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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Don’t forget how they also remove and re-list items all the time to avoid bad reviews, and copy/paste reviews and ratings from other unrelated products. I’m guessing that it’s worth it to pay people in call center type operations penni
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I’ve ranted about this before but CA Prop 13 not only makes housing a good investment, but one that you’re extremely incentivized to hold onto forever and never move. Two people can be living in houses next to each other valued around 1.5m,
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
One fun trick is to set your UA in FF to tell websites it’s latest Chrome :)
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Amusing to me to see the return to concepts that the dynamic web started with in the form of CGI, mod_perl, Cold Fusion, PHP, ASP.NET and all that. It’s the same, but different. Next we’ll be on to multi-tiered caching. What’s the differenc
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Just an aside, this is why I enjoy playing with open-source music things and Arduino / ESP32 ecosystem stuff more than web tech in my free time. There are some commercial uses, but still a ton of hobbyists doing it for the love of the
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Plot twist: if it’s worth enough to them, make a living for yourself selling consulting services :)
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I get it, I’m glad it exists, it’s Neat, and congrats, but it’s also amusing to me that we’ve reached the point of JS tooling where we’re making frameworks to deal with frameworks, build tool frameworks a few levels deep, etc. It just seems
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
>” On-Demand Components: Need some JS? Astro can automatically hydrate interactive components when they become visible on the page. If the user never sees it, they never load it.” I see we’ve discovered the idea of DLLs for the web.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s insane how fast a barebones linux desktop system feels these days. Even an rPi 4 can be really snappy with the right desktop environment and window manager. It makes one realize how slow and inefficient all these modern web technologie
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Tesla, Huy Fong Foods (Sriracha), Costco, Krispy Kreme, Kiehl’s, Spanx, Rolls-Royce, and Zara are some examples.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I would argue that bad behavior (“bad” = existing more to get ad revenue than to deliver valuable information to users) made this a viable business model for Google. I don’t love snippets, and sometimes they’re hilariously wrong, but I’d ra
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
>” The index should be a public resource not controlled by one company that can see what users are searching for and engage in "front-running".” The thing is, it’s the index they built with the technology they built. Google is
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
We also tend to have decades of experience interacting with other humans and understanding what would be reasonable to want / moral / what would “make sense”. This is a big part of why I’m bearish on things like fully autonomous s
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I know something worse: websites that force you to use their app, providing links that don’t actually take you to that content in the app. Two examples with the same experience: Instagram and Reddit. They block functionality on the mobile w
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Hahahahaha, my biggest surprised moving to Silicon Valley right down the street from Google was how even in their local neighborhood, Comcast still had a monopoly on internet access. My apartment offered the choice between Comcast or no int
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I saw a thing before talking about how much each byte of code on the Google homepage costs to deliver. I wondered then why the homepage isn’t just integrated into their browser, as in literally ship the code for it and load it from local ca
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
This is the result of someone not understanding why they wanted to measure a thing in the first place. I’m assuming that the original intent was ~”sometimes people sign up for Spotify and don’t play anything for a long time, then cancel, po
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I can’t find the article but I read a piece years ago about Google algorithmically trying to optimize sign-up links / a button, and the algorithm being in a feedback loop with the A/B testing. It talked about finding the perfect,
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
+1; there are so many more important factors before the smaller things start making a very noticeable difference. A Neumann U 87 into a 1084 or VoxBox will sound marvelous with good talent giving a great performance, but that performance wo
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
+1, I think for those with even a little musical background, the brain fills in the details to a much greater extent, especially if it’s something you’ve heard before on a good signal chain / live. You know what’s there, so you know wh
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Can’t wait to play VR FarmVille! Maybe Zynga will make a comeback.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Nice strip clubs you’ve got there. It would be a shame if someone happened to start doing a bunch of road work that forced them to close. -°o°
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I wouldn’t agree that it’s what buying a thing is in al cases for everything. If a retailer has a stock of iPads and no one has an active order open for one, they don’t just decrease the price until they get orders. Not everything moves in
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Unsure why this was downvoted as other countries do this and literally TurboTax lobbies against automated filing. Because in America, companies are people, and their free speech rights include the ability to influence legislation + make don
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
+1, once you get the right indices in place, MySQL 4.x would scale just fine to millions of rows per table. Innodb and Percona were even better. Maatkit was amazing for tuning, as was xdebug. When you just had expensive queries that were al
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
To be fair, it’s not like the GCP APIs are much easier to use. It’s probably the right thing for infra and payment services to have a higher bar for API security, plus they’re hugely complex and usually used as an SDK. That said, I haven’t
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Reminds me of EndJunk.com that I had almost all of my email through. They were just a catch-all forwarder. Went under one day with zero notice and I lost access to all those addresses. Some services let you recover an account if you remembe
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Wish they had https://www.claws-mail.org/ for iOS and Android. I remember K9 for Android used to be decent back in the day when Android was on the G1 and OG Droid, no idea if it’s even still around. Outlook for iOS is surpr
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Also: node. Everything is a module, and every module requires a hundred more. Projects with thousands of dependencies become common. No one understands what is actually “under the hood” and hardly anyone cares. “It just works” most of the t

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