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by habosa 8y ago
I'm not sure either party can govern effectively when they are in a political bubble. It seems that both ideas have good sides and the best governments are the (rare) ones where multiple parties have power and compromise occurs. Howeve
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by habosa 8y ago
But do people regularly go between SF and CA? Are those people not well served by the cheap and frequent flights? It seems like the train should aim to replace a route served (poorly) by daily vehicular traffic.
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by habosa 8y ago
I sadly agree with this. I think SF is broken beyond repair. I identify as a liberal democrat, it makes me sad that a city that has been under the control of my preferred political ideology for decades is so completely dysfunctional. It ma
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by habosa 8y ago
This is just a link to a snarky tweet ... surely there has to be a better resource on the benefits of dark mode that we could post on HN for discussion?
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by habosa 8y ago
These big companies (including Google where I work) have so little idea of where they're going that they go way too general with interviews. If you want a good iOS engineer then ask them all questions about the platform and have platf
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by habosa 8y ago
Anything would be an improvement. I was looking into getting my first car recently. Narrowed it down to a few Honda models and walked into the SF Honda Dealership. Never seen anywhere so incompetent in my life. When I asked about car feat
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by habosa 8y ago
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. I read a lot of fiction (30+ novels a year) and this book really blew me away. Oh and by the way, it's not about Samurai or Japan or anything like that. If you're interested in thinking about the
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by habosa 8y ago
Finally stopped complaining about JavaScript and jumped in. I now "get it". I'm actually really enjoying TypeScript as a language and I think Node.js is a very good ecosystem for working quickly. Feels good to no longer be
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by habosa 8y ago
Took that shuttle for 2 years. It's nice but ... it's still a bus. There's no nice way to be on a bus for 3hr a day. I'd much prefer the subway, which is much faster.
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by habosa 8y ago
Yeah SF has only one In-N-Out and it's more expensive and crowded than any other location I've seen. SF strongly limits fast food (which I find annoying). My suburb home town had more McDonald's locations than SF does.
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by habosa 8y ago
SF really has no low end on anything. There's no $1 pizza slice when you really need a cheap meal and there's nowhere cheap to live without a punishing commute. The high end of NY is also much higher than SF. NY is where the fir
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by habosa 8y ago
We're working on making the system smart enough to work backwards, but I agree that's a great idea!
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by habosa 8y ago
At Firebase (and at Google) I have done a _ton_ of work at making our "how docs" consistently correct with limited maintenance time. Consider a page like this: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/m
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by habosa 8y ago
I spent two hours one time transferring all my domains (~10) to Google Domains. What a relief to be done with that company. There is not one honest step in the GoDaddy flow, you really have to keep your hand on your wallet. Disclaimer: I
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by habosa 8y ago
Carl Icahn gives his rationale: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/15/billionai... Basically if you believe that ride hailing apps will succeed as a sector and that there is room for two com
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by habosa 8y ago
Look at how many comments on this, or any other Flutter thread, mention hot reload. What I take from that is this: if your toolchain makes rapid iteration easy people will figure out how to work around almost anything else. Language/fr
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by habosa 8y ago
Yeah it's mostly accurate but drop level 1. Lowest I've seen for technical employee of any kind is 2. New grad is 3. 4 is about 2 years later. 5 is the point where you have "no expectation if advancement" and is the
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by habosa 8y ago
This is interesting because now you could really leave the dollar while living in America. After all you can live your whole life in BTC but still need to come up with USD in April to pay taxes. Probably too late though, I think true BTC b
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by habosa 8y ago
So Tether seems to have been hanging out at about 0.97 lately ... isn't that a massive problem? If anyone really believe they were worth 1.00 USD we'd be vacuuming up those 3 pennies.
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by habosa 8y ago
Huh that's interesting! Been here for ~5 years and this drink ticket thing is only ~1yr old in my experience.
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by habosa 8y ago
[Googler] This is how I feel when I see an increased emphasis on training. Making a bunch of leaf-node employees like me sit through more simple online training is not going to fix the problem we have (although it can't hurt). It doe
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by habosa 8y ago
[Googler here] We have much less company-provided alcohol at work than most tech companies that I'm aware of. Mostly beers once a week, and most people don't participate. This change is mostly talking about work social events tha
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by habosa 8y ago
Since the article starts with someone in SF (although he's leaving), I want to proactively dispel the myth that it's common for homeless people to be dropped into SF by other cities because we have good weather and liberal govt. I
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by habosa 8y ago
My girlfriend had the same experience with Uber. They scheduled and forgot 3 times in a row. By the 4th she wasn't interested.
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by habosa 8y ago
Lottery tickets are sort of interesting. Yes they are a bad deal, but they're the highest variance "investment" you can get by a long shot. If you're very poor and stuck in a bad situation, there could 0.0% chance you e
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by habosa 8y ago
May be true but you certainly can't tell by observing the buildings, programs, staff, or other resources in the poor districts.
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by habosa 8y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-50th-Anniversary-Pen...
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by habosa 8y ago
I read a version with enough footnotes to help me understand that underneath a funny and beautiful book is an attempt to use satire to say something serious about the regime that Bulgakov lived under. Part of what makes this book so great
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by habosa 8y ago
I wouldn't say I am "addicted" to tech more than most people my age (26) but I was using my phone a lot more than I liked so I have taken some steps lately. The early results are encouraging that you can in fact use software
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by habosa 8y ago
NYTimes says it applies to part time and temporary employees, even those hired through staffing agencies.

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