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by pradn 6y ago
GitHub has incredibly high friction to get started. I don't see the antipathy toward WYSIWYG editors. It's one of the best human interface inventions we've come up with. Having to do a level of indirection about Markdown synt
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by pradn 6y ago
Google needs it more since Google makes > $12 billion on that traffic, but I can't imagine any company being willing to part with $12+ billion a year.
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by pradn 6y ago
And what about all the sales that are made through Facebook ads? They support millions of jobs around the world. A less efficient ad machine would mean worse sales or higher marketing costs or both. Some of this excess goes directly to prof
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by pradn 6y ago
Apple gets on the order of $12 billion a year from Google to make Google Search the default search engine in iOS. All that money comes from ads. They care about privacy until it hits their pocketbook.
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by pradn 6y ago
Google Maps stutters often on the latest iPhone Pro, which has the best mobile processor. It's not necessary to change the UI to make it work better. Is it an organizational difficulty in getting performance work prioritized? Or does i
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by pradn 6y ago
A company should comply with laws. Shutting off payments processing to possibly-illegal clients is a way to prevent potential litigation, which may result in high penalties. This is the corporate legal framework at work. If you want a compa
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by pradn 6y ago
Wow, this is amazing!!
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by pradn 6y ago
I think your criticism is totally valid. Angular should take a look around and see the real-world uses of their framework and see how they could get so slow. Ultimately, the onus is on the Google Cloud team to prioritize and deliver perform
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by pradn 6y ago
Googler who doesn't work in front end here, so take my opinion with a grain of salt: 1) A "footsoldier" dev has no choice in frameworks, and heavy frameworks with heavy reusable components are the norm. Frameworks are used to
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by pradn 6y ago
Someone should make a text-only recipe search website. Recipe websites are so heavy and full of interstitials, banners, auto-play videos, and ads. Two million recipes can be easily stored in memory. (2 million * 8000 characters per recipe t
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by pradn 6y ago
Even if you're in a comfortable situation, you have to worry about friends and family, and ensuring your children will have similar careers. When raising children, it just feeds into the rat race.
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by pradn 6y ago
You are mocking this cycle by 1) making it a paid offering 2) joking about it / not making it out be god's gift to humanity. :)
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by pradn 6y ago
Such is the lifecycle of an image host. People want simple, free image hosts. So, the demand is always there. And every new simple, free image host eventually has to make money, so it becomes an ad-ridden mess. Imgur was once super simple a
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by pradn 6y ago
These payouts don't come from the grand central corporate treasury, but from the budget of a director or a VP. They might have a small amount of discretionary funds after their headcount and other expenses are accounted for.
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by pradn 6y ago
I actually don't think film depends all that much on technology. True, contemporary audiences will have to learn how to watch, read, and understand silent, black & white, and early color (like Technicolor) films. But the essential
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by pradn 6y ago
That's incredible, especially given how finicky I imagine porting physics and math from ActionScript to JavaScript to be.
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by pradn 6y ago
I see what you mean here, but I think the shift in mode of analysis from moral to scientific blunts the force of the critique.
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by pradn 6y ago
The article suggests an inevitable fall in rankings - I mean, do you expect it to be #1 for the rest of history? In any case, these lists are tenuous, subject to vagaries of film distribution, canonization, and critic selection, as the arti
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by pradn 6y ago
You are turning a moral judgement ("exploiting") to a more mechanical expression ("using leverage"). For critics of billionaires, the moral judgement is the whole point. Whether the "billionaire problem" belong
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by pradn 6y ago
There does need to be a budget for the number of rules that exist. Since there's no "paper", a wiki can keep growing indefinitely and that includes the rules governing the wiki itself. If there was, let's say, a 30 page
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by pradn 6y ago
All internet communities will be overrun with new users (eternal September effect), tend toward popular/sensational posts, attract trolls, have people post illegal content, run the risk of bad moderators, be astroturfed or have paid po
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by pradn 6y ago
Oh, oops!
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by pradn 6y ago
Hah! Nothing I ever do will ever remove the "ex-Googler" appellation from me, and it's kinda existential man.
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by pradn 6y ago
Some good memes :)
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by pradn 6y ago
The biggest subreddits have always been awful. The best way to use reddit is to subscribe to niche subreddits, unsubscribe to the big ones, and avoid the temptation to see the /popular or /all pages.
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by pradn 6y ago
If the value of a cryptocurrency is dependent on the community of the faithful, it's possible to "start the engines of faith", and keep it going for a long time. Fine art has been a large component of generational wealth in t
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by pradn 6y ago
As a Google employee, I really don't want to be saying "Ok, Google" in my home all the time. It's totally possible for me to go to work in a subway that has Google ads, waste time on my Pixel, work at the Google office f
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by pradn 6y ago
I’m curious how you were able to remake the game with the same physics. How was that process?
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by pradn 6y ago
Someone did do this - finding discontinuities in the tax law - using formal methods, for the French tax law: https://blog.merigoux.fr/en/2019/12/20/taxes-formal-proofs.h...
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by pradn 6y ago
The National Academies have a set of recommendations for the priority of vaccine distribution. Upshot is that it's going to mainly be high-risk people like healthcare workers and folks with severe risk factors first. https:/&#x2F

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