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by fortylove 2mo ago
This is actually fantastic. I coach rec league soccer myself, and the ability to save to PDF and print is amazing. Nice work!
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by fortylove 3mo ago
Why?
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by fortylove 1y ago
<this comment doesn't really add anything, but thought I'd share anyways for whatever reason> I forgot the editor (maybe TextMate?) that was in vogue during the peak of the Ruby on Rails era, but there was such a feeling of
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by fortylove 2y ago
This sentiment peaked in popularity in urban areas ~4 years ago. Since then I've noticed support for this position slowly eroding, and my hypothesis is that the general population has slowly had enough interactions with someone who is
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by fortylove 2y ago
The "walking bikes" you mention are extremely common in the US as well, and are referred to as "balance bikes" here.
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by fortylove 2y ago
Is this why we finally got darkmode in gcal?
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by fortylove 2y ago
As someone who used SoftLayer shortly after it was acquired (and it was still pretty much untouched by IBM) - SoftLayer was pretty bad to begin with. And I'm not only comparing it to AWS. It was bad even when compared to RackSpace.
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by fortylove 2y ago
I left Amazon a few years back because this ending was the inevitable outcome. Amazon had a chance to reinvent themselves as the scrappy startup that they claim to want, but instead they went full IBM.
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by fortylove 2y ago
The environmental impact of producing a product that needs frequent replacement should not be ignored. Especially when it's proven to be avoidable.
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by fortylove 2y ago
I find Temporal itself to be effectively a clone of Amazon's Simple Workflow (SWF)
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by fortylove 2y ago
Can you elaborate more on the part where using Kafka as a work queue ends horribly? Genuinely interested!
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by fortylove 3y ago
With regard to Waymo, it seems it just hit a cyclist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39296067
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by fortylove 3y ago
A lot of modern SUVs are actually pretty similar in specs to minivans: Mazda CX9: weight: 4,409lbs, 199″ L x 78″ W x 68″ H Honda Odyssey: 4,482lbs, 205″ L x 79″ W x 70″ H For us, it mostly boiled down to us needing to periodically drive in
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by fortylove 3y ago
I'm not familiar with the term "people carrier", sorry. Is this like a minivan? If so, many minivans are ~similar in size, weight, and capacity to modern SUVs (not all SUVs are a Chevy Suburban :-)). For example, you can comp
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by fortylove 3y ago
Modern SUVs are mostly not on truck chassis anymore. The body-on-frame breed of SUV is growing increasingly rare. Modern SUVs are a lot closer to larger sedans (for example, a Mazda CX5 is not remotely close to a truck).
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by fortylove 3y ago
Dad with wife, two kids, and a dog here. We are a one car family, and we intend to stay that way due to pretty real parking constraints. We tried to hold out for as long as we could without an SUV. Ultimately, taking a week long trip with t
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by fortylove 3y ago
This seems really unhealthy.
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by fortylove 3y ago
Wow. Awful
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by fortylove 3y ago
Previous Amazon engineer here. When considering a change, I was told by multiple layers of management that they would be totally fine with me moving away from the office and becoming permanently remote. But none of them would put that in an
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by fortylove 3y ago
Laughable
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by fortylove 3y ago
Counterpoint: I work at a major tech company and I feel like our interns have been more productive since covid 19. It's forced them to establish a more diverse network of people to ask help from. Maybe it's harder for them, but th
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by fortylove 3y ago
As someone who did away team work at Amazon, and also hosted away teams: the model sucks in most ways and was unpleasant for everyone. It got the job done in extreme situations, but it was mostly a result of subpar managers taking the term
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by fortylove 3y ago
This isn't exactly on topic, but is anyone else experiencing Rust fatigue?
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by fortylove 3y ago
Davinci Resolve is arguably a better program, and is already available for the iPad. It is largely the same program as the desktop version, with a few exclusions that are actually easy to enable with a little research.
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by fortylove 3y ago
The concept is promising, agreed. But like most (all?) recent IBM products, the failure point will be in the execution of the concept. IBM is a marketing company at this point, not a serious technology company.
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by fortylove 3y ago
The peak mechanical keyboard will be when we teach robots to accept voice dictation and they then write what we say using these motions.
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by fortylove 4y ago
I wouldn't doubt google's ability to pull this out in the long run, but they seem to need some caffeine in order to wake up to the reality of current competition. Their cloud is not top dog. Their search is losing ground. I guess
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by fortylove 4y ago
Wow. I've gotten glimpses of this from friends who have almost all now left Google. From the outside, it seems that the political structure in place within Google exists purely to perpetuate it's own existence as a political struc
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by fortylove 4y ago
True!
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by fortylove 4y ago
This screams to me that each internal team just wants a piece of the glory and the accompanying praise and "way to get this across the finish line team!" emails.

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