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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I have known ex-Googlers who were not very good programmers. You definitely have to be smart to grind the FAANG interview process, but you can still be a bad programmer.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
It would be fun to think about predictive upcoming down/ad time. For example, one of the worst offenders in live sports is the ad break-kickoff-ad break sequence in an NFL game. If you could predict based on how many ad breaks have alr
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
This is exactly right. The only way to lower housing prices is to start demolishing housing. The more apartments we convert to office space, the lower prices will go.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
It's ok for two different things to both be bad, we don't have to pretend they're the same.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
It is, but Ben pronounces the "tech" in the middle as it's pronounced independently.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I highly doubt the developers have anything to do with this in this case. The people requiring the inputs are managers who are responding to regulators and insurers. They're not going to buy software that has a Fuck It Button that allo
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I don’t think NR has ever positioned itself as objective, it’s an explicitly conservative magazine and always has been.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Brazil is free to stop doubling the price of electronic goods with import duties at any time!
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> making some early design decisions in what data you collect, how you store it This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. "How you store it" very well may include "on any cloud server owned by a US company,
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Until you are big enough to have lawyers look over everything for you, I think the only reasonable course of action is to exclude EU nationals from your service. There are a lot of armchair HN lawyers (including in this thread) who will say
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> I've often wondered that with a valid ID, that the gov does not give us an email noawdays. Especially one that does not require this asinine phone-validity garbage. Can you even imagine the nightmare of trying to police the usage
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
In the middle of nowhere with no car or household appliances or health care where half of your food comes out of your garden, of course you can afford that. You could also afford to live in a fire trap tenement house with your family of 8 i
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
You can easily work 13 hours a week if you are willing to enjoy early 20th century living standards! The gains from productivity are distributed between extra leisure time and extra material benefits.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> and yet it still is the most fun city for the youth to be in. This definitely does not apply to the Valley. SF you could make an argument for at least.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Burning cash is not enough, and in many cases is counterproductive -- the takeaway is "Big Tech is trying to buy their way into our communities."
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> Also, being Sillicon Valley one of the most productive places on earth, why companies don't involve themselves in politics about housing and city planning? Occasionally they do but the main power bloc in rich urban/suburban C
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> Like imagine you download a restaurant menu to check out the food and they provided it as an image (pretty standard). As a part of that image is a QR code to their Facebook page (also usually benign). In this case, let's say you a
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I'm quite sure that I want that. Why would I prefer to fetch previews while I'm trying to look at messages instead of while I'm sleeping?
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> URL prefetching is usually only expected to happen "on demand" while you're using stuff I don't think this is my expectation. When I receive messages overnight, I want URLs in those messages prefetched, for example.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
EDN also contains support for date and UUID literals, the former of which is a huge pain when using JSON and needing to communicate which standard you're using and remember to encode/decode on each side of the wire.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Have you tried Figwheel[0]? This is how I maintain a REPL into a browser-based CLJS application under development. [0]: https://figwheel.org
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> I have absolutely zero sympathy for any big company that does the above and suddenly ends up at the receiving end of it. That seems like a sentiment better expressed in an instance where it actually happens then? I don't have much
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Re: cannabis, it's federally illegal and you can get into serious legal trouble for facilitating payments. There have been several attempts to write legislation to fix this so state-legal cannabis operations don't have to work ent
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> It's unlikely that PG suddenly discovered Twitter spam problem. It is, he's been tweeting about it constantly prior to the Musk acquisition.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Absolutely. The Zuckerberg characterization of Twitter as "a clown car that fell into a gold mine" remains the most accurate.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> or put the verified name in hover text if it differs from the display name This isn't really a solution, because it's already "obvious" that it's the wrong user if you're looking closely. The UI shows &quo
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Historical data is still available in the WeatherKit API at least: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72581627/cant-find-weath...
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Maybe, but I can buy a Mac, you just order one from Apple.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
This is exactly why net neutrality rules were a bad idea, because of insane proposals like this that would kill legitimate innovation. If you are lost in the woods without a cell signal, you don't want someone downloading a podcast epi
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
The Safari engine would still need to be embedded in the OS for things like web views, so it wouldn't really solve any problems.

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