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by skewart 11y ago
Like other comments have pointed out, some markets did see much bigger collapses in prices. The markets that did had seen huge price increases driven largely by speculation in 2002-2007. In the early to mid 00's the idea of "flip
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Those are the numbers of people who are on the rich list, not the total in those political bodies. To get the average per "congress critter" you'd have to get the total in each body, and get the net worths of the ones not on
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by skewart 11y ago
I really like things like this, and Codeology seems nicely done. I just wish the forms created gave a bit more meaningful insight into the project - perhaps communicating something about commit history, project structure, contributor netwo
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by skewart 11y ago
I don't know about $5-10, but I can make a $10-20 suggestion. I've recently gotten into Frappato (a Sicilian varietal that tends to have a really nice mix of minerally, fruity, and spicy flavors), and they often are a really good
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by skewart 11y ago
It's kind of funny that such a more-or-less linear scale of quality based on price and critics' ratings prevails in the minds of so many wine drinkers. I love wine, and I've definitely fallen into this trap before too. Now th
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by skewart 11y ago
I just wanted to add to the line of replies saying thanks for your hard work on iTerm2. I use it every day. Thank you for making it. It's awesome.
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His post was incredibly tone-deaf, and he comes across as an entitled jerk. That said, there's a big difference between being reminded of other peoples' suffering and being assaulted. Leaning on someone's car, yelling at some
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by skewart 11y ago
I suspect there's another reason they're doing this, and they don't actually think this will be a profitable business opportunity. Delivering groceries in 2016 is probably a strategic move in support of a larger effort that w
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by skewart 11y ago
That's a big reason I'm not excited about these services. But if you're buying a lot of processed food - and a lot of grocery carts in the US are mostly processed food - then it's not a big deal.
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I'm defining "social network" pretty broadly, including websites that have a strong social component, like HN, reddit and imgur. These kinds of online communities tend to make people happy, and they let them form friendship
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I disagree. There's a big difference between "users" and active, engaged users. Google+ may have had a lot of users on paper, but relatively few people actually spent much time using it. The hard part about building a social
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What would be the point of building a social network for Yahoo? Better engagement? I'm pretty sure they always have been a destination for much of their audience (as opposed to depending on social sharing to get eyeballs, like, say B
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"...and disabled Touch ID - which is hackable with a bit of effort to get your fingerprint." As long as we're on the topic of encryption, phones, and law enforcement it's worth keeping in mind that in the US at least cou
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I'm curious to hear how you would describe Clubhouse relative to the competition. Are there aspects that are fundamentally differentiated? Or is it more a matter of making lots of little improvements, which add up to a much better expe
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That's an excellent point. And Ben Thompson is super insightful as usual (I'm a huge fan of his). I certainly do think the value prop to consumers for Zenefits' rule breaking was not very clear. However, I'd argue that l
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by skewart 11y ago
A number of commenters here have compared Zenefits' questionable compliance with Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb. What Zenefits was doing is fundamentally different, and much more problematic. Lyft and Uber skirt similar kinds of seemingly use
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The problem is that they were getting the advantages of being licensed while not actually following proper procedure for licensing. They were effectively lying to everyone. Sure, it's a pretty harmless lie, but I can see how people i
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by skewart 11y ago
A number of other responses are suggesting that the explanation is all about the switch to mobile. I'd argue it was less about the platform transition itself and more that people misjudged what behavior that transition would enable. Pe
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by skewart 11y ago
I've noticed a lot of tumblr blogs I used to enjoy simply stopped being maintained by their creators. In some cases they've even been deleted. There still seems to be a vibrant community on tumblr, but it's different from th
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by skewart 11y ago
That's a very good question. My guess is that we might see an implosion or two, but I highly doubt we'll ever see a struggling b2b SaaS company cause serious problems for its former users when it goes out of business. If a company
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by skewart 11y ago
"I'm more concerned with ways to help more outsiders import a codebase in the first place." This. The pain point that mu addresses is huge. I haven't really looked at the project in much depth yet, or played around with
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For sure. I didn't mean to imply that they do.
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They certainly are in plenty of neighborhoods - especially compared to other cities in China. The thing is that despite the tall buildings there isn't actually that much supply on HK island itself because it's so tiny. Still, I t
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by skewart 11y ago
For sure. And the reality also is that people can take job offers and/or move to new cities a lot faster than builders can build housing. I don't think building more is a panacea that would suddenly mean two-bedrooms in Cow Hollow
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It blows my mind that the internety tech industry, of all industries, is so heavily concentrated in a handful of physical locations around the world. There's this vicious cycle where companies think they need to be in one of these plac
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by skewart 11y ago
"1. Build really tall. Hasn't worked out all that great in Hong Kong, though." What do you mean when you say it hasn't worked out great in Hong Kong? Is it because prices are still high in a lot of neighborhoods there?
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Isn't the O(n^2) operation described in that thread happening only when the hosts file gets updated, and not with every DNS lookup? I would imagine even sequentially searching a local list of 350,000 entries, like the post describes,
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One thing I've gotten into the habit of doing is looking around the commit history and issue list for any package I import. Was it something somebody wrote in a hurry and hasn't really touched since? Is it something that has a s
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"But if the choice is between writing something yourself and using someone else's well-tested, heavily-used library, always go for the latter." Absolutely. However, there are plenty of situations where what you pull down from
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I think the point of the article is: use external libraries thoughtfully. I don't think he was suggesting not using them at all. Your example sounds like a situation where a dependency certainly makes sense.

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