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by rapind 4y ago
> becuase they both sound the same. Found your answer.
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by rapind 4y ago
> As engineers, we all want to build the 10x product - the one that is so great that it cooks for you and does your dishes too What? No we don’t. Maybe some of us I’m sure, but I’d wager only a small minority want to build a 10x product
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by rapind 4y ago
We just lost the vote on TVs is all (for now). As the wolf sheds the sheep clothing though that might change (not optimistic). I doubt BMW is going to nail this on their first pass, but subscriptions are obviously more lucrative so they may
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by rapind 4y ago
I built a wheelstand kiosk that’s still in use. Really just brochure-ware (wheelstand is the stand next to a car or equipment at a trade show or dealership). Web app using Elm on the client side with a simple iOS webview wrapper and provisi
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by rapind 4y ago
Like the thousands of songs using Pachelbel's Canon.
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by rapind 4y ago
The internet and commodification of news existed before Facebook and co. Social media as a concept is fine. The business model behind all social media is toxic.
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by rapind 4y ago
Like making a great successful product that your users love and then selling it to E corp. There’s inherent wisdom behind the anti-sellout stance though that’s both obvious and yet often overlooked. When you “sellout” you are eroding trust.
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by rapind 4y ago
I think it started to matter when electron based apps became popular due to dismal performance. Beyond that IMO it’s just a confidence boost to a language the more production quality products written in it.
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by rapind 4y ago
If you asked 100 Canadians if they’d prefer more competition to the telcos, 97 would say yes (1 works for Bell, 1 works for Rogers, 1 now works for the CRTC). We’re not risk adverse. It’s just that our government / regulator is capture
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by rapind 4y ago
Fable is pretty kick ass if you’re feeling adventurous within the .net ecosystem. https://fable.io/
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by rapind 4y ago
> The blame is meaningless to them and has zero negative consequences I would imagine this many government ties helps a little bit when it comes to consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_employees
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by rapind 4y ago
What are the specific regulations you’re arguing against though? Regulations aren’t just about labour, but also externalities, like dumping chemicals in the water. The Jones law cited in the article is about protecting local labour and manu
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by rapind 4y ago
You’re presenting price as though that’s the only relevant point. I mean you can get an even better deal if you just stole all your neighbour’s stuff, if price is all that matters. Let’s just make that legal, and to hell with the side effec
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by rapind 4y ago
> essentially it was to make Lua more friendly as a beginner-friendly scripting language Using an index of 0 to represent the first item is one of the most ridiculous conventions in programming (nulls being another).
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by rapind 4y ago
I heartily recommend you take a look at Elm if you find this interesting.
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by rapind 4y ago
Or "passwordless" login, and I love it. Not many people use password managers and will reuse passwords between websites (I.e. their bank and some random unsecured SaaS product). One-time emailed passwords are an easy way to avoid
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by rapind 4y ago
I recently find that anything on my phone or computer that tries to grab my attention, whether it's in an app or on a website, produces immediate annoyance from me. Even some genuinely helpful (but unnecessary) notifications. Popups, b
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by rapind 4y ago
Wait, what? Explain please. OK upon further thought, what you're saying is to use the pg_dump tool that comes with the pg version you are upgrading to. I read it as "use pg_dump instead of pg_restore"...
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by rapind 4y ago
100 SaaS products in one org sounds like a security and logistics nightmare.
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by rapind 4y ago
> twitter thought-leaders Real question. What even is a twitter thought-leader? An expert of twitter or an expert using twitter, or something else? If it’s an expert using twitter I would assume the way they use it would vary, so this mu
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by rapind 4y ago
It’s definitely laziness, but they’ll argue it’s lack of time (and lack of knowledge is really just too lazy to self inform). It’s not just a problem with open source, but commercial product support as well. I’ve had customers who invest no
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by rapind 4y ago
I don’t think it’s really about retention, but rather the value of the richer data set you can gather on your users.
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by rapind 4y ago
I think the upsides to k8s are relatively minor (if any) for most businesses, and the downsides are significant (tech debt and complexity). It's sometimes sold as revolutionary tech, but it's really just an incremental improvemen
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by rapind 4y ago
DOB should always be a typed input, all numeric. People know exactly what to enter (the number of their month), have done it before many times (DMV etc.), and will knock it out faster than some ridiculous drop down over complicating the pro
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by rapind 4y ago
> Von Neumann probes, which are more likely to eat the universe than human hands would've been. True, but Bob is a pretty decent guy.
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by rapind 4y ago
A lot (most?) of Sci-fi space fiction relies on FTL travel. That's extremely unlikely to ever happen, which is IMO a good thing, as it keeps us contained.
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by rapind 4y ago
> to pretend they average as high as FAANG is silly. Who said this anywhere in this thread?
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by rapind 4y ago
We’ll my buddy does electrical for new builds and most of his time is spent waiting on other shit to get done. Not even joking, they want the electricians there just in case they can stick to schedule, but of course they can’t. Also sitting
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by rapind 4y ago
Let me sum up your entire argument. Most of the world lives in severe poverty, therefor software developers should accept any amount that the owner class feel like paying them and be thankful.
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by rapind 4y ago
Any white collar job looks better than McDonalds. It’s a ridiculous comparison. I could say McDonalds workers don’t know how easy they have it. They should try picking fruit as a seasonal immigrant, because it will make them love working at

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