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by mitchellst 5y ago
Longtime node.js developer... I don't think we need this, and I don't think it's a good idea to add. The feature is _strange._ Which we know because it's behind a flag, i.e., it will have low utilization. It defies conve
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by mitchellst 5y ago
These were such legit books. This description, in context, being like... the 5000th reason why.
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by mitchellst 5y ago
What I probably should have said: "maybe it will be fine, resolving itself with more clean energy and more electric grid capacity in mining-heavy areas, or more clever crypto tech. Or maybe we have a persistent incentives problem where
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by mitchellst 5y ago
It's a good question without an obvious answer. Best reasons to think it might be. 1) It's not evenly distributed over 330M residents. It's concentrated in certain areas, and we don't have a single nationwide electricity
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by mitchellst 5y ago
Yep, exactly.
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by mitchellst 5y ago
The Points Guy | Engineering and Product Analysts | Austin / Charlotte / New York / Remote US | Full-time | https://thepointsguy.com Hiring for: * Engineering Manager, Travel APIs team * Backend Engineer, Travel A
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by mitchellst 5y ago
Wow. This is really interesting and important. I’m not your target customer and don’t know a ton about health tech, so I’m not sure I can help you, but I wish I could. thank you for taking this on. Someone should. Sometimes the science and
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by mitchellst 5y ago
RV employee here, so take this as you will but... this comment is baffling. RV does not own or operate A Place for Mom. One of the private equity firms that owns a stake in RV also has a stake in A Place for Mom. Not the strongest connectio
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by mitchellst 5y ago
"Company store" vibes aside, it's a really practical way to graduate from college and relocate to your first job without a cash / debt crunch. Also, I'm an RV employee who works in our Austin office, and having visi
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by mitchellst 5y ago
Not a lawyer, but from my understanding of libel law, the "public figure" thing isn't the problem. Merely being famous (and famous for being falsely accused!) won't necessarily make you a public figure for libel purposes
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by mitchellst 5y ago
Thanks for the response, and the link. The trouble with this method is that it creates a publicly-accessible, unauthenticated feed of my calendar and all the event data in it. I don't deal in a lot of particularly sensitive trade secre
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by mitchellst 5y ago
I'm very interested in this. I think I'm the target customer and the loom demo made me think, "I need this." I work for a big company and have many meetings with many different stakeholders, and I love the incremental ad
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by mitchellst 5y ago
The Points Guy | Engineering and Product Analysts | Austin / Charlotte / New York / Remote US | Full-time | https://thepointsguy.com Hiring for: * Senior Fullstack Engineer, Travel Authenticated Experiences * Fron
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Ask HN: Ever seen two companies share a domain?
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by mitchellst 5y ago
The Points Guy | Engineering and Product Analysts | Austin / Charlotte / New York / Remote US | Full-time | https://thepointsguy.com Hiring for: * Senior Fullstack Engineer, Travel Authenticated Experiences * Fron
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by mitchellst 5y ago
The coverage of this has, I think, been misleading. Google has not officially said (anywhere I can find) that AMP won’t get preferential treatment. They have only said that AMP won’t be required to rank. Those are very different statement
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by mitchellst 5y ago
The Points Guy | Engineering and Product Analysts | Austin / Charlotte / New York / Remote US | Full-time | https://thepointsguy.com Hiring for: * Senior Fullstack Engineer, Travel Authenticated Experiences * Seni
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by mitchellst 6y ago
The Points Guy | Engineering, Product Management | Austin / Charlotte / New York / Remote US | Full-time | https://thepointsguy.com The Points Guy is an online magazine and digital lifestyle brand focused on award
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by mitchellst 6y ago
The Points Guy | Engineering, Product Management | Austin / Charlotte / New York / Remote US | Full-time | https://thepointsguy.com The Points Guy is an online magazine and digital lifestyle brand focused on award
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by mitchellst 6y ago
- Plaid is hardly alone in its competitive space. Even if Finicity sucks and SynapseFi is mid-implosion, they don't have a corner on capabilities like this indefinitely. MX is pretty alright. - That ignores FANG platforms that could im
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by mitchellst 6y ago
> Yes, he returned it all. Yes, he had no intent to keep it. The post doesn't actually confirm this. Might that be the problem?
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by mitchellst 6y ago
I like a lot of things I own, but the possession that rise to the level of _measurably_ improving my quality of life almost all have to do with being a parent. Happiest Baby SNOO - because you only sleep when they sleep. Measured as, "
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by mitchellst 6y ago
My advice would be to think about what you do want out of work. You can straightforwardly make that money as a math teacher, a welder, a healthcare administrator, a banker. All of those are “less technically demanding.” Hell, you can make
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by mitchellst 6y ago
A really odd post. I am open to the argument but don’t think Mozilla makes it here. The only piece of evidence they cite for harm— hyperlinked to the phrase “facilitate racial profiling”— leads to a think piece by someone a little creeped o
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by mitchellst 7y ago
It’s interesting— I would say white noise had a positive effect on my life, but I’m not sure i would recommend the book. Part of the reason it was good for me was how powerfully I disliked it— and needing to question the reasons for that di
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by mitchellst 7y ago
> It’s obvious that the police will want a device that produces more convictions, no point in disputing that. Is that obvious? If this were as overwhelming an incentive as you say, we wouldn't have accurate breathalyzers for alcohol
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by mitchellst 7y ago
I stopped reading at the date ranges. It’s comparing the decade 1983-93 (start at recovery from long recession, measure across famous economic boom with only short 1990 downturn) versus 2003-2013. (Oldish data anyway and measures across the
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by mitchellst 8y ago
This is kind of cool but there are other good tools for it, as commenters mentioned. (Seatguru, FlightAware.) I think the missing feature there is simplicity and “so what?” Tell me why my a321neo is so cool, how to tell it apart from other
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by mitchellst 8y ago
Yes, life is bigger than commerce. But your comment makes me wonder, "then, whose art should we value?" It's not that the US doesn't value art— highbrow or low brow, we have some of the finest museums of visual arts and
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by mitchellst 8y ago
By the way I should mention: I didn't just make this up, I actually _am_ a "self-taught" engineer working for a unicorn. These are the basics of how I got there. I had a bit of programming background—took 2 semesters of CS in

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