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by philihp 7y ago
If you happen to know any outstanding individuals who were born on February 29th, please let me know. I am compiling a list of 10 under 10. Let's just be honest with ourselves about how lucky we are to be born into our station, both as
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by philihp 7y ago
The author has missed a very very important feature: Redis as a distributed lock manager. Redis’s SETNX is a very fast and very cheap solution to resolve race conditions and dining philosopher problems among shards and nodes in large cluste
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by philihp 7y ago
On the one hand, I appreciate how their certs expire every 3 months. It's short enough that I don't forget how I did it last time, but long enough that it's not annoying. On the other hand, someone still has to push the butto
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by philihp 8y ago
GitHub doesn’t do a good job with this. IMO they’re sometimes just a fork with the intention of a PR. Gotta see what they committed on top of it. When it’s nothing, I’d love to see them hidden or downplayed on the default view.
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by philihp 8y ago
A company who values inclusion and diversity should understand that people who are unable to float a monthly expense buffer are very often those same demographics that have been marginalized by those working in the software industry. Gettin
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by philihp 8y ago
"Apple Tax" is a well defined colloquial term to refer to the markup Apple makes on its products because of their company branding and product reputation. I wouldn't credit the author with inventing this term—rather they are
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by philihp 9y ago
This is great! We've invested a lot of time into making lanes for our mobile build, and have found that we get a lot of fixes for "free", such as updates to newer more stable endpoints.
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by philihp 9y ago
WRT Taxes, they’re seen as a necessary evil. They are necessary for a government to function, and that function should be to protect an individual’s rights (among those property rights). WRT helping the poor, and those down on their luck; t
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by philihp 9y ago
4. Airbnb gets notified by their bank to provide restitution for the chargeback.
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by philihp 9y ago
First, Airbnb cannot charge the host since payment is already released in #2. It's not even clear the host did anything wrong. The guest issued the chargeback. Second, Airbnb probably eats the cost of the chargeback since this is an on
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by philihp 10y ago
I, too, work at Airbnb, and I'm also a host. A very significant majority of us care a great deal about the quality of the stays booked through us (I can't speak for everyone here, but if they don't care, I would question why
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by philihp 10y ago
The appeal of React is that frontenders realized that the slow part of frontend is DOM manipulation. React keeps a virtual DOM, and only tells the browser to change those elements that actually changed. The big-picture explanation of this i
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by philihp 10y ago
Exactly this. If you're just starting out, just do a simple page with only React. Very quickly you'll find there are problems with managing your page lifecycle, and you might imagine a good solution to it. That solution probably l
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by philihp 11y ago
I hope you enjoyed your recent interview. Please forgive me in the delay in responding to this, but I wanted it to be noticed by you rather. I work at Airbnb, and I empathize with your feelings. I, too, agree that hosts who list an extreme
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by philihp 11y ago
$100/night is astronomical compared to most Airbnb listings in India. You can get much nicer accommodations for half the price, and you don't need to be a large corporation to negotiate a package deal for it. When I travel for wor
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by philihp 11y ago
What kind of switches does it have?
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by philihp 12y ago
$20 is right at the impulse-buy level, too! Good job! Time to read about what I just preordered.