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by kevincennis 9y ago
Stripe is really, really good at marketing to developers. I have to imagine it’s earned them a lot of business. To the extent that devs are involved in vendor selection, I have to imagine that a large majority of them suggest Stripe to the
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by kevincennis 9y ago
I believe they said 1:50,000 and 1:1,000,000.
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by kevincennis 9y ago
Funny, I always thought of Redux as offering greater simplicity and MobX being more powerful.
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by kevincennis 9y ago
But what are the own properties of a number? There's nothing to iterate, and therefore nothing to map. WeakMap is a new-ish type whose keys are objects. The references to those objects are weakly held, which means that an object `x` wh
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by kevincennis 9y ago
Off topic, but what's the story behind base-64 encoding your email? Is that just a spam prevention measure?
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by kevincennis 9y ago
I believe that one of the main reasons not to do this is that adding anything to `Object.prototype` means that now everything inherits that new method. So you have weird things like `'foo'.map()`, `( 42 ).map()`, `new WeakMap(
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by kevincennis 9y ago
It's very common. A progressive income tax like this prevents situations where someone getting a small raise that moves them I i a higher tax bracket could actually leave them WORSE OFF than they were before the raise.
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by kevincennis 9y ago
Am I misunderstanding your point about the lender? They obviously get paid a percentage of the loan value rather than the home's sale price, but presumably those are fairly well correlated.
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by kevincennis 9y ago
I had a positive experience with Redfin, but honestly feel like even with the refund check, I still overpayed for their contribution. I shopped online, went to open houses on my own, and Redfin basically just contacted the seller on my beha
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by kevincennis 9y ago
I get it. I really do. I just wish they had a reasonable way to _enforce_ those rules (though I understand it's not really possible) – or at least make people really go out of their way to break convention.
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by kevincennis 9y ago
Not to nitpick, because I believe I understand what you mean – but one of the things that bugs me about Redux is that a reducer absolutely CAN have side-effects. They're just "not supposed to". So all it takes is one mistake
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by kevincennis 9y ago
Are they required to adhere to a standardized API? If not, then I think there's still some utility in a service that can normalize that stuff and provide you with a single, consistent interface.
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by kevincennis 9y ago
This is really cool, but the difference between A and B was immediately obvious to me. I couldn't find it – did OP say whether or not respondents were musicians or not?
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by kevincennis 9y ago
Devil's Advocate: Is it possible that Trump supporters are, demographically, less likely to be active Twitter users? Like, people who sign up and create accounts just so they can follow him? Obviously there are a ton of actual bots an
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by kevincennis 9y ago
> it is perfectly ok to give your number, find out more about the role and then say the following: "I see. Well given what you've told me about the position, that's a bigger role than I was expecting when I gave you my ini
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by kevincennis 9y ago
Only (somewhat) reliable references I can find are for an F-16. From what I've read: if this happened at all, it was in the simulator.
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by kevincennis 10y ago
"Forced" doesn't seem like exactly the right word.
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More than 8,000 ride-share drivers flunked Mass. background checks(bostonherald.com)
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by kevincennis 10y ago
This is sort of true for mixing, but definitely not for recording. At the end of the day, you always need a mic pre. And they're often a big part of what people love about these old consoles. On the recording side, I'd argue that
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by kevincennis 10y ago
Just to clarify a bit: I do think OTT is going to win out in the long run. But that's really just the underlying technology. The tough part is getting rid of the bundle. I'm not so sure that'll happen, although I really hope
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by kevincennis 10y ago
You'll be happy to know that the Aereo crew (myself included) is currently working on a fixed wireless ISP using millimeter waves and some very fancy active phased array technology. Still doing crazy stuff with antennas. https:/&
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by kevincennis 10y ago
From a consumer standpoint, yes – except 4x more expensive. From a technology standpoint, definitely not. Disclosure: I'm a former Aereo engineer
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by kevincennis 10y ago
Former Aereo engineer here. First off, there are really two main reasons for someone not to have a cable subscription: 1. They don't care about the content 2. Price sensitivity At Aereo, we saw these sort of mix together to create huge
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by kevincennis 10y ago
At the time of this writing, I have been endorsed for the following skills: Fly-bagging (10) Squirrels (10) Walking (8) Fierce Conversations (9) Rhinoplasty (2) Puns (3)
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by kevincennis 10y ago
I've really enjoyed Hyper so far. My only real gripe -- and it's kind of a big one -- is that you can't re-order tabs. Not totally sure how thy ever fix this, since the title bar is not displayed -- meaning that dragging the
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by kevincennis 10y ago
FWIW, Array.prototype.some() would probably be more idiomatic here.
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by kevincennis 10y ago
It's the thing that tells you to save before you can check the availability of a domain
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by kevincennis 10y ago
Boston, MA • ONSITE • Senior Node.js Engineer • Starry (starry.com) At Starry, we’re aiming to make Internet better for everyone with easy-to-use Wi-Fi products and a radical wireless Internet service. As a full-time Senior Node.js engineer
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by kevincennis 10y ago
Yup! This is called temporal masking [1]. There's also simultaneous or frequency masking. If you've ever wondered why loud noises prevent you from hearing something that would otherwise be perfectly audible (e.g. a loud motorcycle
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by kevincennis 10y ago
Hahaha. That's awesome!

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