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by tmpz22 4y ago
I thought Japanese government services were famously difficult for foreigners to navigate? Is this assumption wrong or is it just very effective for Japanese Citizens only?
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Google already lost the "how-to" competition. * If you "how-to" a recipe here's a 3000 word blog post with a dozen interweaved videos and a life story at the beginning. * If you want a "how-to" Youtube v
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by tmpz22 4y ago
That's a pretty good start but I'd extend it with: * Something about self-driving cars * Something about Uber * A casual "Im so cool" reference to the SF Bay Area, like Folsom street or something * Accidentally letting s
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Communication is influenced by the relationship between the communicating parties. In marketing a lot of effort is spent to establish familiar and trusting relationships as a sustainable brand because that leads to higher conversion rates.
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by tmpz22 4y ago
> we can ask them “Do you want to join our text club and receive offers from us” at the time that they order food So let me understand this. * I order food through a self-serve PoS or website, or cashier/waiter, whatever * Presumabl
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Has the last few years popularized that name or has an article gone viral (and been a sponsored ad on the Firefox homepage) for the last couple days attempting to coin that exact phrase.
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by tmpz22 4y ago
I learned web development through "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" by Michael Hartl. The book is a project-based tutorial where you create a Twitter clone complete with a basic authentication system. The book had you host your app on the
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by tmpz22 4y ago
> IMO it at least contributed to some of the worst riots in recent history. What an absurd thing to say. Even a cursory Google search proves this to be utterly false.
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by tmpz22 4y ago
There are over 2 MILLION prisoners in the US prison population of a population of 330M. This gives the USA the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. The next four? * Rwanda * Turkmenistan * El Salvador * Cuba [1]: https:&
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Outsourcing prisons to cheaper authoritarian countries sounds like a bad idea.
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by tmpz22 4y ago
If the trade volume is low wouldn't that mean the value of any assets would not be reflective of the market? Like if I peg my stuffed animal to a dollar and then made a bunch of blog posts about the stability of my stuffed animal value
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by tmpz22 4y ago
To blame unconscious bias over a suffix as a non-trivial force on adoption is silly when there are plenty of valid technical constraints for adoption of SQLite in many projects. IMO database names are incredibly bland, outside of Cockroachd
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by tmpz22 4y ago
People pay artist $1,000s for hand drawn porn to spec (like furry porn and stuff). Its a dark side business to many broke art students trying to pay their tuition. This is easily a multi-million dollar venture. IMO it won't be a billio
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Can we talk about how google monetizes (weaponizes) this sales relationship? They force it on you as "common sense" but it makes them A LOT of money. Ultimately its as bad as car dealerships to require a special connection to get
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Yeah Apple’s Board of Executives put all profit motive aside and are sacrificing for our privacy.
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by tmpz22 4y ago
* To his credit Carmack is a one-person brand and attaching your (good) brand to a tainted brand (Facebook) isn't great * Many believe Occulus isn't succeeding fast enough, and so the years Carmack spent on Occulus/Metaverse
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Like most big tech companies I'm sure they find success metrics in every project they do. Especially the ones consumers hate.
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by tmpz22 4y ago
When he went to go work on VR at Facebook?
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by tmpz22 4y ago
> Where does the frustration come from with Python being more popular than Ruby Both ecosystems have produced a lot of "content" and there's certainly some things Ruby got better. But because Python has won more marketshar
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by tmpz22 4y ago
> Timelines were often tight I wonder if those tight timelines seem justified in retrospect. The stress. Missed social events.
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Oh god no, Linux containers were not intended to be the solution for cross compatibility issues between Windows and MacOS
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by tmpz22 4y ago
You're trying to create a uniform developer experience across two platforms that are wildly different. If you find yourself spending a ton of time on a one-size-fits-all-disappoints-everybody solution, maybe its time to build two effec
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Once you have even a small amount (say $500k) of perceived success you find yourself meeting "helpers" constantly, people who want to mentor you, people who want to be your friend, and magically all these people want something fro
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Please read the underlying benchmark code before evaluating this web framework as a "High performance" option. People are welcome to create whatever abstractions they want but I highly encourage new golang users to experiment with
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by tmpz22 4y ago
Your grandparent comment insinuates that executive measures to increase productivity are broad and actually hurt productivity. I agree for what its worth. But what these executives and their supporters think is that productive employees w
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by tmpz22 4y ago
All I know is the world lost a ton of good projects to VC-snake-oil-preferences and FANNG RSUs.
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by tmpz22 4y ago
The traditional line of thinking is: * you're building a web-ish application and need to store session data * you don't want to go through the overhead of building a strongly typed relational table * you know minimal operations st
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by tmpz22 4y ago
We have a progressive tax system that taxes individuals according to their reported incomes. How does the PoS agent know the tax liabilities of the person purchasing the item? Should we have a flat tax rate for everyone?
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by tmpz22 4y ago
> they could let Unity be Unity Like they let whatsapp be whatsapp and instagram be instagram? With current market incentives we should expect these companies to become less benevolent, not more.
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by tmpz22 4y ago
No good, you need a capable party for KYC/KYB to ensure compliance with international sanctions, terrorist watchlists, crime investigation, etc. This is an expensive apparatus to maintain.

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