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by thsowers 7y ago
I went to a large university located in the middle of nowhere. On any given day, only half of the avaliable spots were filled. A parking pass was $300 a semester IIRC. When parking isnt a limited resource and students are already paying lar
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by thsowers 7y ago
This is a very nice interface! I wonder how well it would scale for huge PRs (many thousands of line changes), which right now are both irritating to review on Github, and other tools like IntelliJ. Somewhat related, but I wonder if some of
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by thsowers 7y ago
> Shopify made a change to their API that was easily measurable on who it would affect What was the change?
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by thsowers 7y ago
I too have run into this recently at work. IntelliJ for Rust, Dart, JS/TS, PHP etc but I break out Rider for C#. Would be a dream if one day these were combined so IntelliJ would be a true polygot IDE
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by thsowers 7y ago
If you use their flagship offering, IntelliJ, it includes language support for Python, Javascript, and many other languages either directly or via a plugin that replaces most of the respective functionality of Webstorm, Pycharm and Rubymine
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by thsowers 7y ago
For me, after switching to fastmail my load time in browser went from around 30 seconds with the "new" gmail to under 5 with fastmail. Using HTML view on gmail the speed is more comparable
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by thsowers 7y ago
IIRC, they actually removed the "Don't be Evil" motto in may of 2018
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by thsowers 7y ago
I'm thankful that my mother was able to "beat" cancer for at least the time being. I am extremely grateful for the time that I have with her. I am thankful to music, for being so diverse, and so amazing. It has given my life
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by thsowers 7y ago
While I can appreciate some healthy skepticism on how widespread the practice is, welcoming honest input from rank and file members of any company can be extremely valuable to improving the quality of products, and many successful companies
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by thsowers 7y ago
Nit: This article recommends StartPage as a search engine "without all that tracking and profiling", but quite recently StartPage was acquired by System1, an advertising company[0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by thsowers 7y ago
Agree, title should be more like "Light Commands: Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems"
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by thsowers 7y ago
Runs pretty terrible on my LG G7 ThinQ, scrolling is incredibly janky
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by thsowers 7y ago
Is this supposed to read "misunderstands"? And if not, could you elaborate?
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by thsowers 7y ago
My apologies dang, I didn't mean to directly insinuate that this was happening, just that it could lead credence to those rumors. Thanks for taking care of the situation, and for further demonstrating what top notch moderation should l
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by thsowers 7y ago
+1 Same here. There were also some interesting comments and discussion going on in that thread. Understand why it was marked as a duplicate, don't understand why the threads weren't combined edit: Thank you @dang!
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by thsowers 7y ago
Additional discussion that is currently marked as a [dupe]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761
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by thsowers 7y ago
Some conspiratorial minds might even suggest that this may of been intentional seeing that GitLab is a member of Y Combinator
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by thsowers 7y ago
@dang, can you merge these threads instead of having this one marked as a [dupe] and hidden?
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by thsowers 7y ago
No, I mean opt-in to telemetry as opposed to having to opt-out would be more ideal
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by thsowers 7y ago
Not sure why the "opt-in" option isnt more apparent as a less hostile UX? I've always thought of Gitlab as a privacy minded company, until now, and the botched attempts to listen to feedback are only worsening my impression.
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by thsowers 7y ago
You say "already", but the repo you link to hasn't been updated in nearly five years
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by thsowers 7y ago
A fair number, but this often doesn't stop people from ignoring this rule, listing their properties under hidden addresses etc. I would say 90%+ of the AirBnBs I've stayed at are in buildings that have banned them (especially in l
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by thsowers 7y ago
I think another thing the author misses is that Standard is _just_ a formatting library. It doesn't need/deserve as much resources as libraries that do more and deliver more value for the developer/company such as Vue, webpac
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A pop of color and more: updates to Android’s brand(blog.google)
65 points by thsowers 7y ago|52 comments
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The Making of “Margaret by Moonlight”(medium.com)
2 points by thsowers 7y ago|0 comments
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by thsowers 7y ago
New England here, haven't ever watered the lawn
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by thsowers 7y ago
Indeed! My friends often refer to his published event times as being in "EST" or "Elon Standard Time", which we consider to be +/- a few half hours of the listed time
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by thsowers 7y ago
I would argue that two direct Google Cloud outages within a month is pretty concerning for GCP customers, and that it's possible that the calendar outage could also be related in someway since it is likely hosted on GCP, although that
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by thsowers 7y ago
Why so many problems at Google lately? Calendar down two weeks ago[0], and Google Cloud had a larger outage a month ago[1] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20213092 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by thsowers 7y ago|0 comments

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