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by jmathai 4y ago
It may seem intentional. I think that Apple only cares about integrating Apple products. This means they launch features which competitors cannot participate in. Can you blame them? Enabling third parties to act as 1st class citizens means
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You're correct. Now imagine that the vast majority of teachers focused more on wearing funny hats to engage students than teaching them the material - because schools paid them more for that. Parents would probably be interested in alt
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This is great hindsight advice. It may be hard to see from the perspective of the OP though. The way you describe is how it is in FAANG (I work at one, haven’t at others). Until you get to a certain level, you implement what others (PMs, hi
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Multitudes of miners will no longer race to find the next computationally expensive hash. Proof of Stake does address the energy concerns of crypto.
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by jmathai 4y ago
Consider using something like https://google.aip.dev/ . Consistency across an API surface is more valuable than local optimizations.
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10 billionaires investing 10% of their assets is actually pretty crazy.
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Interesting. I look at my children and the realization that I will likely die before them and miss out on a part of their life reminds me of my mortality.
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Sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing this. I interviewed both of my parents (separately) several years ago and recorded the video and took notes that I transcribed. They are both still living but these are some of the most valuable digit
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Exif does not store time zone information [1] and it would be up to the capture device to include any offsets directly in the date/time stored. Phones can do this because they have gps and know which time zone the photo was taken. Your
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by jmathai 4y ago
EXIF is the greatest thing about photos and videos. It makes every photo a tiny portable database of itself. A library of photos is a collection of these tiny databases which share a schema. Doesn’t matter what device takes the photo - and
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by jmathai 4y ago
I've always viewed "purpose" as a very personal thing that I get to determine. My purpose has changed throughout my life and probably at quarter centuries (and not just mid-life). I think the point of this exercise is to reev
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Google might be the easiest company ever to give money to. 1. Open Browser to google.com 2. Type something 3. Press enter
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The suggestion here being that hiring is a strategic play by Google to prevent startups from forming? I think a much better play is to let the startups form at no cost to you and buy them if/when they show signs of success.
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In my experience on small teams that I've been on - a key motivator for people is shipping products and features. The sooner and more frequently you can do this the more positive reinforcement there is for the entire team - not to ment
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That’s my perception as well but I believe it is flawed. I don’t work at Facebook but I imagine their business is run off the vast data they collect from users. Somehow, the increase of ads must be increasing revenue in a more material way
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There is an anchor around the domain text - just missing an href attribute. Probably due to the rich text editor used to draft the blog post.
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by jmathai 4y ago
OT: visiting the website rendered my browser navigation control (Safari, iOS) completely hidden. I lost the ability to go back or close just its tab. Is that intentional? Edit: reproducible and happens when I scroll the content. Maybe relat
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Getting your content onto a Medium publication with a large and/or relevant following is such useful method of distribution. All of my most widely read Medium posts have been via a publication that I reached out to.
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But that tradeoff is hypothetical and would not retroactively remove value that is created in the meantime. I'm not a medium fan either but my feelings are similar to the parent post. If it's something I want to persist then I wi
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Remote work, not monetary compensation, seems to be the long term advantage that startups could have over large corporations. The article highlights the rise in remote jobs. If large companies struggle to balance remote and in-office employ
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I agree that some, not all, wages in HCOL areas are very bloated. That's not always the case though and I imagine it's not the case for HR groups within Twitter.
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Agree. I think money is sort of like a house. No matter how large or how much, it'll get filled or used. Discipline in both will go a long way in not having a big house full of unused rooms and money that's not wasted.
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In all fairness, this applies across the board. I agree with you on financial responsibility residing with the individual. $100k in a LCOL or $300k in a HCOL is sufficient to have an emergency fund. And in the same way that layoffs in a LCO
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I don't understand the hate towards high cost of living areas. Making a few $100k in a HCOL area is similar to making $100k in a LCOL area. You don't live like a king if both your income AND expenses are higher. Both people in thi
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The way they talk about the disappearing middle class is how I feel about political and social moderates in America. The edges are so extreme that it's not really possible to have any productive discussions. And it's not nearly a
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Have you looked at the Internet Archive or Archive Team? The Internet Archive provides free storage (last I knew from ~2014). https://archive.org/services/docs/api/ias3.html
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I sold an open source company in 2015 - video log [1]. I generally found the open source nature more of a liability. One which I could not ignore because our project was very public. The approach I took was to acknowledge questions like “wh
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The universal cut benefits those who would have been laid off as they're likely the ones who would be most concerned. I've seen this once and the ones who liked it were those who feared losing their jobs knowing it would be hard t
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Your argument holds true in theory but does not always work in practice. The issue many people have with fake news is that it's a tool that can sway public opinion without any basis on facts. I'm not sure, by your response, if you
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Don't make the mistake of assuming the hours spent is correlated to the amount they will spend. I'm not saying they will spend thousands of dollars but you might be surprised how big their budgets are and the numbers they are used

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