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by pault 7y ago
I think a lot of people use the upvote to bookmark a link. The favorite feature was rolled out much later and I've always used votes for that purpose.
482.
by pault 7y ago
If self driving trucks are on the horizon, why not self driving efficiency apartments? :)
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by pault 7y ago
Who else clicked through expecting a research paper on dark matter?
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by pault 7y ago
Did you even read the comment? A change in firebase pricing increased the cost by almost an order of magnitude. I don't know how it affected the upper tiers but if you imagine a larger startup with much higher traffic, an unexpected pr
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by pault 7y ago
This runs counter to my experience. I've found that TS will confirm to any style of programming you prefer to use. If you want to avoid classes and inheritance, just type your functions and data structures and call it a day.
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by pault 8y ago
That's exactly my point. Ideally, you should take a competitive salary. If you have to take some kind of alternative compensation because you believe in the mission or whatever, most startups aren't profitable even at IPO/aqu
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by pault 8y ago
It's doubly self sabotaging because some of the most talented juniors and mid-level engineers I've worked with are the types that will say "oh, I can only do half of those things, I probably can't get that job anyway&quo
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by pault 8y ago
Please tell me you went to work for a competitor and ate their lunch. That would be so satisfying.
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by pault 8y ago
How many new companies are profitable, and if they are, why would you want to work for a new company that isn't plowing all of its profits back into research, product development, and growth?
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by pault 8y ago
Revenue, maybe. Profit? I don't have any control over how you define profit, and you have an enormous amount of control over how you manage your revenue. Additionally, even a unicorn is going to stay in the red for years. Unless you ha
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by pault 8y ago
That sounds interesting. Can you elaborate for someone that is opsec-naive?
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by pault 8y ago
What about keybase?
493.
by pault 8y ago
Maybe not grandma, but Bob the accountant could install pihole or tor. If only a small fraction of non technical people start using privacy focused software, it would be a big win for the open internet.
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by pault 8y ago
It says something about the industry when "only" a $30.9M annual burn rate sounds small.
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by pault 8y ago
Is that why? I thought I was buying iphones for the high quality, end-to-end user experience design, ecosystem integration, strict standards for third party apps, long-lasting hardware, and high resale value. Now I feel so silly.
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by pault 8y ago
Yes, one of my daily drivers is an ergodox ez. Using thumb keys to change layers is a total game changer, but I also use this technique on my nyquist.
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by pault 8y ago
I have a huge treasure trove of my art, music, and writing from my childhood stored in stuffit archives on a Jaz drive. How much will you charge to retrieve them for me?
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by pault 8y ago
What? Stuff like this is what made the web fun. At least he put it on his own blog instead of facebook.
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by pault 8y ago
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19682014 you can use replaceState without being throttled.
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by pault 8y ago
In the book Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson the future working class are functionally illiterate so everything is communicated by emoji. Funny, but also a little bit frightening.
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by pault 8y ago
Good points. I mostly use split keyboards to solve the arm problem, and there are staggered column layouts like the ergodox and friends that solve the finger problem (I'm typing on one now). And no, the staggering isn't for ergono
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by pault 8y ago
The primary differences are 1. proper finger position and technique (mind your Ps and Qs); 2. better touch typing accuracy (see 1). Speed is probably roughly the same but with less backspacing. The staggered layout is weird ; it's not
503.
by pault 8y ago
I'm very into mechanical keyboards, and I switched to ortholinear layouts a couple of years ago to improve my technique (the grid layout doesn't allow you to cheat with your ring fingers). Typing is a purely physical act for me
504.
by pault 8y ago
Yes, sorry I should have been more specific. You always have to kick off the process from somewhere, so your lifecycle methods will call out to wherever you choose to keep your non-UI application logic. There are a million ways you could
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by pault 8y ago
Yeesh, that is really terrible, I'm sorry to hear that. I understand your reasons, but in signal's defense it is a free service, which is pretty amazing considering the number of users they are able to support. I suppose reliabili
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by pault 8y ago
You'd rather opt in to global passive surveillance than deal with an inconvenient UX?
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by pault 8y ago
The really mind bending part of that is on a galactic scale the LMC is "close". :)
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by pault 8y ago
One of my interview questions is "how do you organize logic and state in a react app?" and about 19/20 candidates put their business logic in their view components. I believe the root of the problem is the ecosystem of terrib
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by pault 8y ago
I know this sounds strange, but recently I ended up with a prescription for Suboxone, and it has completely cured me of lifelong debilitating depression. I really hope more research is being done. Within the span of one year my career has g
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by pault 8y ago
Exactly. Which means you can't delete your bathroom video from any networked system. See the Streisand effect.

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