousands of apps day to day. They use the core system apps plus a few top social media apps and perhaps some banking stuff. It’s not 2010 anymore when all of the earnings calls for $AAPL a
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by foooorsyth 3y ago
>software engineers/developers are not in any way engaged in what might be considered genuine scientific research and development Have you forgotten the D in R&D? Software engineers are building the product. That’s development.

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