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by lhnz 6y ago
Er, isn't it a bit of a strawman to suggest that people that talk about 100x engineers are talking about 100x productivity? Nobody I've met thinks that there are a set of people that believe there are "developers that write c
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I wonder if this has a positive or negative effect on tourism within Paris?
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In this case, you could use `htm`: https://github.com/developit/htm#usage
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JSON Parser written in TypeScript's type system(github.com)
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> What kind of evidence would you expect for YC/VC system > that would answer this for you?? I'm not asking for a negative to be proven. You could define a set of prestigious organisations (FANG, Oxbridge, Ivy Lea
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> You may be right, but do you have any evidence of > this, anecdotal or otherwise? It's true everywhere else in the world. I think the burder of proof should be the other way around, and instead you should provide evid
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How about we coin it now? We could call it a Thiel.
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FYI, this article is from 2019.
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I agree that a co-ordinated effort could work, however, to cause Apple the maximum amount of brand/financial damage, it should be timed to the release of the new iPhones. If Spotify, Youtube and Netflix all pulled their apps a day afte
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Best at 'measurable proxies of merit' is exactly what I think people should speak plainly about and fight for. But, instead we have people that think that because merit cannot be perfectly measured we should stop attempting to fin
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Nowadays, the term is widely used in a positive way to describe 'creative minorities who bring real progress'. It is confusing to use the old opposing definition of the word 'meritocracy' when everybody else around you i
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https://thaines.com/post/alevels2020 I just read this article, and it was interesting.
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Sure. It makes sense. I don't believe in the media conspiracy that the Tories created an algorithm that systematically awards higher grades to rich kids because of inherent classism or even by accident. But I do really disagree with th
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> The issue is that all teachers significantly > over-predicted their students grades, > but less so at high-performing schools. "All teachers" is a sweeping statement. There are teachers in comprehensive scho
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Is there anything that I can follow? I'm very interested in this -- I was considering making something similar myself.
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Surely buying apps on an iPhone is already a totally consolidated market. It's so tightly controlled that it's literally impossible for there to be any competitor iPhone app stores that consumers could move to. And not only that,
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Apple currently has at least two antitrust investigations underway, and this seems to add fuel to that fire. Whether or not they are breaking the law, they are about to have every single aspect of their market behaviour put under the micros
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Their profile description says they are W3C staff, and this can easily be confirmed by googling their name.
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> Would you call Microsoft Visual Studio an app? Probably not. Yes. Visual Studio Code is a good example of a high-quality web app built by front-end developers. 'App' is a shortening of 'Application' populari
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Are you talking about building a 90s-style website or something like Figma?
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He is constantly harrassed and smeared on Twitter so it's unsurprising that he doesn't want this turned up to 11 by the NYT.
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An archive of his blog can be found here: https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/1275539748686163968 And a popular article was "I can tolerate anything except the outgroup" although I think the non-political
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He will be fully exposed to harassment if the New York Times prints his name. There's a large difference between the New York Times printing your name, and it being possible to find your name with careful digging for it.
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Does it mattter which one? Once we're there, power will be wielded fully by whatever popular sociopath has the rungs on any given day. That can change day-to-day, year-to-year or election-to-election, and different organisations will h
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> By that measure, it hasn't been safe since he > started his blog. In the article, he explains > why he's always used a name he hopes people > cannot trace to him. True. The reason I said that isn't
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I've been heavily downvoted for suggesting that we're witnessing something dangerous. It's not that I think I can predict the future, but even if it continues as-is we're witnessing a loss of fauna, and this could easily
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The events of the last 4 years, make it clear to me that we are rapidly heading towards totalitarianism. I finally understand the answer to the childhood question of "But, how could this every happen here?" that used to be an auto
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> I still don't see how this is going to work > when the shared modules release breaking changes The team I'm working on is currently working on such an application, and that problem is the one I've been worri
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It takes a lot of courage to write something like this in 2020.
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> Cummings said that he was definitely not in favour of herd immunity, and was not against lockdown. Well, we already know that he was actively pushing for earlier lockdown within the SAGE meetings ( https://www.bloomberg.com&#

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