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by jmknoll 10y ago
Very well put. Tools like this, by lowering the barrier to entry of making software (I'm assuming the best case scenario - that App Maker is a quality product), tools like this expand the pie and make the software development industry
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Not entirely sure, but a couple of thoughts. Monoculture is a less well-known problem than pesticides for the general public. Its easier to rail against a problem that feels familiar than to teach a somewhat new idea and then discuss the da
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Exactly. Travel speed once you're in the air is basically the last problem with air travel. Travel time to the airport, looking around for a parking space, an outdated checkin process, endless security theater. These all seem like easi
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by jmknoll 10y ago
This looks nice, but it's not clear to me what it actually does. Is it just a list of github issues with first-time-only tags? I would add some about information to make it clearer to the user what the benefit of this app is.
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by jmknoll 10y ago
Denver seemed like a pretty cool city, from all 2 days that I spent there 10 years ago. Pretty vibrant downtown for a city of its size, and presumably awesome skiing/hiking/anything outdoors right outside the city. Once you factor
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by jmknoll 10y ago
Do you have a citation for that? As far as I understand it, the nature of animal sentience is a very widely debated subject. If you define sentience to mean "the ability to feel or perceive," then a wide array of animals are senti
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True, but about that same guy, the author later says: "His father insisted that this wasn’t just about family prestige or future job prospects. “I also want my son to understand, in a way that I never could,” he said, “that the world i
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by jmknoll 10y ago
I work for a related company in the industry, based in Shanghai. Would be happy to chat/answer any questions about the work.
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There's a pretty interesting npr program about this. The researcher visits "Blue Zones," areas where people live for abnormally long times, and finds that, if I recall correctly, long lifespans are correlated with strong soci
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It doesn't even need to be an all-or-nothing thing. You could have a state law saying something like "All employees are allowed to attend one public policy meeting during working hours each month." Its not a huge expense for
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"So, we are shifting our resources and attention to defining a new model for writers and creators to be rewarded, based on the value they’re creating for people. And toward building a transformational product for curious humans who wa
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by jmknoll 10y ago
Have you spent much time in Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, or Taipei? In all of these cities, public transit doesn't just "have its uses," its the primary way of getting around the city for the vast majority of
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by jmknoll 10y ago
Not a totally apples-to-apples comparison, but I used to work for a large law firm on the East Coast. I started in July, and for my first year's bonus, received a crisp $100. Seemed low, but it was the same for my entire cohort. Probab
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by jmknoll 10y ago
Commute times can be misleading. It takes me about an hour to get from my house in downtown Shanghai to my office on the other side of the city. However, this is about 15 minutes of walking and 45 five minutes on the metro. Even though its
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by jmknoll 10y ago
Its not clear that the Nordic model is being used in any other European country, so I'm not sure that we can count low fiber rates in e.g. Italy, Germany of evidence of the model's lack of scalability. Perhaps more significantly,
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by jmknoll 10y ago
Are those savings already including the fact that "a Mac initially costs anywhere from $117 to $454 more than a similarly configured Windows PC"? Looking at it again, its not entirely clear from the way that its worded.
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"Previn says that while a Mac initially costs anywhere from $117 to $454 more than a similarly configured Windows PC, over four years IBM saves between $273 to $543 per Mac compared to a similarly configured Windows PC." Its late
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by jmknoll 10y ago
You can also copy the article title and run a google search for it. WSJ isn't paywalled for links from search engines (Google for sure at least, not sure about others).
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by jmknoll 10y ago
It's actually not a terrible fit for Amazon. Twitter is basically where breaking news happens already, and it's not terribly difficult to imagine an integration between WaPo and Twitter. Gives them a presence in San Francisco as w
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It depends on the person. Some will use it as basically a replacement for their actual name, others will use for only for business with people who can't speak Chinese. Interestingly, there doesn't seem to be as strong a correlatio
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As I was reading through the section on the difficulty of catching cheaters, I got to thinking whether the process of submitting a paper might be better done through something like GitHub, where you then have a record of the person's c
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> Didi could have let Uber die by itself and get the totality of the Chinese market on its own without sacrificing anything. The very point of the deal was because both companies were hemorrhaging their investors' money, and neither
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by jmknoll 10y ago
> giant iceberg of pwnage floating beneath the surface out of view Very poetic. I'd like to see this made into one of those motivational posters and hung in the office of every dev team nationwide.
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Taiwan isn't China. Completely different legal structure. And Lenovo is a Chinese company, but I guess they've made the cost-benefit analysis that they have more to lose getting sued by Apple in the US for copying their products t
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Its been said elsewhere, but making cars is hard. Large multinational companies with decades of relevant expertise struggle to make cars. Not just with the technical issues, but with regulatory issues as well, which for many engineering-dri
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by jmknoll 10y ago
Automattic (creator of wordpress) is fully remote, I believe.
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This is interesting for a couple of reasons. It appears to have been built by ElemeFE, which I'm assuming is the Frontend dev team of 饿了么 (eleme), a food-delivery company based in Shanghai. I'm happy to see Chinese startups embrac
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by jmknoll 11y ago
This idea makes more sense to me than trying to implement flexbox without flex properties. Do you have any examples of this idea implemented well?
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by jmknoll 11y ago
This looks cool. I've never used webpack, but this seems like a good place to start. I'm a bit confused about the choice of package inclusions though. Waypoints.js and scrollTo.js both feel like pretty opinionated choices. That is
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by jmknoll 11y ago
Please read before continuing on to this site. I've been messing around with this all morning, and the creators have a built a really cool math education product based on customized paths and gamification. However, they specifically st

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