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by robbyking 3y ago
I think what gets lost in this debate is the fact that in most major US cities you can have two cars, a yard with a lawn you can mow and a guest room without sacrificing walkability and public transportation. I live in a working class nei
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by robbyking 3y ago
> I don't know anyone who managed to have a healthy relationship with it for more than a decade. Absolutely! When the 2020 season was cancelled due to Covid, one of my teammates asked "what are we supposed to do now, ride bikes
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by robbyking 3y ago
I'm in the same boat -- I'm 45 and a mediocre mountain bike racer, but over the last few years my motivation to train has gone down considerably. The problem is bike racing has been my "thing" for so long that's it&
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by robbyking 3y ago
When you start thinking of street parking as publicly funded storage space for private property, it really makes you question why such a large percentage of urban space (and money) is dedicated to it.
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by robbyking 3y ago
That's the trick with Siri. I use it on my Apple Watch when I'm riding my bike with an AirPod in: "Siri, play this podcast," or "Siri, call so-and-so." I think the secret is low expectations.
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by robbyking 4y ago
> The newer style of cargo bikes can for many families replace a car. Absolutely! My wife and I have a 6yo, and we take him everywhere on the back of our Kona Minute. He's big for his age (65lbs) so we're looking to move to a
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by robbyking 4y ago
I really like the idea of using XR for sports training, like in snowboarding goggles or cycling classes. Almost all road cyclists use some sort of stem mounted computer for GPS and/or fitness tracking, and it would be amazing if someon
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by robbyking 4y ago
Right? You throw where the receiver is going , not where they are .
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by robbyking 4y ago
I don't know if it's still the case, but some third party libraries are required to run on launch. I worked on a an app where the Facebook login library took 600ms to load, and was required to run on launch.
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by robbyking 4y ago
That's what I used to tell people about San Francisco when I lived there twenty years ago -- the high end restaurants are great, but what's more impressive is that the average neighborhood eatery is more often than not really amaz
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by robbyking 4y ago
> I don't recall ever getting out my credit card and paying $5 for something from a random link on Twitter. The other issues with this site aside, affiliate programs don't require the user purchase the item that brought them
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by robbyking 4y ago
I had that happen with a sleep tracker for Apple Watch. It was a few dollars for the app, but to actually view the data it tracked while you were asleep , you had to upgrade to the premium subscription. Fortunately it was easy enough to ge
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by robbyking 4y ago
When my son was born, my friends without kids would bring food by and want to hang out, while my friends with kids would just text us after they left food on our doorstep.
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by robbyking 4y ago
One thing I learned when my son was born is eating well is really tough to do when your mind is somewhere else. Mealtrains -- friend sourced meal prep -- are popular for people with newborns, but I've taken to dropping off meals (or se
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by robbyking 4y ago
I see this a lot when departments require code be commented -- instead of why you get what , which should be obvious just by reading the code.
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by robbyking 4y ago
My guess is a lot of the crashes come from old.reddit.com
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by robbyking 4y ago
Thank you so much for this! I remember loving this app years ago, but lost track of it during one of my upgrades.
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by robbyking 4y ago
> One simple trick, I think, is to avoid extensive use of pronouns. I was taught this is a project management for engineers course I took when I was younger: never use language that is open to interpretation. In addition to your examples
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by robbyking 4y ago
That was my first thought, too. On the other hand, if you're a local engineer who feels stuck in their current position it could be a good opportunity to fill the void.
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by robbyking 4y ago
It's at least arguable that kids that grow up with the means to afford new iPhones will be more likely to have the means to go to a good college.
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by robbyking 4y ago
My guess is a lot of their parents are iPhone users who pass their phones on to their children. My wife only recently upgraded her iPhone 8, and only did so because of how noticable better the photos were on my new iPhone. In my experience
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by robbyking 4y ago
In theory I agree, but we have something like 10k employees and millions of users per platform per day, so our code is pretty well vetted.
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by robbyking 4y ago
Since we're trading anecdotes, none of the iOS engineers on my team have Android phones, but about half of the Android engineers have iPhones.
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by robbyking 4y ago
And kids still get shit for not wearing "cool" shoes! When I was younger I got teased for not having a Starter brand fitted hat, and I wasn't even into team sports.
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by robbyking 4y ago
Yeah, my son is entirely too young for a phone right now, but my wife and my plan is to just upgrade every few years and give him one of our old phones. It wasn't too long ago that we did the same thing for our parents.
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by robbyking 4y ago
I understand your point, but there's a difference between ads targeting specific audiences and ads targeting specific individuals.
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by robbyking 4y ago
Is there a term for this phenomenon, my dear Watson?
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by robbyking 4y ago
I'm always paranoid that I'm going to miss a call from one of the million numbers that come from my kiddo's school.
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by robbyking 4y ago
One of my biggest gripes about cycling in SF was shoaling[1] -- when slower riders pull in front of faster ones at a red light, only to be immediately passed when the light turns green. One thing that Portland has (in some places) is two la
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by robbyking 4y ago
And it disables the browser's find functionality. It's such a core piece of functionality, I'm really surprised it's been broken for this long.

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