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by pfranz 7y ago
I think what you're getting at is when I hear the language it's written in as the main differentiator, I assume it's a toy project written to scratch an itch. I think the language is more of interest here than on the product
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by pfranz 7y ago
These costs and incentives are often ridiculous. I got a Teledoc pamphlet from my insurance last year. Awesome! Often, when something happens or if I'm sick, I never know when to go to the ER, Urgent Care, or make an appointment. I
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by pfranz 7y ago
Here's how it went when I tried to do it upfront. My wife was pregnant, so we had 9 months of routine, scheduled visits. I asked "how much will this cost ignoring any unexpected costs." My insurance had a helpful PDF showi
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by pfranz 7y ago
I think Lasik is an outlier example. I couldn't find out how much of the population is a good candidate for Lasik, but 61% need corrective eyewear. The process is basically a commodity, it's almost exclusively a quality of life
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by pfranz 7y ago
I installed Whatsapp for the very first time last week. I feel like there's additional friction and nagging if you don't give it access to your contacts, but you can definitely open it and send/receive messages.
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Where was this said?
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I work remotely and use separate browsers for work and personal stuff. I was hoping Firefox would allow me to use one browser, but it didn't quite work out like I had hoped. There's no keyboard shortcuts, so you're forced t
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For me, skimming the transcription and swiping to delete is quick enough to manage.
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I updated to the beta specifically for this feature. But, like anything else like this, was worried missing important calls. I get a notification immediately about a missed call (which I'll probably soon try and turn off), I'm a
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by pfranz 7y ago
Even at very large companies, hacks can work surprisingly well for a surprising amount of time. As much as we harp on technical debt (which includes myself), we rarely appreciate how much time can be saved by implementing the most straight
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For example, "urban" water use in California accounts for 8-11%. I believe "urban" is both residential and industrial use combined. However, most of the pressure seems to be in reducing residential use--the goal during
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by pfranz 7y ago
I wonder if the only part that changed is now the have a user-facing way to deactivate: https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/ iMessage was launched in 2011 and archive.org shows that page first showing up in
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by pfranz 7y ago
That happens all the time in real life. The whole thing reminds me about the disputed articles, "Are U.S. Railroad Gauges Based on Roman Chariots?" and by extension the Space Shuttle was limited by the width of two horses walking
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by pfranz 7y ago
How recent was this? Years ago I remember hearing the scenario where people who switched from iPhone -> Android (keeping the same number) would continue to have iMessages go to their old phone. Or the messages would just get lost in th
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by pfranz 7y ago
> We are constantly improving our languages because improving a language is a great productivity win. I think that ignores the time invested in the upgrade churn and making sure all the little pieces stay compatible. Home OS releases hav
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm no encryption expert, but depending on how the data is partitioned it can be easier to securely prune encrypted data than unencrypted data. For example, securely wiping an encrypted drive is as easy as tossing the key.
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm confused how unconditional requirements would preclude Nim? If anything, this allows you to use your "house style" internally and still interact with libraries who don't. I haven't used Nim, but I imagine that
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by pfranz 7y ago
This isn't specifically speaking to your point about iPad OS 13, but I actually think that example fits very well to the desktops of the 90s everyone talks about those as thoughtfully designed and discoverable. Kids at the time took t
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by pfranz 7y ago
I have felt similar to you. Gesture based interfaces aren't discoverable and there's no mental model or coherence everyone is building on. But playing devils advocate, I remember in the 90s and early 2000s an older generation tak
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by pfranz 7y ago
I haven't followed the specs closely. My grievances with bluetooth weren't around audio quality. They were all around pairing, battery life, reliability during use, and how annoying and frustrating general use was. Maybe this a
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by pfranz 7y ago
> Apple should release the AW from the walled garden and allow it to work on Android Basically. Sure, I'm generally biased towards Apple products, but it just seems like wasted effort they all develop their own phone, smart speaker
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by pfranz 7y ago
This was all about 10 years ago and it definitely lifted some of the trends with interviewing at places like Microsoft, Google, etc. There were 3 areas; technical, personality, and critical thinking. The criticism I noticed from interview
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by pfranz 7y ago
I've been eyeing BT headphones for years and years. I've had friends that found use-cases that suited them. AirPods were the first one that fixed almost all my grumbles and moved me from wired headphones. That being said, hearin
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by pfranz 7y ago
I know it's not technically correct, but I tend to conflate "hijacking scroll event" as both receiving a scroll event and doing something that weird or slows down my browser along with something that manipulates scrolling sin
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I noticed the recent version of Apple Health on my iPhone logs and warns about dB levels of headphones. So I imagine they're at least thinking about this and I'm really curious to see how it plays out. I have noticed with other h
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I think most of the magic is Bluetooth 5. After years and years of trying Bluetooth headphones I only found them acceptable under very specific circumstances (only certain types of exercising). AirPods really seemed to fix most of the lon
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I was at a place that had been around for 20+ years, but needed to grow fairly quickly. So they systematized their hiring process. The focus was on generalists both because a lot of their technology was written in-house (it predated the c
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by pfranz 7y ago
I think it works for me, but wouldn't necessarily recommend it randomly. I really like having sleep tracking and some relative measure of "activeness." If I want to change up my routine (start walking more) it's good t
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by pfranz 7y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I've bought each gen of the FitBit. I never found the new version compelling enough to buy immediately (but that's generally how I feel about phones and computers, too). I think gen 1 had
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by pfranz 7y ago
Ugh... I get how Google's acquisition would make sense, but why does every company have to do everything? I know it's because of walled gardens and "integration" but it really sucks if you really like Fitbit because of

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